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Life has never been easy for the three Being Human roommates, and the end of Season 2 certainly proved that. With the religious-inspired experimentation forcibly ended and the bloody conclusion of Mitchells tenure as leader of the vampires, the rag-tag group of supernatural beings flees to a small house in an out of the way village. Unfortunately, that wouldnt be far enough from the influence of the beyond, and in the finale poor Annie is sucked into what we can only imagine is hell. All caught up? If not, lets take a quick step back.
Being Human is the tale of roommates who just happen to be a vampire (Aidan Turner as Mitchell), a pair of werewolves (Russell Tovey as George and Sinead Keenan as Nina), and a ghost (Lenora Crichlow as Annie). Sharing their lives in an attempt to feel human and normal, the four must face challenges both internal and external. Can one overcome nature? Can the supernatural live side by side with humanity? Where can they find love and do they deserve it? What does the afterlife hold? All of these are more and dealt with in the BBC show thats been shown on BBC America here in the States (not to mention an American version on the Syfy Channel). And now all three seasons are available on DVD and Blu-ray! Today well be taking a look at the latest Blu-ray release.
Being Human Season Three on Blu-ray comes in packaging similar to the first two. It has an outer cardboard sleeve, the front of which shows the main characters while the back has info, a breakdown of the contents, and a few more photos. Inside the outer container is a two-panel disc holder that unfolds to reveal the three discs. The primary image for season three is a striking one, a slightly off vignette of shoppers in a grocery store. George looks scared and ready to flee, Ninas basket of meat is dripping blood on the floor, Mitchell is in full vampire mode, and Annie fades from view over a dropped jar of ketchup. The inside of the disc holder has a background image of the crew in the Honolulu Heights attic, and the discs focus on the main characters: one for Mitchell, one for Annie, and one for the pair of werewolves.
While previous seasons have focused mainly on the three original roommates trying to live in harmony with the humans around them, this one was a little different. In the first episode Mitchell, George, and Nina move into the Honolulu Heights, a closed down bed and breakfast in Wales. Almost immediately, and consistently throughout the seasons eight episodes, the weirdness comes to them. Annies spirit appears on television screens, leading Mitchell to attempt a daring rescue attempt in purgatory. While hes successful in bringing her back, the vampire learns from his guide Lia that he will soon be killed by a werewolf. This looming doom will influence almost everything Mitchell does for the rest of the story.
With the whole gang back together it seems as though things might settle down into some semblance of normalcy, but thats not in the cards for this bunch. Local civilized vampires want Mitchell to get out of town, afraid that authorities might catch up to him after his role in the Box Tunnel 20 slaughter back in Bristol. During their full moon preparations George and Nina meet vagabond werewolf vampire-hunting team McNair and Tom, also picking up a perpetually-teenaged vampire and a vain decomposing zombie along the way. For the first time since the beginning of the show, it is George who is able to reach out to many of these characters and help them get on with their lives. Where once he would have cowered and given up, hes now in a position to look out for others, not least of which comes from his growing responsibility as the soon to be father of Ninas unique (werewolf?) baby. Best of all, season three sees the return of former top vampire Herrick, somehow come back from the dead (youll remember that at the end of season one George tore him to pieces).
Being Human Season Three has tons of great character development for all parties, and by the emotional ending you really identify with the group, which is all the more impressive considering what and who they are. Theres also plenty of action, suspense, and not just a little gore; the zombie Sasha is a real horror show, and by the end of the finale theres quite a pile of bodies. As before, Being Human is very much an adult show, combining that violence with sexuality and language. Like our homegrown True Blood, kids shouldnt be watching this.
Being Human looks absolutely great on Blu-ray, and thats especially true for those of us who are stuck watching it regularly on standard definition BBC America. The menus look nice (the main intro featuring a sweeping shot of the Honolulu Heights), and theyre easy to navigate. The first two discs have three episodes apiece, while the third has two and the special features. There arent a lot, but whats included is worth watching. The deleted scenes are surprisingly entertaining, and then there are interviews with the main actors and a set tour hosted by Sinead. With the entire Honolulu Heights taking up a sizeable soundstage, its a very interesting behind the scenes look.
Being Human is a really good show, and season three is perhaps the best yet. The characters are really well-rounded, the mythology is tight, and its full of interesting and funny guest appearances. You wont be able to guess how its going to end, and the finale will stun you in more ways than one. As I noted above, even if you watched the show on air, you owe it to yourself to catch it on Blu-ray. Season three is available in stores and online now. Go watch!
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Balfour still working through mechanics on mound
ARLINGTON -- Grant Balfour pitched a scoreless ninth inning in Monday's 7-0 Rays win over the Rangers. While he did allow some baserunners, he managed to get the game's final out to preserve the shutout.
The former Rays closer feels like his mechanics are a little bit off, so he has been working with pitching coach Jim Hickey to find what feels right.
"It's just the mechanics of pitching," Balfour said. "Getting to the point where you can put your body where you can execute pitches. I'm getting closer to feeling where I was, where I used to be. There's a few difference. The front side flies open, the arm angle. Just trying to get that arm slot at the same time.
"I can feel that I'm out of kilter when I'm not hitting that spot. The last five or six years, you go through a couple of little things here or there. But for the most part, I could nail that corner all day long with the fastball, breaking balls, whatever. That's why the numbers are there [in the past]. And I know that when I'm on and hitting my spot, they're tough pitches to hit."
Balfour doesn't feel as if he's far off from where he should be mechanically.
"Not a massive thing," Balfour said. "A couple of small things. Last night I probably over-exaggerated a little bit. But I liked my stuff last night. Way better than Chicago. I think I'm headed the right direction from where I was."
