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The Drug Enforcement Administration working in tandem with investigators from the New York Police Department arrested four professional female strippers working out of New York City earlier this week and accused the ladies of drugging their male victims and "then driving them to strip clubs that ran up tens of thousands of dollars on their credit cards while they were too wasted to stop it." The DEA announced the arrests on June 11, according to ABC News.
Although none of the victims were identified by name, court papers state that two wealthy victims, a banker and a real estate attorney, lost about $200,000 to the strippers' alleged scam. The charges levied against the four strippers include grand larceny, assault and forgery.
Three of the suspects, including Samantha Barbash, appeared in a New York City courtroom yesterday to face charges. Barbash is being described by officials as the strippers' ringleader. Although he refused to comment further, Barbash's lawyer said today that Barbash said that she is not guilty of any the charges. Another of the suspects was scheduled to appear in court today.
A strip club manager also was facing potential charges.
Newsday shared that the DEA and NYPD have been working undercover on this case ever since first hearing that several women banded together in an effort to get their rich victims stoned on illicit drugs including "molly," and then hooking up with them at upscale New York City clubs. Once their victims were thoroughly intoxicated, the ripping off began in earnest.
The impaired victims were driven to Scores in Manhattan and the RoadHouse in Queens, where they were charged for private rooms, expensive meals, drinks and other services, they said.
The clubs paid the women for the visits, but the establishments were not facing criminal charges, authorities said.
The victims told investigators that after their encounters with the strippers, they woke up in their cars or hotel rooms the following day with no memory of what went down the night before. When the victims refused or tried to dispute the outrageous credit card bills from the strip clubs, they said the strippers texted them saying that if they didn't pay up, they threatened "to go public with their transgressions."
"The defendants were banking on the victims being too afraid to contact the police, but as the indictment and arrests show, they made a serious miscalculation," Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget G. Brennan said.
One of those upscale strip clubs, Scores, filed a lawsuit against a cardiologist in May claiming that the doctor "owed the club $135,303 for unpaid services." The doctor said that he wasn't responsible for those charges because "he was drugged by plaintiff's employees and thus did not authorize the charges," according to the lawsuit. Scores countered with video evidence of the doctor "freely showing up" at the club on four previous visits.
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The 110 meter long, 4179 dwt freighter Lisa became disabled while crossing the Bosphorus Strait. The Lisa contacted Traffic Control Center who dispatched a tug to the scene. The freighter was taken under tow to Gebze. No reports of injuries, damage or pollution being released.
Day: October 21, 2011
The 12 meter long trawler Arcturus became disabled near the entrance to the harbour of Eyemouth, Scotland. The trawler's engine failed and the master contacted Forth Coastguard. The RNLI lifeboat from Eyemouth responded and took the Arcturus under tow into the harbour. None of the three crew on board were injured. The Arcturus was returning from a fishing trip before the engine failed. No reports of damage or pollution being released.
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The 27 meter long high speed ferry First Ferry IX struck a mooring pillar just as it was leaving one of Hong Kong outlying islands. The First Ferry IX pulled away from Cheung Chau Pier in the early morning was with 145 passengers when it hit a mooring pillar some 400 meters from the pier. The ferry's bow was crushed leaving a large hole into the interior of the vessel. Nine passengers were severely injured and 70 others suffered cuts and bruises. The master of the ferry stated that it was too late to avoid the crash when the pillar was spotted. At the time of the incident the pillar was not lit. The ferry company has suspended the master and is conducting an investigation.

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Articles → You have enough.
I love my Kindle and E71 but you won't hear me rave about them. I don't want you to want them.
Companies spend a fortune begging you to want their stuff. I won't add to that noise.
Retail therapy is the worst kind.
I'd like to get 100 parrots and teach them to say "It won't make you happy!" - then let them loose in shopping malls, big electronics stores, and car lots.
Then, when people are considering spending thousands of dollars on a giant TV, or going deeply in debt with a new car, a surprising squawk might shock them back to their senses.
The quickest way to double your income is to halve your expenses. Any study of happiness will tell you it's best to actively appreciate what you've got.
I feel a responsibility with my PA system of blog, Twitter, and Facebook to only put helpful thoughts into the world.
So, no product raves here. You already have more than you need.
At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut tells his friend, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history.
Heller said, "Yes, but I have something he will never have: Enough."


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Panama City-- By day, the St. Andrew's area along Highway 98 in Panama City looks like a safe, bustling business area. But Panama City Police say people engaged in the world's oldest profession take over at night.
"We work with undercover officers to conduct operations to identify both prostitutes and johns," said Panama City Police Deputy Chief, Robert Colbert.
Last Thursday and Friday, police conducted a prostitution sting around the 3400 block of West 98. They arrested 3 women accused of being prostitutes, and 16 men accused of trying to buy sex.
"A lot of those unfortunately are individuals we deal with day in and day out," said Colbert.
Leila Teer is one of those repeat offenders. Since 1998, she's been arrested several times on prostitution charges.
"It's affected my life really bad. I have two small children here, my whole family's here. It's embarrassing," said Teer.
And Teer says it's gotten progressively worse.
"It's really crazy, it really is. These little young girls are out there and they're clueless and it just worries me that one day they may die. They'll get in the wrong vehicle with the wrong guy," said Teer.
"It's like a broken window. If you don't address it, then it's going to evolve into something worse so we're going to maintain a steady attention to it," said Colbert.
Not only are police concerned about related crimes, they're also worried about the city's image to visitors.
"As they cross the Hathaway Bridge and they're coming into Panama City, that's one of the first things they see and we want to make sure they're not being encountered with this type of scenery," said Colbert.
Police say resident and business complaints sparked this latest crackdown.


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It is an athlete's worst nightmare: the inability to play at peak performance. For Ryan Stuart, an athletic and intelligent teenager from Thomasville, Ga., this frustration was taken to a new level. Terrible pain, a loss of flexibility and a grinding feeling in the hips kept him from playing to his potential. It was an ordeal that would last four years and see the young man visit more doctors than he would care to remember.
Ryan had always excelled at sports. Baseball and football are his favorites, and he stood out as a catcher and offensive lineman, two positions that take a toll on the joints. During middle school, Ryan began to notice nagging pain in his legs and hips. He thought the symptoms were due to his active lifestyle. A doctor recommended Ryan rest for a year, and reluctantly he agreed. He said the decision drove him crazy.
"I loved playing sports," he said. "It was all I ever did."
In high school, Ryan continued to play, but the pain did not go away. A doctor ordered blood tests but was unable to find anything conclusive. After X-rays and more visits, Ryan's doctor still could not find the source of the pain and referred him to an orthopaedic specialist. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, more X-rays and a full body bone scan were ordered. The results remained murky, and the best the doctor could do was to diagnose juvenile arthritis, which Ryan had previously tested negative.
At this point, both Ryan and his mother, Beth, were frustrated.
"It was hard watching my son going through this kind of pain and not be able to do anything about it," she said.
Ryan's medical odyssey then took him to Tallahassee, Fla., where more tests were ordered with the same disappointing result. Ryan's doctor then questioned whether the young man's symptoms were psychological.
"He thought it was all in my head," Ryan said.
