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When Michele Ince went on vacation last week, she gave no thought to the idea that one of her pets would be stolen.
But that's what happened halfway through her visit to Iowa. Her dog sitter, Laura Lott, called and asked her to cut her vacation short because one of her dogs had been taken from their backyard kennel area.
The dog, a 6-pound Maltese/Shih Tzu mix named Baxter, was eventually recovered after being discovered on a city street and taken to the T. Russell Reitz Animal Shelter. But whoever took Baxter also vandalized it, cutting much of the dog's distinctive hair and covering the dog in paint or fingernail polish.
Baxter was not only missing from the kennel, but his collar had been left behind, clipped to the cage. Lott said she noticed the kennel held only Ince's full-grown yellow Labrador retriever during one of her periodic checks on the dogs.
Lott said she found the kennel door secure with Baxter's collar clipped to the kennel gate about five feet above the ground. The gate to the back yard that encloses the kennel was also wide open.
The dog-sitter called the shelter and the police before searching the neighborhood for the little white dog. Angela Smith, a technician at the shelter, said someone dropped off Baxter in the after-hours kennel about 8:47 p.m. the same evening Lott discovered it missing. Baxter was covered in a red paint-like substance, glitter and his hair on his back, ears and tail had been cut.
"They [whoever left Baxter] left us a typed note that said, 'Found on Kimball Avenue. 8:47 p.m.,'" Smith said.
The following morning, one of the technicians recognized an ad on Craig's List matching the description of the dog in the drop box and called Lott and Ince to see whether it was Baxter. Lott was first to return the call, but she told the person at the shelter it couldn't be Baxter because he was not covered in anything.
Not wanting to leave any stones unturned, Michele went to the shelter to check for herself.
"Of course we recognized him off the Craig's List ad," Smith said. "Michele came and identified Baxter and picked him up."
After getting Baxter home, Ince said the police contacted her in order to take pictures of the dog, making her wait to clean him up.
Lott said it took her three hours to scrub Baxter clean, and in the process she found three separate scratches on Baxter's belly. She said the substance was first thought to be paint, but after cleaning the dog, she said it looked more like fingernail polish.
Ince said although Baxter spent a couple of days covered in red polish, he is eating and drinking.
"He's not any worse for wear," Ince said.
Ince said the police told her they could not do anything about what happened to her dog, but she "didn't have to pay the dog-at-large fee because he (Baxter) was stolen."


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Guantanamo prosecutor quits, citing ethics concerns
The prosecutor in a Guantanamo war crimes case has asked to quit his assignment due to ethical concerns, defense attorneys and the lead military prosecutor said on Wednesday.
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He said many of the projects funded by the U.S. 'were not needed, and many were never built' like an electricity project in Nineveh province that an oversight agency found 'existed only on paper', reports the Washington Post newspaper.
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We're gonna have a whole bunch of fighters with vanishing testicles running around if we don't slow this crap down!
Properly monitored and within the legal range.
These poor men have a physical disorder that requires correcting. How dare you judge them.
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So either their former abusers or just too old to produce the testosterone naturally, which in my books should mean retirement - not TRT
I honestly don't care as long as they stay with in the correct ranges.
I dont think it makes any real difference unless it came down to 2 completely evenly skilled fighters in which one of a 2:1 ratio while the other had a 4:1 in which it would still be a very small difference. You gotta understand, just because the limit is 6:1, who in their right mind is actually going to let themselves get to that ratio? What if they ACCIDENTLY went over and then got randomly tested and popped and now they are this big abuser? So your thinking 4:1 against someone that is 2 or 3:1 which really isnt even worth making an argument about.
The only arguments that hold any weight are exactly what budi is saying - "You should have to go out the old fashion way if your testosterone is declining" and a case where someone blatantly abused it(Like in chael's case [but let's remember chael has been on this stuff since he was a kid.. he supposedly was never on steroids, just born with a condition] where he was way over) but not to be confused with a case like Overeem's where it wasn't TRT, it was actually steroids.
When i think of TRT i think of testosterone. Not a HUGE pimply guy with no neck. There is a big difference. Extra test is only going to allow you to go harder in the gym and be more aggressive. It will NOT give you more stamina or more strength, THOUGH more stamina and more strength can be a result of being able to go harder in the gym, it is not a direct result of the therapy.
For example, if a guy was on TRT, but not working out or anything like that.. the only real effect it would have would be his sex drive and his attitude.
