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I am a technician, but I have technique only inside technique.
Outside it I am mad, with every right to be so.
With every right to be so, did you hear me?
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Paulo Tabuada
Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of California at Los Angeles
11/29/16: Prof. Tabuada becomes an IEEE Fellow.
10/07/16: Ayca Balkan wins the best paper award at EMSOFT 2016.
04/18/16: Yasser Shoukry wins the best paper award at ICCPS 2016.
12/17/15: Prof. Tabuada is awarded the 2015 Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize by the IEEE Control Systems Society.
08/01/15: Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems special issue on Formal Methods in Control. Consider submitting your best papers!
01/09/15: Ayca Balkan wins the best student paper award at ICC.
|Research interests:
My main research interests cover a range of topics which could be described as a modern systems theory. In particular, I'm interested in modeling, analysis, and control of real-time, embedded, networked and distributed cyber-physical systems. Other research interests include geometrical nonlinear control and mathematical systems theory.
|Awards and Honors:
|Odds and ends:
IEEE Fellow, 2017.
EMSOFT Best Paper Award, 2016.
ICCPS Best Paper Award, 2016.
IEEE CSS Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize, 2015.
ICC Best Student Paper Award, 2015.
ICCPS Best Paper Award, 2014.
Plenary speaker, NecSys, 2013.
IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Award, 2011.
EMSOFT Best Paper Award, 2010.
Plenary speaker, WODES, 2010.
Semi-plenary Speaker, ACC, 2010.
AACC Donald P. Eckman Award, 2009.
NSF CAREER Award, 2005.
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Computing Robust Controlled Invariant Sets of Linear Systems
Matthias Rungger and Paulo Tabuada
To appear in IEEE TAC, 2018.
Control Barrier Function Based Quadratic Programs for Safety Critical Systems
Aaron D. Ames, Xiangru Xu, Jessy W. Grizzle, and Paulo Tabuada
To appear in IEEE TAC, 2017.
First steps toward formal controller synthesis for bipedal robots with experimental implementation
Aaron D. Ames, Paulo Tabuada, Austin Jones, Wen-Loong Mae, Matthias Rungger, Bastian Schürmann, Shishir Kolathaya, and Jessy W. Grizzle
To appear in Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, 2017.
DOI: 10.1016/j.nahs.2017.01.002
Secure State Estimation for Cyber-Physical Systems Under Sensor Attacks: A Satisfiability Modulo Theory Approach
Yasser Shoukry, Pierluigi Nuzzo, Alberto Puggelli, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Sanjit A. Seshia, Paulo Tabuada
To appear in IEEE TAC, 2017.
Closed-Form Controlled Invariant Sets for Pedestrian Avoidance
Yasser Shoukry, Paulo Tabuada, Stephanie Tsuei, Mark Milam, Jessy W. Grizzle, and Aaron D. Ames
To appear in ACC, 2017.
SMC: Satisfiability Modulo Convex Optimization
Yasser Shoukry, Pierluigi Nuzzo, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Sanjit A. Seshia, George J. Pappas, Paulo Tabuada
To appear in HSCC, 2017.
PrOLoc: Resilient Localization with Private Observers Using Partial Homomorphic Encryption
Amr Alanwar, Yasser Shoukry, Supriyo Chakraborty, Paul Martin, Paulo Tabuada, Mani Srivastava
To appear in IPSN, 2017.
Secure State Estimation Against Sensor Attacks in the Presence of Noise
Shaunak Mishra, Yasser Shoukry, Nikhil Karamchandani, Suhas Diggavi, Paulo Tabuada
IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 4(1), 49-59, 2017.
Special issue on Secure Control of Cyber-Physical Systems
Underminer: A Framework for Automatically Identifying Non-Convergent Behaviors in Black-Box System Models
Ayca Balkan, Paulo Tabuada, Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, Xiaoqing Jin, and James Kapinski
EMSOFT 2016. Best paper award.
Privacy-Aware Quadratic Optimization Using Partially Homomorphic Encryption
Yasser Shoukry, Konstantinos Gatsis, Amr Alanwar, George J. Pappas, Sanjit A. Seshia, Mani Srivastava, Paulo Tabuada
Scalable Motion Planning Using Lazy SMT-Based Solving
Yasser Shoukry, Pierluigi Nuzzo, Indranil Saha, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Sanjit A. Seshia, George J. Pappas, Paulo Tabuada
Decomposing Controller Synthesis for Safety Specifications
Eric Dallal, Paulo Tabuada
Synthesis of Safety Controllers Robust to Unmodeled Intermittent Disturbances
Eric Dallal, Paulo Tabuada, Daniel Neider
System Identification in the Presence of Adversarial Outputs
Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh, Paulo Tabuada, Suhas Diggavi
Robust Linear Temporal Logic
Paulo Tabuada and Daniel Neider
Controller Synthesis for Mode-Target Games
Ayca Bakan, Moshe Vardi, Paulo Tabuada
A science of CPS Robustness (NSF: 1645824)
Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization: Active Resources (NSF: 1521617) led by Vanderbilt University and in collaboration with U. Arizona, and UPenn.
CPS: Frontier: Collaborative Research: Correct-by-Design Control Software Synthesis for Highly Dynamic Systems (NSF: 1239085) led by UMich and in collaboration with CMU, and Texas A&M.
ExCAPE: Expeditions in Computer Augmented Program Engineering, led by UPenn and in collaboration with Berkeley, Cornell, UIUC, Maryland, Michigan, MIT, and Rice.
SPARCS: Synthesis of Platform-aware Attack-Resilient Control Systems, a DARPA HACMS project led by UPenn.
Foundations of secure cyber-physical systems (NSF:1136174) with Suhas Diggavi, Rafail Ostrovsky, Mani Srivastava, and Amit Sahai.
Towards robust cyber-physical systems (NSF:1035916) with Rupak Majumdar at UCLA/MPI.
Closing the gap in controller synthesis (NSF:0953994) with Rupak Majumdar at UCLA/MPI.
An anytime approach to real-time embedded control (NSF:0834771) with Vijay Gupta at Notre Dame.
Design and run-time techniques for physically coupled software (NSF:0820061) with Mani Srivastava at UCLA, Rajesh Gupta at UCSD, and Ramesh Govindan at USC.
