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Dosage of neuromuscular electrical stimulation: Is it a determinant of upper limb functional improvement in stroke patients?
doi: 10.2340/16501977-0917
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the predictors related to upper extremity functional recovery, with special emphasis on neuromuscular electrical stimulation dose-response in patients after stroke.
SUBJECTS: Ninety-five patients with stroke who received a 4-week neuromuscular electrical stimulation intervention.
DESIGN: Prospective predictive analysis.
METHODS: The change score of the Action Research Arm Test (ARAT) was used as the main outcome. Baseline subject characteristics, stroke-related data, and intervention-related data were collected. Multiple linear regression analysis was applied to identify the potential predictors related to main outcome.
RESULTS: The regression model revealed that the initial Fugl-Meyer upper limb score was the most important predictor for ARAT change score post-test, followed by time since stroke onset and location of stroke lesion. At 2-month follow-up, the neuromuscular electrical stimulation dosage became a significant determinant in addition to the above predictors.
CONCLUSION: Initial motor severity and lesion location were the main predictors for upper limb functional improvement in stroke patients. Neuromuscular electrical stimulation dosage became a significant determinant for upper limb functional recovery after stroke at 2-month follow-up. More intensive neuromuscular electrical stimulation therapy during early rehabilitation is associated with better upper limb motor function recovery after stroke.
Shu-Shyuan Hsu, Ming-Hsia Hu, Jer-Junn Luh, Yen-Ho Wang, Ping-Keung Yip, Ching-Lin Hsieh
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IPD to reveal SA commercial property performance in 15th annual index launch
Will the 2010 mini-recovery in the commercial property market prove to be a false start to recovery, or will the 2011 performance continue to build on the turnaround? In 2010 the property market returned to double digit annual returns of 13.3 per cent after 2009's 11 year low of 8.8 per cent.
Indicative results to June 2011 suggest that growth was flat in the first half of the year.
The facts about commercial property performance in 2011 will be revealed when Investment Property Databank (IPD) presents the results of the SAPOA/IPD SA Property Index. They will be announced at events sponsored by Eris Property Group in Johannesburg on 27 March and Cape Town on 28 March 2012.
The findings will reveal the current state of the investment property market. Importantly, the announcement also marks 15 years of a property index in South Africa, tracking the commercial property market's highs and lows.
Originally launched in 1997 as SAPIX, IPD became involved in 2001 and the index adopted its current structure as the SAPOA/IPD Index two years later in 2004.The first biannual results were introduced in 2009.
2011's results celebrate 15-years of IPD data in South Africa. But will the performance be reason to celebrate?
Globally, harsh economic conditions prevailed, specifically negative growth in the Eurozone. A weak domestic economy, declining confidence among both consumers and businesses and the continued rise in operating costs, chiefly electricity, continue to place pressure on commercial property returns. Was this enough to choke performance growth?
On the other hand, the stable interest rate environment in SA, rising household income supporting consumer spending, and SA property's ability to remain fairly resilient throughout the global downturn, may together prop up property returns.
The results will show investors and analysts which sectors of the market are recovering, stagnant or backsliding. They analyse the fundamentals of property supply and demand: vacancies, rentals, values and more. In addition, they signpost the way to market leading performance within different sectors, property types and regions, and post warning signs about where the most risk is housed within the market.
Stan Garrun, Managing Director of IPD SA comments: "A keen focus on sticking to the basics is evident in the market, but so too is emerging innovation and smart strategies to deliver performance, despite the difficult environment. Regardless of where the market is in the property cycle, investors need properties to be profitable. These results will show how successful fund managers have been in navigating the obstacles to create better value for their clients. Property owners have come to rely on IPD data over the past 15 years as a benchmark of performance. With 2011's results, they have at their disposal a 15-year transparent reference of consistent commercial property performance reporting in South Africa."
Warren Schultze, CEO of Eris Property Group says: "Over the past 15 years, the SAPOA/IPD Property Index has become the decisive standard for measuring unlisted property returns. The transparency it provides for commercial property has consistently added to the credibility of this asset class. It has undoubtedly become the 'go-to' resource for local and international investors considering commercial property investment in South Africa."
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Gil Hanse & Amy Alcott Selected to Design Olympic Course
In a surprise decision, the Rio 2016 Olympic committee selected Hanse Golf Design to craft the new golf course for the Summer Games four years from now in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Golf hasn't been played in the Olympics since the 1904 Games in St. Louis, Mo., so many pundits view this appointment as important. In a surprise decision the committee picked a little-known American golf course designer from an international group of golf luminaries that included Jack Nicklaus, Sweden's Annika Sorenstam, South Africa's Gary Player, Mexico's Lorena Ochoa and Australians Peter Thomson and Greg Norman.
Also in the mix were famed golf American architects Tom Doak and Robert Trent Jones II and Martin Hawtree of England.
In a statement, Gary Player congratulated Hanse. "Congratulations to Gil and his team. He is a gentleman and I know that he will design a golf course worthy of hosting the 2016 Olympic Games," said Gary Player.
"This is an important project that is not just about designing a great golf course. It is much bigger than that. Golf is returning to the Olympic Games for the first time in more than 100 years and all of us in golf have the responsibility to help make its return a huge success. I, and our entire company, will do whatever we can to help make golf in the 2016 and 2020 Games meaningful, successful and a permanent part of Olympic competition."
The committee's decision was not only a shocker to the golf world but to the fellow who runs the Malvern, Pa.-based design firm. "I'm still a little bit stunned by the whole thing," principal architect Gil Hanse told the Associated Press.
The course, which will remain open after the Olympics to the citizens of a large and populated but relatively golf-starved country, will be built in the Barra da Tijuca neighborhood that will hold most of the Olympic venues.
"Hanse Golf Course Design tackled the challenge of designing a course for use by both elite and amateur athletes, one of the main legacy objectives," the Rio 2016 Olympic committee noted in a statement. "It addressed the environmental sustainability directives for the games and efficiently conformed to the building restrictions on the land."
The committee made its final selection after two prior delays.
Hanse will partner in the course with Amy Alcott, a native of Missouri who amassed 29 LPGA Tour wins and is a member of the LPGA Hall of Fame. For more background about Hanse Design, visit http://www.hansegolfdesign.com/.
Below is the full transcript of the Olympic course-designer announcement and Hanse's session with reporters afterward. Ty Votaw emceed the proceedings. (Votaw is the former commissioner of the LPGA Tour and was part of the group - the International Golf Federation - that helped spearhead golf's return to the Olympics after a century-long hiatus.) Here's what Hanse, Votaw and the attending scribes discussed.
TY VOTAW: Good afternoon, everybody. I'm Ty Votaw with both the PGA Tour and the International Golf Federation, and we appreciate very much the Cadillac Championship affording us the opportunity to make this announcement and to provide you access to the gentleman on my right. Earlier today, Rio 2016 announced that Hanse Golf Course Design has been selected to design the golf venue for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, and we are fortunate enough to have the principal of Hanse Golf Course Design, Gil Hanse, with us today, who is here on some other business. And with that, I'd like to turn it over to Gil to say a few words, and then we'd be happy to answer your questions.
GIL HANSE: Thank you, Ty. As I'm sure all of you can understand, it's very humbling and we are incredibly honored to be recognized to design the golf course for the Rio 2016 Olympics. To make the final eight, and to be included along with arguably the greatest player in the game and a cast of other great players, Jack and Annika and Greg and Lorena and Peter Thomson and Gary Player; it's just an amazing cast. And then the golf course architects, Trent Jones, Jr., two of my mentors, Martin Hawtree and Tom Doak, we were always just kind of happy to be along for the ride.
