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Micaela Black, M.Ed., CRC, QRC, LMHC
VetSuccess on Campus Coordinator
Micaela is a counselor for the Department of Veterans Affairs. She works on campus at RIC to assist student Veterans in pursuing all areas of their academic and career goals. Micaela provides guidance and support with VA education benefits and strives to ensure that Veterans (or their family members) understand the process. She can also link Veterans to other VA resources, including healthcare and benefits information. Additionally, Micaela can work with student Veterans to set up school support services. If you are a student Veteran, please consider checking in with Micaela to make sure you are aware of all the benefits and services you are entitled to utilize.
Robert "Joe" Towner
Sonar Technician Chief Petty Officer Submarines (STSC/SS)
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Joe spent 22 years in the military. Initially serving in the Army and the Army Reserve, he transferred over to the Navy and spent time onboard submarines for the bulk of his service. He served onboard and qualified on five different classes of submarines, three Fast attack submarines and two fleet ballistic missile submarines. He also served during Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and is an OEF/OIF veteran, including operations in support of the Global War on Terrorism. Joe served as a Military Training Instructor and supervised the training of sailors in the job specialty areas (Combat Systems Ratings) until they received their initial orders to the Fleet. Joe qualified as a Master Training Specialist, helped to maintain and update the curriculum for Sonar "A" schools and aided in designing the curriculum for the Naval Submarine School's first electronic classrooms. Additionally Joe qualified as a Master Staff Specialist while at the Naval Submarine School in Groton, CT. His last tour was with the Submarine Surveillance Equipment Program. Joe retired from active duty in 2009. From 2009 to 2011 Joe was a Field Engineer and Installation Team Leader for a Defense Contractor until starting school at Rhode Island College. Joe has completed a bachelors in Education and is currently pursuing a masters in Educational Leadership.
Neal Yeatman
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Neal spent twenty-two years in the United States Marine Corps. His first tour was as an Air Traffic Controller while stationed at MCAS Tustin, California, MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, which included a six month tour of Korea in support of Operation Team Spirit, and MCAS El Toro, California. Not satisfied with the challenges offered in the air traffic control field, Gysgt. Yeatman transferred to 3rd Battalion 4th Marines, India Company, Weapons Platoon and retrained as a machine gunner and assumed duties as the Machinegun Section Leader for that unit. He held similar billets in 3rd Battalion 6th Marines and 3rd Battalion 8th Marines. Gysgt. Yeatman has taken part in combat operations in Central and South America as well as Africa and West Asia. Gysgt. Yeatman also did an eighteen month tour as a Combat Water Survival Instructor in NWTTC Naval Base in Coronado, California and three years as a Marine recruiter in the 1st Marine District Recruiting Command. Neal has been married to Diane M. Yeatman (Miller) of Cranston, Rhode Island for twenty-two years and they have two sons.
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Rebecca is a post-Masters graduate student in the M.S. Mental Health Counseling program. She works alongside the work study veteran staff to facilitate assistance to student veterans. This is her third year as Graduate Assistant in the VRC! She also seeks out opportunities on campus to improve veteran relations and collaborates on research that support veterans and their families. Rebecca currently works on a health behaviors assessment study for post-9/11 returning veterans.
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EMA changes biosimilar rules
01.10.2012 - The European Medicines Association has changed its biosimilars guidelines to make it easier to develop biologic follow-on drugs in both the US and Europe.
The London-based agency said it intends to accept batches of reference medicines sourced from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) in the future. This aims to facilitate the global development of biosimilars and avoid the unnecessary repetition of clinical trials.
Under the current European legal framework, companies developing a biosimilar medicine are required to identify a reference medicine that is or has been authorised in the European Economic Area (EEA) and whose batches are sourced from within the EEA. With the new approach, first announced by Commissioner John Dalli in Malta on 15 June 2012, the Agency will begin to accept reference medicine batches sourced from outside the EEA in certain pre-clinical and clinical studies in the comparability exercise.
A draft version of the new guidance is expectedearly next year. Since biosimilars became reality, EMA has become regardedas the most biosimilar-open agency in one of the biggest pharma markets.
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4.3-1 Interfering with an Officer -- § 53a-167a
Revised to May 23, 2013 (modified November 6, 2014)The defendant is charged [in count ___] with interfering with an officer. The statute defining this offense reads in pertinent part as follows:
For you to find the defendant guilty of this charge, the state must prove the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
a person is guilty of interfering with an officer when such person obstructs, resists, hinders or endangers any (peace officer / special policeman / motor vehicle inspector / firefighter) in the performance of such (peace officer's / special policeman's / inspector's / firefighter's) duties.
Element 1 - Interfered with an
The first element is that the defendant obstructed, resisted, hindered or endangered a <insert type of officer>.1 This element requires that you find that <insert name of officer> was a <insert type of officer>.
Element 2 - In the performance
of duties3
The second element is that the conduct of the defendant occurred while the officer was in the performance of (his/her) duties. The phrase "in the performance of (his/her) duties" means that the officer was acting within the scope of what (he/she) is employed to do, and that (his/her) conduct was related to (his/her) official duties. The question of whether (he/she) was acting in good faith in the performance of (his/her) duties is a factual question for you to determine on the basis of the evidence in the case. <Summarize evidence if appropriate.>
Element 3 - Intent to interfere
The third element is that the defendant acted with the specific intent to obstruct, resist, hinder or endanger the officer in the performance of (his/her) official duties.8 A person acts "intentionally" with respect to a result when (his/her) conscious objective is to cause such result. <See Intent: Specific, Instruction 2.3-1.>
ConclusionIn summary, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that 1) the defendant obstructed, resisted, hindered or endangered a <insert type of officer>, <insert name of officer>, 2) while <insert name of officer> was in the performance of (his/her) official duties, and 3) the defendant specifically intended to obstruct, resist, hinder or endanger <insert name of officer>. If you unanimously find that the state has proved beyond a reasonable doubt each of the elements of the crime of interfering with an officer, then you shall find the defendant guilty. On the other hand, if you unanimously find that the state has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt any of the elements, you shall then find the defendant not guilty.
1 See definitions of peace officer and firefighter in the Glossary. A "special policeman" is appointed by the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, pursuant to General Statutes § 29-18b, to act in the special investigation section of the Department of Revenue Services and has all the powers of a state policeman. A "motor vehicle inspector" is appointed by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, pursuant to General Statutes § 14-8, and has "the same authority to make arrests or issue citations for violation of any statute or regulation relating to motor vehicles and to enforce said statues and regulations as policemen or state policemen in their respective jurisdictions." Motor vehicle inspectors were added to this offense by Public Acts 2008, No. 08-150, § 52, effective October 1, 2008.
2 The words "hinders," "endangers" or "interferes" are to be broadly construed to prohibit any act that would amount to meddling in or hampering the activities of the police in the performance of their duties. State v. Silva, 285 Conn. 447, 459-60 (2008). "[T]he four means of interfering listed in [the] statute are not conceptually distinct, and do not constitute disjunctive methods by which interfering with an officer can be committed." State v. Laws, 37 Conn. App. 276, 297, cert. denied, 234 Conn. 907 (1995). The refusal to provide identification upon request by a police officer investigating a crime comes within the scope of the conduct proscribed by this statute. State v. Aloi, 280 Conn. 824 (2007). Giving a false name to an officer also comes within the scope of the statute. State v. Williams, 110 Conn. App. 778, 793-98, cert. denied, 289 Conn. 957 (2008).
3 Depending on the facts of the case, it may be necessary to instruct on the specific duties of the officer according to the evidence presented. This instruction includes the statutory provisions concerning the permitted use of physical force by police officers and correction officers. See State v. Davis, 261 Conn. 553 (2002); State v. Salters, 78 Conn. App. 1, cert. denied, 265 Conn. 912 (2003).
4 General Statutes § 53a-22 (b); State v. Baptiste, 133 Conn. App. 614, 627-28 (2012), appeal dismissed, 310 Conn. 790 (2014) (reversing conviction because jury was not instructed on this aspect of the performance of a police officer's duties). See also Use of Physical Force by Peace Officer in Making Arrest or Preventing Escape, Instruction 2.8-6.
