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Carrie Underwood, Lee Greenwood, Johnny Cash – Today In Country Music History
Carrie Underwood was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on this date in 2008, Lee Greenwood released God Bless The USA in 1984 and Johnny Cash played Carnegie Hall in 1962.
Here's the rundown for Today In Country Music History for 10 May, 2011.
- Carrie Underwood was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, introduced by Garth Brooks, in 2008.
- Dierks Bentley's Modern Day Drifter album was released in 2005.
- Willie Nelson was arrested on drug charges in 1994 after being found by police in Hewitt, Texas, asleep at the side of a road. Nelson had part of a marijuana cigarette in his ashtray.
- The Judds reached Number One in Billboard with "Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout The Good Old Days)" in 1986.
- Lee Greenwood's "God Bless The U.S.A." was released in 1984.
- Emmylou Harris's "Beneath Still Waters" went to Number One in 1980.
- Charley Pride recorded his first chart hit, "Just Between You And Me," in 1966.
- Johnny Cash appeared at Carnegie Hall in 1962.
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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Navigation and location technologies are continually advancing, allowing ever higher accuracies and operation under ever more challenging conditions. The development of such technologies requires the rapid evaluation of a large number of sensors and related utilization strategies. The integration of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) with accelerometers, gyros, barometers, magnetometers and other sensors is allowing for novel applications, but is hindered by the difficulties to test and compare integrated solutions using multiple sensor sets. In order to achieve compatibility and flexibility in terms of multiple sensors, an advanced adaptable platform is required. This paper describes the design and testing of the NavCube, a multi-sensor navigation, location and timing platform. The system provides a research tool for pedestrian navigation, location and body motion analysis in an unobtrusive form factor that enables
The development of the NavCube multi-sensor navigation platform is primarily motivated by: (i) the desire to accurately position and navigate pedestrians and objects in urban and indoor environments, (ii) simultaneously collect various sensor data at various points on the body, (iii) being unobtrusive when mounted on the body and (iv) unpretentiously collect data as though an individual was not configured with a data collection system (
While superficially comparable to other classes of navigation applications, pedestrian navigation brings numerous challenges. An important challenge is cost, as the navigation system used by a pedestrian will generally be a component of another unrelated system such as a communication system or smart phone. Often the price of the components used in the navigation system is to be minimized while factoring in weight, size and power demands placed upon the host device.
An additional challenge to practical pedestrian navigation systems involves the large range of dynamics that may be produced by human motions, which may exceed the measurement ranges of inertial navigation sensors [
Another consideration is the fact that a pedestrian will operate in environments that either limit or deny availability of satellite navigation signals such as those from GPS. While GNSS signals are extremely useful outside, their weak power levels and signal reflections limit their use in many indoor settings. As such, a pedestrian navigation platform should be capable of prolonged operation in environments where satellite navigation signals are either unavailable or only intermittently accessible. When operating under these conditions, a navigation system must fall back on other positioning methods, or include complementary relative positioning systems, which allow short term propagation of a known position and heading.
Much research has been conducted in attempting to improve inertial based pedestrian navigation accuracy indoors (e.g., [
To permit indoor operation of the NavCube, complimentary relative positioning and navigation sensors such as IMUs, magnetometers, and barometers are included in the system design along with provision for future use of non-GNSS absolute positioning methods, such as received signal strength indicators (RSSI) from 802.11 network based positioning systems and wheel speed sensors.
The NavCube functionalities can be used in other applications, scenarios and research. Biomechanics, bioengineering, guidance, robotics and animation are all engineering fields that used to be independent from each other but now have merging sensors and principles. Indeed, with the progress in miniaturizing sensors, the data of interest for a specific domain is now available to others at little or no additional cost. For example, sport watches can include a GPS receiver and a heart rate monitor [
A major evolution in the usage of mobile measurement units comes from the fact that until recently they were rigidly attached to vehicles for navigation purposes whereas nowadays they are carried by human of all ages in their hands, pockets or bags. Globally two categories of measurement units exist. The first one consists in systems able of recording measurements in a specific location and often equip a dedicated room. They are essentially capturing human movements or used for shaping industrial components. The second category consists of IMUs whose use is not restricted to a specific area and can be carried out by the user in indoor and outdoor environments. Although not exhaustive, a survey of tracking systems for biomedical analysis (e.g., human movement and stroke rehabilitation) can be found in [
Among the first category are optical tracking systems that calculate the position and orientation of markers rigidly attached to the body, which are readily available in laboratories (e.g., [
The NavCube presented herein provides the ability to compare different GNSS receivers thus allowing comparison of different antenna combinations, locations and receiver type in pedestrian navigation activities. This benefit is in response to the advent of new GNSS signals and the wish to use GNSS pseudoranges and Doppler in signal degraded environments. As a consequence, research in navigation based on multiple IMUs (e.g., [
In order to develop algorithms for fusing inertial and GNSS signals for pedestrian navigation applications, especially using high sensitivity receiver (HSGPS) the NavCube comprises up to 11 sensor sets (IMUs, barometers and magnetometers), a multi-frequency survey grade GNSS receiver, two HSGPS receivers, and a high sensitivity GNSS (HSGNSS) receiver. In the following two sections, the design of the NavCube hardware platform will be described, and applications examples are provided which are common challenges facing pedestrian navigation research.
The NavCube has been designed to carry a wide variety of navigation sensors including accelerometers, gyroscopes, barometric pressure sensors, magnetic field sensors and future sensors including wheel speed sensors. Modularity has been emphasized where possible to allow the study of a variety of cutting edge sensors, with the option to exchange these as future developments in sensor technology occur. The primary strategy for obtaining this modularity was the subdivision of the system into core components and peripheral sensors. The block diagram of
In order to support any selection of current and future sensors for any given testing scenario, external pod connections are provided by the NavCube to allow up to 10 external sensors to be interfaced to, synchronized with, and both powered and logged by the NavCube. This approach allows the replacement of any external and several internal systems when future versions become available, or to allow the side by side evaluation of past and present technologies. The multitude of external sensors supported allows multi-IMU pedestrian navigation applications such as those discussed in [
To facilitate the use of the system in typical pedestrian navigation applications the weight, size and physical dimensions were necessarily constrained, while device power storage and conditioning was integrated into the system enclosure in such a way as to provide power for both internal and external sensor systems. The layout of internal components was optimized to reduce system volume, as shown in
Not shown in
The internal sensors of the NavCube can be separated into the GNSS and non-GNSS categories, with the former containing the high sensitivity and high precision GPS and GLONASS receivers, and the latter containing the accelerometer and gyro triads, barometer and magnetometer. For comparison, the former category is enumerated in
The list of GNSS receivers in
Following the same design philosophy for non-GNSS sensors within the NavCube as that followed for the secondary GNSS sensors, the non-GNSS sensors are installed on a replaceable daughter card to permit future upgrade as more advanced models become available. The design cycle of this component was shortened substantially by sharing a common electrical and similar physical design to the sensor boards contained in the ASP pods. Currently the non-GNSS carrier board mounts the sensors indicated in
The ADIS16375 MEMS IMU is noteworthy for being a sub $1,000 inertial navigation solution, which is sufficiently stable in terms of gyro bias stability to detect the rotation rate of the earth under ideal conditions. Earth rotation detection is typically a task that requires the use of a much higher priced, much higher power consumption, and often much larger and heavier Fibre Optic Gyro (FOG) or Ring Laser Gyroscope (RLG) based IMU. While the ADIS16375 is still far less stable than FOG and RLG solutions, for a pedestrian navigation system designed to be effortlessly carried on the person of the user, the 100 gram mass of the ADIS16375 IMU is an excellent compromise of size and weight for performance.
