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Evidence linking epigenetic modi-fications to the activation of oncogenes or the inactivation of onco-suppressor genes is rapidly coalescing (3). Researchers currently propose a dynamically interactive model by which the genome and epigenome feed back on one another, driving the growth or the involution of tumors (4–6).
This complex model of regulatory control offers many opportunities for a more nuanced understanding of the cancer cell and how it spans the transformation from normal to various stages of malignancy. The new knowledge base opens up possibilities for early diagnosis, because subclinical tumors may release DNA molecules into the circulation that bear highly specific epigenetic modifications defining the type and stage of malignancy of a particular tumor type. These markers can be methylated sites in target genes, and as such, provide a specific and sensitive target. Currently, numerous diagnostic tests for these markers are under development (7).By the same token, an epigenetic-based therapeutic attack on cancer has been launched. There are a number of basic science teams working with industry to define new epitherapeutics for a range of different cancers.
These changes, affecting both the diagnostic and the therapeutic aspects of oncology, demand a restructuring of our strategies for attacking this disease. There is much interest in other diseases that may have an epigenetic basis, but cancer-based investigation is far advanced over other diseases, so for the next few years this will no doubt be the prime focus of epi-drug development.
New targets call for new strategies for synthesis and production. This may influence the relative balance between small molecules and biological drugs, decisions that will affect the allocation of resources for large-scale production in the coming years. Companies have made decisions in the past reflecting their projected bioprocessing needs, with serious implications for cash flow, so it is crucial that these allocations be assigned on the basis of the best information available.


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Arnold-Chiari syndrome is a series of nervous system symptoms related to a deformity of the skull.
This condition is often present at birth, but can also develop later in life. Some people with mild forms of this syndrome may never know they have the condition. For others it can be more severe. These severe forms will need treatment.
Arnold-Chiari syndrome is caused by a problem in the back of the skull. The skull should have an indented space in the back of the head. The rear lower part of the brain and the brainstem are in this space. In some people, this indented skull space does not develop well. This is called Chiari malformation. The space inside the skull is too small for the brain. As a result, the brain and brain stem are pushed downward. It blocks the flow of fluid from the brain to the spinal column.
The problem with the skull develops before birth. It is not clear why it happens. In some cases, it occurs with a myelomeningocele, which is a form of
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There are no known risk factors for Chiari malformation. There may be a genetic connection in some families.
Symptoms in infants are due to pressure on the lower part of the brain and brainstem. They may include:
Symptoms in adolescents are usually milder and may include:
You will be asked about symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. Imaging tests evaluate the brain and skull. These may include:
Special studies may also be done to evaluate the flow of fluid around your brain and spinal cord.
Treatment will be based on individual symptoms and the degree of pressure on the brain. For example:
Talk with your doctor about the best treatment plan for you.
There is no known way to prevent Arnold-Chiari syndrome. Genetic counseling may help parents of a child with this condition to determine the risk in future children.
American Syringomyelia and Chiari Alliance Project
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation
Health Canada
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Chiari malformation information page. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke website. Available at:
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Hekman KE, Aliaga L, et al. Positive and negative predictors for good outcome after decompressive surgery for Chiari malformation type 1 as scored on the Chicago Chiari Outcome Scale. Nuerol Res. 2012;34(7):694-700.
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Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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This weekend marks the end of BracketBusters, the decade-old event featuring teams from outside the power conferences in late-February, nonconference showdowns.
Its epitaph should read:
It served its purpose. Mostly.
"For our situation, it has been great," said Saint Mary's coach Randy Bennett, whose team faces Creighton on Saturday in the marquee BracketBusters matchup, with NCAA tournament implications for both teams.
The Gaels have been a regular participant in BracketBusters, which was created by ESPN and a handful of college officials to serve a singular purpose: Provide teams from the so-called mid-majors with résumé-boosting games.
With participating conferences agreeing to block out a late-February weekend, ESPN could wait until the middle of the season to set the matchups.
"We wanted to enhance the opportunity for teams to get at-large bids," said Doug Elgin, commissioner of the Missouri Valley Conference and a driving force behind BracketBusters. "You have to give ESPN a lot of credit for buying into the event."
More than a dozen BracketBusters teams have received at-large berths over the years, although it's impossible to know how many would have been invited to the Big Dance anyhow.
Organizers initially hoped to call the event the Cinderella Classic but encountered trademark issues. Plenty of slipper-worthy teams have participated, however.
George Mason's stunning run to the 2006 Final Four began with a BracketBusters victory. Same with Virginia Commonwealth in 2011. Butler, the cream of the Cinderellas, was a regular.
Numerous NBA players are BracketBusters alums, including Portland rookie sensation Damian Lillard, Utah's Gordon Hayward, Sacramento's Jason Thompson and some guy named Curry who plays for the Warriors.
But not everyone benefits from BracketBusters. The participant pool has expanded to 122 teams, but only the best are part of the televised package of games. Everyone else plays nonconference opponents far from the spotlight in games that take the focus off conference play and often involve difficult travel.
(San Jose State played a non-TV game a few years ago when the Western Athletic Conference put all of its teams into the BracketBusters participant pool.)
"It has been great exposure for us," Bennett said. "We played Murray State last year, and I don't know if we've ever received more attention prior to a game than we did for that one."
Bennett hopes to replace the BracketBusters game with a comparable high-profile matchup, whether it's early in the season or late. Given the emphasis the selection committee places on strength of schedule, he doesn't have much choice. But there's an inherent risk: Teams set their schedules months before the season; opponents that look good in June could be garbage by January.
"The BracketBusters almost guaranteed that we'd have an opponent with a good RPI," Bennett said. "That will be a challenge for us."
What killed BracketBusters? In a word: Starvation. Partly because of conference realignment, there aren't enough top-tier teams available.
Butler and Virginia Commonwealth have joined the Atlantic 10 Conference, which isn't involved in the event. (Neither is the Mountain West, for that matter.)
The Colonial Athletic Association -- the home to George Mason, Drexel and Old Dominion -- left the ESPN family of networks to sign with NBC and is, ahem, no longer welcome.
Gonzaga would be a natural, except it has no use for BracketBusters: The Zags can schedule as many high-profile games as they desire.
All of which leaves BracketBusters officials to choose from Saint Mary's, Murray State, the Missouri Valley teams and, well, not much else.
"It has run its course," Elgin said. "But it was a great event."
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Hi everyone,
I've been a long time user of PMS, and have really loved using this as a cheap solution substitute for a HTPC. I recently moved, however, and have had to switch my PS3 to WiFi instead of LAN, and have had problems ever since. After a ton of tweaking, googling, and trouble shooting, I thought I would try here!
I get random stuttering, jumping, and quality issues. The odd part is that it doesn't seem to have any correlation with the size/quality of the file. For the most part, pretty much all of my media is x264 MKVs, and for the sake of simplification, that's all I'd like to focus on and fix. Files that "work" just work, while some files I can't get to ever work properly no matter how many things I try to tweak!
