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> Moe Trin wrote:[color=green]
>> The lshw info you showed on Sunday seems to indicate the computer to
>> router link is running 100 MB[/color]
> I assume you meant "100 Mb".
>> full duplex, and as is on the PCI bus, the wire speed is the limit -
>> about 12 MegaBytes per second.[/color]
> So my motherboard's Ethernet port can handle up to 100 Mb/s (~12 MB/s)
> of data in or out or some combination, e.g. 8 MB/s in simultaneous with
> 4 MB/s out, at least in theory... have I got that right?[/color]
Your estimate is somewhat out on the optimistic side.
Ethernet starts to choke up at saturation ratios of about 60% to 90%
depending on how good your hardware is, and that's for one-way streaming,
changing direction reduces throughput dramatically.
> Since USB 2.0 is supposed to handle 480 Mb/s (60 MB/s), it sounds like
> USB would be faster, if it's a short distance. In theory, anyway.[/color]
That 480 Mb/s figure for USB 2.0 is peak burst rate, which is why
Firewire is faster overall for data transfers despite having a lower
nominal speed rating.
Doing the rate comparison yourself can be a fun project for a rainy
weekend, too.


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The Celebrity Baby Yard Sale featured the finest toys and togs enjoyed by celebrity offspring, as well as new clothes from hip L.A. baby boutiques such as Mabel's Labels, Ju-Ju-Be and BuckleyBoo, including 500 new pairs of shoes donated by the event's principal sponsor, StrideRite.
"I thought that a celebrity baby yard sale was be the perfect way to raise money," said Renee Baio, who started the foundation with her husband to promote newborn screening and to help families with children who have metabolic disorders. "Being married to a celebrity, you get to see how much stuff you actually get for their kids. So it seemed a natural to marry the two."
The couple were inspired to start the foundation after their daughter, Bailey, tested positive for a potentially fatal metabolic disorder. Their only child together turned out to be perfectly healthy.
Of course if you are the celebrity in question, such largesse has its drawbacks. "We have been keeping all this stuff at our house," Scott told PEOPLE. "For the last week, our living room has looked like a warehouse."
Items up for grabs at the sale included a classic car-shaped baby bouncer that Dennis and Kimberly Quaid used for their twins, an outdoor play structure that once belonged to actress Kristy Swanson's son, and pajamas previously worn by the daughter of Dancing With the Stars host Samantha Harris.
Tigress in TrainingFor the youngest shoppers at the yard sale, the highlight of the event had no price tag. It came at 11 a.m., when the colorful five-person song and dance troop, The Jumpitz, entertained the crowd, which included Jason Priestley and his daughter Ava (who came dressed as Snow White), Marissa Jaret Winokur and her son Zev, and Larry Birkhead and his daughter Dannielynn, who enjoyed pretending to be a tiger during the group's animal song.
After the show, everyone went back into buying – or at least that's what the Baio family hoped for. "We have to sell it all or I am in deep do-do with Scott," joked Renee.
To buy leftover items and get more information about an eBay store that will feature other items next month, visit the Bailey Baio Foundation Web site.

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Terrifying Passenger Jet Landings in Spain: DNews Nuggets
Windy Landings: Ever seen a jet land sideways? As strange as that may sound, pilots landing passenger jets at Bilbao's Loiu airport in Spain were forced to battle extreme crosswinds to get their passengers safely on the ground. One can only imagine how the passengers must have felt — one jet had more than a bumpy landing while another pilot had to pull up last minute to try again. Kudos to the pilots; those are the guys you'd want landing your plane. (10:20 p.m.) via BBC News
The Bin Laden Memo: In Time Magazine's cover story, "The Last Days of Osama Bin Laden," then CIA-chief Leon Panneta penned a letter that gave the final go ahead with the raid and "assault" that eventually killed Bin Laden. In the piece, Peter Bergen says that Obama's call to go ahead, came "despit Joe Biden and Robert Gates' disapproval," according to the Atlantic Wire.In a kind of "chicken scratch," the memo reads:
"Received phone call from Tom Donilon who stated that the President made a decision with regard to AC1 [Abbottabad Compound 1]. The decision is to proceed with the assault. The timing, operational decision making and control are in Admiral McRaven's hands. The approval is provided on the risk profile presented to the President. Any additional risks are to be brought back to the President for his consideration. The direction is to go in and get bin Laden and if he is not there, to get out. Those instructions were conveyed to Admiral McRaven at approximately 10:45 am."