This was more than his mother could take. Ryan was ultimately referred to an Atlanta doctor who, after having Ryan endure another round of tests, told the young man he needed to stop playing football until they could find out what was wrong. Ryan took the news hard.
"I was absolutely crushed," he said.
Ryan was prescribed a powerful arthritis medicine that made him very sick but did not decrease the pain. Soon after, Ryan was referred to pediatric hip specialist Tim Schrader, M.D.
By this point, Ryan was mentally exhausted from the constant travel and the disappointment of not having any answers. During the four-hour trip from Thomasville to Atlanta, Beth tried to keep his spirits up.
At Children's, Dr. Schrader reviewed all of Ryan's MRI images and X-rays. He immediately ordered another round of X-rays, but rather than sending Ryan home to have his doctors perform the test, Dr. Schrader did them right away. After the images were taken, Ryan sat anxiously in the waiting room.
"An entire year of searching and driving to different doctors, and my diagnosis came down to two 15-minute X-rays," he said.
Dr. Schrader, whom Ryan calls his "medical savior," had the answer—Ryan had femoroacetabular impingement (FAI). Dr. Schrader said surgical dislocation of the hip with acetabular rim trimming and a femoral head/neck osteoplasty—a type of hip surgery—would correct the problem. Ryan would then begin the long, slow rehabilitation process. Despite the enormity of the news, Ryan said he felt a huge sense of relief. Finally, he had an answer and a plan to regain his independence and live pain-free.
"The pain, doctor's visits and not knowing had defined my life for so long," he said. "Now, I could move forward."
Ryan actually had two surgeries, one on each hip, to fix his problem. He said that throughout his entire ordeal, his older brother and younger twin sisters supported him.
But, it was his mother who rode the hundreds of miles and spent countless hours with Ryan to find the answer to his painful problem.
"She was with me every step of the way," he said. "When I got discouraged, when nobody could figure it out, she would say something to motivate me. She was my hero."
Today, Ryan no longer plays football, but he does wrestle for the Thomas County Yellow Jackets. He has completed all of his high school classes early and is now taking college-level courses. Ryan has been accepted to the University of Alabama where he will study sports medicine.
When asked what advice she would give someone going through a similar situation, Beth does not hesitate to answer.
"Don't ever give up. Your child is going through a tough time, and it's important to understand what he's going through. It can be a humbling experience, but keep going until you find your answer."
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Cars are quite different than they used to be. Sure, modern cars have some cool things, but repairing them are becoming difficult. Even simple things like changing a headlight bulb.
The pontiac G6 is not as hard as some of them, but it can take some time. The headlight is tucked under the bumper cover, so I did not think the headlight would come out without the bumper cover removed. After spending time entering through the wheelhouse the first time I replaced the bulb, I thought there was probably an easier way. Before replacing it this time, I searched YouTube to find another way to replace the headlight bulb.
In this video I am going to replace the headlight bulb using the other method I watched on YouTube. To learn how I replaced it this time and if it worked or not for me, watch the video.
I've had some problems with the headlights on the G6. I have searched the internet and found that other people are having the same problem. The problem is that headlights have an auto on function, which turns the lights on automatically when the car is running. This leads the electrical connections overheating and melting.
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Chicken Sausage with Potatoes & Sauerkraut
Here's our weeknight version of choucroute garni, "dressed sauerkraut," made with chicken sausage. The flavor of the dish will vary depending on what type of chicken sausage you choose. We like the taste of roasted garlic sausage or sweet apple sausage in this recipe. And although any type of sauerkraut can be used, we prefer the crisp texture of refrigerated kraut over canned. Serve with roasted carrots and some mustard to spread on the sausage.Yield: 4 servings, about 1 1/2 cups each
Active Time: 30
Total Time: 30
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 12 ounces (4 links) cooked chicken sausage, halved lengthwise and cut into 2- to 3-inch pieces
- 1 medium onion, thinly sliced
- 3 medium Yukon Gold potatoes, halved and cut into 1/4-inch slices
- 1 1/2 cups sauerkraut, rinsed
- 1 1/2 cups dry white wine
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon caraway seeds
- 1 bay leaf
Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add sausage and onion and cook, stirring frequently, until beginning to brown, about 4 minutes. Add potatoes, sauerkraut, wine, pepper, caraway seeds and bay leaf; bring to a simmer. Cover and cook, stirring occasionally, until the potatoes are tender and most of the liquid has evaporated, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove the bay leaf before serving.
Nutrition Per Serving
|9 g (1 g sat, 3 g mono)
|60 mg
|24 g
|14 g
|4 g
|554 mg
|545 mg
Nutrition Bonus Vitamin C (45% daily value), Potassium (16% dv).
Carbohydrate Serving 1 1/2
Exchanges 1 starch, 1 vegetable, 1 1/2 lean meat, 1 fat
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Full disclosure: I was a huge fan of Get This, the Triple M program and podcast that originally brought Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee together, along with the much-missed, much-loved Richard Marsland. So I'm a little biased.
Having said that, I got more laughs out of the opening segment of The Joy of Sets than I did out of a whole episode of Good News World. These guys have a natural, easy chemistry that just works, whether it's on radio or television. That chemistry comes across here, and they mine some fine material out of the weird and wonderful that is the history of television.First of all, though, someone needs to get them some better chairs. The whole show was a little bit awkward and a little bit clunky, and I think it will benefit as time goes on, once the guys become more comfortable in their roles and the editing becomes less jarring. It should be less scripted as well, but that might prove too high a degree of difficulty, especially for a first episode.
(I really enjoyed the closing title sequence. That was close to the best thing on the show.)
On top of that, I actually don't have all that much to say about 'The Joy of Sets'. It was funny, pretty interesting, a little awkward and charming. Much like the guys themselves, I suppose. I think it would probably benefit from being on a little bit later and have less pressure on it. It strikes me as being more suited to a later timeslot a la the panel or Merrick and Rosso Unplanned. I hope people, and Channel Nine, give it a chance because I thoroughly enjoyed it. Check it out next week!


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Hardball blasts Jindal's support for creationism in Louisiana
By Barbara Forrest
Louisiana residents who support teaching good science — which includes evolution — will find it hard to see Bobby Jindal's comments in his November 13 Politico interview as anything except an opportunistic pivot for the sake of his national ambitions.
It is no secret we had a number of Republicans damage our brand this year with offensive, bizarre comments — enough of that. . . . It's not going to be the last time anyone says something stupid within our party, but it can't be tolerated within our party. We've also had enough of this dumbed-down conservatism. We need to stop being simplistic, we need to trust the intelligence of the American people and we need to stop insulting the intelligence of the voters.
Really, governor? If that's the case, then your constituents can count on your public support next year for the repeal of the creationist Louisiana Science Education Act that you signed in 2008 as a favor to your friends at the Louisiana Family Forum, right?


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In our quest to understand trading options for income, we often consider strategies for low IV (implied volatility) environments that occur during bull markets. One strategy for consideration is the long Strangle, a debit strategy in which we pay for the position.
The debit Strangle (the opposite of a credit Strangle) is defined as concurrently buying two options (a Put and a Call) that are OTM (out of the money), or further away from the current price of the underlying asset. Both options are in the same option chain.
