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MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. - The fate of recreational marijuana in Manitou Springs remained hazy Wednesday, but its residents said they know what they want for their city.
Residents thought they would get an answer from City Council last night. Instead, council turned the question to voters, passing a resolution to add a question to November's ballot addressing recreational pot. The question will ask if the city should put a sales tax on recreational marijuana.
City Council also gave an initial nod of approval to a temporary ban, or moratorium, on recreational pot. It would temporarily ban recreational pot until Dec. 31, 2013. The ban would allow council to wait until after the sales tax vote results are in to make a decision. The ordinance needs a second vote of approval before going into effect.
Voters will have to answer the question in November. However, many said Wednesday they already had their minds made up.
Some residents see recreational pot as a money-maker for the city.
"I think in light of the floods and everything else, we need all the revenue that we can get," said resident Fairlight DeTorres.
Others think differently.
"To me, it's the worst thing I can think of for our children and our grandchildren," said resident Jimmy Day.
More than 60 percent of Manitou Springs voters approved recreational marijuana with the passing of Amendment 64 last November. Resident Bryant Jones said this decision isn't about pot.
"I think it shouldn't even be a question. If the people have spoke, it's more of a question of if the constitution is still valid or not," said Jones.
Carol Nelson was concerned it would draw a bad crowd to her neighborhood.
"I don't want marijuana in this city. There are too many kids (in Manitou) and what kind of message do we send to these kids? We're saying, 'Oh it's alright to have dope,'" said Nelson.
Nelson said even if there was a sales tax on recreational pot, it wouldn't change her mind.
"We have a lot of sales tax here. It's a 7 1/2 (percent) sales tax here. That's pretty high. And I don't think we need it," said Nelson.
Adrian Alexander disagreed. He thinks recreational pot could lower crime in the city.
"It seems like the cops are paying more attention to people just smoking a joint. I think it will free up a lot of the police's time for them to focus on a lot more important things," said Alexander.
City Council may hold a special meeting Aug. 27 where the public will be able to share their opinion on the moratorium. Otherwise, there will be a public hearing at the City Council meeting Sept. 3 before council votes on the ordinance a second time.


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I'm interested in people's thoughts on negative splits, particularly on the run.
Lets say you're aiming for a 4 hour marathon - are you really more likely to hit that target if you run the first half in 2:05 as opposed to 1:55?
Isn't there a real danger of leaving yourself too much to do in the 2nd half of the race - which you have to balance with the other danger of blowing up?
So far in most races I've finished slower than I've started but hit a lot of goals this way so I'm less than convinced about the need for negative splits.. but would welcome the collective real-world experience of all you forumites!
is this for an IM Marathon..??
I've not met many people who negative split it.
Go out 'easy/steady' for the first couple of laps - conserve as there's a long way to go.
The third lap will be hard - man up and don't slow down.
Lap 4 out - yip yip. every pace is closer to the finish - just keep running
Lap 4 heading home - pick it up, and up - ignore the legs / brain and just keep going.
Its a definite negative split in effort but won't be in pace / time.
I run negative splits in most of my races by running hard but steady/controlled and then pushing myself into oxygen debt for the last 20-25% of the race. Negative splits in a marathon, I would argue this applies more to the elite to 3hr runners. For the 4hr plus runners, the marathon is a different race. It is more an endurance test. Think of it like this:- ask an elite marathon runner to run as far as he can in 4 hours, different approach needed now. That`s what a fun runner has to contend with. My best marathon was 3hr 28 off 1hr 43, 1hr 45 splits. If going for sub 4hr, I would recommend trying to stay bang on a 3hr 59 pace and try and hold it.
Nah - I say it jokingly but there's reasons for both:
1st was a beginners error - the first half I run/walked thinking I'd got nothing left, but was just breaking up my momentum. Eventually I started running all but the aid stations and picked up the pace.
2nd was because I am still stupid - dived back into transition to grab rain jacket (only for weather to go fine) so lost 2/3 mins there in the first half, and then had to stop at the med tent to get some ibuprofen for my ankle too, so that was a good 4/5 mins as I had to fill out a form!!
DoM - I think I'm with you.. I think I need to settle on a realistic target based on something I can hold (I'm in the 3:30+ bracket for stand-alone marathon). As for IM, same approach, although In my one IM to date I did try that approach and it did work - until the 1st aid station. Gross over estimation of ability and conditioning looking back

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I think the point is if the organization can just drop 15k like its nothing, its pretty annoying to somebody who has to pay 15k JUST to have the privldge to buy overpriced season tickets, preseason tickets, and parking passes.
I can see where that is annoying
Awe come on its just a smoke screen. Giants FO knows that Marcus Davis will be our number 1 WR this season. their just trying to fool all the other teams and him into thinking he isn't any good so they can sign him to a long term deal REALLY CHEAP... that's all it is. not to worry... yo u will see him in the fall putting up HUGE numbers. lol
Football has been very, very good to us.