Jim Wagner, my design partner and I, we always just try to keep our heads down and do good work and figure at some point in time somebody will pay attention. We are excited that the jury was paying attention, and we were able to impress upon them that we would be the right fit for the project.
Some of you who know me, there are so many people who come into this, and I don't want to turn this into an Oscar acceptance speech, but we had great partners on this project, Owen Larkin and the Larkin Group; Frank Rossi and Jeff Carlson from an environmental perspective. Amy Alcott, obviously a great, great golf, and it says more about her than anything that she was unselfish enough to be part of the team and contribute whatever she could to the team without demanding or needing to be in the limelight. She's just those of you who know her, he's really fun to be around and we like to have fun when we design courses, and we look so forward to working with her.
There are a handful of people, whenever you put a presentation together, I'm just absolutely horrible with computer stuff, so we had . . . guys who you have never heard of but they made us look good in front the panel and they really were terrific.
And I mentioned Jim earlier; the people who design golf courses, and we are happy to do that - and we also build golf courses. For people who have the opportunity to work with us in the past, they get it, that Jim is really the talented part of the team. And you know, with Jim being so involved in everything we do, you know, I get to stand up here because my name is on the firm, but he is a partner in every sense of the word. So we are really excited to get started, and I think that takes care of all those thoughts and I'm happy to answer any questions.
TY VOTAW: Thank you, Gil.
Q. Can you talk about the timeline of when you think you'll break ground and that type of thing?
GIL HANSE: Sure. The time line that's been developed is to break ground in October of this year. As part of the overall process, each of the eight firms was required to submit pretty extensive designs. So we are a little ways down the road in that respect, so it's not like we are hitting the ground right now with day No. 1. So I think this summer will involve a lot of refining the design and going through whatever permits are required, getting the necessary approvals to break ground.
And I think as long as we hit the ground in October, the time line that's been articulated is comfortable. It's not great, but I think given that climate, warm season grasses, we should be able to get the golf course up and running by the middle end of 2014, and I believe the schedule that was put out was to have test events in 2015 prior to the 2016 games.
Q. I think some of us have seen an aerial shot from pretty far afield. Can you describe the terrain and whether there's any water there or any naturally occurring features, or is it just going to be you and a bulldozer?
GIL HANSE: There will be some of that. And the good thing is that it's all sand. So my back is going to be very happy when I'm on a bulldozer. I think that's really the key natural characteristic of the site is that when you have sand, it affords you so many other opportunities to be creative. Obviously it facilitates drainage, and it gives us the opportunity, not necessarily to have to put catch basins everywhere, we are able to move water on surfaces, on grade. There are also some nice, natural features on site that when we have to creates the artificial features, we really sort of point to those and say that's what we are going to try to replicate, as well as the vegetation.
Q. Is it going to be like a parkland look, or are there plenty of trees, palm trees, oak trees; what are we looking at?
GIL HANSE: A very open site with some native species on some of the dune formations, but I think the primary trees are mangroves, which are all down along the edge of the lagoon, and so those will be sort of more of a buffer. Our plan does not anticipate a lot of trees being planted on the property. I think more lower growth vegetation. So I think if you were to try to visualize something, and it's difficult to compare landscapes, but I think sort of the sand belt of Australia would be a good one to look at as far as that type of vegetation and certainly that style of architecture.
Q. Just be curious, how much do you think it was an influence or help that David Fay was so supportive, given his long time support of the Olympics and secondly, do you think it helped with the nice reviews that Castle Stuart got with Peter Dawson being up there?
GIL HANSE: Yeah, I think any time you're able to bring somebody in like David Fay with the connections and the dedication he's had to the game and have him sort of touting your design abilities, but also you as a person, I'm sure that's very helpful and I'm sure that resonated with the committee. As far as Castle Stuart, the work we did there as Mark Parson. I think Peter is a fan of that; he's mentioned that he is. You've probably spoken more with Mark about that.
With the exception of the weather, the way that that worked out last year give them at least most of our design work, with respect to the Tour and professional golfers, has been of a renovation, restoration aspect and I think the fact that Castle Stuart was so well received, basically, I wouldn't say proved, but gave them a certain level of proof that we could build a golf course from scratch that would be well accepted by the players and also able to handle a championship.
Q. Can you take us through how you found out about getting the job and also your reaction and stuff?
GIL HANSE: Yes. There was a bit of skullduggery going on this morning. There was a camera crew from the Golf Channel that followed us and made us get out of bed very early saying, the call is going to come and we are going to follow each of the eight contestants and see how they react. So 7:30 came, and 8:30 came, and 9:30 came and went, and 10:30 came and went; and by that time, we were all to the point where we were getting sick of each other and then the phone rang and everybody jumped and the camera people got back up in place. You know, it was all I could do to hold back tears.
It was just - you know, we have worked really hard at this for a long period of time, and that means - and don't get me wrong. I love what we do and we are very fortunate and very blessed, but sometimes when you're choking back dust and you've been on a bulldozer for 12 hours and it's 90 degrees and all you want is a beer, you know, sometimes you think, oh, man, this is a little bit hard. I think Jim and I can reflect back on a lot of those times. You know, this is a nice reward for that dedication and effort I think that we put into what we do.
Q. Who actually called you?
GIL HANSE: Gustavo Nascimento, who is with Rio 2016. He's their spokesman and he's been involved in all the presentations. He called just prior to the start of the press conference in Rio, and so we knew just as they were starting to go out, because they wanted to keep it quiet. They wanted to allow the Mayor of Rio to make the announcement.
Q. Phone call in English?
GIL HANSE: It was. They are very accommodating. Their English is much better than my Portuguese.
Q. After the Olympics are finished, what will the access be at the golf course, what type of an arrangement will there be? Who will own the golf course, and things like that?
GIL HANSE: I'm not familiar with the machinations of who owns it, develops it. But I know it's part of the mandate that it will be a public facility and it will be certainly accessible. It will be a facility that's somewhat similar to First Tee being set up down there so we can help to grow the game in Brazil. I think from our perspective, obviously the 2016 Olympics are a critical couple of weeks for this golf course and I think it's a critical couple of weeks for golf and how it's presented to the world. But I think equally as important is the legacy of what we are leaving behind. Antony Scanlon, what he was talking to us as the group of eight in Rio, he was talking about the importance of the game and how this is an opportunity to put a good face on golf in developing countries and really will serve as a model. He said, "I don't want to scare you, but, there's an added bit of responsibility here."
So I think ultimately, we want this to be received well those two weeks, but we really want it also to be something the Brazilians are proud of. And if it can lead to in 2024 or whatever, you know, there's a Brazilian in contention for the Olympics for the gold medal, then we have done an even better job.
Q. At the end of the Olympics, at the end of the competition, if there's more talk about the golf course than the actual competition; that a good thing or a bad thing?
GIL HANSE: It depends on how people are talking about it (laughing). But ultimately, what we do - and I don't want to sound pretentious in any way, shape or form. All we are doing is providing a stage for those guys to display their talent on, and girls. If somehow that stage allows there to be a dramatic finish or allows there to be excitement, then that's a good thing.