Balfour allowed that confidence is a part of the equation.
"It's a big deal," Balfour said. "Pitching is definitely confidence. Hitting is definitely confidence. And you get results, you get confidence. It's big. Not having it can drag you down. When you start feeling it, things roll."
Manager Joe Maddon feels like Balfour has thrown the ball well this season. Maddon cited the fact that left-handers entered Tuesday night's action hitting .220 and right-handers were just .230.
"The thing is, we believe in him so much more than he probably believes in himself right now," Maddon said. "Walks are killing him, the walks are really high. But when he's actually challenging guys over the plate, there's hasn't been a lot of damage."
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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CHELSEA Babieri was the inspiration for Ferndale Rodbourne Rovers as they overcome Wootton Bassett Yellow 3-1 in Under 11 Division 2.
Bassett took the lead before midfielder Babieri set up two of the Ferndale's three goals.
Harry Standen, Calum Lansley and Colin Adams scored for Rovers.
Under 9 Division 2
WROUGHTON Youth Blue and Ferndale Rodbourne played out a battling 0-0 draw.
Under 9 Division 4
RANGERS Under 9s bagged a 6-0 win over FC Chippenham thanks to goals from Jack Lampard (2), Jack Ratcliffe (2), Emily Hewitt and Kevin Prouse, as well as another clean sheet for goalkeeper Brandon Ricketts.
Under 10 Division 1
CROFT Juniors Red created several good chances in the first half only to fall 1-0 down against Liden Community at the break.
However, Croft equalised in the first minute of the second half when Jed Phillips scored with a bullet header from a corner.
A couple of minutes later Spencer Bunce finished a lovely passing move before Tyger-J Hall rounded off the scoring for Croft with a good solo effort.
There was a 2-2 draw at the Rec between Highworth Town Juniors H and Forest Green Rovers, with Sebastian Goddard and Freddie Merrett scoring for the home side.
Under 10 Division 3
HIGHWORTH Town Juniors T fought out a 1-1 draw with Croft Juniors Blue at the Rec.
Stratton Juniors Orange took the lead against Supermarine through a great run and strike from Paul Amoni.
But in the second half, Supermarine scored three second half goals to finish on top.
Lewis Paoletta scored for Stratton Juniors Black in their 1-1 draw against Fairford Youth.
Under 10 Division 4
HIGHWORTH Town Juniors J got a well-earned 2-2 draw against Wootton Bassett at the Rec.
Talli Demetrious equalised late on for the home side with his second of the game. The scorers for Wootton Bassett were Tom Lawrence and Will Coller.
Swindon Centurions took a 1-0 lead into half-time against FC Abbeymeads and added three more in the second period courtesy of Sam Canniford, Jack Langcaster, Mitch Dunn and Josh Church.
Under 11 Division 1
FERNDALE Rodbourne Pumas battled hard for a 1-1 draw with Forest Green. Corey Adams scored from the penalty spot for Ferndale.
Highworth edged out Swindon Rangers 2-0 in a close encounter. Highworth's goals came courtesy of Jack Payne and Ethan Parker.
Robins overcame Croft 6-0 in a one-sided encounter.
Leading 2-0 at half-time, Robins scored four more unanswered goals in the second half.
Harrison Mace (3), Zac Stewart-Skinner, Jordan Murray and Jude Collins all got on the scoresheet.
Under 11 Division 3
A GOAL-FEST at Ashton Keynes saw Highworth Town Juniors C emerge with a 12-5 away win.
Top scorer for Highworth was Archie Bowman with four goals and there were braces for James Archer, Sol Lennon and James Major. Rhys Bowden and Noah Ferrison got a goal each.
Under 11 Division 4
BLUNSDON Colts squandered a 1-0 half-time lead to eventually lose 3-1 against Northern Lights.
Lights' goals came from Tommy Cole (2) and Connor Robb.
Under 12 Division 1
CROFT ran out 4-3 winners against Swindon Supermarine. Dan Skinner (3) and Jack Skates found the net for Croft.
Swindon Rangers A got back to winning ways with a 6-0 triumph against Calne.
This was in spite of the fact that Rangers had just nine available and fit players.
Shaun Wilkinson hit a double while Finley Thompson finished off the move of the match with a header at the far post.
Toby Kutassy, Ethan Bond and Brandon McGinn (pen) wrapped up victory for the league leaders.
Ferndale Rodbourne YCFC took the lead against FC Chippenham but, despite a superb performance from Dan Argrave in goal, Chippenham eventually ran out 6-2 winners.
The Ferndale goals were scored by James Matthews and Bailey Gallagher.
Under 12 Division 2
EXCELLENT performances by Ferndale Youth's Jacob Edwards-Brown and James White could not deny league leaders Broad Town Colts a 5-1 win. Josh Dixon scored Ferndale's consolation.
Under 12 Division 3
AFTER a two-month break, Ferndale Rodbourne Colts struggled to find their previous good form as they lost 6-1 to Lambourn Sports.
Ferndale's goal came from Josh Haynes and there was a superb performance from Steve Flower.
Under 13 Division 1 (9v9)
FC CALNE moved up to second with a 4-2 win over Chiseldon.
Franc Lofy's hat-trick set Calne on their way, before Toby Hook sealed victory in injury-time.
Under 13 Division 2 (11v11)
JACK Trott opened the scoring for Greenmeadow Youth in the first half against Shrivenham while Oliver Mathews struck twice at the start of the second.
Jordan Hyde and Tyler Lewis also netted in the 5-0 win.
Under 14 Division 1
BRINKWORTH Cats Black beat Croft Juniors 4-0 with two goals in each half.
Ryan Collins opened the scoring for Cats with Ashley Phillips bagging a hat-trick to secure victory.
