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Human-driven changes in the westerly winds are bringing hotter and drier spring weather to the American Southwest, according to new research.
Since the 1970s, the winter storm track in the western U.S. has been shifting north, particularly in the late winter. As a result, there are fewer winter storms that bring rain and snow to Southern California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, western Colorado and western New Mexico.
"We used to have this season from October to April where we had a chance for a storm," says Stephanie A. McAfee of the University of Arizona in Tucson, who is lead author of the new study. "Now it's from October to March."
The new study is the first to link the poleward movement of the westerly winds to the changes observed in the West's winter storm pattern. The change in the westerlies is driven by the atmospheric effects of global warming and the ozone hole combined.
"When you pull the storm track north, it takes the storms with it," McAfee says.
She and Joellen Russell, also of the University of Arizona, report their findings in an upcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.
"During the period it's raining less, it also tends to be warmer than it used to be," McAfee says. "We're starting to see the impacts of climate change in the late winter and early spring, particularly in the Southwest. It's a season-specific kind of drought."
Having drier, warmer conditions occur earlier in the year will affect snowpack, hydrological processes and water resources, McAfee says. In prior studies, other researchers have linked warmer, drier springs to more and larger forest fires.
"We're used to thinking about climate change as happening sometime in the future to someone else," Russell says. "But this is right here and affects us now. The future is here."
Atmospheric scientists have documented that the westerly winds, or storm track, have been shifting poleward for several decades. The southwestern U.S. has experienced less winter precipitation during the same period.
Computer models of future climate and atmospheric conditions suggest the storm track will continue to move north and that precipitation will continue to decrease in the southwestern U.S.
The timing of the change from wet, cool winter weather to the warmer dry season is important for many ecological processes in the arid Southwest. Therefore, McAfee wanted to know how the shift in the storm track affected precipitation during the transition from winter to spring.
For the period 1978 to 1998, the researchers compared the month- to-month position of the winter storm track, temperature and precipitation records from the western U.S., and pressure at different levels in the atmosphere.
The team used a statistical method called Monte Carlo simulations to test whether the coincidence of storm track and weather patterns had occurred by chance.
Russell says the results of the simulation showed, "It's very rare that you get this distribution by chance." Therefore, she says, the changes in late winter precipitation in the West from 1978 to 1998 are related to the changes in the storm track path for that same time period.
McAfee says her next step is investigating whether western vegetation has changed as the storm track has changed.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration funded this research.
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The Elecraft W1 Wattmeter
Yes ... yet another Elecraft kit. This one is small -- build it in two evenings -- if you go really slow. It is a really neat little auto-ranging wattmeter/SWR indicator that is highly portable. I wanted one as an accessory for my KX1 and K2 because I bought a BuddiPole antenna, and need some way to tune it for minimum VSWR. Usual caveats apply, I know Wayne and Eric, and I am their customer, and I have no financial interest in Elecraft [although I think I wish I did!], and the Elecraft website does a much better job of describing it than I do here.
The W1 itself is just a circuit board. You get to mount it where and as you wish. W8FGU, a firefighter in the Detroit MI area, has come up with a really cool enclosure for the W1. It is flexible, there are two models allowing the BNC RF connectors to emerge from the sides [as mine do], or from the back. He has an optional adjustable tilt stand for it as well, and his web site does a much better job at describing it than this one does. Caveats -- Dave is a friend, a good one, and I helped him in beta testing his mechanical layouts and assembly. We have some other interests in common. However, I am not financially connected, and he gave me my final enclosure free. Thanks Dave.
The W1
The wattmeter has three ranges: 0-1.4W [good for a KX1 running on AA rechargeables], 0 - 14W [great for a stock K2, and 0 - 140W for any 100W or so rig, and it automatically chooses the proper range, indicating which one on one of the three LEDs about half way down the left edge. They are Green [1.4W], Yellow [14W], and Red [140W]. It has an on-board 9V battery, and can also be powered from a 12V source via a coaxial power connector on the left side just below the range LEDs.
As you might suspect, Elecraft provides remote reading and control software for Windows computers that allow you to control the W1 and monitor the display on your computer. The connector for this is just below the external power connector and is a standard stereo mini-plug for Gnd, TX-data, and RX-data.
The Kit
The kit itself comprises a single circuit board, a bag of parts and hardware, and an 8-page assembly and instruction manual. The manual follows the standard Elecraft format, and for me at least, assembly was uneventful. All of the K2 soldering provisions apply to the W1 of course. I took two afternoons to assemble mine -- around 6 hours total. Keep in mind, I don't work fast on Elecraft kits. There is one of the "dreaded toroids," and it is a binocular core visible just under the SWR indicator LEDs. It has four "windings," however two of them are simply wires straight through the holes, and the other two are only 11 turns. Calibration requires nothing more than a DMM and you set a voltage at a test point with a potentiometer.
The W8FGU Enclosure
The W1 from Elecraft is a self-contained bare circuit board, and can thus be incorporated into a variety of installations. For me, with my K2 and/or KX1 in field situations, I wanted some sort of small enclosure rugged enough to protect the W1 that was lightweight. Enter Dave, W8FGU who I had met via email earlier exchanging addresses of some deployed troops we were sending packages to. Dave has designed exactly what I wanted -- a clear, lightweight box fabricated from clear polycarbonate. It will accommodate the entire W1, provides access to all the connectors, and includes a push-button on-off switch. The polycarbonate material is scratch resistant, you can see the circuit board inside which looks kind of cool, and the whole thing, with 9V battery, weighs 250 grams [~9 oz]. Dave has two models. The one in my picture has the BNC RF connections out the sides, using the BNC connectors supplied by Elecraft. You can also obtain board-mount BNC's that will exit the back of the enclosure, and Dave has a model for that also. I can't imagine how things could have worked out better for me.