But I'd much rather people talk about how the competition was carried out. People asked me last summer about Castle Stuart, do you feel offended if these guys go out and shoot 20 something under. No, we really don't fixate on a score. We love to find a great champion. I think if the golf course identifies a really top notch player as your champion, that's really all you can ask for out of your golf course. Yeah, I'm hopeful that the golf course is part of the story. Will it be the entire story? No. I think it will be a lot of the story leading up to the tournament, but hopefully when the medals are handed out, we are talking about who won, as opposed to the golf course.
Q. Also in terms of different sets of tees, which I'm sure you build all the time, is there any different challenge when you are talking about the highest level of golf?
GIL HANSE: No, I think it's going to be more of a maintenance aspect. We are going to have to try to figure out how we spread the play over two weeks; that we don't have a concentration of divots, ball marks, etc.; that we are able to create enough variety and flexibility in the design of the course that we have two compelling competitions. At the end of the day, if it felt like they were on two different golf courses, that would be really cool. I think that would be something that you would see - it's no secret my favorite golf course in the world is the Old Course. And if you contested the ladies Open Championship and the men's Open Championship in back to back weeks over the Old Course, you would have two very different stories and two very different outcomes. And if we can somehow come even close to scratching the surface of the Old Course in what we do, then I think that will be successful.
Q. There's an NDA, but could you in terms of current venues give us an idea of what this golf course is going to be like?
GIL HANSE: Yeah, I'm still not clear on what we can disclose or not, but I think that - I watched Royal Melbourne and I thought that was spectacular in the Presidents Cup. Just the way - one of the things we talked about in general terms is the recovery aspect of golf. I think that's an underutilized aspect of golf architecture when dealing with players of this caliber is presenting them with interesting problems to solve in the recovery. I think Royal Melbourne showed that; Augusta shows that; that when these guys get around the greens and they miss a shot, that aspect of utilizing slopes and speeds, etc., to recover instead of just Point A to Point B, that I think is fascinating.
So I think there will be aspects of that in the design where we are trying to create all of these different angles, which is difficult in this day and age, as long as these guys hit it. But I think that will be a goal of what we try to do. I don't want to rat you out, but I know you played at Los Angeles Country Club, and that -
Q. Keep ratting me out.
GIL HANSE: That golf course, we were able to be involved in the restoration there with Jim and I and Geoff Shackelford, and I learned more about architecture and the restoration of that golf course than I may have learned 15 or 20 years prior to that. George Thomas is a genius discussing courses within a course and different strategies and options, etc. I think that we are going to try to implement some of that thought process and see if it's relevant in this day and age with technology and lengths and distances that these guys hit it. I think it is and we are hopeful that this golf course will prove that it is.
Q. One other thing, it's obviously Rio and the challenges are immense, South America; you have challenges in China, challenges everywhere else. What are the biggest challenges for you in doing this golf course in Rio?
GIL HANSE: Well, I don't know if any of you saw the press release. Actually Tracy and Caley, and my youngest daughter, and I are going to move down to Rio for the construction of the golf course. So finding a school, finding a house, things of that nature will be extremely important to us obviously. But I think that was something that resonating with the committee is that - I'm not a big fan of poker terms, but we were all in. This really was important to us. I think that showed the commitment and the resolve that we have.
I'm excited to find out and explore more. Thankfully golf courses have been built in Brazil so there's a wealth of knowledge there. And I think in the discussions going forward with the designs, I mean, I'd be thrilled if the other finalists are willing, to sit and talk; what did they see. I don't know that we had all the answers.
We had answers that were good enough for the committee to be committed to understand that we were a good fit for them, but I respect Tom Doak, and I would love a chance to be able to sit down with him and talk about the opportunities that might exist out there. Because I think ultimately, as Antony said, this is more about the game of golf. Yeah, don't get me wrong, this will probably be a good thing for us business wise and professionally, but hopefully at the end of the day, we are doing the right thing for the game.
Q. Did you tell Trump you're moving to Brazil? That's not my question. To the degree it's locked in stone and that you can talk about it, let's say, you know, four years from now, this thing comes down to the last hole, what's the last hole look like? Uphill, downhill? Par 5? Reachable? What do you have there for risk/reward to make it interesting?
GIL HANSE: Can I consult my lawyer? (Turning to Ty). I'll speak in vague terms. I think the setup and the finish that we have proposed envisions a lot of half par holes. So short par 4s, short par 3, reachable par 5.
Q. At the end?
GIL HANSE: Yeah, and I think that that sort of - half par holes are where things can happen. You get really good swings. Some people are afraid to finish golf courses that way because they don't want guys walking off going birdie, birdie, eagle, and I think it would be awesome if they did that. I think we want to try to promote aggressive play at the end of the tournament. This is the first time somebody is going to have a Gold Medal around their neck since 1904. There's a lot at stake, and if we can have somebody really do something special down the stretch that would be great.
Q. The Olympic move is always interesting, with big ideas and philosophies behind things and so on. Aside from obviously all of the detailed information you have to give them, how interested were they in your ideas about what a golf course should be like and how much did that play a role in winning it?
GIL HANSE: You know, I felt like in the presentation that we made, it was important for us to not only talk about the specifics of what we were proposing, but to talk about what we believed about golf course architecture. Because there could be a situation where you look at something on paper and you go, wow, that looks great. And then you listen to the guy talk about what he really believes, and it's like, hmmm, that's not really what I'm thinking. So we thought it was important to just sort of put it out there and say, hey, this is what we think golf architecture should be, and I mentioned the recovery shot and aspects of the game, and I'm hopeful that that added to the consideration for us. I don't know, because I wasn't part of the deliberations, but I think we put a lot of big ideas out there, and I think some of them must have stuck.
TY VOTAW: Gil, again, congratulations and thank you all for participating today. Thank you.
The transcript for the above interview is courtesy of ASAP Sports.
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Are you looking to stay at the head class in fashion 101? These five intriguing articles featured as top fashion news stories of the week will surely help. Read on!
Those coveted (and lifesaving) pair of Spanx we all have stocked in our closets are worth quite a fortune. Founder of the Spanx company, Sara Blakey, was recently named "the youngest self-made female billionaire" by Forbes. The 41 year old entrepreneur invested only $5,000 of her hard earned savings into the company, which is now worth approximately $1 billion. [Telegraph]
Whether or not Natalie Portman's 1952 polka dotted Christian Dior gown that she wore to the Academy Awards made it onto your best dressed list this year, the retro number won over many fans and fashionistas. The dress, which was actually loaned from a vintage store called Rare Vintage, was put up for sale at auction this week. A British collector of Couture fashions reportedly made the winning bid of $50,000. [IB Times]
The Diamond Jubilee tour has begun and British Royalty has begun their honorable celebration of Queen Elizabeth's 60-year reign. This week the Queen and Duchess of Cambridge set off to De Monfort University in Leicester to judge a student footwear competition. Becka Hunt took first place in the competition with her sapphire blue shoe that won over the Princess without question, just as did the sparkling engagement ring on Kate's finger which was actually the designer's main inspiration. [People]
Young yet extremely accomplished streetwear designer Alexander Wang got himself in a bit of fumble this week. Wenyu Lu, a past worker in the Alexander Wang factory located in New York City's Chinatown neighborhood, is suing the company for $50 million in violation of the state's labor laws. The man, and thirty other factory employees, claim to have forcefully worked over 16 hours per day in an unhealthy work environment without overtime pay or mid-day breaks. [Style Lite]
On a positive note, Vera Wang – no correlation between the two designers – continues to take over the Kohls retail floor. The designer has teamed up with Kohls for quite some time now in producing a seasonal line of apparel, accessories and home goods exclusively for the store. Now the top designer is stretching her stride to the cosmetics counter, creating a collection of over 70 Simply Vera makeup items specific to the mass retailer. The line includes lipsticks, cheek sticks, mascara, an array of eye shadow colors and foundation. The only thing missing is a fun assortment of nail polish, which Wang thinks she will dip into next. [Refinery 29]


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When Jeremy Clarkson claimed on Top Gear that owners of electric cars were "more likely to get a girlfriend", regular viewers of the BBC motoring show knew a put-down was coming from the self-proclaimed petrolhead.