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I think it's beyond dispute that in order to conduct embryonic stem cell research, the embryo must be killed. While there are differences between embryos and fully developed human beings, embryos are undoubtedly an early stage of development of human beings. There is no question that they are living and that their DNA makes them, scientifically speaking, human beings. Those who see little problem with embryonic stem cell research do so on the basis that the differences between grown human beings and embryos are quite significant, and that these differences are sufficient to warrant treating the embryos as something less than a full human being. Let me give an example.
In a recent post on embryonic stem cell research, one of our readers challenged me in the comments section with the following scenario:
You're caught in a burning building, BK, and you are at a T junction with an exit sign at both. On the way out the door, you see that you can pick up:
a) a liquid N2 tank containing one million embryos
b) a toddler who is sitting on the floor crying for his mother in pain
What do you do, and why?
I think this is a legitimate question and I would certainly join him in acknowledging that I would save the baby over the tank of one million embryos. But the fact that I would do so doesn't prove that the human baby is more "human" than the embryos. You see, the question is flawed in several important ways.
First, the question assumes that I need to make a quick decision (in a burning building with time to only save the baby or the tank of embryos) and my first inclination is not always the same as the result of rational reflection. Whether I make the right decision needs to be determined later when we can rationally reflect on what I did and determine if I did the right thing when all factors are carefully considered.
Second, the question of which I would save isn't decisive over the "humaness" of the embryos, and the fact that I would save the crying baby instead of the embryos doesn't mean that the latter aren't human beings. Radio talk-show host Dennis Praeger has made the following observation: "The majority of American students I have asked since 1970 whether they would save their dog or a stranger have voted against the stranger." Does the fact that the majority of the students choose to rescue their pet mean that the pet is more human than the stranger? Hardly.
Third, a more compelling difference to save the crying baby isn't that the baby is more human but because humans have compassion. We would naturally respond to save the one who is crying over the ones who lack the ability to communicate their fear or pain -- if they feel fear or pain at all. Let me give a counter-example to illustrate what I mean. Assume the same situation, except the choices in the two rooms are as follows:
a. two toddlers who you you believe to be alive but which may be dead lying immobile,
b. a toddler who is sitting on the floor crying for his mother in pain
So, which do you save if you only have time to choose one? In my view, you save the one who is crying for one major reason -- it's beyond doubt that the child is conscious and feeling pain or fear. The others may be alive but the one that is crying is in the more immediate need. If the others are alive and allowed to die, they will probably die without any awareness of the pain caused by the fire, whereas the crying infant would certainly be aware and is already aware of pain and fear. Does the fact that a person would choose to save the one conscious child rather than the two unconscious children make the latter less human than the former? I don't see how it could be so.
Finally, if the problem is limited to showing the toddler is more human than the embryos, the analogy is flawed. If it's designed to be an analogy about stem cell research, it is even more hopelessly flawed because stem cell research doesn't present us with such a dilemma. It isn't a case of "experiment on these embryos or the child will die." In fact, there is no promise that experimenting on the embros (thereby killing them) will result in anything whatsoever. It may be killing the embryos for no purpose because nothing comes for the research.
There are alternative forms of stem cell research that are available but which don't present any ethical dilemmas because no one is killed in the process of acquiring adult stem cells. Additionally, adult stem cells have a proven track record of actually resulting in treatments that embryonic stem cell treatments do not have.
In the same vein, the killing of embryos may not be needed to get the same type of stem cells required for the embryonic stem cell research. New research suggests that the same type of embryos that we hope to get from killing embryos can be extracted from human adult testes without any death at all. These stem cells called multipotent adult progenitor cells, or MAPCs, have many of the same benefits that are believed to be available from using embryonic stem cells. According to the Science Daily article:
Athersys, Inc., a Cleveland-based biopharmaceutical company pursuing cell therapy programs in cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer and other diseases, funded the research in which previously frozen human or rodent multipotent adult progenitor cells, which the company calls MultiStem™, were thawed and injected directly into the brain.
Researchers believe that MultiStem™ cells are able to deliver a therapeutic benefit in multiple ways, for example by producing factors that limit tissue damage and stimulate repair, according to Dr. Gil Van Bokkelen, the company's chairman and chief executive officer. In addition, MultiStem™ cells can safely mature into a broad range of cell types and can be produced on a large scale, something which should ease the move toward clinical studies and eventual clinical use. "Given the number of stroke victims each year, it would be a big step forward if a safe and effective stem cell therapy could be produced, conveniently stored, and efficiently delivered on a widespread basis. We believe that we can achieve that with MultiStem™," commented Dr. Van Bokkelen.