After losing seasons 2013-15, the giants put up 11 wins in 16.. they are on way Back
But for now we can console ourselves with this fact-
# of Super Bowl victories since 1985:
1-Chicago, St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Seattle
2-Washington, Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Baltimore
3-San Francisco, Dallas, Denver
4-New York Giants!!!
Let's make it 5 in 2016 so we can be on a LINE NE again!!!
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Jets just signed him. They love WR's who can't run the route tree
ZOMG we cut a UDFA.
I don't always root for the Cowboys but when I do I wear my pink Jessica Simpson edition Romo jersey. (yes I lost a bet)


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Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee --
Thank you for inviting me to testify today about the Department of Education's progress for ensuring that its computer systems are Year 2000 compliant. On March 31 of this year, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an audit report entitled, "The Status of the U.S. Department of Education's Readiness for Year 2000." As a result, I am in a very good position to address the Subcommittee's concerns.
Assessment of the Department' Progress
Despite recent efforts and strides taken by the Department, our audit results reflect that the Department's overall progress has not kept pace with government-wide milestone dates developed by OMB and that it must continue to accelerate its efforts.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) included the Department among those agencies where there is insufficient evidence of adequate progress on Year 2000 efforts. The Department also has received congressional criticism of its Year 2000 effort.
The Department has made significant progress in recent months, as OMB noted in its most recent quarterly report on Year 2000 progress. The Department's Year 2000 project has been receiving senior management level attention from the Acting Deputy Secretary, who holds weekly Year 2000 status meetings with senior management officials. A high-level official of the Office of the Chief Financial and Chief Information Officer was assigned in December 1997 to lead the Year 2000 project, and significant additional staff resources have been assigned to the project since that time. In addition, the Acting Deputy Secretary has recently requested OIG's involvement and assistance in the Year 2000 effort. While the OIG audit was still in draft, the Department implemented some of the OIG's recommendations. For example, we recommended that the Department initiate contingency planning and in their response to our draft report, they stated that formal guidance for contingency planning for internal systems and related data exchanges has recently been issued. The Department continues to make progress on many of our other recommendations. I will summarize the audit results here. A copy of the audit report has been provided to each member of the committee.
Audit Findings
One reason for the Department's slow progress in the past has been a lack of continuity in the leadership assigned to the Year 2000 project. There have been five different project managers to date, and the Department has had three different executives serving as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) since the position was created in 1996. With the recent departure from the Department of the official who was the Year 2000 Project Manager, there exists the potential for a loss of momentum at this critical time during the Year 2000 countdown. To its credit, the Department has already assigned a new project manager at the Senior Executive Service level. While she necessarily has a "learning curve," we are encouraged by her commitment to date.
At the time of our audit, the Department had not developed a comprehensive Year 2000 plan in the time frame provided under the OMB schedule and had not completed assessments, or renovation and testing plans for mission critical systems. Since our audit, the Department has completed its systems inventory, has made substantial progress in assessing its systems, and has initiated renovation. Assessment activities will continue as the renovation process proceeds. The Department now estimates it will complete its comprehensive management plan for Year 2000 this month.
Of the mission critical systems we reviewed during our audit, we found that two of the systems that the Department had reported to OMB to be compliant were not in fact compliant, and the Department revised its assessment in its most recent report to OMB. A third mission critical system previously reported to be compliant has now also been determined to be non-compliant.
We also found that the Department lacked an accurate and supported Year 2000 renovation cost estimate, having reported four different and widely varying cost estimates since 1996. Since issuance of the draft audit report, the Department has revised its cost estimate upward to $23 million and reported that figure to OMB. OIG will be reviewing the basis for the Department's latest cost estimate.
Beyond the need to have the Department's own systems be Year 2000 compliant lies another challenge -- the compliance of systems at schools, state agencies, lenders, and guaranty agencies which interface with the Department's systems. The Department has made significant strides in implementing a plan for outreach activities, including creating a Year 2000 Internet Web site, issuing "Dear Colleague" letters to thousands of program participants, and holding conference calls and meetings with our data exchange partners. In addition, outside entities are able to contact the Department to ask specific questions on the issue.
However, despite these recent efforts the Department still lacks a cohesive plan for partnering with external data providers to help assure that their systems are Year 2000 compliant. The greatest risk is to the student financial aid computer systems, which could be compromised by data transferred from external entities whose systems are not Year 2000 compliant. The Department agreed with our report conclusion that it needs a well designed system of front-end computer edits for each of its mission critical systems.
Further, our audit report found that Department was behind schedule in development of contingency plans in the event of Year 2000 failures of its own systems. The Department must also play a leadership role in encouraging outside entities whose systems interface with those of the Department to develop their own contingency plans in the event their systems are not compliant. Since completion of OIG's audit fieldwork, the Department has issued guidance to assist the program offices in completing their risk assessments and Year 2000 contingency plans.
Obstacles to Completion
The Subcommittee asked about obstacles to completion of Year 2000 preparations. In my opinion, the greatest area for concern is with the external entities that interface with the Department's systems. If a significant number of entities are not ready and do not have adequate contingency plans, then the Department may not be able to effectively administer its programs regardless of its own state of readiness.