I'll give 3 examples of the 3 possibilities I have with my media:
it works : 1080p rip of Drive
it stutters: 720p rip of a UFC fight
it jumps: medium quality (600mb) rip of a boxing fight
I can't for the life of me figure it out, and it's really bumming me out. All of these files play perfectly well without any issues on my PC using MPClassic. Hopefully someone is able to help me troubleshoot this!
My specs:
sandy bridge core i5-2400, 4gb ram, windows 7. I've re-done all of my tests and files today after making sure that my java is up to date, and upgraded to the most recent release of PMS (1.72.0)
I'm streaming to my ps3, I don't know if I'm using any custom renderer profiles?
I believe that I'm using MEncoder
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(I tried testing on another 1080p x264 MKV file, pulp fiction, which played flawlessly with no stuttering/jumping/quality issues)
Some other general thoughts/setting that I've played around with in the past:
On the Transcode Settings page:
For the common transcode settings:
I have buffer at the maximum (600mb), 4 cores for transcoding (maximum), I've played around with the MPEG-2 options, and have had the best success with vqmin=2 (good quality for HD wifi), although I've tried the vqmin 3 and 4 setting which do not improve anything.
For the MEncoder tab, the only two setting I have selected are "Use multiple CPU cores" and "skip loop filter deblocking".
Pretty much every setting on every page/tab I've tried playing around with over the past 3-4 months. Please let me know if there is any additional information I can provide, and thank you for taking the time to read and shoot me your suggestions. Cheers!


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HOLLYWOOD -- No one is more excited than Cal that a new college football season is at hand.
"I can't stress how happy we are to have last year in the past and to be where we are now," sophomore quarterback Jared Goff said Wednesday at Pac-12 media day. "We can see the growth -- mentally, physically. It's a different team. It's not even remotely the same team as last year."
Coming off a 1-11 season, the Bears open Aug. 30 at Northwestern. Coach Sonny Dykes said fans will have no trouble seeing the difference in his squad.
"We were so bad last year, I think the improvement's going to be pretty obvious," Dykes said. "We weren't very competitive last year in a lot of games. That's going to be the biggest difference, competing in games, giving ourselves an opportunity to win.
"What happened so often last year is midway through the first quarter you'd look up and we were down by 21 points. I think it's going to be obvious to everybody -- our fans, our opponents -- that we're going to be a much-improved football team."
The Bears were winless against Football Bowl Subdivision opponents and their defense allowed nearly 46 points per game.
Goff, who passed for a school-record 3,508 yards as a freshman, said the 2013 fiasco was an offseason motivator, but that players are no longer dwlling on the past.
"It's behind us. We're no longer thinking about last season," he said. "We're excited to move forward, make a new brand for ourselves."
Certainly Dykes, in his second season, would like to do that. He arrived at Berkeley last fall after building a repuation as a top offensive coach at Louisiana Tech, but the success didn't immediately translate to the Pac-12.
"In our profession, you are kind of what your record says you are. You from being pretty smart to being pretty dumb overnight," Dykes said. "It's a tough thing to live with. It's a hard thing for a coach to go through.
"We took a lot out of it, learned from it. But you've got to put it behind you and move on. I think our players have probably done that in some ways than our coaching staff has."


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1. Soaked!
I thought I had escaped typhoons and bad weather. Turns out Toronto's got them too. Without the ever-so-convenient jeepneys that ply Manila's streets, I had to walk that soggy distance home. Good thing I'd brought a large plastic bag for my lunch and my binder. The bag kept my binder mostly dry. My computer was also safe and sound. Water leaked through my rain cloak, though, and my clothes were slightly damp by the end of the trip. Still, I couldn't help but feel happy
As soon as I got home, I dropped my clothes in the laundry, combed my hair, and settled into a warm, fuzzy, pink bathrobe. Hooray for bathrobes!
I found out that the rain cloak I _so_ love using isn't rated for typhoons. Should I get an umbrella as well? A foldable umbrella would fit into my black-and-orange bag, but I'm not sure how sturdy it could be. A full umbrella would be too inconvenient for me, so I guess I'll have to find a decent foldable umbrella. Someone sent me a link to lifetime-guaranteed umbrellas before. I should check them out.
My black stretch pants turned out to be a little too long, and they got stretched even further by the weight of the rain and the stress of being stepped on every so often. I am going to have to buy another, sturdier pair of stretch pants. This pair will not do. As I have given up on them, I may as well try hemming them to match my length. If I mess up, I wouldn't have lost much. If I manage to sew it, I'll have gained a new skill! (Thanks again to St. Scholastica's College!)
The sun has just come out. Maybe I should've just waited for the rain to end. Hmph.
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Get the most of Australia's East Coast with this tour to explore and relax. Take in the crystal clear waters and the lush tropical settings of this magnificent island. Ride the Captain Cook Highway with rainforest on one side and the Great Barrier Reef on the other, it's not your typical road trip. You'll make friends for life as you explore Down Under with this Contiki Australia travel package.
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On our trips we don't just take you to the destinations, we make sure you get under the skin of every place you visit. From amazing food & accommodation, to exclusive access to incredible experiences, with Contiki you'll get unbeatable value & a completely unique travel experience.
Meet up with the other Contiki travellers and your Trip Manager in Cairns. Then we hit the road and travel north.
Sticking to the coast, we follow the Coral Sea past remote beaches and gorgeous scenery to the lush, tropical Daintree Rainforest. Get back to nature as we walk through this UNESCO World Heritage-listed site with a local aboriginal guide who will teach you about the culture traditions of the native people. You will also head to a stunningly clear swimming-hole in Mossman Gorge, where you can cool off in the waters.
This afternoon you can choose to either glide through the canopy of the rainforest on the optional zip lines, go kayaking off cape tribulation and see turtles swimming beneath and eagles soaring overhead.
Tonight, get to know your group and Trip Manager over dinner in Cape Tribulation.
- Aboriginal experience at Mossman Gorge
- Jungle Surfing A$85
- Kayaking Adventure A$65.00
Head to the lookout point at Cape Tribulation. The only place in the world where two UNESCO heritage listed sites meet. Next it's onto make a splash in a local watering hole then check out the mangroves on a walk with our local guide.
Next up is Port Douglas, known for its idyllic white sands and palms trees. This resort town attracts the rich & famous, travelers and families alike. You'll soon see why.
This afternoon it's back to Cairns!
In your free time on the first night in Cairns, walk around the buzzing night markets. It's the perfect place for shopping and with everything from fun, kitsch treasures to local crafts like boomerangs and didgeridoos.
- Swim in a local waterhole
- Mangrove boardwalk with our expert guide
- Visit the resort town of Port Douglas
Wake up to the warm waters of Cairns where there's something for everyone. This is your chance to experience the Great Barrier Reef on an optional day trip. Put on your snorkel gear and check out colourful fish, turtles, vivid coral and the incredible clear waters.
On day 2, for those who are keen for a fun and thrilling ride, join our optional whitewater rafting adventure activity with our professional Local Guides. There are loads more activities available in Cairns like hot air ballooning, sky diving and bungy jumping – just ask your Trip Manager for some more info.
Tonight we head out to a local restaurant for dinner where you have the opportunity to try kangaroo, amongst other delicious Australian delicacies.