In extensive animal testing, the mature stem cells have been shown to be safe, and do not form tumors or other abnormal tissue, a potential problem seen with embryonic stem cells. Furthermore, MultiStem™ cells generally do not require the close genetic matching between donor and recipient that is needed for a bone marrow or conventional stem cell transplant, according to company executives.
Given the ethical problems associated with the use of embryonic stem cells, its track record of providing no treatments, and the availability of altnerative sources for stem cell research that appear to provide nearly identical beneifts, there is no reason to push forward with this morally questionable research until it is determined that the benefits expected cannot be obtained from more morally neutral treatments.
Addendum (8/12/06): In addition to the MultiStem™ alternative, a news story was just released saying that mouse skin cells may also offer an alternative to embryonic stem cells. According to "Kyoto Univ. group makes cell breakthrough":
A Kyoto University research group has successfully generated a new pluripotent cell out of a mouse skin cell, which resembles an embryonic stem (ES) cell, it has been learned.
According to Thursday's online issue of a U.S. scientific journal, Cell, Prof. Shinya Yamanaka and Assistant Prof. Kazutoshi Takahashi have succeeded in creating the pluripotent cell, which they named induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell. The iPS cell has similar characteristics to ES cells, which can grow into tissues and organs.
Using an ES cell in medicine is ethically controversial, as it is extracted from an embryo. With iPS cells, there would be no ethical problems as it does not involve an embryo. If human iPS cells can be created, patients undergoing transplants could have new organs with the same genes as their own, clearing the problem of postoperative rejection responses, and without ethical problems.
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Yellow skips are parked along the road, filled to the brim with household items: ripped-up sodden carpets, doors, wooden floors and kitchen units piled up next to old fridges, cookers and washing machines.
A faint smell, reminiscent of wet dog and raw sewage, lingers in the air. The area around Warwick Road in Carlisle, Cumbria, is choked with traffic but eerily empty of residents. One month after it suffered the worst floods in living memory, killing three people, the city is still mopping up.
The cloudburst overnight on Saturday January 8 unleashed two months worth of rainfall in 24 hours, and the worst flood since 1822. At Shap, 230mm (9in) fell in 72 hours. The Lake District is well known to be the wettest part of England, but most of the water finds its way out to sea via the river Eden and its tributaries, which flow through Carlisle to the Solway Firth. But a month ago the rivers could not cope with the sheer volume of water.
Mary and Steve Muir had only just finished converting their Victorian house, a former hairdresser's, when the floods hit. They visit daily to empty the buckets from the drying machines. For eight days after the floods, the couple, their three children and German shepherd dog all living in one upstairs room.
"At 3am, I looked out of the window and it was like Venice out there - water was flying round the corner," Mrs Muir said. "We put everything on the dining table to try and save things. The water was like melted chocolate - it was very cold and smelly, with raw sewage in it.
"We were frantic. The builders had only in May finished converting it and exposing the beams in the ceilings. Bit by bit, everyone was evacuated. We had no phone lines or electricity, everything was down. It was like one of those disaster films where you are the only people who survived."
The family are now living in a hotel, and expect it will be at least nine months before they can return to their home. "We feel like refugees, as if we are second-class citizens," she added. "It is like we have been given an anaesthetic and are half-asleep. It feels unreal."
Lynn Dodds and her fiance Richard Milne have managed to stay in the upstairs of their house despite the flooding. Mr Milne said he had been awoken by the sound of water bubbling up through the toilet. "I thought: 'Oh my God, this is going to come into the house.' We were up to our neck in water."
They were trapped in the house from Saturday until Monday when the water subsided. "Even then, we had to go everywhere in wellingtons."
Ms Dodds: "It is quite spooky at night because there are so few residents around. We only got the electricity back last Thursday. We are having to eat out, which is costing us a fortune.
"Although life goes on, we have so much to think about that we don't know what day it is. It is losing the things like photographs and the little things like crockery, the kettle and toaster which affect you the most."
They have been told it will be nine to 10 months before their home can be back to normal, and they are preparing to move into a rented one-bedroom flat in the meantime.
Around the corner, Carlisle United's Brunton Park ground is badly affected, although its pitch has never been healthier because of the water. The ground floor was completely submerged in filthy brown water and the player's changing rooms and boardroom are now a building site. Staff are working from portable buildings.