An additional obstacle to progress is the Department's implementation of the Clinger- Cohen Act establishing the position of the CIO. We recently issued an audit report on that subject. A copy of the audit report has also been provided to each member of the committee. We found that several factors may be hindering the ability of the CIO to establish a greater leadership role. The audit found a lack of clear policies communicating the roles and responsibilities of the CIO, too few resources dedicated to accomplishing CIO responsibilities, and a shortage of expertise on the CIO staff.
Will the Department Be Ready?
Finally, the Subcommittee asked whether the Department's data systems will be ready on January 1, 2000. I cannot say with certainty at this stage. Clearly the Department is behind schedule when measured against the OMB milestones, but, in my opinion, the goal of implementation of its mission critical systems by March 1999 is attainable. Reaching the goal will require continued quality leadership and a concerted effort from all involved. The Department is fortunate in that it only has 14 mission critical systems. However, all of them are extremely large and complex. The Department also has the benefit of having outsourced all but one of its mission critical systems. This allows it to use the technical expertise of its various contractors in addressing the Year 2000 problem.
OIG will continue to monitor the Department's progress and report our findings and recommendations to management, in accordance with the request for input from the Acting Deputy Secretary. We plan to target areas that are critical to achieving Year 2000 compliance. For the Department's systems, the scope of our work will include reviewing testing of Year 2000 renovations to mission critical systems, monitoring the work of the Department's independent verification and validation contractor, reviewing the Department's contingency plans, verifying the accuracy of its quarterly reports to OMB and providing technical assistance to the Department's Year 2000 Project Management Team. With respect to outside entities, our work will include reviews of the status of Year 2000 readiness of selected guaranty agencies, large lenders, secondary markets and/or student aid servicers based upon our assessment of risk to determine whether their systems renovations are on schedule for completion prior to the Year 2000 deadline.
I will be happy to try to respond to any questions the Subcommittee may have.


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Sarah Glaz
"No branch of number theory is more saturated with mystery and elegance than the study of prime numbers," wrote Martin Gardner in his essay "Patterns and Primes." It is therefore no wonder that prime numbers show up in another human endeavor that delves into mysteries in search of patterns and elegance—poetry. As a mathematician and poet, I have long been interested in this confluence.
Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes' cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes. Whatever the mode of introduction, the meeting of poetry and primes—"those exasperating, unruly integers that refuse to be divided evenly by any integer except themselves and 1," as Gardner described them—is often an eventful one.
Gardner often quoted poems in his Mathematical Games column for Scientific American, and he wrote several essays on prime numbers. He could hardly have found a better poem for the subject than British poet Helen Spalding's "Let Us Now Praise Prime Numbers," which he reprinted in the essay "Strong Laws of Small Primes." The poem captures elements that have made primes an object of fascination since the time of Euclid. Spalding (1920–1991) is herself a mysterious figure whose life is difficult to trace after her last publication in The London Magazine in 1961.
Let Us Now Praise Prime Numbers
Let us now praise prime numbers
With our fathers who begat us:
The power, the peculiar glory of prime numbers
Is that nothing begat them,
No ancestors, no factors,
Adams among the multiplied generations.
None can foretell their coming.
Among the ordinal numbers
They do not reserve their seats, arrive unexpected.
Along the lines of cardinals
They rise like surprising pontiffs,
Each absolute, inscrutable, self-elected.
In the beginning where chaos
Ends and zero resolves,
They crowd the foreground prodigal as forest,
But middle distance thins them,
Far distance to infinity
Yields them rare as unreturning comets.
O prime improbable numbers,
Long may formula-hunters
Steam in abstraction, waste to skeleton patience:
Stay non-conformist, nuisance,
Phenomena irreducible
To system, sequence, pattern or explanation.
—Helen Spalding
The poem's first stanza alludes to the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic. This theorem states that every positive integer greater than 1 is either a prime number or can be expressed as a unique product of prime numbers. Thus the primes are the building blocks of the integers and, consequently, of the entire real number system. In the second and third stanzas, Spalding suggests how prime numbers appear among the other numbers: Scattered without a discernible pattern, they fan out and occur less frequently as the numbers grow larger. However, despite this reduction in frequency, an infinite number of primes exists. Euclid's proof of the infinitude of prime numbers, circa 300 BCE, is considered to be one of the most elegant proofs in mathematics—a poem in its own right. Michael Szpakowski's Proof, a Short Opera offers a poetic and musical rendition of this proof. The piece can be viewed at www.somedancersandmusicians.com/proof/.