Supermarine ran out 4-0 winners against Shrivenham & Watchfield thanks to goals from Tom Holland, Matthew Penella-Lach, Biagio Mazzotta and Louis O'Shea.
Under 14 Division 2
A SUPERB hat-trick from Lawrence Jowett, a long-range screamer from Billy Faulkner and a tap-in from Tom Boddy saw Blunsdon Colts beat Ferndale Rodbourne 5-2.
Under 16 Division 1
SUBSTITUTE Antonio Gerrish came on for Supermarine just after the break against Swindon Rangers and scored with his first touch.
Supermarine then scored another three goals through Aidan Maycock, Callum Wells and Kieran O'Daly so seal a 4-0 victory.
After a goaless first half, Wootton Bassett took the lead midway through the second half against Supermarine.
After continuous pressure Supermarine eventually levelled through Jake Green and then Maycock headed in the winner.
Ferndale missed a penalty against Robins with the game tied at 2-2, and Robins eventually won 3-2. Ferndale's goalscorers were Bradley Keene and Nathan Marland.
Under 16 Division 2
LAMBOURN Sports kept up their recent form with a 3-2 win over Croft. Liam Glendinning, Eddy Head and George Lybech Harris sealed the Lambourn win.


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Many initiatives within an organization are supported by steering committees, committees that decide on the priorities or order of the business. Audit, IT and EHS (Environment Health & Safety) are just a few common examples. However, not all steering committees are created equal. They can take on many different shapes and forms based on need, initiative scope, subject-matter expertise and company culture, just to name a few.
Generally, a steering committee's purpose is to ensure that the initiative has the support to be effectively integrated into the organization. Committees are formed to ensure the success of the initiative, as well as the success of participants, by effectively sponsoring, opening opportunities and tearing down walls or barriers that may derail the initiative. But, it is not uncommon to see a steering committee that has evolved into an "update session" with little change or influence happening in the organization.
Enterprise Risk Management, or ERM, is no different in this regard. It requires an active and engaged committee of sponsors who ultimately own the success of the initiative being adopted by the organization or not. In other words, they are your support team for success.
The difference between success and failure
So, what makes the difference? Why are some steering committees more effective than others?
Well, as you can imagine, there are a myriad of reasons but below I offer a few points I've learned over the years that can help you successfully use your steering committee to get your initiative moving and adopted.
1. Select the Right Members
This may seem like common sense but in practice can be difficult. Some questions that have emerged over the years are:
- Who has the right authority and influence where your initiative is targeted?
- Are these individuals available and have the time to commit to the initiative?
- Have you clearly defined the specialized skills you need on your committee?
- Do the individual personalities work in favor of the initiative? (Not "does everybody get along", but rather is there enough objectivity, enough diverging opinions but with the right balance to ensure issues are clearly vetted and aligned to execute.)
- Are they willing to sponsor the initiative? Are they committed to seeing the initiative succeed?
- How have they performed on past steering committees? Does this work in your favor? If not, can they be influenced to participate as you need them to?
These as well as other questions should be considered in order to start off with the right members. Having dedicated members who are supportive and aligned with the initiative can make a big difference in the outcome.
Unique to ERM steering committees, member selection should follow the order of your "risk groupings," i.e., how do you define the large buckets of risk(s)? A natural and common order of risk groupings in the industry are: Hazard, Strategic, Financial, Operations and Legal/Regulatory. With the varied and complex issues ERM professionals address, it is important that a subject-matter expert in each of these categories be represented for each of your risk buckets. This ensures that a fair number of the questions above are addressed, such as are they aligned with the target? Do they have a vested interest in seeing the initiative through, etc.? By aligning executives with the specific responsibilities where your company risk is arising you stand a better chance of identifying well-suited committee members.
2. Develop a Charter, Vision and Mission for your ERM Steering Committee
ERM steering committees should have clear charters, vision statements and mission statements.
These documents should become living, breathing documents that are used to govern the activities of the committee. Further, it is essential to draft these documents using clear and concise language – so that the messages can be easily understood and digested through the company.
For example: Can each of your committee members answer the following question with a single statement:
What does the ERM committee do?
Answer 1: The ERM steering committee works to evaluate, quantify, develop and integrate controls to balance the risk/reward equation of the organization.
This statement is short, clear and concise and provides an entry-level knowledge of what the ERM steering committee is about. Further, it allows for consistent communication of the committee's purpose across the organization. Done correctly, the words of the charter, vision and mission will start to bubble up all over the company in dialogue, emails, presentations etc.
Otherwise, without a clear statement of purpose through the charter, vision and mission you may end up with this response:
(OR) Answer 2: Well, we get together quarterly and talk about risks and stuff and there are projects, like better regulatory knowledge.
Obviously not preferred, but how many times have you heard this in your career?
So, not only do you have to bring clarity of purpose through the charter, vision and mission, you must also repeat these statements often with your committee members. This will ensure a greater likelihood that they can clearly articulate their role and the role the committee plays within your organization.
Another important point is: Do not write these documents for the committee! Your job is to facilitate the discussions and help the committee draw the necessary conclusion(s) through your expert guidance. This can be a painful process, and I've been through as many as 30 edit sessions to reach an agreement – but it is critical. Although laborious at times, it is time well spent in that it ensures the committee "owns" the charter, vision and mission and are engaged in the process from day one.
3. Be an action-orientated steering committee
So, many steering committees get mired in discussion and "what if's" that action ceases to exist. As the committee leader, you play a critical role in driving the committee and its actions.
First, you should send out pre-work before meetings. Develop the topics, readings, things you would like the committee to do some pre-think on etc. This gives them an engagement task that will serve as a central focus for the meeting. This significantly improves the ability to stay on track.