The enclosure comes in two pieces, one of which mounts the W1 circuit board on three stand-offs, and the other completes the box. He uses the same little "3D blocks" that the K2 uses to assemble the case. As with the K2, when you assemble the W1 enclosure, leave the pairs of screws on the blocks a little loose, tighten the single screws, and then tighten the pairs. This will align everything perfectly. I discovered after I had it all built that a double-male BNC adapter will couple the output of my KX1 directly into the input connector of the W1 while both rest solidly on the table. This puts the W1 immediately to the right of the KX1 where it is easy to read, and I got rid of a jumper cable!
Dave has a tilt stand for the enclosure, also fabricated from clear polycarbonate, and rather ingeniously attached with velcro, allowing easy adjustment of viewing angle. I've made up two short jumpers from RG-174 lightweight, small-diameter, flexible 50 ohm coax. It is very flexible, and keeps the heavier RG-58 on my BuddiPole from dragging the wattmeter around. I use the second jumper with my K2.
The W1 and Dave's enclosure makes a really neat addition to my field radios. I generally use the KX1 in outdoor locations for casual QSO's when I just want to be outside running QRP. I use the K2 more for QRP contests, such as the Flight of the Bumblebees or the Spartan Sprint.
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CORE Institute Donates More Than $10K to sports programs
The No. 1 ranked Phoenix-based orthopedic group, The CORE Institute, announced it has donated more than $10,000 to six high school athletic departments in the Peoria and Dysart School Districts. The donations are part of a program where The CORE Institute conducts required sports physicals for high school student athletes and then donates the entire… Read More →
Partnership unites Largest Neurological, Orthopedic Practices
Arizona's largest and No. 1 ranked Phoenix-based orthopedic group, The CORE Institute, announced it has signed a partnership agreement with providers at the Arizona Neurological Institute, the largest comprehensive neurological practice in Arizona. The agreement combines the largest orthopedic and neuroscience practices in Arizona effective October 1, 2014. Details of the new partnership are still… Read More →
Patel-Hinkle Joins The CORE Institute
The No. 1 ranked Phoenix-based orthopedic group, The CORE Institute, announced the addition of Dr. Nina Patel-Hinkle, a board certified physician specializing in Non-Surgical, Rehabilitative & Sports Medicine, to its clinical team. She will be practicing at The CORE Institute's Peoria and West Phoenix facilities. "We are excited Dr. Patel-Hinkle has become part of our… Read More →
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David Jones is building a photographic studio at its Silverwater warehouse to accommodate the massive task of photographing and processing the 90,000 products that will be available on the new web store later this year.
The retailer has hired one of Australia's leading fashion photographers, Grant Matthews' Mondo Digital, to manage photography, retouching and copywriting for all products offered through the web store.
Mondo Digital started working with David Jones this month from its Waterloo studio and will relocate to Silverwater in June when the new studio is complete.
David Jones's new general manager of digital marketing, Adriane McDermott, said the retailer was intent on creating "a world-class digital shopping experience" and needed an experienced digital photography partner and dedicated studio to process the sheer volume of products involved.
"[Mondo] have worked with some of the great retail brands and demonstrated to us both the quality of the photography and copywriting as well as the ability to handle the product we needed to get online," said Ms McDermott, who joined David Jones in March. She has 19 years' experience in retail marketing and development and was previously head of Asia-Pacific retail marketing for Nike.
"We are going from 9000 to 90,000 SKUs [stock-keeping units] so the amount of product that has to be photographed in the months of June, July, August and September is amazing," Ms McDermott said yesterday. "It's important to ensure the product photography and the way we're designing the site and the way shoppers will experience the product is at a world-class standard."
David Jones, a self-confessed online laggard, is transforming itself into an omni-channel retailer as part of a strategy aimed at boosting revenues and arresting the leakage of sales and profits to online rivals.
In February, the retailer signed a multimillion-dollar contract with IBM to develop an end-to-end multi-channel e-commerce platform. In March, chief executive
Mr Matthews, who has worked on digital projects for BIG W, Ezibuy and Dotti, said he wanted the product presentation and "navigatability" of David Jones's web store to match that of online retailers such as Net-a-Porter and Nordstrom.
About 50 per cent of clothing will be photographed "on body", using models rather than mannequins, and the site will provide shoppers with a variety of views and close-ups. Video is also being considered.
"Most of the research at this stage says there's no real increase in sales with 360-degree views [but] video is something that increases sales and decreases [product] returns," Mr Matthews said.
Mondo Digital expects to photograph and process 600 to 900 products a day at peak times and will employ 17 full-time photographers and stylists and about 50 part-time staff.
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The new web store has been designed in partnership with digital creative agency Visual Jazz, a division of Aegis Media.
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British comedian Lenny Henry is pushing himself to new heights. First he tackled the lofty tragedy of Shakespeare's Othello to acclaim on the London stage. "Lenny's Shakespeare surprisingly stands up," punned The Guardian when reviewing the reviews of famously tough English critics.
Now he's letting loose his suppressed inner-Elvis, playing a little piano and singing a little Blueberry Hill and other snatches of song between stand-up reminiscences in his new "sense memory" comedy Cradle to Rave, which tackles his thwarted musical ambitions.
Perhaps music just got in the way. Not so long ago, the now 53-year-old entertainer used music to stir his dark side as the eponymous Othello in Shakespeare's tale of murder, sexual jealousy and race hatred.
At each interval, Henry would don noise-cancelling headphones to listen to bone-crunching gangsta hip-hop, some loud Ice Cube and Biggie Smalls tracks "to get into misogynist, wife-killing mood" for his character, he explains on the line from London.
But one night at interval, he looked up to see fellow actor Andy Cryer, who played Montano, trying to get his attention. "Lenny," said Cryer, as Henry finally stopped nodding his head and removed his headphones, "I think the show started five minutes ago".
Henry bolted to the stage, where two actors playing Emilia and Desdemona were making long work of their embroidery to pad for time, waiting Othello's delayed arrival.