To maintain the low weight of the system while gaining the capability of determining heading autonomously, the Honeywell HMC5883L magnetometer was selected for integration into the NavCube and ASP pods as a sub component of the inertial sensor carrier board. With a mass of less than 1 gram and negligible power consumption relative to the IMU, the inclusion of an HMC5883L enhances utility without degrading usability. Similarly, by integrating the Bosh Sensortec BMP085 barometer, the system is able to estimate changes in its elevation over time. Though sensitive to changes in weather pattern, as well as to the pressurization level of building ventilation systems, the barometer remains a useful tool in the estimation and constraint of vertical motion.
The NavCube weighs 1.2 kg, while each ASP is 0.1 kg. The total weight of the system including the NavCube, four ASPs, the wiring harness, a survey grade mobile GNSS antenna and its antenna cable, 3 low cost mobile antennas and a custom neoprene case is 2.7 kg.
Most navigation processing software assumes that each sensor is synchronized with GPS time (or another atomic time scale such as UTC where offsets are known). Thus, timing within the NavCube requires each sensor's output to be either time-tagged or synchronized with its internal clock via a Pulse Per Second (PPS) signal. The OEM628 GNSS receiver provides a PPS signal that is distributed to each ancillary module to maintain timing.
Within the ASP, the IMU, magnetometer and barometer timing is driven by a custom timing and data controller. This controller ensures that the 100 Hz IMU, 100 Hz magnetometer and 25 Hz barometer data has a near zero delay between sensors. Additionally, the controller steers the sampling train of all sensors such that the epochs of the IMU and barometer coincide with the next predicted PPS event. As shown below in
The timing sequence of each ASP has three key aspects. First, the ASP time-stamps all events in terms of an internal free-running 32-bit counter. Naturally this counter will overflow back to zero on the clock cycle following 232-1. As such the user must take this overflow into account when handling data timing. Second, in order to unambiguously map the ASP PPS received epochs to UTC/GPS time, it is necessary to control the reception of the first time pulse and to know when this pulse occurred (e.g., by using the EVENT input from the NovAtel receiver log). Third, the timestamp data of the ADIS16375 sensor is compensated for the effects of digital filtering lag within the IMU. The implemented filter has a step response with a delay of 20 ms from the time of actual physical excitation. For this reason IMU timestamps will appear to refer to 'the past' with respect to other sensors, despite the fact that the actual sampling was simultaneous. When implementing a navigation filter which will utilize inertial data as well as barometric or magnetic data this timing behavior is required to be appropriately handled, as it should not be assumed that the samples of each sensor within the same frame are referred to the same moment in time.
The NavCube operates on a four cell 88.8 Watt-hour lithium polymer battery pack. Given that the batteries data sheets are typically overly optimistic in terms of rated energy the available energy is approximately 82.1 Watt-hours within the batteries. A battery protection system ensures that the batteries remain within operating limits when nearing low power. Two voltage rails (3.3 V and 5.0 V) were required and thus power conversion circuitry was required. This reduced the available power by approximately 14%, to about 70.6 Watt-hours.
The NavCube file system controller supports the use of SD, and SDHC memory cards. Use of cards with a 133x+ or class 10 rating is best, but UHS 1 or 2 rated cards also work. Both FAT16 and FAT32 file systems are compatible with the system. Under these file systems maximum file size limits of two GB and four GB exist, respectively. Data collected exceeding these limits are stored in file sets and manually appended post mission. Data rates for each GNSS sensor are selectable by the user.
In this section field tests carried out with the NavCube and ASP pods are described to showcase its versatility in navigation based research. The first of these is a series of testing scenarios focused on the use of embedded sensors in handheld device navigation.
With the proliferation of smart phone devices which provide enhanced functionality given accurate location awareness, new methods of navigation and positioning indoors where GNSS is not available are needed. Step detection and step length estimation algorithms that function reliably within handheld devices, both during natural motion, as well as that which would be expected if the user were typing on a smartphone or otherwise interacting with a smartphone, rather than simply holding it on the side, are being pursued.
Five men and five women participated in a 450 m flat test course data collection for conducting gait analysis of pedestrians walking, but only using a handheld inertial sensor. Algorithms for detecting steps, classifying the user's activity and evaluating step frequency had been developed previously (e.g., [
The handheld IMU senses the footfalls of both feet, whereas a foot mounted IMU senses only the beginning of the foot corresponding to the stride.
Some applications allow or require that the navigation system or tracking device be mounted on the user's ankle. Using the NavCube as a platform, data was collected from an ankle-mounted combination of ASP pod and the antenna from the NavCube integrated u-blox 6 HSGNSS system. The results of this collection are shown in
The data from the ASP and HSGPS receiver were processed using the Multiple IMU Navigation Software (MINS), originally developed in [
In an urban canyon navigation scenario, the MINS software estimates the biases in the IMU gyroscopes and accelerometers when GNSS is available, and subsequently uses these estimated corrections to determine the position and heading of the user via the IMU when GNSS data is unavailable or degraded. The addition of QSF allows the MINS software to estimate gyro biases when the system passes through a region of stable magnetic field, which constrains the system heading error over time, allowing more accurate position estimates in GNSS degraded environments. Simultaneously, MINS may make use of barometric pressure data to contain errors in the navigation solutions vertical component. The aggregate result of MINS processing of the input of a GNSS sensor combined with an ASP pod mounted on the user ankle with a calibrated magnetometer per [
Navigation and body limb motion monitoring are becomingly more critical in athletic training and coaching. Numerous sports, including skiing, running, rowing and field hockey are using multisensory systems to track and improve performance (e.g., [
The hiker hiked 3.5 km and ascended 700 m vertically in 68 min and took approximately 2,750 steps (one step is from heel lift to heel lift of the same foot). Each step length and velocity was averaged to determine a nominal step profile and is shown in
The Earth magnetic field is a force that can be sensed everywhere and used to compute azimuth. If the magnetometer is in hand, there exists an ambiguity of the sensor's orientation in its body frame and the user's direction of travel. Thus multiple sensors are often required to determine the hand's azimuth and the azimuth of the user to assess algorithms using only one set of sensors.
An important condition for using magnetometers is that the sensor should measure only the earth magnetic field and no other artificial magnetic source. Consequently any field produced by electronic components embedded in the device has to be mitigated with proper calibration. These fields produce a magnetic deviation consisting of hard and soft iron perturbations. Hard iron effects produce a permanent magnetic deviation resulting from magnetized materials or other fixed magnetic field sources within the vicinity of the magnetometer. Soft iron effects correspond to induced magnetization caused by the permeability of ferromagnetic compounds onboard the sensor and that are interacting with an external field. A calibration method for mitigating the magnetic deviation but also all errors due to fabrication issues developed previously [
Using the NavCube, it is possible to compare the calibration results of different magnetometers mounted on body. In
Application of these corrections allows the estimation of accurate headings despite the local environment of the magnetometer containing a plethora of active electronics and some ferromagnetic material. The new algorithms used above are discussed in [
The system developed herein has proved an invaluable pedestrian navigation system due to its capability to power, synchronize, log and support a plurality of pedestrian navigation sensors. With applications of the system already spanning pedestrian navigation research topics, planned extension to include additional sensors will further broaden its range. The system also provides valuable information for biomechanics and sport applications.
Future sensors under consideration include supplementary absolute positioning via 802.11 wireless network observations through an internal network card, as well as the evolution of relative positioning capabilities through periodic replacement of both internal and external IMUs. The next planned non-GNSS enhancement is expected to be activation of the capability of the system to interface to a tactical grade IMU in order to provide researchers with a high accuracy indoor reference trajectory.
The authors would like to acknowledge the efforts of PLAN Group researchers H. Afzal, and M. Susi for their contributions to the testing of the NavCube system and their interest and sustained effort in developing, implementing and testing new navigation algorithms.
Block diagram of NavCube platform. Core components are shown in blue, modular devices shown in violet including HSGPS and HSGNSS receivers. Currently the system is configured to utilize dual u-blox 6 HSGPS receivers rather than the depicted combination of u-blox and SiRF based receivers.