In the poem's final stanza, Spalding touches on one of the deep mysteries associated with prime numbers: our inability to pin them down with a formula. Prime numbers smaller than a given number N can be found through a technique called the Sieve of Eratosthenes—named for Eratosthenes (ca. 276–195 BCE), the Greek mathematician who discovered it. The "sifting" consists of a simple divisibility test and the systematic deletion of all the proper multiples of the prime numbers up to the largest prime smaller than the square root of N. The method works best when N itself is small. For N = 100, for example, the deletion leaves in the sieve the first 25 primes:
2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97
Since the time of Eratosthenes, many techniques have been invented to "catch" prime numbers, but as yet no formula has been found that covers them all. In particular, it is notoriously difficult to produce very large primes. Neither has a pattern been found to predict their distribution within a given interval of numbers. In 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute listed seven of the most important open problems in mathematics. The institute offers an award of $1 million to anyone who publishes a solution to one of these Millennium Prize Problems. One problem, the Riemann Hypothesis, formulated by Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866), celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2010. It is a conjecture about the zeros of the Riemann zeta function. The function, ζ, is defined for complex variables, s, and a value of s for which ζ (s) = 0 is called a zero of zeta. The zeta function was introduced by Leonhard Euler in the early 1800s as a function of a real variable. Riemann extended the function to complex numbers and established a connection between its set of zeros and properties of prime numbers. The Riemann Hypothesis is considered to be the most important open problem in pure mathematics, and its solution would advance our knowledge of the distribution of prime numbers. Tom Apostol's poem, "Where Are the Zeros of Zeta of s?," playfully imparts the excitement generated by the chase after its solution. It begins:
Where are the zeros of zeta of s?
G. F. B. Riemann has made a good guess;
They're all on the critical line, saith he,
And their density's one over 2pi log t.
This statement of Riemann's has been like a trigger
And many good men, with vim and with vigor,
Have attempted to find, with mathematical rigor,
What happens to zeta as mod t gets bigger.
—Tom Apostol, from "Where Are the Zeros of Zeta of s?"
Many other questions about prime numbers remain unanswered. Some of these problems and their partial solutions, as well as the spell cast by primes on the mathematicians who study them, have also made their way into poetry.
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Immigration-Cost Claim Splits GOP
A conservative think tank estimated Monday that granting citizenship to 11 million people in the U.S. illegally would cost taxpayers trillions of dollars, a conclusion that split the Republican Party and added a new level of complexity to efforts in the Senate to overhaul immigration laws.
The analysis from the Heritage Foundation concluded that the net cost would be at least $6.3 trillion in inflation-adjusted terms as immigrants gaining legal status would receive $9.4 trillion in government benefits and services over their lifetimes while paying $3.1 trillion in taxes.
The Senate bill would "take a really bad, broken system and make it much more expensive and much worse from the taxpayer's perspective," said Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at Heritage and the report's lead author. In contrast, he said, the more-limited benefits illegal immigrants now receive carry a tab of about $1 trillion over their lifetimes.
"It's a big deal," said Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, a Republican skeptic of immigration changes. "It's a dramatic finding that clearly makes it more difficult for the sponsors to win support."
In contrast, former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, also a Republican, called it a "political document" that "is designed to try to scare conservative Republicans into thinking the cost here is going to be so gigantic that you can't possibly be for it." He and other supporters of the Senate bill believe it would boost economic growth and help cut the deficit over the long haul.
The rift among Republicans, and the broader debate over the immigration proposal, is sure to persist this week as the Senate Judiciary Committee begins considering the legislation, which was crafted by a bipartisan group of eight senators.
Heritage, which is skeptical of an immigration overhaul, released a similar report in 2007 that many in the GOP believe helped derail an effort to rewrite immigration laws at the time.
The Heritage report tallied the fiscal impact of changes to immigration law, according to a summary, but didn't assess the impact of any macroeconomic benefits, also known as "dynamic" scoring, which Republicans have long preferred. That approach would assess changes to worker and employer behavior, and to the broader economy, that could result from new immigration laws.
"By ignoring that the economy will be a lot bigger and more productive as a result of immigration, they massively undercounted the benefits of immigration reform," said Alex Nowrasteh, immigration policy analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio) also disagreed with the study: "Immigration creates wealth—it's not that it's a cost. It's clear over time that it's new energy that creates jobs and wealth and businesses."
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which will calculate the bill's official cost if it survives a committee vote, said last week that it would include a supplemental study gauging the economic impact. When the CBO did that for a failed immigration push during the Bush administration, it found the bill could have helped reduce the deficit by as much as $160 billion over 10 years. A separate CBO analysis that didn't take into account all economic benefits concluded an unsuccessful bill would have added $18 billion to the deficit over a decade.
The CBO usually limits its estimate of a bill's costs to a decade. But with major legislation, such as the immigration proposal, it can offer longer estimates. The Heritage calculation used a 50-year horizon for the estimated remaining life span of the typical unauthorized immigrant already living as an adult in the U.S.
"A number of people in Congress do not want to consider the cost," said Jim DeMint, the Heritage president and a former Republican senator from South Carolina. "They play their normal tricks of trying to push some of the expenses outside the 10-year window."
Under the proposed Senate plan, most unauthorized immigrants wouldn't be eligible for government benefits for at least a decade. During that time, their tax payments would total more than any benefits they receive, according to the Heritage report. It estimated the brunt of the bill's cost would come once they became eligible for programs such as welfare and food stamps, and eventually for Social Security and Medicare. The Heritage study also assessed the cost of immigrants using parks, roads and courts and the cost of educating their children.