George Thomson, the club's operation manager, said things would not be back to normal until next season at the earliest. The team is playing all its home games away. Normally they have 6,500 attendance; last week just 912 supporters travelled for the away game. It is convenient that the club's owner, Fred Story, has a construction company. Inevitably, builders' services are at a premium in the city.
The Cumbria Business Recovery Group has contacted more than 500 businesses and visited 290 of them to offer advice and financial support. The Northwest Regional Development Agency has offered a package of £275,000 short-term relief measures targeted at businesses and communities.
The recovery group has set up an information line for businesses and distributed a disaster recovery guide. To help companies with cash flow, there is a scheme to help finance short-term interest payments. A marketing campaign has been launched to emphasise that Carlisle is still open for business.
Steve Broomhead, the NWDA's chief executive, said he was stunned by the economic implications of the floods. "I have acted swiftly to enable appropriate and effective support to be offered to the businesses and communities affected," he said.He believes the floods' economic impact has been under-reported.
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When I was young, I was a very happy kid, I played around with the other children, had many friends, and while I was slightly shy, I still had no problem talking to people. As I grew up, I learned that being chubby and smart makes people not like you for your looks and envy you for your brain. I became quite lonely and withdrew from the pain to my room and my computer.
I still had a few friends, and they made life a little brighter, but I was still unhappy and felt so bad about my appearance, and dumbed myself down so people would like me. By the time I was 18, nature helped me out and I grew into my body, and suddenly I wasn't fat anymore, but that chubby little kid was still there, in the back of my mind.
That little hurt child kept me insecure about my looks, as well as forced me to play dumb, with the fear that I'll lose friends and be lonely again if I'm too smart again. I was failing school because I didn't want to seem smart; I was failing at my love life because I had no self-confidence, and I started to think my future is nothing but bleak.
Lucky for me, I managed to pull myself out of the mire and learned a few ways to boost my self-confidence. I'm now happy, married and loving my career, with many friends who love me for who I am. It's my turn to help those who might still be having problems with their own self-confidence by showing you a few methods that will boost it.
First, you should identify what you're good at: We are all good at one thing, at least, so find what you can do well. You might not be the best in that field, but as long as you do it well – you can improve and take pride in your expertise.
Try expressing yourself through a form of art you like – this is a real confidence booster and a great way to meet likeminded people. Friends who share in your interests can make you feel more accomplished and push you onward.
If you can't think of anything you're good at, think of something you'd like to do – then go and do it! It doesn't matter if you succeed or fail, trying is the most important step!
Once you've taken that first step, you'll be amazed how much better you feel, and your confidence will start climbing.
Second, you must take pride in your good qualities: Yes, being humble is important, but if you're good at something – don't be embarrassed about it. Celebrate it and be happy that you possess such qualities – they make you a better person. Remember – you can have pride in your accomplishments and behavior, but still be humble about it.
If you start doubting yourself because of one weakness or another, remember that you have good qualities and strengths, and that's what defines you, rather than your weakness.
Third, identify your insecurities: What do you think is holding you back? Is it that little voice in the back of your head? The way you look? Something you're ashamed of? Find whatever it is that's dragging you down and write it on a piece of paper. By giving it a name and writing it down on a piece of paper, you make it a tangible object. Now – TEAR THE PAPER UP! This is a psychological trick that makes your brain think that you're ripping the actual weakness.
Next, talk about it: Find a loved one or a friend that you trust and bare your soul. Sharing lightens the burden, and another person can offer perspective, pointing out things you might have missed. This is what friends and family are for! Even if that person can't help you solve the problem, just talking about it can help.
Don't let past mistakes bring you down: We all make mistakes, all the time. But wallowing in them only serves to make you feel bad about yourself. It's a crippling behavior that ruins self-confidence and prevents you from actually learning from the mistake (believe me, I've been there too many times!)
Remember, most Billionaires had several failed business and moments where they thought their business was going to fail, but they never let it stop them.
Turn negative into positive: The song goes "When you're smiling – the whole world smiles with you", and it can't be more accurate. Avoid the Debbie-Downers and Negative-Nancys. When you surround yourself in negative thoughts and people, you dictate the conversation of your life. If you keep telling yourself 'no' – you'll never hear a 'yes.' Look for the silver lining in every situation, find a positive spin in a negative situation – it will help you push through hard times and identify opportunities in bad situations.