NavCube internal component sketch. Components are as follows—Element
NavCube system assembled in enclosure. Features are as follows—Element
ASP PPS and Sensor Epoch Alignment Example.
Pedestrian wearing the NavCube in a backpack with one IMU fixed on each foot and one IMU held in hand.
Comparison of the steps detected with the handheld inertial sensors (cyan dots) and the strides events detected with the sensors rigidly attached to the left foot (red dots).
Time series of the spectrum of user hand motion when walking naturally with a handheld device. Dominant frequencies are observed in the range 0–5 Hertz and can be used to classify the motions of the hand and user.
Pedestrian testing results collected using the NavCube in the dense urban canyon environment of downtown Calgary. The white trace is the truth trajectory produced by a SPAN™ LCI tactical grade inertial navigation system (INS), the red trace is the trajectory produced by a GPS+GLONASS GNSS receiver and the green trace is derived from combined GPS+GLONASS with IMU, barometric, and magnetic field measurements [
Hiker wearing the NavCube at the waist, two IMUs attached to the leg above the boots, one IMU on the shoulder and a GNSS antenna on the other shoulder.
Hiker's Average Displacement at Various Sensor Locations during each Step.
Hiker's Average Velocity at Various Sensor Locations during each Step.
Biased and distorted magnetic field observations (blue) are calibrated resulting in the nearly ideal observation sphere (cyan) for the magnetometers embedded in IMUs attached to the left foot (
Norm, before (red) and after the calibration (green), of the magnetometer's field measured with the IMUs attached to the left foot, the right foot and the shoulder. The norm of calibrated data equals the norm of the local Earth Magnetic Field: 0.57 Gauss for this dataset and location.
GNSS receivers supported by the NavCube system and their typical application type.
|Survey, Machine Control, Timing, Real-Time Kinematic Positioning
|L1/L2 GPS/GLONASS (L5 with firmware change)
|100 Hz
|u-blox 6T
|High Sensitivity, Timing
|5 Hz
|SiRF IV
|High Sensitivity
|1 Hz
|Teseo II
|High Sensitivity GNSS
|1 Hz
Non GNSS NavCube sensors included on internal carrier board.
|State of the art < $1,000 MEMS IMU
In Run Bias Stability: 12 °/hr (1)
Dynamic Range: ±350 °/s (typ.)
In Run Bias Stability: 0.13 mg (1)
Dynamic Range: ±18 g (min.)
|100 Hz
|Embedded compassing
|2 mg resolution
|100 Hz
|Embedded altimeter
|3 Pa RMS noise
|25 Hz
NavCube Power Usage by Component Type.
|OEM6 − Digital + Antenna
|File System
|SiRF IV
|u-blox 6T
|Graphical LCD
|Core Controller
|Serial Port Replicators
|Serial Level Shifters
|Indicator LEDs
|XBee Link
|Adaptable Sensor Pod (Internal)
|Adaptable Sensor Pod (External)
NavCube Sensor Data Rates.
|Novatel OEM6
|ASP (Int. or Ext.)
|u-blox 6T
|Sirf IV
|Teseo II
|XBee Link
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Dispatchers Wanted
The newspaper ad just said dispatchers wanted and to apply in person at city hall. Nothing was said about police dispatching or the police department. I thought they were talking about utilities or public works or the water department. So, I decided to check it out. First, however, I had to get directions from my family to city hall in Sarasota.
I got there late in the afternoon, barely a half hour before closing. The woman in personnel was very nice. She gave me a short card to fill out to indicate my interest in the job. Still no indication of what kind of dispatching was entailed. She looked at the information on the card, picked up the phone, and asked for the personnel sergeant. She had someone with experience standing in front of her. Could I come right on over to the police department for an interview. Sure, if you can tell me where the police department is.
I had to do a polygraph and tell the sergeant my life story. I met with the deputy chief because the chief was on vacation. Within barely a few days, I was employed by the City of Sarasota Police Department as a civilian dispatcher.
The City
Sarasota is a city of some 50,000 souls on the west coast of Florida about an hour south of Tampa and an hour north of Ft. Myers. It is the county seat of Sarasota County. The city boasts a beautiful white sand beach on Lido Key, an upscale yuppy shopping area on St. Armands Key, a slightly shabby but still nice downtown area a block from Sarasota Bay where boats dock at the marina and Bay Front Park allows people to walk or bike along the waters edge. It used to be the home of the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey Circus. When I started working at SPD, the circus still maintained its winter home in Venice in the southern part of the county. Sarasota also has Jungle Gardens and the Ringling Art Museum.
It is the retirement capital of the United States. Almost everyone up north has a grandmother or great aunt who retired and went south to Sarasota.
There were 3 shifts in communications. Each shift had 6 people counting a shift supervisor whose badge, for some reason I still dont understand, said Desk Supervisor, like she supervised a room full of desks or something. We were all civilians. The three shift supervisors reported to a uniformed lieutenant who was also in charge of the Records Division. We wore uniforms with embarrassingly minuscule badges.
Two dispatchers would be working the radio, one talking with the officers on channel one and the other talking with the civilian aides, also on channel one. One dispatcher would be downstairs behind the front desk working teletype, one would be answering the switchboard, and one would be answering the emergency lines. The supervisor would pick up on any overflow phone calls.
There was no 911 system in Sarasota County when I started at SPD. This would be the last place I worked or lived that did not have a 911 system. People in Sarasota had two numbers with which to call the police in the city: 366-8000 for administrative and non-emergency calls, and 955-7171 for emergency calls to the police. The fire department had different emergency and non-emergency numbers for fire and medical calls.
All calls into the police station except emergency calls came in through the switchboard. No one in the building had their own phone number, so whether you wanted to talk with a records clerk about getting a copy report of a report or whether you wanted to talk with the chief, your call came in on the switchboard and the dispatcher answering it would punch in a 3-digit extension to route you to the person with whom you wanted to speak. Its a pretty inefficient way of doing things, but a lot of places had exactly the same system.
We had no CAD; instead, we used 80-column cards to record status changes and to take calls. We had a belt that was too noisy to leave on all the time, so we would drop the card in the track and flip the switch until the card went the few feet into the radio room. This would be my last dispatching job where I did not use a CAD system.
The department operated on two radio channels. One was the primary dispatch and working channel. The second was for information-type transmissions, e.g., tag checks, warrant checks, DL checks. The two people working radio were inside a small room at the front of the communications center on the second floor. They were separated from the ringing phones by a plate glass window and doors that were supposed to be shut but often were not.
We normally had around 20 units on the air, depending on the time of day. The city was divided into 10 police patrol zones with a patrol car nominally assigned to each zone. Sarasota PD ran one-officer units except for Zone 3 in the north part of the city where they assigned two officers to the patrolling unit. There tended to be a lot of disturbance calls and foot pursuit calls in that part of town, hence the two-man car.There was a Zone 11; thats what SPD called its police boat. Why not just Marine 1 or some such thing, I never knew, but thats what they called it.In addition to the 10 zone cars, there would typically be a north floater and a south floater. Sometimes, especially on evening shift, there would be two zone cars assigned to the downtown area. During day shift there would be a couple of motorcycle officers out and perhaps a couple more traffic units in unmarked patrol cars. Evening and night shift would include a half dozen or so tactical units in unmarked vehicles.
Going to Work
My first day on the job was taken up with getting in-processed and collecting my ID card and uniforms. The second day, I went to work. I sat on the switchboard with the only other male dispatcher then employed by the police department.
I spent the morning listening to the other dispatcher answer. That afternoon we reversed the roles, and he listened to me answer. The next day, I was on the switchboard by myself. My introduction to the emergency lines came a bit more directly. We were shorthanded one day. An incoming emergency line was ringing and ringing; one of the other dispatchers just pointed to it. I answered it. Never did receive any other training on the phones.