5 Probable cause to arrest is not an element of this offense. State v. Wearing, 98 Conn. App. 350, 355 (2006). General Statutes § 53a-23 provides that "[a] person is not justified in using physical force to resist an arrest by a reasonably identifiable peace officer, whether such arrest is legal or illegal." See State v. Sitaras, 106 Conn. App. 493, 507, cert. denied, 287 Conn. 906 (2008) (court improperly took from jury the issue as to whether the defendant used physical force or not).
6 See State v. Davis, supra, 261 Conn. 564-65.
7 General Statutes § 53a-18 (2).
8 "Although it does not appear in the statutory language . . . intent is an element of the crime of interfering with an officer." State v. Jenkins, 40 Conn. App. 601, 609, cert. denied, 237 Conn. 918 (1996); see also State v. Nita, 27 Conn. App. 103, 111-12, cert. denied, 222 Conn. 903, cert. denied, 506 U.S. 844, 113 S.Ct. 133, 121 L.Ed.2d 86 (1992); State v. Peruta, 24 Conn. App. 598, 603, cert. denied, 219 Conn. 912 (1991). The statute has thus been construed to apply only to actions that are intended to interfere with the performance of an officer's duty and to exclude any accidental or inadvertent interference. State v. Walker, 34 Conn. Sup. 548, 550 (App. Sess. 1976).
Commentary"If [the officer] is acting under a good faith belief that he is carrying out [his] duty, and if his actions are reasonably designed to that end, he is acting in the performance of his duties. . . . The phrase in the performance of his official duties means that the police officer is simply acting within the scope of what [he] is employed to do. The test is whether the [police officer] is acting within that compass or is engaging in a personal frolic of his own. . . . The question of whether a police officer was acting in good faith in the performance of his duties is a factual question for the jury to determine on the basis of all the circumstances of the case and under appropriate instructions from the court." (Citations omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.) State v. Torwich, 38 Conn. App. 306, 315-16, cert. denied, 235 Conn. 905 (1995); see also State v. Casanova, 255 Conn. 581, 592-93 (2001).
An individual charged only with violations of §§ 53a-167c (a) and 53a-167a (a) is not entitled to a self-defense instruction. If the jury finds that the officers were not acting in the course of their duties, the defendant could not be found guilty. If the jury finds that they were acting in the course of their duties, then § 53a-23 would bar the self-defense claim. State v. Davis, supra, 261 Conn. 553; see also State v. Salters, supra, 78 Conn. App. 8 (applying the rationale of Davis to correction officers).
Lesser included offenses
When a defendant is charged with both interfering with an officer and assault on an officer, the two charges may be separate offenses or in the relationship of greater/lesser offense depending on the subsection of 53a-167c that the defendant is charged with. See State v. Jay, 124 Conn. App. 294, 311 (2010), cert. denied, 299 Conn. 927 (2011) (hurling saliva under § 53a-167c (a) (5) is materially different from conduct that causes physical injury or includes hurling a bottle or other object, capable of causing harm, which "by their nature, necessarily obstruct, resist, hinder or endanger an officer"); State v. Tyson, 86 Conn. App. 607, 616 (2004), cert. denied, 273 Conn. 927 (2005) (interfering with an officer is a lesser included offense in assault on an officer under § 53a-167c (a) (1).
Sentence Enhancer
Effective October 1, 2013, the statute provides for an enhanced sentence if the violation of this offense causes the death or serious physical injury of another person. The jury must find this fact proved beyond a reasonable doubt. See Sentence Enhancers, Instruction 2.11-4 and the definition of serious physical injury.


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N.O. lottery ticket wins $1 million jackpot
Published: Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 2:29 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 8:12 p.m.
Somebody bought a $1 million Powerball ticket in New Orleans, but nobody won the jackpots in big weekend lotteries sold in Louisiana.
The Louisiana Lottery Corp. says that means Wednesday's estimated jackpots rise to $260 million for the Powerball, $525,000 for Lotto and $190,000 for Easy 5.
The $1 million Powerball ticket bought in New Orleans is among 13 around the country that matched the first five numbers but missed the Powerball.
Saturday's winning numbers were:
—Powerball: 03-07-21-44-53; Powerball 16
(three, seven, twenty-one, forty-four, fifty-three; Powerball: sixteen)
—Lotto: 02-13-20-22-27-35
(two, thirteen, twenty, twenty-two, twenty-seven, thirty-five)
—Easy 5: 04-05-21-34-37
(four, five, twenty-one, thirty-four, thirty-seven)
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SANTA CLARA -- Two of the 49ers' top hitters took a blow to the pocketbook Friday. The NFL fined linebacker NaVorro Bowman $10,000 for unnecessary roughness and free safety Dashon Goldson $7,875 for his hit on a sliding quarterback during last weekend's game against the St. Louis Rams.
Both players said they planned to appeal.
"I'm not a dirty player," Goldson said.
His coaches agree. Though Jim Harbaugh did not defend the free safety's costly hit on Sam Bradford, a penalty that put the Rams in position for a late field goal, he had overall praise for the way Goldson walks the fine line between aggressiveness and recklessness.
"He's probably one of the best front-up tacklers in the game," Harbaugh said as the 49ers prepared for Sunday's game against the Miami Dolphins at Candlestick Park. "The penalties have been after the whistle. So that's the main thing -- pulling off the hit when the quarterback's sliding. Leaving it when the whistle stops.
"But he's done a great job. There haven't been any helmet-to-helmet penalties from Dashon. His technique and ability really have been outstanding."
Bowman's transgression stemmed from a hit on running back Steven Jackson on the game's second play from scrimmage. The linebacker declined to comment other than to confirm that he would appeal.
Still, Bush has the 49ers' attention. Defensive coordinator Vic Fangio worries about "one of those runs where he reverses field and looks like sandlot ball. You've got to be ready."
Bush, a teammate of Alex Smith when they were both at Helix Charter High in La Mesa, registered the only four-touchdown game of his career against the 49ers in 2006, when he was with New Orleans.
"He's very elusive, fast and quick," linebacker Patrick Willis said.
"Yes, I've seen progress from A.J.," Harbaugh said. "He's been on his assignments. He's executed well when he's been out there. So he's given great effort. Football rewards that effort."
Jenkins has been on the active roster twice this season, including last week against St. Louis, but has yet to play a snap.
"He's coming along," offensive coordinator Greg Roman said. "But you never truly find out until you get out in the game on Sunday afternoon."
Cam Inman contributed to this report. Contact Daniel Brown at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Vt. man who committed Dartmouth murders when he was 17 won't be in court for resentencing bid
CONCORD, New Hampshire — A man convicted in the stabbing deaths of two Dartmouth College professors when he was 17 has waived his right to be in court when his lawyer argues for a resentencing hearing.
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I have to be cautious about buying new tri equipment... Wife gives me the stink eye whenever I bring something new home, or it arrives via FedEx. So I know buying a $200 to $300 dollar wetsuit would be the end of me.
This weekend I have a sprint triathlon in Key West. I bought a $50 wetsuit at Dick's. (on sale, and I had a coupon!). It is a surfer wetsuit that comes to my knees and is short sleeve, and I have no illusion that it will let me swim faster. I only bought it so I don't freeze to death, like last year.
My main concern is that it will actually slow me down. Can someone please reassure me that this thing won't drag me to the briny deep! It is my first wetsuit, and maybe in a couple of years I will purchase a nice "seal skin" variety.
I'm not sure what kind of wetsuit you bought but I kind of had the same dilemma. My dad bought some wetsuits for when we went canyoneering and what not. It was a thicker one and short sleeves and down to the knees. I tried it for a couple short distance tri's and it worked good keeping me warm, but it was rather difficult to swim in. Then last year I signed up for the St George Ironman and figured I needed an actual wetsuit that is made for this. I went with Xterra because of price and reviews and mine cost about $180 for a new one that is long sleeve and long leg, they always have good deals and promotions. The difference in the 2 is amazing. The ones made for tri's is thick where you need it and not as thick in other places like the shoulders for better mobility. But for a sprint, it probably won't be a big deal unless you are hoping for an overall win and worried about seconds, but in longer distances I would definitely go with a tri wetsuit. Oh and the chaffing on the arm area was definitely an issue for the original one I had as well!