What Does 'Cage Free' Mean?: Burger King has promised to only use "cage-free" chicken and pork over the coming years. But what does that mean? Grist reports that cage-free chickens are those that are not kept in tiny cages, but still penned in, not roaming freely around buttercup-strewn fields. Cage-free pork doesn't officially exist, but Burger King is saying they won't use meat from pigs kept in cages only as big as they are while they're pregnant. Their pigs will be able to walk around in some sort of enclosure. It's a better deal for the animals, sure, but Grist notes that it's more a win for the "Good Food Movement" and a sign of how far it's come. (12:11 a.m.) via Grist
Think Foreign: Not sure you should make that investment? Think it over in another language. According to a new study from the University of Chicago, people are more likely to take favorable risks when they think in their non-native tongue. It may seem odd, but the researchers' explanation is that thinking in a foreign language provides a distance that allows a person to think through something with less emotional attachment. "An emotional reaction could lead to decisions that are motivated more by fear than by hope, even when the odds are highly favorable," explained UChicago graduate student Sayuri Hayakawa. Yet another reason to brush up on your Spanish. (8:53 a.m.) via UChicago News
Bird Strike Forces Jet Blue Emergency Landing: Getting bug guts smeared across your windshield while driving is never pleasant. Geese guts are even worse. A JetBlue Embraer 190 aircraft bound for West Palm Beach, Fl., made an emergency landing just north of New York City, after it hit a goose shortly after taking off. The JetBlue Flight 571 landed safely at Westchester County Airport. (5:53 a.m.) via AP


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|After the first night's technical desperation & the lack of band-ness onstage at O-nest, I knew the show at Shelter would be the shit. I'd seen a photograph of the stage online:
Before we left, looking at that photograph got me excited for the rock part of this trip in a surprising way. My feeling was this: we were on our way to this place we'd never been before, we'll be in a country with a culture that we don't understand well at all, there will be all these surprising things to see and to eat etc.... but even if I'm in total bewilderment all day long, I know exactly what to do when there's a stage in a rock club with a drum kit on it. There's something reassuring in that thought. Thankfully, it turned out to be pretty accurate last night.
But first: the mornings in Osaka were filled with the screaming cicadas, which got me all excited; and this morning in Tokyo (it's not terribly early but early enough that there's still lots of Saturday night shrapnel walking the streets, sleeping on benches & even sleeping right next to me in this 24-hour cafe - the Japanese do not kick people out, it's a little uncomfortable but sweet), the ravens are everywhere, calling and heckling and eating trash alongside the pigeons.
And last night before the show we ate mounds of sushi, mountains of it, finally a real night of eating sushi. Some of it was entirely new to me: this strange flat mollusk-like thing, interesting looking but not so interesting to taste, good but not so special; a solitary cooked fish head, rich and buttery and excellent, the eye of which Tim plucked out & ate & thoroughly enjoyed; una, or sea urchin, which was probably the most atrocious tasting food item I have ever put into my mouth, certainly the worst tasting thing I've ever swallowed; and for dessert, tuna belly, something I have somehow missed all these years. It was the most tender piece of meat I have ever had in my mouth. I said that at the table, and even while I was saying it I was trying to think of a less suggestive way to put it but could not.
So the show was great. Detroit 7 turned me on, Meat Eaters I did not see because I was outside trying to recover from excess sushi but by all accounts they were excellent and I'll see them on Monday, and luckily I've seen Melt Banana & was prepared, & could comfortably stay and enjoy the whole thing without becoming frightened.
I assumed that this was Melt Banana's crowd, & that there'd be an exodus before we did our thing, but there was no such thing. We played, we kept it together, we played like a band, and people seemed to appreciate it thoroughly. There were men and women in almost equal attendance, which as you may know is a serious achievement for the likes of us. There was a small but active contingent of drunk expatriate Canadian & American men who started a mosh pit at some point late in the show, which was kind of embarrassing but of course the Japanese didn't seem to mind at all. These are mind-blowingly tolerant people.
Stayed up late talking with Nabana from Detroit 7, walked the streets, & did desperate karaoke in a roach-ridden 3rd floor joint near the club. Andy and Tim wisely stayed away from the karaoke, but of course I eat that shit up. Saw a middle-aged man in a t-shirt that said "I like to rock my gold for the ladies." Heading to Kobe today.