"You just have to hope she doesn't live at the other end of the country," he said in Sunday's episode, which showed him being pushed in a Nissan Leaf electric car that had a flat battery.
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Assemblyman Tim Donnelly was in town earlier this week in his bid to become the Republican Party's sacrificial lamb … I mean candidate for governor against Gov. Jerry Brown in November.
Donnelly was fresh off a successful appearance at the party's biannual convention in Burlingame, where he wowed the majority of delegates with a call for tax cuts, reduced regulations and "a moratorium on all new laws that contain restrictions on our constitutional civil rights …"
Those words resonate with the pick-up truck faction of the GOP, and Donnelly repeated many of them in an interview with The Union and then to a group of Nevada County Republican women at the Alta Sierra Country Club.
The fact that Donnelly was in Nevada County for the second time in recent weeks, looking for votes and money, reflects the long-shot nature of his campaign. He's raised less than $500,000 in his campaign for the nomination, half of the money raised by his main opponent, former U.S. Treasury official and Wall Street investment banker Neel Kashkari. (Brown has $18 million in his re-election fund and won't have to spend any of it before Labor Day.)
Donnelly's favorite right is the right to bear arms, and he seems to be on track to visit every firing range in the state as he hunts for votes. He's a former Minuteman who won't discuss how many guns he owns ("it's none of the government's business") but says everything he owns is legal.
Registration is another matter. "I find gun registration to be offensive," he told the Sacramento Bee. "I think that gun registration is simply so that someday the government can confiscate it."
That meshes with Donnelly's general view that you can't trust the government to protect individual rights, saying government agencies "repeatedly abuse their power by … trying to silence citizens through intimidation."
Donnelly seems to have a cavalier attitude about some aspects of gun ownership, such as carrying a loaded, unregistered gun into Ontario International Airport in 2012. He pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges and is currently on probation.
Then there's his brother, who was arrested for reaching for a gun while being questioned by police in 2000. The brother, who had drug and alcohol problems but was allowed to own a gun, committed suicide in a jail cell.
Guns in the hands of irresponsible or unstable people are a persistent problem that gun advocates like Donnelly prefer to ignore. Outfits like the NRA won't discuss the issue, but they'll fight any laws that try to curb the problem.
Gun advocates are big on cracking down on criminals who illegally possess weapons, and nobody can argue with that position. Left unsaid is how many of those criminals acquire their weapons.
In a study conducted in the 1980s, two sociologists asked 2,000 men convicted of gun-related crimes how they got their weapons. Half of them said the guns were stolen, and another 20 percent said they were "probably" stolen.
Things haven't changed much since then. An estimated 500,000 guns go missing every year and end up in criminal hands, but police get little help from the victims.
Author Dan Baum reports that owners hate reporting stolen guns to police and consider it tyranny if they even have to admit they own guns. As a consequence, only seven states and the District of Columbia have laws that mandate the reporting of stolen guns.
There are other tragic consequences to careless gun ownership. Accidental child death is one of the few gun statistics that has grown since 1990, and almost half of the teenagers who kill themselves do it with a gun.
Then there are the people who aren't criminals until they pick up a gun. Tempers flare, a gun is nearby and tragedy ensures.
The obvious solution to these tragedies is to make sure guns are properly secured, but just 27 states and DC require guns to be locked up, trigger-locked, stored separately from ammunition or some combination of the three. In most states, punishment is mild for those who ignore the law or use haphazard security.
As Baum, a gun enthusiast and author of "Gun Guys: A Road Trip," wrote recently:
"We gun guys are operating under a double standard. We want to be left alone to buy, use and carry guns because, we say, we understand firearms better than any bureaucrat. But at the same time, enough of us behave so carelessly that thousands of people are needlessly killed, injured or victimized by guns left laying around."
People like Donnelly constantly push the boundaries of their Second Amendment rights. They forget that with the right comes great responsibility.
George Boardman lives at Lake of the Pines. His columns are published Mondays in The Union.


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Pope's bombshell sends troubled church scrambling
VATICAN CITY -- With a few words in Latin, Pope Benedict VXI did what no pope has done in more than half a millennium, stunning the world by announcing his resignation Monday and leaving the Catholic Church to replace the leader of its 1 billion followers by Easter.
Not even his closest associates had advance word of the news, a bombshell that he dropped during a routine morning meeting of Vatican cardinals. And with no clear favorites to succeed him, another surprise likely awaits when the cardinals elect Benedict's successor in March.
"Without doubt this is a historic moment," said Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, a prot�g� and former theology student of Benedict's who is considered a papal contender. "Right now, 1.2 billion Catholics the world over are holding their breath."
The move allows for a fast-track conclave to elect a new pope, since the traditional nine days of mourning that would follow a pope's death doesn't have to be observed. It also gives Benedict, 85, great sway over the choice of his successor. Though he will not himself vote, he has hand-picked the bulk of the College of Cardinals -- the princes of the church who will elect his successor -- to guarantee his conservative legacy and ensure an orthodox future for the church.
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New Private Club Planned for Southwest of Chicago
Ocean Atlantic, a real estate firm based near Washington, D.C., has announced it will be developing Westbury Village, a master-planned residential and golf community located 55 miles southwest of Chicago in Yorkville, Ill.
The centerpiece of the development will be Westbury Country Club, an 18-hole layout designed by Arthur Hills/Steve Forrest and Associates. Northbrook, Ill.-based KemperSports Management will oversee development and construction and operate the facility when it opens.
We are excited to blend our vision with KemperSports expertise in golf course development and management to make Westbury a shining reality for Yorkville, said Michael Ferraguto, Jr., founding partner and managing director of Ocean Atlantic, a firm with extensive real estate development activity in the metropolitan Chicago, Washington/Baltimore and Southern California areas.
Together, we will create an entertaining, family-oriented atmosphere designed to bring enjoyment to all community residents, Ferraguto added.
According to Ocean Atlantic, the golf course will be surrounded by a village center along with five residential villages comprising approximately 4,000 units. Recreational amenities, including multiple community clubhouses, indoor and outdoor pools, formal and informal dining, a center, spa and wellness center, tennis club and various childrens facilities, will be spread throughout the large-scale private community.
Our approach is to craft a collection of holes that is varied in character and intrigue but balanced on the whole, with multiple sets of tees to accommodate a range of skill levels, explained Drew Rogers, senior design partner for Arthur Hills/Steve Forrest and Associates. Well take advantage of Westburys signature quarry area to create dramatic elevation changes.
Construction of Westbury Country Club is scheduled to commence this summer, with a planned opening in 2008.
For more information on Westbury Country Club and Westbury Village, visit http://oadevco.com.