I agree, I don't think you have any worries wearing that suit in a Sprint race. Use lots of Glide stick, too!
You might want to check out a slightly used tri wetsuit to keep costs down. I get a new wetsuit every three years or so and give my old ones away, usually. I'm sure there are plenty of folks around who are upgrading their wetsuits, too. Ask around with the people you train with, or try eBay or Craigs List. You want the thickness of it to be right for swimming/racing, do some research on wetsuit websites like Zoot, BlueSeventy and Orca to see what millimeter measurements are ideal (I forget what thickness mine is, but it's a Zoot).
Have a great race!
I hope your tri went well. Surfer wetsuits are designed to keep you warm, tri wetsuits are designed to swim giving you bouyancy and adequate shoulder/arm rotation as well as keep you warm. I live where the water is cold, even in the summer, so I have a full leg/arm suit as well as a sleeveless suit. Both are from Xterra (xterrawetsuits.com) They are having a sale right now so the sleeveless Volt is $99 with free shipping. They also do rentals. If you go sleeveless, you can also get neoprene sleeves so you have full rotation but the with added warm and bouyancy on the arms.
Good luck and have fun.
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Plaisance nabs award
Published: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 10:32 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 10:32 p.m.
LSU junior forward Theresa Plaisance has been named to the Women's Basketball Coaches' Association Honorable Mention All-America Team.
A 10-member first-team All-America squad was selected in addition to the honorable mentions. This is the 39th year of the WBCA Coaches' All-America program, which began in 1975.
Plaisance went from posting 4.5 points per game as a sophomore to an SEC-best 17 points per contest in her first year as a starter. From Nov. 16 to March 24, the New Orleans native and former Vandebilt Catholic standout recorded 31 consecutive double-figure scoring games, representing the longest streak by an LSU player since Seimone Augustus did it in a school-record 97 straight games from 2003-06. She was also the first LSU player since Augustus to lead the Southeastern Conference in scoring.
Plaisance finished fourth in the SEC in rebounding (8.3 rpg.), sixth in field-goal percentage (43.7), second in blocks (2.5 bpg.) and 10th in free throw percentage (.728). Plaisance was the only player in the SEC to rank in the Top 10 in all five of those categories. She made (139) and attempted (191) more free throws than any player in the SEC.
Plaisance helped lead LSU to a 22-12 overall record and its first NCAA Sweet 16 berth since 2008. The Lady Tigers went on a seven-game winning streak late in the season with wins over three straight ranked teams.
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I had PS3 media server instaled for long time and everything was working fine. Today I decided to to uninstal all the codecs from + the ps3 media server and reinstall them again from the begining.
I don't know why my laptop can't see anymore PS3 and all the time takes out a big red X. Upnp is on.
Does anyboby knows why this happened?


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I'm pretty confused by this.
First, all files play through TVersity or directly from the PS3 with no problem, no transcoding.
What I have is a DVD library that I'm slowly ripping to mp4 files (Handbrake). They are named .m4v or .mp4 - both work fine in TVersity, and occasionally in PS3 Media Server.
Here's the deal. If I go to play SOME files, it will show (I assume) they need to be transcoded (MPEG-1 versus AVC in the filelist). Trying to play these files fails... (unless I go to the TRANSCODE folder, but that's beside the point). If I change ANYTHING in the filename of these files, they will immediately show up as AVC files and play fine in PS3 Media Server.
Carlton-Browne of the FO.m4v (won't play)
Carlton-Browne of the FO .m4v (will play)
Carlton-Browne of the FO.mp4 (will play)
Carlton-Browne of the FO blahblah.m4v (will play)
Renaming the file back to the original name will render it unplayable again. Sometimes this occurs with .m4v, sometimes with .mp4 - there isn't any level of consistency. PS3 Media Server is running as a service under my account on Vista - Dual 3.2 Xeon. All avi files seem to be fine.


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Well, it's been a while—"cough!"—the set's all dusty since my previous post about 3D cards...
One thing that isn't quite dusty though, is the state of free software drivers! I will sum up the different evolutions (some would even say, revolutions) that have occurred over this summer (June-September 2007).
First, let me write out a list of drivers...
Known free drivers and their implementations
VIA: UniChrome and OpenChrome
VIA was a leader in the area of free drivers: they were actually the first hardware manufacturers to release their drivers in source code form—no, really! However, those were not under a permissive license, were inelegantly coded (you needed to run them as root) but they had a very, very important characteristic: they were pretty much feature-complete, and most rare, they didn't need VBE modesetting to work—meaning that right now, they don't need a PC BIOS. That helps in making portable drivers.
Those restricted sources led to the creation of the UniChrome driver—this was supposed to be a very clean reimplementation of the original source code, and is, in fact, the basis for Xorg's VIA driver. It offers 2D and 3D acceleration and some Xv and MPEG2 acceleration. It has a single maintainer, and is considered the most stable VIA driver out there.
Due to UniChrome's limited abilities in code tinkering, OpenChrome was forked (there is still some communication between the branches); while less stable, OpenChrome provides MPEG-4 acceleration and XvMC (X video Motion Compensation). The latter is considered a very good implementation of hardware-accelerated XvMC.
This is not quite recent: the OpenChrome fork happened in 2005. It is now getting a bit more attention because of its focus on Xv and XvMC—which, due to HD concerns, are becoming more and more important.
Matrox: their own, and Xorg's
Matrox actually went the way VIA started; they now release a driver in source form, and this driver is reimplemented under Xorg's licenses. The end result pretty much works—when some new bug doesn't crash the party. Still, these drivers provide 2D, 3D and Xv acceleration.
On the whole, nothing new on planet Matrox. At best, some more bug fixing... Because there sure isn't anything new feature or hardware wise.
Intel: direct support
Probably the most forthcoming hardware manufacturer in matters of free code, Intel provides no specifications—but they do have an engineer working exclusively on a free software driver for their video hardware: all those integrated graphics processors do have a driver!
It provides 2D, 3D and Xv acceleration, along with multiple screen support and covers pretty much all of Intel's video hardware (except the long-dead i740, which was more Cirrus Logic than Intel anyway). More importantly, it is unobfuscated, feature complete, and under a permissive license (MIT and GPL—depending on where the code is, in X or in Linux).
ATI/AMD: a revolution
You must have seen it: since ATI was bought by AMD, there was some tension: will AMD change its tradition of cooperation with free software? They relied on Linux to prove the efficiency of their winning K8 core and 64-bit instruction set, should they use the same method on their new graphic hardware?
Well actually, they have—and they pretty much went all-out: not only have they promised to release the specs for their non-DRM hardware from the r300 up, there will be no NDA, along with a skeleton driver and code samples to boot!
So, right now, Novell maintains a package, named radeonhd, providing support for r500 and r600 hardware under SuSE Linux, last week. The Avivo driver, which had started supporting r500 cards, is thus nipped in the bud—not that Jerome Glisse, its lead maintainer, is complaining.
For those looking for a more feature complete driver, AMD released a new revision of its closed source fglrx driver, version 8.41, at the same time.
XGI: mixed bag
XGI was probably one of the first companies to support their graphics hardware through a free driver—but they were unlucky: not only did most of their talents go to ATI last year, their licensing agreement with SGI prevents them from releasing the DRI part of their driver under a free license.
As such, the driver (lacking DRI acceleration) is quite feature-complete, maintained, clean and supporting most of their hardware range, but it is also not much better than the VESA driver due to its need for CPU copies to be efficient. The DRI binary module does work well with the released sources, but it's just not the same as having a free driver...
NVIDIA: ah, come on!
Right now, NVIDIA is probably the black sheep of Linux support: while they do provide a somewhat accelerated 2D driver for all their hardware (from the Riva128 to the Geforce 8), that driver has its source obfuscated, uses inefficient acceleration processes (it's stuck on XAA), has seen pretty much no improvement in years, and needs to be ripped out entirely when you want to use their (admittedly high quality) binary blob.