- Cairns city orientation
- Outer Barrier Reef Cruise from A$170
- White Water Rafting A$125
- Skydive Australia From A$259
- AJ Hackett Minjin Swing or Bungee Jump A$105 / A$150
Relax on the coach as we cruise past thick, tropical rainforests into Tully, home to some of Australia's best whitewater rafting.
Slowly leaving the tropics behind us, we hit Townsville for some free time. Check out the colonial buildings and get a feel for its maritime past as we drive along the esplanade and into town where you can grab some lunch.
See vistas over Magnetic Island, a National Park and bird sanctuary, before we continue our travels south. Play some tunes, have a chat, catch a movie or simply enjoy some downtime.
The time is then yours to enjoy the picture-perfect Whitsundays! Slow the pace down, kick back and relax.
For those that are up for it, you could get away from it all with our optional day sail. Check out some of the Whitsunday's 74 islands from the boat – you'll soon understand why this region is so famous. Experience what is known as one of the top ten beaches in the world, uninhabited Whitehaven Beach. Swim off the boat and play beach volleyball or cricket with the local skipper and crew before enjoying a tasty lunch and a few drinks.
- Pass Hinchinbrook Island - Australia's largest island national park
- See Magnetic Island
- Townsville city orientation
- Visit the vibrant seaside town of Airlie Beach
- Cruise Whitsundays Camira Day Sail A$170
The trip ends after breakfast in Airlie Beach, so it's time to swap email addresses & say farewell to your new friends.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Mark Twain Lake invite interested groups or individuals to the Visitor Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, for a spring cleanup.
Volunteers will have the opportunity to assist park rangers with mulching, pruning, dead-heading, leaf removal and assist in overall sprucing and helping get the Visitor Center ready for another recreation season. Participants will receive a Mark Twain Lake water bottle to take home.
The M.W. Boudreaux Memorial Visitor Center is located along Highway J just south of the Clarence Cannon Dam. For information please contact the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com or call (573) 735-4097. Even though registration is not required, groups and individuals are encouraged to make contact so an estimate of supplies needed to accommodate can be made.
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SNOWMASS VILLAGE - "'Snowmass was the first resort to host the NASTAR National Championship when the format of the event changed in 1998 to a large-scale public event,' said Bill Madsen, director of NASTAR operations. 'We are excited to bring the championships back to Snowmass and the Spider Sabich race area, allowing our participants to enjoy the amazing skiing and amenities that Aspen/Snowmass provides,'" according to the NASTAR website.
The race area was named after Vladimir Sabich, nicknamed "Spider," who was a member of the U.S. Ski Team and skied on the World Cup circuit in the 1960s. He competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics and became the pro ski champion in both 1971 and 1972. In 1976, Sabich was shot in the bathroom of his home in Aspen by longtime girlfriend Claudine Longet.
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NH opens 1,000 miles of interconnected ATV trails
STEWARTSTOWN, N.H. (AP) — Gov. Maggie Hassan and other state officials are celebrating the opening of a long-planned 1,000-mile interconnected trail network in northern New Hampshire.
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Good Golgi to open with. Rift still has some timing problems and was not that tight. Mike was off during Guelah. Maze was good except for the end part. Bouncing is pretty standard. Ice was ok. Sparkle also had a little timing problem, but not too bad. Punch is getting much better, but Mike is still weak. Funny moment of banter before Page sings a nice Lawn Boy. Antelope has a few rough spots, but a great jam. Again, this show has lots of energy, but is just a little off in each song.
Good solid Curtain to open second set. Stash is also very nice. Poor Heart has the extra solo section in it again before the last verse. Fish blows the middle of Sample, but it's new. Then the Balls come out, and again, they wait to give this one a proper ending. Ya Mar is really funny because Trey can't wait to say Leo, so he says it early and then resorts to calling everyone names like Boss and Hoss again like he did the other night. Also Trey emphasizes "Love you dead" instead of "lovely day". They also include a false ending so Mike can speak "drive through" jibberish. There is a sound check out there that explains that phrase. Mike's is pretty good and rocking. Hydrogen is sloppy as usual. Weekapaug was a good jam. Then Fish comes out, with a cold, for a nice easy Terrapin with band introductions and Pete lyrics. Fee was played by request after choosing between it and Tela. Llama was on fire again, almost too fast to keep up! It was a great way to close up the show.
Monkey cuts in on the recording. It's been a while for this one and it's pretty good. Page plays piano first then organ for the Let It Be breakdown. Grace was ok even though Fish is sick. Rocky Top was also on fire.
Strange, I really like this show, but I feel it lacks something because the board recording is so good and clear, I can hear all the bad notes. The energy was off the charts! This show is about where it needs to be, three and a half stars. Four stars for the energy, but three for the playing. (Mostly Mike)


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Sgt. Christiana Ball, a native of Rising Fawn, Ga., and drill sergeant with Company B, 787th Military Police Battalion here, has made it as one of the top three finalists in the Army's Operation Rising Star competition.
The winner is scheduled to be announced Dec. 14. The public is encouraged to view and vote for their favorite performer. Unlimited online voting is available at www.OpRisingStar.com.
Ball won first place at the local Fort Leonard Wood Operation Rising Star competition, and the post Garrison Command submitted her audition packet to the Army Installation Management Command headquarters, where a panel of judges reviewed Sgt. Ball's video. She was selected to compete as one of 12 finalists at the Army competition.
Should Ball win first place, she and a guest will receive an all-expense-paid trip to record a three-song CD. The trip includes airfare, lodging and three days of studio time at a professional recording studio and $1,000 spending cash. Professional studio time includes: music arrangement, mixing, mastering, vocal coach, four musicians for one day, audio engineer and CD producer. The winning contestant will receive his or her own personal professionally recorded and edited CD. This CD is a demo CD and not intended for resale purposes; approximate retail value of this prize is $18,700.
The second-place winner will receive $1,000 cash, and the third-place winner will receive $500 cash.
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Im a 5' 2" point guard and i need drills to help improve. I am a shooter who handles the ball well.I am a good athlete who is a shutdown defender on guards.I am a passing guard with eyes on the back of my head. I struggle defending large players and rebound versus other aau players. I often finish with only one or two rebounds in games. I work on my game all summer, and i need new drills i can use in my daily workouts?
im not gonna give you my workout or drills(hope you understand the competitve side) but you should find drills that help with your skills, check all over google and youtube. for rebound, you should try being really aggresive, box them out and explode up ffor rebounds, to help you out, go to google, go to the video section of google, right ganon baker or better basketball, look at the left side of your screen and find where it has video length, click on 20+ length, and there should be a whole bunch of videos, take care
I look on youtube and google a lot for really good drills. I find a lot of good workouts and drills on them. I just dont have many on passing, rebounds, and defense
okay for defense, you need hand eye cordination drills like dropping a tennis ball and grabbing it fast for quick hands also do alot of defnesive slides like zig zags and such,passing i like to mark small places on the wall and try to hit the target andalso do the sam from a distance(to help with passing the way kendall marshal does.) and i think there are court vision drills out there, try those. rebounds, have strength on lower body, and work on exploding up, extend and grab the ball. So i just throw the ball off the back board or rim and grab the ball. but if your a point guard your not supose to be worried about getting rebounds that. rebounding point guards( like rondo) are blessed with size(he has a 6'9 wingspan, and he is only 6'1) so you will be alright.