Shakespeare via more than three decades of standup comedy may have taken a very different hue however if Henry's secret teenage ambition to be Elvis or Marvin Gaye in his Let's Get It On phase had taken hold.
In 1975 Henry had performed Jailhouse Rock in an open spot for singing tryouts at the Queen Mary Ballroom – he'd been too nervous to tell jokes – but it was his impersonation of bumbling sitcom character Frank Spencer on television's New Faces that set him on a comedy career instead.
Music had been "currency" among his mates, the way blokes communicated in the West Midlands county of Dudley, where Henry grew up pretty much the only black guy in his circle.
"That's the great thing about music," says Henry, "whatever you do for a job, in your real life with your real friends what you mainly communicate with is your love of music or your love of food because it's visceral and pleasurable, and music affects many of your senses."
His Jamaican-born parents had immigrated to Britain before Henry was born. His mother Winnie listened to Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Elvis and country and gospel; his father Winston listened to Fats Domino, but Henry mostly remembers his father's presence in the living room armchair as a pair of legs and feet on the either side of the Daily Mirror.
"I don't know what it was about 70s dads," Henry muses. "It was almost like a Victorian thing: not talking to their children, not hugging their children, not telling their children they loved you. It was sort of like being in the house of the man of mystery, you know?"
Henry did manage to sing on stage in the 1980s with Squeeze musician Jools Holland, and sang backing for Kate Bush on her track Why Should I Love You? He liked Bush – she cooked him scrambled eggs in the studio – but his voice was mixed down so far in the recording that you can't detect him.
Finally, the English record producer Trevor Horn choked off Henry's musical ambitions when Henry auditioned for him; the story is told in Cradle to Rave.
This musical comeback has been brewing since Henry turned 40, when he paid for piano lessons for himself and his "very musically talented" daughter Billie, now 20, whom Henry and his ex-wife, comedian Dawn French, adopted during into their 25-year marriage.
Are he and French still mates? "Certainly we're good mates; we've got a child remember so we have to stay friends because we have to bring up our daughter." His old joke Sade was their only common musical ground is not quite true, he says.
No regrets about being the "greatest singer the UK never had", as per the promotional guff? He laughs. "There was a certain realisation I was all right but I wasn't that great," he says. "I'm not sure I'd want to be touring Belgium with one hit record under my belt."
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David Gergen, longtime political commentator and advisor to four presidents, lauded the national Catholic Charities campaign to reduce poverty in America Sept. 25 but warned that "progress is hard work; politics is hard work. It just takes a long time."
tGergen, a senior political analyst for CNN and director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University in Boston, addressed the Catholic Charities USA 2009 Annual Gathering on the second day of its Sept. 24-26 meeting in Portland.
Some 450 Catholic Charities leaders from across the country, including three from American Samoa – Cecilia Solofa and Dominican Sisters Elsa and Evangeline – attended the gathering.
tGergen said "it would be a wonderful thing" if CCUSA could achieve its goal of cutting the number of Americans living in poverty in half by the year 2020.
tBut he suggested that they model their efforts after those of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., who devoted 47 years in the U.S. Senate to giving the nation's poor better access to education, health care and other life necessities.
t"The truth is, it takes long, hard work – year after year, decade after decade," he said. "Progress does not come easy, but it's a moral imperative."
tHe said Catholic Charities leaders can take heart from the fact that "we have a president and Congress more committed to your agenda than we've had in a long, long time.
tHe gave President Obama good odds of getting a health care reform bill passed before the end of the year. But he said that with the health care fight and the current economic crisis, Obama does not appear to have a new war on poverty high on his current list of priorities.
tHe called that "a wise political decision."
tGergen noted that in FDR's first term, confronting the Great Depression, his first priority was to help people shore up their lives through the job-creating Civilian Conservation Corps within the first 100 days of his administration, which quickly put 250,000 people back to work. It was only after helping people that, in the second half of that term Roosevelt began taking up the New Deal's structural reforms, he said.
tHe suggested that at best Obama might address poverty relief as a second-half agenda of his first term in office.
tBut even then, he said, there are major obstacles, with "one big swollen river of [federal] red ink setting off alarm bells in Congress, in business, in Beijing" – a reference to the huge chunk of U.S. debt held by China.
t"The president's heart is in the right place, his convictions are in the right place, but he doesn't have the money" to launch an anti-poverty initiative on top of the economic stimulus and health reform packages, he said.
t"The facts are daunting," he said, but he nevertheless urged Catholic Charities leaders to "go out and push for your agenda. Keep the heat on."
tBut he also urged them not to go it alone, but to "think a lot more about partnerships," to be imaginative – "finding innovative solutions that get us out of the boxes we're in" – and to find ways to mobilize the "strong sense of idealism" emerging in America's millennium generation.
tHe praised the decision recently to triple the size of Americorps to 250,000 volunteers a year. "Once these people serve, they become good citizens. They become concerned citizens who really care," he said.
tHe called the millennium generation "the biggest generation in our history" and said, "It is time to put these idealistic young people to work" in ways that respond to their idealism and desire to serve others.
t"This is the time to change. The money may not be there, but the energy and the idealism are there," he said.
t"We're not going to spend our way out of our problems. I don't think we are going to tax our way out of our problems," he said. "I think we're going to have to innovate our way out of our problems. … We are very good at entrepeneurship, at innovation, at change, at coming up with new ideas, creativity."
tAt the end of a lively question-answer period Alison Mertz, a young woman with Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa, Calif., rose to thank Gergen for his remarks on the idealism of her generation and the need to nurture it, saying she was one of those who was led to a career in social service by her earlier experiences as a student in volunteer work.
tGergen started questioning her, asking her to detail those experiences and how they shaped her commitment. As she did, he thanked her and commented, "You're the perfect end to this conversation."