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Just Have To Know
There were plenty of things that you Just Have To Know in order to get things to work. Examples follow:
In Lisp, you JHTK the arguments to
(like printf). You JHTK that
defaults to input if you don't tell it explicitly. You JHTK how things like
, or even simple stuff like
In C, Java, and a slew of other languages you JHTK that a for loop uses initialize-compare-operate inside the parenthesis.
In America, you JHTK that the national speed limit is 65MPH unless a sign posts a different limit. Most localities have either a 30 or 35 MPH limit unless otherwise posted.
Er, isn't it 55mph?
Not since the federal law was repealed (in 1995, if I remember right). Each state now sets there own limit (see
for details).
So JHTK is shorthand for "just have to take the introductory course on etiquette/driving/C/Lisp"?
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Yeah, except in cases (often social contexts) where there is no FM.
Programmers often think social contexts have no manual, but that's just because they largely don't care. How many programmes do you know who have read an etiquette book, for instance? That's one of the basic manuals.
This is a reasonable gripe about many systems. One of the supposed advantages of a MenuDriven
system over a
system is
. The user can examine all the options in all the menus to see what kind of functionality is available. Another step in this direction are the various "balloon help",
, and "tool tips" mechanisms available in modern
How can one get to all the menus in the first place? Even if you've seen all the menus, how do you remember how to navigate to the specific menu you need?
Two ways: hierarchy of submenus and spatial memory. Also, a
menu system manages to have only a few menus (although I expect there are exceptions to this, they're rare).
Although Unix has
s for (most of) the common commands, and most commands give rudimentary usage help when given unrecognized arguments, there is not to my knowledge a unified mechanism for a user to determine how to do particular tasks. Please correct me if I'm wrong. --
One of the nice things about the GNU utilities is that they standardize on some common parameters. One of the most helpful (so to speak) is "--help".
Also, the
(bash) has a facility to do CommandLineCompletion
not just for commands and files, but also for command line options! You need both to enable this feature and to supply standard databases of options for each command. Many
s have this support turned on by default.
How can one get to all the menus in the first place?
Huh ? That's the whole point of early MenuDriven
applications: all menus are listed in a row at the top of the window. (Later applications had sub-menus and dialog boxes, which make it much harder to find
the functionality).
Even if you've seen all the menus, how do you remember how to navigate to the specific menu you need?
Huh? The whole point is that you *don't* need to remember. You can simply *guess* which of the menus has the function you want, and select that menu. If the function you want is there, click it. If it's not there, you simply select all the menus (listed at the top of the window) one at a time ("file", "edit", ... etc.) until you find it.
If you use some function often enough, you'll notice the keyboard shortcut listed next to it in the menu, and start using that shortcut.
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According to executive director Steve Timko, the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association must brace itself for another year of losing money — big money.
Yesterday at its headquarters in Robbinsville, the NJSIAA executive committee approved a $5.4 million budget for the 2011-12 school year, which projects a deficit of $405,000.
The NJSIAA operating surplus is $671,000, down nearly $250,000 from a year ago. The surplus helps balance the budget, but, according to Timko, the balancing act cannot continue at the current pace.
"We will petition the Commissioner of Education for relief," Timko said. "There could be some hard decisions the executive committee will have to make. The last thing we want to do is impact the student-athletes in the state of New Jersey."
The good news is that the budget passed does not cut any programs, despite the projections of major losses for the third straight school year.


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Inside a New Encyclopedia of Supermodels
Derek Blasberg's new book highlights six decades of models in Harper's Bazaar.By Stephanie Eckardt
Derek Blasberg's new book highlights six decades of models in Harper's Bazaar.By Stephanie Eckardt
A look back at the Pirelli Calendar.By Stephanie Eckardt
From fashion icon to philanthropist.By Hattie Crisell
The actress is one of Gap's fall campaign stars.By Véronique Hyland
Photographed by Richard Avedon's grandson.By Véronique Hyland
Neiman Marcus's Art of Fashion campaign celebrates an anniversary.By Leah Rodriguez
In case you can't afford their minks.By Christina Han
"The most beautiful woman in the world."
The muse and former wife of Richard Avedon was 86 years old.By Charlotte Cowles
Also, Richard Avedon's 'Dovima With Elephants' print could fetch half a million at auction.
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A sneak peek at ICP's new exhibit, "Avedon Fashion 1944–2000."By Amina Akhtar
Every image in 'Vogue' of a girl jumping in the air smiling can be traced to the great photographer's influence.By Amy Odell
Eye candy from the six exhibits on view this year.By Sharon Clott
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Gallery of Household Mysteries. Plus: Finished Objects
Dear Kay, Now that the end of summer is seriously upon us, I can't really fake it anymore regarding the condition of the house. This morning, on the way to the kitchen in search of decent 9 a.m. light for photographing my handknits, I passed by these objects. That last, lingering tote bag from hell, or some trip, or something. I can't remember one single thing that is in there. This nonfunctioning microwave oven, still lying in...Read More


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Fest aims to lure more buyers and sellers before Toronto
ROME — The Venice Film Festival has appointed French sales agent and producer Pascal Diot as topper of its new Venice Film Market and announced changes to its Lido digs.
Diot, who over the past two decades has held executive posts at companies including TF1, UGC, Canal Plus and Pathe, will launch a "light market" at Venice, as newly installed artistic director Alberto Barbera has described it.
The Lido's pre-Toronto mart will run Aug. 30 through Sept. 3 in the Lido's Excelsior Hotel, the fest's main hub, where a digital video library, a business center and an industry club will be set up.
Barbera has said the idea is to lure more buyers and sellers to Venice before they segue to Toronto.
Meanwhile, the Venice Biennale will restyle the Palazzo del Cinema's foyer and revamp and enlarge the Lido's tiny Sala Pasinetti and Zorzi screening rooms. The small Sala Volpi will move temporarily to the first floor of the Casino as part of plans to rebuild it entirely.
The 69th Venice will run Aug. 29 to Sept. 8.


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Offered today is a cast lock from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad made by Gibson & Kirk Baltimore also included is an unmarked key that works the lock perfect. Gibson & Kirk started making locks in the late 1860´s. The only locks that they every made that where cast that I have seen where for the following railroads. Most common would be the EBTRR East Broad Top. Second most common would be the NCRW Northern Central. Third Not common at all would be the B&ORR same as offered. Forth and rarest would be the WMRR Western Maryland Railroad. The lock is in perfect shape with extra strong dust cover spring and lock pops open when unlocking with the key. To my knowledge this is the only true cast B&ORR lock ever made all other examples are stamped. Cast dust cover locks don´t count in my book. Lock has nice color that the pictures make look lighter than it really is. Lock is probably 1880´s to 1890´s the older locks made by Gibson & Kirk where stamped on the body next to the dust cover and a few of the oldest ones where stamped on the font side of the hasp.


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Harrington tied for fifth place after day one in Shanghai
Published 09/11/2006
Ireland's Padraig Harrington is in a tie for fifth place after the opening day of the HSBC Champions Tournament in China today.
The Dubliner is back in action just 11 days after clinching his first European Order of Merit title.
He carded a five-under-par 67 in Shanghai today to end up two shots off the early lead held by India's Jyoti Randhawa.
New Zealand's Michael Campbell, Scotland's Marc Warren and Korea's Young-Eun Yang are all tied for second place on six under par.