The characteristics of a Strangle are: Theta is negative, which means that time decay hurts this position; and Vega is positive, which means any increase in volatility benefits this position. Unlike the short Strangle, there is no limit to the max profit that can be obtained.
In low IV environments, we are expecting IV to expand to normal levels as we rely on reversion to the mean. To determine if this expectation is valid, Tasty Trade performed a test on the following ETFs: GLD, QQQ, and USO over a 2-year period. The test criteria was: purchase a 1 SD (standard deviation) Strangle on the 1st of the month if IV Rank is below 50 percent; and manage the position when 25, 50, 75 percent of the profit is realized, and hold to expiration.
The results: in all cases (except GLD at 50 percent earned $8.00) the P&L was negative and the percent winners was below 53 percent. And, except for GLD, holding till expiration resulted in the lowest loss, indicating that low IV Rank does not necessarily revert quickly; nor does it result sufficient price movement for a profit.
In conclusion, the long Strangle strategy for low IV environments (when IV Rank is below 50 percent) does not work. The key problem is that if the underlying asset continues to move up (the reason for low IV Rank), volatility continues to drop (which is a detriment). In addition, the position has to contend with an ever increasing daily loss due to time decay (Theta). If we decide to locate our strikes closer to ATM (for example, at 0.5 SD), the cost goes up dramatically will increasing the POP (probability of profit). Another approach might be a long Condor (using two debit spreads), which would reduce the impact of cost, Theta, and Vega.
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It was about this time last year that we were officially being introduced to Wiz Khalifa on a national scale, with his "Black and Yellow" climbing all the way to top of the charts, while soundtracking the Pittsburgh Steelers' run to Super Bowl XLV. Wiz seems to be planning a 2012 to equal his breakout '11, with his new album O.N.I.F.C. (we're sticking with Only Nerds Idealize Fred Couples for our acronym guess) due before long. Wiz has tweeted about the differences in '12 Wiz from 2011, Rolling Papers Wiz:
My Last Album Was A Mixture Of Everything That Inspired Me At That Time Musically. My New Shit Is For RIch Muh Fuckas
— Wiz Khalifa (@RealWizKhalifa) December 30, 2011
Exciting—-there hasn't been nearly enough quality rap for rich muh fuckas in the 2010s thusfar, and now that Wiz has officially joined the ranks of the RMFs, it's about time for him to start acting like it on record. Even better news, there'll be a couple other RMFs joining him in the recording. Wiz Instagrammed a photo of him with a hoodied Chris Brown in the recording studio (hazy with weed smoke, natch), then one of him chilling with a winter-hatted Adam Levine in the recording studio (hazy with weed smoke, natch). "Serious shit happening in the studio," tweeted Levine of the meeting. No doubt.
Great a 2011 as Wiz had, he's still a little bit in the shadow of "Black and Yellow," as totemic a rap single as released last calendar year. Won't be easy, Brown and Levine are two good guys to have in his corner if he wants to escape the eclipse.


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2008 Research Summary
Architecture Exploration for Distributed Automotive Application
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Wei Zheng and Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
The complexity and physical distribution of modern active safety, chassis, and powertrain automotive applications requires the use of distributed architectures. Complex functions designed as networks of function blocks exchanging signal information are deployed onto the physical HW and implemented in a SW architecture consisting of a set of tasks and messages. The typical configuration features priority-based scheduling of tasks and messages and imposes end to end deadlines. In this project, we optimize the task placement and the signal to message mapping [1], activation model [2], and we automate the assignment of priorities to tasks and messages in order to meet end to end deadline constraints and minimize latencies. The approach is applied to an automotive case study to prove its feasibility.
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- "Definition of Task Allocation and Priority Assignment in Hard Real-Time Distributed System."
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The Sentinel is a luxury sedan introduced in Grand Theft Auto III. Originally appearing as a four-door car, the Sentinel assumes the design of a two-door coupe in Grand Theft Auto IV.
To date, the Sentinel has appeared in the following games:
- Grand Theft Auto III
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- Grand Theft Auto Advance
- Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
- Grand Theft Auto IV
GTA III — GTA Vice City Stories
The Sentinel resembles a 1996-2003 BMW 5 Series sedan (most likely a 528i, based on the power and size) in GTA III and GTA Liberty City Stories. In GTA Vice City and GTA Vice City Stories, it resembles a lengthened BMW 7 Series E23, and in GTA San Andreas, it resembles a BMW 7 Series E32. However, several significant cosmetic changes may be noted between the latter three games, particularly with regards to the the frontal and rear fascias; even the GTA Vice City and GTA Vice City Stories renditions are significantly different from each other, as the GTA Vice City Stories Sentinel appears less like its high performance counterpart, the Sentinel XS.
The GTA Advance rendition doesn't appear to have a clear source of inspiration for its design, but retains its slender 4-door sedan. While the car isn't generally associated with any gang, the GTA Advance rendition is an exception, serving a gang car for an unspecified mafia in the game, taking over the role of the Mafia Sentinel, the mafia variant of the Sentinel.
Prior to the release of GTA III, the Sentinel was named the "Beamer", a common misspelling of the "Bimmer" nickname for BMW cars. A car of this name was previously featured in Grand Theft Auto 2, and was also based on a BMW. Meanwhile, a "Sentinal" was also in the process of development, appearing as a modern, rounded car that would go on to become the Kuruma. Both beta cars can be found in the Capital Autos website.
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The beta Sentinel in GTA III as the "Beamer", as depicted in the Capital Autos website.
GTA Vice City (Rear quarter view).
GTA San Andreas (Rear quarter view).
GTA Liberty City Stories (Rear quarter view).
GTA Vice City Stories (Rear quarter view).
With a V6 engine in all its appearances between GTA III and GTA Vice City Stories, the Sentinel has a good top speed and acceleration. The car handles well, with good drifting properties, although its rear-drive layout sometimes leads to oversteer and tailspins; these problems are more apparent in the GTA San Andreas rendition, due to its different weight distribution and softer suspension. In GTA San Andreas, the Sentinel's top speed of 163km/h makes it the second fastest four-door car in the game.
The Sentinel in GTA IV is manufactured by Übermacht and is modeled after the BMW 3 Series E46 coupe, most likely the 2001-2006 M3, considering the bumper design. The tail lights seem to be inspired by the older E36 3 Series.
Also visible are miniscule STD badges in front of the doors, near the sideskirts and front wheel wells. STD stands for "Sentinel Tuning Division", likely a play on Subaru's STi marque and BMW's in-house tuning division, BMW M, but also a reference to the acronym for "sexually transmitted disease".
Being a modern sports coupe, the GTA IV Sentinel reaches a top speed of 192mph - not far from the fastest vehicles in the game. It has above-average acceleration, reaching 60mph in 6.5 seconds, and reaching its top speed fairly quickly as well. The Sentinel's suspension is rather soft, and it tends to roll when going around tight bends at high speed; the rear of the car also tends to bounce about when traveling on uneven roads. Its handling is above average, but at high speeds it loses a lot of grip and easily spins out of control due to the lack of weight in the rear. But if controlled right, its speed and grip can be combined to produce almost-professional like drifts that can be used to slide into sharp turns and back alleyways to evade the police without difficulty. Nonetheless, it is arguably the best choice in the Modern category in multiplayer racing.