My training on the radio came one day when I was sent into the radio room to sit at the second position. My trainer, an experienced dispatcher with only some 2 years or so on the job but who was very good at the job, listened to me handle the low call volume for the civilian aides. These aides handled radio calls that did not require the intervention of a sworn officer, e.g., traffic control, parking lot accidents, minor vandalism reports. We did that for the first four hours, then we switched places. I handled the busier channel while she worked the slower one and listened to me. The next day, I was on my own.
Finishing Up
When I started, the communications center was on the second floor next to the mens locker room. Sometime around 1984-85, the city built a new center on the first floor. It looked like something from Star Trek at least, a lot of people thought so. Like the old center, it had no windows. They added a couple of them after I left. I was working day shift when we made the migration from the old center to the new one. I got to be one of the first to use the new equipment. I had already been the first dispatcher to transmit over the new equipment; I had participated in testing the facility a couple of days before. Being the first to use the new radio consoles thats about the extent of the distinction of my career at SPD.
I enjoyed working at SPD for the most part. It wasnt a place that put much stock in its dispatchers, however. As I remarked to one of my supervisors one day in the parking lot, I could come in there and become the best dispatcher the department had ever seen and no one in the department outside of communications would have cared one bit or probably have even noticed. We took a lot of grief from the patrol officers and from some of the detectives. There was little support for the dispatcher, even if the dispatcher was in the right.
The pay was also bad real bad. My starting salary was $10,000 a year, and this was in 1981. When I left 4 years later, I was making $12,000 a year. A raise of $2,000 in four years isnt exactly something to get excited about. I left, moved to Washington, D.C., and received a larger raise my first year on the job there than I had received my entire time with SPD.
I met some nice people, made a few friends with whom I stayed in contact. But Ive never missed the place.
The Communications Division of the Sarasota Police Department ceased to exist in January 1996 when its dispatchers stopped being city employees and became employees of the county sheriffs office. In April that year the Divisions functions were transferred to the countys new consolidated 911 center.
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The Bakersfield Jam made the series a challenge on Thurday night with a 107 to 94 win over the Dakota Wizards in game one of the series. The series shifts to Bismarck on Sunday for game two when the Wizards look to preform magic and tie up the series at one game apiece. Stay tuned at jeremiahboyce.com for NBA D-league updates and coverage as the series continues.


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In bug #6457 it's pointed out that we *still* don't have full functionality for locale-dependent regexp behavior with UTF8 encoding. The reason is that there's old crufty code in regc_locale.c that only considers character codes up to 255 when searching for characters that should be considered "letters", "digits", etc. We could fix that, for some value of "fix", by iterating up to perhaps 0xFFFF when dealing with UTF8 encoding, but the time that would take is unappealing. Especially so considering that this code is executed afresh anytime we compile a regex that requires locale knowledge. I looked into the upstream Tcl code and observed that they deal with this by having hard-wired tables of which Unicode code points are to be considered letters etc. The tables are directly traceable to the Unicode standard (they provide a script to regenerate them from files available from unicode.org). Nonetheless, I do not find that approach appealing, mainly because we'd be risking deviating from the libc locale code's behavior within regexes when we follow it everywhere else. It seems entirely likely to me that a particular locale setting might consider only some of what Unicode says are letters to be letters. However, we could possibly compromise by using Unicode-derived tables as a guide to which code points are worth probing libc for. That is, assume that a utf8-based locale will never claim that some code is a letter that unicode.org doesn't think is a letter. That would cut the number of required probes by a pretty large factor. The other thing that seems worth doing is to install some caching. We could presumably assume that the behavior of iswupper() et al are fixed for the duration of a database session, so that we only need to run the probe loop once when first asked to create a cvec for a particular category. Thoughts, better ideas? regards, tom lane
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The Crown is seeking a 10-year prison sentence for a Winnipeg man convicted of the attempted carjacking of a stranger he happened to spot sitting in a parked vehicle.
Terrence Hanska, 24, was found guilty earlier this year of several charges including robbery with a firearm, pointing a firearm and uttering threats.
He was acquitted of a more serious charge of attempted murder. He returned to court Thursday for his sentencing hearing.
Hanska faces a mandatory five-year minimum under federal sentencing guidelines. The Crown says that should be doubled given the shocking nature of his crime. Defence lawyer Martin Glazer called that request "overkill" and asked for 51/2 years behind bars.
Queen's Bench Justice Chris Martin reserved his verdict until Sept. 12.
Hanska attacked the 56-year-old man in the 1900 block of William Avenue West in May 2012.
The victim was sitting inside his truck, and Hanska used a hammer to smash the window. He pulled out a handgun and allegedly pulled the trigger -- but the weapon didn't discharge.
The victim reported hearing a clicking sound that formed the basis of the attempted murder charge.
Hanska testified in his own defence and claimed the gun wasn't loaded and he never tried to fire it. A firearms expert also testified the noise could have been any number of the gun's components that don't involve pulling the trigger.
The victim fled and had no major physical injuries.
Hanska was arrested later that night with help from the police helicopter. He was spotted hiding in a yard. He has been in custody ever since.
Hanska still faces another set of serious criminal charges -- including attempted murder -- for a home invasion that allegedly occurred hours before the attempted carjacking.


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In the mood for a little Southeast Asian chilli? Take your tastebuds on a tour of Thailand's Issan region at Paladarr, one of Victoria's most awarded Thai restaurants. Choose your own ingredients for the 'Miang Karm' – an Issan appetiser – or sample the impeccably realised Thai standards. Be sure to save some room for the Kaffir lime and lemongrass coconut cream pudding. Take away is available, but you're better off sitting back and letting the meal unfold in the plush interior.


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Islamic dreams about Washing Hands Olive Oil find dream interpretations. Meanings & explanations for Washing Hands Olive Oil dictionary!
Washing Hands Olive Oil dream interpretations
Dream Explanation
— Possessing
or any other pleasant smelling
heralds blessings, prosperity and wealth.
Olive tree Dream Explanation
— (See Oil; Olives)
Washing Dream Explanation
— (Brass polisher; Dishwasher; Washer) A dishwasher or a brass polisher in a dream represent an interior decorator, or someone who beautifies and embellishes people's properties, or one who attracts people to himself. A washer in a dream is also interpreted as a righteous man, a gnostic, a preacher, a teacher, or one who polishes people's hearts with his admonitions. (Also see Washer)
Washing the dead Dream Explanation
— (Undertaker) If one sees a deceased person
himself before burial in a dream, it means relief for one's dependents and increase of their wealth after him.
a deceased person in a dream means that someone will repent at the hand of the undertaker. If a deceased person asks someone to wash his clothing in a dream, it means that he needs someone to pray for him, or to intercede on his behalf before his Lord, or pay charity for the benefit of his soul, or to satisfy his debts, or to fulfill his will, or to seek justice for his death.
Washing the dead Dream Explanation
— If one does wash the garment of the deceased person in the dream, it means the redemption of that person.
a deceased person with boiling water in a dream means that the latter is suffering in hell-fire. (Also see Grave digger; Hot water; Ritual bath; Undertaker)
Washing a garment Dream Explanation
— (See Filth)
Dream Explanation
— In a dream, clapping
represents pagan customs. If one hears
clapping, or if he claps his
in a dream, it may indicate an illness or it could represent a vacant house or a ghost town.
Hands clapping Dream Explanation
— (See Clapping hands)
Dream Explanation
— Powerful
symbolise the wielding of great power.
Ablution - Ritual
Before Prayers Dream Explanation
— Ablutions symbolize the discharge of responsibility in all honesty, the repayment of a debt, or truthful testimony.
• Conducting ablutions in order to pray: Will be in God's good books.
• Conducting ablutions in a tunnel or some subterranean passage: Will recover what was stolen.
• Conducting ablutions, then tackling prayers: Will have no more worries and thank God for such relief.
• Conducting ablutions with something impure and improper: Expected relief will not come.
• A merchant dreaming that he is praying without having conducted ablutions: He is trading without capital.