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DESCRIPTION:When a dimensionally confined superconductor is subjected to a magnetic field\, the compensating currents are suppressed such that superconductivity persists to much higher magnetic fields than in the bulk. This effect has been observed first in planar tunnel junctions by Meservey\, Tedrow and Fulde [1]. The resulting Zeeman splitting of the quasiparticle density of states can be exploited as a probe for the absolute spin polarization of a spin polarized tunnelling current [2]. We have transferred this concept to the scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) to probe the spin polarization of the tunnelling current on the atomic scale by using a superconducting tip. As the superconducting tip carries no magnetic moment itself\, the information in the spin polarized tunnelling current can be attributed to the magnetic properties of the sample. This is a decisive advantage over other spin-polarized STM techniques. First measurements on magnetic cobalt islands on a Cu(111) substrate are in excellent agreement with literature. Measuring the spin polarization of the tunnelling current as a function of tip-island distance\, we find that the spin polarization increases by 65% when the distance is increased by only 2.3Å. This can be attributed to the different exponential decay of majority and minority states into the vacuum. This means that we can exploit the vacuum barrier as a tunable spin filter.
[1] R. Meservey et al.\, Phys. Rev. Lett. 25\, 1270 (1970).
[2] P. M. Tedrow and R. Meservey\, Phys. Rev. Lett. 26\, 192 (1971).


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The Tour of California is coming. Versus will have full coverage, or you can go with cycling.tv. What a great week of racing.
Will Floyd Landis be the first rider from a domestic team to win the race? I wouldn't put it past him. If Floyd gets the jersey I worry about his team defending it. I like Tim Johnson and Rory Sutherlund, but I don't know if they can fight off Astana and Columbia. The odds on favorite is Levi Leipheimer. He'll have a super strong team with Armstrong, Horner, and Brajkovic. It's hard for me to envision him loosing.
My pick for the Tour of California is Landis. He is crazy....every photo of him I've seen this year is scary. He's got the fire..
However, my favorite part of the TOC is the showcase of domestic talent. Last year BMC impressed folks riding super aggressively. Look for more of this. Not only from BMC, but also Bissell and Ouch. Look for a top 5 five performance from Zirbel in the Solvang TT. Also, don't surprised if the other Haedo, Sebastian jumps in the winners circle for the first time for us Colavita Sutter Home Team. Last year the squad was bitterly disappointed with their exclusion from the race and looks to prove something to the organizers. I also like Candian Cam Evans to surprise folks with an early lead in the KOM. He's a tough rider, who is rounding into good early season form. Another tough rider is Scott Nydam from BMC, he'll be looking for an early KOM lead as well. I think the usual TOC stars will be there; Hincapie will contest in a rolly stage, Cav will win a stage, Gesink will climb well, and VanVelde will be top 5.
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Derek Greenup, head of William Parker School in Hastings, East Sussex, said he had many more applications than places this year and would have taken everyone.
But his local education authority forced him to turn people away.
Like many authorities, it says that if places are available in other schools locally, children must go there even if they do not want to.
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The example goes to the heart of the debate about giving people more choice, instigated by the Conservative Party and now being promised by Labour.
The Tories have said they would scrap the so-called "surplus places rule". The government says it has gone already - but often practice locally belies that.
In a speech on Wednesday, the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, said his government's plans - being announced in detail on Thursday - included proposals "to expand the number of places at popular schools".
"I think Tony Blair is absolutely right in saying popular schools should be allowed to expand," head teacher Derek Greenup said.
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Mrs Sylvester thinks it odd that the government should talk about greater diversity and choice through its push for more specialist schools when her sports-mad son cannot pursue his dream at the local sports college.
She was told that, in terms of the application process, a passion for sport counted for nothing, "which just seems crazy to me".
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She has written to everyone she can think of, including the Education Secretary, Charles Clarke, who told her he could do nothing.
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When people think of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) they usually think of it as an old, malfunctioning company of the past. They usually think it is a two product company (with just Windows and Office) that was lucky enough to succeed in a third one (XBOX) but nothing more than that.
However nothing could be further from the truth. Microsoft has several products and services to offer to consumers and businesses all over the world. Today I will only focus to a few of them that are not so well-known but have the potential to change Microsoft's revenue mix and boost its revenue growth dramatically. All these services/products have one thing in common, they are offered through the cloud.
Azure is Microsoft's solution to businesses seeking a flexible and cost-efficient way to use internal cloud based applications of their own or other's design. It also allows businesses that have a variable need for IT infrastructure (computing power, storage etc.) to use as much as they need when they need it through Microsoft's cloud platform.
Azure has become one of Microsoft's "star" products since it reached $1 billion in annual revenue and has increased subscriptions by 48% during the past 6 months. Azure commands a 20% market in its market and its main competitor Amazon's (NASDAQ:AMZN) AWS which has 71%. However Azure is rapidly gaining ground and according to Forester Research it could reach 35% market share within the next year.
Skype is the well-known communication app that Microsoft bought in 2011. After becoming a part of Microsoft Skype has done extremely well. A third of the world's voice calls are done through Skype. Microsoft integrated Skype with its new Outlook.com platform increasing the attractiveness of both these products. Furthermore, Skype along with Lync (an instant messaging, VOIP and video conferencing app) have reached $2 billion in annual revenue and continue to grow.
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Azure, Skype, Lync and Office 365 are the three products that are leading a wider transformation that happening in Microsoft. If you add in the picture Microsoft Dynamics (ERP & CRM systems) and Sharepoint (a team collaboration and project management software) it becomes quite clear that Microsoft is evolving to one-stop shop for essential productivity-boosting applications a modern enterprise is bound to have.
This is an excellent route for Microsoft to take because it builds on the company's strengths in the server market attracting businesses that are looking for all-around solutions. Furthermore, in this way Microsoft increases customer captivity and loyalty since customers that are already on Microsoft's products will first turn to Microsoft if they have some new need instead of looking or switching to a third-party provider.