Crash deformation at higher speeds is high (quarter panels of the car may look to be "glitched" into the wheel wells if hit hard enough), and it isn't hard with this car to make the wheels jam in crashes, but the car can withstand a surprising amount of frontal impacts without failing.
Modifications (GTA San Andreas)
- Color (exterior)
- Exhaust (four varieties)
- Spoilers (four varieties)
- Wheels (ten varieties)
- Nitro (all)
- Bass Boost
- Hydraulics
Prominent appearances in missions
In GTA Vice City, a unique black Sentinel is the target's getaway vehicle in the mission "Hit The Courier". The player can obtain the car by diligently killing the driver of the car as soon as she enters it, but must not exit the car and close its door until they enter a garage or complete the mission, as the car will lock itself again.
In GTA San Andreas, Sentinels are used as cover in the mission The Green Sabre, when the GSF members, CJ and Sweet must resist the onslaught of the Ballas under the Mulholland Intersection. It is also driven in the mission "Mountain Cloud Boys", to aid Wu Zi Mu in a series of drive-by shootings against enemy gang members. Kent Paul is seen driving a dark blue Sentinel to the airport in the GTA San Andreas mission Saint Mark's Bistro; a unique grey Sentinel can also be seen in the court yard of Marco's Bistro during this mission.
- Mafia Sentinel, a gang variant of the Sentinel from GTA III, also known as the Leone Sentinel in GTA Liberty City Stories.
- Sentinel XS, a sportier variant of the Sentinel, comparable to the Mafia Sentinel.
- After collecting all thirty cars for Stevie in GTA IV, he agrees to purchase cars from Niko Bellic, with the Sentinel fetching $2,500.
- The Sentinel plays the following radio stations by default when entered:
- Bounce FM or SF-UR in GTA San Andreas.
- Liberty City Hardcore in GTA IV.
Sentinels are generally found throughout the business districts of all the cities; some can be seen driving in the suburbs and wealthy parts of town as well.
- Saint Mark's, Portland Island - Parked outside Marco's Bistro.
- In the Staunton Island LCPD HQ parking lot.
- Torrington, Staunton Island - Parked outside Kenji's Casino.
- Francis International Airport, Shoreside Vale - In the parking lot.
GTA Vice City
- In the mission Hit The Courier, the main target is driving a unique black Sentinel. Its doors are locked, however the player can snipe the driver to obtain it.
- Can always be found at Sunshine Autos, whether the player owns the business or not.
GTA San Andreas
- Can be found behind Roboi's Food Mart store
- Inside one of the Vinewood studios,only when wanted for export.(sometimes locked)
- It is common around the Prickle Pine area, Las Venturas.
- Very common in business areas such as Financial or Old Venturas Strip.
- Can be imported once the player has exported it.
GTA Liberty City Stories
- Harwood, Portland Island - Spawns inside the Capital Autos showroom after completing three levels of Car salesman.
GTA Vice City Stories
- Several Sentinels can be found at the Washington Beach car park.
- Spawn all around Broker, but mostly in Hove Beach
- Spawn around The Exchange, Algonquin
- Spawn around Middle Park, Algonquin
- Spawn around Star Junction and The Triangle, Algonquin
- Spawn around Little Italy, Algonquin
- Spawn around Westdyke, Alderney
- Spawns in the parking lot next to the control tower at Francis International Airport in Dukes.
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The most complete introductory anthology in the philosophy of religion, at half the price.With nine new readings and expanded pedagogical features, the fourth edition of Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings continues to be the most complete introductory anthology in the philosophy of religion. Seventy-eight selections provide breadth and depth of coverage in both classical andcontemporary issues, allowing great flexibility in course structure. All standard subjects are covered, including religious experience, theistic arguments, the problem of evil, and miracles. While this edition primarily contains readings from the Western tradition of religious thought, it alsoincludes continental, feminist, and Asian perspectives for contrast and flavor. Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, fourth edition offers many pedagogical advantages. Section introductions have been substantially expanded to orient students to major issues, and to help them comprehend the positions and arguments in the readings. The suggested reading list at the end ofevery section has been revised and lengthened, and new terms have been added to the Glossary at the end of the book. As in the previous edition, Study Questions appear at the end of each selection to engage students in philosophical thinking. This broad anthology is an excellent, stand-alone textbook for courses in philosophy of religion. It is also a perfect companion to the accompanying text by the same authors: Reason and Religious Belief, fourth edition (OUP, 2006), as the two books share the same topical organization.
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|The Uniqueness of Religious Doctrines
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Ever since we "apparently" landed on the moon back in 1969, conspiracy theories have run rampant. One of the most widely accepted theories is that the moon landing was faked, and that it was actually filmed on a set. This begs the question, who was behind the camera?
To pull this off, NASA would have needed a highly skilled, and also very reclusive and secretive filmmaker. Why not Stanley Kubrick? The Man behind three very notable films in relation to this theory; Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Shining.
Let's rewind all the way back to 1964, right in the heart of the space race, 5 years before the moon landing. Kubrick had just released Dr. Strangelove, a film that made satirized the cold war and the nuclear scare. A large amount of the film is set inside a B-52 bomber plane, and Kubrick had asked the US Air Force if he could film inside one, but was turned down, as the film was clearly not in the US Government's favour. Kubrick went ahead and recreated the B-52 as best as he could anyway, and rumour has it that the US Government looked into where he got these designs, as it looked too real.
This is where many believe that Kubrick was approached to film the moon landing. People have also speculated that one of the reasons he may have done this is that he could have been offered a deal to have unlimited budgets for his films with no interference from the studios, which would explain why he has one of the most notable showcases of work in film history. His last film, Eyes Wide Shut was heavily interfered with though, and he died before it even came out.
Moving onto 2001, Kubrick's sci-fi epic, that notably replicated what is was like to walk on the moon, years before anyone actually did it. Delving into some of the technical aspects of this theory. Kubrick wanted to show an expansive environment, that didn't look like a studio lot. They used technology called Front Screen Projection. In a nutshell, it's when an image of a scene is projected onto a scotchlite screen behind the actors, which become a common technique in Hollywood filmmaking and Kubrick is known for perfecting it. People believe that this technique was used to fake the moon landing.
The last film I'm going to talk about deserves much more than a paragraph of discussion. In fact, a movie is doing the festival rounds right now, called Room 237 which talks about the many theories surrounding The Shining. Supposedly, The Shining is Kubrick venting all of these secrets he has had to hide for more than a decade. The centerpiece of this theory is Room 237, the room in The Shining that Danny and Jack witness all of the crazy stuff happening. The average distance from the Earth to the Moon is 237,000 miles and nothing that happens in that room is real. The room is believed to symbolize the set of the moon landing. Jack had to lie to his Wife about what happened in there, just as Kubrick would have had to lie to his Wife if he'd filmed the moon landing.
It is definitely worth going back and watching The Shining. There are countless numbers of things that we can only speculate as to what they mean. Regardless of the validity of this whole Moon Landing theory, Kubrick wasn't simply telling us a horror story.
