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The new updated 3DL model, this sail is our latest top of the range thermo moulded sail made from Carbon/Kevlar, developed during the 2013 season the latest 3DL sail has a number of subtle design improvements, designed to suit the D+, M-7 and Cumulus sections. It now has lighter more supple film matched with super light patching and finishing which has reduced the weight of the sail whilst maintaining the excellent performance longevity associated with the 3DL product.
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Brand new custom cloth for 2016 has provided even better shape holding and longevity on the incredibly successful ST-2K. This is a fantastic all purpose sail that has seen some small finishing updates to improve it even more for the coming season.
The ST-2K is designed to suit D+, M7, Zeta, & C Sleeved sections and uses North Cloth's own NLXi04 to provide the ultimate radial laminate sail.
The full radial Dacron ST-2D is an update for 2014, it follows on from the very successful ST-1D, this is an all purpose sail developed to suit the Zeta, D+, M-7 and C Sleeved mast sections, built using DP180 OD HTP+ Dacron.
Brand new custom cloth for 2016 has provided even better shape holding and longevity on the incredibly successful SC-2K sail. This is a fantastic all purpose sail that has seen some small finishing updates to improve it even more for the coming season.
The SC-2K is designed to suit the Cumulus mast and uses North Cloth's own NLXi04 to provide the ultimate radial laminate sail.
The full radial Dacron SC-2D is an update for 2014 based on the ST-2D model but this all purpose sail is developed to suit the Cumulus mast, built using DP180 OD HTP+ Dacron
The Solo is a boat with a relatively simple rig. Once you are on the water there is little adjustment possible. It is essential therefore that you get the right rig settings before launching. When setting up a new boat you need to establish the following:
You should have 2 mast foot positions, essentially a light/medium setting and a medium/heavy setting. This measurement is from the front of the mast heel to the outside of the centre of the transom.
Please note different builders and different mast fittings may not allow this exact measurement but as close to these as possible is preferred:
Flat water (inland conditions)
0-16 knots – 3052mm
16 knots + - 3065mm
Choppy/rough (sea conditions)
0-12 knots – 3052mm
12 knots + - 3065mm
More rake is now used where possible, the same principle applies to forestay tension on either mast foot position you use. NB. This is measured without the sail up.
When the back of the mast touches the mast gate the forestay should just be in tension.
Preferably you have a mast with the track cut out, you can then use much more rake, in this case the forestay should be just in tension when the mast (where the track is cut out) is 5mm from the back of the gate.
The same principle is used for either mast foot position. When the shrouds are just in tension the mast should be 5mm from the front of the gate. If you sail on flat water or are over 85kgs you can sail with tighter shrouds to limit sideways bend, in this case the shrouds can be in tension when the mast is 10mm from the front of the gate.
Turn the boat on it's side and fully lower the board so that the handle is touching the thwart. In this position the board should have 25mm of forward rake, now lift the board and mark the handle when the leading edge is vertical (LV), relative to the bottom of the case. Lift the board further until the trailing edge is vertical (TV) and mark the handle. The board needs to be just tight enough in the case so that it stays where you set it, but you can easily adjust it with your foot when hiked upwind.
Use 1 x 10mm chock to be used as per the tuning matrix below.
0-5 knots
6-10 knots
11-16 knots
17+ knots
Because Solo's are relatively easy to sail a boatspeed advantage is hard to find. The settings that have been used for this tuning guide are based around a Solo sailor weighing 84-86kg using a Selden D+ mast and North sail. However these settings still apply providing you use the correct mast and sail combination for your weight.
The settings are dependent on sea state, weight, mast, sail and fitness. So in a force 3 a 90kg helm would be on full power settings whereas a 75kg helm with the same rig would be on overpowered settings. The overlap between settings can be achieved with a combination of rig, sail and centreboard adjustment. There are different ways to achieve the same result. If for example you are caught out with light/medium settings in strong breeze raise the centreboard further, use more kicker tension (to bend the mast) cunningham and outhaul tension.
Use a combination of mainsheet tension, kicker tension and traveller position to find the best speed upwind. As a general rule start in light winds with the traveller on the centreline and little mainsheet tension so that all the leech tell tails are flying. As the wind increases use more mainsheet tension and ease the traveller to stop the boom getting too close to the centreline. Kicker tension in light winds should be set just slack so that it controls leech twist out of tacks. As the breeze increases and you have to ease the mainsheet to keep the boat flat use kicker to control the leech profile, and adjust the traveller (usually move inboard) to keep the boom roughly over the outside edge of the quarter. Once fully overpowered use kicker upwind to increase low down mast bend and flatten the mainsail.
In a Solo body position is extremely important. In very light airs your body weight should be centred on the thwart, but do not move forward of this point however light it is. Once you are sat on the side deck move back so that your front leg is pressed against the thwart. As you become fully hiked move back to 150mm from thwart, and then up to 300mm as the wind increases.
Use only enough centreboard so that the rudder is neutral when the boat is flat with the following sail settings:
Leave the outhaul on it's upwind setting. The inhaul (if adjustable) should be released so its slack. The kicker should be slack or just in tension to stop the leech opening too much in gusts.
Ease outhaul so that lens foot is fully eased (you should have a knot in the control which hits the bottom of the boom when lens is fully eased). Ease the inhaul until slack. Set the kicker so that the top batten flies approximately 90 degrees to the boat, this allows the leech to open and maximise speed. If planing is a possibility keep the boat as flat as possible and take the mainsheet 2:1 from the boom.
Only ease the outhaul on reaches if you can use more power. Ease Inhaul until slack. Once on the run ease outhaul to allow a little depth in the foot. Set the kicker as for medium airs or ease to depower on the reaches. This is also very quick on the run but can be very tippy! By spending time on the water preferably with a tuning partner you will be able to establish the right settings for all conditions. This will allow you to concentrate more of your energies on finding the quickest way round the course.


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In 1999, the U.S. Racquetball Association (USAR) and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) named Fisher Developmental Coach of the Year; and in 2006, Volunteer Coach of the Year for Racquetball. He is a member of Wilson's Racquetball Advisory Staff and past chairman of the USRA Intercollegiate Council.
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BRENTWOOD — On the first anniversary of the shootings of five police officers, at a Greenland home owned by Beverly Mutrie, a judge heard non-public debate over whether Mutrie's insurance provider should pay for the surviving officers' injuries.
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Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) is in the midst of the largest public works project in the history of the City of Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC), the $4.1 billion in completed or on-going projects has created nearly 40,000 good-paying local jobs and pumps $6.89 billion into the local economy. Furthermore, Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is directly responsible for 294,000 jobs in Los Angeles county and an additional 19,400 jobs in neighboring Southern California counties. Detailed information about the economic impact of LAX and the ongoing modernization program can be found in the reports below:
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Char-%gosta 9{ews VOLUME 15, NUMBER 15 neivs publication of the I Saluti ami 'Kootenai 'Tribes \^ ""Vv^^^ of the Ttathead Indian ^ 'J(eseivation THE STORYTELLING MONTH NOVEMBER 14, 1986 BIA announces deadline for MVP consumer council applications The BIA's Flathead Agency announces that the deadline for receipt of letters of interest to serve on the Mission Valley Power consumer council is Friday, Nov. 28. Details follow: The Tribal Council of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes has entered into a contract with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for the operations and management of the > BIA electric power distribution system and one hydroelectric power-generating facility under the authority of Public Law 93-638, the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975. A plan of operations is a part of the contract which describes the operation of the utility. This contract utility is to be operated by the Tribes as Mission Valley Power (MVP). Under the terms of Part VII of the plan of operations, a consumer council is to be appointed by the superintendent of the Flathead Agency. This council is created to provide power consumers with the opportunity to participate in the development of utility policy and schedules, and to hear appeals and complaints brought by consumers arising from implementation of policies and schedules by utility management. The consumer council is composed of seven members, all of whom must be consumers of MVP services. Representation on the consumer council shall be as follows: (1) Two members who reside in the area of Lake County that is within the exterior boundaries of the Flathead Reservation. (2) One member who resides in the area of Sanders County that is within the exterior boundaries of the Rat-head Reservation. (3) One member who resides in the (Concludes on page 2) New life for Hot Springs bathhouse? A delegation of close to 50 senior citizens from Hot Springs met with the Tribal Council on Nov. 7 to discuss the possibility of re-opening the bathhouse there. Spokespersons Sophie Adams and George Plummer presented the Council chairman with the signatures of 368 people in the area and from Canada who were interested in getting the 40-year-old facility back in business. Chairman Ron Therriault noted that while the signatures weren't strictly acceptable as a valid petition, "they are certainly an indication of strong interest by the people of Hot Springs". Going briefly into the bathhouse's history, he said the Tribes has lost over $300,000 since it was built back in the 40's. Keeping the building heated so the pipes wouldn't freeze cost $2,500 a month last winter, he said. "We don't want to subsidize it anymore," he cautioned, "and up to now, we haven't had much support from the Hot Springs government." "Up to now" referred to mayor Ed Anthony's statement that the town was ready to use its resources, such as its maintenance crews, to help the (Concludes on page 2)
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Distributed power generation in New England will triple by 2021, study raises new concerns about ISO-New England
Given the likely uptick in DG DGIT +1.88% capacity, Synapse raised concerns about the planning process used by ISO New England, the regional electric grid operator, for addressing future capacity needs and potential reliability concerns.