On average, a household of currently unauthorized immigrants would receive $592,000 more in government benefits than it paid in taxes over the course of a lifetime, the report estimated. Mr. Rector's conclusions are based on the assessment that a large share of immigrant households are headed by people with low levels of education, who have lower incomes and are likely to use government-benefits programs.
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That's crap. The whole whining strategy thing is crap frankly and I don't believe you actually believe the refs were swayed by it.
That said, I really don't like when the Giants talk that kind of crap, it's bush and they should be above it. Every team holds, every team tries to take advantage...I don't agree with the *****ing to the press, I don't think it helps a team's cause at all and often works against them.
Bleh no use arguing pointless issues. The Steelers out played us. Personally, I would rather congradulate them and stay close with my stealer nation bretheren because when Giants and Steelers get together good things happen.......like the Mara sisters.
Pittsburgh Steelers flat out won. There is no excuse about it. I don't particularly mind them and I think Mike (Omar Epps) Tomlin is a decent guy. However, the continual crying of the fanbase over the officiating after a win is ridiculous. The fumble call was not clear cut but iffy at best. The ball was hit when Rapistfatburger brought his arm back to pass and was still wobbly when he went to throw it. That call can go either way and in that instance I think it was the right one. The call against Ryan Clark on the hit on Victor Cruz in the endzone was ridiculous. That should not have been a flag. Granted, it was a cheap shot but it was not illegal. It was borderline late but was not a penalty.
Hey Pittsburgh Steeler fans, congratulations on the win. Now stop the *****ing and moaning about the calls and get ready for your next game. I understand that most of you are still elated because you just beat The Defending SuperBowl Champions in our house but please, stop crying about the calls. I say the same things to NY Giants fans that cry about the bad calls in the regular season game against Green Bay Packers last year. It is all part of the game.


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Also, that studying with Hynocerous about pass protection paid off. He actually did hold his own when he had a blocking assignment. Not anywhere near Bradshaw's levels, but now defenses can't just load up the box whenever Wilson is on the field... they have to respect the pass.
This is just a few Posts, said about Wilson 4 months ago ! Do you remember what you said ? You know who you are !
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I Like Wilson's goals ! ......................
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This is absolutely awesome. Kid seems very humble, and very focused/intelligent. Looks like we snagged another gem guys, not only as a player but character-wise as well. Wishing for nothing but fulfillment for DWilson this season.
Ok, it's just one game. Perspective people.. Lets hope it continues. But it's a little premature for the "I told you so" threads...
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(Aug. 13, 2008)--The 2008 summer movie season saw the return of iconic archaeologist Indiana Jones to the cinema. The Indiana Jones adventures have shone a spotlight on the field of archaeology, but as entertaining and fascinating as Hollywood might portray the profession, there are great differences in archaeology on the screen and in the real world.
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To respond to the cinema glitz, National Science Foundation media officer Peter West tapped Robert Hard, UTSA associate professor of anthropology and a practicing archaeologist, for an interview as part of a special report, "Archaeology: Reel to Real."
Hard shows clips from the Indiana Jones movies in his classes to help illustrate academic teachings and will stop the film to ask his students, "What is wrong in this scene?"
Today, scientific archaeology is concerned with answering research questions in a systematic way. Excavations require research designs, appropriate methods, various permits and agreements with government agencies and other organizations.
According to Hard, Hollywood often has a tendency to overlook scientific, legal and ethical issues involved in studying past cultures and recovering artifacts.
"You never see Indiana Jones filling out paperwork," said Hard. "And digs aren't about finding one artifact like the Holy Grail. In real research work, archeologists collect and analyze hundreds of artifacts, but artifacts are only pieces of the puzzle that give us an idea of the larger picture -- the cultures that used these artifacts in everyday life."
A series of NSF grants, totaling more than $300,000, funded Hard and colleague John Roney's anthropological expedition in the Mexican state of Chihuahua for an archaeological study of a 3,000-year-old hilltop settlement at Cerro Juanaqueña in the Rio Casas Grandes Valley. Between 1997 and 2000, the 15-member research team of graduate students and scientists from UTSA and other institutions examined artifacts and remains of plants and animals to understand the activities of Native Americans who lived on top of this 400-foot hill.
The team discovered 1,400 "metates" and "manos" -- grinding stones -- at the site, indicating at least 100 people lived on the hill and processed seeds and corn into flour. Carbon dating placed the corn between 1300 and 1100 B.C., dates that make the site one of the earliest large farming settlements in the American Southwest or Northern Mexico.
With other settlements visible in the distance, man-made terrace features and the presence of nearly 500 stone spear tips, Hard and Roney also argue that the site was a fortified position that protected the fertile river valley below, making it one of the earliest fortified settlements in the Southwest and Northern Mexico. But the hilltop dig yielded only 10 human bone fragments. The lack of human casualties at a fortified site raises the question: What happened to the people who lived at Cerro Juanaqueña?
"When people abandon a location, there is an absence of artifacts, making this a difficult question to answer without written records," said Hard. "It's similar to viewing a historic ghost town. The physical remains may tell how the people lived, but may not point to what happened to them. These are the sorts of challenges that archaeologists relish."