Second, clearly define the agenda and set time limits for each topic. Make it clear which parts of the agenda are discussion times (and limit the time) and which decisions must be made during the meeting. Most of the meeting time should be spent making decisions. Stick to the timeline and keep the agenda moving.
And lastly, provide homework at the end of each meeting. This affords you an opportunity to engage with each committee member individually outside of the committee meeting and gives the sponsor real and meaningful work to help move the initiative along. With more face time, you can clear up misunderstandings, take a pulse check on how each member is viewing the progress and use that time to influence.
4. Coach up!
Most executives I have worked with over the years want to see the initiative succeed and certainly want a return on investment. So, typically the want and desire to sponsor and support is there, but the understanding and language of the subject matter may not be.
For this reason you have a responsibility to "coach up." This means educating the committee members on the subject matter in a way they can understand. Provide them with communication templates and give them the language to express the importance of the initiative(s) and its value to the organization. Remember to talk in terms of value creation or value preservation. You can also script the sponsors support by asking them to call a person and communicate a certain message, or help draft language for them to use in there communication documents, or help build a piece of a key presentation they are doing.
Provide committee members with the knowledge, talking points/language and the direction and watch your initiative soar!
Troy Hackett is the director enterprise risk management at Wilbur-Ellis Company and has worked extensively in the ERM space. Hackett is a graduate of Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, Mo. with a degree in Industrial Safety and went on to earn his M.B.A. at Brenau University in Gainesville, Ga. Hackett also holds certifications from the Risk and Insurance Management Society and the American Society of Safety Engineers.


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A South African company has created a device that makes it easier for grape growers to measure brix levels in the field.
The patented Brixmaster, made by Western Cape-based Prospective Innovations CC, is used in the field by laborers and relies on specific gravity to measure brix levels.
Before the Brixmaster, growers relied on refractometers or, in the field, on the old-fashioned "taste it" method, said Prospective's David Harris.
The Brixmaster is easy to use and costs less than a tenth of a refractometer, he said.
The higher the sugar level, the higher a grape's specific gravity, Harris said. Within seconds, the Brixmaster will indicate if a grape is above or below a desired level.
Pickers attach the Brixmaster to their waists with a belt clip. To operate it, they put a grape into the Brixmaster. If it floats in the unit's calibration solution, the sugar content is too low. If it sinks, the grape is sweet enough to be picked.


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2015: Nine people are killed in a mass shooting during a Bible study class at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Eight people died at the scene with another victim dying at a hospital. Dylann Roof, 21, was arrested the following day and, according to police, confessed and told investigators he wanted to start a race war. Roof was convicted of murder and hate crime charges in federal court in December 2016 and sentenced to death the following month. [ + - ]
2012: Rodney King, who became nationally known after being beaten with excessive force by Los Angeles police officers in 1991, dies at age 47 in an accidental drowning in the pool at his home in Rialto, California. An autopsy later revealed that alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and PCP were in his blood at the time of the drowning and were contributing factors to his death. [ + - ]
2008: Actress and dancer Cyd Charisse, best known for roles in movies such as "Singin' in the Rain," "The Band Wagon" and "Silk Stockings," dies of a heart attack at the age of 86 in Los Angeles, California. [ + - ]
2008: Hundreds of same-sex couples get married across California on the first full day that gay marriage became legal by order of the state's highest court. However, by approving the constitutional amendment Proposition 8 in November, California voters subsequently banned gay marriage in the state. The amendment was ruled unconstitutional by a federal court in 2010, but was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States, which dismissed the appeal on June 26, 2013. [ + - ]
2008: "One of the Boys," Katy Perry's major-label debut album, is released. The album, which sold more than three million copies worldwide, featured the hits "I Kissed a Girl," "Hot n Cold," "Waking Up in Vegas" and "Thinking of You," and earned Perry two Grammy nominations. Perry is seen here at the album's release party holding a plaque commemorating downloads of the album's first single, "I Kissed a Girl." [ + - ]
1994: Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O.J. Simpson is arrested in connection with the slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, waiter Ronald Goldman. Simpson, a former college and professional football star and actor, was later acquitted of the killings in a high-profile murder trial, but was held liable in wrongful death civil suit. [ + - ]
1987: Grammy-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar is born Kendrick Lamar Duckworth in Compton, California. [ + - ]
1985: The space shuttle Discovery launches on mission STS-51-G, carrying payload specialist Sultan Salman Al Saud of Saudi Arabia. Al Saud (third from right) became the first Arab, the first Muslim and the first member of a royal family to fly into space. [ + - ]
1980: Tennis player Venus Williams, a former World No. 1 player who has won seven Grand Slam singles titles, including five Wimbledon championships, is born in Lynwood, California. Williams, the older sister of fellow tennis star Serena Williams, became the World No. 1 for the first time on Feb. 25, 2002, becoming the first black woman to ever hold the ranking. [ + - ]
1976: The New York Nets, Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers and San Antonio Spurs of the American Basketball Association merge with the NBA, with the rest of the ABA folding. [ + - ]
1972: Five White House operatives are arrested during a burglary of the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., in an attempt by some members of the Republican Party to illegally wiretap the opposition. The men implicated themselves on other counts and charges by voluntarily telling investigators about having committed another break-in at the offices a few weeks earlier. The Watergate scandal ultimately led to U.S. President Richard Nixon's resignation two years later. [ + - ]
1967: The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb. With successful testing of the three-stage thermonuclear device, China became the fourth country to have successfully developed a thermonuclear weapon after the United States, Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. [ + - ]
1965: Speed skater Dan Jansen, who won a gold medal in world record time in his final race (1,000 meters) in the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, is born in West Allis, Wisconsin. [ + - ]