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In November 2008, the US Food and Drug Administration issued Draft Guidance for Industry—Process Validation: General Principles and Practices (1). The guidance outlines regulatory expectations for process validation following a "life-cycle concept" that describes a "cradle-to-grave" approach for validating pharmaceutical processes (2). The life-cycle approach builds upon the results of experimental activities during development to define operating parameters and product specifications that are used in initial and ongoing process qualification. The life-cycle concept provides a robust means for the development, manufacture, and control of pharmaceutical products.
The guidance document covers validation largely at a conceptual level and avoids narrow precepts and specific examples. This approach is appropriate because the document addresses the subject from active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) production (by either chemical synthesis or biological processes) through drug-product production for all pharmaceutical dosage forms. The intended breadth of coverage embraces a myriad of unit operations in the preparation and manufacture of these products. Unstated is whether the draft guidance is intended to be applied to supportive processes that are not an inherent part of the formulation process. Among the support processes are cleaning, inspection, sterilization, and aseptic processing. Each of these processes can be an essential part of pharmaceutical manufacture that requires validation.
Basics of the draft guidanceThe draft guidance recommends a defined and structured approach for process-validation activities within an organization. During the design and development stage, experiments should define the relationship between the independent process parameters and the dependent product attributes. These studies should be conducted in a predefined manner, and the results should be documented for later reference. The goal of process development is the attainment of knowledge regarding the process–product relationships to support later commercial production. The greater the knowledge accumulated at this early period, the more assurance the firm will have that it can successfully launch and maintain the process at a commercial scale. From a compliance perspective, this approach makes excellent sense; the knowledge gained during preclinical and clinical-stage experimentation provides a way to link clinical data obtained at the smaller scales with data from the later production process. A well-developed process is one for which the critical process parameters have been identified and control ranges for each have been established (3). The development experiments should evaluate the interaction between the independent and dependent variables until the results of the process are predictable and routinely acceptable. Multifactorial experiments can assess the relationships between the variables and build knowledge about the process's limitations. The experiments performed at a smaller scale establish the acceptable ranges for the various independent process parameters. Thus, when the process is operated under the appropriate conditions, operators have substantially greater confidence that the desired quality attributes of the product will be realized. The acceptability of the end result is ascertained using samples of the completed materials.
Initial and ongoing qualification of production processes are the means for establishing and confirming the experimental experience at significantly larger scales of operation. Knowledge gleaned from the development simplifies later activities. Production processes are always operated within the defined operating ranges because there is no reason to experiment with conditions at the extreme ends of the ranges on this larger scale. Challenges during these stages are primarily in the number of tests performed on the produced materials. Qualification lots are customarily sampled at a substantially higher rate than are routine production lots, and testing of these expanded samples is the challenge of the commercial process. The guidance recommends using appropriate statistical tools in the full-scale qualification efforts to provide the desired confidence in process and product acceptability and thus attain the desired validated state. The expectations for statistical evidence in process validation are well founded; sampling batches at the modest levels associated with pharmacopeial tests provide little, if any, proof of end-product quality. Although those tests may be legally binding, they have only limited value. Industry has largely ignored the levels of "real quality" needed to support its claims for patient welfare (4).


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Congrats to Moyes
... and where do the Bluenoses go for here?Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
I think it is more then fair to say, Man United have a worse manager next season and without doubt, so do Everton. Win, win. I don't know about next season but without big investment, I think it is fair to say Everton are looking at a slide down the table.
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I agree with that, but think their best hope is to bring in Martinez who I think is about their only hope of keeping the better players they have, and keeping them at least in the top half. But got a feeling no matter who is in charge their will be a clear out of staff at Goodison.
Baines off, Fellaini off - I think you could be right! Hopefully Spurs wont get in the CL so there's 30 goals for them worse off. Top four here we come!


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Saturday, Feb. 11 • 1 p.m. CT
American Bank Center (8,100) • Corpus Christi, Texas
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Texas A&M - Corpus Christi returns to the friendly confines of Stripes Court at the American Bank Center for the first time in two weeks when it takes on Sam Houston State on Saturday at 1 p.m. The contest will be a crucial one in the Southland Conference standings, as the two squads are currently tied for seventh in the league, with six teams currently battling for the final two spots in the conference tournament.
Saturday's contest will also be the annual Hoops for Blue Scholars game, with every basket the Islanders score resulting in donations to the One Hundred Club Scholarship. The scholarship benefits Corpus Christi police officers and their family in earning an education at the Island University.
The Islanders have lost four in a row, including three losses on their recent week-long road trip. SHSU has lost five of six, dating back to the last time these two teams played in Huntsville on Jan. 21. The Islanders took that contest, 50-49, on a buzzer-beating jumper by Hameed Ali.
• In what was a lackluster performance for most of the team, Myron Dempsey had a strong contest at Savannah State. The junior had his third double-double of the season, scoring 14 points and snaring 11 boards. He is shooting .530 from the field in the last nine.
• Chris Hawkins-Mast had one of his best games in an Islanders uniform with 21 points and a career-best 16 boards on Feb. 4 at NW State. The 16 rebounds were the most since Demond Watt had 16 against Texas A&M last year.
• Terence Jones moved into 10th place on the Islanders' all-time scoring list (793) last time out. He has three 20-point games in his last five and has averaged 20.6 points over that span.
• Jason Smith had a career-best 12 points at Northwestern State, going 4-of-8 from the field.
• Texas A&M – Corpus Christi has overcome large second-half deficits in each of its last two wins. The Islanders came back from down 16 points (40-24) with 15 minutes left against Sam Houston, and rallied from a 10-point deficit (58-48) with 10 remaining against Texas State.
• Freshman Johnathan Jordan is poised to have an opportunity to break the school record for assists (Brian Evans, 132 in 2002-03). He became the 11th Islander to top 100 in a season last time out.
Sam Houston State sits in a tie with the Islanders for seventh place in the Southland, with Saturday's contest being a significant one. The Islanders have already clinched the tiebreaker with the Bearkats, so a victory would give them a virtual two-game lead in the standings. SHSU has just three games left against West Division opponents this year.
Four players average in double figures for SHSU, with three-point specialist Konner Tucker leading the way at 12.0 per game. Marcus James (7.0) and Steven Werner (6.0) lead the team on the boards.