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Identification: The Freshwater Drum is dark-green to olive-brown on the upper part of the head, back and sides, shading to silvery on the sides. The belly is white. The anal fin has two spines, the first, very small and the second, quite large. The body is sharply arched.
Life history: Some of the marine members of this family are called "croakers" because of the sounds they produce. As in the marine species, Pennsylvania's Freshwater Drum produces a drumming sound by using muscles attached to the air bladder. These sounds are produced most often during the summer breeding season. Spawning takes place in relatively shallow portions of lakes or in the backwaters of streams. The eggs are very small. Freshwater drum are unique among freshwater fishes because their eggs are so buoyant, they float.
The young grow rapidly at first, but most Pennsylvania Freshwater Drum do not reach 20 inches even after more than 10 years of growth. The pharyngeal teeth allow it to feed on mollusks, but it also feeds on insects and other invertebrates.


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YOU ARE 25 years old. Among the 20 operas on your CV are The Barber of Seville, L'italiana in Algeri and La Cenerentola, three of the all-time great comedies. You are the king of comic opera, your greatest hits are the soundtrack of European life. What are you going to do next? Well, not much, if popular history is any guide. By the time most of us are thinking about getting a proper job, Gioacchino Rossini had invented the blueprint of Italian opera for the next couple of generations and, apparently, retired to bed with large quantities of champagne, truffles


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Filing for Chapter 11 protection to re-organize does not assure unsecured creditors of receiving any funds and if allowed to remain in business could always fill for Chapter 7 complete liquidation. All suppliers should demand cash in advance prior to servicing this pariah of a company. Lupo has shown total disregard for his community and is attempting to use the same societal laws to plead for his use. Hopefully the courts will see through this and recognize his 80% stock ownership. He should leave this community.
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Nitish inaugurates construction of Ganga bridge connecting Bakhtiyarpur – Tajpur: bridge to open in 2015
Patna: according to reports from Bihar press, chief minister Nitish Kumar inaugurated the construction of a 5.575 km bridge across river Ganga that will connect Bakhtiyarpur (Patna district) on NH 31 and Tajpur (Samastipur district) on NH 28. The bridge will also require construction of altogether 45.393 km stretch of approach roads on both ends of the bridge.
The total cost of the bridge project is estimated at Rs 1602.74 crore out of which Rs 100 crores will be spent on acquiring land. In a first, Rs 917.74 crore is to be invested by Navayuga Engineering Company Limited (NECL) on PPP basis. Rs 277.50 crore are to be invested by the Centre and Rs 307.50 crore by the state government. The Bihar government would also bear the expenses incurred on acquiring land. NECL, a Hyderabad base firm was selected through competitive bidding. The NECL's demand for viability gap funding (VGF) was the lowest at 38.93 per cent of the total project cost.
According to sources, the bridge would be open for public use in 2015 and the construction company has started mobilising resources for its timely completion. The land acquisition process in the area has already started and the road construction department had provided funds to the district administrations of Patna and Samastipur to pay compensation to the concerned land owners.
According to the road construction minister, 'as things are moving now, there would be at least one bridge across the Ganga at a distance of every 50kms in four years'.


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Pennsylvania Ballet gave an encore of a signature work and added another Balanchine ballet to its repertoire for its opening Thursday night at the Academy of Music. Both were part of the company's yearlong 50th anniversary celebration.
Carmina Burana has been in the troupe's repertoire since 1966, when John Butler staged his 1959 work on Pennsylvania Ballet to Carl Orff's secular cantata. In 2007, choreographer-in-residence Matthew Neenan reinterpreted the ballet with new choreography, costumes, and sets.
For the anniversary, artistic director Roy Kaiser chose to acknowledge the Butler version's place in Pennsylvania Ballet history, but the company says Neenan's will be back after this season. Dueling Carminas? That's unusual, but both are worthy.


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BERNARDSTON, Mass. (AP) - Leonard Streeter is practiced with a leash and dog biscuit. After all, he has 60 years' experience as the animal control officer in this western Massachusetts farming community, pop. 2,000 people, 500 pooches.
"He knows every dog and horse in town and can tell you who they belong to," said Peter Shedd, a part-time police officer and chief of the volunteer fire company.