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SAN JOSE -- By year's end, San Jose police will have a groundbreaking policy to chronicle every time they stop and detain someone regardless of whether it yields an arrest, responding to long-standing concerns about possible racial profiling.
Advocates say the new procedure may finally answer the question of whether patrol officers are stopping people because of their ethnicity.
The San Jose Police Department announced a phased installation of the new regulation two years after they were first proposed by the Office of the Independent Police Auditor and six months after they were signed into effect by outgoing Chief Chris Moore, then quickly suspended by acting Chief Larry Esquivel for retooling.
According to a memo to the City Council from Esquivel, the additional data gathering is expected to fully roll out by December.
"I'm really pleased this is happening. It's one thing to talk about it, and one thing to put it in writing," said LaDoris Cordell, a retired judge who is the city's police auditor. "There's no police department in the United States that's going to do what this is going to do."
Dubbed the "curb sitting" policy after community complaints to Cordell's office alleged racial minorities were disproportionately made to sit on the curb during routine street stops, it will actually cover any instance where an officer performs a "stop-and-frisk" style stop and the subject is handcuffed or ordered to sit on a curb or in the back of a police car but is released afterward.
"This data collection is the most systematic and well thought out that I've seen in the country," said Robert Weisberg, law professor and co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center.
Silicon Valley De-Bug, a media, social-advocacy and business collective based in San Jose that in the past has alleged police misconduct, said the policy has long been needed and lauded police for keeping its promise of reform.
"This approach of recording interactions ... is going to go a long way in building positive police and community relations," said Raj Jayadev, the group's coordinator.
Beyond that, Cordell added, the new policy will finally provide data for the debate over alleged police profiling.
"The data itself will send a message to the community as to what officers are doing, and give a picture to officers," Cordell said. "My hope is it will be a good picture. But if things need change, data will drive the change."
Esquivel is not commenting publicly on the new rules, said Sgt. Jason Dwyer, a department spokesman.
Police are already required to document the circumstances of every traffic stop, but information on pedestrian stops has been recorded more haphazardly. Stopping a pedestrian is often seen as an informal and proactive way for an officer to keep the peace and learn a neighborhood. But if a person who had been detained on the street wanted to make a complaint about being stopped, there might not be any record of the incident.
Under the new policy, if someone is detained during a vehicle or pedestrian stop that doesn't result in an arrest and report, officers will be required to record either on their mobile computers or dictate to a dispatcher, the following: the result of the stop, reason for the stop, the person's race, whether a search was conducted, and the number of people involved -- information long required for any traffic stop.
For the first time, officers will also note the type -- ordered to sit on a curb, handcuffed, placed in police car -- and the reason for a detention.
Weisberg said the increased transparency can help shield officers as well.
"If it helps identify bad conduct," he said, "it is also going to protect them from false allegations."
The police department, and Esquivel in particular, came under fire from community and political groups when just days after a retiring Moore implemented the new policy in January, Esquivel suspended it without any immediate explanation. He later said there had not been any training on how to carry out the new mandate, that police computer systems needed upgrading to ensure the data could be readily queried -- essentially the heart of the policy -- and that it applied to so many police actions off the street that it was seen as overly burdensome.
Sources close to the process have said that when Moore approved the policy, he knew the logistics still needed to be worked out but he wanted his officers to get in the habit of taking down the information. It was quickly derided by the rank-and-file, already suffering from low morale stemming largely from a bitter pay and pension-reform fight with City Hall that spurred a years-long exodus of cops from the force.
Esquivel wrote that the memo as signed by his predecessor "created frustration for an already overworked workforce and was referred to as the 'don't get out of your car memo.' "
The contentions by community groups about curb sitting echo a controversy from four years ago when an investigation by this newspaper revealed that San Jose police disproportionately arrested Latinos for public drunkenness when compared to other groups. In New York City, the police department is fighting a class-action lawsuit that alleged overzealous use of "stop-and-frisk" searches and revealed shoddy documentation of the practice.
Weisberg said the pending San Jose policy could help the city steer clear of similar headaches.
"Comparatively, it's extremely exhaustive and analytically rigorous," he said. "It's not (about) stopping versus not stopping. It's the way you stop somebody. Documenting the actual physical steps of the stop is important. That's innovative. And the tangible benefit is you don't get a mega lawsuit like you do in New York."
Contact Robert Salonga at 408-920-5002. Follow him at Twitter.com/robertsalonga.
San Jose police are, through December, phasing in a policy for vehicle and pedestrian stops that mandates whenever an officer temporarily detains someone either by handcuffing or making the person sit on a street curb or in a police car, they document the following:
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September 06, 2006
New York Law Prohibits Shutout of Alternative Fuels
A new law in New York will make alternative fuels such as biodiesel and E85 (a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline) more readily available to consumers. New York Governor George Pataki on July 31st signed a law prohibiting the "exclusivity" contracts between fuel distributors and gas stations. These contracts limit service stations from purchasing or selling fuels from sources other than the main distributor. Because most major petroleum fuel distributors do not sell E85 or other alternative fuels in New York, service stations bound by these contracts were unable to offer renewable fuels to customers. The fuels covered under the new law include E85, biodiesel, hydrogen, and compressed natural gas.
The law should help remove access barriers for the owners of the roughly 200,000 flex-fuel vehicles in New York State. Flex-fuel vehicles can run on either E85 or gasoline, but only a few stations in New York currently offer E85. To further improve access, the New York State Thruway Authority will install renewable fuel pumps at its 27 Thruway travel plazas, the first of which should be operating this fall. See the press releases from Governor Pataki on the exclusivity law and the Thruway plaza pump groundbreaking.


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MAA and ThinkFun hosted the second annual Gathering for Gardner Celebration of Mind on October 21, what would have been popular mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner's 97th birthday. Gardner, who passed away in 2010, requested that, in lieu of memorials, his fans continue to meet annually to celebrate his work, and carry on his pursuit of a playful and fun approach to mathematics, science, art, magic, and puzzles.
Unlike the 2010 MAA/ThinkFun event, which covered mathematics, puzzles, skeptics, and magic, this year's celebration focused, as MAA Director of Publications and Communications Ivars Peterson explained, on logic puzzles, "puzzles Gardner himself might have been interested in and appreciated." In addition to Peterson, Gardner biographer and computer science professor Dana Richards spoke, as did ThinkFun cofounder and CEO Bill Ritchie. Together, the three speakers impressed upon their audience a twofold message: Thinking can be fun, but fun and games—in the hands of computer scientists, at least—quickly become serious business.
Dana Richards kicked off the evening by recapping one of Martin Gardner's lesser-known works. In 1958, Gardner published Logic Machines and Diagrams, a book based on one of his articles in Scientific American. The book chronicled attempts by such familiar names as John Venn and Lewis Carroll to represent logical relationships and operations graphically, as well as forays by the likes of Charles Stanhope and Allan Marquand into the mechanization of logical manipulations. Making machines capable of doing logic, Richards noted, was crucial for the eventual development of computers.