The only real thing of value that this theory suggests, and this is what I personally pull from it, is that Stanley Kubrick was that good of a director, that in all probability he could have actually filmed a fake moon landing.
His body of work is impeccable though. If a Director is lucky, they'll make a film for a studio that makes a lot of money, and the studio will offer them a project where they can do whatever they want. For example, Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, after his hit, Boogie Nights, and even more recently Nolan's Inception. This is where true greatness comes from, and Kubrick seemed to be able to have this for almost his entire career. He gave us masterpiece after masterpiece with barely any studio interference. Was this because he faked the moon landing? Regardless, we should be thankful that one of the best filmmakers that ever lived was lucky enough to have the opportunity to make the films he wanted to make.
And remember; Barry Lyndon shot first.
By Brodie Marchant
Ben said: What do you mean "apparently"
One of the most widely accepted theories is that the moon landing was faked, and that it was actually filmed.
Beta said: Ben said: What do you mean "apparently"
lol I thought this as well.
And "we"? I had no idea you were from the US. I assume you mean, the "human race"?
I also think you're dancing on Armstrong's grave with the headline, and you're subscribing to the conspiracy theories too openly, too close to his death.
But when you're not employing garbage theories and you're talking about Kubrick, it's a good read. I just don't really like the headline...too soon?
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BBking said: One of the most widely accepted theories is that the moon landing was faked, and that it was actually filmed.
Wah? It was filmed... :/
Maybe filmed "in a studio" would make more sense.
Next article, 911 inside job? The handicam work on the first plane was really subtle, it almost looked real.
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shiversul said: And I generally hate conspiracy theories, but this one tickles me all the right ways.
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Martin however had considerably less respect for Matthew Macklin, who joined them via telephone from Marbella. There has been an ongoing saga between Murray and Macklin, and Murray seems to be running out of patience with him. When asked if Macklin got under his skin, Martin said:
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sfaÍra (1985-1895) is dedicated to Pythagoras and Plato and is an homage to two of Galeta's favorite spheroids: the Earth and the Sun. The protagonist, as we are informed by the title sequence, is a sculpture named Earthbound Sun and the film's photography, a stunning example of optical printing techniques, shows his affection for both. With sfaÍra, Galeta delivers a pictorial and literary Maximalism, in a way that only cinema can do but had not been done before. -Vassily Bourikas
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Apple's iPad, iPhone and iPod touch aren't exactly devices that lack in the peripheral department, but this is perhaps the biggest and most expensive. On show at CES 2011, the AcuTouch 9500 massage chair from Human Touch works in conjunction with the HT-Connect app to deliver a completely personalized massage via instructions sent over Bluetooth from iOS devices.Read More
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Hi I have a simple script that takes a file and runs another Perl script on it. The script does this to every picture file in the current folder. This is running on a machine with 2 quad core Xeon processors, 16gb of ram, running RedHat Linux.
The first script work.pl basically calls magicplate.pl passes some parameters and the name of the file for magicplate.pl to process. Magic Plate takes about a minute to process each image. Because work.pl is preforming the same function over 100 times and because the system has multiple processors and cores I was thinking about splitting the task up so that it could run multiple times in parallel. I could split the images up to different folders if necessary. Any help would be great. Thank you
Here is what I have so far:
use strict;
use warnings;
my @initialImages = <*>;
foreach my $file (@initialImages) {
if($file =~ /.png/){
print "processing $file...\n";
my @tmp=split(/\./,$file);
my $name="";
for(my $i=0;$i<(@tmp-1);$i++) {
if($name eq "") { $name = $tmp[$i]; } else { $name=$name.".".$tmp[$i];}
my $exten=$tmp[(@tmp-1)];
my $orig=$name.".".$exten;
system("perl magicPlate.pl -i ".$orig." -min 4 -max 160 -d 1");


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Legion Review
publisher: Strategy First
developer: Slitherine Software
genre: Strategy
|ESRB rating: T
release date: Jun 03, 02
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I must say I don't really like games that make you spend too much time on them - I simply cannot focus on them that much, but once in a while a game appears that makes me totally lose track of time. And while most people in my surroundings spend countless hours watching the world cup, I'm playing Legion - a turn-based strategy published by Strategy First (Europa Universalis, Man of War II, Kohan, Disciples II, Cossacks: European War, WW II Online and many more).
Half-naked spearmen are conquering Britain.
Crossing Misty Mountains? Going to Rivendell maybe?
Legion takes you to the age before the rise of the mighty Roman Empire, when all of Europe was controlled by small tribes and nomads. Territories would easily come and go with a flick of a wrist, and wars were common everyday occurrences... pretty much like today, come to think of it. Assuming the role of a Roman (or tribal) commander, you will have to conquer all the territories in your way.
If I had to use but one word to describe this game, it would be simplicity. Most people probably won't like a turn-based strategy with hardly any settings, but I assure you that this game is very playable regardless of everything.
The game features four separate single-player campaigns, and standard strategy elements. Well balanced resource gathering and management will be essential for victory - you will gather food, wood and metal, build cities, muster your forces and expand your influence... Initially, you will only be given a small territory, and a couple of towns to control, and it will be up to you to strengthen your forces and conquer more. Your every action is time defined, and time is measured in turns (Hey, it's a turn-based strategy!). Every turn represents three months. Building most structures or units requires at least four turns (one year), but complex buildings and bigger units can take much more time to be constructed. The resource system will rarely allow you to gather all three resources in a single town, but as all resources go directly to your resource pool, you simply have to make sure that you produce all resource types on your territory. It is a bit unrealistic to have a northern town support a unit in the south without any transport problems. The size of your population is one of the crucial elements of development, as it will directly influence the number of your units, and resource gathering speed. Apart from standard structures (military and resource gathering) there are some special buildings which are only used to keep your people happy and increase your population. When you made enough units, you can set off to capture neighboring cities. Movement speed depends both on unit and terrain characteristics - mountains and forests will slow your troops down, as would be expected. Every city is more or less well defended, and its defense strength will directly depend on its population. The game has diplomatic features, but as it is mostly focused on combat, you will rarely ever get a positive reply to a peace offering... and even if you do, bear in mind that a truce can be treacherous, and can easily turn into a full-scale conflict in just a couple of turns.
The simple and intuitive interface makes every action easily accessible. It does take up a large part of the screen, but you will get used to it in no time. The game can be played by mouse only. Building controls and unit production take place on separate screens and are just as intuitive.
If worse comes to worse, you can always jump in the river.
At last we taste the glory of battle!
Combat is the main thing in this game. It is real-time, and completely automated, which means that you cannot influence its outcome once it began. This doesn't seem to be the best possible solution, but it certainly emphasizes the importance of careful planning and unit displacement. However, you will frequently have to rely on luck when positioning units as you are mostly unaware of enemy positions (unless you have a Watch Tower on a neighboring territory). Before the battle commences, you have to place your units on a simplified map representing the battlefield, set their formations and give them general orders on how to behave in battle. This will not give you too many possibilities, but we already said that simplicity is this game's middle name. When you prepared everything, the battle may begin. This is when you get to see how numerous the enemy actually is (which is usually more than you expected). The battlefield soon becomes cluttered with hundreds of dead, wounded, fighting and fleeing, creating an altogether impressive sight.