Streeter agreed: "Most of the dogs are so used to me they jump right into the truck."
Known everywhere as Whitey, Streeter got his nickname as a fair-haired 3-year-old toddling around the general store his father built in 1925. His hair is now silver, but still fair. And he's still at the store.
Streeter, 79, is usually ensconced on a bench between the newspaper racks and the shelves of auto supplies. "I've been here since 1925," he maintained. "Right here. Same chair."
"Pretty near everybody opening this door is either a friend of mine or a relative," he observed from his perch. And pretty near everybody stops to chat.
"And that's the way it is all day long. I think because I'm an old man they feel sorry for me. That's what I think."
Not likely.
"He's unbelievable," said Steve McConley, another part-time officer. "I've been cowering in my cruiser, and he's come along and the dog has . . . just crawled into his lap wagging its tail."
But it isn't always that easy.
Streeter's been bit and clawed and skunked: "There's a trick to picking them up, but I'm not as quick as I used to be." He evicts squirrels from chimneys, shoos moose that have wandered from Vermont, four miles away. He knows of at least three bear dens in town.
And he knows how to improvise an animal shelter for a town without one - he opens his own front door. It's his way, he said, of contributing something "for the good of the town."
All this, for $6 an hour.
Still, town selectmen recently called him to account and held up his reappointment. They said his bills, ranging from $6,000 to $10,000 a year in the last five years, were too high.
They challenged his chasing folks who hadn't paid for dog licenses, bringing home escaped dogs without fining their owners and trapping a possum that was after a woman's chickens.
"Your sense of good will winds up costing the taxpayers money," complained chairman Richard Steward, suggesting the town ought to be able to get by without him.
Within a week, almost 400 residents - nearly one-third of the town's registered voters - signed petitions urging the board to keep Streeter.
"We support one another and contribute to one another's lives here in a way that is hard to measure in dollars and cents," resident Benjamin Cluff told the selectmen at one packed hearing.
Selectmen reappointed Streeter to the state post of dairy-cattle inspector but held back on the job of dogcatcher. "Probably one thing I shouldn't have done was accumulated so many friends," mused Streeter.
But he's still on the job.
"It's always something different," Streeter said. "Last night, I picked up a goat. It makes you wonder: What was that little goat doing out there in the fog? Where did it come from?"
The middle child of nine, Streeter hunted avidly as a youngster. He also bred, trained and drove trotting horses at a now-closed track nearby. He worked the family farm - and now the family store.
When Streeter's not chasing strays, he's in charge of the gas pumps. With his blaze-orange cap pushed back on his head, he keeps his ear cocked for the jingle of the pumps' bell.
His sisters supervise the counter, and third- and fourth-generation Streeters sell tractors and chain saws in the back basement.
His town job isn't always an easy one. "A lot of people don't relish my job," Streeter said, "and sometimes I don't relish it either."
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'Response needed' to Educational Psychologist training consultation
People in the UK have been urged to respond to a government Green Paper aimed at making the training of educational psychologists a more secure area.
Dr Jane Leadbetter, Chair of the British Psychological Society's Division of Educational and Child Psychology, a Senior Educational Psychologist and a Tutor in Educational Psychology, has called on people to take part in the consultation, entitled Support and Aspiration: A New Approach to Special Educational Needs and Disability.
The expert noted: "There are serious concerns that many educational psychology posts are being lost in Local Authority EP Services at the present time due to the swinging cuts being implemented by local authorities in order to meet government spending targets."
"This is at a time when the Green Paper notes the value of educational psychologists and the intention to review their role and training."
"Therefore a concern over the loss of experienced professionals, plus lack of certainty over recruitment is presenting a potentially critical situation."
Her comments come in response to figures noted by Sarah Teather MP who, when responding to a question regarding the number ofeducational psychologists serving in England today, highlighted the January 2009 Annual Survey of Teachers in Service and Teacher Vacancies showed 1,156 such full-time posts were filled.
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A high-profile resignation demonstrates growing demand for open access to research
Protests demonstrate growing demand for open access to research
Last week, Winston Hide committed what he called "a toxic career move." Hide, an associate professor of bioinformatics and computational biology at the Harvard School of Public Health, publicly resigned from the editorial board of Genomics, an influential journal in his field.
"No longer can I work for a system that provides solid profits for the publisher while effectively denying colleagues in developing countries access to research findings," he wrote in a piece for the Guardian. "I cannot stand by any longer while access to scientific resources is restricted."