All the above mentioned products generate about $7 to $8 billion of revenues for Microsoft accounting for a little more than 10% of its sales. Although they look insignificant they have the potential to boost Microsoft's earnings for many years ahead. The reason is that the cloud market has still many years of double digit growth ahead.
More specifically, according to Gartner Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service (Azure's markets) will grow at average annual rates of 41% and 27% respectively, through 2016. ERP and CRM will grow at annual paces of 23% and 16% and Skype keeps taking market share from telecoms at an astonishing rate.
The bottom line? Microsoft's revenue from these products can easily double or triple (if it gains market share) within the next three years. Even if Microsoft didn't have other growth stories developing (Windows Phone, Xbox, Surface, Windows 8) its growing involvement in the cloud computing market ensures a bright future for both the company and its investors.
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At the church I co-pastor, Saint Andrew's Chapel in Sanford, Florida, we are deliberate about making sure that both our church members and visitors understand the doctrinal basis of our fellowship. As a small way of helping to further …Read More
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Natalie K. Karouna-Renier
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Telephone: 301-497-5724
Fax: 301-497-5624Email: email@example.com
|Research Ecologist
Primary Responsibilities:
I am the leader of the Molecular Toxicology Laboratory at PWRC. My research interests and projects are directed towards understanding the effects of chemical and non-chemical stressors on wildlife and fish, primarily at the molecular and biochemical level. My current research focuses on the development and application of novel molecular and non-molecular techniques for assessing the effects of contaminants on wildlife.
| Education/Training:
Ph.D., Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. 2002.
M.S., Toxicology, University of Maryland, 1996.
B.A., Biology, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY. 1989.
|Areas of Expertise/Interest:
Aquatic and wildlife toxicology; genomic indicators of ecological and environmental health.
Florida Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Best Poster Award
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1) Multigenerational, multi species assessment of endocrine disrupting effects of trenbolone.
2) Biochemical indicators of contaminant exposure in tree swallows from the Great Lakes region.
3) Profiling mercury response genes in birds as an indicator of species sensitivity..
4) Identification of non-destructive biomarkers of genotoxic effects in wildlife.
5) Species identification using molecular techniques.
Pinkney, A. E., J. C. Harshbarger, N. K. Karouna-Renier, K. Jenko, L. Balk, H. Skarphinsdóttir, B. Liewenborg, and M. A. Rutter. 2011. Tumor prevalence and biomarkers of genotoxicity in brown bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus) in Chesapeake Bay tributaries. Science of the Total Environment online October 11. abstract
Karouna-Renier, N. K., R. A. Snyder, T. Lange, S. Gibson, J. G. Allison, M. E. Wagner, K. R. Rao. 2011. Largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) and striped mullet (Mugil cephalus) as vectors of contaminants to human consumers in northwest Florida. Marine Environmental Research 72(3):96-104. abstract
Karouna-Renier, N. K. and D. W. Sparling. 1997. Toxicity of stormwater treatment pond sediments to Hyallela azteca (Amphipoda). Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 58(4):550-557. preview
Sparling, D. W., M. Gustafson, P. Klein, and N. Karouna-Renier. 1997. Toxicity of white phosphorus to waterfowl: acute exposure in mallards. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 33(2):187-197. abstract
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Salvo's Pathology presents more than just a parade of diseases. It takes the reader through health assessment and client consultation, covers sanitation and hygiene, refreshes on physiology pertinent to the pathology and pathophysiology covered in the text, and talks about general contraindications and endangerment sites before moving into the pathologies themselves. More than 300 pathologic conditions are covered in chapters divided by system. An entire chapter on Cancer and another on Mental and Emotional Illness are new additions to this edition. Each pathology presents the following information: Description, Signs and Symptoms, Etiology, Treatment, and Precautions. Pathologies are also accompanied by full color illustrations and photos plus a traffic light icon indicating whether it is safe to proceed with massage (green), there are cautions (yellow), or the massage is contraindicated (red). Local contraindications are distinguished with an "L," to indicate massage is unsafe only in certain areas and the therapist can proceed with the massage for the rest of the body. Helpful appendices and a glossary round out the book.
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Titolo: Mosby' s Pathology for Massage Therapists
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The Weber County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday released the identity of a man who drowned in Pineview Reservoir over the weekend.
Sheriff's Lt. Mark Lowther said Tommy Laliemthavixay, 26, of Kearns, went under while swimming at the reservoir's Cemetery Point on Sunday afternoon. Friends dove in to search for him, but could not locate the man.
Weber County Search and Rescue divers recovered Laliemthavixay's body in 30 feet of water about 9:30 p.m. on Sunday.
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Their many contributions to business and community will be recognized at the 24th annual Business Hall of Fame dinner Oct. 21 at the Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center. They will join 49 other individuals who have been inducted in the Hall of Fame.
This year's must-attend business event – recognizing leaders of the free enterprise system who serve as business role models for our region's youth – also will honor Jack Avis, owner of Avis Construction, as the Young Entrepreneur of the year.
"This fund-raiser, which makes it possible for Junior Achievement of Southwest Virginia to prepare young people to succeed in a global economy, celebrates the accomplishments of those who have, through their professional and personal sacrifice and commitment to our community, helped so many others succeed in business and in life," said Katherin Elam, president of JA of Southwest Virginia. "We are proud to honor innovators and leaders who paved the way and contributed to our region's quality of life and growing spirit of entrepreneurism in the Roanoke and New River valleys."