They also disparaged the FOSS community by saying that no one apart from them would be able to create quality graphics drivers for their hardware, and that a community supported, feature-complete driver is impossible.
That ruffled some feathers last year, and a few Xorg developers took it to task. That started Nouveau, probably one of the biggest efforts in hardware reverse engineering seen these days. What do they have?
Right now, Nouveau is still in alpha. It bid goodbye to XAA (now completely replaced with EXA), Xv is complete, implementing OpenChrome's XvMC is a work in progress, and 3D support has been pretty much figured out for several chip generations (right now, glxgears works on Geforce2 and 6). The driver works on almost all of the NVIDIA hardware range—only support for nv04 (original Tnt1) will have to be reduced, due to this chip's fundamental incompatibility with EXA.
Still, it's far from being complete.
So, what's going on?
With all those free driver events, several issues were brought to light and are being worked on—on many levels.
Driver redundancy
Several drivers provide very similar features, and, at the same time, features are getting more numerous: video acceleration is not done through video overlays anymore, blitters are on the way out too, thus the preferred solution is now the use textured surfaces—using shaders units on Intel, NVIDIA, ATI and VIA hardware at the very least.
This is pretty much an Xv matter, but due to the flexibility of this solution, XvMC will gleefully make use of those features. Add to that colour space conversion acceleration and video decompression, it pretty much means that most current hardware solutions (and several older ones too) would allow very similar algorithms to perform a required operation.
Apparently, the favoured solution would be to create a single module for a given feature, which would then interface with the hardware through a common API, or use some form of software emulation, or, if not possible, simply refuse to load.
The two main advantages would be that new features would be brought in common to all able hardware, while at the same time reducing code duplication, which usually means much faster hardware support and simpler testing cycles.
Considering what's happening inside Linux on the Wi-Fi, ATA, IEEE1394, file systems and sound stacks, it sure seems effective.
For this reason, discussions are being made to modularize elements such as XvMC, some parts of DRI, and Mesa too (see Tungsten Graphics's Gallium3D project)—leaving the DRM (as in Direct Rendering Module) the last part to remain really hardware-dependent.
Does it mean that video drivers will be much smaller? Well, not exactly: right now, video drivers are made of at least three pieces: the essential X.org driver, the DRI acceleration piece, and its in-kernel DRM corresponding part. While the DRM part is pretty much impossible to make more common, this part may actually grow—the addition of a kernel-side memory manager and context switcher (for now called TTM) would actually make a driver bigger.
But overall, through modularity, it would mean that the sum of code required to support most of today's hardware would get much, much smaller.
After all, that's the philosophy behind X.org's 7th revision to the X protocol version 11 (X11R7).
GPU to generic computing
On the bonus side, this would pave the way to making use of those shaders units as generic computing coprocessors through a unified API—and damn, aren't those 128 unified shaders on an NVIDIA 8800 tempting!
What would be the use? Well, a shaders unit is, nowadays, little more (or less) than an oversized high precision, high clocked floating point computing unit. Being able to tap into them for stuff like SETI or [email protected] would be interesting. They would also help tremendously in ray tracing ("real" 3D) and other modeling applications.
Kernel engineering
Those were first mentioned to the general public on the Nouveau wiki: Linux (and other kernels are not much better) doesn't provide anything to support graphics development: certainly no frozen API (which is understandable and often a good thing), but also no way to tell when a piece of graphics hardware is already held by a driver (which makes using the console's frame buffer driver for your hardware a good way to crash X), and no way to map graphics memory—which can be quite complex: how does one navigate between PCI addressing, AGP (with its dedicated memory and different contexts than PCI) and PCI Express? Well, right now, all drivers do it the best they can.
For that reason, you have very fast exchanges between the kernel and the Xorg communities going on right now on how to implement frame buffer drivers (which are currently in the kernel) and DRM modules around a graphics memory manager.
An in-kernel memory manager for graphics hardware would allow several improvements:
- it would be much easier to add several accelerated video adapters, of similar or different designs,
- no more headaches caused by the dichotomy between hardware-accelerated frame buffers and DRI,
- more efficient context switching,
- better stability and performances through unified video memory addressing (right now, there is generic PCI, AGP and PCI Express to deal with—all three are different),
- some other stuff yet to be determined.
And performance, in all this?
This is the reason there will be NO update to my driver matrix for a little while yet: there has been little improvement in the area of supported features (we may cite a still maturing randr1.2 implementation, now used by the radeon, nouveau and Intel drivers), or hardware (last time, AMD already supported their r500 and r600 hardware in fglrx, and NVIDIA hasn't unveiled G9x chips yet), or incredible breakthroughs (the r300 driver is undergoing cleanup, but AMD hasn't released the r300 family specs yet, as it will come last).
In fact, the only releases (apart from those cited above) are: NVIDIA's 100.14.19 driver (which solved a regression over the previous release, but I can't test it as it screws up my screen detection and won't allow manual override), and AMD/ATI's 8.41 release (which, as I said, improves performance significantly yet renders artifacts all over the place). Right now, there is only a LOT of restructuring going on.
So, many things have changed over the summer; the FOSS drivers have seen lots of news, lots of progress and have started redefining themselves in a drastic way. That's cool.
However, this takes time, and for now us poor users have very little to see.
But jeez, the coming months are going to be interesting!
Open Graphics will be taking orders soon
Although ATI and Intel have stolen some of their thunder -- releasing better binary Linux drivers and/or source code releases of parts of their driver sets, there is also progress on the "totally free" front...
The Open Graphics Project has completed its design and testing for the OGD1, which is its development board, and is about to go into production. These FPGA-based graphics cards are hardly price-competitive with consumer graphics cards (at about $1500 a piece), but they are also more flexible, since they are really reprogrammable large-scale FPGA boards with extensive video interfacing. It's even possible to use them for things other than video.
More practically, the video firmware on these cards will be flashable, so that users will have the option of updating to the latest version of the graphics-processing unit (GPU), as the OGP continues to work on improving it.
Furthermore, the money spent is an investment in the production of real free and open hardware to support free software operating systems. If you're more inclined to contribute directly, there will also be a discount program for developers directly assisting the Open Graphics Project.
The OGD1 boards will be available from Traversal Technology. No official date has been set, but I would personally guess they will be taking orders before the end of this year.
Obviously, I can't recommend these boards to everybody, but if you've got the interest and the available cash, it will be a really cool product -- and 100% open hardware (GPL). Needless to say, the drivers will also be free.
Later on, of course, if the OGP continues with its present success rate, there will be a consumer-priced ASIC-based board which will implement the best available GPU at the time it is made (of course it won't be upgradable). I'm not sure when that will happen.
Nice article
Really nice article, thanks.
Does Matrox really support free software operating systems and open up their source code? Maybe with their older video cards, maybe even up to G550, but not with the newer ones that have at least half decent 3D support. Last time I checked their newer cards - with half-decent 3d support - had only proprietary drivers. Of all the 3D card companies, Matrox has been among the worst in supporting free software. No support for Compiz either whatever Matrox card you use as far as I know. But if you are conservative, don't care for 3D, Compiz and such things, and are happy with close to 10 year old video card design, Matrox might be ok.
True - but then...
...their latest products are hardly worthy of being called 'graphic cards'. And yes, from G100 to G550, they did/do provide source code for their cards.
For their most recent offers, which are mainly multi-monitor external appliances, the current X model makes opening up their source code the same way they did before not only quite useless, but also counterproductive: maybe, when Randr is more finalized and multiple screen configurations are better managed in X, will it be of any use for the community to get Matrox's code. For now, it's merely a risk of copyright infringement on both sides if Matrox open their sources.
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Authorities in Watertown, Mass. are engaged in a citywide manhunt for one suspect of the Boston Marathon bombing after the other was killed in a shootout early Friday morning. Details are still sketchy, but most outlets are reporting that the suspect still on the loose (the one in the white hat in these photos) is Dzhokar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, a Chechen who has been living in the U.S. as a legal permanent resident for at least a year. The deceased suspect, killed in a gun battle with police around 2 a.m., is apparently his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan.