Avoid comparisons: Yes, there's always someone better – they can be richer, prettier, in better shape, etc. That doesn't mean you can't strive to improve – instead of looking at people you think are "better" than you, look at how you can improve. You might not be as fit as that person in the gym, but if you keep exercising – you'll lose weight, look better and feel better. Don't be jealous of that person at work who seems smarter than you – find what you might be doing that needs improvement and work on that. Strive for improvement, not perfection.
Be grateful: When someone compliments you, take the compliment and thank the person. There's nothing wrong with it and it doesn't make you seem boastful. Usually, when someone compliments you, they're showing appreciation of you. When you refuse to accept the compliment, you're rejecting someone's honest appreciation.
Help others: Many studies have shown that when we help others – it releases dopamine in our brain, making us happier. When you help other people – it gives you a sense of control, purpose and benevolence, all three are amazing confidence boosters.
Make eye contact: When you're talking to another person, avoid looking at the ground or away, its sends a message that your confidence is low or that you don't want to talk to the other person. Instead, make eye contact – this broadcasts to them that you value them and makes them respond in kind, creating a positive cycle that builds confidence.
Take care of yourself: Personal grooming is a huge factor in confidence building. When you groom yourself and dress well, people say you "look like a million bucks" – whether we admit it or not, our self-worth is influenced by our looks, so looking better makes us feel better!
Spend time with loved ones: Avoid people who make you feel negatively and spend more time with those who encourage, support and push you. These people build you up, push you on and help you grow your confidence in yourself and your actions.
Don't fear the unknown: Sticking to what you know will make your world a small and grey place. Instead – try new challenges, meet new people and try new food. It might not all workout, but you'll gain experience, knowledge and maybe pick up a few more friends along the way.
|I hope these tips will help you as much as they did me. If you have more ideas or ways to boost your confidence, let me know in the comment section below.
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nokia c2-05 is a great phone but only if it would have whatapp
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HLUMIE , 11 Dec 2012my nokia gives me problems when it cames to whatsapp,plz help what must i dodoes c2-05 support whatsapp?
i cant open mine bcoz it's not open-line yet. it ask me a restriction code and i don't know what it is. my c2-05 is from switzerland and im here in the philippines. actually, my aunt gave it to me she's from switzerland. please help me how to figure out the code


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I'm sure that it is probably better to let the worms do it, but do you
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worms do it, that loosening the clay and adding compost or some other organic
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The pump worked good. takes some work due to the type of item it is to air up a mattress, but it worked. Others borrowed it to top of their air mattresses because their electric ones wouldn't firm them up. Overall can not complain.Read More
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Lately, I have been watching Nikita on Netflix and not updating my blog. What can I say, I love TV shows with a strong female lead. Haha! Anyhow, I did manage to make some tasty soy glazed salmon the other day based off the Barefoot Contessa marinade recipe.
Soy Glazed Salmon Marinade Ingredients:
- 2 Tbsp. dijon mustard
- 3 Tbsp. soy sauce
- 3 large cloves of garlic minced or pressed
- 3 Tbsp. of extra virgin olive oil (you may need to add a little more as you mix)
- 1 Tbsp. honey
- 1 Tbsp. brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp. miso paste (I think I may have used too much in my original recipe, so I reduced it here to 1/2 a tsp. This is also optional–you don't absolutely need the miso paste)
- pinch of cayenne
- pepper
- black and white sesame seed to sprinkle on top
Mix all the ingredients together, and taste to check your seasonings. Spread over top of salmon fillets, and bake for about 15 minutes at 400 F.
Mr Cyclist has been cooking up a storm this week. So, probably another reason I have not updated the blog. I bought a roasting chicken, and came home one day to find homemade chicken noodle soup. So delightful! Then, another day he had made delicious homemade pasta sauce from san marzano tomatoes (the key for the best sauce).
And, he created this sinfully delicious pasta dish with a cream sauce, broccoli, pesto chicken sausage, and sun dried tomatoes.
I suppose I have also been overwhelmed with the January weight loss storm of New Year's resolutions. I will make my resolutions next week. Haha. That's just how it is being a weight loss Dietitian, and writing a blog about nutrition and health this time of year. You easily get burnt out. So, perhaps I let myself relax watching Nikita. No crime in that. At least there are no commercials!
I resolve to blog another post tomorrow 🙂


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(CNSNews.com) - Former President Gerald R. Ford thinks the federal government should treat homosexual couples the same as married heterosexual couples, even supplying them with equal Social Security and tax benefits.