1964: The Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go" is released. It became their first song to get to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart. It was also the first of five Supremes songs in a row to reach No. 1, with "Baby Love," "Come See About Me," "Stop! In the Name of Love" and "Back in My Arms Again" following it. [ + - ]
1963: Actor Greg Kinnear is born in Logansport, Indiana. Kinnear, an Academy Award nominee for 1997's "As Good as it Gets," is also known for the movies "Sabrina," "You've Got Mail," "Nurse Betty," "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Invincible." He also hosted the TV show "Talk Soup" and played John F. Kennedy in the miniseries "The Kennedys." [ + - ]
1960: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox hits his 500th career home run. He would end his career after the 1960 season with a total of 521. [ + - ]
1960: Actor Thomas Haden Church, best known for the TV series "Wings" and "Ned & Stacey," and movies such as "George of the Jungle," "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3," is born Thomas Richard McMillen in Woodland, California. Church earned Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for his role in "Sideways." [ + - ]
1958: Filmmaker Bobby Farrelly, best known for writing, directing and producing films such as "There's Something About Mary," "Dumb and Dumber" and "Kingpin" with his brother Peter Farrelly, is born in Cumberland, Rhode Island. [ + - ]
1950: The first cadaveric kidney transplant takes place with 44-year-old Ruth Tucker receiving a donated kidney at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park, Illinois. Tucker's body would reject the kidney 10 months later, but that timeframe gave her remaining kidney enough time to recover and she lived another five years. The first kidney transplants between living patients were undertaken in 1954 in Boston and Paris. [ + - ]
1943: Politician Newt Gingrich, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999, is born Newton Leroy McPherson in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Gingrich, who represented Georgia's 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1979 to 1999, also served as House minority whip and was a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination. [ + - ]
1943: Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, best known for hit songs like "Mandy," "Can't Smile Without You" and "Copacabana (At the Copa)," is born Barry Alan Pincus in Brooklyn, New York. [ + - ]
1939: The last public guillotining in France takes place when Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer seen here after his arrest, is guillotined in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison. Executions by guillotine in France continued in private until Sept. 10, 1977, when Hamida Djandoubi was the last person to be executed. [ + - ]
1933: Four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash at the Union Station railroad depot in Kansas City, Missouri. Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd was identified by the FBI as one of the gunmen, although there is some evidence suggesting that Floyd was not actually involved. [ + - ]
1932: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would further delay military bonuses promised to be paid to them in 1945. With many veterans out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression, the "Bonus Army" was seeking the immediate payment of the bonuses owed to them. Although the Senate defeated the bonus delay, the Bonus Army remained in their camp, pressing for President Herbert Hoover to act. On July 28, U.S. Attorney General William D. Mitchell ordered the veterans removed from all government property, a move that was met with resistance and violence ending in the deaths of two veterans. Hoover then ordered the Army to clear the veterans' campsite. [ + - ]
1930: U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law. The law raised U.S. tariffs on more than 20,000 imported goods to record levels. It was designed to protect American jobs and farmers from foreign competition, but it and the ensuing retaliatory tariffs by U.S. trading partners actually worsened the Great Depression. [ + - ]
1904: Actor Ralph Bellamy, best known for movies such as "The Awful Truth," "His Girl Friday," "The Professionals," "Rosemary's Baby" and "Trading Places," is born in Chicago, Illinois. Bellamy earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in 1937's "The Awful Truth" and also earned three Emmy Award nominations in his career. He also was a founder of the Screen Actors Guild and served as as a four-term president of Actors' Equity from 1952 to 1964. He died from a lung ailment at the age of 87 on Nov. 29, 1991. [ + - ]
1901: The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT. The test contained sections on English, French, German, Latin, Greek, history, mathematics, chemistry and physics. The test was not multiple choice, but instead was evaluated based on essay responses as "excellent," "good," "doubtful," "poor" or "very poor." [ + - ]
1882: Igor Stravinsky, widely considered to be one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century, is born in Oranienbaum, Russia. [ + - ]
1856: In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Republican Party convenes its first national convention to nominate a presidential candidate. The party chose Gen. John C. Frémont of California and former Sen. William Dayton of New Jersey for president and vice president, respectively. The ticket lost the 1856 presidential election to James Buchanan and John C. Breckinridge. [ + - ]
1775: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts. [ + - ]
1673: French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course. [ + - ]
1579: Sir Francis Drake lands somewhere north of Spain's northernmost claim point in Alta California and claims the land for England. He calls the land, somewhere north of present-day San Diego, Nova Albion, which is Latin for "New Britain." [ + - ]


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No matter how well you plan out your season, something is bound to come up that will mess up your schedule. Here are some unexpected interruptions that have come up for me alone so far this year: weeks of business travel, a leg injury, several colds, and of course Portland's terrible weather. Depending on what popped up in your schedule unexpectedly, there are different ways to make sure you still keep on track for your season's goals:
- Travel: Whenever I have a business trip come up, the first thing I pack is my running gear. Not only is running a great way to break up days of long meetings, it's also a wonderful way to experience the area that you are travelling to. Supposedly some hotels keep track of maps in the surrounding area, but I've always enjoyed the challenge of venturing out on my own and exploring the city.
- Injury: The great thing about being a triathlete is that we have three sports to keep us busy. As frustrating as it is to be injured, most of the time a sports injury will be specific to only one sport. When I injured my calf earlier in the season I scaled down my running almost entirely, but at the same time I took the opportunity to spend more time working on my swim. Being forced to reduce your workload in one sport can be an opportunity to increase your focus on your other sports.