SGER: Event-triggered control over sensor/actuator wireless networks (NSF:0841216)
Control and real-time scheduling co-design (NSF:0712502)
Automated synthesis of embedded control software (NSF CAREER:0717188)
EE239AS, From Data to Models, Spring 2017
EE141, Principles of Feedback Control, Winter 2017
EE239AS, Verification and Control of Hybrid Systems, Fall 2016
EE141, Principles of Feedback Control, Winter 2015
EE239AS, Geometric Nonlinear Control, Fall 2014
EE141, Principles of Feedback Control, Winter 2014
EEM240A, Linear Dynamical Systems, Fall 2013
EE141, Principles of Feedback Control, Winter 2013
EE239AS, Verification and Control of Hybrid Systems, Fall 2012
EE188, Introduction to Power Systems, Winter 2012
EE141, Principles of Feedback Control, Spring 2011
EE239, From Data to Models, Winter 2011
EEM240A, Linear Dynamical Systems, Fall 2010
EE239AS, Verification and Control of Hybrid Systems, Spring 2010
EE141, Principles of Feedback Control, Winter 2010
EE141, Principles of Feedback Control, Fall 2009
EE239AS-2, Geometric Nonlinear Control, Spring 2009
EE141, Principles of Feedback Control, Winter 2009
EE141, Principles of Feedback Control, Fall 2008
EE141, Principles of Feedback Control, Spring 2008
EEM240A, Linear Dynamical Systems, Winter 2008
EE102, Systems and Signals, Fall 2007
EE142, Linear Systems: State-Space, Winter 2007
EEM240A, Linear Dynamical Systems, Fall 2006
Prof. Raphael Jungers on sabbatical leave from UCLouvain.
Yasser Shoukry (M.Sc. and B.Sc. Ain Shams University, Ph.D. UCLA), postdoctoral researcher (2015-), co-advised with S. Seshia at UC Berkeley and G. J. Pappas at UPenn.
Ayca Balkan (B.Sc. Middle East Technical University), Ph.D. student (2010-).
Omar Hussien (M.Sc. and B.Sc. Cairo University), Ph.D. student (2013-).
Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh (B.Sc. Sharif University), Ph.D. student (2013-), co-advised with Prof. Diggavi.
Joris Kenanian (M.Sc. and B.Sc. École Normale Supérieure de Lyon), Ph.D. student (2014-).
Former group members:
Postdoctoral researchers
Eric Dallal (Ph.D. University of Michigan), postdoctoral researcher (2014-2016). Now at AIR Worldwide.
Daniel Neider (Ph.D. RWTH Aachen), postdoctoral researcher (2015-2016). Now Research Group Leader at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems.
Matthias Rungger (Ph.D. University of Kassel and B.Sc. TUMunich), 2012-2014. Now postdoctoral researcher at TUMunich.
Elaine Render, 2010-2011. Co-advised with Prof. Majumdar.
Pritam Roy, 2010-2011. Co-advised with Prof. Majumdar. Now at Calypto Design Systems.
Ramkrishna Pasumarthy 2008-2009. Now Assistant Professor at IIT Madras, India.
Giordano Pola 2006-2007. Now Assistant Professor at University of l'Aquila, Italy.
Ph.D. students
Yasser Shoukry (M.Sc. and B.Sc. Ain Shams University, Ph.D. UCLA), Ph.D. student (2011-2015), co-advised with Prof. Srivastava. Now a postdoc at UCLA/UC Berkeley/UPenn.
Sina Caliskan (M.Sc. Bilkent University and B.Sc. Middle East Technical University), Ph.D. student (2010-2015). Now at Mathworks.
Anne-Kathrin Schmuck, Visiting Ph.D. Student from TUBerlin, Germany (March and December 2014).
Jose Araujo, Visiting Ph.D. Student from KTH, Sweden (Winter 2012-Summer 2012).
Bruno Lacerda, visiting Ph.D. Student from ISR/IST, Portugal, (Fall 2011).
Tijs Donkers, visiting Ph.D. student from TU/e, The Netherlands (Fall 2010). Now Assistant Professor at TU/e.
Manuel Mazo Jr., 2007-2010. Now Assistant Professor at TU Delft, The Netherlands.
Adolfo Anta, 2006-2010. Now at GE Global Research, Munich, Germany.
Soheil Samii, Visiting Ph.D. Student from Linkoping University,
Sweden (Spring 2009 and Summer 2009).
M.Sc. students
Bastian Schürmann (B.Sc. TUKaiserslautern), (2013-2014). Now a Ph.D. student at TUMunich.
Suzanne Weller, visiting M.Sc. student from TUDelft, Fall 2013.
Hamza Fawzi (B.Sc. École des Mines de Paris), 2010-2012. Now a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge.
Pitcha Prasitmeeboon, 2010-2011. Now a Ph.D. student at Columbia University.
Yusuf Yucel (B.Sc. Bilkent University), 2009-2011. Currently at Rockwell Collins.
James Marcelin, 2009-2010.
Anna Davitian (B.Sc. UCLA), 2007-2009, co-advised with Prof. Kaiser. Now at AeroVironment.
Andre Dias (B.Sc. Instituto Superior Tecnico), 2007.
Undergraduate students
Jean Auriol, Undergraduate student from MINES ParisTech, Summer 2014.
Caron Zhang, Undergraduate student, Fall 2011-Spring 2012. Now a M.Sc. student at Caltech.
Sara Asaadi, Undergraduate student, Winter 2010.
Garik Rostomyan, Undergraduate student, Summer 2009-Winter 2010. Now a M.Sc. student at UCLA.
Annie Chen, Undergraduate student, Winter 2009 and Spring 2009. Now a Ph.D. student at MIT.
Wenhui Zhang visiting undergraduate student from Fudan University, China, Summer 2008.
Catvu Bui, Winter 2008 and Spring 2008 now at DiCon Fiberoptics.
Yuan Fu, Winter 2008 and Spring 2008.
John Larson, Winter 2008 and Spring 2008.
Shilloam Won, Winter 2008 and Spring 2008.
Michael Dokhanchy, Fall 2007.
High School students
Megan Ross, visiting High School Student from Chadwick High, Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA, Summer of 2008.
Journals and Conferences:
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (Associate Editor: 2010-2012)
IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (Associate Editor: 2009-2011)
56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Program Committee)
International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS) 2017 (Program Committee)
International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS) 2016 (Program Committee)
5th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (Program Committee co-chair)
European Control Conference (ECC) 2015 (Program Committee)
International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS) 2015 (Program Committee)
14th International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT) (Program Committee)
53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Program Committee)
International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS) 2014 (Program Committee)
Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC) 2014 (Program Committee)
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Paulo Tabuada
UCLA Electrical Engineering Dept.