Three players finished in double figures for the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi men's basketball team, but Savannah State (14-10) forced 17 turnovers with its press defense to post a 55-49 victory over the Islanders on Monday at Tiger Arena. Myron Dempsey had a double-double with 14 points and 11 boards in the loss.
Hameed Ali scored 11 points and added a pair of steals for the Islanders (4-19). Terence Jones had a relatively quiet night with 10 points, but moved into 10th on the Islanders all-time scoring list, passing Aaron White (2002-06). The junior now has 793 points in his Islanders career.
Historically, Texas A&M - Corpus Christi has struggled with Sam Houston State, holding a 5-9 record against the Bearkats in the Islanders era. The Islanders are even with SHSU at home, but in Johnson Coliseum, they are just 2-5.
Earlier this year, the Islanders overcame a 16-point second half deficit as Hameed Ali's jumper with 0.3 on the clock lifted them to a 50-49 win over SHSU. A&M - Corpus Christi also knocked off the Bearkats at Dugan Wellness Center last year, 70-68, in a game that featured 10 ties and 17 lead changes.
Junior Terence Jones etched his name in the school record book at Savannah State, as his 10 points moved him into 10th place on the Islanders all-time scoring list (793 points). He still needs 170 points to pass Thomas Bailey for ninth.
Recently, he has been red hot, posting three 20-point games in his last five. Jones netted a career-high 33 points against Texas State on 9-of-18 shooting and 13-of-14 from the line. The 33 points were the most by an Islanders player since Kevin Palmer scored 35 against UT Arlington on March 12, 2009.
He showed it was no fluke in the Stephen F. Austin contest, posting another 9-for-18 performance in which he scored 20 points. He added 21 at Northwestern State, going 5-of-7 from the outside, for his fourth 20-point outing of the season and the fifth of his career. He now sits in sixth in the conference at 14.3 points per contest.
Jones now has 131 career threes, putting him fourth in Islanders lore. He is only 38 away from the school record.
The Islanders recently wrapped up quite a journey last week, as they played three road games over a span of six days. It is also the middle of a stretch where they play five of six and seven of nine away from the Coastal Bend.
The Islanders covered 2,178 air miles in addition to 500-plus miles of bus travel (mostly between Thibodaux and Natchitoches) during the trip.
Junior college transfer Myron Dempsey has been an impact player on both ends for the Islanders this season. The long, athletic rebounder is currently third in the Southland Conference with his 7.7 rebounds per game.
On Monday against Savannah State, he snapped a cold string with his third double-double of the season, scoring 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting and pulling down 11 rebounds. His finest outing of the season came in the upset win over Utah State, when he delivered a clutch double-double, scoring 16 points and snaring a career-high 15 caroms.
He is second on the team in blocks (20) and tied for the lead in steals (28) as well. He has also improved from the field over the last several games, going 35-for-66 (.530) the last nine contests after shooting just 5-for-19 over the prior two. He delivered a 6-for-11 performance from the field against Texas State, scoring 12 points and adding eight boards.
Looking closer at the stats, it is amazing to see just how Dempsey has collected his points this year. The St. Petersburg, Fla., native has scored a total of 204 points. Of those, 158 (77 percent) have come from in the paint, including 79 of his 88 field goals. He hit two shots from outside the paint against Texas State, his only time this year with more than one.


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Saturday, January 26, 2013
AIKEN, S.C. – For the second time this season, the University of South Carolina Aiken men's basketball team posted 100 or more points in a game in a 100-82 Peach Belt Conference victory over Francis Marion on Saturday evening at the Convocation Center.
USC Aiken (12-5, 8-2 PBC) has now claimed four straight wins over Francis Marion (6-9, 2-7 PBC). The Pacers are 2-0 against the Patriots this season as they also claimed a 108-79 victory over Francis Marion on Dec. 17 in Florence, S.C.
The Pacers with the victory now have sole possession of first place in the Peach Belt Conference East Division.
The contest was close in the first half with USC Aiken taking a narrow 42-41 lead into the halftime break. The first half was a 3-pointer bonanza with the two teams combining to hit 17 of the 31 field goals in the opening half from beyond the arc.
USC Aiken opened the second half on a 28-11 run over the course of the first nine and a half minutes to place the game out of reach for Francis Marion.
The Pacers would eventually go on to outscore the Patriots, 58-41, in the second stanza en route to their 18-point victory.
USC Aiken closed out the win over Francis Marion shooting 56.7 percent (34-for-60) as a team. Francis Marion shot 29-for-63 (46 percent) from the field in its loss to the Pacers.
The Pacers knocked down 14 3-pointers in the game. They shot 51.9 percent (14-for-27) from beyond the arc. Francis Marion shot 46.7 percent (14-for-30) from beyond the arc in the game.
USC Aiken shot 78.3 percent (18-for-23) from the free throw line in the game. Francis Marion connected on 10 of its 11 (90.9 percent) of its free throw attempts in the contest.
Five Pacers finished in double figures in the game with Jesse Seilern (Innsbruck, Austria/Kapfenberg HS) leading the way with a career-high tying and game-high tying 21 points. Seilern also had five rebounds, three assists, one steal and one block in the game.
Ronald Zimmerman (Columbia, S.C./Spring Valley HS) nailed six 3-pointers in claiming 18 points in the Pacer win.
On a night in which he was honored for becoming the 10th player to score over 1,000 points in USC Aiken's NCAA Division II history, Re'mon Nelson (Columbus, Ohio/Canal Winchester HS) finished with 17 points, six assists and six rebounds.
The six dimes in the game by Nelson moved him to within nine of becoming USC Aiken's all-time leader in assists. Already USC Aiken's all-time leader in steals, Nelson now has 431 assists in his career.
USC Aiken's Kinley Branch (Stone Mountain, Ga./Arkansas State) was 6-for-9 from the floor in claiming 16 points.
The final Pacer in double figures was DeVontae Wright (Goose Creek, S.C./The Citadel), who tied his Pacer career high with 15 points. He just missed on a double-double as he also had a Pacer career-best nine assists.
Dustin Jones and Evrik Gary both led Francis Marion in its loss with a game-high tying 21 points each.
USC Aiken has now won 24 of his last 25 regular-season home games.
The Pacers will next play host to league foe Flagler at the Convocation Center on Thursday, Jan. 31. Tip-off in the contest is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.


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LITTLETON, Colo. (February 8, 2013)--Some Republicans have been softening their tone on immigration since November, after years of tacking right to appeal to grass-roots activists who dominate voting in the primaries.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, for example, opposed the DREAM Act, which would have provided a path to citizenship for certain immigrants brought here as youths, but on Tuesday, the conservative leader backed that idea.
Last fall, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney won only 27 percent support from Hispanics and even less from Asians.
An AP-GFK poll last month showed that 62 percent of voters wanted to let otherwise law-abiding illegal immigrants eventually become citizens, up 12 percentage points from 2010.


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If you're like most people, you probably don't know your license plate number, but chances are your local police department does.
There's new technology available in cop cars called Automatic License Plate Readers.
Police say they help fight crime, but drivers say it's an invasion of privacy.
Meridian Township Police was the first in the area to get the technology back in 2009 through a grant. They helped four other local agencies get the devices as well. The data collection is more wide spread that way, which has police happy and people concerned.
"It's an extra tool in the toolbox, so to speak, for us," Ingham County Sheriff's Office Lt. Vern Elliott said.
The tool doesn't require officers to life a finger though.
"It runs by itself and basically what it does is it takes a picture of the license plate, and it checks for stolen plates," Lt. Elliott said.
The Automatic License Plate Readers record the data as officers drive - up to thousands of plates in one day - and it's entered into the National Crime Information Computer to compare against the "hot list" for stolen cars, outstanding warrants, and other crimes.
"As we're driving through parking lots, it can read plates in driveways as we drive by," Lt. Elliott said. "It's much easier, it's much quicker, and it stores the data a lot more easier than the old-fashioned way."
Some drivers would prefer the old fashioned way though.