Ablution - Ritual
Before Prayers Dream Explanation
— • A prince or a commander dreaming that he is praying without having conducted ablutions: His soldiers will never assemble when summoned. Praying without ablutions in an unsuitable place: The dreamer is at a loss and will have no outlet.
• Conducting ablutions with desert sand in view of the absence of water (tayammum): Relief and comfort are to come soon.
Interlocking one's
Dream Explanation
— (Intertwine) In a dream, interlocking one's
means a partnership, a contract, marriage, stagnation, stillness of business, delinquency in one's prayers, negligence of one's duties, difficulties with one's family, or a meeting that purports evil.
A Snake with
and feet Dream Explanation
— His enemy is powerful with great resources at his disposal.
Incident - Amputated
Dream Explanation
— A man said to Imam Ibn Sirin: "I saw my hand cut off in a dream." Imam Ibn Sirin replied: 'You have the habit of making false oaths." The man obliged and repented from his wrongdoing.
Incident -
being bounded by a black rope Dream Explanation
— A person narrated the following dream to Ibn Sirin : "I saw in the dream that my son bounded my
behind my back with a black rope. Tell me what does this mean." The Imaam said:" Congratulations to you. You are in debt and your son will relieve you of this burden very shortly. Moreover, he will also relieve you of your burden of having to earn a livelihood and incurring further debts. For, blackness suggests affluence and sufficiency". The person thanked the Imaam saying: "My master, you have spoken the truth".
Oil Dream Explanation
— (Food) Anointing oneself with
in a dream means receiving blessed and lawful earnings, or it could mean recovering from an illness. Drinking
in a dream has a bad connotation and implies a bad omen, an evil spell or an illness. However,
in a dream also represents knowledge, wisdom, spiritual guidance, inner light, blessings and lawful earnings. Drinking any other type of
in a dream such as
from rape seeds of the crucifer family tree (Brasica napus), or cashew
from the terebinth tree (Pistacia terebinthus), then it represents earning money from a suspicious source, or receiving illegal money.
Oil Dream Explanation
in a dream also represents the light of the heart, spiritual growth, a growing insight, or it may denote birth control, murders, assassinations, or braking someone's bones.
in a dream also denotes a broker. If good
turns putrid or stale in a dream, it means revoking one's covenant, while if a putrid or a stale
turns good in a dream, it means growing awareness, certitude and adopting a good standard in dealing with other. (Also see Extracting oils from seeds; Olives)
Oil Dream Explanation
— Dreaming of drinking
indicates sorcery or disease.
Oil press Dream Explanation
— (Oil mill;
refinery; Refinery) In a dream, an
press represents spiritual guidance, knowledge, a foster mother or a wet nurse. (Also see Sugar mill)
Dream Explanation
— In a dream, sesame
represents someone who enjoys a material and a spiritual life. If burned, then its light means guidance, and if heated to fry something, then it represents something valuable. Eating sesame
or using it as an ointment in a dream means profits, comfort, honor, rank, good deeds, or having prior knowledge about something.
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What Rocker Would You Bring Back as a Hologram? [VIDEO]
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One of the masterminds behind the Tupac hologram that shocked crowds at the Coachella Festival last month says he wants to bring back some big Rock Icons in the digital interactive format.
San Surati of Musion Technology says he'd like to bring back Elvis, Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Michael Jackson, who "would be the ultimate one".
I should add here that according to an article in Gizmodo, it wasn't really a hologram, it was a "Pepper's Ghost", a fancy 2D reflection technique.
Whatever you want to call it, it's pretty impressive, don't you think?
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Meet Felix & Oscar, the not so odd couple.
Felix and his buddy Oscar were abandoned in an empty house after their previous owners lost their home in foreclosure. The brothers are initially shy and require time to adjust. Once they do, Felix and Oscar are loveable, friendly, cuddly, and playful!
Felix is a beautiful orange and white three-year-old boy. Very sweet and gentle, Felix is a wonderful boy. He gets along with other cats; and is a little shy of dogs. Oscar is a classically beautiful orange striped four-year-old tabby. A little shadow, Oscar will follow you around the house. He is so loving and attentive - he can never get enough attention and love! Oscar gets along well with cats and dogs. He and his brother, Felix, are very close and would love to be adopted together! Wouldn't you enjoy having this darling pair in your life?
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Minx Nails, You Saw Them Here First!
Everyone has been talking about Minx Nails lately. The nail art was featured in a recent issue of Vogue and on "Today" this morning, but I have to say these "news" outlets are a little behind. The Frisky gave you the dish on Minx back in October, and even interviewed manicurist, Lisa Logan, who was responsible for Beyonce and Solange's Obama nails that were popular during the presidential campaign.
Last week, I had the pleasure of getting my nails dipped in gold. OK, not really, but I got close. I had Minx Nails applied in gold on eight fingers and gold cheetah on two fingers. It was kind of weird to have a "dry manicure." I had trouble remembering that my nails weren't wet, even though I just had them done. I kept the Minx Nails on for a few days and found myself admiring them quite often. However, I don't think they'll replace my normal manicure — they're more for special occasions. The pedicures, however, I could get behind. A Minx pedicure supposedly lasts three times as long as the manicure.


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Jordin Sparks
Tinseltown romance is always tricky, and it sounds like Sage the Gemini only dated Jordin Sparks to help boost his album sales.
On Monday (February 22) Sage's ex-fiancée Curium Hurley leaked a phone conversation she had with her former man- "Everything was f--kin' horrible," says Gemini. "That s--t was f--king dumb. She got on my nerves. I wanted to stab her. All of that s--t. Don't get me wrong, she's cool, she's level-headed, whatever, but she's not no regular person . . . Everybody on the outside looking in [thinks] it's hella perfect."
Dave Grohl and Beck paid tribute to David Bowie at a pre-Grammy party on Sunday night (February 14).
Beck took lead vocals while Dave played the drums and was joined by his fellow surviving Nirvana members Pat Smear on the guitar and Krist Novoselic on bass guitar.
Dave Grohl and Beck paid tribute to David Bowie at a pre-Grammy party on Sunday night (February 14).
Beck took lead vocals while Dave played the drums and was joined by his fellow surviving Nirvana members Pat Smear on the guitar and Krist Novoselic on bass guitar.
They've been going through a messy breakup, and Jordin Sparks recently accused Jason DeRulo of leasing the BMW he gave to her.
In an effort to make the "Whatcha Say" singer look bad, Ms. Sparks told Power 105.1FM that after she split with her man, she took the car back to the dealer and discovered that it wasn't even purchased.
She split up with Jason DeRulo earlier this year, and Jordin Sparks has moved on by spending more time taking care of her own needs and desires. The "American Idol" alum sounded pretty positive in her recent interview with People magazine regarding the single life.
Jordin began, "I'm pretty much dating myself, who am I kidding?! I'm not ready to deal with all that. I don't have time for distractions or people who are going to waste my time. But I'm in a really good place. Mentally, physically, spiritually – I'm in the best place I've been in years!"
Up until now she's been pretty tame about her split with Jason DeRulo, but Jordin Sparks appears to have emerged from her cone of silence.
The "No Air" singer is featured on a new mixtape called Bye Felicia and one track in particular contains some pretty harsh words for her ex.
It's no secret that celebrities love to take photos of themselves, and Jordin Sparks got a little camera happy earlier this week.
The "American Idol" starlet apparently noticed she looked good without makeup and decided to snap up a few images that inevitably made it onto Instagram.
He can't seem to shut up about his split with Jordin Sparks and now Jason DeRulo has revealed the method he used to send his lady packing.
While chatting on Power 105.1, the "Whatcha Say" singer confessed that he broke up with his fiancée "over the phone" because he "wasn't in town."
They were definitely one of our favorite Hollywood couples, but sadly Jason DeRulo and Jordin Sparks decided to call it quits on their relationship.
According to multiple sources, the singers opted for a mutual breakup, "but they still care very deeply for each other and will remain in each other's lives as friends." Jason and Jordin started dating in September 2011.