In the years since the excavations were completed, Hard and Roney have been analyzing artifacts and writing up the results. They have published more than a dozen articles and book chapters, have given several dozen lectures and are finishing a book on the project. The work also has led to important new collaborations with a research consortium.
Hard is developing a new project further south in Chihuahua. His interview will be posted soon on the National Science Foundation Web site.


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Speaking of female violence and Arlong, what about when the latter killed Bellemere? He DID kind of plug with three bullets at point-blank range.....
But yeah, I guess Luffy would never seriously injure a woman unless it were a gag or the female in question were a grotesque monster (like Big Mom). Not that I really mind, though. Just as long as Oda never pulls off another battle of pure fanservice ever again (points towards Nami vs. Califa)......
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^Well, that's where the alliances come in, as I've been constantly arguing throughout these threads. No matter how powerful the supernovas may be on their own, they still face the very real possibility of being wiped out by the top brass of the New World. So the solution? Seek alliances with other powerful pirates, thus increasing their chances of survival! Of course, some certain members still don't see eye to eye with me on this, but let's leave that alone for now, shall we?
Anyhoo, now that Smoker vs. Vergo is underway, here's to hoping that the rest of Doflamingo's reinforcements arrive next chapter....
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Seriously. It was implied thad Doflamingo and his underlings were on a different island. Even by flying it should take a few hours, but by ship at least a few days. Only minutes passed since he ordered them to go there.
To me it would be implausible if they arrived before the whole battle is over and everyone departed from Punk Hazard.
(The fastest ways to travel in OP, we've seen so far were teleportation (Enel and Kizaru) or Kuma's Paw transport, which also took some days)
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Could this be what's ahead... Monet & Ceasar will get away... Vergo tries to hunt down all the witnesses... Luffy is going to put end to that.. they both have hardening technic... and then strawhats go after Ceasar etc. etc.
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We don't know exactly how far away that other island is though, do we? If anything, it's probably just a few hours or so away from PH, since Dofla sounded confident that his men could take care of the whole intruder situation relatively quickly. And again, it could also depend on just how speedy their transportation could be (I wouldn't doubt in the least that faster methods of sea travel may have been made during those two years).....
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Well, we will see.
But I expect the whole battle to be over in about an hour or two. The reinforcements shouldn't even arrive in time, if they were on the same island (IMHO).
I really like to know if Vergo is a fruit user, or if he is just damn fast. So far he seems to be the fastest person we've seen in this series, even as fast as Kizaru who has the speed of light.
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Many fighters in OP world have super human strength and super human speed. It would only stand to reason that they have super human reactions as well.
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^To be fair, the only other person aside from Kizaru who claimed to have light-speed attacks was Kuma (and that was only when he made those air shockwaves with his paw powers). But otherwise, I'm also with the others who say that most other combatants would most likely be screwed if Kizaru's speed weren't nerfed.....
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^Personally, I am fine with Kizaru not being able to actually move at the speed of light. Or, more specifically, attack at the speed of light. I imagine that Kizaru can move at the speed of light, but to be able to move with purpose and aim requires brain activity, and I expect Kizaru is limited by how slow a brain reacts versus how fast his fruit can go. Consequently, Kizaru probably moves at the speed it takes a neuron to fire, but he could potentially go faster if he moved without purpose (ala 10 Fingers McGee way back during Ussop's introduction story arc).
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I'd like to point out that I do not equate Vergo to VA level. He is actually a spy for domflamingo, he currently holds a position for VA, meaning his abilities are at least VA but not at all restricted to VA. This goes for any character at the level, but in Vergo's case it is in his best interest to be discrete and his fighting abilities may be one of them.
Vergo is absolutely crushing Law. It will be very interesting if Smoker and Vergo fight..
Oh Luffy why didn't you evade Monets attack..
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Sanji and Law
I am thinking with the performance Law and Sanji showed on Vice Admiral Vergo (Pirate Vergo), Sanji is stronger then Law. Sanji came out with a cracked leg but he still matched Vergo blow for blow. Besides the cracked leg Vergo never really landed any blows on Sanji. Law looks like he got the crap beaten out of him. The speed at which Sanji and Vergo fought each other seemed like the same speed. I don't see Law beating Sanji with the crappy performance he put on in the SAD room against Vergo.
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The more and more we see of Law the weaker he becomes. I am not saying he is weak but in the sense you become familiar with his tactics. Law needs that room to gain any advantage of his powers. His speed and fighting capabilities are enhanced by it. When it comes to just peer fighting skills he does not seem on par with Smoker, Vergo, Sanji, or any other strong fighter. If you have strong haki (you can resist his shambles), very fast speed, and muscles to back up your skills you become Laws weakness.
Look at Vergo, the first time we saw Vergo he went straight to the heart and took Law out right away. Why did he not do that the second time? Law was able to make a room and he was able to reclaim his heart for a whole second. Oda is trying to tell the readers Vergo is a strong fighter. Second the time it took the heart to disappear and reappear in Law's hand, Vergo matched the speed. Even if Law had his heart back, if he is not stronger or faster then the opponent inside the Room then he loses any advantage the Room gives him. That fight in the SAD room was pathetic. Even if Law had his heart I doubt the outcome would have been any different.