In an exclusive interview with the Detroit News, the former president said, "I think they ought to be treated equally." Asked specifically whether homosexual couples should get the same Social Security, tax and other federal benefits as married couples, he replied, "I don't see why they shouldn't. I think it's a proper goal."
The former president also told the newspaper he supports federal legislation to outlaw anti-homosexual job discrimination, "That is a step in the right direction. I have a longstanding record in favor of legislation to do away with discrimination."
Reverend Lou Sheldon, chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition, took issue with Ford's comments.
"I don't think President Ford has really thought this one through. Homosexuals have so many multi-sexual partners. They are not monogamous. That does not contribute to the betterment of society. Society needs, for its achieving principles, a family where there is a father and a mother. Children can only best be raised in a setting where there is a monogamous relationship between a father and a mother," said Sheldon.
Sheldon pointed out that 38 states have approved legislation, recognizing marriage as an act between a man and a woman.
Ford was president from 1974-77, rising to the office after Richard Nixon's resignation. In the interview with the Detroit News, he did not say if any of his White House appointees were homosexual, but said he is pleased that President Bush has appointed homosexuals to serve in his administration.
"I applaud that President Bush has appointed three people who are gay. That is a big step in the right direction. The atmosphere was totally different 25 years ago, and the issue never arose." The former president added that having homosexual assistants wouldn't have mattered to him "as long as they were competent."
White House spokesman Jimmy Orr refused to confirm Ford's statement that three homosexuals had been appointed to jobs in the administration, but said, "the president selects experienced individuals with high character who agree with him on issues and will assist the Administration [with] implement[ing] the president's agenda."
In the newspaper interview, Ford expressed hope that the Republican Party will continue to expand its outreach to homosexual voters.
"I have always believed in an inclusive policy, in welcoming gays and others into the party. I think the party has to have an umbrella philosophy if it expects to win elections," the former president said.
According to Sheldon, Republicans need "to find people who agree with our president. And President George Bush does not agree in granting these things (equality to homosexuals). We've talked to him and he has given us that assurance."
But the Log Cabin Republicans applauded Ford's comments and believe inclusion is the GOP's formula to winning future elections.
"I think he is yet another person within the party who is speaking up about equality and that is always a positive thing. I think what President Ford sees is the long term inevitability that gay and lesbian people are going to be treated equally in this society," said Kevin Ivers, spokesman for the Log Cabin Republicans.
Ivers also thinks "President Ford recognizes that gay people, like blacks and latinos and a whole bunch of different groups in this country, also share the core values of the Republican Party which make up a positive, conservative agenda for the country and for the world."
Phyllis Schlafly, president of the conservative Eagle Forum, was blunt in her assessment of Ford's comments.
"This is just one more reason why it was a mistake to nominate Gerald Ford for president at the Republican National Convention of 1976."
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I teach the Robotics Course in the Department of Computing, attended by third years and MSc students. This is a one term course which focuses on mobile robotics, and aims to cover the basic issues in this dynamic field via lectures and a large practical element where students work in groups and implement robotics ideas using the Lego Mindstorms NXT kits and, since 2014, the Raspberry Pi single board computer and Python using BrickPi interface boards. The course always finishes with a competition where the groups compete to build and program the robot which can most effectively complete a certain challenge against the clock. See the bottom of this page for pictures and videos from previous years' competitions.
Huge thanks to Tristan Laidlow, Andrea Nicastro, Jan Czarnowski, Charles Housego and Daniel Lenton who are the current lab assistants, have helped a lot with the development of the practicals, have repaired broken kits and are another point of contact for any problems.
Thank you very much to Stefan Leutenegger who co-taught the course with me last year and developed new material. Thank you to Duncan White, Geoff Bruce and other colleagues from the department's Computing Support Group, and to teaching fellow Maria Valera-Espina, who helped significantly in the transition to the Raspberry Pi-based platform in 2014. Thank you to Robert Lukierski, Lukas Platinsky, Jan Jachnik, Jacek Zienkiewicz, Jindong Liu, Adrien Angeli, Ankur Handa and Simon Overell who were previous Course Support Leaders and tutorial helpers on the course and substantially helped with the preparation of materials and exercises; and to Ian Harries and Keith Clark who developed earlier material from which the current course has evolved. In particular Ian Harries deserves the credit for making this the practically-driven course it still is today.