66-147F Engineering IV Building
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
Tel: 310-794-4266
Fax: 310-206-4685
e-mail: tabuada(at)ee.ucla.edu


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By Adam Lucas
LAS VEGAS—This story starts with a very simple premise, and let's be up front about it so you can move on if you're not interested:
You can hate Saturday's 103-100 loss to Kentucky. You can fume about late-game mistakes or defensive breakdowns or timeouts.
But as we stand here on Dec. 17, you have to love this team.
Hate the game. Of course. You just watched Malik Monk score 47 points on 18-of-28 shooting and an absurd 8-of-12 from the three-point line. Carolina tried man-to-man, Carolina tried zone, Carolina tried everything short of tackling him--a tactic the Wildcats used on occasion--and nothing worked.
But love the team. Kenny Williams will eventually be one of those lockdown defenders who flummoxes opposing scorers. But Saturday—without the benefit of Theo Pinson to spell him—was a learning experience. Only once in Carolina history has a player scored more than Monk's 47 points. That was Duke's Dick Groat in 1952; the Tar Heels lost that game by 30 points. Somehow, in this one, they played evenly through 39 minutes and had the lead with 45 seconds remaining. The storyline will be that Monk scored 47. Alternate storyline: Monk scored 47, and Kentucky needed every single one of them to beat Carolina.
Hate the game. You should. Kentucky continually exploited the Tar Heels with a high screen, then used their athleticism to turn the advantage into a variety of high-flying dunks, floaters, and kick-outs for three-pointers. That's an area where Carolina had been good early in the year, but they'll need to improve against opponents with the athleticism of the Wildcats (and there aren't many of those opponents).
But love the team. You need to be completely honest right now: when Luke Maye was in the game in key minutes of the second half, what did you say? Really, what did you say? And all he did was score a career-high 11 points, all of them in the second half, including nailing two straight three-pointers. And when he was done scoring, all he did was tip out a missed Justin Jackson free throw to preserve a Tar Heel possession in what looked like—it really looked like—might be the game-saving play. Two hours after the game, Luke Maye is still trending nationwide on Twitter.
Hate the game. Carolina was beaten on the backboards 39-35, including a 15-10 deficit on the offensive glass. On one key second-half possession, Kentucky held the ball for a full 71 seconds, missing three field goals and a pair of free throws before getting one point on their one minute and 11 second possession on a Bam Adebayo free throw.
But love the team. Because somehow, despite the 47 points and the 71 second possession and the howling pack of traveling Kentucky lunatics and the technical foul and the foul trouble and being down seven with five minutes to play, it was a tie game with a minute left. Other Carolina teams--other good Carolina teams--lose this game by a dozen points. This game was one possession from being one of the top three regular season wins in the Williams era.
Hate the game. If Carolina wins this game, we're talking about Justin Jackson's 34 point performance as one of the greatest offensive displays in the Williams era. He needed just 17 shots to do it, aggressively went to the rim (taking 15 free throws) and was effortlessly smooth while doing it. But no one will remember it, because this was the Malik Monk 47 Point Game, and Jackson will be an afterthought, like another certain game in April that could have had a very different storyline.
But love the team. With six minutes left and Carolina down six, Jackson had a good look at a three-pointer. Two-possession game, six minutes left…every other 30-point scorer in the world takes that shot. But Jackson saw Isaiah Hicks with an even better look, and fed him for one of his three assists. And then after the game, all Jackson wanted to talk about was his five missed free throws ("That's five points," he said. "We could've won the game. That's on me.").
You can hate the game because the opponent was Kentucky and being in the same building with them reminds you of exactly how differently things work in Lexington. John Calipari arrived at his postgame press conference with his tie off, top two buttons on his shirt unbuttoned, and having changed into blue jeans. There are not two top-level programs in America right now that arrive at the end result off the court more differently than Carolina and Kentucky.
But you have to love the team precisely because despite how differently the programs run, there's Carolina right there with the Wildcats. We've gotten to see Jackson turn from a cautious freshman into an aggressive junior. One of the beautiful things about this world is that everyone likes something different. Mark me down as someone who likes watching players learn, and mature, and get better, and connect—with a team, a program, and a university.
And of course, you want them to win, too. But this is December. It was hard to walk out of T-Mobile Arena not feeling that these two teams might see each other again this season. "It's a game of basketball," Williams said. "You learn and live and hope you live while you're still learning and at the end be able to do something about it."
On Saturday, Carolina learned. Nearly four months remain to love the team...and, based on Saturday's effort, they're going to do something about it.

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Just 21 per cent of people think Ed Miliband is doing a good job, a new poll shows today.
The rating, down from 28 per cent in April, means the Labour leader is doing worse than David Cameron - at 32 per cent - but better than Nick Clegg. Only 17 per cent said the Liberal Democrat leader was doing a good job.
The research, by ICM for the Sunday Telegraph, found that more than half of those asked - 51% - thought Mr Miliband was doing badly.
However, the poll found that most people still believed Labour would win if a general election was held tomorrow.
Some 32 per cent thought the party would emerge victorious, while 30 per cent backed the Tories and 16 per cent the Lib Dems.
ICM director Martin Boon compared Mr Miliband's leadership to Iain Duncan Smith's spell in charge of the Conservatives.
"Ed Miliband is not in a good place. Only a fifth of voters are satisfied with his performance," he said. "It's difficult to imagine that things could be any worse for him, or indeed how he can succeed in turning the public around.
"He is becoming Labour's IDS and if it carries on like this it's hard not to think that we'll be seeing Conservative polling leads very soon."
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OU Law Students Inspired by Study in China
Learning about an incredibly influential country as it is evolving is one of the best things about the Chinese Summer Law Program. I was fortunate to have a first-hand look at the country with the largest population, the country with the fastest growing major economy, and the largest global exporter all at the same time! The Chinese Summer Law Program at OU Law is in partnership with Indiana University – Indianapolis.
For four weeks, our group of law students from across the United States and Canada were able to live among Chinese law students while learning from some of the top legal scholars in the country. Many of our professors spoke candidly about their experiences during the Cultural Revolution, when the practice of law was an illegal profession, and how the Chinese legal system has developed to the country that it is today.