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That being said, Law couldn't have been all that powerful considering he is
1) Not a strawhat
2) Doflamingo's former subordinate, and as we all know, authority equals asskicking
He isn't the close combat type of guy anyway. His abilities are clearly of the utility variety.
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Tappe vaulted 14-10 and the Pequot Lakes boys' team tied for fifth place. He was voted the most valuable male athlete of the meet. Teammate Travis Jacobsen was runner-up in the shot put.
Palmer triple jumped 32-11 as the Patriots' girls team finished fourth. Teammate Vanessa Lane was runner-up in the 60-meter dash and was third in the 200. Chloe Bermel finished third in the 400 dash.
"Abby came back after a difficult long jump to do very well in the triple," Patriots girls' coach Brian Kazmierczak said. "Vanessa was as strong as ever. She is stretching her legs to the 400 and is still learning how to run that event.
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Kazmierczak also singled out the efforts of Ellie Erholtz in shot put, Jackie Brine-Doyle in the 3200, Corrina Ruud in high jump and Catie Ryan in the 1600.
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Boys team scores: 1-Grand Forks Red River 152, 2-Grand Forks Central 70.50, 3-Bemidji 67, 4-Hibbing 49.50, 5-Roseau and Pequot Lakes 34, 7-East Grand Forks 32, 8-Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton 28.50, 9-Park Rapids 18, 10-Grand Rapids 16, 11-Crookston 15, 12-Nevis and Browerville 13, 14-Badger-Greenbush/MR 10, 15-International Falls, Walker-Hackensack-Akeley & Bigfork 6, 18-Bagley/Fosston and 18-Cromwell 5, 20-Wadena-Deer Creek 2.50, 21-Fertile-Beltrami 1, 21-Fisher/EGF Sacred Heart 1
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Pole vault: 1-Tyler Tappe PL 14-10, 6-Kale Wurdeman, PL 11-0
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He is survived by the love of his life and wife of 45 years, Libby; son Mark Doran Curtis, Pvt. 1st Class, Army, currently stationed in El Paso, Texas; son Daniel Nesta Curtis, professional orchestra conductor, currently living in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Brooklyn, N.Y.; son Clinton Michael Curtis, singer-songwriter and music educator in New York, N.Y.; son Steadman Jackson, daughter-in-law Shellie Jackson and two grandkids of Key West, Fla.; and his sister, Sarah Curtis of Brooklyn.
Mark was born in New York City on June 7, 1950, to Clinton and Helena Curtis, both writers. He was a lifelong adventurer and will be remembered as an expert sailor, fisherman, carpenter, woodsman, businessman and musician.
His personal mission was to fill each day with joy. An eclectic soul and true original, Mark cherished the values of individuality and personal expression and found strength in the ocean, mountains, and music. Above all, he was an adored husband and father.
Mark met Libby in the summer of 1968 and their lives together have taken them on journeys the world over. They settled in Key West 30 years ago and started a family, which became the joy of Mark's life.
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The day after the New York Times, the Guardian, and Der Spiegel published exhaustive reports on how badly the war in Afghanistan is going, based on more than 91,000 secret documents made available by WikiLeaks, Bacevich offered this assessment:
"The leak affirms what we already know. The war is going badly. The basic policy is riddled with contradictions, Pakistan's two-faced behavior providing one example. Comparisons with the Pentagon Papers are misplaced. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara commissioned the study that became the Pentagon Papers to answer a question about Vietnam: how did we get into this mess? That question should be asked and answered about Afghanistan as well. The leaked material contributes little in that regard."
Adopting a pose that would be familiar to the late theologian and philosopher Reinhold Niebuhr, Bacevich in effect warns of the dangers of unchecked political pride, which history demonstrates leads to political overreach — the ultimate enemy of any great power.
This sense that a confident modesty should inform public values, especially those applied to a nation's relations with the outside world, is, I think, as refreshing as it is challenging.
The publication of his latest book, Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War, seemed to offer a perfect opportunity to sit down with this Army colonel turned Boston University international-relations professor and discuss what's wrong with the war in Afghanistan.
Born 63 years ago in Normal, Illinois, Bacevich still retains a touch of his flat, Midwestern twang. In conversation he is casually precise — a holdover, perhaps, from his days of command. Bacevich manifests the fluidity that one would expect from a well-regarded professor, but despite his obvious intellectual confidence, his easy manner prompts — invites — engagement.
Complicating the equation that governs Bacevich's make-up is the fact that on May 13, 2007, his 27-year-old son, Andrew Jr., a first lieutenant in the US Army, was killed in action south of Samarra, Iraq.
In Barack Obama's worldview, George Bush's war with Iraq was a mistake, but the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan initially made sense. What's your take?
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Even from the beginning?