"I think it's ridiculous," Brandon Packer said. "I don't think it's fair."
Police vehicles have three or four cameras installed that can read a plate no matter which direction a car is coming. Law experts say they understand why people are concerned, but law enforcement aren't violating the constitution.
"I have some concerns about the amount of data that's being stored," Cooley Law School Professor Patrick Corbett said. "Where are they going to store it, how are they going to use it? For the average American who's doing their best to get by, do you really want data stored on you? At the same time, isn't that the world we're in right now? The internet world with all sorts of data out there on us."
Police are still answering some of those questions themselves. Several local agencies don't have a strict set of guidelines for how much or how long data is stored. The Lansing Police Department has three automatic readers, but only in test phases until they figure out those issues.
"We won't release them or have our officers use them until we have a policy and procedure in place with the department," Lansing Police Officer Robert Merritt said.
Lansing police plan to get three more and have them all on the road sometime in September after all the officers go through training.
MSU Public Safety and the East Lansing Police Department use the devices as well.
Meridian Township Police say the automatic readers have helped them catch criminals, but there's still work to be done with the technology. They hope to get all the agencies together to discuss a set of procedures.
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The Warriors swept the Wolverines 16-1 and 22-3 at Whittell on Saturday. The Warriors' defense was sharp behind starting pitcher Amanda Harris, and the offense took care of the rest.
In Game 1, Harris was nearly unhittable. She opened the game with an 11-pitch first inning to retire the side.
"Amanda was really strong. She came out and threw the simple pitches and she did what she needed to do to get it done," catcher Emily Harris said. "She was just throwing hard today, and they couldn't catch up."
Amanda Harris struck out seven, walked one and limited Truckee to one hit and one run in four innings of work.
Whittell's Gianna Miller broke open the game with a leadoff single, and Brianna Brewer blasted her home. Amanda Harris came home on an error, and the Warriors took a 2-0 lead.
The young Truckee team hung in for two innings, briefly making the score 2-1 in the top of the second.
Truckee's sophomore pitcher Sylvia Soto contained the Warriors' powerful lineup to another two in the second inning, but by the third inning the game was out of hand.
Katie Fisher produced Truckee's lone hit, a leadoff single to open the second inning. Diana Rosas hit Fisher home on a groundout to short.
Soto pitched a complete game for the Wolverines. The sophomore right-hander was throwing accurately, but the Warriors' bats were making Truckee's defense work.
The Warriors added six runs in the third and another six runs in the fourth.
Whittell freshman Kelsey Kjer took the mound in the final inning and retired the side looking.
Game 2 looked similar to Game 1. Again Amanda Harris and Soto faced off on the mound, and again the Warriors' bats put the pressure on Truckee's defense.
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BARTOW | A Kissimmee man who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in his ex-girlfriend's fatal stabbing was sentenced Thursday to life imprisonment.
Steven Louis, 29, stabbed Nicole Fields of Orlando and dumped her body in a wooded area on the Polk County side of Poinciana. Her body was discovered in November 2011.
"Forgiveness is from the family — if they can do that," Circuit Judge Michael Raiden told Louis at the conclusion of the nearly four-hour hearing. "Forgiveness gives a different kind of freedom I cannot provide."
Louis and Fields had a daughter together. His arrest report says the couple argued because he was behind on child support payments, and their argument turned violent.
Her mother reported her missing Nov. 3, 2011, which began a search by law enforcement. The next day, Monroe County deputies found Louis driving her 1994 Oldsmobile Cutlass and he refused to pull over.
After members of the Fields family testified at the hearing, Louis spoke, standing before the judge in a creased orange jail uniform. He lowered his head, bandaged from an injury he received in jail, and read a statement that addressed Fields' family and his own family, seated in the courtroom.
The moment he stabbed Nicole Fields, he said, he "blacked out and an evil spirit came upon me."
"I didn't know who the hell I was or what I was doing," he said at another point in the statement. "That doesn't mean I didn't love her."
The couple met in an Osceola County work release program and promised to stay together. He recalled nights in hotel rooms of friends, getting a hotel room of their own and finally moving into an apartment, turning "something from nothing."
After the killing, he drove to Key West, where an officer tried to pull him over for a traffic violation. He refused to stop, instead driving the vehicle off a pier. As the vehicle filled with water, he said, he tried to stab himself with a knife.
"I wanted to be with her," he said, "but I guess God had other plans."
Judge Raiden asked him why he used "rage" to describe his actions.
"What were you mad about?" he asked.
"I guess what was going on in our relationship," he said, without giving specifics.
Nicole Fields' father, John Fields of West Virginia, also testified. He looked at Louis, seated feet away, and at times directly addressed him. He described the devastation his daughter's death caused the family, called him a monster and suggested a knife in her car had been put there by Nicole because she feared for her safety.
"That was my knife," Louis said. A bailiff quickly hushed him.
"Yeah, boy, gets under your skin now," John Fields said.
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The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center honored two civil rights leaders.
The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and columnist Nicholas Kristof received The International Freedom Conductor Award at a ceremony at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center Saturday night.
Shuttlesworth helped dismantle segregation in different American cities. He received the award posthumously.
Kristof wrote about the evils of human trafficking around the world for the New York Times.
"I think we tend to think slavery ended in 1865 and what really struck me as a journalist reporting around the world was (the) many situations that looked like 19th-century slavery here in America," Kristof said.


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EDWARDS - Battle Mountain soccer defeated Eagle Valley, 4-0, Thursday night in Edwards, but the scoreboard read 15-0 after the game.
Battle Mountain's win puts the 2012 team in the history books. This year's Huskies are the first boys soccer team at the school to go a perfect 15-0 during the regular season. (The Battle Mountain girls soccer team did it in 2008.)
"Any time you get on a roll like this, there's a tendency for people to forget how difficult it is," said Huskies coach David Cope, who's done double duty in the fall and spring since 2003. "There are a lot of ways it can go wrong. If it was easy, people would do it all the time. We're really proud of these guys as we were the girls' team. We know that the playoffs present a whole new challenge. There'll be a hungry team coming here on Thursday."
The Huskies are assured of a home game Thursday at a time to be determined. Battle Mountain finds out its opponent Sunday as all will likely be clicking the refresh button early and often on their computers and smart phones on chsaa.org.
The bigger question is what number the seed will be? Battle Mountain has never been higher than No. 5 (2005), and the distinction between Nos. 4 and 5 is huge. The Huskies, who started the year in The Denver Post Poll at No. 8 and are holding down the second spot, would desperately love to get into the top four.
Seed Nos. 1-4, if they win, get home games for the first three rounds of the 32-team tournament before the state playoffs head down to Denver for the semifinals and finals. The importance of home field? Battle Mountain has only one win in the state tournament on the road, Conifer in 2005, dating back to its 3A days in 1998, the beginning of 15-straight postseason appearances for the team.
"I think we're deserving of a top-four (seed)," Cope said. "That would put us in Edwards, Colorado, which is where we like to be."
The "Edwards, Colorado" reference, to which Cope alluded, is relevant because the town appears on the back of the Huskies' new 4A Slope championship sweatshirts. Battle Mountain's players and coaches, all garbed in the new hoodies, gathered underneath the scoreboard which displayed "15-0" to celebrate after the game.
All involved jumped up and down while singing "Ole."
"It's pretty exciting," said senior goalie Christian Espinoza, who has backstopped a superb defense all season. "As a team, we see that we're something bigger. We're united. We care for each other. We try to respect each other."
Another item on the sweatshirts is the phrase, "Kyle's last stand," speaking of assistant coach Kyle Mercer, who is leaving the team after what it hopes is a long run into November.
"It's so fun," said senior Joe LyBarger, who had two goals Thursday night. "We're hoping for five more. As Kyle always said, it's 'The Promised Land.' We have to get there. Every game is just another dress rehearsal before the big show. We're just trying to work our way up and get better every day."