The long night began at 10:48 Thursday evening, when gunshots were heard outside of MIT's Stata building. The two suspects, after robbing a 7-11, shot and killed an MIT police officer. They then hijacked a car and engaged police in a confrontation involving guns and explosives in the Watertown area.
Authorities have confirmed that these are their Boston Marathon bombing suspects. Watertown remains locked down, with more than 300,000 people instructed to stay in place. [top image via Shawna England]
5:05 PM: Here is the start of this nonsense, courtesy of Senator Lindsey Graham:
4:39 PM: Jeff Bauman, the bombing victim who lost both legs before helping the FBI identify Dzhokar and Tamerlan, has resorted to fundraising online to pay for his medical bills. Despite living in Massachusetts, the state whose healthcare system gave rise to Obamacare, Bauman is a member of the 1.9 percent of Massachusetts residents who are uninsured.
4:19 PM: The Daily Mail has found Tamerlan's wife and three-year-old daughter.
3:30 PM: Amtrak service between New York and Boston is discontinued, and tonight's Red Sox game has been cancelled.
3:04 PM: Dzhokar was apparently hanging out at his dorm room at UMass Dartmouth yesterday:
2:55 PM: Megyn Kelly wonders if you Forgot About Dre, at left.
2:03 PM: Police are now looking for a green Honda Civic, reported by a Jalopnik commenter who knew him to be Dzhokar's car.
12:31 PM: A vehicle with Massachusetts plates is being examined by a bomb squad in Niagara falls.
12:28 PM: Pete Williams of NBC reports that Dzhokar Tsarnaev became a U.S. citizen on 9/11 last year:
12:21 PM: Tamerlane Tsnarnaev flew to Russia and stayed out of the country for six months, MSNBC reports:
12:01 PM: The Tsarnaev's sister is being interviewed by the FBI. The Star-Ledger had found her earlier:
"They were great people. I never would have expected it," said the woman, of the suspects in Monday's bombing. "They are smart–-I don't know what's gotten into them." [...]
"No I'm not okay-no one is okay right now," she said. "I'm hurt for everyone who has been hurt. I'm sorry for all the people who are hurt and for all the people who lost their lives."
11:55 AM: Not everyone is #PrayingForBoston:
11:31 AM: In his second interview, the Tsarnaev's uncle re-iterated his belief that they undertook the bombing because they are "losers."
11:27 AM: This is likely Dzhokar's Twitter account.
11:09 AM: Ramzan Karimov, the Head of the Chechen Republic, released a statement on, uh, Instagram. Very rough, abridged, Google-assisted translation follows:
Tragic events took place in Boston. The blast killed people. We have previously expressed condolences to the people of the city and the people of America. [...] Any attempt to make the connection between Chechnya and Tsarnaevymi, if they are guilty, will be made in vain. They grew up in the United States, their attitudes and beliefs were formed there. It is necessary to seek the roots of evil in America. From terrorism to fight the whole world. We know better than anyone else. We wish recovery to all the victims and share the feelings of sorrow of Americans. # # Boston # bombing investigation
10:26 AM: Connecticut says it's found the CRV and is directing questions to Boston.
10:08 AM: Police have put out an alert for a grey Honda CRV that they believe may be heading south through Connecticut:
According to NBC News, police are now looking for two suspects in Boston:
MSNBC is apparently reporting that authorities have surrounded a train in Connecticut that may contain a third suspect.
10:05 AM: We're updating information about the suspects here as it comes out.
10:04 AM: NBC tweets a photo of an empty boston:
9:38 AM: The MIT police officer killed last night has been identified as Sean Collier, 26, of Somerville.
9:00 AM: According to several outlets, police believe that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was wearing explosives when he was killed, and are worried that Dzhokar could be, too.
8:38 AM: Police officers and a SWAT team have surrounded a house in Watertown.
8:25 AM: The officer shot and wounded in Watertown is Richard Donohue, a 33-year-old transit officer.
8:17 AM: The entire city of Boston is being asked to shelter in place as the manhunt continues. Taxi service has been suspended pending further notice.
7:43 AM: NBC and the Times are both reporting that the dead suspect is Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26.
7:15 AM: NPR's Dina Temple-Raston reports that third person (described as an "accomplice") has been arrested.
6:47 AM: AP is reporting that both bombers are from "Russia region near Chechnya" and have lived in the U.S. for at least one year; the surviving suspect, according to AP and NBC, is 19-year-old Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev of Cambridge, Mass., possibly this former scholarship winner.
6:32 AM: Big concern is not only the bomber himself, but the possible explosives he has left around the neighborhood. A long night looks like it might turn into an even longer day for Boston residents.
6:20 AM: The suspects apparently told the man they carjacked late last night that they were the marathon bombers.
6:15 AM: If you're a resident of Watertown, Brookline, Newton, Belmont, Waltham, Cambridge, or Allston-Brighton, authorities are telling you to stay indoors while they search for the remaining bombing suspect.
6:10 AM: Residents are now leaving their homes one by one in Watertown as SWAT teams enter their homes as they exit, checking them for explosives, seeing if their house has been rigged by the suspect.
6:00 AM: Boston public transit, the MBTA, will remain shut down this morning. Harvard, MIT, Boston University, and Emerson have canceled classes, amid public safety concerns. All Boston public and private schools have now been canceled.
5:30 AM: At a press conference at Beth Israel Hospital, doctors explained that the first suspect arrived at the hospital with severe injuries that included innumerable gun shot wounds, and burns from a blast. He had traumatic injuries to his torso, possibly from a bomb. He was pronounced dead around 1:30 AM.
5:20 AM: Here's a Google Map of tonight's events:
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5:00 AM: Not confirmed, but a BPD scanner apparently identified the two bombers as Mike Mulugeta (now deceased) and Sanil Tarpathi, who is currently hiding from authorities somewhere in Watertown.
Here is some new video of the shootout between the two suspects and police officers:
4:55 AM: The package at MIT is harmless, say officials. So how about that? Some good news!
4:46 AM: A suspicious package has been found at MIT, where the bombers killed an officer late last night.
4:33 AM: Sources tell WHDH Boston that there are explosive devices scattered throughout the residential neighborhoods around Watertown.
4:20 AM: Col. Timothy Alban of the Boston State Police just held a press conference outlining the events of last evening and this morning. Here goes:
After robbing a 7-11 in Cambridge at around 10:30 PM Thursday, the two suspects shot an MIT police officer in his car, and then carjacked a Mercedes SUV. They held the driver hostage, then released them at a gas station a half-hour later.
They were discovered in Watertown driving the SUV, and were pursued by the Watertown Police Department and Transit Police. They exchanged gunfire with the police departments, discharging several explosives from their the car. One transit officer was shot and is in serious condition, and one suspect was shot and killed, while the other escaped.
Col. Alban stressed that the most important message for public safety was that everyone in Watertown should shelter in place, and call 911 if they see anyone suspicious. Motorists should not stop for anyone. According to the video from 7-11, the suspect is dressed in a grey hoodie, is Caucasian, has brown curly hair, and is "armed and dangerous."
4:15 AM: The Mass State Police have released this picture of suspect #2, taken from surveillance footage of the earlier robbery.
4:11 AM: The driver the marathon bombers hijacked was held by them for a half hour at gun point, before they were released safely.
4:05 AM: 2 SWAT teams have descended on a commercial building in Watertown, where they believe the remaining suspect is.
4:01 AM: Police are now staging in Arsenal Mall, and State Police are asking media to clear out of the area. Officers might be waiting for sunrise to storm whatever home they believe the remaining Marathon bomber is hiding in.
3:51 AM: State Police are going door-to-door in Watertown, searching for suspect #2,
who it increasingly looks like is Sunil Tripathi. Update: As has become clear, missing Brown student Sunil Tripathi was not the bomber, despite his name being used by Boston P.D. on the police scanner.
3:41 AM: These two updates from the Mass State Police tell Watertown residents to watch out for the remaining suspect —
3:14 AM: According to Pete Williams at NBC News, a pressure cooker was found at the scene in Watertown.
3:08 AM: The crime scene continues to move through Watertown and officials are asking residents to stay indoors and not let anyone into their home.