...which brings us to AI. In Legion, AI s capable of controlling up to 20 adversaries in war and peace, but its combat logic is known to act a bit funny at times. When your unit reaches the enemy, a part of it might simply decide to run away, leaving their comrades to fight to death, even if it is quite obvious that they would have won if they stuck together. I also saw my forces wining a battle they were retreating from, in spite of the enemy numbers. In any case, victory is less than certain, whatever the battlefield status may be. Battles are very short, which may bother some players, but it improves game dynamics.
Graphics are... unusual... to say the least. The interface you get to play on seems cheap - it looks like a light version of Europa Universalis (by the same publisher), though it is still somehow pleasant to the eye. The main map is in pseudo-3D, but the combat terrain is pre-rendered, and looks pretty much the same for all battles, which is not really commendable. The mountains, rivers, lakes and units are colorful and distinguishable, but not really detailed. Their animation is solid, but you can notice a bug here and there. The camera can be moved horizontally and vertically, but it cannot be zoomed or rotated, as the "real-time" action is presented in isometric 2D.
Lastly, it still seems incredible that the developers left out all options for determining graphics quality.
The sound effects are OK, per se, but there are few of them, and they get tedious after a short while. The music is quite adequate, but slightly tiresome. The game doesn't have a multiplayer mode, but the developers claimed they would add it later.
What could I conclude? Legion has its downsides, especially graphics-wise. Still, this is a turn-based strategy meant for a specific crowd of gamers. The overly simplified micro-management makes you think that the developers wanted to focus on the combat only. On the other hand, I have to admit that this simplicity also makes it highly playable... I simply couldn't stop playing it until I conquered Britain, and that took me some time. This is an altogether interesting game meant for all the strategy fans who are not too much into verisimilitude. You just have to relax, build your forces and charge!
6.9 Above Average
Simple and intuitive, low hardware requirements, catchy;
Monotonous sound, not too much of a challenge, no multiplayer mode; the way the PC determines the outcome of the battles and the enemy AI can at times get really confusing and illogical.


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Fully illustrated chapters on batching, fuming, casting, annealing, fusing, pâte de verre, sand casting, and more. You will also find illustrated information on furnace heat recuperation written by the two experts in the field, Charlie Correll and Hugh Jenkins. Alicia Lomné has written a fabulous section on pâte de verre. Pete VanderLaan tells us how to batch glass and set up a batch room. Dr. Frank Woolley presents us with information on stress and what happens when glass goes bad and what caused it. If you're a sand caster I reveal a new trick on how to achieve clean glass surfaces. All the other sections have been rewritten with new and upgraded illustrations, charts, and photographs. Detailed illustrations on how to build day tanks, pot furnaces, annealing ovens, roll out oven, glory holes, a garage, a battery powered pipe cooler, a square glory hole, the ever popular HUB IFB glory hole, it's all there in this edition of Glass Notes. Find where to purchase tools and all sorts of materials for your glass studio along with web sites and e-mail contacts.
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A Monday post at the Physics arXiv blog reports that a natural phenomenon on the moon may hold the key to protecting astronauts on long term deep space mission from radiation. Beyond the Earth's magnetic field, particles from the sun as well as sources from across interstellar space can rip through the DNA of astronauts, disrupting the code for cell reproduction, leading to diseases such as cancer. Shielding astronauts from this kind of threat is a prerequisite before humans can go to destinations such as Mars.
There are features on the moon's surface called "lunar swirls" that stand out as whitened patches that are brighter than the surrounding areas. Scientists have puzzled over these swirls for years. But now they theorize that the lunar swirls are sources if weak magnetic fields that deflect radioactive particles from darkening the surface.
It turns out that even relatively weak magnetic fields will deflect radioactive particle. This is because that in a space ship headed for Mars, the fields would sweep plasma particles before them, warding off the radiation. For the occasional solar storm, some kind of has such as xenon could be pumped out to augment the magnetic shield.
Researchers have been studying the idea of using magnetic deflector shield to protect astronauts for some time. This study suggests that the amount of power that it would take to produce such a field would be relatively small, about 16 kilowatts plus an extra five for cooling and control systems. The whole deflector shield system would mass about 1.5 metric tonnes.
Of course there is a distance between the theory and getting down to actual engineering. NASA and other space agencies, not to mention some private groups, considering plans to send explorers beyond low Earth orbit. The fact that protection against radiation will take less power than hitherto had been thought will bring the long dreamed of age of interplanetary exploration closer to reality.


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The Rover
Way beyond Thunderdome
Future Australia bears a striking resemblance to the American West of Spaghetti westerns: It's all heat and dust and stinging sand scouring tin and brick buildings back into the ground while natural-born sociopaths terrorize the weak, which is to say anyone who'd think twice about killing a man for his boots or his car or his small stash of canned goods or just because. Apparently some vestige of centralized government remains in place, but where that place might be is unclear.
Down these mean roads roves a man who is not himself mean, though you wouldn't know it at first glance: Eric (Guy Pearce), once a farmer and family man and now a scruffy loner in khaki shorts and a dirty button-down shirt that hint at some long-gone normal, lives out of his car and measures his days in tin-roofed gin shacks, Asian bar girls and trouble avoided. That is, until a wild bunch of blood-crazed outlaws looking to ditch the car they just used in a badly botched heist decide to take his. The dead-eyed intensity with which he pursues his stolen beater hints at more than practical anger—could it be the car he owned before the end of the world as he knew it?—but The Rover isn't about explanations—Eric just wants his damned car back and that's all you need to know.
And yet Eric's quest for his car is the catalyst that sparks his dead heart back to life: It leads him to discover the battered and bleeding Rey (Robert Pattinson, of the Twilight series) by the roadside. Instead of leaving the younger man to die, Eric scoops him up and tends to his injuries, and agrees to help Rey (whose hard-case veneer doesn't for one minute hide the fact that he's nowhere near tough enough to fend for himself in this nasty new world) look for his older brother Henry (Scoot McNairy), despite the fact that it was Henry who left him to the wolves during a heist gone bad. And as it happens, he's also the bastard whose gang boosted Eric's car—nothing good can come of this, and nothing good does.
Like Animal Kingdom, The Rover is a tough little picture that draws deeply on Australia's Ozploitation history without succumbing to the gleeful depravity of its golden years. Instead, The Rover is a clear-eyed investigation into the possibility of retaining hope, kindness and simple human decency in a Darwinian nightmare world that counters every gentle impulse or action with a brutal beat-down. Only the pitiless survive, and the fact that both Eric and Rey retain a spark of conscience is nothing but a disadvantage, assuming they want to keep living.