Lecture and practical sheets for the course will be available for printing from the links below (the links will come alive gradually throughout term). I will hand out the practical sheets each week in paper form. Extra material relevant to each week's lecture or practical which would probably be useful for you to look at is available from links below the lecture plan.
The timetabled slots for Robotics are for four hours a week, on Monday, from 2pm to 4pm and Wednesdays, from 9am to 11am. Most weeks we will have a one hour lecture at 2pm on Tuesday. Wednesday 9am to 11am will always be a compulsory practical session.
Note that there are currently two extra timetabled lab hours on Wednesday from 11am to 1pm. These are not compulsory, and they may clash possibly with other courses you are enrolled on. The reason for this is if some lab sessions over-run somewhat and we need a bit more time to finish. We are hoping that in the second hour 3-4pm on Monday later in term we will be able to use the lab.
Lectures on Tuesdays are in Lecture Theatre 308, Huxley Building and practicals are in Teaching lab 219, Huxley Building. The course runs for 8 weeks from week 2 to week 9 of college term; but we will not use all of the timetabled slots to hit the regulation department course length of 28 hours. The full plan for lectures and tutorials will be kept up to date below, and I will also announce it in lectures and via email when there are changes.
Practical exercises will be set in the lectures and assessed regularly in the labs as explained clearly in the practical sheets via demonstration and discussion with one of the lab assistants. I will ask you to organise yourselves into fixed groups for the practical sessions throughout term. These assessed practicals form the only coursework element of the Robotics course, and no additional assessed exercises will be set. We will add up all marks from practical assessments throughout term to form a final coursework mark for each group. Each practical group will be given a Raspberry Pi/Lego NXT robotics kit to keep and be responsible for during the whole term, so you will be able to spend extra time as needed during the week to complete the practical exercises. The number of members in each group will be confirmed in lectures in the second week depending on how many students take the course but will probably be 4 or 5.
Note that in the second week (Wednesday 19th October) there will be no practical, due to Commemoration Day. On Monday 17th October we will have a two hour session in the lecture room from 2pm to 4pm; one hour lecture and then a one hour pen and paper tutorial in the lecture room.
|Monday 2pm
|Monday 3pm
|Wednesday 9am
|Wednesday 10am
Week 1
Oct 10 and 12
Lecture (308)
Introduction to Robotics/Robot Motion
|Lecture continued (308)
Practical (219)
Getting Started and Accurate Motion
|Practical continued (219)
Week 2
Oct 17 and 19
Lecture (308)
Mobile Robotics
Tutorial (308)
Robot Floor Cleaner
Week 3
Oct 24 and 26
Lecture (308)
Practical (219)
Investigating Sensors
|Practical continued (219)
Week 4
Oct 31 and Nov 2
Lecture (308)
Probabilistic Robotics
Practical (219)
Probabilistic Motion and Sensing
|Practical continued (219)
Week 5
Nov 7 and 9
Lecture (308)
Monte Carlo Localisation
Practical (219)
Monte Carlo Localisation
|Practical continued (219)
Week 6
Nov 14 and 16
Lecture (308)
Advanced Sonar Sensing
Practical (219)
Place Recognition
|Practical continued (219)
Week 7
Nov 21 and 23
Lecture (308)
Practical (219)
Object Finding Challenge
|Practical continued (219)
Week 8
Nov 28 and 30
|Revision Lecture (308)
Practical (219)
Challenge competition
|Challenge competition continued (219)
Here are electronic versions of extra handouts given out in paper form during the course and some additional resources.
|Week 1:
|Robot Science, Chapter 1, Andrew Davison (A chapter of a popular style book on robotics I am working on... not part of the content of the course but may be an interesting read and any comments welcome).
|Berlin Summit on Robotics 2011 Report (Also certainly beyond the scope of this course but this report from a meeting I attended recently gives a good snapshot of the current thinking of various roboticists on the state of the field and current challenges).
|Python Tutorial The official Python Tutorial is very good and well worth reading if this is the first time you are using Python... incidentally learning Python is a very good plan in any case because according to this it is the most Popular Coding Language of the moment!