3:06 AM: The family of Sunil Tripathi, the missing Brown student who Reddit believed was one of the suspects, has taken down the Facebook page dedicated to find him. Here is a cached version of it. He could be holed up in a Watertown home right now, in custody, or dead. Update: As has become clear, missing Brown student Sunil Tripathi was not the bomber, despite his name being used by Boston P.D. on the police scanner.
3:05 AM: It has come out that a transit officer was shot earlier in the evening and is in serious condition.
3:01 AM: WHDH confirms that these are the Boston Marathon bombing suspects and that one is dead.
3:00 AM: The State Police have confirmed that one suspect is accounted for, while one remains at large.
2:46 AM: Police have surrounded a Watertown house on Quimby Street, where they believe the remaining suspect is hiding. Federal and local authorities have poured into the residential neighborhood.
2:34 AM: The Boston Globe is reporting that these are the marathon bombers. WHDH says one is dead and the other is still on the loose, but the Globe says the captured suspect is still alive.
2:25 AM: Andrew Kitzenberg posts a picture of a bullet that went through his Watertown home during a shootout.
2:20 AM: Photo of the FBI on the scene in Watertown by @christinawilkie
2:14 AM: A second suspect remains at large, reports Boston's WHDH. The FBI is now involved in the investigation, lending Federal involvement to what would normally be a crime dealt with solely by local authorities.
2:09 AM: ABC's Joshua Hoyos is reporting that there is no connection to the Marathon Bombings.
1:49 AM: Seth Mnookin has posted a photo of the arrest of one of the suspects:
1:25 AM: It appears a suspect is in custody:
1:18 AM EST: Police officers are approaching a suspect in heavy armor.
1:15 AM EST: Science Writer Seth Mnookin is on scene:
1:01 AM EST: Police are taking cover and backing away from a suspect, says WHDH reporter Adam Williams, now at the scene of the confrontation. He has heard that the suspect has a hand grenade.
12:58 AM EST: Police feed reports that explosives have been detonated in Watertown. At least two officers have been hurt.
12:51 AM EST: Police have cornered the suspects at Adams St in Watertown after they hijacked a car. There are reports of gunshots, and an intense confrontation between police officers and the suspects. WHDH-Boston reports that "there is a strong smell of gun powder in the air." Authorities still unsure if the suspects are related to the marathon bombing.
12:14 AM EST: A statement from the Cambridge District Attorney says that the fatal shooting occurred when the MIT campus police officer was reporting to "a disturbance in the area." He was found by other officers evidencing multiple gunshot wounds. There have been no arrests yet, as officers continue to search the area.
12:01 AM EST: NBC Connecticut is reporting that the MIT police officer has died.
11:49 PM EST: Police are actively trying to corner the suspect. The MIT police officer has been confirmed to have sustained "life-threatening injuries" according to WHDH-Boston. MIT just released this update: "Responding agencies continue to investigate the situation. The scene is outside of Building 32 (Stata) and 76 (Koch) near Vassar and Main Streets. Injuries have been reported. The situation is still very active and we ask everyone to stay inside."


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Exact trimming operates by looking for the last bit of sequencing vector that appears on the left-hand side of a read, just before the DNA from the organism being sequenced. If found, the vector is trimmed off. If not found, the read is passed on to the blast trimming.
Exact trimming is enabled by adding the file insert.sites to the DATA directory for your project. If this file does not exist, or is empty, only blast trimming is performed.
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CHAR-KOOSTA Newspaper of the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation VOLUME 13 NUMBER 19 THE SHOOTING MONTH Amendments seek to moderize Tribal Constitution Tribal voters will be asked to change their 50-year-old Constitution in about a month The document which came about when the Tribes became the first in the US to incorporate under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, was last successfully amended in 1960. Sub- The name Char-Koosta is derived from Chief Charlo's and Chief Koostatah's names. They were the Tribes' last traditional chiefs. sequent attempts- in the mid-'70s, 1979 and 1983 ~ were unsuccessful either due to voter disapproval or lack of Department of Interior approval The proposed changes to be voted on February 23 are explained below by the Tribes' attorneys The exact wording of the amendments and the list of polling places are given in the BIA election notice on page two. Six district meetings have been scheduled for the next several weeks so the membership can meet with Tribal and BIA officials and ask questions about the issue Please see the schedule below. The meetings have also been noted on the February calendar in this issue for the membership's convenience. "In the light of recent court cases which have recognized the self-government powers of Indian tribes, we need to update our own Constitution that was written in 1935," note the attorneys. "Some parts of our Constitution are not very clear in certain areas "The proposed amendments scheduled to be voted on February23,1985, affect only Article VI, which describes the powers and duties of the Tribal Council. These amendments simply intend to make the language more clear and consistent "The needs of modern government require that such important laws not be confusing or vague In order to meet the needs of the people and keep up with the requirements of modern government, a living document like the Tribal Constitution must be updated from time to time AMENDMENT A "This amendment was written in language which better explains and facilitates the Tribes' revenue-raising authority necessary to offset the costs of services being provided to people doing business on the Reservation or (Continues on page two) 5° o « 3 Constitution district meeting schedule Tribal and BIA officials will be visiting six communities between January 30 and February 20 to answer questions about the proposed constitutional a-mendments: Hot Springs: Wednesday, January 30, 1985, at the Bowling Alley. Pablo/Ronart Thursday, January 31, at the Tribal Complex St Ignatius: Thursday, February 7, at the Community Center. Arlee/Dixon Wednesday, February 13, at the Salish Senior Citizens Center. Elmo Thursday, February 14 at Koostahtah HalL Poison Wednesday, February 20, at the Flathead Lake Senior Citizens' Center. All meetings will begin at6:00 p.m. and sandwiches and salads will be served
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HALF MOON BAY -- Snitch, the Saint Bernard from Half Moon Bay who competes in agility contests, isn't coming home from nationals with a big ribbon. But she was a hit at the American Kennel Club Agility Invitational in Orlando last weekend.
"She's a very popular dog when she runs because she's so unusual at these agility events," said owner Jann Hayes. "Saint Bernards always are the center of attention."
Snitch, who is 5 years old and weighs 105 pounds, ended up 112th of 142 dogs entered in the tallest breed category. She also finished second out of the only three Saint Bernards who were invited to the event.
Just the top 10 dogs advanced to the finals, based on how fast and accurately they navigated four runs through obstacle courses with the guidance of their owners.
"It's very, very difficult for a Saint Bernard to make the finals because they're just not as fast as the other breeds," Hayes said. "We also didn't have any clean runs. But you could tell that she had a lot of fun."
Snitch was profiled in this newspaper last week.
Hayes hopes they get invited back to the nationals next year.
"It was a wonderful experience," she said.
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There were 91 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Wednesday. At that time, there were 1,447 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411. When the jail is full, some inmates may be released early.
Robbery: A man was asking for money at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and American Street about 7:40 p.m. Tuesday when he was accosted by three people who hit him with a pipe and stole his wallet, police reported. The victim had cuts to his forehead and torso and was taken to a hospital for treatment. The assailants were described as males in their late teens.
Robbery: Two armed men entered a business in the 4900 block of Highway 99 Frontage Road about 9:10 p.m. Tuesday, holding the employees at gunpoint and taking cash before fleeing north on Highway 99, officers said. Police described the robbers as an Asian man in his 20s, 5 feet 7 inches tall and 150 pounds with a red hooded sweatshirt and jeans, and a white man in his 20s, 6 feet tall and 180 pounds with dark clothing.
Robbery: Three men - one armed with a handgun - entered an occupied home in the 5600 block of Rayanna Drive about 1 a.m. Wednesday and stole household items, police said. The residents, a man and two family members, were unharmed. Police said the robbers were three men in their 20s. One was black, 5 feet 6 inches tall and 180 pounds with a gray hooded sweatshirt.
Robbery: A man stole cigarettes and an undisclosed amount of cash from a gas station in the 2900 block of West Benjamin Holt Drive about 6 a.m. Wednesday, police said. The man, who had brandished a black semiautomatic pistol, left going north on Plymouth Road. He was described as a Latino man in his 20s, 5 feet 8 inches tall and 170 pounds with a mustache and a tattoo on his face. He was wearing a white T-shirt, a black hooded sweatshirt, a black baseball cap with a white logo and red and black checkered shorts.