Hide's denunciation of Geonomics' publisher, Elsevier, joins a growing chorus of discontent with academic presses' restrictive access policies, which professors like Hide claim prevent important research from having the impact it could. Hide, for instance, notes that colleagues in South Africa can't access critical biomedical journals because their libraries simply cannot afford subscriptions to them. And individual subscriptions to journals and academic databases are expensive, too—so expensive that authors will often resort to swapping copyrighted material among networks of trusted colleagues instead of purchasing their own copies from publishers' websites.
Academic publishing is complicated: Professors submit articles to academic journals in the hope that those journals will publish their work. Journals are typically managed by editorial boards, who ship submissions they receive to experts capable of anonymously evaluating the rigor and merit of these articles. Those experts—peers of the scholars who have submitted work for publication (hence the popular name for this process: "peer review")—do the work of reading, assessing, and responding to these manuscripts (work, called "refereeing," that is unpaid). Reviewers judge a manuscript's suitability for publication, and editors use these reviews to decide whether a they should publish a particular piece.
Editors collect manuscripts that pass the peer-review process into journal issues. These issues get sent to publishers, who copy edit, print, bind, and ship journals to research institutions and individual subscribers. Subscribers pay annual fees for the content. Publishers also make this content available online, often for a fee. But in exchange for doing so, publishers frequently ask authors to relinquish the copyrights those authors hold on their manuscripts. Many scholars—especially young academics just beginning their careers—do this, because they rely on peer-reviewed publications for achieving promotion and tenure at universities. They can't risk not complying with a publisher's terms.
So a good deal of newly-published, cutting-edge research is available only to those capable of paying for access to it. But criticism of the traditional publishing system has been growing, as has the intensity of demands for open access to scholarly materials.
Earlier this year, Peter Suber (currently Director of the Harvard Open Access Project and Open Access Director at Public Knowledge) made waves similar to Hide's when he announced he would no longer referee articles for journals associated with the Association of American Publishers (AAP). At the time, the AAP supported the newly-introduced Research Works Act, a bill that sought to prohibit federal agencies from mandating open access policies—like the National Institute of Health's Public Access Policy, which ensures research funded by the NIH (and thus taxpayer dollars) is freely available to anyone who wants it. Both Suber and Hide have pledged to channel their academic energies into open-access projects.
In February, support for the Research Works Act foundered; however, open access to publicly-funded research is still the exception, not the rule. This week, a petition to "require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research" appeared on whitehouse.gov (the Guardian has coverage of that, too). The petition calls for universalizing policies like the NIH's, and signing it allows citizens—even those who can't resign in protest from editorial boards—to show their support of open access to research.
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It's a shame that the researchers who are in the best position to protest are the ones who aren't really affected by not having access to research works. Scientists and students at top-tier institutions don't find themselves running into situations where they have to personally buy the articles they need thanks to having blanket licenses through their institutions. Sometimes I even take for granted that I can easily fetch an article I need by taking my laptop to campus or tunnelling through my professor's research server. Articles like these give me hope for a change in the future, though.
In younger fields like Computer Science, we may yet see some changes in the traditional academic model. Computer scientists have started a trend against traditional publication in journals in favor of conferences. As the discipline closest to the notion of Open Source, maybe they're in the best position to set a trend in Open Access as well.
Reading your article I thought: "why do not we start a truly open access scientific publication, purely on-line (so we do not have the expenses associated with paper journals), managed in an open-source style mostly by volunteers?"
Nice idea, but there is an important catch: nowadays researchers are evaluated on the basis of their publications and only journals ranked in ranking DBs like ISI are actually considered for publications. When I have a nice result to be published, although I would prefer to publish it on open-access journals, I publish it on old-style journals (IEEE transactions, mainly) since most of open-access journals are not ranked and if I published there my results, they would be "wasted," alas.
An "open source scientific journal" would not be included in the ranking DBs and this would limit its attraction for researchers.
Consider also the well-known prejudice that hurts open source software too: "If it is free, it cannot be good." We know it is untrue, but, unfortunately, many believe it.
Let me conclude by saying that although my comment looks pessimistic, I am not totally pessimistic. Maybe there is a way to "bootstrap" the idea of open source scientific journal, only, right know, I cannot guess what is it...