And in answer to a pressing question, it doesn't take a LyBarger, according to Joe, for a Battle Mountain team to go 15-0. Two of LyBarger's older sisters, Emily and Maddie, were on the 2008 15-0 squad.
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Eagle Valley did not go gentle into the good night Thursday. The Huskies got a lead in the ninth minute when Broby Leeds hooked up with LyBarger. The Devils (5-10) kept it 1-0 into the second half.
"We were in the game for (80) minutes, including playing with one man down," said Eagle Valley coach Bratzo Horruitiner, who finished his first season at the helm of the program. "(Battle Mountain) is a great team. They controlled the ball well and they don't make mistakes. I think our players are showing progress every week."
Down 2-0 - LyBarger again, this time from Roberto Diaz - the Devils got their best scoring chance as both Eagle Valley's Alan Caraveo and Espinoza contested for a ball in front of Battle Mountain's goal.
They collided, causing a scary moment for both teams and sparking some controversy. Caraveo left the game and appeared to be being treated for a concussion. Espinoza stayed in the game.
"I was just focused on the ball," Espinoza said. "I wasn't focused on my surroundings. My mouth still hurts."
While the trainer was attending to Caraveo and Espinoza. Eagle Valley's Angelo Vasquez and Battle Mountain's Chris Shea started jawing at each other. They had to be separated during the stoppage.
Minutes later, the two were at it again near the west sideline. The refs saw Vasquez throw a right hook which hit Shea, and the former was red-carded. Eagle Valley's bench argued vehemently that Shea should have received the same, but to no avail.
Battle Mountain iced the game with goals by David Suarez and Heivan Garcia.
Halftime felt like a football Homecoming game as the Huskies were honoring their 13 seniors. The members of Battle Mountain soccer's Class of 2013 are Espinoza, Leeds, Shea, Suarez, LyBarger, Diego Rodriguez, Gunnar Wilson, Erick Briones, Kevin Gillie, Sarawut Yubonmai, Nigel Johnsen, Garcia and Jimmy O'Rourke.
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Happy Birthday, Monica Sone
While much more literature on the subject is in print today, teachers still assign readings from Nisei Daughter, perhaps because of the approachable voice of the author, who recalls her childhood and adolescence with good humor. The University of Washington catalogue entry for Asian American literature about the Northwest traces the shift in Sone's tone between the initial publication in the 50s and her foreword for the 1979 edition.
The UW library posted a chapter from Sone's book, about arriving at their Puyallup "assembly center," dubbed Camp Harmony (see the library's online exhibit). Amidst the "quiet hysteria" of the first days in camp, Sone reflects on her situation:
What was I doing behind a fence like a criminal? If there were accusations to be made, why hadn't I been given a fair trial? Maybe I wasn't considered an American anymore. My citizenship wasn't real, after all. Then what was I? I was certainly not a citizen of Japan as my parents were. On second thought, even Father and Mother were more alien residents of the United States than Japanese nationals for they had little tie with their mother country. In their twenty-five years in America, they had worked and paid their taxes to their adopted government as any other citizen.
Of one thing I was sure. The wire fence was real. I no longer had the right to walk out of it. It was because I had Japanese ancestors. It was also because some people had little faith in the ideas and ideals of democracy.
Thank you, Mrs. Sone, for your seminal contribution to J.A. literature. Happy birthday!
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- Betty MacDonald Fan Club said...
Did you know that Betty MacDonald was a good friend of Monica Sone and supported her to write Nisei Daughter? Betty MacDonald described her as Kimi in her book
The Plague and I.
Monica Sone has fans all over the world and she really deserves it.
Monica Sone
- September 2, 2009 at 12:33 AM
- Patricia said...
Thanks for the comment. I didn't know Monica Sone and Betty MacDonald were friends. A bit of Northwest literary history there.
- September 3, 2009 at 12:54 PM
- Cousin Debbie said...
Wikipedia lists Monica's birth date as Dec. 21, 1919. I wonder which date is correct?
- December 11, 2009 at 10:58 PM
- Betty MacDonald Fan Club said...
It's September 1, 1919.
Today is Monica Sone's 91th birthday!
Happy Birthday, Monica Sone!
- August 31, 2010 at 11:11 PM
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Monica Sone, author of Nisei Daughter, Betty MacDonald's friend, described as Kimi in The Plague and I, honour member of Betty MacDonald Fan Club and Betty MacDonald Society
Our very beloved Betty MacDonald Fan Club Honor member, Monica Sone passed away Monday in Aultman Hospital, Canton, OH at the age of 92.
We are very sad.
All our love to Monica Sone's family.
- September 7, 2011 at 4:34 AM
- Betty MacDonald Fan Club said...
The most touching Netty MacDonald Fan Club Paralympics Event London 2012 was Monica Sone Memorial.
So many international Monica Sone and Betty MacDonald fans joined us.
All our love to Moncia Sone, her family, friends and many fans,
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Feb. 13, 2012 -- Whitney Houston's death at age 48 is reportedly the result of drug and alcohol abuse.
Houston had entered addiction treatment at least three times. Each effort at recovery was followed by relapse.
Why do people with addictions so often relapse? What is addiction, and what does it mean to recover?
WebMD asked two experts in the field: Ihsan Salloum, MD, MPH, professor of psychiatry and chief of the division of alcohol and drug abuse at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine; and Bruce Goldman, LCSW, director of substance abuse services at Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, N.Y.
What Is Addiction?
Experts think of addiction as a long-lasting, often relapsing brain disease, Salloum says.
"It is a chronic disease. It is an ongoing illness," Salloum tells WebMD. "People can recover, but they are always at risk of relapse."
Imaging studies document changes in the brains of people addicted to various substances. The brain's pleasure/reward circuit is affected.
"The drug hijacks those circuits," Salloum says.
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Most of us are familiar with 12-step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous. Such programs, which offer intensive community support, can be very effective.
But ultimately, the most effective addiction treatment varies from person to person, says substance abuse treatment expert Goldman.
"Treatment is a very personal choice," Goldman tells WebMD. "Nowadays there are many options: medications, individual psychotherapy, group therapy, family therapy, behavior modification therapy, contingency management, a whole menu of choices, including self-help groups and meetings, that are very helpful to many people."
What works best?
"Addiction treatment can take whatever form is best for an individual," Goldman says. "We understand it is not one size fits all. And the treatment community has worked hard to customize treatment to each person's particular needs."
Salloum says that medications, some targeted to specific addictive substances, can help reduce cravings and make other forms of treatment more effective.
But ultimately, Goldman says, the best predictor of treatment success is how long an addicted person stays in treatment.
"My message is, it is important to get help and stay in help as long as possible," he says. "The longer people stay in treatment, the better their chances."
Salloum notes that even inpatient treatment often is too short. Many insurers reimburse only for a 28-day course of inpatient treatment, but he says a 90-day inpatient treatment course offers better odds of recovery.


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A few months ago, I wrote about "X4500 + Solaris ZFS + iSCSI = Perfect Video Editing Storage". And thanks to you, my readers, it became one of my most popular blog entries. Then I wrote about "VirtualBox and ZFS: The Perfect Team", which turned out to be another very popular blog article. Well, I'm glad to introduce you to another perfect team now: Solaris ZFS and Mac OS X Time Machine.
Actually, it began a long time ago: In December '06, Ben Rockwood wrote about the beauty of ZFS and iSCSI integration, and immediatley I thought "That's the perfect solution to back up my Mac OS X PowerBook!" No more strings attached, just back up over WLAN to a really good storage device that lives on Solaris ZFS, while still using the Mac OS X native file system peculiarities. But Apple didn't have an iSCSI initiator yet (they still don't have one now) and the only free iSCSI initiator I could find was buggy, unstable and didn't like Solaris targets at all.