The California Highway Patrol did not file an incident report Wednesday.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to 109 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Wednesday, including eight vehicle accidents, 71 medical calls and seven structure fires.
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Jan. 26, 2007 -- An anesthetic spray more than doubles the "lasting" time for men with premature ejaculation, according to a study by the company that makes the experimental spray.
The metered-dose, aerosol spray is a mixture of the anesthetics lidocaine and prilocaine. It is spritzed onto the tip of the penis 15 minutes before sex.
Before using the spray, the 54 heterosexual men in the study ejaculated, on average, one minute after vaginal penetration.
In the test, on four occasions, half the men used the anesthetic spray 15 minutes before sex, the other half a placebo with no active ingredients.
The men or their partners used a stopwatch to measure the time from vaginal penetration to ejaculation.
The results:
- Lasting time increased to two minutes or more for 55% of the men who got the spray and 35% of the men who got the placebo.
- Lasting time increased to three minutes or more for 40% of the men who got the spray and 13% of the men who got the placebo.
- Lasting time increased to four minutes or more for 20% of the men who got the spray and 13% of the men who got the placebo.
- On average, men who got the spray lasted 2.4 times longer than those who got the placebo.
Premature ejaculation isn't defined by a specific time until ejaculation. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM-IV), premature ejaculation is "persistent or recurrent ejaculation with minimal sexual stimulation before, on, or shortly after penetration and before the person wishes it."
About 70% of men who used the spray and just under 50% of the men who used the placebo said they had longer time to ejaculation.
About 60% of the female partners of men who used the spray, and about 30% of the partners of the men who used the placebo, said the men had better control over their ejaculation.
The spray is called TEMPE -- topical eutectic mixture for premature ejaculation -- by manufacturer Plethora Solutions Ltd. London, which funded the study. It is not yet available on the market.


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This course is for the singer and/or pianist interested in collaborative study of solo vocal performance. This term we will focus upon the works of Women Composers. Students will gather biographical data and explore art songs, operatic arias, choral masterpieces, and arrangements employing sacred and secular texts. Additionally, students will conduct inquiry into works indicative of their own heritage.
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SAN JOSE -- The Earthquakes acquired dynamic Benfica-Portugal midfielder/forward Yannick Djalo on loan for the 2014 season, pending receipt of his P-1 Visa and international transfer certificate, the club announced Monday.
Djalo, 27, a speedy winger with seven years experience in Portugal's first division and one in France's Ligue 1, has earned multiple cup titles with Sporting Lisbon over five seasons.
Djalo won't be available for the Quakes' match against Mexican power Toluca FC on Tuesday night at Buck Shaw Stadium in the home leg of quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Champions League. But he could play in the MLS season opener against Real Salt Lake on Saturday in Santa Clara.
"He can play up front or he can play wide. He's real fast," general manager John Doyle said. "He can come in on the ball technically well. He kind of fits all the boxes for what we were looking for. Hopefully he does well, which I think he will, and we're able, with the new stadium, to buy him in the next year."
An enthusiastic Djalo, who is 5-foot-6 and 140 pounds, did not hesitate when asked how he could help the Quakes.
"Basically scoring goals and assists, that's how I plan on helping," he said through a translator.
A product of the renowned Sporting Lisbon youth academy, Djalo thinks he'll fit in just fine in MLS.
"They play a very tactically-charged game here in America," he said. "It's a very physical game. I see similarities and differences, but there's definitely some space to be found on the field."
The Quakes consider Djalo, born in Guinea-Bissau, a country in West Africa, to be a change agent on a squad that lacked versatility up front at times in 2013.
"Very excited," coach Mark Watson said of landing Djalo. "We've been looking for a few players over the offseason to give us that little bit of quality, that little bit of dynamic movement to go forward. He fits both of those categories."
"They've got quality players in every position," Quakes goalkeeper Jon Busch said. "They like to play with the ball. For us, it's going to be a big challenge defensively to stay organized and take our opportunities offensively."
Toluca, in second place in the Mexican league's Clausura competition, is a 10-time Liga MX champion. It boasts Mexican superstar Antônio Naelson Matia, known as Sinha. Toluca went 4-0 in the CONCACAF group stage.
"They're dangerous everywhere, that's why they're always at the top of the leader board or close to it," forward Chris Wondolowski said.
San Jose, which only lost once at Buck Shaw Stadium in 2013, advanced out of the CONCACAF group stage on goal differential after going 2-2 against Heredia-Guatemala and MLS club Montreal Impact.
In addition to Djalo, the Quakes added French league midfielder Jean-Baptiste Pierazzi and German right back Andreas Gorlitz in the offseason. After offseason foot surgery, Alan Gordon has progressed well and could see 20 to 25 minutes against Toluca.


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After a decade, Potomac autism race organizer will lace up (Potomac, Md.)
For nine years, Potomac resident Susan Pereles stood on the sidelines of the Autism Speaks race she organized. She waited patiently at the finish line as runners completed the 5K course. She congratulated participants and tracked the top runners' times. Read more.
Missing autistic Hale Center man found safe (Hale Center, Texas)
Thirteen hours after he went missing, Shelton Martin from Hale Center has been found safe. Police tell KCBD NewsChannel 11 that he was found shortly after 1:00 p.m. in a friend's vacant house one block from his home. Read more.
No vaccine-autism link: Get kids shots (CNN.com)
On a beautiful morning in my hometown of Walnut Creek, California, I sat watching my daughter playing in the park. There she was, along with many other kids, swinging, sliding, and running with the kind of pure joy you see only in children. Read more.
July 1, 2010 at 9:48 am
Thank you for linking to the CNN article "No vaccine-autism link: Get kids shots." It is important for people know that vaccines do NOT cause autism, and it is good to see Autism Speaks taking the side of science, rather than taking no side at all.
July 1, 2010 at 10:40 am
It is a fact that the MMRV = 2x the risk of febrile seizures, rather than the shots administer
This is not about "taking sides" is is about reporting news. The release of the study was news, Dr. P's irrational editorial was not news but his personal opinion.
Margaret you know that vaccines did not cause autism, I believe you and respect your child's trajectory as different from my son's. However why do you presume to know another child's experience. Every child is different and we have no right to tell other families that we understand their child's autism than they do.
July 2, 2010 at 9:24 am
I did not come in here to engage in a debate about vaccines, for doing so only lends credence to pseudoscientific ideas.
I know that the facts (vaccines are very safe and effective, save millions of lives every year, and do NOT cause autism) are politically unpopular in certain circles of the Big Tent that is Autism Speaks, and I thought they deserved a little recognition for linking to a science-based article about vaccines.


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I am very new to pretty much everything. After highschool I didn't play much sports just because life didn't really allow it. Earlier in 07 I gained over 30 pounds in a three month period and it wasn't until I stopped drinking soda, and began working at JCP that I finally lost some of that weight. I live in a very rural area, and all I have to workout with is a jumprope, treadmill, and me. I have no money to go to the nearest gym, twenty minutes away(especially with gas prices), but I need to figure out the best plan for me right now at my current state. I way about 174 and I am 5'8". I want to tone out my body and stay fit, because I feel extremely out of shape. I can only do a maximum of twenty pushups in one set, then I just start doing less and less. Because I feel so out of shape and my endurance level is low, I feel extremely unconfident and never finish anything I start. Lately I have been gradually gaining weight even though I am not eating as much.
lol I know this is a lot for a first post, but let me know what you think I could do for myself. I am getting married and moving soon so anything that needs to be bought is a no go.
God bless and thanks guys!
P.S. The pic of me in my profil was from 06, I am about 20 something pounds bigger.