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DESPITE a new coach, the Union experienced the same result Saturday in a 1-0 loss to D.C. United at PPL Park.
The Union has not won a Major League Soccer game since April 14, but came away with some optimism for the future as the players get further acclimated to interim coach John Hackworth's system.
"It was a great night for the Philadelphia Union in a lot of ways," Hackworth said afterward, while acknowledging the disappointment of missed opportunities.


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STATE?COLLEGE?- Bill O'Brien made one thing clear early on in his news conference Tuesday.
"I'm here to talk about Michigan and Michigan only, and our team," the coach said.
O'Brien heard a few questions about Penn State's loss to Indiana on Saturday, but he spun them forward and responded with answers relating back to the No. 18 Wolverines.
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Nichole Jenkins, a sophomore from Muncy, studies while camping outside Beaver Stadium in "Nittanyville" on Tuesday.
"We've moved on from Indiana. We're focused on Michigan," O'Brien said.
O'Brien stressed it was just one loss and it was over, but linebacker Glenn Carson is using the defeat at the hands of the Hoosiers as fuel. The senior said the team is more determined now and is hungry for a win.
"We really need to get it, and no one on our team likes the feeling of a loss," Carson said. "The best way to get over that loss, that feeling of a loss, is to win a game, so we're really searching for this one."
Carson also said the Nittany Lions are anxious to get back on the field and show what they can do moving past Indiana.
Center Ty Howle had the most direct answer during the news conference in reference to his botched snap on a field-goal try, which served as a microcosm of Penn State's day in Bloomington.
In the first quarter, Sam Ficken lined up for a 31-yard field goal and what would have been the first points of the game, but he never got a chance to kick it.
The snap trickled by holder Alex Butterworth before Ficken fell on the ball at the Indiana 45-yard line, giving the Hoosiers good field position.
"To be honest, I just had a bad snap," Howle said. "I'm working on it this week, and it's not going to happen again."
White house
Penn State has struggled in attendance this year with all three games in Beaver Stadium hosting less than 95,000 fans.
That will change this weekend.
As the Lions host their annual whiteout game, the contest will be played in front of a packed house as it has already sold out.
O'Brien said Penn State is going to work extremely hard, mainly because the fans will be as loud as they can.
"It's just going to be a great night to run through that tunnel and be able to play in front of fans like that," O'Brien said. "We can't say enough about our fans. We owe so much to them, and we're just working hard to play well in front of them."
The whiteout not only provides an electric atmosphere for fans, but also for recruits that are invited to the game. It can be utilized as a tool to show what Beaver Stadium is like at capacity, something that has not happened yet this year.
Carson said he came to a game against Illinois during his senior year of high school when he knew he was probably going to commit to Penn State, and the atmosphere was "phenomenal."
"You could feel the tradition, roots and stuff while you're at the game, it's just a huge crowd," Carson said. "Great fan support, so for the recruits, I think they're really going to enjoy the game and see what we're all about."
Defensive struggle
Penn State's touchdown machine in Zach Zwinak will be tasked with trying to record the first rushing touchdown against the Wolverines' defense this season.
O'Brien said a look at Michigan's defense shows it's pretty typical for the Wolverines.
"I think Coach [Brady] Hoke is a fantastic coach, and he's done a great job," O'Brien said. "I think he's in his third or fourth year there of putting together the type of team he wants, and on defense they're very stout up front, very stout."
Michigan is fourth in the Big Ten, allowing an average of only 305 yards per game. Defensive back Blake Countess is tied for the Big Ten lead in interceptions with four, and linebacker Cameron Gordon is tied for second in the conference with three in sacks.
O'Brien said Michigan plays a lot of linebackers at the position, but the Wolverines may get another player added to their corps.
Jake Ryan, who led the Wolverines in just about every category possible last year including total tackles, solo stops, sacks and forced fumbles could return from an ACL injury he suffered in March.
While Hoke said Ryan could potentially come back, O'Brien is not preparing for anyone in specific.
"We're going to play whoever shows up, obviously, but he's a very good player, and we'll have to know where he is if he does play. That's for sure," O'Brien said.
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Receiver Allen Robinson landed hard on his back during the Indiana game and remained down on the field for a few minutes, but O'Brien assured on Tuesday that Robinson will be ready for Saturday's game.
Fellow receiver Brandon Felder is "full go," according to O'Brien.
Safety Ryan Keiser missed the Indiana game following an injury suffered during his career-best performance against Kent State and is questionable for the game. O'Brien said the Nittany Lions will know more about Keiser's status by the end of today, but they feel "good about it."
O'Brien also confirmed linebacker Ben Kline popped his shoulder out Thursday, and that's why he did not play against the Hoosiers, but he will be ready for the Wolverines.


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Patrols are conducted in police vehicles, on bicycles, on motorcycles, and on foot. There are four platoons, each working 12-hour shifts. Two platoons work on any given day while the other two platoons are off. The platoon officers' shifts start depending on their seniority. Senior officers work shifts which cover from 6:00 AM – 6:00 PM, and 6:00 PM – 6:00 AM. The junior officers work 6:30 AM – 6:30 PM and 6:30 PM – 6:30 AM. The sergeants work 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM and 3:00 PM – 3:00 AM. Overlaps are done to place more officers on the streets when needed and to reduce last minute assignments for officers.
Officers do many "Park & Walks" within our community. Many hours are logged at our schools with our officers doing security checks or just stopping in for lunch. Our children get the chance to speak to an officer and see that the officer is a friend, and not just what television portrays officers to be.
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As can be seen from some of my Floater Jet (FJ) vids, my park flying area is just a bit challengingly short! Enter the idea of FJ reverse-thrust
I could have substituted in a RC car ESC, but that would have limited my throttle-stick throws to a half-forward & half-back, plus the BEC is pitifully low amperage. Then I found this forum: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showt...hlight=reverse. This forum is a how-to for flashing Atmel8 AVR ESC's (TowerPro, BlueSeries/Mystery, Turnigy/HobbyWing, etc) to simonk's code. Its original intent was for Quadcopters ESC's as the new firmware (code) makes the ESC much smoother and responsive. Nek started the thread with simonk being the master-mind behind the code which was originally conceived and implemented by quax.
After much help I have succeeded in flashing a BlueSeries 12Amp which I pressed into service as a concept testbed. A vid of my testing is below and I have a nice new BlueSeries 30Amp ESC on its way to flash and try in my Floater Jet. Crazy times ahead!
I have programmed the ESC and 9X TX such that full-down throttle-stick is off/braked, with full-up full normal thrust (so perfectly normal so far). With the new ESC code, by adding in some throttle negative mix, via the three-position ID switch, the motor now runs backwards.
Here's a vid to show the idea. By the way the bandaid (we call them plasters) on my finger is not prop damage - its a burn from cooking a dinner. Bloody dangerous those kitchens and should be avoided
Added 1 January 2012. Welcome to the New Year everybody!
I have now flashed a new 30Amp BlueSeries ESC and installed it into my AXN. After some thought I decided to use the Rudder-Stick as my reverse control. This is activated via a TX switch and has TX-logic to ensure reverse can only be active if the stick is at or near the lowest position (normal throttle-off position). With these conditions met, moving the Rudder/Throttle stick left causes the motor to reverse proportional to how far the stick is moved left from centre. The Rudder is not active while this is in play.
Here's a vid to demonstrate. Sorry (again) for the low quality.