- Illness: This one is tough, since some illnesses can keep you from doing any exercise at all. If you miss only a couple of days you can evaluate making up the time later in the week. If you miss one or two weeks you will want to revisit your schedule and move a rest week onto your last sick week, so you can get right back into things when you feel better. The key here is to make sure you really do wait until you are better before you start exercising again—otherwise you risk delaying your recovery unnecessarily.
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His impact was felt by local leaders in Queens, some of whom met the influential leader.
Congressmember Gregory Meeks traveled to South Africa to attend Mandela's memorial, which has held on Tuesday at Johannesburg's FNB stadium.
"I will always cherish having met Nelson Mandela on several occasions — especially the laughter, stories, and insight he shared with me and other members of a congressional delegation during a wonderful lunch at his home," said Meeks.
Following the memorial service, Meeks said "it was inspiring to see over 101 head of states come to memorialize a man who changed the course of history through his dedication focus and sacrifice. [And] to know that if one stands on high moral ground you can have people from all over the world come to salute you and aspire to achieve a more equal world no matter your race, religion, ethnicity or wealth."
Reverend Floyd Flake, a former U.S. congressmember and senior pastor at the Greater Allen A. M. E. Cathedral of New York in Jamaica, who also had the opportunity to meet Mandela, said "even in his jail time he stayed a force."
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I always book in at the counter when I catch a flight.
The attendants sometimes query why I don't use the automatic check-in. I tell them I am partially sighted but the truth is I am also a secret Luddite. At the start of the Industrial Revolution in England, the followers of Ned Ludd sought to destroy machines such as power looms that were driving the huge growth in output particularly in textiles. They feared losing their jobs. They became known as Luddites, which is a term now applied to those who resist technological change. It turns out they may have had a point.
Technological changes often create unemployment. Economists have long argued that the improvements in productivity and economic growth outweigh the loss of jobs in sectors adversely affected. Overall, society is better off, because more goods and services are being produced and increased productivity raises average incomes.
This is true in theory, but the theory says little about how the gains from technological progress are distributed. A large sector of a society may be shut out of the gains due to unemployment and a lack of retraining opportunities. The result is that social inequalities can magnify dramatically. A small sector of society experiences the bulk of the gains while the rest receive the crumbs. The IT revolution's effects on employment and income distribution are starting to become pronounced. Jobs such as checkout operators, retail assistants, process workers, clerical staff, secretaries, even pilots and commercial drivers, are likely to disappear through automation in the next few decades.
A recent book called Race Against the Machine by Eric Brynjolfsson and Andrew McFee, explores some implications of technological change on employment and income distribution in Western societies. The authors suggest that the link between economic growth and increased employment appears to have broken down. The term ''jobless recovery'' has entered the lexicon of economic jargon. Firms are using machines and computers to leverage more from less staff.
Unlike the early stages of the industrial revolution, driven by steam power, then electricity and internal combustion engines, the IT revolution does not generate widespread well-paid employment for the masses. Compare employment and incomes generated by car factories, household appliances, meat works, road and railway construction versus software firms, web page designers and laying fibre-optic cables. The authors point to key implications of the technology revolution on employment and incomes. It favours high-skilled workers over low-skilled. Relevant skills-based education becomes vital to earning a decent living. It creates mega-winners, such as CEOs and sports and entertainment stars.
Economist Robert Frank called this the ''winner takes all'' effect, where the skills and talents of these individuals can be broadcast to a far wider audience or client base due to improvements in IT. As a result, the pay rates of this elite have rocketed, compared to others. Finally, the technology revolution favours capital over labour. Firms can easily relocate to cheaper labour sources. They can also replace labour with machines, therefore reducing the bargaining power of workers. In most Western economies the share of national income earned as profits, rather than wages, has risen in recent decades.
The implications for policy makers are numerous. It is very unhealthy to have a large portion of a society shut out of the benefits of increased prosperity. Education systems need to be flexible and relevant. Unfortunately, in many countries, including New Zealand, education institutions and practices are notoriously resistant to change and accountability. There is a political stalemate between politicians, providers and unions that restricts constructive changes.
Another implication is that tax systems should favour investment in human capital in the form of training and education. Tax systems should also treat income from capital in the same manner as earned income by workers. In this brave new world, the truly wealthy make their money from gains in asset values, rather than income from their labour. IT advances offer exciting opportunities for improved prosperity, including massive environmental benefits. E books save trees. The advances benefit society in total but the problem is how these benefits are to be shared.
• Peter Lyons teaches economics at Saint Peters College in Epsom and has authored several economics texts.


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Yokogawa launches new generation 'multiplant' DCS
As intimated in the January INSIDER, Yokogawa has once again used ARC's annual forum in Orlando for a major announcement. Making his first appearance at the event since taking over from Isao Uchida as president and COO, Shuzo Kaihori announced nothing less than the replacement of Yokogawa's flagship Centum CS3000 DCS. However, in keeping with the company's policy ever since it introduced what it claims was the world's first DCS back in 1975, CentumVP—for "Vigilant Plant"—will maintain compatibility not just with its immediate predecessor, but with every Yokogawa DCS right back to that original introduction.
Although the announcement was made in Orlando on February 4, details were hard to come by in Europe ahead of the official European presentation in Amsterdam, scheduled for the Thursday of the same week, and even normally effusive and prolific bloggers, such as Walt Boyes and Gary Mintchell, seem to have been atypically reticent. Nevertheless, INSIDER has to acknowledge a debt to Boyes' 'Sound Off' blog in particular for what details we have been able to glean thus far.