Then, Apple announced their Time Machine technology. Many people thought that this was related to them supporting ZFS and in fact, it's easy to believe that Time Machine's travels back in time are supported by ZFS snapshots. But they aren't. In reality, it's just a clever use of hardlinks. And not a very efficient one, too: Whenever a file changes, the whole file gets backed up again, even if you just changed a little bit of it.
Last week, a colleague of mine told me that Studio Networks Solutions had updated their globalSAN iSCSI Initiator software for Mac OS X and that it now works well with Solaris iSCSI targets. I decided to give it another try. So, here are two ZFS ZVOLs sitting on my OpenSolaris 2008.05 home server:
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-bash-3.2$ zfs list -rt volume
santiago/volumes/aperturevault 6.50G 631G 6.50G -
santiago/volumes/mbptm 193G 631G 193G -
They have both been shared as iSCSI targets through a single
zfs set shareiscsi=on santiago/volumes command, thanks to ZFS' attribute inheritance:
-bash-3.2$ zfs get shareiscsi santiago/volumes
santiago/volumes shareiscsi on local
-bash-3.2$ zfs get shareiscsi santiago/volumes/aperturevault
santiago/volumes/aperturevault shareiscsi on inherited from santiago/volumes
-bash-3.2$ zfs get shareiscsi santiago/volumes/mbptm
santiago/volumes/mbptm shareiscsi on inherited from santiago/volumes
On the Mac side, they show up in the globalSAN GUI just nicely:
And Disk Utility can format them perfectly as if they were real disks:
Time Machine happily accepted one of the iSCSI disks and synced more than 190GB to it just fine and as I type these lines, Aperture is busy syncing more than 40GB of photos to the other iSCSI disk (it wouldn't accept a network share). Sometimes, they're busy working simultaneously :).
Of course, iSCSI performance heavily depends on network performance, so for larger transfers, a cable connection is mandatory. But the occasional Time Machine or Aperture sync in the background runs just fine over WLAN.
So finally, Solaris and Mac fans can have a Time Machine based on ZFS, with real data integrity, redundancy, robustness, two different ways of travelling through time (ZVOLs can be snapshotted just like regular ZFS file systems) and much more.
Many thanks to Christiano for letting me know and to the guys at Studio Network Solutions for making this possible. And of course to the ZFS team for a wonderful piece of open storage software!


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The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi Baseball team will travel to San Marcos this weekend for a three-game set against former Southland Conference member Texas State starting on Friday. The games are set for 6:30 p.m. on Friday, 2 p.m. on Saturday and a 1 p.m. first pitch on Sunday.
The Islanders (9-7) earned a midweek victory over the Bobcats (5-12) earlier in the year. Texas A&M – Corpus Christi is coming off of a 1-2 weekend against Houston, falling in a tight 3-1 game on Sunday in the rubber match, while Texas State went 0-5 in three games against No. 4 Oregon State and a midweek pair against No. 16 Oregon on a road trip through the Pacific Northwest.
In the single game at Chapman Field on Feb. 26, the Islanders earned a 7-3 final as Trevor Belicek picked up his first collegiate win, pitching 3.1 innings while giving up just three hits and no runs while striking out three and walking none. Belicek has since moved into the weekend rotation, earning his second win against the Houston Cougars last Saturday on the road. Trevor Foss will start against Kyle Finnegan on Friday, Belicek will go against Taylor Black on Saturday and Adam Hoelscher will get the ball against Scott Grist in the series finale on Sunday.
Zach Taylor leads the team in batting average, hitting .391 on the year coming into the series. Kyle Danford is second on the team at .351, Eric Weiss is hitting .339 and Jordan Lee rounds out the group above .300 with a .328 season batting average. Jonathan Gonzales is fifth on the list at .274, but the first baseman showed flashes of his form from last year with a two-home run game in the Islanders 9-3 win over Houston, hitting two towering shots over the left field fence for his first two of 2013.
Andrew Stumph leads Texas State with a .308 batting average, while Garrett Mattlage is hitting .294 and Tyler Pearson is at .289 as the top three hitters on the Bobcats squad.
Live stats and audio for all three games will be available by visiting www.GoIslanders.com, while live video for the series can be viewed through www.TXStateBobcats.com.
For all the latest on Islanders Baseball, like the team on Facebook (Islanders Baseball) and follow them on Twitter (@CorpusBaseball).


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News 12 at 6 o'clock / Friday, Sept. 28, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- An Augusta mother says she wants her son's teacher gone. This comes after she says a kindergarten teacher hurt her son and bruised him.
The Richmond County School District is actively investigating the incident. You can read their statement on the incident here (PDF).
Kavonte Walker, 5, is a student at Copeland Elementary School. His mother says he is traumatized.
"I thought maybe another kid had hit him in his eye or something. The principal is like, no, this is something done from the teacher. [She] said that the teacher snatched the towel from under his head and his head hit the desk," said Lakeisha Walker.
It happened Thursday during nap time when Walker says Kavonte's kindergarten teacher pulled the towel to wake him up.
"You don't wake up a child like that, that's not right," Walker said.
Walker says she didn't find out about it until she picked him up from Copeland Elementary at the end of the day.
"Seeing his eye look like that and then me not getting called at the time that it happened; I think I should've been notified when it happened," she said.
She took Kavonte to the hospital after he complained of eye pain and headaches. Photos show some swelling to his right eye and at one point it was bloodshot.
"Well, I would be shocked for it to be anybody's kid, but you would never think it would be your kid," she said.
Now that it is, this frustrated mother says she doesn't want her son stepping a foot in that class again.
"If nothing is going to be done, I'll take him out. I'll take him out," Walker said.
News 12 has since requested the personnel file for the kindergarten teacher, Laurie May.
Walker says Kavonte and his teacher had a great relationship prior to this incident.
The school district has referred the case to the school district attorney. They released a statement Friday afternoon (PDF).
They said the teacher was allowed to go home early on Friday so that the inquiry could be completed. The teacher was said to be fully cooperative.
The statement says:
"After the inquiry, the conclusion of the Department of School Safety & Security and the deputy superintendent is that there was no ill intent involved and the teacher had no intent to harm the student.
As required, DFACS has been notified.
Given the circumstances, the school system will handle the personnel matter internally."
Walker says she will now try another approach, and if nothing else, take her son out of the district.


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A convincing victory
Roger did very well getting past Ivo Karlovic's huge serves today to reach the Wimbledon semifinals with a 6-3, 7-5, 7-6 (3) victory. He is now only two more steps from a record 15th Grand Slam title!
"I love the record I have reaching so many semi-finals in grand slams in a row," said Roger. "Twenty-one, it shows how consistent I have been, how injury-free I have been to be able keep it up for such a long time … to play so well this week, I am really excited."
In a match featuring short points and few rallies, Roger conjured up a few great returns to break the 6-foot-10 Croatian twice. He will now face Tommy Haas in Friday's semifinals. Haas reached his first Wimbledon semifinal by upsetting No. 4 Novak Djokovic 7-5, 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-3 today.
5-4 on serve in the tie breaker Roddick up, 1 set apiece.
Go Andy Roddick.
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Expectations can change when a movie arrives on home video. The buzz accompanying its theatrical release is gone and forgotten, and the money and time needed to track the title down on disc or download have been diminished. This week's home-video releases may benefit from those diminished expectations. At least that's what their distributors hope.
New movies
"The Monuments Men." As a director, mega-star George Clooney has been strangely prone to hits and misses. His latest effort, which tells the true story of a platoon of American soldiers charged with retrieving artwork stolen by the Nazis during World War II, either steers wide of its target or never had a good fix of what its target was in the first place. Matt Damon, John Goodman, Bill Murray and Cate Blanchett aren't much help either. Some critics blasted the film for being too heavy-handed, while others accused it of trying to be too whimsical, the surest indication that the movie is kind of all over the place tonally. Rated PG-13 for some images of war violence and historical smoking. 118 min.