Here is how I re-program ('flash') the ESC. Can now do this without removing anything from the plane
Thanks oz. Now have a new ESC and have started to modd it. Thing is its Xmas now!! So it will have to wait a bit. Actually I write this waiting for the kids to rise and attack their presents
Will get a vid up when its done.
Cheers & Merry Xmas!
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Duke Law welcomes International LLM class of 2016
The class is comprised of 97 students from 41 countries, including the law school's first students from Mongolia and Cuba.
5 Questions for Osman Safak '15
Safak, an LLM candidate from Turkey, chose Duke Law because of its strong faculty and reputation.
5 Questions for Phong Bui LLM '15
Bui, an LLM candidate from Vietnam, is pursuing the business law certificate.
5 Questions for Yoichi Fukui LLM '15
Fukui, an LLM candidate from Japan, is pursuing Duke Law's certificate in environmental law.
Hira Riar LLM '15 & Prasad Hurra LLM '15
Riar and Hurra, from countries with many similarities but a history of conflict, combined two recipes into one delicious "Peace Dessert".
Duke Law welcomes incoming international LLM students
The 101 foreign-trained lawyers represent 42 different countries and include the law school's first students from Afghanistan, Belize, Kosovo, and Oman.
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Raheb likes everything at Duke including the friendly and hard-working students, extracurricular activites, law professors, and courses that are designed to prepare graduates to succeed and prove themselves from the first day in practice.
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Queralt, a former Duke Law exchange student, returned for his masters due to the strength of the Law School's programs and the way it cares for LLM students.
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Voronina chose Duke Law for her LLM to gain knowledge of the U.S. legal system, an invaluable asset to the future of her career working in an international environment.
International lawyers bring varied backgrounds and interests to bear on LLM studies at Duke
Eighty six internationally trained lawyers from 38 countries make up Duke Law's LLM class of 2014.
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Li chose Duke Law for the environmental law program, to study with people from around the world, and to fulfill his dream of protecting the rights and traditions of minorities.
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Wangai, originally from Kenya, talks about what drew her to Durham from the United Kingdom, and her academic experience as an LLM student.
Planning for the future: Katharina Riedl LLM '13
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A family-friendly experience: Soeren Skjerbek LLM '13
Skjerbek talks about bringing his family from Denmark to Duke Law.
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Al-Naemi was a member of the first team from the University of Qatar to compete in the Willem C. Vis Moot Court Competition in 2011.
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Rodriguez is the first LLM student from Guatemala at Duke Law. He chose to attend Duke, following in the footsteps of family.
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Corporate attorney turns her sights to international business.
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Vasil chose Duke for quality of scholarship and its beautiful campus.
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Everybody knows that today Duke Law School is one of the top universities around the world.
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Alumni encouraged me to go to Duke for myriad of reasons, which included the reputable professors, the courses diversity, the unique social experience and the friendly-committed staff.
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A Pennsylvania State Police investigation into the sharing of child pornography on the Internet led troopers to a west Erie residence, where they said they found numerous films on a city's man's computer and storage discs.
John M. Jablonka, 47, is accused of possessing 46 "movie files" of children engaged in sex acts, according to court documents filed in the case.
The files were seized when investigators served a search warrant on Jablonka's residence in the 900 block of Brown Avenue on Dec. 13. Taken in the search were an Acer laptop computer, an Acer desktop computer and 185 optical discs, according to police.
Jablonka was charged in the investigation Friday. He turned himself in at the office of Erie 2nd Ward District Judge Paul Urbaniak on Tuesday and was arraigned on nine third-degree felony counts of dissemination of photos or film of child sex acts; 46 third-degree felony counts of child pornography; and one misdemeanor count of possessing instruments of crime.
Jablonka was placed in the Erie County Prison on $50,000 bond.
The investigation that led to the charges was launched Oct. 14, when a detective conducting undercover investigations into the sharing of child pornography on the Internet spotted a file that was seen in previous investigations. Further investigation determined that the subscriber lived at a home on Brown Avenue in Erie, according to the affidavit of probable cause filed by state police Cpl. Dana Stewart.
Police then served the search warrant on Jablonka's residence on Dec. 13. During an interview with investigators, Jablonka admitted to using his desktop and laptop computers to download child pornography, according to the affidavit.
A forensic examination of the computers and the optical discs found 17 child pornography movie files on the hard drive of the laptop computer, and 29 files on two of the optical discs. The remaining 183 discs appeared to all contain child pornography, Stewart wrote in the affidavit.
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Update: Former Dallas police sergeant rear ended another vehicle before drunken driving arrest
(Original Blog post on Sept. 22, 2013, at 3:44 p.m. Blog post has now been updated with details of the arrest.)
A former Dallas police sergeant was arrested early Sunday on a charge of driving while intoxicated.
Hector Roa, 40, was released from the Dallas County jail Sunday afternoon on the misdemeanor charge after posting $1,500 bond.
According to police documents, Roa was driving on Interstate 635 in a construction zone about 12:20 a.m. Sunday when he rear-ended slowing vehicle. Roa backed up and continued driving.
The other motorist flagged down Sgt. Danny Robinson, who was working off duty in the construction zone. Robinson reported that Roa began zig-zagging through the construction zone, the documents state.
Officer Gilbert Arevalo, who was also working off duty, flagged Roa to stop. Roa then attempted to evade Arevalo, the records state. Arevalo yelled at Roa to stop and tapped on his vehicle. Roa stopped.
Arevalo reported that Roa had slurred speech and smelled of alcohol. Roa told Arevalo that once the crash occurred, he was just trying to pull off to a safe position and not attempting to flee the scene. He also denied having drank alcohol.
Roa declined to take a breath test or to give a blood sample. Roa "refused the tests and wanted to know a good reason why he should take the tests," the documents state.
Officers then arrested and took him to the Dallas County Jail, where officers then obtained a search warrant to take a blood sample from Roa.
The results of the blood tests are pending.
Once a rising star on the department, Roa was fired more than two years ago after a drunken off duty February 2010 incident outside a Greenville Avenue bar. He is slated to go trial October 15.
A bar owner and a bouncer told police that they ordered Roa to leave but Roa refused. The bouncer told police that Roa punched him in the face and tried to punch the bar owner. The bar owner said he gave a knee strike and pushed Roa out the door. Roa fell to the ground, pulled a gun and pointed it at them, they said.
When other officers arrived on scene, they saw Roa chasing the doorman and around a car as the doorman begged, "Please put the gun away," according to police records.
Other officers then ordered Roa to put the gun down. Roa told investigators that he was acting in self-defense.


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We travel to Europe frequently and have always lease/purchased Peugeot 208/308's and lamented that we wish we could find a car in the U.S. market that was as well built, had the fuel economy and handled like the Peugeot. The Volvo C30 does all that and goes a wee bit better. Some may not like the exterior styling, but we do. The interior is OK but the seats are moofy while still offering good support. The reliability is OK with parts and labor being too high for what the car is...sorry Volvo. This is an enthusiast's car, so if you are not a run of the mill person, check out the C30, unfortunately this car is no longer manufactured so a used one will have to do.