Another incredible part of this experience was getting the opportunity to travel to a country and to places within that country that very few people from North America get to see. I had always wanted to travel to China but as a non-Chinese speaker with no connections in China, I wasn't exactly sure how I would find the time to travel to China and see it in an authentic way.
This program not only afforded me an opportunity to obtain a travel visa, but also connected me with Chinese law students to serve as our "buddies" during our trip. These buddies turned out to be an incredible resource for seeing the city of Beijing through the eyes of a local. However, as we immersed ourselves in the Chinese culture the thing that shocked me the most was, despite cultural differences, how much the American and the Chinese law students had in common. It is nice to know that no matter what country you study in, everyone goes through similar experiences when studying the law.
I will always remember the important places we visited. As we casually strolled through the halls of the Supreme Peoples Court and drank tea at the National's People Congress, I couldn't help but feel incredibly grateful for the rare experience.
I would highly recommend this program for anyone who has an interest in international or comparative law. The experiences that this trip has afforded me will last me a lifetime. I am so thankful that I was able to take part in such an incredible program.


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airraid installed
thanks to jg member psychojeepers i bought a brand new m.i.t intake from him,i have to say im very happy with the look,but more so its the improvement in accelaration that got me,much quicker throttle responce and wot,not sure about the mpg yet because i cant stay off the throttle,but i test it out after the fun wears off,wish it had a deeper tone but i figured it wouldnt with the factory air box,what do ya guys think
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That's what I have the Airaid Jr. Intake. That's all our Jeeps need. I love mine.
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It looks great!
Have you mount the airraid filter directly into the oem filter box? If so, do you have some pictures from inside? Or have you just changed the tubing?
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well i have a k-n drop in the factory airbox,would a airraid be better do you guys think?eventually i want to put the cone style in and lose the factory box but im worried about the heat and power loss,whats your guys opinions on this
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The airbox is perfect. There's really no need for a cone filter.
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'On This Day' 1955: Black Alabama Girl Arrested for Refusing to Give Up Bus Seat– 9 Months Before Rosa Parks
Before there was Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin. But while the former attained civil rights immortality, the latter has lived most of her life in obscurity. While one has streets, parks and schools named after her, the other wasn't much more than an urban legend for decades after her heroic act of defiance, an act which actually had a larger legal impact on bus segregation than Parks' did.
"Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn't the case at all," Colvin, now 71 years old, told the New York Times in 2009. "Maybe by telling my story — something I was afraid to do for a long time — kids will have a better understanding about what the civil rights movement was about."
Claudette, then a 15-year-old student at Booker T. Washington High School in Montgomery, Alabama, was taking the bus home from school on March 2, 1955 when the driver ordered her to give up her seat to a white woman, even though there were three empty seats beside her. "If she sat down in the same row as me, it meant I was as good as her," Colvin explained. But such was not the state of race relations in 1950s Alabama. Still, she made up her mind right then and there to defy generation of Jim Crow segregation.
With her head filled with classroom lessons of black female heroes like Harriet Tubman, the runaway slave who helped scores of other slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad, and Sojourner Truth, the former slave turned abolitionist and women's rights champion, the young Colvin was keenly aware of her people's struggle for equality. It was a struggle that was all too relevant in her own time. "We couldn't try on clothes," she remembers in a 2009 NPR interview. "You had to take a brown paper bag and draw a diagram of your foot … and take it to the store. Can you imagine all of that in my mind? My head was just too full of black history, you know, the oppression that we went through. It felt like Sojourner Truth was on one side pushing me down, and Harriet Tubman was on the other side of me pushing me down. I couldn't get up."
And she didn't, even when two policemen showed up.
"All I remember is that I was not going to walk off the bus voluntarily," she told NPR. Known as a "mouthy" teen, Claudette told the bus driver that she paid her fare and that it was her constitutional right to sit where she pleased. It was a shockingly bold act that would change history.
Here's Claudette's own recollection of that day's events as retold in Phillip Hoose's National Book Award winner Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice:
One [of the policemen] said to the driver in a very angry tone, "Who is it?" The motorman pointed at me. I heard him say, "That's nothing new . . . I've had trouble with that 'thing' before." He called me a "thing." They came to me and stood over me and one said, "Aren't you going to get up?" I said, "No, sir." He shouted "Get up" again. I started crying, but I felt even more defiant. I kept saying over and over, in my high-pitched voice, "It's my constitutional right to sit here as much as that lady. I paid my fare, it's my constitutional right!" I knew I was talking back to a white policeman, but I had had enough.
One cop grabbed one of my hands and his partner grabbed the other and they pulled me straight up out of my seat. My books went flying everywhere. I went limp as a baby—I was too smart to fight back. They started dragging me backwards off the bus. One of them kicked me. I might have scratched one of them because I had long nails, but I sure di'n't fight back. I kept screaming over and over" "'It's my constitutional right!" I wa'n't shouting anything profane—I never swore, not then, not ever. I was shouting out my rights.
It just killed me to leave the bus. I hated to give that white woman my seat when so many black people were standing. I was crying hard. The cops put me in the back of a police car and shut the door. They stood outside and talked to each other for a minute, and then one came back and told me to stick my hands out the open window. He handcuffed me and then pulled the door open and jumped in the backseat with me. I put my knees together and crossed my hands over my lap and started praying.
All ride long they swore at me and ridiculed me. They took turns trying to guess my bra size. They called me "nigger bitch" and cracked jokes about parts of my body. I recited the Lord's Prayer and the Twenty-third Psalm over and over in my head, trying to push back the fear. I assumed they were taking me to juvenile court because I was only fifteen. I was thinking, Now I'm gonna be picking cotton, since that's how they punished juveniles—they put you in a school out in the country where they made you do field work during the day.
But we were going in the wrong direction. They kept telling me I was going to Atmore, the women's penitentiary. Instead, we pulled up to the police station and they led me inside. More cops looked up when we came in and started calling me "Thing" and "Whore." They booked me and took my fingerprints.
Then they put me back in the car and drove me to the city jail—the adult jail. Someone led me straight to a cell without giving me any chance to make a phone call. He opened the door and told me to get inside. He shut it hard behind me and turned the key. The lock fell into place with a heavy sound. It was the worst sound I ever heard. It sounded final. It said I was trapped.
When he went away, I looked around me: three bare walls, a toilet, and a cot. Then I feel down on my knees in the middle of the cell and started crying again. I didn't know if anyone knew where I was or what had happened to me. I had no idea how long I would be there. I cried and I put my hands together and prayed like I had never prayed before.