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The Ilsa Trilogy
reviews by Dan Kelly of
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Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS
1974 (2000) - Anchor Bay
Film Rating: C- (on the gory exploitation scale)
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): B+/B/C+
Specs and Features:
96 mins, NR, letterboxed widescreen (1.66:1), 16x9 enhanced, single-sided, single-layered, Amaray keep case packaging, audio commentary (with star Dyanne Thorne, director Don Edmonds, and producer David F. Friedman, moderated by humorist Martin Lewis), theatrical trailer, talent bios, film-themed menu screens with sound, scene access (27 chapters), languages: English (DD mono), subtitles: none
Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks
1975 (2000) - Anchor Bay
Film Rating: F (on any scale)
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): B/B/C
Specs and Features:
93 mins, NR, letterboxed widescreen (1.66:1), 16x9 enhanced, single-sided, single-layered, Amaray keep case packaging, audio commentary (with director Don Edmonds, star Dyanne Thorne and co-star Howard Maurer, moderated by humorist Martin Lewis), theatrical trailer, talent bios, film-themed menu screens with sound, scene access (32 chapters), languages: English and French (DD mono), subtitles: none
Ilsa, the Wicked Warden
1977 (2000) - Anchor Bay
Film Rating: B- (on the gory exploitation scale)
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): B/B/C+
Specs and Features:
94 mins, NR, letterboxed widescreen (1.66:1), 16x9 enhanced, single-sided, single-layered, Amaray keep case packaging, audio commentary (with star Dyanne Thorne and co-star Howard Maurer, moderated by humorist Martin Lewis), theatrical trailer, talent bios, film-themed menu screens with sound, scene access (28 chapters), languages: English (DD mono), subtitles: none
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS
In the legions of films devoted to bad taste, gore, nudity and all forms of extremeness, there are a few standouts.
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS
(along with the entire
series) is certainly one of the more conspicuous exploitation films. It was one of the first to capitalize on the emerging trend and, in many ways, laid the groundwork for many exploitation films that followed.
There's not a whole lot to the movie, but here are the basics in a nutshell. Ilsa is a high-ranking Nazi in charge of an area that performs sexual experiments on men and women. These aren't your average, every day, homegrown-type sexual experiments. We're talking electrified sex toys, castration (ouch!), acid baths and a bounty of other things too gooey to mention here. As you would expect, none of them are very pleasant to watch.
If bloody carnage isn't your cup of tea, then perhaps nudity is. There's lots and lots of nudity to behold here. There's so much nudity, in fact, that the clothed people start to look strange and out of place amidst all the bare bodies. But as fate would have it, this is some of the most unerotic nudity I've seen on film. Chances are, when someone's naked, they're either going to be tortured or killed. The actual torture (castration aside) is reserved for the women. The men have something more fun in store for them.
It seems it takes a whole lot of work to satiate Ilsa's sexual appetite. But the old gal's a trooper and tries her hardest to suppress her craving by having sex with any "willing" POW. If they can't satisfy her, off with their... well, you know. She goes through a lot of men before she finds "The One" - she finds a blonde-haired German who can do the job. At first he's unsure of his ability to please her (Ilsa is apparently an advocate for the "size of the wave" theory of male satisfaction). He's a special kind of guy and can hold out for as long as necessary. This keeps him from the chopping block, but will also come into play in Ilsa's inevitable demise.
Is this film offensive? Hell yes, it's offensive! I don't know that I'd want to stand too close to you if you didn't find this offensive. Extremeness of any kind is the point of these types of films. What
is lacking is a sense of fun. For me, the benchmark in exploitation films is John Waters'
Pink Flamingoes
. That movie is equally as disturbing, tacky and extreme as
, but it's a lot more fun. The jokes in this film are few and far between, which makes it just unpleasant to watch at times. Explicitness I can handle, as long as there is something to distract me in between castrations.
Come on, are you really going to worry about picture quality when watching this movie? If so, you'll be happy to know that Anchor Bay has released
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS
in its original 1.66:1 aspect ratio and has given it anamorphic treatment to boot. The result is a picture that is surprisingly detailed. Of course, the film is a bit on the old side and isn't high on the preservation scale, so there are some natural limitations to how good the movie can look. That aside, the most prevalent drawback to the picture is a small amount of artifacting in the picture. It isn't anything that's going to distract you from the goings-on at Ilsa's Stalag of Torture, but it's there. Otherwise, the blacks are deep and solid, and skin tone and color reproduction is accurate. For sound, we get the original mono track, which gets the job done.
The features on this disc are pretty good, especially when you consider that this is in no way a grand, well-respected release. Anchor Bay realized that we, the people, want to know what went on on-set and so rounded up Ilsa herself, Dyanne Thorne, along with the director and producer (Don Edmonds and David F. Friedman) and humorist Martin Lewis to discuss the film. Lewis injects a lot of humor into the discussion and prods producer, director and star to discuss some of the film's more explicit scenes. All of them are willing to talk about the film and its effect on their careers. The result is a very listenable, entertaining commentary track. Also on the disc are the theatrical trailer and a small set of talent bios. My one major problem with Anchor Bay is their lack of support for any sort of foreign language track or subtitling. I do wish they would make this a priority in their releases. Damn it, I wanna know how to say, "Castrate him!" in Spanish!
I don't know that I'd recommend this film to anyone. No matter how far you stretch your imagination, it's not a fun viewing. But if you're familiar with the film and enjoyed it, there's no better way to make it a permanent part of your collection than this DVD. It's better looking here than it ever has been (including its original drive-in release, I'm sure) and it has an amusing commentary track if you need a little something extra. But it's definitely not for the squeamish.
Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks
Even death can't keep a good woman down. As the title suggests, Ilsa is back and this time she's in charge of harem upkeep for a rich oil sheik. Like the previous
film, this one also has nudity throughout the 93-minute running time, as Ilsa preps all the girls for their time with the sheiks. Readying the harem women for the persnickety sheik includes feeding, shaving, bathing and threatening them with torture if they don't do exactly what they're told. If they refuse, they're treated to the nastiest of tortures, including some real quality personal time with red ants and moisture seeking rats. Mmm.
The actual plot of the story (as minuscule and unintelligible as it may be) revolves around two agents investigating a ransom case involving a huge oil field. They have an insider among the harem girls, who sends them information via a bug that she's strategically placed within the compound. She's got a gadget even James Bond would be envious of - a navel jewel that's equipped with a transmitter and microphone. Naturally, once Ilsa finds out there's a traitor within the walls of the castle, the pain and humiliation start anew.