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Satoru Kurosu, who has succeeded Kaihori San as senior vice president for industrial automation, is said to have described the new system as targeting the gaps being created by the impending retirement of the "boomer" generation of engineers and operators and breaking down the barriers both within plants and between the plant and the enterprise. To that end, one of the key features of CentumVP, which is described as a 'multiplant' DCS, will be a single real-time database in place of the multiple real-time databases which typify today's facilities.
Whether that single database and its associated integration tools will actually feature in the first release of CentumVP is less clear. The Orlando announcement appears to confirm rumors that had been circulating earlier that the new system would be released in stages, and indeed that it was what one competitor described as an "accelerated announcement," thus leaving Yokogawa open to the accusation that this is more a rebranding exercise than a new system. Hence while CentumVP—and not, as some had predicted, CS4 or CS4000—will at least initially retain the I/O, controllers and recently IEC accepted Vnet/IP control network (see below) of Centum CS3000 R3, what is unquestionably new—and some would say long overdue—is a new HMI which, as well as running on Windows XP, is among the first, if not, actually the first from a major DCS vendor to run on Vista.Boyes quotes Kurosu San as saying that the new HMI's ergonomic design, intuitive navigation and consolidated alarm management almost double the operator's speed of decision making and hence reduce by half the time necessary for corrective action.
When will these wonders be available for new users or for migration of existing CS 3000 installations? The word is the first quarter of 2008, although whether that means release to beta test sites, acceptance of orders or actual shipments isn't at this stage clear, at least in Europe, but then we're not supposed to know about it at all yet. Perhaps all will become clear after our day trip to Amsterdam later this week!
- Yokogawa's recently developed EtherNet/IP compatible communication interface for industrial recorders and data acquisition equipment has become the first of its type to pass the ODVA conformance test. It eliminates the need for dedicated software to connect data acquisition equipment with other devices such as PLCs and temperature controllers and will be installed as standard on Yokogawa recorders and data acquisition equipment during fiscal 2008. EtherNet/IP is widely used in North America and elsewhere and is increasingly being adopted by manufacturers in Japan.
Meanwhile the Vnet/IP control network protocol used in Yokogawa's flagship Centum CS 3000 R3 DCS has been accepted as a part of the IEC 61784-2 standard. Vnet/IP is based on 1 Gbit/s high-speed Ethernet and is claimed to combine the openness of Ethernet with the reliability and real-time capability required for process control. It was accepted by IEC as a publicly available specification (PAS) in April 2005. The protocol allows general purpose TCP/IP communications with PCs, subsystems and HMIs to take place on the same network as UDP/IP communications between HMIs and field control stations. Networks can be made dual-redundant, but can also be configured with general-purpose network equipment such as layer 2 or layer 3 switches. "The fact that Vnet/IP has been accepted by the IEC means that Vnet/IP will enter wide use as a standard network protocol and be used by other manufacturers in combination with their own products," said Masatoshi Nakahara, vice president of Yokogawa's Industrial Automation business headquarters.
Commonality is key to Ethernet growth
Cisco's vision of an all Ethernet world, as expounded to INSIDER last November by Stuart Robinson, head of manufacturing and energy verticals for Europe, receives powerful support in ARC's newly published "Ethernet-based Device Networks Worldwide Outlook." Evidence of industrial Ethernet's "continued march downward in the enterprise architecture" can be found in its migration into the device or I/O level of the automation network hierarchy, resulting in a market totalling over a million nodes in 2007 and growing at more than 27.5% compound to pass three million by 2012.
Motion control
Already firmly established at the control level, Ethernet has become a lead option in even the most demanding motion control applications, thanks to the emergence of automation-applicable standards, intelligent implementation strategies and overall improvements in product reliability. More important than any of these to current and future growth, however, is Ethernet's commonality and not, as received wisdom has traditionally had it, its openness; witness its increasing use even in embedded applications where proprietary protocols have traditionally dominated. In the motion control segment, for instance, industrial Ethernet is rapidly being adopted in even single-vendor applications that don't require the ability to plug-and-play with components from different suppliers.
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Witness: Stabbing suspect 'was a victim, nothing less, nothing more'
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) -- Kyla Labat turned herself in to Bakersfield police Monday, responding to allegations she stabbed another person. Labat may face an open charge of assault with a deadly weapon, but she's claiming self-defense.
Last Thursday night, police responded to the intersection of Clifton and Texas streets after getting reports of a stabbing.
Labat subsequently admitted to the stabbing. The 27-year-old woman told Eyewitness News her actions were justified, because she was fighting for her life when five young women jumped her, punched her and hit her with metal poles.
Labat said she waited until Monday to turn herself in because she needed someone to look after her two children in case she was arrested.
"There was nobody with my kids, and that's who I was fearing for. I wanted to make sure that they were OK before I made any decisions," Labat said.
Eyewitness News also talked to Russell Glenn-Durgin on Saturday. He witnessed the altercation.
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"Five girls on one girl, they're the guilty ones, and they're the ones the law should be going after she was a victim, nothing less, nothing more," he said.