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I've spent siginificant amounts of my life in a 1991 Explorer, 1996 Dodge Neon (death trap) 2007 Fusion and a 2006 XC-70. The C30 I purchased in Feb of 2013, is the best ride and performance I've had. It handles well enough and is nimble enough for just that little push over the edge in traffic, it goes to 11. The low end torque is amazing and peaks from 1500-5000 rpm, that 's an incredible range of top-end torque and makes the C30 quick. I pushed it to 120mph on a long straight and had no issues with stability on the front end. Performance and handling are very well balanced. The interior is minimalist, but clean and well organized, very intuitive. There is plenty of room in the cargo area for everyday use and short to medium trips, not sure what every one knocks it for in that regard. If you're hauling a horse trailer or boat, chances are you aren't in the same catgeory as the C30, so why is it blasted for not having enough space? The seats fold down and our 9 month old 84lb. puppy is happy in the back. My only complaint is the OEM tires. They are pretty much worthless on the ice and snow. If you can get a 2012 used with Volvo "piece of mind" maint. package, it's a steal. Great car Volvo, sad to see it go but glad mine is only one of 2700+ in the U.S. I will keep this car as long as I can, hope to it pass the 1mil mark someday. Couldn't be happier with the purchase. I gave reliability only one star as I haven't enough time to find out if any issues.
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Waters acquired Thar Instruments, a supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) manufacturer. The transaction follows an equity investment in Thar made in June 2007.
Thar products are used in pharmaceutical, life science, chemical, and petrochemical companies as well as government agencies, research institutions, and universities.
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The Maui High School Class of '37
October 29, 2011 - Ray Tsuchiyama
My father graduated from Maui High School Class of '37 (the "old" Maui High at the Hamakuapoko campus). He was several years older than his classmates. The reason for this difference was when he was a child he was taken to be educated at his uncle's home in Japan. He did not return to Maui until in his mid-teens. Although he was born in Kahului, he did not speak any English when he returned to Maui; later in life he interpreted with ease between English and Japanese.
Established as an innovative co-educational school in 1913 -- a year before the outbreak of World War I -- next to a fast-growing town called Paia, the "old" Maui High has a long, illustrious history with state-of-the-art buildings designed by Haiku-born, M.I.T.-educated architect C.W. Dickey – resulting in a learning environment equivalent or better than many Mainland towns of similar size. Among its graduates are three Maui Mayors and a 12-term Hawaii Congresswoman, Patsy Takemoto Mink (Class of '44).
The '37 graduating class had about 160 students: during World War II Maui High would reach its zenith in size. It would then decline in the 1950s and 1960s with the migration of former plantation town residents attracted to the new "Dream City" of Kahului – which boasted a new high school (built in 1941, the year of Pearl Harbor) named after Henry Perrine Baldwin, co-founder of Alexander & Baldwin. Ultimately, aligning to the population shift, Maui High School would relocate from the cool Up-Country site to drier, hotter Kahului in 1972.
Reflecting Japanese immigration and the large families of that first generation, over 120 of my father's 160 classmates had Japanese last names. Many Issei (first-generation) parents did not speak English and were challenged by American culture and social mores, while the Nisei (second-generation Japanese-American, born in the U.S.) students were highly motivated to learn everything new at Maui High School. More than 80 percent of the Nisei students had Japanese first names, and some had imaginative nick names. One classmate was named after the classic and literary "Cassius" – imagine a scene of a boy studying Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" after dinner when the parents would sing Hiroshima or Kumamoto folk songs in Spreckelsville.
Commuting from various plantation camps and Up-Country farms to Maui High was not easy, but students uncomplainingly boarded the sugar train from Kahului or even rode in a horse and buggy (there were a few Ford or GM cars and trucks owned by plantation workers, and they were often called upon to take family and friends to far-off Lahaina). It is amazing that in barely two decades after Maui High opened its doors, social clubs, sports like baseball and football, homecomings, cheerleading squads, student newspapers, Shakespearean plays, and even proms were a natural part of Maui High life, not transplanted alien programs of "Mainland" culture. Moreover, the Maui students hungrily absorbed all of democratic ideals and Constitutional rights promoted by progressive teachers highly influenced by John Dewey's teachings on humanism and education – in short, the American experiment of the 1930s "New Deal" to create free-thinking individuals succeeded beyond the educational planners in Washington D.C. ever dreamed.
The irony, of course, was that in spite of such advanced learning, the plantation workers and families lived and worked in tightly-controlled camps, so the bright, hard-working students must have realized the contradiction in their daily lives and their studies.
Among the '37 graduates some became entrepreneurs like Gary Fujinaka, who launched two auto parts stores (Wailuku and Lahaina); Chozen Kameya, who operated the Kameya Kafe and Market for many years; Yukuo Hanada of Hanada Service Station on Main Street in Wailuku; and Toshio "Jeremy" Araki of Araki Taxi & U-Drive. The Air-Flo Express – a Honolulu air freight firm -- was started by Angel "Shiro" Maeda. Sugar was still a major player in the post-War Maui economy, so it is no surprise that more than a dozen graduates worked for HC&S Company.
In post-War Maui, others began careers with the then-tiny State government and politics – perhaps applying the lessons of courses on Greek city-states and English Civil Wars to real-life hard-ball Hawaii politics and governance. The most famous '37 graduate was probably Daniel Aoki. He figured prominently in Democratic Party politics – the key strategist who was chief of staff or "right-hand man" to Governor John A. Burns, who dominated Hawaii State politics throughout the explosive growth of the Hawaii population and economy during the 1960s into the early 1970s. The 1950s were a period of clandestine meetings in pitch-black sugar cane fields; small pieces of paper handed by a Party district leader to another Party worker on back-roads; and whispered conversations during dinner in Puunene and Paia plantation houses. All this intense political activity had its origins in the debate clubs, Shakespeare, and social studies courses studied by students whose parents barely spoke English.
After Maui High, my father left for the Mainland. Then came Pearl Harbor, and he would join the U.S. Army and travel throughout Western Europe and Japan, South Korea. He always said that when he met other people in San Francisco or Stuttgart or Seoul he was proud that he knew as much or more about the world than they, and it was due to his alma mater in cool and innovative Hamakuapoko.
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Towson and Morgan State introduced their newest recruiting classes as part of Wednesday's national signing day.
For Towson coach Rob Ambrose, whose team went 4-8 last year coming off a trip to the FCS title game, there was clearly an emphasis on speed.
"This may be the fastest overall class that we've ever recruited," Ambrose said in a news release. "From the linemen to skill players, they're all fast. If this class was an entire team, I'd be impressed by their team speed."
Morgan State's class is the second under coach Lee Hull, whose team finished 7-6 this fall and earned the MEAC's berth into the FCS playoffs.
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- Jun 23, 2012
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This year we will use the same course setup as for Masters National in previous years.
The Cooper River is about 2,000 long spanning between Route 130 and Cuthbert Blvd. High schools will start at the 2k mark which is at Route 130. Masters will start at the 1k mark, which is just below the boathouse. The finish line is near Cuthbert Blvd.
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Factual Errors: In the Patient Page entitled "Medical Licensure" published in the September 15, 2010, issue of JAMA (2010;304[11]:1286), the 2 bullet points that read "The physician must not have committed any crime" and "The physician must not have an alcohol or substance abuse problem" should have read "Physicians are generally asked to report if they have an alcohol or substance abuse problem or if they have been involved in commission of a felony. A medical board will investigate physicians if the board receives complaints about these issues." Additionally, the bullet point that reads "Every state in the United States has CME requirements for physicians, including formal course work and more informal self-study" should have read "Most states in the United States have CME requirements for physicians, including formal course work and more informal study." This article was corrected online.
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