During his presentation, Ivars Peterson flashed slides of Sudoku grids, held up a brightly colored Stacking Shapes Pegboard, and demonstrated the use of a ThinkFun Rush Hour app, all to underscore the logical thought required to solve such puzzles and the mathematical questions raised by the puzzles themselves. Listeners learned that one can get a Ph.D. from MIT for studying how difficult puzzles are and how to measure that difficulty, for classifying puzzles into categories such as NP-complete. "NP-complete essentially means," Peterson explained, "that the bigger you make the puzzle the longer it takes—exponentially longer—to solve it."
Peterson also mentioned the practical applications of puzzles. Only 15 years after its invention, the ThinkFun puzzle Rush Hour, in which the player must shift obstructing vehicles within a six-by-six traffic grid until a certain red car can exit, already has a literature devoted to it in computer science journals. Peterson compared the shifting involved in the puzzle to the negotiation of obstacles required of a robot vacuum like the Roomba. "Computer scientists can use puzzles as surrogates for the real world," he said.
ThinkFun's Bill Ritchie is more concerned with engrossing children, though, than giving computer scientists new subjects of academic study. He seconded a sentiment Martin Gardner voiced in a 1998 op-ed in the New York Review of Books: "The best way to keep students awake is to introduce recreational material that they perceive as fun." In tracing the origins of both his company and a puzzle called Chocolate Fix, Ritchie reiterated his belief that games and puzzles can and should have enough depth that playing them becomes a learning experience.
Ritchie voiced a hope shared by educators, parents, and puzzle constructors alike when he recalled his realization that, "maybe, really genuinely math things can be fun."
The Gathering for Gardner hosted by MAA and ThinkFun came to a satisfying conclusion when, after Dana Richards argued that a generalized version of the puzzle is NP-complete, each audience member received his or her very own Chocolate Fix. Event attendees then trooped upstairs to enjoy refreshments and test their wits against such ThinkFun offerings as TipOver, River Crossing, and Tilt.
Parents puzzled next to children, professors collaborated with students. Martin Gardner would have smiled at the evident edification and enjoyment.
The MAA/ThinkFun event was part of a global party called Gathering for Gardner Celebration of Mind II. Gardner-related resources and information on how you can attend or host a gathering are available at G4G Celebration of Mind.— Katharine Merow
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A Quote by John Horgan on future, skepticism, hype, and heaven scenario
Indeed, now and for the forseeable future, cyber-evangelism is best understood as an escapist, quasi-religious fantasy, which reflects an oddly dated, Jetsons-esque faith in scientific progress and its potential to cure all that ails us. Even those cyber-evangelical books published well after September 11, 2001, and the end of the dot-com boom echo the hysterical techno-optimism of the late 1990s. At their best, they raise some diverting questions: Would you rather live in a pleasant virtual world, or in an unpleasant real one? Would cyber-sex satisfy you? Would we still be recognizably human if we were immortal, or had IQ's over 1,000, or were immune to pain?
But I felt my cognitive-dissonance alarm clanging whenever I reminded myself of the issues that preoccupy most mature adults these days: terrorism, overpopulation, poverty, environmental degradation, AIDS and other diseases, and all the pitfalls of ordinary life.
I try to forget this vale of tears myself now and then by reading books like William Gibson's Neuromancer or watching movies like The Matrix. But I also try not to confuse science fiction with science.
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October 19, 2011
A Barn Raising for the 21st Century
In bygone years, neighbors in rural America would share their time, tools, and talent to raise a barn for a neighbor in need. This year, Benton County, Oregon, residents demonstrated this same commitment to community at the Benton County Fairgrounds, but they didn't build any ordinary barn. They constructed a livestock building powered by 306 roof-top solar modules funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
"This building was built in the spirit of the traditional barn raising," said Eric Thompson, past chair of the Benton County Fair Board and current Fairgrounds Foundation member, referring community coming together to build something of utility.
The array will meet nearly a quarter of the fairgrounds' annual energy needs and cut energy costs by $4,200 per year. The 82,700 kilowatt-hours of solar-generated electricity will avoid 1.1 million pounds of greenhouse gas emissions—an amount equivalent to reducing automobile travel by 121,724 miles a year or planting 7.7 acres of trees. See Energy Blog post.


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WASHINGTON -- If Washington's effort to reach a deal on budget cuts and taxes, looks daunting, just wait for the debate over what to do about mass shootings like the one that killed 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.
Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., clashed sharply over Feinstein's proposal to ban military-style assault weapons.
"The question comes, what do we do about the growing sophistication of military weapons on the streets of our cities?" Feinstein said.
"When you have someone walking in and slaying, in the most brutal way, 6-year olds, something is really wrong," said Feinstein, who has made gun control a key issue since her days as president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1978 when her colleague Harvey Milk and the city's mayor, George Moscone, were shot and killed in City Hall by a rival politician.
Feinstein has proposed to prohibit the type of semi-automatic rifles used in the Newtown shooting and other recent mass killings, adding that her bill would be much tougher than the loophole-ridden assault weapons ban in place from 1994 to 2004.
Assault rifles already in circulation would remain legal, but the owners would have to register them and be licensed. Her bill also would ban high-capacity ammunition magazines.
Limiting guns is precisely the wrong answer, Graham responded.
Crime is at record lows in part because guns are more widespread than ever, he said. He endorsed the proposal by the National Rifle Association to put armed guards in every school.
He said he owns an AR-15, the type of semi-automatic rifled used by Adam Lanza in the Newtown school shooting.
"What she is proposing is a massive intervention," Graham said. "Gun sales are up, and crime is down. You're not going to be able to stop mass murderers with no criminal record just by taking my AR-15 and making me pay $200 and get my fingerprints and say I can't buy another one.
Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," President Barack Obama, who supports an assault weapons ban, said such measures could be enacted only if the public puts pressure on Congress.
"We're not going to get this done unless the American people decide it's important," Obama said.
"And so this is not going to be simply a matter of me spending political capital," Obama said. "One of the things that you learn, having now been in this office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's -- that with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done in this town."
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What Other Shows On Marvel's List Deserve To Be Made?
One of the most interesting things about the news about Marvel TV's first two series was the revelation of a list that was given by Marvel to ABC executives of possible series adapting Marvel concepts. Hulk and Cloak & Dagger got selected, but what about the other ones? To use a familiar Marvel refrain, U DECIDE!


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BERKELEY -- Cal basketball coach Mike Montgomery will discuss his future Monday with athletic director Sandy Barbour, who said she would "absolutely" try to talk him out of retirement if that's his intention.
ESPN.com reported that Montgomery, 67, has been leaning toward retiring after his sixth season at Cal.
Barbour, who attended Sunday's NCAA women's basketball regional semifinals at Stanford, confirmed by phone the two will meet.
"Mike Montgomery is a phenomenal coach and I'm glad he's ours," Barbour said.
Asked if she knows what Montgomery -- the Bay Area's most successful men's college basketball coach of the past 50 years -- plans to tell her, Barbour said, "Nope, I don't."
But Barbour said she would try to dissuade him from a possible retirement decision. "Absolutely," she said, "as I have before."