When Claudette's mother Mary Ann heard her daughter had been arrested, she immediately phoned their pastor, H.H. Johnson, who rushed her to the police station:
When they led Mom back, there I was in a cell. I was cryin' hard, and then Mom got upset, too. When she saw me, she didn't bawl me out, she just asked, "Are you all right, Claudette?"
Reverend Johnson bailed me out and we drove home. By the time we got to King Hill, word had spread everywhere. All our neighbors came around, and they were just squeezing me to death. I felt happy and proud. I had been talking about getting our rights ever since Jeremiah Reeves was arrested, and now they knew I was serious. Velma, Q.P. and Mary Ann's daughter, who was living with us at the time, kept saying it was my squeaky little voice that had saved me from getting beat up or raped by the cops.
But I was afraid that night, too. I had stood up to a white bus driver and two white cops. I had challenged the bus law. There had been lynchings and cross burnings for that kind of thing. Wetumpka Highway that led out of Montgomery ran right past our house. It would have been easy for the Klan to come up the hill in the night. Dad sat up all night long with his shotgun. We all stayed up. The neighbors facing the highway kept watch. Probably nobody on King Hill slept that night.
But worried or not, I felt proud. I had stood up for our rights. I had done something a lot of adults hadn't done. On the ride home from jail, coming over the viaduct, Reverend Johnson had said something to me I'll never forget. He was an adult who everyone respected and his opinion meant a lot to me. "Claudette," he said, "I'm so proud of you. Everyone prays for freedom. We've all been praying and praying. But you're different—you want your answer the next morning. And I think you just brought the revolution to Montgomery."
But the revolution would have to wait just a little while longer. Although Colvin received many letters of support and her ordeal marked the political activism debut of a young reverend named Martin Luther King Jr., the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) ultimately decided not to make her a symbol of the black struggle for equality. While Rosa Parks was mellow, lighter skinned and middle aged, with "the right hair and the right look," the teenager Colvin was "mouthy," "emotional" and "feisty." Claudette also got pregnant, and the father was a married man. Civil rights leaders correctly perceived that the non-threatening Parks was much more likely to garner white sympathy than the impetuous rebel Colvin. "My mother told me to be quiet about what I did," Colvin told the New York Times. "She told me: 'Let Rosa be the one. White people aren't going to bother Rosa– her skin is lighter than yours and they like her."
Still, it was Colvin, who as the federal government's star witness in the landmark Browder v. Gayle, helped to end bus segregation in Alabama. It was the beginning of the end for Jim Crow. Claudette came to terms with her "raw feelings" towards Rosa Parks and participated in the bus boycott the began after Parks refused to give up her seat nine months later. It was, after all, the same city and the same bus system. Claudette even sometimes spent nights over Park's apartment, where the kindly woman would make her Ritz crackers topped with peanut butter.
Claudette Colvin settled into a life of obscurity. She never married. She moved north to New York and became a nurse's aide, retiring in 2004. She watches a lot of TV and is a regular at her local diner. She remembers Dr. Martin Luther King fondly ("an average looking fellow– it's not like he was Kobe Bryant or anything") and, especially since Hoose's book became a hit, she now talks about her important yet largely forgotten role in civil rights history. "I feel proud of what I did," she told the Montgomery Advertiser. "I do feel like what I did was a spark, and it caught on." She still harbors no bitterness towards Rosa Parks, who died in 2005.
"I know in my heart that she was the right person," she said.
Phillip Hoose & Claudette Colvin at the 2010 National Book Festival (Colvin begins speaking around 22:00):
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At first glance Grand Boulevard seems a quaint oddity. A perfect circle, with a circumference just over 2.75 miles, it's the rationale for Corona's tagline as the "Circle City." But, a century ago, giants roared here.
The occasions were the Corona Road Races, held in 1913, '14 and '16. At the time it seemed people couldn't get enough of seeing fast, powerful, roaring racing cars and the extraordinarily brave men who climbed behind the wheels and held open the throttles.
In 1912 Corona civic leaders and business interests started working up a plan and the race was set for Sept. 9, 1913. The total purse was $11,000 and it attracted the best drivers. Estimates for the crowd count ran as high as 100,000. The main race was won by Earl Cooper in a Stutz and the event was considered a huge success.
The last Corona Race was held on a steamy April 8, 1916. From the beginning, it seemed to not go well with only an estimated 25,000 people in attendance and the heat causing trouble for the track, the cars, and the tires. The end of Corona racing came when Bob Burman, one of the leading drivers of the day, had a huge wreck which ended his life as well as his riding mechanic and a security guard.
Today there is only one indication that races once took place here. On Grand Boulevard, at the intersection with Washburn, on the sidewalk bordering Corona Fundamental Intermediate School is a brick and concrete monument. It marks the Start/Finish line of the races.
On Sept. 14, 2013, the City of Corona will celebrate the Centennial of the Corona Road Race. Whether you're a racing fan, a follower of southern California history, or a citizen of Corona, it won't be an event that you will want to miss. There won't be a race, but it will be a day celebrating a part of Corona's past.
The day will begin with a procession of vintage race cars from that era around Grand Boulevard beginning at 9 a.m. on the original Start/Finish Line for the race.
From there the celebration will continue at City Park [MAP], which is also celebrating its Centennial, with a festival and car show from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Events at City Park will include: music and entertainment, food, vendors, a Pinewood Derby, and more!
The City is currently seeking entrants for the car show – all years, makes and models of cars are welcome! Registration for the event can be found at www.WorldClassMotoring.com. The registration fee before Sept. 7 is $20 and $25 the day of the event. For additional information on the car show, email email@example.com or call 1-818-706-9999. Vendor space is also available.
While the days of cars driven by racing giants around Grand Boulevard have faded into the City's illustrious past, we invite you to celebrate an event 100 years in the making on Saturday, Sept.14 at City Park!


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A questionable Measure S
To the Editor:
The City Council should heed the experience of the County regarding the Library Measure A.
The County voters approved Measure A, a one-eighth percent sales tax, by over a two-thirds majority vote because it was locally backed and specified that the tax be used solely by the County Free Library. It was the popular support and the assurance that the funds would not be siphoned off for other purposes that made the measure successful.