Nudity and torture are pretty much what all the
films are all about, so this one has nothing really to add to the series. The problem is, I don't think any amount of nudity or gore can save this stinker. It's just plain bad, from beginning to end. There's a sub-plot about two guys coming to infiltrate the sheik's residence, and some sort of bribery, but the whole film is so incomprehensible and unwatchable that I didn't even want to keep up with the story. In the end, the entire thing comes off as horribly boring. It's a very sad thing when a film that has so much happening on screen, can ultimately end up being so utterly tedious.
The only things I liked about this film were Satin and Velvet, Ilsa's ass-whippin' sidekicks. When the time and need arrives, they strip down, lube up, pile on the lip gloss and do some major damage, finishing off their prey by yanking out the unlucky victim's teeth... a row at a time. I don't know that I can recommend a whole movie just for one scene, but if I could, that scene would be the qualifier. Trying to finishing the hour and a half that the movie runs starts to feel like a real chore about twenty minutes in. You'll truly be better off if you avoid this one completely.
The quality of the DVD is on par with the other
discs. The anamorphic picture overall is pretty nice, with no picture distortion and only a small amount of compression artifacting. Colors are faithful to the intended look of the film and flesh tones (believe me, there are lots of them) are accurate, without looking oversaturated. There is a noticeable amount of grain to the picture, but it isn't overbearing or distracting. The English language track is a well-defined presentation of the original mono recording. All parts of the sound mix are appropriately integrated and dialogue is clear. It lacks the dynamic range of a surround track... but this IS a drive-in movie we're talking about here. Anchor Bay also included a French-dubbed track for those who wish to hear Ilsa speak French with a German accent.
Again, the highlight of this disc has to be the commentary track. Though not terribly informative, it's more interesting than the film itself. If I weren't listening to the commentary, I wouldn't have stuck around through the end credits to find out that award-winning cinematographer and former John Carpenter lens man Dean Cundey (
The Thing
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Jurassic Park
) filmed this movie. Don't let anyone tell you nothing good came of anyone associated with the
films. The features on the DVD are rounded out with a mildly entertaining theatrical trailer (also anamorphically enhanced) and brief talent bios.
If you're going to watch any of the
movies on DVD, try to miss this one if you can. I really disliked it. And if I were forced to choose between some of the tortures Ilsa performs on her victims and watching this drab excuse for a film again, you better believe I'd choose the torture. Okay... so that's a little drastic, but DAMN this film's bad. Thankfully,
Ilsa, the Wicked Warden
, the next in the series on DVD, is a more entertaining watch.
Ilsa, the Wicked Warden
Ilsa is back again for more lighthearted sexual torture and fun in
Ilsa, the Wicked Warden
, the third chapter in the series. Although not an intentional sequel (I'll get to that later), it's definitely better than than the other two films. I never thought I'd be saying this, but on a really base level, I enjoyed this go-around of Ilsa. What can I say? For the few hours that I sat in front of the television watching this disc, I was entertained.
This time around, Ilsa's the head of a sleazy women's sanitarium in South America. Think of this one as a sort of
Girl, Interrupted
for wayward lesbians. Once again, the women are being used for sexual experiments and are consistently exposed to some cruel and most unusual punishments. Poor, tortured Abbie (Tania Busselier) fakes mental illness so she can be admitted to Ilsa's casa de amor to find her beloved sister Rosa. Once on the inside, Abbie doesn't make many friends, and is identified only by the number on her hospital uniform. To find her sister, she has to stay on Ilsa's good side and perform an occasional favor or two (including a really disgusting bathroom scene) to get the information she needs to bring her sister to safety.
All the nudity you'd expect of an Ilsa movie is here in truckloads (along with a few completely unnecessary sex scenes thrown in just to take up time), but there's not nearly as much violence and gore. There is some extreme stuff toward the end of the film, but that's the worst of it. What this film has that the others don't, is a better sense of humor. There are some real chuckles (intentional and otherwise) in this film that make the whole experience worthwhile. What made me laugh most during this film, is the ever present "Spanglish" peppered throughout the movie. If you need some brushing up on your Spanish, keep a dictionary with you, and have the anatomy section bookmarked. It will come in plenty handy.
Though the production values of
Ilsa, the Wicked Warden
rival those of Greg Brady's backyard production of the settling of Plymouth Rock, the director deserves a fair amount of credit for managing to make a cohesive flick. As many as seven different languages were spoken on set by the actors. Each memorized their lines in their native language and recited them as is, to be overdubbed in English (and however many other languages) for later release.
The video and audio presentation on this disc is pretty much on par with the other two
DVDs. The anamorphic transfer is generally pretty good, and provides a nice representation of the intended look of the film. There is a little grain, but that's mostly inherent to the film stock used. A few shots are exceedingly soft looking and are distracting for the few seconds they last, but otherwise it's a nice picture. Colors are well balanced and faithful, and black level is consistently accurate. Sound is also good, and the original mono track is a respectable one. Dialogue is always audible and clear, with music and effects nicely balanced throughout.
The commentary track on this disc is just as entertaining as the others. Dyanne Thorne and Martin Lewis are on board again for the ride, this time with co-star Howard Maurer. Lewis adds humor to a lot of the conversation, with Thorne doing most of the talking on this track. She gives details on how the people with the bucks made the decision that this should ultimately be an
film, even though (listen closely to the film) her name is spoken only once. Apparently, the producers weren't so sure the film would bank in the United States without a recognizable title (the film was released elsewhere under the names
Greta, the Wicker Warden
Wanda, the Wicked Warden
). Bios, filmographies and the film's theatrical trailer are the remaining features. Not a bad set of extras for a small cult film.