Montgomery did not immediately respond to multiple messages.
UC Irvine coach Russell Turner, who worked with Montgomery at Stanford and with the Golden State Warriors, said the two talked on the phone last week to discuss SMU, Cal's quarterfinal opponent in the NIT.
"We didn't talk about anything like this," Turner said. "With the success he's having, it would surprise me if it's true. But I don't know anything."
Utah State coach Stew Morrill, a longtime friend of Montgomery, said he didn't know anything about Montgomery's possible intention to retire and declined to comment.
ESPN's report said sources told it Cal has hired a search firm to begin looking for a successor.
Montgomery has compiled a record of 130-73 at Cal with four trips to the NCAA tournament. His 2009-10 team earned the Bears their first regular-season conference championship in 50 years.
The Bears' 2013-14 season ended at 21-14 last Wednesday with a 67-65 loss at SMU in the NIT.
This Cal team was a rare Montgomery squad that did not peak toward the season's end. The Bears started 14-4, including 5-0 in the Pac-12. But they were just 7-10 the rest of the way, tumbling from a near-certain NCAA tournament bid to the NIT after finishing in a five-way tie for third at 10-8.
Montgomery faced a serious health scare in the fall of 2011 when he underwent surgery for bladder cancer. But he said doctors told him he had a clean bill of health, and he directed the Bears to a 24-10 record that season and second-place finish in the Pac-12.
In the summer of 2012, less than a year after his bout with cancer, Montgomery signed a contract extension with Cal through the 2015-16 season.
In 18 seasons at Stanford, through the 2003-04 campaign, Montgomery was 393-167 with four conference championships and 12 trips to the NCAA tournament. The Cardinal's 1989 NCAA bid was its first in 47 years.
Montgomery's 1997-98 team reached the Final Four -- the only Bay Area men's team to do so since Cal in 1960 under Pete Newell. Montgomery's 2000-01 Stanford squad advanced to the Elite 8 round.
In 32 college seasons, including eight at Montana, Montgomery has a record of 677-316, leaving him just seven games shy of 1,000 as a Division I head coach. His past 15 Stanford and Cal teams finished no worse than fourth place in the conference.
Between stints at Stanford and Cal, Montgomery spent two seasons as coach of the Warriors.
A native of Long Beach and a graduate of Long Beach State, Montgomery is a four-time Pac-12 coach of the year. In 2004 he received the John R. Wooden "Legends of Coaching" Lifetime Achievement Award, which previously had gone to Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Lute Olson and Roy Williams.
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10 New Weight Loss and Diet Myths and Facts
Is it a no-no to eat after 8 PM? Discover the real answer to this question and more
You don't have to swear off red meat. Red meat, in moderation, is a great source of protein and iron.
Capitalize on the facts: Choose lean cuts of meat -- sirloin tip, flank steak, extra lean ground beef -- and then trim away all visible fat. And portion control is key. "Try to cut down your red meat intake to once every week and a half," Borden advises. "Your portion should be approximately the size of your palm and the thickness of your palm � not your boyfriend's palm or Shaquille O'Neal's palm!"
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Further Capex Weakness? These Numbers Say 'Neigh'
A hallmark of this recovery has been the skittishness of businesses, especially when it comes to undertaking big capital spending projects. That caution seems to be easing—and the idea comes straight from the horse's mouth.
After speaking with small-business executives (and racehorse owners) in Louisville, Kentucky, home of Churchill Downs, Jeffrey Kleintop, chief market strategist at LPL Financial, looked at the trends in the prices paid at auction for racehorses and real business spending on structures. He found both series move in similar fashion, allowing for a year's lag in investment to account for the time it takes for building projects to get started and then show up in the government data.
While the link may seem far-fetched, Mr. Kleintop thinks the correlation isn't so odd.
"When risk-taking comes back, it comes back in many forms," says Mr. Kleintop.
"Thoroughbreds are costly and speculative investments," he says. "The prices paid reflect the general willingness of horse owners to take risk" usually because they are more optimistic about their economic future.
Similarly, business owners who feel more confident about the economy are more willing to take a risk on expanding their facilities and spending money on new equipment, he says.
The horse-capex link brings a new twist on 'animal spirits,' the concept of risk-taking in the economy.
Indeed, the jump in prices paid at the April auctions for two-year-old thoroughbreds suggest business investment will strengthen in the second half of 2014 and into 2015. LPL forecasts real business investment will increase between 5% and 10% for all of this year. That's a good gallop compared to the 2.7% gain in 2013.


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Seoul Warns on Possible North Korea Nuclear Test
South Korea is gripped in mourning over the sinking of the ferry boat "Sewol." And U.S. President Barack Obama is due to arrive in Seoul on Friday.
For Pyongyang, could that present an opportunity for a fourth nuclear test?
As with all things North Korea, it's not immediately clear. But experts and North Korea watchers say that Pyongyang certainly has the ability to conduct a nuclear test at any given moment – a possibility that South Korea's military says that it's taking seriously.
On Tuesday, South Korea's Defense Ministry told reporters that North Korea has recently been showing "various signs of provocative threats," and appeared to be preparing for some sort of action.
The ministry's spokesman, Kim Min-seok, said that it was detecting signs of various activities in Punggye-ri, the site of North Korea's previous three nuclear tests near the country's northeastern coast.
"We are considering that North Korea could do a sudden nuclear test, and as the previous cases show, we
are considering the possibility of a provocation disguised as a nuclear test," Mr. Kim said.
While Mr. Kim added that he couldn't share more details, or what countermeasures South Korea's military was taking, he said that the defense ministry was preparing for a range of possibilities, including a fourth nuclear test.
In response to a reporter's question, Mr. Kim said that the South believed the North was already at a stage where it was capable of carrying out a sudden nuclear test.
"As far as I know, they are prepared in many ways," Mr. Kim said. "They are at a stage where they can carry out a nuclear test at any time, whenever they make the decision."
The North conducted its last nuclear test in February 2013, its first since 2009 and its first under the leadership of Kim Jong Un.
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I have installed avisynth with coreavc and CCCP codecs and everything seem to work fine.
When I try to add foreign subtitles (greek) I get the subtitles to show not in the correct encoding.
When use the mplayer video file engine I can change the subtitles codepage from the setup.
How do I do a similar thing for the avisynth/vsfilter?
I forgot to mention that when using locally the mpc or zoom player the subtitles appear in the correct encoding. The problem appears only in the PS3 when going through the the PSM


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There were 62 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Thursday. At that time, there were 1,396 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411.
Carjacking: Two people stole a 39-year-old man's car, wallet and cellphone at gunpoint as he was trying to put his 2-year-old child into the vehicle shortly after 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 1600 block of Knickerbocker Drive, police said. Neither the man nor the child was injured. One of the perpetrators was described as a black man in his 20s standing 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighing 230 pounds. He was wearing dark clothing and carrying a black revolver.
The California Highway Patrol responded to 17 noninjury accidents and three injury accidents in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Thursday. CHP officers also arrested one person on charges of driving under the influence and recovered three stolen vehicles.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to 117 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Thursday, including 14 vehicle accidents, 83 medical calls and two structure fires.