The City Council had to decide on an extension to Measure S with or without a provision that the money would be used solely by the Police and Fire Departments. With this provision in it the Measure S would require a two-thirds approval of the voters. Without such a provision it would require only a majority approval of the voters. The City Council decided to go for the simple majority vote and not dedicate the funds to the safety departments.
So Measure S is not being brought forward with popular support or with legal assurance that the funds will not be used elsewhere. Instead the City Council passed a resolution which says their good intentions to use the tax moneys for public safety. This will soon fade away in the maze of the budgetary processes.
The question of where the tax moneys of proposition S from the previous years were used is not specifically answered. Sure it can be said that they were applied to the safety budgets, but not whether they were used in addition to what was budgeted before Measure S or how much these new funds replaced some of the amount of funds that they had before Measure S. In a recent City Council hearing on this subject, Mr. Ross Liberty and Mr.Dick Selzer tried to explain that it is quite apparent that the levels of funding for the safety departments are not fully reflecting the addition of tax proceeds from Measure S during the past years. In short, Measure S tax money went to the safety departments, but the level of general funds for the safety departments were also reduced. So the question is not whether Measure S money went to the safety departments budgets, but how much of the general fund money was reduced because of the new tax money.
The reluctance of the City Council to add a provision in the Measure S extension that would legally add the tax money to the existing funding of the departments is a serious flaw that may result in the failure of its passage, even by a simple majority of the voters. There must be assurance that the hard earned tax money of voters is properly used. The County's Measure A for library funds had such a provision and even then it is being disputed as to whether the tax money is being properly applied. How then can the voters believe that the tax money from Measure S, without such a provision, will be used as intended.
I believe the City Council has created a greater problem for the police and fire services than they attempted to resolve. The failure to dedicate the tax money and the removal of a termination date for the tax measure may be the deciding factors in
— Don Howard, Ukiah


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United Blood Services of Las Vegas
Blood drive challenge at University Medical Center
Find the hero in you and join the battle to save lives! Volunteer blood donors are needed to gather 750 life-saving blood products during the largest blood drive in Las Vegas history. This blood drive will challenge the Clark County Fire Department, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department as well as paramedics and staff from University Medical Center to determine which organization can bring in the most blood donations. When community members donate, each participant will be asked which organization they are supporting and a vote will be cast to support our local heroes!
All donors at this blood drive will receive vouchers for various Las Vegas shows. Donors will also be entered into hourly drawings for a chance to win a variety of prizes including a grand prize $1,000 Visa gift card provided by Clark County Credit Union and United Blood Services.
As Southern Nevada's community blood provider, United Blood Services relies on blood donations to make sure blood is available for anyone who needs it. UBS currently has an urgent need for O negative blood. O negative is the universal blood type and the only type that can be transfused to patients with different blood types.
Donors are encouraged to make an appointment and can do so by calling 877-827-4376 or by visiting www.unitedbloodservices.org/LV and entering sponsor code: UMChospital. Donors can now complete their health history questionnaire online on the same day of their donation by visiting www.unitedbloodservices.org/HealthHistory.html. This questionnaire often saves time for donors, as it provides UBS with valuable information that is typically gathered during the in-person interview process at mobile blood drives and donation centers. The questionnaire must be completed on the same day as the blood donation.
UBS is always interested in creating partnerships for new blood drive sponsors in our community. To learn more about organizing a mobile blood drive, please call (702)304-6457.
Wednesday, Dec. 4
7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
University Medical Center
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1000 Shadow Ln.
Las Vegas, NV 89102
Contact Amanda Arentsen at (702) 433-4331 or (702) 278-6044 for more information.
About United Blood Services of Las Vegas
Founded in 1963, United Blood Services of Las Vegas, a non-profit, 501 (c)(3) organization, provides blood and blood products for hospitals in Southern Nevada, California and Northern Arizona. Its programs exist to make a difference in people's lives by inspiring individuals to donate blood, producing a safe and ample blood supply, advancing cutting-edge research and embracing continuous quality improvement. The United Blood Services network is one of the nation's oldest and largest non-profit blood service organizations, and is a founding member of America's Blood Centers and the American Association of Blood Banks. Nationally, United Blood Services serves more than 500 hospitals in 18 states, contributing to more than 25 million people. For more information, visit www.unitedbloodservices.org.


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Experience Design Major
Experience Design is a rapidly growing field in which professionals research, design and implement interactive experiences. An experience designer creates multisensory experiences for any target audience. The field of experience design is vast, including museum exhibits, themed attractions, trade shows, marketing events, clinical office design and areas of the hospitality industry such as restaurants, hotels and cruise lines. From the very first semester, our program gets you started with a hands-on learning approach to the methods used in experience design. We emphasize the importance of practical, real-world experience as we work closely with clientele through our full-service, student-run agency – The Imagination Emporium.
Program strengths
Through interactive classes and applied learning opportunities, our students make the most out of the many strengths this program offers:
- Only experience design undergraduate program in the Midwest
- Small class sizes enable you to learn and interact closely with professors and other students
- Classes apply experience design techniques to real-world scenarios
- The Imagination Emporium, the student-run agency, works with community clients, extending your opportunity for practical learning
- Team-based projects prepare you to enter any work environment
- Strong relationships with organizations can help connect you with career opportunities after graduation
Experience design tracks
You'll take a series of core curriculum courses and then choose one or more tracks that better suit your learning and career goals.
- Design: Learning methods to help bring experiences to life
- Research and development: Researching content and methods used to create experiences
- Management: Managing a team working together to create an experience
"Almost every single class includes some sort of hands-on project. Our class partnered with the city of Southport to create their city-wide Halloween event. This project allowed us to learn about client relations as well as design an experience for the public. It also put our skills to the challenge of creating something that would be recognized all over the community."
Project-based courses
- Applied learning courses give you real-world experience with clients on goal-oriented projects
- The intro class (EXD 101) provides a foundation for researching, designing and implementing an on-campus experience
- The Special Topics course (EXD 480) studies specific themes that change each semester
- In the Senior Capstone Course (EXD 490), you'll create your own experience to submit to your senior portfolio
- Courses develop skills in construction methods, scale modeling, experiential marketing and project management
Potential careers in experience design
Experience design professionals work in various settings and environments, each having different overall goals. You might find a career in brand engagement, entertainment industries, telling stories, or designing themed attractions, museum exhibits, events and parties. Find your niche in:
- Themed environments
- Museums
- Event planning
- Event marketing
- Fundraising
- Artifact reconstruction
- Period design
- Experiential marketing
- Performing arts
- Team building
- Historical administration
- Hospitality (customer experience)
Experience design might be for you if:
- Are a creative and social person
- Enjoy hands-on learning
- Wish to design exhibits, events and themed attractions
- Enjoy working in collaborative teams
Curriculum Guides
These curriculum guides outline the different classes you will need to take as an experience design major. The general education guide provides a list of all the classes you need in order to fulfill UIndy's general education requirements. The experience design curriculum guide lists all of the classes you will need to take in order to fulfill the major's requirements. Be sure to take a look at both guides in order to get a complete picture of what your classes will look like at UIndy.