Proving they have a fairytale romance, Jordin Sparks and Jason DeRulo made their arrival at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards tonight (August 24).
All decked out in designer duds, the duo was in good spirits as they mingled with fellow famous folks and prepared to be rocked by the night's incredible lineup of performers.
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On last night's edition of Cam & Company on National Rifle Association News, host Cam Edwards and guest Jim Geraghty of the National Review Online baselessly attacked the methodology of a bipartisan poll that showed voters in Virginia, Colorado, and North Carolina trusted President Obama more on gun policy than Mitt Romney.
A poll by Democratic pollster Momentum Analysis and Republican pollster Chesapeake Bay Consulting found that voters in Virginia trusted President Obama more than Mitt Romney on guns by a 9 point margin, and in Colorado and North Carolina by four and one point margins.
Edwards and Geraghty erroneously claimed that the poll could not have produced meaningful results because they said it only sampled 500 voters across three states, and they questioned whether the sample was representative. In fact, the poll's methodology clearly states that 500 voters were sampled in each of three states polled, a sample size commonly used among professional pollsters. Reached for comment, the pollsters indicated that they used "industry accepted" techniques in conducting the poll.
Host Cam Edwards read the poll's methodology on air that described polling 500 voters in each of the three states, yet Edwards still bizarrely arrived at the conclusion that only "166 people per state" were polled and also claimed "when you only have a sample of 500 people across three states, it's going to make it really really difficult." Inadvertently describing the poll's actual methodology, Geraghty stated, "You can make 1500 calls, come on," and went on to say "The bottom line is, folks, don't read too much into this wacky poll of three states with tiny samples."
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A WOMAN was taken to hospital following and incident where a car collided with a house in Brierley Hill.
The female patient, who was not reported to be seriously injured, was extricated from the vehicle after it hit a house off the High Street near Pensnett Road in Brockmoor.
The incident took place at 12.15pm on Thursday October 4, police officers, one ambulance and two crews from Brierley Hill fire station were dispatched to the scene.
Three people were evacuated from the property while it was made safe by the technical rescue unit from West Midlands Fire Service.


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A Doctor of Philosophy degree, short Ph.D is an advanced academic degree earned in various fields, signifying major interests and accomplishments in research.
With the current dynamic economic condition that is experienced in the whole world, being an international economic analyst requires this level of academics to give an accurate, factual and precise advice on the guidelines to take when coming up with both monetary and fiscal measures of economic solutions.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom and Britain, is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe.The two most famous (and oldest) universities are Oxford and Cambridge (often referred to as Oxbridge by many Britons) England also has several other world-class institutions, including several in London (notably Imperial College, the London School of Economics, University College London and King's College London, all are part of London University)
London is the capital of UK, the most populous region and where royal family lives. It has the largest concentration of higher education in Europe with 412 thousand students at 43 universities.
Request Information Doctoral Programs in Economics in London in United Kingdom 2017
Students may follow the PhD pathway in International Development by being based at either SOAS, LSHTM or IoE. All PhD students on the International Development pathway will attend an advanced research training seminar run by LIDC. The series will provide students in the ESRC Doctoral Training Centre's International Development Pathway with a broad understanding of interdisciplinary approaches to development, and a detailed understanding of selected areas of interest. [+]
The CISD welcomes applications from prospective MPhil/PhD students wishing to undertake multi-disciplinary research in areas of global studies that relate to the research interests of Centre members and the Centre's research programmes. The specific focus of this research programme is twofold. [+]
Graduate students in the PhD programme of the School of Finance and Management study towards the University of London PhD. To be considered for the PhD programme in finance or management students must already have completed a good Masters degree in a relevant discipline and been awarded high grades. They must also submit an initial research proposal that demonstrates aptitude for academic research. [+]
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'A family for every child' is the new mission of the Magnificent Six charity
SOFIA, Bulgaria - 1 September, 2010. Today bTV and UNICEF announced that the new mission of the charity TV show will be to raise funds for closing down the institution for infants aged 0-3 in the city of Shumen. In pursuit of this goal, UNICEF intends to set up a network of services and measures in support of families and parents of infants, which will evolve into a model for closing down infant care facilities and child abandonment prevention. The slogan of the programme is: 'A family for every child!'
'The greatest success of The Magnificent Six in the first season was that it effectively supported the creation of a state-funded model for closing down all care establishments for disabled children. The long-term goal of the second edition will be to launch a closure model for infant institution. It is our joint mission with UNICEF to enable all Bulgarian children to grow up in a family', Apostol Penchev, director of the Television Programmes Dept. of bTV Media Group commented.
Diana Vakarelska from UNICEF emphasised on the negative effect of facility placement on babies. It triggers irreversible consequences on the child's development and deprives him/her of any chances to enjoy a normal life. Most children end up in instituions because their parents are poor and cannot manage their residential, financial or health problems. 'Our work in Mogilino showed us that we have to focus our efforts on the youngest ones', Ms. Vakarelska added.
Valentina Simeonova, Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Policy pointed out that the government's policy took on from the first edition of The Magnificent Six and added sustainability and continuation to the project for closing down the institution in Mogilino. The closure of infant homes was yet another governmental priority laid down in the Vision of Deinstitutionalisation.
Ani Salich, UNICEF's Goodwill Ambassador, will host this season of The Magnificent Six, too. Global Films will be the executive producers and Magardich Halvadzhiyan will be directing. The Magnificent Six features a series of concerts of 6 famous Bulgarian singers in duets with 6 other publicly known figures. It will last for 3 months. Theatre, sports and media celebrities will be the participants. The stars' participation in the bTV show will be entirely voluntary.
Similarly to the first season of The Magnificent Six, the three mobile operators М-Tel, Globul and Vivacom, as well as the Interactive Media Services Ltd. (in charge of tracking the SMS telephony) will work free of charge and 1 lev of the value of each donated SMS (BGN 1.20, VAT inclusive) will be contributed to the mission. bTV and UNICEF will ensure the full transparency in the expensing of all donations.
Every step will be followed on bTV and PRO.BG news broadcasts, and paralleled by the official website of the show on the bTV page and the UNICEF Bulgaria website. Thus, donors will be updated on the progress of the project, the budget and all activities and costs in the closure of the institution in Shumen. The spectators who donate an SMS during the show will receive regular information on the expensing of the funds, whereas mobile operators will deliver this reporting service for free.
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Slapshot Finally Brought Boston Hardcore to Miami at Churchill's Pub, January 5
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Better Than: Karaoke night with your co-workers.
Retribution is a beautiful thing. And after nearly 28 years of pumping out tough riffs and churning circle pits, punk legends Slapshot finally brought Boston hardcore to Miami. The show (which many in the scene considered a gift after so many years of being left out) came courtesy of South Florida's fly-date king, Roger Forbes of Speedfreek, and featured a stacked lineup of the local scene's brightest lights.
The vibe was all about communal pride, and it has since been conjectured that the positive energy produced via the hockey-themed hardcore heroes' marathon set is what, in fact, finally ended the NHL lockout.
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Things got started (on time!) with some straight-ahead punk rock, provided by Miami's Die Trying. The group played a fun set to an understandably thin crowd as many undoubtedly assumed the show would be running on Miami standard time.
The new guard of Miami hardcore was represented by Homestretch, a quintet that continues to impress us with its sheer aggression. Recently, the band has been playing a bunch of freshly penned tracks and every riff of the new material seems darker and heavier than the last. The band's cover of "It's the Limit" by the Cro-Mags proved a highlight of the set, despite frontman George Geanuracos onstage acknowledgement of how it might be a construed as a little inappropriate to cover such an important NYC hardcore band while opening for what is essentially the Boston hardcore band.
On Our Own.
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Following Homestretch, it was time for recently rebooted and sorely missed On Our Own. This Broward-based outfit has been making random appearances here and there for a while now. However, Saturday's set proved this band's totally returned to form. Frontman Carlos Fournier stalked the stage, spitting rage-driven lyrics about the nihilistic side of life over chugging riffs.