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Iowa has received a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study and promote bioenergy, wind energy, energy efficiency and energy policy.
The project will be led by Dr. Robert Brown at Iowa State University, who already heads ISU's renewable energy studies. The new grant, awarded to smaller states that historically receive lesser shares of NSF grants, is a five-year award and will pull in talent from the University of Iowa, University of Northern Iowa, Iowa's community and private colleges and even K-12 schools.
Co-leaders are P. Barry Butler, executive vice president and provost at the University of Iowa; Kevin Nordmeyer, the director of the Iowa Energy Center in Ames; and Chitra Rajan, associate vice president for research at Iowa State.
"There will be legions of researchers and worker," on this," said Brown, who has overseen ISU's studies on biofuels and bioeconomy.
The State of Iowa will chip in $2 million, some of the last month in the now-defunct Iowa Power Fund that lapsed after the defeat of its creator, former Gov. Chet Culver.
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The grant was hailed as an example of collaboration between Iowa's universities.
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The project will also create a statewide Future Leaders in Advancing Renewable Energy (FLARE) Institute designed to develop the careers of junior faculty in renewable energy fields and broaden the participation of women, under-represented minorities and first-generation college students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.
The $20 million grant is part of the National Science Foundation's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. The program – known as EPSCoR – is targeted at states and regions that have not won as much research and development funding as other areas. The grants are designed to improve the research capacity of eligible states or regions, making them nationally competitive for future grants.


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Unauthorized access of sensitive data must be prohibited in a business application. Unauthorized users must not be able to view other peoples information. In a windows program, sometimes it is necessary to provide different information in guests and users. A guest should not be able to see important data of the programs flow. The authentication methods require the System.Security.Principal namespace.
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C# provides several mechanisms for flow control in a program. The loops in C# allow you to execute a block of code repeatedly, until a certain condition is met. This condition can be the number of repetition, a variable taking a specified value or something completely different. The while loop is a pre-test loop and is used to execute a block of code for a number of times not known before the loop begins. The do..while loop is a post-test loop and is used for the same purposes as the while loop.
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Palmer's latest solo album is assured and attractive, his haunting, voluptuous tenor never better. By doubling and trebling that voice, and dubbing in his own harmonies, he wields a unique effect. Not all of Riptide is as strong as his last record, Pride, but some tracks are real winners, especially Trick Bag, with its trapdoor syncopation, and Addicted to Love, one of the year's hottest rock songs. Okay, Bob, your Power Station digression is forgiven. (Island)
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Bodywork is like chicken soup for the muscles. It's soothing, calming, and just what the doctor ordered. Massage treats illness by boosting the immune system, lowering blood pressure and helping the body flush out toxins. There are dozens of massage therapists in the Valley who provide countless treatments and just as many different techniques. The following range of therapies are all well-suited for sports massage and all offer the same outcome—making you feel better.
Ashiatsu: Translating from Japanese literally as foot (ashi) pressure (atsu), ashiatsu gives new meaning to foot massage. Feet are used in place of hands (bars hang from the ceiling to balance the therapist), to work deeper tissue, glide over muscles and move fascia. Great for deap pain.
Swedish Massage: Created at the turn of the last century by Henry Peter Ling in Sweden, this technique was developed to relax muscles by applying pressure to them against deeper muscles and bones. Swedish massage uses kneading, circular friction and tapping techniques, along with long, flowing strokes, always rubbing in the same direction as the flow of blood returning to the heart.
Shiatsu: Shiatsu translates as finger pressure and uses thumbs, palms, elbows, forearms and sometimes knees and feet to apply pressure at specific points related to the central and autonomic nervous systems.
Muscle Cupping: While relatively new to this country, the technique of muscle cupping is centuries old and draws upon traditional Chinese medicine. It works well as a soft tissue detox by using cups to suction skin away from the bone as a way to re-distribute soft tissue fluids and release toxins.
And remember that a good massage therapist will employ a variety of techniques, often combining one or two or more of the above with other methods based on each client's specific needs. So be sure to discuss any special concerns or injuries with your practitioner prior to your treatment. -Jody Orr
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The New Orleans Saints ended their futility in road playoff games with a 26-24 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles in an NFC wild-card matchup Saturday night.
Shayne Graham booted a 32-yard field goal as time expired to send the Saints to Seattle for their next playoff game next weekend.