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July 06, 2013 11:00 AM
by JAMES J. NESTOR
Luanne Baker will present a portrayal of "JJ — Jonah's Daughter: The Reluctant Missionary," at 7 p.m. Friday at the Harmony Grove Lutheran Church, 6584 Five Points Road, Creekside.
There will also be an old-fashioned hymn sing to follow. Baker's portrayal tells the story of Jonah's feelings about the people whom God wants him to preach to and what it was like in the belly of a great fish.
A free-will offering will be received.
Church members, front row from left, are Belva Marco, Myrna Orr and Barb Shoop; and second row, Wanda Stear, Darlene Shields and Mary Lou Rolls.


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It's the .357 for me in revolvers - .45 in auto's.
.45 Colt. A handloaders dream as long as you are shooting a Ruger or Freedom Arms.
It's the .357 for me in revolvers - .45 in auto's.
10 mm for sure. Flatter shooting then the 357, bigger bullet and more usable bullet wts and types and with the power of factory 41 Magnum. Number two is 44 Remington Magnum for Revolver, 10 mm for automatic followed by 45ACP second choice.
A friend of mine has a .357 whuich i've seen a couple of times,it looks just right.
Not overkill,not too small.
With a .44 magnum I load .44 russians, or .44 specials, or .44 magnums from mild to wild. I can kill anything that needs to be killed or defend myself appropriately with something that will come out of that revolver. That can't be said for handguns that are larger (.44 russians are very weak loads and appropriate for small game while other big bore revolvers simply don't have weaker ammo available), or smaller (.357 magnum limits are black bear and most hunt those with .41 or .44 mag or larger). I had two 357 mag revolvers for a long time (a 686 S&W and a model 15 Dan Wesson), and I gave them to lifelong friends who would enjoy them more than me when I realized a never took them out anymore as I had no reason.
And a .41 mag cannot do what a .44 mag can do. It doesn't have near the top end potential despite what those who cling to that cartridge may think. I think .41 mag is a great round, but it's upper limits stop far short of a .44 mag. (Why do you think the recoil is less?) The only thing that is as close to being as versatile as a .44 mag revolver is the 45 LC, but you have to hand load to match the versatility and ammo is difficult to find sometimes if you don't reload for regular shooting; therefore, the nod goes to the .44 mag.
That being said, I've shot, and it's probable that everyone who shoots or has shot quite a bit, more .22 than anything else. And a carry a Colt Commander for general defense every day unless going to the woods, but that's not a revolver.
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You can't go wrong with a .357, .44 MAG is too much and 454, well hope you have an arm when you get done.
I've got revolvers in about a dozen different chamberings, and they're all my favorite. Just depends what the given task or objective is. Variety is the spice of life.
However, I have recently developed a deep appreciation of my S&W 610 chambered in 10mm. The 10mm full house loads are roughly equivalent to the 41 mag, and the 40 S&W make a very pleasant "light" load. I bought 100 moon clips for it at 75 cents each so reloading at the range is a snap. I load the moon clips at home while watching TV, and take the loaded moon clips to the range. The large N frame is very accurate and dose a good job of absorbing recoil.
And even better, I have never had a problem finding ammo for it. Even during the height of the ammo shortage, I could find 40 and 10 ammo. Just about everyone had 40 in stock, and 10 was always available via mail order. 38 and 357 were virtually non existent during the crunch, and are still hard to find. And 40 is also cheaper than 38 or 357. So yea, I like 10mm.
The problem with the J-Frame .357 Magnums are that they are all heavy, too heavy for effective pocket carry in slacks. Although some "super Metal" .357 Magnums are made, they are a bear to shoot and have problems with bullets jumping their seating. I own a 60 and a 640, but they are for winter belt carry. The 642 and 637 are my "summer" guns. I have also found that the Airweights work better for me with standard pressure .38 Spcl.
I like .38 S&W. It's weak and underpowered, but fun to shoot in my old Enfield revolver!
38 spl in just about any revolver.
very nice cartridge with great case life.....
I'm going with the good old .357 I have 2 of them and never had a problem hell my shub nose u wouldn't even haved to hit anybody the muzzel flash and noise will make them s&%t themselves and take off running. Also u can shot .38 in them.
.357 in my 686 but .38 Special in all of my snubbies. When ammo is available (which isn't right now!) .38 Special can be found in many different loadings, from hot to tame.
My favorite revolver is has to be my new 432pd smith&wesson. I zig when others zag. So it's 6 shots of .32 magnum for me.
38 Special/357 Mag... I've been packing that way for years.
My favorite revolver is a S&W model 610 4". It is a 10mm cut out for moon clips. It will of course shoot the 40 S&W cartridge also. I have shot three of these revolvers and they all shoot great right out of the box. Nice and flat and puts em in the ring nicely.
At the moment, .44 Special. Subject to change as new wheelguns get added to my collection... Lets more air in and more blood out than a .38 Special, and doesn't try and remove my wrist when fired out of a snubbie the way a .357 Magnum does.
.38special Got the wife one and she loves it. She couldn't handle more than 5 rounds of .357 at the range.
44 Magnum.
By far, the most versatile caliber for a reloader.
Kind of disappointed the 38 Special was not listed.
Love an afternoon with a model 14 and a bunch of cast lead reloads.


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I Didn't Know She Didn't Love Me
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Some lyrics I wrote at the beginning of 2011. Somewhat germane to the topics I've been working on lately. Unrequited love, infatuation, reality smacking me in the face.
There's only two verses and a chorus to the song but I'm saving it here for posterity because I'm afraid I'll lose it. I wrote it for another band but they never used it. They snooze, they lose. I'm taking it back for myself. I got a good chord progression for the song, but I have to go work it out. I always have to work it out if I want it to go a certain way. That is not a metaphor for life.