I think the war today makes no sense at all. In 2001, it was necessary to show clearly that any regime providing sanctuary to violent radicals intent on attacking the United States would itself pay a very heavy price. And in that sense, back in 2001, it was necessary to punish the Taliban. It doesn't follow that in 2010 we should still be engaged in a large-scale war with the aim of pacifying the Afghan population. The justification for the war is that since the 9/11 conspiracy was hatched in Afghanistan, anything less than the pacification of Afghanistan will invite another terrorist attack. The radical Islamist threat, which is real but limited, is by no means confined to Afghanistan. Even if we can pacify the place, that provides absolutely no guarantee against the recurrence of something like 9/11.
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^Personally, I feel inclined to say Tsuru, but the truth is we barely saw her in action. I still feel it would be pretty badass to see an old granny with LAUNDRY powers rise to the top of the marines, though.
I don't see any confusion here. Remember, Kid's crew were also part of the underworld witnesses who watched Luffy beat Caesar, so they could have just spread the news of the alliance themselves. It's pretty clear to me that information travels at light-speed in the underworld, and it's not like any of those guys said the alliances were meant to be kept secret in the first place.
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^I'd also say that Doberman and/or Onigumo would make good candidates, as well. After all, the both of them sure seem to share the same "absolute justice" belief as Akainu, particularly Onigumo (recall him shooting one of his own men during the EL arc just because the guy didn't agree with the idea of sacrificing his fellow soldiers).....
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I doubt it's possible to Inherit a DF,first of all they're not even blood related,2nd,Ace would have had to be Luffy's father for it to make sense.
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I agree he would be in that rank too.
Update: Changed the quote, because it was the wrong one.
I don't think there is anyone we know of in the vice Admiral rank except for Garp. Second all three( Akoiji, Kizaru, and Akainu) were vice admirals 22 years ago. They have considerable experience has a high ranking officer already. I think they are going to need someone from the outside or Oda going have to create one. Hopefully Oda creates new admirals because I don't see any of the present one becoming Admiral over the two year time skip. Finally Admiral is a special rank, it belong to the exceptional people. It is also one rank below Fleet Admiral. I hope Oda won't put any vice Admirals we know in that rank.
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I think when Luffy becomes Pirate King Smoker, Coby, and X Drake will be admiral during that time. There will have to be at least another time skip possibly 20 year skip.
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^ The Vice Admirals are next in line for a promotion to admiral status, though. They, too, have had years of battle experience and are all proficient with Haki. Moreover, admiral is a rank you really have to work for, and the VAs we know of have more than proven themselves in that regard.
Keep in mind that we have yet to see the full capabilities of the VAs. Perhaps some of them are bordering on admiral level unbeknownst to us. Onigumo, in particular, has this powerful and commanding presence to him. And his feats/missions (sneaking behind Marco and seastone cuffing him; personally picking up Ace from Impel Down) indicate he's no ordinary VA.
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^Answered wrong quote my mistake
This is the quote i was responding to. I will change it above has an update.
Experience is one thing but being able to fill the role is another. None of them are qualified in my view. Especially after seeing what the Admirals did at Marine Ford and Punk Hazard. Even Garp in his old age is stronger then any of the vice Admirals we know of. I don't discount the accomplishment some of the VA's have done but when you compare them to Garp(he passed up the promotion for Admiral couple of times), Sengoku, Akoiji, Kizaru, and Akainu. It give you a perspective of what to expect out of the Admiral Rank.
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My guess is that at least one admiral will be completely new. It will be interesting if a non-logia becomes an admiral, perhaps a promoted VA. Honestly don't know enough about current VAs to judge, although so far they don't seem to be the same caliber and the admirals pre-timeskip.
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We will see soon enough, what Admirals Oda has in store for us.
Personally I think, that there should be more than three: Akainu has a policy to strengthen the marines influence in the world, and you can't do that if you don't have enough strong people. And I think it would be also a good psychological sign to deploy at least one admiral for each of the seas (East/West/North/South Blue, Grandline first and second half).
Though the big question would be where to get the strong people.
About Smoker: I wonder what way he will go. The last chapter gave me the vibe, that he may quit the marines to join Kuzan.
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what interests me most about the next arc is that current turn events is this is probably the first time in the entire story that Luffy's is acting as an aggressor. Every single arc in One piece until now has been Luffy and Co. coming to rescue X person(s) in trouble.
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I wonder in the past when there was a pirate king where there also Yonko? I can't remember if this was mentioned before..
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Scratch out the Buster Call VAs from being promoted to admiral status. Film Z showed that they're still VAs. It looks as though Oda is going to bring in new characters for the admiral seats.
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Can we be completely certain about that, though? I mean, in Strong World Sengoku was still the FA despite the fact that roughly around that same time in the manga we saw him resign from his position shortly after the Marineford war. Maybe this will be a similar situation where one or two of the Buster Call VAs is still a VA in the movie but would later turn out to be an admiral in the manga.... or something.
Not that I object to the idea of completely new characters being admirals as well, but I still don't think we should rule out the buster call guys so soon.....
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I think at some point Luffy is gonna save Law's ass in a way he didn't have to, and he will do it because of how he believes an alliance should be. After that, Law is gonna develop even deeper respect for Luffy. A big part of the allegiance of his current crew is that fact that he will never leave behind or sacrifice a nakama.
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