After On Our Own, there was another blast from the past, Trust No One. This band performs only on special occasions at this point. So the crowd made the set count in terms of movement. Yes, the mosh was hectic, violent, and everything that makes for a proper Trust No One show.
Trust No One.
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TNO's frontman, who must be referred as "Coach," provided plenty of colorful stage banter while trying to catch a rise from the straight-edge crowd members that were there to see one of the most outspoken straight-edge bands of all time. The band featured Alex Marquez (of bands Anger and Solstice) filling in on drums, and the sound was perhaps even heavier than normal thanks to Marquez's metallic attack.
To peer out at the crowd during the break of "Sometimes" was to see a scene from Miami hardcore's past. And it will no doubt be a moment spoken of among the Churchill's crowd for years to come.
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After the floor was cleared of unfortunate casualties from Trust No One's melee, Slapshot's banner was proudly and prominently hung. (Side note: This banner was stolen and not yet recovered. If you have any details on the theft, please contact Roger Forbes.) And a glance at the setlist being posted about the stage revealed a song selection spanning the band's discography, definitely making up for the years' long wait.
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Jack "Choke" Kelly and company wasted little time getting down to business, ripping into "No Friend of Mine" and pummeling through the goods for a solid 90 minutes.
As the room broke out in a cyclone of dives and moshing, "Choke" -- easily recognized from photos of him bleeding -- wore an ear to ear grin, something he shared with just about everyone in the crowd.
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Chants of "fuck New York" broke out at several times during the night as the band plugged on through power chords and howling vocals.
Choke's mike was stolen for the near-entirety of "No Time Left" by an overzealous fan in a Dead Kennedys t-shirt, who'd been seemingly overcome by his need for a moment with the group. And that was just one of many instances of crowd members losing control of themselves in their excitement.
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Hardcore has always been a young man's game, but Slapshot proved on Saturday that the originals had something else going on. The group sustained its aggression from song one to the end of the set and no one in attendance could have asked for anything else of the group.
Favorites were played, explosive energy was shared, and the show was a special moment for South Florida's hardcore scene.
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Critic's Notebook
Personal Bias: New Yorker.
Random Detail: The mike was stolen for most of the band's infamous cover of the Smiths' "Big Mouth Strikes Again."
Slapshot's Setlist:
-"No Friend"
-"I've Had Enough"
-"Watch Me Bleed"
-"Back on the Map"
-"No Time Left"
-"16 Valve Hate"
-"Hang Up Your Boots"
-"Big Mouth Strikes Again" (Smiths Cover)
-"What's At Stake"
-"Johnny Was"
-"Shaved for Battle"
-"Teach Me to Kill"
-"I Want You Dead"
-"Old Time"
-"Might Make Right"
-"Drop the Bomb"
-"Another Mistake"
-"Truth Hurts"
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NEW YORK--The Drug Enforcement Administration's exhibit "Target America: Terrorists, Traffickers, and You" opened today in Times Square, generating criticism from New Yorkers. The exhibit features remnants from the September 11th attacks and news programming from that day, alongside imagery of American drug users. It insinuates that American users are responsible for those horrific attacks.
"The DEA wants to hide their failed war on drugs behind the war on terrorism," said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. "Drugs themselves don't create crime, it's drug prohibition that has lead to the illegal markets that generate immense profits and violence. What the DEA is doing is the equivalent of blaming beer drinkers for Al Capone's reign of terror."
The traveling exhibit, which has already been shown in Arlington, Virginia, Dallas, Texas, and Ashland, Nebraska, has its most high profile launch today in New York's Times Square, with former NY mayor Rudolph Giuliani and DEA officials attending the opening.
The exhibit links drug use and terrorism, echoing the ONDCP's controversial 2002 Super Bowl ads in which American young people "confess" to being terrorists because they have tried illicit drugs: in one ad, a young woman says, "Last weekend, I washed my car, hung out with a few friends, and helped murder a family in Colombia." "The ONDCP spent millions on ads that blamed US teenagers for murder and torture," said Nadelmann. "With this exhibit, is the DEA saying that Governor George Pataki, Mayor Bloomberg and hundreds of thousands of other New Yorkers who have used illegal drugs are responsible for September 11, 2001 and other acts of terrorism?"
Experts say that this exhibit is another expensive and ineffective strategy from the proponents of a failed policy. "If they really cared about American young people, they'd use that money to fund honest drug education and effective treatment," added Nadelmann.
Critics made the following points about the current DEA exhibit and the 2002 Superbowl ads:
Both are factually misleading: they blame drugs and non-violent Americans for terror funding, when, in fact, the drug war itself is responsible for creating the illegal markets that generate those funds.
They waste precious resources: the federal government spent $10 million on a television and print ad campaign to demonize Americans when more than half of the people in the country who need drug treatment cannot get it.
They are politically motivated: the drug czar's office is using millions of taxpayer dollars trying to persuade the American public and Congress that the failed drug war is still worth funding.
The exhibit and the ads do nothing to educate children about the health risks of drug use, or to stimulate real dialogue among parents and children about drugs. Instead, they dishonestly link the war on drugs to the war on terrorism in a desperate and cynical effort to protect drug war budgets.


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But beyond that, we're also witnessing the unravelling of the West's power, the dissipation of its ability to influence and order world affairs. Gone are the days when the likes of America or Britain could carve up the region according to their interests, building kingdoms out of the post-imperial, and in Yemen's case, post-Ottoman dust. Gone even are the more recent post-Vietnam days when Western powers could shore up a favourable regime with finance and arms, or undermine an unfavourable one by financing and arming its opponents. This isn't to say the meddling and intervening has ceased. As the past 20-odd years have amply and brutally illustrated, Western intervention continues. But it does so without a clear material rationale, without authority, and without conviction. It is marked by do-gooding postures, and clueless, time-tabled practice.
Close but not quite for powerlessness here has everything to do with hubris and incompetence!


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I've tried to capture the BBC with this and keep a good level of focus on the topic, it failed VFH, but I'd like to have another shot with this one, I'm looking for an honest opinion, and any ideas on how to improve the article. Thanks:) — Sir Sycamore (talk) 16:04, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
|You need a bloody big net if you're attempting to capture the BBC. Oh all right, a -2 for that "gag". But let's move onto your good self. Yep another mildly humourous offering from Sycamore (Well, I did give you a 9! You want praise as well??) Seriously? Very funny. Of course, it will Whoosh! completely over the heads of Johnny Foreigner, but so what? I love the 'early days' angle of the Beeb - it's almost comforting. There's a couple of ideas I want to throw your way - I'm always reluctant to just dive in and change an article someone's written. I know that's not exactly in the spirit of 'Anyone can edit', but it's just the way I'm built: You could add another laugh, by renaming 3.1 Kikes, Dykes & Bikes. (You have heard the rumour of how Natasha Kaplinsky may or may not have got that job on Breakfast tv?)
I love the comparisions to Russia and the dictatorial BBC. Great stuff.
You could expand the Radio Times section by Stalinising it up a bit more. Howabout if people were forced by law to buy the RT (like the f**king licence!) And anyone found to be buying another title ("Other Listings magazines aren't available") would be tracked and hunted down by Radio Times detector vans. Any anti-RTers will be strung up- Mussolini-style and spat on.
Perhaps add a bit more on how marvellous the BBC think they are ... Comic Relief, Children In Need, etc) Just ideas for the mix. Maybe a few old time radio shows (which in 2008 aren't really as funny as they seemed 50 years ago) Then you've got the marvellous EastEnders (insert sarcastic tone here)
|Never really understood the concept element. But I'll throw in an 8 just to bring a little balance to the world. The 'concept' is an alt universe of the real nasty-always-rejectin'-me-scripts BBC. It works fine, that's all that matters.
|Prose and formatting:
|Come on!
|Great pics, harking back to a bygone age ... A couple of modern ones might help. Ooh - howabout a spoof front page of the RT? And get Terry Wogan in there somewhere. Just for the sheer hell of it.
|Overall, excellent. What more do you want from me???
|Final Score:
|I think expansion is needed. Given that the BBC is a massive dictatorship, more powerful than any Eastern European country, perhaps a larger article might do it more justice. This will certainly be 'Front Page' material eventually.