Working out on your own can be tough for some because no one is there to hold you accountable. It can be even tougher without something to workout for. We have a saying in the endurance industry that goes, "stop working out and start training." Wanting to 'tone out your body and stay fit' are okay goals, but you can do better. Refine your goals to be more specific. How much do you want to weight? What size waistline do you want? What do you want to be able to do that is active that you are not able to do now? With a specific goal in mind constantly, like your wedding perhaps, you have something more tangible to work towards. Does any of this make sense? What about the 100 Push up challenge ? or running in a half marathon (13.1 miles)? Do you have a bike? Start a running club with friends from church? A good pair of running shoes may be the best investment you ever make... What are you thoughts on what I've suggested?
I guess my goals are to reveal my abs once again, to lose about 5 pounds, regain stamina, be able to do over 25 pushups at a time, be able to run over a mile non-stop. I don't know if these goals count, but that's why I need to do this. And also, so my fiance coulc see that I am determined, and could be a lot better looking than I am now. I understand the difficulties when you don't have someone there to join you in your training. I am there now. I am not overweight, but I would like to go back to my 32 waist, instead of a 34-36. Thanks for the reply. Where would you reccomend buying a good pair of running shoes, at an affordable price.
You can get thin by watching what you eat; fit and strong by working out, but you have to combine the two if you want to see the six-pack.
There are some killer body-weight strength routines; there's yoga and pilates; there's some marine-corp type workouts that only use a bag of sand. Look around a bit and you'll find some very challenging workout routines that do not require expensive equipment.
I agree it's very important to have a specific goal. In my own case, I found the problem with a goal like "being in good shape" is that it might not get me out the door for an early morning run because I may decide, at 5, that I am in good shape and could use another hour of sleep. If my goal is to lose ten pounds, I don't give myself the same sort of wiggle room - either I weigh less or I don't.
After my last knee surgery, my first goal was simply to show up. I forgot all about times and weight and everything else and just made a committment that I would change clothes and head out for my walk, or try a little yoga, or get the push-ups and sit-ups done like I had planned. Consistency is very important and the first thing I had to do was re-establish the habit of exercising. It didn't matter to me if I exercised for ten minutes or an hour, I just wanted to show up for each session.
One of the amazing things about exercising, at least to me, is that the more consistently I exercise the more energy I have. It's a hard rock to start rolling, but once it gets going, everything changes.
Goals come and go - keep track of what you've done and know where you're going. My goals get me out of bed early in the morning. But it's the chance to see the sun rising over the mountains, or catch a deer grazing by the side of the road - or today, a long trek to pick some wild berries for pancakes tomorrow morning - that keeps me going year after year.
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I have been trying the hundredpushup challenge and so far I have been doing exceedingly well with the workout. I am just going to need something for running. I was able to find a group of people to do the challenge with me, and the motivation and push is just what I need. I couldn't see the video, because my internet filter blocks it.
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I have been trying the hundredpushup challenge and so far I have been doing exceedingly well with the workout. I am just going to need something for running. I was able to find a group of people to do the challenge with me, and the motivation and push is just what I need. I couldn't see the video, because my internet filter blocks it.
That's fantastic news. The 100 pushup challenge is really popular right now. That's so cool to hear its working for you too. If you want to look into the vide, here's the url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro73QWwuaFA
Keep up the great work and please keep checking in with us on your progress!
Thanks Toby, now I'm thinking about the 100 push-up challenge. As if I needed another goal to meet! I'm a pathological over-achiever!
I do today what you won't, so tomorrow I do what you can't.
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I have been trying the hundredpushup challenge and so far I have been doing exceedingly well with the workout. I am just going to need something for running. I was able to find a group of people to do the challenge with me, and the motivation and push is just what I need. I couldn't see the video, because my internet filter blocks it.
I think we may have just the thing for you: The Couch-to-5K Running Plan
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Thanks Toby, now I'm thinking about the 100 push-up challenge. As if I needed another goal to meet! I'm a pathological over-achiever!
OMG, are you serious? You were just having a debate over adding another swim workout to your already-insane-schedule and now you plan to take on this!!! You crack me up Love it!
I posted a calorie calculator on the site here. If you go through my Profile you should be able to find it. This will help you to find the correct amount of calories to eat for your weight loss goals. Even more so it will tell you what to get those calories from. This will help you trim fat and gain muscle. I have lost 120 pounds so far with this plan. This is the first step to any workout in my mind because if you are not eating the right stuff you will do poorly and feel poorly when you go to workout or "train". The plan requires no special shakes or foods. Just that you eat right. You tookthe first step by getting rid of the pop. I lost my first 20 pounds by not drinking pop. I found it easier to lose when I stoped drinking diet pop as well. I am no expert at fitness I am learing as well I am going to follow the advice of many of the experts on here but I am out running now 20+ miles a week. So you can do it it is much better though when you have others to do it with.
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I have gotten fit/active/and thinner without the help of a gym. I do have alot of at-home equipment, but i think all you really need is a few sets of hand weights and an exercise ball. Two months ago, I was unable to run a mile or do two pushups, and 25 lbs heavier than i wanted to be. My BMI was on the cusp of "overweight". I started a diet plan (eating 500 cals less a day than my body burn) to lose 1 lb/week and i also started a workout plan where i would run or bike every other day and do pushups and crunches everyday. I can now do 10 pushups (man style - i am a woman) without stopping, and can run 3 miles. I also ran my first 5K and i am 12.5 (half way to my goal) lighter. I feel great! For me it was small goals. Each week i had these goals for the week: do 1 more pushup by the end of the week, lose 1 lb by the end of the week, and beat my best 3 mile time. As your body gets stronger, you can compensate by making exercises harder (ie. put your lower body on the ball to make the distance to the ground farther during pushups) and you can add in weight lifting, lunges, squats, etc with your hand weights.
I used to reward myself with food, now i reward myself with new exercise gear. For instance, i was able to get new workout clothes after i was consistant for 2 months, etc.
good luck!
If you want to truly achieve your fitness goals checkout Crossfit.com (WFS). They have many of resources available online. Most of the programming can be done with no equipment!
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Description: Perhaps the most visible diagnostic characteristic of the northern shoveler is its large spoon-shaped bill, which widens towards the tip and creates a shape unique among North American waterfowl. Male northern shovelers have an iridescent green head and neck, white chest and breast and chestnut belly and sides. They have a white stripe extending from the breast along the margin of the gray-brown back, and white flank spots. The wings have a gray-blue shoulder patch, which is separated from a brilliant green speculum by a tapered white stripe. The bill is black in breeding plumage and the legs and feet are orange. During display, males will utter a repeated, liquid, hollow "g-dunk g-dunk g-dunk" in flight as well as from water. Female northern shovelers have a light brownish head with a blackish crown and a brownish speckled body. The upper wing coverts are grayish-blue, the greater secondary coverts are tipped with white and the secondaries are brown with a slight greenish sheen. The bill is olive green with fleshy orange in the gape area and speckled with black dots.
Breeding: Northern shovelers breed in the parklands, short- and mixed-grass prairies of Canada, and the grasslands of the north-central United States. They prefer shallow marshes that are mud-bottomed and rich in invertebrate life. Nest sites are generally located on the ground in grassy areas lacking woody cover and away from open water. Female northern shovelers lay an average of 9 eggs.
Migrating and Wintering: Northern shovelers fly from the Prairie Pothole Region through the Pacific or Central flyways, with major stopover areas in the Great Salt Lake, Malheur Basin and Carson Sink. They winter in California; coastal Louisiana, Texas, and Mexico; and the north and central highlands of Mexico. Wintering habitat includes fresh and brackish coastal marshes, and ponds. Saltwater wetlands are generally avoided. Northern shovelers are common winter visitors to Central America, the Caribbean and northern Colombia, and are found occasionally in Trinidad (Scott and Carbonell, 1986).
Population: Northern shoveler populations have remained fairly steady since 1955, but 2007 and 2009 brought peak numbers in the 4.3-4.6-million-bird range, most likely due to favorable habitat conditions for breeding, migrating and wintering northern shovelers (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2009).
Food habits: Northern shovelers feed by dabbling and sifting in shallow water. Seeds of sedges, bulrushes, saw grass, smartweeds, pondweeds, algae and duckweeds, as well as aquatic insects, mollusks and crustaceans, are consumed by filtering water which is taken in at the bill tip and jetted out at the base.
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