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McDowell's Chodubski takes pair of 4th-place finishes
STATE COLLEGE -- Four was the magic number for McDowell's Anna Chodubski in her second appearance at the Pennsylvania Track and Field Coaches Association indoor state championships Saturday.
The senior took fourth place in both the long- and triple-jump events to lead a group of three Trojans. Chodubski registered distances of 17 feet, 4 inches in the long jump and 37-23/4 in the triple jump.
Chodubski was among athletes from McDowell, Cathedral Prep, Villa Maria and North East competing at Penn State's Multisport Indoor Facility.
Prep's Malik Moffett placed fifth in the high jump with a height of 6-4, while North East's Ryan Smathers' time of 4 minutes, 21.70 seconds earned him a fifth-place finish in the 1-mile run. Moffett was also part of Prep's 4x200 meter relay, which took seventh place, finishing in 1:31.20.
McDowell's Jamie Szymczak placed sixth in the triple jump with a distance of 45-11/2.
"They did a great job," said McDowell coach Becky Glus, who said Chudubski's experience in last year's championship, when she took second in the triple jump, was vital.
"Experience definitely was a huge difference because the track at Penn State is very fast and springy."
In last season's championship, Chudubski fouled three times in the long jump, preventing her from earning a spot in the finals.
Villa Maria's Claire Brown earned seventh place in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:17, edging out teammate Grace Trucilla, whose time of 2:17.48 was good enough for 11th place.


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CHAPTER 2013-58: Drivers can now be pulled over and be administered a ticket if caught texting while driving. Drivers will not be handed a ticket while texting at a stop light, but if the car is in motion, texting is against the law. It's a secondary offense, meaning an officer can't pull someone over for just texting. The driver would have to be committing another violation, like speeding or not wearing a seat belt.
CHAPTER 2013-227: This law adheres to public meetings. It provides a further definition to the words "board" and "commission" to give authority to state organizations, and also gives an individual a better opportunity to be heard by a board or commission.
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CHAPTER 2013-243: This law deals with public records. This law provides exemptions from public records for family members of active or former law enforcement officers, members of the Department of Children and Families, members of the Department of Health, members of the Department of Revenue, or local governments that do the same duties as the organizations listed.
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CHAPTER 2013-163: This law pertains to recommendations for annuities. The insurer providing recommendations for annuities must provide them to all customers, not just senior consumers. It also prohibits specified charges for annuities issued to persons 65 years of age or older, and increases the period of time that an unconditional refund must remain available with respect to certain annuity contracts.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- A Birmingham man was sentenced this week to nearly 47 years in federal prison for the 2013 armed robbery of a Tarrant bank, federal authorities announced.
Michael Scott Thomas, 40, of Birmingham, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Karon O. Bowdre to 21 years and 10 months in prison for one count of armed robbery and another count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr. The judge then ordered that Thomas serve a consecutive sentence of 25 years in prison for one count of brandishing a gun during the robbery.
Thomas' attorney had Bowdre for a 40-year sentence that combined the two mandatory minimum sentences that had to be imposed because of Thomas' status as a career offender and armed career criminal. Thomas has been convicted for five previous violent robberies, including at least one bank, according to court records.
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Comments Thread For: Hatton Advises Pacquiao: Your Legacy is Secured, Retire
Ricky Hatton says Manny Pacquiao should retire from boxing after his knockout defeat to Juan Manuel Marquez.
The Briton, a former light-welterweight and welterweight champion, was knocked out by Pacquiao in May 2009 in what was his second loss as a professional. He retired for a second time last month.
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Hatton has experienced this, first hand, from Pacquiao, so I respect his perspective and opinion, but he waited 3 years to attempt a comeback and still didn't look half bad.
I'd like to see Pacquiao end his career on a fight that didn't end in brutal KO.
I was glad to see Hatton go out on his last fight TBH, because it showed him mustering up the courage to face his demons.
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who the fuhk does hatton dad thinks he is?
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i dont agree , i think if he gets back on the jucie like marquez i would love to see a 5th fight
but hey hatton knows better than all of us
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Pac should take one more easy fight in the Philipines in front of his fans and call it a wrap.
Nothing more to prove, and we saw the lingering effects of a brutal KO on Paul Williams.
Even though a guy may get cleared and seems alright he will never be the same.
Manny has done more than enough for boxing and has plenty of money to make elsewhere.