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From: "Graeme O'Reilly" <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-EAST-YORKS] RICHARDSON Peter & Isabella marriage 1811
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:19:20 +1100
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A very big thank you to many members of the list.
The long S was the culprit.
Thanks especially to Richard who checked the original registers for me and
confirmed the name was SAGG.
It is a pleasure to be descended from Yorkshiremen.
Graeme in sunny Sydney
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christine Roderick" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: [ENG-EAST-YORKS] RICHARDSON Peter & Isabella marriage 1811
It's the long S
Confuses the LDS . It would be Sagg not Fagg. You are lucky you have not
come across it before. I have in relation to my Suckley ancestors and
because they could believe it could possibly be an F they listed them as
Buckley. I could have looked for ever then I realised what had happened;
LDS are good, but by no means infallible
Chris Roderick
--- On Sat, 20/11/10, Graeme O'Reilly <> wrote:
From: Graeme O'Reilly <>
Subject: [ENG-EAST-YORKS] RICHARDSON Peter & Isabella marriage 1811
Date: Saturday, 20 November, 2010, 5:50
Hello list,
I am hoping that someone here can help me kick out that pesky brick that is
keeping this brick wall standing. Peter RICHARDSON married Isabella
apprximately 1810. They were both from the Easington area of East Yorkshire.
They are my G G G G grandparents.
Isabella's death certificate states that her second christian name was
The IGI gives a marriage between a Peter RICHARDSON and an Isabella FAGG on
the 9th January 1811 at Drypool which I believe is near Hull. I can find no
further reference to a marriage for Peter RICHARDSON.
I can find no other references to an Isabela FAGG. No baptism, no parents,
in fact hardly a reference to the surname FAGG at all.
The 1851 census gives Patrington as my Isabella's birth place.
After recently browsing through thousands of baptisms in Patrington for the
relevant time period, I have found references to a SAGG family who have
lived for generations in the Patringtom area and to my disbelief there is an
Elizabeth Banks Sagg born at about the right time and in the right place.
Surely this is my Isabella.
I am a very pedantic genealogist and circumstantial evidence, no matter how
strong is not proof. It is looking pretty obvious to me that the marriage
transcript in the IGI must be wrong and that the surname is really SAGG.
I live in Sydney, Australia and it is not so easy to pop over to the
Beverley records office and check the original of this Drypool marriage.
Can anyone advise me of a way to have the record checked?
Thanking you,
Graeme O'Reilly
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Increasingly, the agency is being asked to pay for fire suppression at the expense of other priorities and needs. Last year firefighting consumed 45 percent of the agency's budget, leaving less to spend on campground maintenance, trail work, wildlife and fish habitat restoration and many other worthwhile programs.
There are, of course, several reasons for rising firefighting costs. The first is drought. It's axiom of fire ecology that you get big fires with extreme drought. There is little one can do to control drought.
Under conditions of drought coupled with low humidity, high temperatures and, most important, high winds, wildfires are unstoppable. It is not a failure of federal firefighting agencies that is contributing to our growing firefighting costs, but a failure of state and local governments to bite the bullet and begin to halt the construction of new homes that are being built outside of established towns and cities throughout the West.
In recent years, the majority of the firefighting effort has focused on "structure protection." In other words, firefighters are no longer fighting the fires themselves, but spending the majority of time and effort defending homes created by rural sprawl.
Fire-related costs, both in loss of life and tax dollars, are almost totally avoidable. Nearly 85 percent of the half-mile fire hazard zones surrounding U.S. communities is found on private lands. And it is largely the responsibility of state and local government to regulate and minimize the risk posed by wildfires.
If states would enact urban growth boundaries such as Oregon has done that confine new construction in or near existing communities, wildfire would be a minor threat to humans. But due to the failure and even hostility of many of the West's state and local governments to control sprawl, we have a growing mess and crisis.
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With global warming creating conditions favorable for large unstoppable fires, we are going to see more and more large blazes. Either we continue to keep our heads in the sand, refusing to make adjustments in our behavior and suffer the consequences, or we can begin to change our behavior so when the inevitable large fires do occur, we aren't victims of our own ideological rhetoric.
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New York City -- Liz Claiborne narrowed its fourth-quarter loss as the company trimmed expenses. But it issued a lackluster outlook for its coming fiscal year.
The company said Thursday that it lost $30.1 million, compared with a loss of $41.7 million in the prior-year period.
Revenue dropped 7% to $703.7 million from $756.5 million, down mostly because of a transition in the licensing model under its J.C. Penney Co. and QVC deals.
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Tragedy at SXSW: 2 dead, 23 injured after car plows in to crowd
A tragedy has occurred at SXSW in Austin after an alleged drunk driver plowed into a crowd, killing 2 and injuring 23 people.
23 individuals have been transported. Of those 5 are in critical condition, 2 deceased. #SXSW
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Khloe Kardashian has lots to be thankful for this holiday season — a loving husband, a booming career and tight knit family.
Khloe blogged about how she spent her Turkey Day and said:
Hi my loves!! My family and I had the most wonderful Thanksgiving together this year at Kris's house. It's so special to be able to spend the holidays with friends and family, and I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by all of the people I love most in the world. We literally had 30 people at our house. It was loud, crazy, silly — pretty much just your typical Kardashian Thanksgiving LOL. I wouldn't have it any other way. I love my family!!!!!!
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For one day life looked a little different for the karaoke women and girls from Phnom Penh's notorious Chay Hour 2 hotel, allegedly run by Chinese mafia.
Eighty-four were rescued by officers of the Anti-Human Trafficking and Juvenile Protection Department last Tuesday, in the largest human-trafficking bust in Cambodia this year. They were placed in the care of the group Agir pour les Femmes en Situation Precaire (Acting for Women in Distressing Situations).
One 17-year-old told the shelter's staff she had sold her virginity the night before. Many other stories went untold. Before staff could interview most of the women, armed thugs broke down the shelter's doors and abducted all but one of the 91 women and children in the group's care.
"Yes, the story is true," said Pierre Legros, regional co-ordinator for the group, a non-government organisation that fights trafficking in women and children. "It is the first time in history for a gang to break the door in the centre and steal the girls." With trafficking, the focus in the past had been on the individual, Mr Legros said; it needed to be on organised crime, political power and money laundering.
The problem was not limited to Cambodia, he said, and was also a matter for concern in Burma and New York.
While exact figures on women trafficked in Cambodia are unavailable, the group estimates "thousands and thousands of women and girls" are trafficked along the Thailand-Cambodia and Cambodia-Vietnam borders each year. Mr Legros said the Chay Hour 2 hotel had "a big entry, and girls sitting behind glass that you choose".
"You can't call it a brothel, because a guy can go there just to take a room to sleep. Or he can take a girl to a room for massage, for karaoke, for sex."
Somaly Mam, president of Agir pour les Femmes en Situation Precaire, told the Cambodia Daily that about 30 men and women, some with handguns, had surrounded the shelter on Wednesday, assaulted security guards and forced the women into four-wheel-drives. Before the raid the women reportedly told her that "the boss of the hotel has a lot of power" and would come to take them.
Mr Legros does not blame the police. "Some anti-trafficking police did a great job, then a high-ranking official connected to organised crime stepped in."
The shelter is temporarily closed after staff were warned they would die if it stayed open. "We will reopen," Mr Legros said. He and his family have bodyguards and are change houses regularly because of threats.
The US, where human trafficking has become a red-button issue, has strongly condemned the raid. President George Bush drew attention to the problem in a speech to the United Nations in September.
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