"3 Days to Kill." McG, the director, and Luc Besson, the writer, are accomplished film stylists. This thriller about a CIA assassin trying to reconnect with his daughter while killing bad guys right and left is ridiculous, but because of who's involved with this picture it looks great. And Kevin Costner, as the star, has found the right vehicle for a change, certainly a better one than "Draft Day." He's never less than believable, even when he comes down with some weird brain cloud every time he has the chief baddie in his sights. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some sensuality and language. 117 min.
"Pompeii." It's a two-for-one deal. Not only is this a movie about a disaster, but it's also a disaster of sorts all by itself. A slave named Milo, played by somebody named Kit Harrington, is in a rush to save his lady love when all of a sudden Mount Vesuvius erupts, and the film degenerates into a series of computerized lava balls hurtling toward your eyeballs. "It's a spectacle, all right — but mostly just a lot of people, some of whom should know better, making an utter ash of themselves," wrote The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger's Stephen Whitty. Rated PG-13 for intense battle sequences, disaster-related action and brief sexual content. 105 min.
"About Last Night." The original film from 1986, starring Rob Lowe and Demi Moore, has, perhaps inevitably, become a period piece, usually a sure sign that the property is due for an update. The fact that this remake features an all-black cast unfortunately limited its audience, because it's a real hoot and deserves to be seen. Kevin Hart and Regina Hall, in particular, really knock their performances out of the park. Hart's turn will likely go down as one of the best of the year, or would if comedy got any respect. This update is a good deal raunchier than the '86 flick, and everyone has less hair. Rated R for sexual content, language and brief drug use. 100 min.
Old movies
John Wayne rarely ventured into comedy, and when he did the results were uneven at best. The humor in "McLintock!," from 1963, comes across as mighty awkward today, particularly in its treatment toward women (the film's big climax features Wayne spanking Maureen O'Hara), but Wayne's gravitas is as evident as ever. Blu-ray debut, 127 min. … Whenever German filmmaker Werner Herzog and star Klaus Kinski got together, the results were usually incendiary (they tried to kill each other on one production). Their "Nosferatu the Vampyre," an updating of the classic "Dracula" adaptation from 1922, is very dark, moody and German, fully as it should be. Blu-ray debut, 107 min.
Top 10
Here are this week's most popular DVD rentals, as compiled by the Internet Movie Database – "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," "The Legend of Hercules," "47 Ronin," "Labor Day," "The Wolf of Wall Street," "Homefront," "Frozen," "Delivery Man," "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" and "The Art of the Steal."
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Aliases for AKT1 Gene
Aliases for AKT1 Gene
External Ids for AKT1 Gene
- Entrez Gene: 207
- Ensembl: ENSG00000142208
- UniProtKB: P31749
Previous GeneCards Identifiers for AKT1 Gene
Summaries for AKT1 Gene
The serine-threonine protein kinase encoded by the AKT1 gene is catalytically inactive in serum-starved primary and immortalized fibroblasts. AKT1 and the related AKT2 are activated by platelet-derived growth factor. The activation is rapid and specific, and it is abrogated by mutations in the pleckstrin homology domain of AKT1. It was shown that the activation occurs through phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. In the developing nervous system AKT is a critical mediator of growth factor-induced neuronal survival. Survival factors can suppress apoptosis in a transcription-independent manner by activating the serine/threonine kinase AKT1, which then phosphorylates and inactivates components of the apoptotic machinery. Mutations in this gene have been associated with the Proteus syndrome. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2011]
GeneCards Summary for AKT1 Gene
AKT1 (V-Akt Murine Thymoma Viral Oncogene Homolog 1) is a Protein Coding gene. Diseases associated with AKT1 include proteus syndrome, somatic and cowden syndrome 6. Among its related pathways are Platelet activation, signaling and aggregation and Gene Expression. GO annotations related to this gene include identical protein binding and protein kinase activity. An important paralog of this gene is RPS6KB1.
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot for AKT1 Gene
AKT1 is one of 3 closely related serine/threonine-protein kinases (AKT1, AKT2 and AKT3) called the AKT kinase, and which regulate many processes including metabolism, proliferation, cell survival, growth and angiogenesis. This is mediated through serine and/or threonine phosphorylation of a range of downstream substrates. Over 100 substrate candidates have been reported so far, but for most of them, no isoform specificity has been reported. AKT is responsible of the regulation of glucose uptake by mediating insulin-induced translocation of the SLC2A4/GLUT4 glucose transporter to the cell surface. Phosphorylation of PTPN1 at Ser-50 negatively modulates its phosphatase activity preventing dephosphorylation of the insulin receptor and the attenuation of insulin signaling. Phosphorylation of TBC1D4 triggers the binding of this effector to inhibitory 14-3-3 proteins, which is required for insulin-stimulated glucose transport. AKT regulates also the storage of glucose in the form of glycogen by phosphorylating GSK3A at Ser-21 and GSK3B at Ser-9, resulting in inhibition of its kinase activity. Phosphorylation of GSK3 isoforms by AKT is also thought to be one mechanism by which cell proliferation is driven. AKT regulates also cell survival via the phosphorylation of MAP3K5 (apoptosis signal-related kinase). Phosphorylation of Ser-83 decreases MAP3K5 kinase activity stimulated by oxidative stress and thereby prevents apoptosis. AKT mediates insulin-stimulated protein synthesis by phosphorylating TSC2 at Ser-939 and Thr-1462, thereby activating mTORC1 signaling and leading to both phosphorylation of 4E-BP1 and in activation of RPS6KB1. AKT is involved in the phosphorylation of members of the FOXO factors (Forkhead family of transcription factors), leading to binding of 14-3-3 proteins and cytoplasmic localization. In particular, FOXO1 is phosphorylated at Thr-24, Ser-256 and Ser-319. FOXO3 and FOXO4 are phosphorylated on equivalent sites. AKT has an important role in the regulation of NF-kappa-B-dependent gene transcription and positively regulates the activity of CREB1 (cyclic AMP (cAMP)-response element binding protein). The phosphorylation of CREB1 induces the binding of accessory proteins that are necessary for the transcription of pro-survival genes such as BCL2 and MCL1. AKT phosphorylates Ser-454 on ATP citrate lyase (ACLY), thereby potentially regulating ACLY activity and fatty acid synthesis. Activates the 3B isoform of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE3B) via phosphorylation of Ser-273, resulting in reduced cyclic AMP levels and inhibition of lipolysis. Phosphorylates PIKFYVE on Ser-318, which results in increased PI(3)P-5 activity. The Rho GTPase-activating protein DLC1 is another substrate and its phosphorylation is implicated in the regulation cell proliferation and cell growth. AKT plays a role as key modulator of the AKT-mTOR signaling pathway controlling the tempo of the process of newborn neurons integration during adult neurogenesis, including correct neuron positioning, dendritic development and synapse formation. Signals downstream of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI(3)K) to mediate the effects of various growth factors such as platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), epidermal growth factor (EGF), insulin and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I). AKT mediates the antiapoptotic effects of IGF-I. Essential for the SPATA13-mediated regulation of cell migration and adhesion assembly and disassembly. May be involved in the regulation of the placental development. Phosphorylates STK4/MST1 at Thr-120 and Thr-387 leading to inhibition of its: kinase activity, nuclear translocation, autophosphorylation and ability to phosphorylate FOXO3. Phosphorylates STK3/MST2 at Thr-117 and Thr-384 leading to inhibition of its: cleavage, kinase activity, autophosphorylation at Thr-180, binding to RASSF1 and nuclear translocation. Phosphorylates SRPK2 and enhances its kinase activity towards SRSF2 and ACIN1 and promotes its nuclear translocation. Phosphorylates RAF1 at Ser-259 and negatively regulates its activity. Phosphorylation of BAD stimulates its pro-apoptotic activity. Phosphorylates KAT6A at Thr-369 and this phosphorylation inhibits the interaction of KAT6A with PML and negatively regulates its acetylation activity towards p53/TP53.