It's no surprise that Pearce, veteran of films ranging from The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert to The Hurt Locker, is more than capable of playing the damaged, forged-in-fire Eric, submerging his still formidable good looks under a layer of stubble and dirt and transforming the restless intelligence swimming behind his ice-blue eyes into a predatory alertness. He isn't looking for trouble, but he's the first to know when it arrives. The surprise is Robert Pattinson, whose teen-dream appeal in the Twilight movies all but obliterated his perfectly respectable past as a serious young actor working his way up through the ranks. He's remarkably persuasive as Rey, who was made by this grim new world without ever being thoroughly of it; he's still a work in progress, haunted by memories of a time when life was more than an endless tooth-and-claw struggle and unable to kill without conscience, but taught by Henry, to whom he's devoted, that caring is cowardice. And perhaps the cruelest lesson of The Rover is that the primordial desire to live trumps all.blog comments powered by Disqus


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2:31 a.m., April 27 -- A deputy stopped a vehicle while on routine patrol. The passenger in the vehicle was issued a citation for possession of drug paraphernalia.
12:10 a.m., April 24 -- A deputy was on routine patrol and stopped a vehicle for expired registration. An adult male occupant in the vehicle was arrested for several outstanding warrants and booked into the Madera Department of Corrections.
7:24 a.m., April 25 -- An unknown suspect(s) used a knife to cut window screen.
4:15 p.m., April 26 -- A suspect was found to be in possession of a usable amount of marijuana on a school campus off School Road. The suspect was suspended from school and the case was referred to Madera County Probation.
9:11 a.m., April 24 -- A subject in the Raley's parking lot was driving on a suspended license and found to be in possession of marijuana.
12:22 p.m., April 25 -- Unknown suspect(s) threw eggs at a front window of a business off Highway 41 and caused $100 worth of damage.
12:49 p.m., April 23 -- Burglary reported off Hangtree Lane.
2 p.m., April 26 -- A suspect hit a victim in the face with her fist. The victim was not injured. The suspect was suspended from school. The case was referred to the Madera County District Attorney's Office.
10:50 a.m., April 21 -- One party claimed that gun shots were fired towards them as they were leaving property off Highway 41.
20:38 p.m., April 28 -- A subject was found to be intoxicated at a residence to the level that he/she could not care for himself/herself. While being transported to Madera Department of Corrections, the intoxicated subject made several threats to deputies.
9:31 a.m., April 26 -- A reporting party said that her two sons, ages 14 and 7, were walking home after being dropped off by the school bus. A white male, between 45 and 55 years old and driving a blue lifted Chevy pick-up truck alone, drove alongside the two boys and yelled at the 7-year-old. The male stopped them and stated he was a retired law enforcement officer. He asked the 7-year-old boy if he was okay, as he was suspicious of the 14-year-old. The 7-year-old stated the other boy was his brother and the male stated he did not like their haircuts. The boys walked away and the male followed them a short distance before driving away.
8:51 a.m., April 26 -- A deputy stopped a vehicle on routine patrol and the driver was cited for possession of marijuana.
12:13 p.m., April 21 -- Vandalism to a mailbox cluster. Two doors on the back of the cluster had been pried open.
10:19 a.m., April 26 -- Reporting party found gold panning equipment on his property alongside the creek.
11:51 a.m., April 28 -- Unknown suspects came onto property off Road 200 and stole some car parts along with parts of a forklift.
1:31 p.m., April 25 -- A traffic stop on an expired vehicle resulted in an arrest. The driver was found to have a no bail warrant and was arrested and transported to the Madera County Department of Corrections without incident.
12 p.m., April 24 -- An arrestee arrived at the scene, on Lilley Mountain Drive, driving a vehicle during an undercover operation regarding unlicensed contractors bidding for work. Upon contact, the arrestee was found to be driving with a suspended driver's license. The arrestee was issued a citation and released from custody. The arrestee's vehicle was towed and stored under a 30-day impound. The case was cleared by arrest.
10:05 a.m., April 25 -- An unknown suspect(s) used the victim's social security number, address and a disconnected home phone number to obtain credit from two businesses. The suspect used these fraudulently and obtained credit accounts to purchase more than $950 worth of merchandise.
2:08 a.m., April 27 -- A self-initiated vehicle check off Lucky Lane resulted in the occupant being discovered to have a couple of felony bench warrants issued for his arrest out of Yuba County. The subject was arrested without incident. The case was closed after being cleared by arrest.
4:08 a.m., April 26 -- During a routine patrol check off Lucky Lane, a deputy contacted a parolee at large. He was arrested on a felony warrant without incident. A search of his person yielded a usable amount of suspected methamphetamine and narcotics paraphernalia. He was also booked on a residential burglary charge that stemmed from a Chowchilla Police Department case. The case was forwarded to the District Attorney's Office for prosecution.
1:15 a.m., April 21 -- A subject was arrested for public intoxication at Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino off Lucky Lane. The subject was arrested and transported to Madera County Jail.
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4:28 a.m., April 25 -- Deputies were dispatched regarding a report of subjects doing "donuts" on the reporting party's property. The reporting party identified one of the possible subjects involved. Deputies located the suspect and he was found to have a local felony bench warrant issued for his arrest. The case was closed after being cleared by arrest.
2:59 p.m., April 22 -- Residential burglary off Road 223.
The above calls are a sampling of calls to the Madera County Sheriff's Office for the week of April 21-28 and are in no way inclusive.
The above calls are a sampling of calls to the Madera County Sheriffs Office for the week of April 21-28 and are in no way inclusive.


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PULLMAN, Wash. – The Washington State baseball program had 13 student-athletes each sign a National Letter of Intent to play for the Cougars beginning in the 2014-15 academic year, Cougar Head Coach Donnie Marbut announced, Wednesday.
The class includes 10 in-state signees, a pair of Californians, and a prep from Colorado. The student-athletes are right-handed pitcher Sam Boone (Shoreline, Wash.), outfielder Derek Chapman (Issaquah, Wash.), catcher Alan Crowley (Clovis, Calif.), outfielder Daniel Fredrickson (Woodinville, Wash.), outfielder/catcher Justin Hancock (Kennewick, Wash.), outfielder Weston Hatten (Clovis, Calif.), shortstop Haakon Lande (Snohomish, Wash.), right-handed pitcher Nick Leonard (Highlands Ranch, Colo.), left-handed pitcher Drew Lunde (Sammamish, Wash.), third baseman Shane Matheny (Bremerton, Wash.), outfielder/first baseman/left-handed pitcher Tyler McDowell (Puyallup, Wash.), left-handed pitcher Scott Sunitsch (Federal Way, Wash.) and right-handed pitcher Ryan Walker (Arlington, Wash.).
"I am very excited about this class," Marbut said. "I cannot give enough credit to our coaching staff, Pat Waer, Gregg Swenson and Michael Naughton, for all their work. Our support staff, strength & conditioning, athletic training and equipment room, do a great job to sell our program. This group of recruits has a good balance between hitting and pitching as well as left-handed and right-handed elements on the mound and at the plate. They are also tremendous in the classroom with an average GPA of 3.38."
Boone posted a 10-0 mark with a 1.05 ERA and 60 strikeouts in 60 innings last year at Shorewood High School. He was an All-Wesco 3A, All-Everett Herald, All-Seattle Times and all-state selection.
"Sam is a 6-foot-8, right-handed pitcher much in the (current WSU pitcher) Scott Simon mold," Cougar Assistant Coach/Pitching Coach Gregg Swenson said. "He creates great angle and shows terrific pitch ability. From a highly successful high school program led by Wyatt Tonkin, he has had great success throughout his career."