|Week 2:
|WiFi Setup Instructions
|Week 3:
|Week 4:
|Raspberry Pi Robotics Web Interface Instructions
|Web-based access to your Pi via the MAC address
|Modelling the World in Real-Time, Andrew Davison
|Week 5:
|Monte Carlo Localization: Efficient Position Estimation for Mobile Robots, Dieter Fox, Wolfram Burgard, Frank Dellaert, Sebastian Thrun
|Also see this link: Frank Dellaert's online tutorial material on MCL
|Week 6:
|Week 8:
|SLAM Tutorial Part 1, Hugh Durrant-Whyte and Tim Bailey
|SLAM Tutorial Part 2, Tim Bailey and Hugh Durrant-Whyte
The winning robot was developed by Nicolas Paglieri, Clemens Lutz, Antonio Azevedo and Francesco Giovannini and completed the challenge in a remarkably fast 21 seconds, though impressively around half of the teams completed the whole course and a couple came close to this time. The winning team's robot used the Lego light sensors cleverly as proximity sensors, allowing giving the robot an extra obstacle sensor which was particularly useful at high speed, and this together with fast planning gave them the best time.
The winners' robot was remarkably precise, and its motion included particularly nice curved entries into the waypoint spaces, all while maintaining very good speed such that it beat its nearest competitor by 8 seconds. The members of the winning group were Alexandre Vicente, Ajay Lakshmanan, Garance Bruneau, Kevin Keraudren, Axel Bonnet and Zae Kim (video courtesy of Jindong Liu).
The winning team this time consisted of Jim Li, Daniel Abebe, Robert Kopaczyk, Nicholas Heung and Cheuk Tam, and their robot's successful completion of the course in under 40 seconds is shown below (video courtesy of the team).
Again there were several teams which achieved the challenge impressively within the target time of 30 seconds, but the winners by a narrow margin were Ivan Dryanovski, Tingting Li, Wenbin Li, Edmund Noon and Ke Wang whose winning run is shown in the video below (video courtesy of the team).
Several of the teams achieved good results, and one or two even made promising progress on the more difficult problem of global localisation (the "kidnapped robot problem"), where the robot had to initialise a localisation estimate from scratch when dropped at an arbitrary position in the course. This video shows the robot of the team of David Passingham, Vincent Dedoyard, John Payce and Mengru Li in action (video courtesy of the team).
The winning robot was from the team of Philip Stennett, Nicholas Ball, Maurice Adler and Wei Chieh Soon which completed the course all three times with a total time of 36.9 seconds --- this is a (very dark) video of their robot in action . The robots from the team of Si Yu Li, Henry Arnold, Shobhit Srivastava and Jonathan Dorling, and the team of Ricky Shrestha, Hussein Elgridly and Maxim Zverev also successfully completed the course three times.


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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Wasting no time to start rehabilitating for next season, Xavier Henry underwent surgery on his left wrist and right knee on Friday and both procedures were successful, according to the Los Angeles Lakers.
The were performed by Dr. Steve Shin (wrist) and Dr. Steve Lombardo (knee), both at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic.
The Lakers announced Henry is expected to make a full recovery by the beginning of training camp, but the question is which team's training camp will he be reporting to?
Henry, 23, is one of 11 players on the Lakers roster set to become a free agent this summer.
The four-year veteran averaged career highs in points (10.0), rebounds (2.7), assists (1.2), steals (1.0) and minutes (21.1) per game while also shooting a career-best 41.7 percent from the field in 43 games (making five starts).
Kent Bazemore, who has already been ruled out for the rest of the season with a torn tendon in his right foot, is next in line for surgery. Bazemore will visit Stanford University's Dr. Kenneth Hunt on Monday and is expected to have his foot operated on sometime next week. Bazemore is also on an expiring contract, however the Lakers can sign him to a $1.1 million qualifying offer to make him a restricted free agent.
Bazemore and Henry are turning the page to next season, not just through medical attention, but also by both of them already undergoing their exit interviews with Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak. Kobe Bryant is the other player on the Lakers' roster to have his season end prematurely because of injury (left knee fracture). Bryant will have his exit interview with Kupchak at a later date and will not address the media next week when the rest of the team goes through their exit interviews Thursday and Friday, according to a team spokesman.
Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni told reporters at Friday's shootaround in advance of L.A.'s game against the Golden State Warriors that Pau Gasol (vertigo symptoms) could very well join those three players as another guy to have his season cut short because of an injury. Gasol was ruled out for the Warriors game. He previously told ESPNLosAngeles.com that it would be "unlikely" he plays another game this season. The Lakers have three games remaining after Friday -- home against Memphis on Sunday, followed by road games at Utah on Monday and at San Antonio on Wednesday.
Steve Nash (hamstring) and Chris Kaman (right calf strain) are also out against Golden State.


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