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he seemed pretty pumped after the ko, and with the wanting to fight in april, although might not be giving him the time phsically to recover, mentally he seems just as hungry
after somethin like that i think my hunger would be shot and i'd be talking about retirement
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pac will not retire on a KO loss
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Pacquiao should come back. The fact of the matter is, this is boxing. One mistake and a fight is over. Look at Lennix Lewis, he got knocked out by Hasim Rahman. He successfully came back. To be quite honest with you, I thought, despite the knock down, and the knockout. Pacquiao looked sensational. I thought, right up until the knockout, that was the best Manny Pacquiao in several years.
That's just my honest opinion. The shot he got hit with, would have K.O'd anyone. He should come back just to see if his chin, and heart are still in the game. Not a lot of people could have beat the Pacquiao from saturday, Marquez deserves all the credit in the world, but let's not s h i t all over pacquiao too much. Some of you guys are hating so hard on him it's sad. I mean, how many highly entertaining fights did Pac give us this decade? I was never unhappy with a pay per view purchase when he was on it. With the exception of Pacquiao Marquez 3.
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Pac should beat the shit out of Bradley then call it a day.
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Mannys a 20 mil per fight fighter. He doesnt need to retire. But he does need to fight the top guys if he wants to continue to make that kind of scratch.
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Will Stocks Top Out on May Day?
We begin May 2013 without a confirmed market high and with the other major averages below all-time highs. The Russell 2000 set its all time high at 954.00 on March 15. The Dow Industrial Average set its all-time high at 14,887.51 on April 11. Dow transports set its all-time high at 6291.65 on March 19.
While I cannot make a prediction that today is a market top, I would not rule it out as history tends to repeat.
What we know today is that the Dow utility average has become the leading index with a four month gain of 18.6% by setting new multi-year highs almost daily since taking out its Aug. 1 high at 499.82 on March 25. Since then utilities have gained 7.6% to the April 30 high at 537.86 vs. its all-time high of 555.71 set in January 2008.
The utility sector is 11.7% overvalued but among the 211 stocks in the sector 62 stocks are rated strong buy and another 127 are rated buy. On April 2 I wrote Dow Utilities Outperform S&P 500 in First Quarter show that 14 of 15 stocks in this index were rated buy, and that one way to play the sector was investing in the Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund
The transportation sector is 14.9% overvalued and among the 177 stocks in this sector 89 are rated sell and another 48 are rated strong sell. With 77.4% of the stocks in the sector rated sell I continue to rate this sector "avoid-source of funds." Since setting its all time high at 6291.65 on March 19 the Dow transportation average is down 1.8%, but ended April up 16.4% year to date.


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Mr. Death
At the very end of Errol ("The Thin Blue Line") Morris' documentary about Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., Morris asks the execution machinery expert a question. He asks, "Do you ever think you could be wrong?" to which Leuchter replies, "I'm past that." In other words, the answer is "no." This is the first and only interruption by Morris in the film -- the only time he makes it plain that there's a man behind the camera filming Leuchter talk.
The question could very well be a trick since if Morris had asked it and the answer had been "oh sure, every day, all the time. In fact, I probably am wrong," there might not have been a movie. In other words, the question was asked and answered before the film was actually made. Why is this important? Because it has nothing to do with making execution machinery better (Leuchter's job) and everything to do with a matter that ruined Leuchter's life -- that he went to Germany, chiseled pieces off the walls of various concentration camps, then claimed he had proven there were no mass executions because his samples lacked cyanide residue.
With the aid of a chemist, Morris quickly disproves Leuchter's method. Essentially, the chemist explains that by chiseling and then later disintegrating (which the chemist did, not knowing what he was looking for or at) the pieces of concrete, there was no chance anybody would discover cyanide residue. It was impossible once the pieces were smashed into bits.
Through a combination of naiveté stupidity, and some degree of cruelty by others, Leuchter's life has been ruined. So, naturally, it's going to be hard for a man having gone through this to admit that he may have really messed something up along the way, especially someone like Leuchter, which is part of Morris' point. However, what echoes at the end of the film is not the ringing pronouncement against ignorance and vanity, as Morris intended, but the filmmakers inability to take Leuchter by the ear, to the chemist, and have it explained what a complete moron he is. A dog will crap all over your house if you let it. Morris could have at least had the decency to show Leuchter how to use a toilet.
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