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Loan Promissory Notes
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Perkins Loans and Institutional Loans require a PSU access account which you will receive during first-year orientation week
ENTRANCE LOAN COUNSELING must be completed by all Penn State College of Medicine students who are borrowing a Stafford or Grad PLUS loan for the first time. Entrance counseling can be completed at https://studentloans.gov/myDirectLoan/index.action
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Corridor H
Road's funding needs expedited
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Tourism already is a major contributor to West Virginia's economy, but it could become much, much more important if a better highway route existed to bring East Coast residents to our majestic......
Why should West Virginia taxpayers use hard to come by federal highway dollars to complete a road that stops at the state line. Virginia has said they will not complete the 20+ miles needed to link Corridor H to I-81.
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Corridor H begins at I-79 just east of Weston. True, that is "west of Buckhannon" -- but seems misleading, unless you assume your readers have never heard of Weston but have heard of Buckhannon. Want to take a poll on this? Click "Approve" if "just east of Weston" is more meaningful to you; "Disapprove" if "west of Buckhannon" explains it better to you.
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But for the love of all that is holy!
What about the DEBT!
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All other kind of files are working properly but when I try to open a .ISO file (is a 3D BluRay with 1080p and 7.1) nothing happens and a message of "No chapters" appers.
I try to mount the .ISO with Daemon Tools but again no success.
Can't the PMS run this kind of file or I'm doing something wrong? Is there any configuration to set?
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Is it just a matter of time before Rugby League in the UK dies
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The 2016 Rugby Union Six Nations - the safer and more reliable alternative to sleeping pills.
(Hull FC are somewhere near top of the Super league, btw..)
Posted 05 November 2012 - 11:55 PM
It can buy you beer and that's a bit like happiness in a glass!
"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
Sir Winston Churchill
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise!
Tobias Smollett
"I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink."
Joe E Lewis
"Look at the ffing state of that"!
My mate on the Avenue last Friday whilst pointing to a scantily clad young lady and spitting a mouthful of beer out!
Posted 05 November 2012 - 11:57 PM
Posted 06 November 2012 - 12:09 AM
We are happy to debate with other RL fans.
Which may be why you've not managed much of a debate.
The 2016 Rugby Union Six Nations - the safer and more reliable alternative to sleeping pills.
(Hull FC are somewhere near top of the Super league, btw..)
Posted 06 November 2012 - 12:11 AM
Yes. If global terrorism doesn't get us, we avoid the dinosaur-killer asteroid, and we continue to play on through the apocalypse, then we've only got about 5 billion years until the sun destroys itself (and us). So, unless humankind finds a way of migrating to other star systems, I'd say that rugby league has had it long-term.
Posted 06 November 2012 - 12:16 AM
Posted 06 November 2012 - 02:25 AM
But I don't think it will die because it's evolved to become a form of entertainment, pre or post-football filler for a bland TV channel.
Irrelevant, yes, but if you go along wanting to be entertained then you might be - even if it's only by cheerleaders, pre-match singers or - if you can actually bear to stay in your seat - "big hits". But everything is decided long before the season starts. New signings, who goes in what division, who plays who in the Cup (if you have the misfortune to be in the Northern Rail), rule changes that apply only if you're in one division, who won't be going up or down, tedious play-offs.
If you want genuine competition and actually care what happens to your club then there are more rewarding pastimes.
Posted 06 November 2012 - 03:54 AM
There has to be more Tomkins/Watkins/Sculthorpe's out there and the challenge is for SL clubs to find them, bring them through and create the next lot of superstars.
If they picked up by NRL clubs then so be it because in theory it should strengthen the National team which will bring it's own benefits to SL.
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon
Posted 06 November 2012 - 07:24 AM
If you want genuine competition and actually care what happens to your club then there are more rewarding pastimes.
Go on then, what?
Watch your back when you attack - we might just turn on you.
Posted 06 November 2012 - 07:43 AM
Everyone is entitled to their opinions but compared to 1995 we have a few teams that can win the main trophies, we do actually have more decent players (albeit with perhaps the same number of world class players) and our clubs are not any less stable financially despite being in a massive economic slump.
We do still have the most miserable of fans and amusingly inept leaders at times, although the Australian Commisssion and formerly Richard Lewis are/have been very positive in my opinion. And the game is played in loads more countries and counties, has much better and safer stadia, and is about to hold its most successful World Cup ever.
Not all is rosy, but I am pleased to say the game is at least as healthy as it was 17 years ago and won't go under if me and plenty of others have anything to do about it.
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Posted 06 November 2012 - 07:44 AM
Then the game is doomed if people can't even debate the issues !!!!
It was at it's lowest ebb 1970
Fully pro league, best players getting NRL spots, expansive world cup and international game, Union stopped their apartheid living & let living, healthy TV audiences, game played all over now, game often preferred to union in old union strongholds game strong in armed services and universities, game played in schools nationwide, biggest crowds since 1950's etc etc etc etc etc.......
Posted 06 November 2012 - 07:45 AM
Posted 06 November 2012 - 07:46 AM
We do still have the most amusingly inept leaders...
So why did RL climb so high since it's lowest point 1970?
Oxley, Lyndsay and Lewis were far from inept??
Posted 06 November 2012 - 07:52 AM
Go on then, what?
I think the OP is fishing but I personally think CWID is right. RL is more razmataz than a sport with little competition and low level drama over the season. The drama is for about 1 game so the marketing is on full blast but from a weedy pipe.
If you compare even with football, this week we get the 2nd round draw for the FA cup. The drama and excitement is whether a non league side can meet a Premier league team in the 3rd round. There was an interview on 5live with the Harrogate Town coach and the Hastings Town coach who drew each other. It was intriguing enough for me to consider attending the game. Not because of the 3rd round reward but because the tie seems so evenly matched played out by dedicated sportsman.
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You're in a minority on here, pal!
I quite like Rugby League me. Anybody else?


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News 12 First at Five / Monday, Sept. 24, 2012
MARTINEZ, Ga. -- She is a student with special needs, but her mom says the school bus isn't meeting them after her daughter fell out of her wheelchair.
It happened two weeks ago, and Columbia County school leaders say they are sorry, but they can't give her a different bus driver.
"I don't feel like I can trust them to take care of my child anymore. I lost that faith when she came home with that bloody nose and busted lip," Pamela Van Winkle said.
Two weeks ago, her daughter, Bailey, left for school on the bus, just like any day. Soon after her daughter left, though, she she got a phone call that sent her into a panic.
"I was worried, I was scared," she said.
The bus driver called to tell her he hit the brakes, causing the wheelchair and her daughter to tip over.
"Her wheelchair flipped forward and she's strapped in the wheelchair, so the wheelchair is sitting on top of her because she couldn't get out of it," Van Winkle said.
The accident left Bailey with a bloody nose, a bitten lip and tongue, a swollen face and two bruises on her face.
Van Winkle says it could have been much worse.
"If she would've turned her head to the right instead of to the left, then she would've died," she said.
Bailey was diagnosed with AVM, a rare brain disease, when she was an infant. Her mother tells us her first brain surgery was at the age of 6 months.
Since then, she's had more than 40 brain surgeries, leaving the right side of her head with a very thin, very fragile skull.