Far be it from me to deny anyone the opportunity to see gratuitous nudity, sex and violence. Admirers of Z-grade trash will no doubt be amused by Ilsa's antics and are advised to give this disc a once-around. Ilsa's not really the main attraction in this one, but there's plenty of other things here to hold your attention. And the final scene of
Ilsa, the Wicked Warden
is particularly nasty and outrageous... and is almost worth the price of the disc all by itself. Enjoy if you dare.
Dan Kelly
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Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks
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GPD: Shooting suspect surrenders to police
Published: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 4:47 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 4:47 p.m.
A Miami teen wanted in connection with a shooting in the parking lot of the Butler Plaza movie theater turned himself in to police on Wednesday.
Zairon Jarquis Fussell, 19, was taken to the Alachua County Jail. He faces four counts of attempted murder and weapons charge for possession of a firearm by a person convicted of a felony as a juvenile, according to Alachua County Jail records.
He is accused of firing a single shot at four people standing in the theater parking lot shortly after midnight Monday morning, according to a Gainesville Police Department news release. No one was hit.
Another suspect, Robert Nathaniel Morris, also 19, of Gainesville, was arrested that night on four counts of attempted murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder, according to GPD.
An argument had erupted inside the theater over someone stepping on another person's foot. According to a GPD report, Morris went to get a handgun for Fussell and gave it to him. The two groups went out the parking lot and kept arguing.
Then, police say, Fussell pulled the gun out of a pocket and pointed it at the victims. He fired a single shot, the report said, and the victims all took cover behind nearby parked cars.
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By Seth Kushner
The above gallery of illustrations were created by cartoonist Rick Parker to serve as "covers" for Ron Scalzo's monthly essay series, A Dozen Movie That Scared The Shit Out Of Me, Revisited. Ron provided the list of scary movies, and Rick graciously provided his impressions of each film in a new illustration, bringing his own unique aesthetic.
Rick Parker is known in the world of comics as the artist of MTV's Beavis and Butt-Head Comic Book as well as The Papercutz Slices/"Mad Magazine-style" series parodying the popular children's books, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Harry Potter, Twilight, Percy Jackson and The Olympians and The Hunger Pains. He was the artist of the Introductory Pages of Tales From The Crypt (featuring the Crypt Keeper, The Vault Keeper, and The Old Witch) and of one of the four artists of The Pekar Project (Edited by Jeff Newelt), which brought autobiographical comics legend, Harvey Pekar's work to an internet audience. Rick Parker is the creator of the graphic novel Deadboy, which is sort of a cross between the Wizard of Oz and Night of The Living Dead. Rick's artwork has been featured in The New York Times, The Village Voice, The New York Press, Life Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, Time Magazine, on 60 Minutes with Andy Rooney and in millions of Marvel and Papercutz comic books and graphic novels worldwide.


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IndyCar looks for triumphant return to Pocono
It's taken 24 years, but the IndyCar Series makes its return to Pocono Raceway in Long Pond.
In a year in which the IndyCar Series introduced doubleheader weekends and standing starts, one of its more challenging venues is back on the schedule. Indianapolis 500 winner Tony Kanaan will be among those vying for the checkered flag Sunday at the Tricky Triangle.
IndyCar Series officials had targeted Pocono for several years before reaching an agreement with track administrators last summer.
"We started the discussion a little over a year ago," said Matt Breeden, IndyCar Series vice president of business affairs.
"Clearly, there was some momentum on their end to get another event on their calendar during the summer. It made sense for Pocono and IndyCar.
"Anytime you come to a new venue, you want to put your best foot forward. Fortunately, it looks like we'll have a sunny afternoon with a lot of fans in the stands."
The race at Pocono became even more attractive when IndyCar officials considered revamping the old Triple Crown challenge, which consisted of open-wheel races at several venues — including Ontario, Indianapolis, Michigan and Pocono.
The three-race competition awards $1 million to the driver who wins the Indianapolis 500, Pocono and the season finale at Fontana, Calif.
So this a big moment for Kanaan who won under caution at the Brickyard. In 1978, Al Unser became on the only driver to win the Triple Crown.
"The drivers are very excited about this race," Breeden said. "It is truly the Tricky Triangle. It's a face place."
The racetrack is expected to be quick during Saturday's qualifying. The 2.5-mile tri-oval is nearly 10 mph faster than it was when the series last staged an event there in 1989.
"You do realize how fast you are traveling when you reach Turn 1, which is very tight," Takuma Sato said. "You're still traveling very fast as you go through Turn 1, and there's a lot of banking, and it's progressive banking,so it's pretty tricky. Indy's Turn 1 is just a 90 degree turn, but this Turn 1 is almost kind of a hairpin the way it comes back on itself a little bit."
While Pocono officials have been satisfied with ticket sales, they are eager to see how race fans embrace the return of open-wheel racing. In the past several years, attendance for NASCAR events slipped some.
"There was a little bit of a falling out in the previous IndyCar Series. Some of that carried over, but now it's a new IndyCar and certainly a new Pocono Raceway," Breeden said.
"We looked at the facility a few years ago, and it wasn't quiet there. But with the track improvements, particularly the resurfacing project, the place is spectacular.
"There's a whole lot of history at Pocono, which was built for IndyCar. It's important for us to have a large presence in the Northeast."
Ralph N. Paulk is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at email@example.com or via Twitter @RalphPaulk_Trib.


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Mark Duggan: Shot man 'was a threat' firearms officer says
A Metropolitan Police firearms officer, who arrived on the scene of the shooting of Mark Duggan just minutes after it happened, has spoken to the BBC.
Duggan, a 29-year-old father of six, was shot by police who stopped the taxi in which he was travelling in Tottenham, north London, in August 2011.
His death led to a protest in Tottenham which sparked widespread riots across England.
The officer, who was a member of the specialist firearm command branch, is no longer with the Metropolitan Police.
She now works in the security industry and wants to remain anonymous.
08 Jan 2014
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