AKT1-specific substrates have been recently identified, including palladin (PALLD), which phosphorylation modulates cytoskeletal organization and cell motility; prohibitin (PHB), playing an important role in cell metabolism and proliferation; and CDKN1A, for which phosphorylation at Thr-145 induces its release from CDK2 and cytoplasmic relocalization. These recent findings indicate that the AKT1 isoform has a more specific role in cell motility and proliferation. Phosphorylates CLK2 thereby controlling cell survival to ionizing radiation.
Akt (Protein kinase B, PKB) is a serine/threonine kinase that plays a key in regulating cell survival, insulin signaling, angiogenesis and tumor formation. Akt is a downstream mediator of the PI 3-K pathway, which results in the recruitment of Akt to the plasma membrane.


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Margaret Wozniak, the mother of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, died July 24 at an Oakland care center after a long battle with Alzheimer's. She was 91.
Mother Woz was known for being unapologetically liberal, witty and outspoken. And her daughter, Leslie Wozniak, 62, of Berkeley, proudly recalled that even during the difficult final years, "my mom retained a full vocabulary and an offbeat sense of humor throughout the last decade even though she suffered from advanced Alzheimer's.
"I miss her terribly," said her daughter, a grant adviser for the San Francisco-based Five Bridges Foundation, which serves at-risk youths.
Steve Wozniak, in Minneapolis this week to deliver a speech, wrote lovingly of a mother who was humorous, a great cook and an individual who stressed education to her three children.
"My mother was always there to help," he said in an email. "Her liberal values are part of me. She stood up for honest and caring people."
But did she have a direct effect on the man who changed the world of personal computers?
Well, perhaps in an offbeat, backward way, said her son, who turns 64 on Monday.
"When the Internet came, I didn't want mom to have bad experiences because she might give up on it right away," he wrote. "If I gave her a computer it would probably have modem problems, and the world of networks is not for humans who want life to work. So I didn't ruin her with a computer. I got her WebTV, where she could press one button and the Internet would come up on her TV every time. She even did email and such, every day, for a long time after that."
Leslie Wozniak said her mother's gift to all her kids was "activism."
When Leslie was a student at Homestead High School in Cupertino, her mom attended a sit-in protest of a long-held dress code that applied only for girls.
"She was supportive of taking action," Leslie said.
Politically, Margaret Wozniak started out as a Republican activist but eventually became a staunch Democrat.
Known for her rapier wit, she was quoted in a 1965 newspaper interview as saying, "I don't agree with the people who say you should never discuss religion or politics." She maintained that both were vital and wonderful subjects to talk about.
Born in Washington state
Margaret Elaine Kern Wozniak was born on Jan. 12, 1923, in Vancouver, Washington, a farming community across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon. She lived with her parents, Mary and Edward Kern, and Bob and Marilyn, her siblings. All of them played musical instruments and later her famous son would take up the guitar.
Margaret Kern graduated from Washington State University and soon became the publicity director of the California Wine Institute. In 1949, she married Jerry Wozniak, of Pasadena, and their first child, Steven, was born Aug. 11, 1950.
By 1958, the family had moved to Sunnyvale, where Jerry became an electrical engineer for Lockheed Missiles & Space. He spent many happy hours teaching his precocious 8-year-old son to build crystal and ham radios.
By that time Mom was working on political campaigns at state, local and national levels. She championed women's rights and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women's Fund in Santa Clara Valley.
She was also a major donor to Planned Parenthood and the Southern Poverty Law Center, among many other local and national nonprofits. And she was a founder and board member of the Sunnyvale Council for the Arts and the Sunnyvale Community Players. In 1987, she was named one of 100 most powerful people in Silicon Valley by the San Jose Mercury News.
Leslie Wozniak said her mother took great pride in all of her children's accomplishments but especially liked telling stories of the time preceding Apple, when she hosted Steve Jobs and her son at home.
"She did not relish the role of housekeeper," Leslie said of her mother, who was miffed when she was portrayed in the television movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" wearing an apron.
"Having never owned an apron," Leslie said, "she didn't appreciate the connotation."
Mark Wozniak, 59, Margaret's youngest child, laughed as he recalled his mom not liking or trusting a young layabout, Steve Jobs. He didn't shower, went barefoot and appeared to be "a bad influence" on her Steve.
"My mom commonly referred to him as 'Steve Job-less,' and she didn't think he was going to amount to anything," Mark said, laughing.
Mark, a high-tech executive who lives in Menlo Park, said his mother was "funny, very social, friendly and remarkably popular."
And she could also be persuasive -- like the time she talked the Secret Service into allowing her to take a soft doll of Bill Clinton into a political gathering. Once inside, she got Clinton to autograph the doll and to pose for a picture with her and the doll.
Treasure trove
In 1996, she received a community award from De Anza College, where she had been a member of the board of the California History Center Foundation.
Martha Kanter, former De Anza president and district chancellor, told the story from the late '90s about her neighbor Margaret moving out of her house in Cupertino. Kanter said Margaret had encountered "all the stuff left behind in Steve's old bedroom" that no one wanted -- including Steve, who by then lived in Los Gatos.
Kanter sent a truck over and filled it with some "iconic jewels of Silicon Valley," including the sketches of the original Apple logo, classic motherboards, a Lisa computer, Apples I and IIe, and a blue book filled with handwritten "code" for an early mouse device.
"All of it today is an amazing public display in the middle of the advanced technology center at De Anza," Kanter said.
Margaret Wozniak's final volunteer work was to serve on the board of Parents Helping Parents in Santa Clara Valley, an organization for parents of developmentally challenged children. The onset of Alzheimer's ended her public work.
To this day, Steve Wozniak credits his mom with his all-around personal development.
er fondness for the arts and many parts of life that were non-technical is where that part of me comes from," he wrote. "I have been a supporter of the arts in San Jose and have been in many musicals and plays and even ballets. I always wanted computers to be usable by someone like my mom."
Contact David E. Early at 408-920-5836.


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Definition of gumbo in English:
noun (plural gumbos)[mass noun]
1North American Okra, especially the gelatinous pods used in cooking.
Example sentences
- Call it gumbo, bamya, lady's fingers, bhindi, quingombo or a half-dozen other names, okra is an annual vegetable usually thought of as a Southern plant.
1.1(In Cajun cooking) a spicy chicken or seafood soup thickened typically with okra or rice.
Example sentences
- This Aberdonian favourite specialises in seafood recipes from around the world - gumbos, chowders, fishcakes, the works - using every imaginable fresh Scottish seafood, including halibut, sole, wolf fish, turbot, lobster and crab.
- Madame tried both the chicken and fish gumbos and remarked on the totally different tastes that the Cajun cuisine could produce in them.
- The common basis of all gumbos is the roux, a roughly equal combination of flour and fat cooked until very nearly burnt; it is the dark smoky roux that gives the gumbo its colour and flavour.
3North American A fine clayey soil that becomes sticky and impervious when wet.
Example sentences
- A high pressure front carries dark clouds, and we risk becoming mired in gumbo if the weather doesn't hold up.
- For a place so famous for its roads, Chaco is connected to the modern world tenuously at best: The only access is over washboard dirt roads that can turn to gumbo after a storm.
- We slogged around looking for suicidal prairie dogs and learned that hills and gumbo can overcome the best four-wheel drive trucks.
4A type of Cajun music consisting of a lively blend of styles and sounds: New Orleans syncopated gumbo
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- All it is is a gumbo of different musical styles that I like and mixed up and thrown together.
- Using the musical traditions of Quebec as their starting point, they bolt on jazz, Cajun and even Latin influences to create an infectious gumbo of sounds and rhythms.
- With the tracks largely bereft of melody or theme, Villalobos dives ever more deeply into percussive gumbo and leaves accessible hooks behind.
Early 19th century: from the Angolan word kingombo 'okra'.
Words that rhyme with gumboColombo, dumbo, jumbo, mumbo-jumbo, umbo
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