"They, in my opinion, should have called an ambulance with my child bleeding like that," she said.
But they didn't call an ambulance. They brought her back home, and what her mother saw when she got on the bus shocked her.
"Me and my husband went up onto the bus, and she wasn't even facing forward towards the driver like she was supposed to be. Her wheelchair was facing towards the ramp sideways."
The bus driver claims it wasn't his fault, though.
"He tried to blame it on her brakes, and he made every excuse, the bus driver made every excuse in the world for it to be the wheelchair's fault and not his own," she said.
But, the wheelchair was checked out and was found to be working just fine.
"The facts are the facts, and I've got it on paper, and you can look at the wheelchair all you want and you can see nothing is wrong with it," Van Winkle said.
The accident report states that the wheelchair was not properly secured and tipped forward.
"They had all four straps hooked to the wheels, and no seat belt," she said.
Van Winkle says the transportation director has apologized, but that just isn't good enough.
"I know it was an accident, but there's things in place to keep that from happening," she said.
She says since Bailey can't speak for herself, it's her job to tell her story.
"I'm not doing this out of vengeance or spite or to get back at anybody. I want other parents to be aware. I'm trying to speak out for my daughter."
Columbia County school leaders tell us steps are being made to make sure accidents like this are prevented.
Van Winkle say she wants a new bus driver, but school officials say the current drivers have been retrained on safety procedures, and will stay in place.
Robert Jarrell, assistant superintendent in Columbia County, says, "This driver and the aid were devastated over the situation, but hopefully this will be corrected and not take place again."
Jarrell says all special needs drivers have been retrained in light of the accident.


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Leon Hiebert was pastor of Andover Assembly of God (Generations Church A/G) from 1989 to 2009. He is a Viet Nam veteran who spent 10 years in the US Navy most of the time as a corpsman serving with the Marine Corps. A native of Belleville, Kan., Hiebert is semi retired and lives in Andover with his wife, Sharon. He is a school bus driver for USD 385, Andover, Kansas.
Scripture: Acts 1:4 NIV On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about.
Observation: The same One who gave the disciples the Great Commission to go into all the world (Matt 28:19) is the same One here telling them to wait. They were not to go anywhere until. The One who gave them the gift of salvation was going to give them the gift of the Holy Spirit!
Application: When God tells me to wait; I can be assured that it is well worth the wait. God's timing will prove perfect. His equipping will be exactly what I need.
Prayer: Lord, waiting on you is never a waste of time. You are worth the wait. What you have for me is worth the wait. Amen
Pastor Leon
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Chris Crowley's message for living well and maintaining a healthy weight is simple and age-old: move your body often and feed it well. This message is the cornerstone of Crowley's latest book, co-authored with Jen Sacheck, Ph.D., "Thinner This Year."According to Crowley, while Thinner's message is simple, it is often overlooked in other diet books, where the message to exercise is often omitted completely and the nutritional advice is sub-par."This isn't a diet book - the title is a little misleading - it's a whole life book," said Crowley, who recently took a few minutes while waiting for his breakfast to arrive in an airport to talk about his book over the phone. "There's so much baloney in this field. Jen and I talk a lot about nutrition and exercise in this book. Exercise is the flywheel of weight management. You have to commit to exercising five to six days a week for the rest of your life. Crowley, also co-author of the bestselling books "Younger Next Year" and "Younger Next Year for Women," will be at the Donovan Pavilion in Vail this evening to kick off the Vail Symposium's 2013 Living At Your Peak series and talk about "Thinner This Year."Born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1934, Chris Crowley is a graduate of Exeter, Harvard and The University of Virginia Law School. He spent his 25-year professional career as a litigator at the New York City law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell. He retired in 1990 to ski, sail, bike, play tennis, cook, write these books, and take his passion for them on the road."I have known Chris since he first became a partner at David, Polk & Wardwell," said Vail Symposium Board member Jay Huffard. "He has always been a great storyteller and lived life large with a passionate commitment to everything outdoors. After retirement, Chris realized that he had to figure out how to be fit to live better. That began the Younger Next Year book series. More recently, he realized that fitness was not the total solution to living at his peak and he turned his attention to nutrition and co-authored 'Thinner This Year.' I love the greater urgency in this title and Vail will love and learn from Chris."The importance of movementWhere "Younger Next Year" taught readers why they should exercise, "Thinner This Year" gives instructions on exactly how to eat and exercise in order to delay aging and avoid serious illness and injury.In Thinner, Crowley and Sacheck, who is a nutritionist and exercise physiologist from Tufts University, spell out a weight-loss plan that will help readers lose up to 25 pounds in the first six months - and keep it off for life. The message is straightforward and based on the most up-to-date nutritional science: avoid nutrient-poor food, particularly the SOFAS (solid fats, added sugars), choices that comprise more than a third of our diet. Design your plate to be 50 percent vegetables and fruits, 25 percent whole grains, and 25 percent lean proteins. Skip the supplements. Never drink your calories. And exercise.While Sacheck's chapters in Thinner explain the science behind proper nutrition, Crowley's chapters summarize hers with personal anecdotes that demonstrate the benefits of heeding Sacheck's nutritional advice."I'm old and funny and Jen's young and smart," said Crowley. "She's a serious scientist. You have to know how your body metabolizes food. You have to know what your body does so you eat less crap, and so you eat differently and eat less and exercise more."Crowley says even folks who are healthy and well, and think they know a lot about how to stay that way, will learn something from his book and presentation; he even learned a new thing or two while writing it."Many of us just think of fat as something that is quietly living in our bodies," he said. "I learned that it is actually a huge cause of inflammation in the body. A pot belly is like an open sewer inside your body and at night the rats come out. Building muscle mass can counter that. Muscle is actually anti-inflammatory and strengthening your muscles makes a huge difference in the war between fat and your body."Crowley's book is for all people of all ages, and he particularly hopes his message resonates with people in their 20s."The sooner you jump on this stuff the better your life will be," he said. "When you get older you just have to. Sometimes, people in their 20s think they have so much time and just don't get how important exercise is; I just can't stress enough how important movement is."Tracey Flower is the development and marketing associate for the Vail Symposium. She can be reached at email@example.com.
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Grade 8: Honors: Josh Bisson, Wolfeboro; Aislinn Noble, Wolfeboro.
Grade 7: Honors: Robert do Carmo, Wolfeboro; Caleb Holmes, Alton.
Grade 6: Honors: Kyle Diamond, Milton Mills; Madison Shatzer, Ossipee. Honorable Mention: Colby Bisson, Wolfeboro.
Grade 5: High Honors: Cullen McGee, Brookfield.
Honors: Hope Drenning, Wakefield; Daniel Hartley, Tamworth; Molly Mansfield, Effingham; Joseph Wasson, Ossipee.
Grade 4: High Honors: Elizabeth Fogg, Wolfeboro.
Honors: Alyssa Dow, Wolfeboro; Katherine Martin, Wolfeboro; Kendall Proulx, Wakefield; Abagael Swenson, Alton.
Grade 3: Honorable Mention: Harmony Drenning, Wakefield; Emma Scott, Chocorua.
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