I didn't know she didn't love me
I didn't know she didn't love me
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When I told her 'bout the love I had
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But I was wrong, now what do I do
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LONDON (Reuters) - Tracey Emin, the enfant terrible of British art, is holding a major retrospective exhibition and perhaps unsurprisingly it has been slapped with a parental guidance warning.
Organizers are insisting that any under-16s have to be accompanied by an adult if they want to wander round "Love is What You Want," at the Hayward Gallery.
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"I'm looking at me in the most intimate way" says Emin of the provocative exhibition, which highlights themes of love, sexual desire and humor, but also addresses rape and abortion.
It features Emin's 1996 film "How it feels" where she openly speaks about her own experiences following the termination of two pregnancies, and what she calls her period of "emotional suicide."
Colorfully decorated blankets bearing multi-vocal texts hang in the gallery's entrance -- the collages are described by Emin as using the "sacred fabrics" of her family's clothes and household furnishings.
Her first words "look apple" in 1965 appear on one blanket, another made in 2002 says: "I do not expect to be a mother, but I do expect to die alone."
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This has only the vaguest of baseball connections — the oh-so-common Moneyball analogy — but I know a lot of lawyers read this blog, so I offer it up anyway:
When asked whether his firm might reduce prices in light of the meltdown, Linklaters senior partner David Cheyne replied, "[Clients] might have doubts as to whether a firm is really able to deliver quality at a suicide rate."
I'm sure Mr. Cheyne is a supremely capable person, and perhaps he was misquoted, but he appears to be saying: quality = cost.
So can Linklaters deliver quality at $900/hour, but not at $700? Does that even begin to make any sense? Of course, if Linklaters can find enough clients who will buy their hours at $900 instead of $700, they will sell their hours for $900–that's how markets set prices. But what does that have to do with quality? If clients will only agree to buy hours at $700, will the firm's lawyers go on a quality sit-down strike? The banks that lost nearly a trillion dollars, were they using the $700 lawyers; and did the banks that avoided losses use the $900 lawyers?
Or does equating quality with cost just obscure our understanding of quality? . . .
. . . In nearly every field our understanding of quality has moved from capabilities to outcomes, from generalities to specifics, from one-shot to systemic, from lore to metrics, from entitlement to performance. As in so many other areas, law is behind this evolution, and now must catch up.
Baseball sometimes gets criticized for being hopelessly behind the times when it comes to business efficiency — there's a reason why a business writer like Lewis was able to see what was going on in baseball before most people in baseball did — but it has nothin' on the private practice of law. Thankfully for consumers of legal services, there are some Billy Beanes out there trying to exploit the inefficiencies.


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Rockstar's Founder Joins the Ranks of Energy-Drink BillionairesBy
About 13 years after founding energy-drink company Rockstar, Russell Weiner has emerged as a billionaire.
The 44-year-old controls 85 percent of the company; his mother, who serves as Rockstar's chief financial officer, owns the rest. Weiner's stake is worth about $1.5 billion, according to Bloomberg News reporter Annelise Alexander, citing data by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Despite concerns by consumers and the FDA about the marketing and overconsumption of caffeine, energy-drink sales continue to grow. U.S. retail sales in the 52 weeks ending June 15 were up 4.4 percent from the previous year, according to IRI, a market research firm in Chicago. "The category is benefiting from a high level of product innovation," notes a report by Bloomberg Industries. "In June, Coca-Cola extended its flavored water brand Vitaminwater into the energy-drink category with Vitaminwater Energy, a lightly carbonated beverage boosted with green coffee bean extract."
Weiner has billionaire peers in the energy-drink industry, too. Top-selling brand Red Bull created two billionaires: co-founders Dietrich Mateschitz of Austria (whose net worth is about $7.7 billion) and the late Chaleo Yoovidhy of Thailand (whose fortune was worth about $4.8 billion). And Monster Beverage Chief Executive Officer Rodney Sacks is fast approaching billionaire status, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.


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Cory Monteith Found Dead
Cory Monteith has been found dead.
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Mar 7, 2012 - UW Sports InformationThree members of the Wyoming Cowgirl basketball team, Chaundra Sewell, Ashley Sickles and Kayla Woodward, were recognized as the Mountain West announced the 2012 All-Conference Team.
"I'm extremely pleased for the honors bestowed upon Chaundra, Kayla and Ashley," said head coach Joe Legerski. "Without team success it is difficult to have individual success. As a team we were competitive throughout league play and thus the honors for three deserving players."
Sewell was a Second Team All-MW selection and named to the All-Defensive Team for the first time in her career. It's the second honor for Sewell as she was named Honorable Mention All-Conference a year ago. In addition to that, true freshman Kayla Woodward earned Third Team All-Conference, while junior Ashley Sickles was named Honorable Mention All-Mountain West.
Sewell, from Broomfield, Colo., averaged a team leading 8.5 rebounds plus 14.9 points per contest in Mountain West play. She ranked second in rebounding, seventh in scoring, eighth in free throw percentage and 11th in field goal percentage. She recorded double-figures in 19 of 27 games along with 11 double-doubles.
Woodward a true freshman from Sheridan, Wyo. led the team in scoring in Mountain West action with 15.2 points per contest along with 6.4 rebounds. She was third in three-point field goal percentage, fourth in minutes played, sixth in scoring and rebounding, seventh in field goal percentage, free throw percentage and three-point field goals made, ninth in steals and 14th in assists. Woodward was also named MW player of the week twice and tallied double-figures in ten games.
Sickles earns Honorable Mention All-MW for the first time in her career. For the conference season, she averaged 10 points and 5.5 rebounds, plus a team high 12 blocked shots. Sickles ranked seventh in minutes played, tenth in blocked shots, 14th in rebounding and three-point field goal percentage and 15th in scoring.
The Cowgirls open up play at the Mountain West Conference Tournament Wednesday, March 7, in Las Vegas. Their first-round opponent will be the TCU Horned Frogs. Tip off is set for 3:30 p.m. beat TCU in their first round MWC tournament game Wednesday by a score of 61-44.
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Looks good...congrats!! Here's what I got
I got my CW40 and MTEC for christmas and I am in hog heaven right now! Any one else get any shootables for christmas tell us about it...
heres mine, dad got me the last one, he picked it up at bass pro for 299
its my backup for work and my front pocket gun for cc
for those who dont know, its the ruger lcp .380
The Browning Pro 40 I have is a really nice shooter. I would figure that the FNP would be too.
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