Chapman batted .350 as a junior and was an All-KingCo Second Team selection while helping Issaquah High School reach a state qualifying game.
"Derek is an outfielder who also possesses that speed tool that you can't teach," Cougar Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator Pat Waer said. "He is a defensive back on his high school football team and a very tough kid."
Crowley earned All-Tri-River Athletic Conference and All-Valley First Team honors and was a second team all-state selection at Clovis High School last season.
"Alan is from a storied program at Clovis High School," Waer said. "He plays for legendary coach James Patrick. He has a toughness that defines being a Coug. He is a right-handed hitting catcher who is very advanced defensively. His arm is his best weapon and will impact our roster as soon as he gets on campus. He is also a safety on the football team (produced Super Bowl starting quarterback Daryl Lamonica) and averages about 10 tackles a game."
Fredrickson batted .347 in 2013, collecting 26 hits in 23 games, and added a .402 on-base percentage. His 16 stolen bases were second in KingCo 4A. He led the league in runs scored and was a second team all-league honoree. He is also a member of the Bothell High School tennis team.
"Daniel is a prototypical leadoff hitter," Waer said. "He is a 6.6, 60-yard dash runner and a left-handed hitter that sprays the ball around the field. He projects as a true center fielder."
Hancock is a three-time All-Mid-Columbia Conference selection, including a first team member each of the last two seasons. He helped lead Kennewick High School to a third place finish in the state playoffs.
"Justin is an outfielder and catcher," Waer said. "He is a left-handed hitter who has versatility to impact our roster immediately at multiple positions."
Hatten batted .320 in Tri-River Athletic Conference play with a .485 on-base percentage as a leadoff hitter last season at Clovis West High School. He joins Waer and former Washington State and current Buffalo Bills quarterback Jeff Tuel as Clovis West Golden Eagles who made their way to the Palouse.
"Weston is a physical, right-handed hitting outfielder with a power/speed combination that will play nicely at Bailey-Brayton Field," Waer said. "He is a blue collar kid who possesses the toughness and work ethic needed to be successful at the Division I level."
Lande batted .344 with a pair of home runs and 22 RBI at Snohomish High School last season. He was also 6-for-6 in stolen bases and was named All-Wesco North First Team and second team all-area.
"Haakon (HAWK-en) is a right-handed hitting shortstop who seems to hit two doubles every time I see him play," Waer said. "He defines toughness and possesses a blue collar work ethic. That will be a great compliment to members of this recruiting class and returnees we will have on our 2015 roster."
Leonard pitched primary as a starter at Mountain Vista High School last season after appearing mostly as a reliever during his first two seasons. He averaged better than a strikeout per inning in 2013.
"Nick is very polished with a clean delivery and easy velocity," Swenson said. "He is a mature player who is determined and disciplined on and off the field. He shows great leadership ability and is well liked by his coaches and peers."
Lunde struck out 41 batters in 32 1/3 innings as a junior at Skyline High School. He posted a 1.73 ERA and held opponents to a .138 batting average. His season included a one-hit shutout with 14 strikeouts.
"Drew is a complete bulldog on the mound," Swenson said. "He is a two-sport star who brings his football mentality to the diamond. He pitches with a great feel for the game and has led all his teams to great heights during his prep career."
Matheny was the MVP of the Olympic League after batting .580 with 28 RBI and 11 stolen bases at Olympic High School. He garnered first team all-league and all-state selections.
"Shane is an advanced hitter for his age," Waer said. "He projects as a third baseman at the Division I level. He has a great combination of contact consistency and left-handed power."
McDowell was South Puget Sound League South First Team at utility and an all-league second team selection as an outfielder. He batted .343 with a .528 on-base percentage. He added a pair of home runs and knocked in 22 runs.
"Tyler will be a two-way player for us," Waer said. "He is a left-handed hitting corner outfielder/first baseman with a power/speed combination that will complement the middle of our order nicely. As a left-handed pitcher, he may be a rotation guy as a sophomore. He is a natural strike thrower with a three-pitch mix up to 88 miles per hour."
Sunitsch was a South Puget Sound League Second Team pitcher last season while averaging 10.90 strikeouts per nine innings at Todd Beamer High School.
"Scott pitches with an attitude and has an edge about him that we love," Swenson said. "He will bring a very competitive mentality to our program and shows great desire to be the best. He has bought into our program from day one."
Walker led Arlington High School with a .437 batting average and was named All-Wesco Conference First Team as an infielder in 2013. He was a second team all-league pitcher and expects to be on the mound when he reaches Pullman.
"Ryan has a low angle delivery that creates great deception," Swenson said. "He has a plus arm speed that will allow him to add velocity once his strength catches up to him. He has pitched for some great teams in his prep career and has a high ceiling as a Coug."


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Kathleen T. Lange (nee Anderson), 70, of Valley City, passed away Monday, June 17, 2013 surrounded by her loving family. Kathy was born July 5, 1942 in Cleveland, to the late Albert and Madge Anderson. She resided in Valley City since 1978.
Kathy is a member of St. Martin of Tours, Valley City and worked in the Deli at the Forest Meadows Buehler's for many years. She enjoyed her gardening, watching birds and caring for her beloved dogs. Kathy dearly loved her family and adored her grandchildren.
Kathy is survived by her husband of 52 years, Bill; son, Brett (Amy) Lange, of Valley City; and daughter, Laura Lange, of Medina; grandchildren, Stephanie, Ethan and Benjamin. Kathy is also survived by two brothers; six sisters; and many nieces and nephews.
Calling hours are Thursday, June 20, 2013, 3 until 7 P.M., at the Bauer Funeral Home, 2089 Columbia Road, Valley City. At Kathy's request, cremation will take place and a Memorial Mass will be held at a later date.
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SC Researchers Ask Local Farmers and Hunters to Report Tagged Deer
More than 100 deer in the area have numbers on their heads, and they aren't price tags. The numbers are printed on yellow ear tags and were placed on deer on the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge during the fall and winter of 2007/2008 by researchers from Kansas State University and student volunteers from Sterling College. Each captured deer was assigned a unique number and tagged on each ear. In a study aimed at documenting the dispersal of this deer population, Sterling College researchers are asking the public to report any deer with yellow tags that are sighted or harvested away from the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge. The tag number, sex, and specific location of the deer should be reported to Dr. Jonathan Conard at email@example.com or 620-278-4243. Even if the ear-tag number cannot be read, the sex and/or size of the animal may be helpful to the researchers for identification.
The aim of this study is to document deer dispersal from Quivira National Wildlife Refuge. During dispersal younger deer (usually fawns or yearlings) move away from the range in which they were born to establish a new range in a different geographic location. While many of the deer tagged during 2007/2008 have remained in the vicinity of Quivira, it is possible others may have traveled long distances. Studies in other states have shown that deer may migrate or disperse between 1 and 100 miles. A study in the late 1960s that followed the movements of 19 mule deer in northwest Kansas found that deer moved an average of 51 miles during dispersal. Since then deer populations have increased dramatically and it is suspected that deer movement patterns have changed. The research study on the dispersal of the deer population tagged during 2007/2008 is part of a larger study on deer movement patterns.