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Director, Laurier Centre for Community Research Learning and Action (2008-2012)
Terry Mitchell initiated the development of the first Community-Faculty-Student Board of Directors for the launch of the Centre for Community Research, Learning and Actions (CCRLA). Established within the Faculty of Science, CCRLAs mandate is to promote community-university partnerships and research that advances community health and social justice. The Centre responds to the needs of community partners through selected research and evaluation, and provides rich applied learning and research mentoring opportunities for students, while facilitating community engaged research
opportunities and support for faculty. We envision an informed community, in which all have a voice and the capacity to advance positive social change. Our mission is to harness the knowledge and mobilize the resources of the university, community members, and organizations to address complex social issues. Through multi and interdisciplinary approaches, the Centre promotes excellence in community-university partnerships. The Centre includes partners from the Faculty of Education, Social Work, Business, and Science, and is largely governed by faculty from the Faculty of Science, and in
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four years. CCRLA advances community-based research and learning through community-university research partnerships which link Laurier students and faculty with local community organizations. Since 2009, CCRLA has had a public launch, a board visioning day, has built over 50 community partnerships, trained over 50 students, hosted an ongoing speaker series as well as an international practicum student from Chile and a visiting scholar from Kenya. CCRLA faculty and students have produced 24 peer reviewed publications and 9 research reports. CCRLAs five research groups
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At a time a shortage of pilots has prompted regional airlines to contemplate relaxing their experience minimums to attract new first officers, the proposed rule issued recently by the FAA to require an Air Transport Pilot (ATP) certificate for first officers—along with its accompanying 1,500-hour flight-time minimum—must keep human resource managers awake at night. It also puts alphabet organizations such as the Regional Airline Association in a serious bind.
To the general public, the RAA cannot show anything other than an unassailable commitment to safety, regardless of the cost consequences to its membership. To its airline members, its responsibility lies not only with projecting a positive public image but also with cost containment, which, in effect, translates into lobbying for less regulation, not more. Meanwhile, the members of the association serve another master—their major airline partners—whose interests sometimes conflict with those of the smaller airlines on which they depend for passenger feed or low-cost supplementary service.
In a way serving cross purposes, the RAA finds itself in an unenviable position. As a result, rather than taking a definitive stance on an issue, it must walk a fine line between projecting a commitment to public interest and delivering on its obligations to its members.
So when AIN asked for a position from the RAA on the new pilot qualification NPRM, the fact that it declined comment beyond a somewhat non-committal written statement on its website seems understandable given the circumstances. In effect, it did little more than restate its commitment to safety and emphasize the need for further study.
Unfortunately, all the study in the world won't change the laws of supply and demand for the nation's airlines. Fewer qualified pilots will mean a smaller pool of recruits from which to choose. Costs will inevitably rise for everyone.
In effect, safety cost-benefit analyses place a value on a human life. And we, as a society, accept a certain level of risk for cheap airline tickets. Unfortunately, it took the loss of 50 lives in the 2009 crash of a Colgan Air Q400 to expose the level of risk all of us had accepted for too long.
Dennis (not verified)
March 15, 2012 - 6:25pm
As a professional pilot for more years than I care to remember I think this is a good thing for two reasons. First of all, no amount of argument will ever convince me that lowering of experience levels for aircrew in an increasingly crowded and complex airspace, can be justified on the grounds of economics.
Second, people are coming to expect that air travel should become cheaper and cheaper than it already is. They almost regard it as being like getting the bus to go down town. This is the reason we are seeing more and more start up low cost carriers. I think this NPRM is just the check aviation needs. It might weed out a number of the low cost carriers and let the remaining ones operate at a half reasonable profit.
There is one other consideration. Industry is trying to justify lowering the crewing standards based on the level and reliability of automation in aircraft. My comment on this is that automation can only handle text book failures.
Andy (not verified)
March 15, 2012 - 8:21pm
The RAA obviously is trying to protect its own interests. In reality having separate "airlines" to control costs (i.e. pay employees poorly) only drives up the costs of doing business.
If the mainline airline took over the flying that it attempts to outsource to save money, there would not be a need for redundant management, HR, training, and maintenance. If there are 10 airlines involved under the "United" umbrella with 10 sets of redundant management, how is this more economical than having a large airline with one set of management and enough employees that actually move passengers?
I routinely see unnecessary delays watching passengers trying to connect on American to its affiliates American Eagle and American Connection. Many times planes are not allowed to park at an open gate because it is not "their" gate but "belongs" to one of the others mentioned. How is this serving the customer?
Southwest has been successful without the need of a "regional partner." The truth is that it would drive up the overall cost to move passengers from A to B.
Southwest is successful because it does not waste money on 25 Vice Presidents and multiple redundant managers. It invests wisely in what it needs to move people efficiently and safely from A to B.
The RAA's self interest is to reward and promote redundant management teams at the cost of providing stable and fairly compensated positions for aviation professionals.
Tim (not verified)
March 16, 2012 - 10:01am
I don't see why the Colgan air crash had anything to do with time. The pilot from what I have read came from 737's and had plenty of time. If you ignore the stick shaker and pull back when you are stalling it doesn't matter if you have 500 hours or 15000 hours, you are going to stall and crash. Just look at the French Airbus 330 crash off of Brazil for example.
As for Andy's comment on Southwest. Southwest only serves city's with over a million emplanements a year. Without the airlines like American serving smaller cities, a large percent of the flying public would be driving long distances to a big airport. Southwest only serves one city in my state and it is a 3.5 hour drive away. While Southwest does a great job serving a niche market, if they were the only game in town a large percent of the public traveler would suffer.
How are new pilots going to get 1500 hours? Banner towing? Flight instruction? I think once you get 500 hours flying around in a cessna 150 you are just as good a pilot as a guy with 1500 hours in a cessna150 doing flight instruction. The airlines paying guys 18000 a year to start is a disgrace. What other occupation do you spend so much money obtaining ratings and time to receive so little pay?


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A 50ft stretch of a street was shut off today after a burst water pipe caused a 6ft long crack to appear in the road.
The section of Bryn Road, Cefn Fforest, was closed from the junction with Davies Street to Bloomfield Road.
Residents called the water board around 3.45pm after parts of the road started to break apart and water started to appear from the ground.
Engineers shut off the water supply to alleviate some of the flooding, which saw pools of water collect in neighbour's gardens.
Debbie Preston, 54, said this was the second time this had happened in the 33 years she had lived there. This time water came right up to her front steps. She said: "We had a lucky escape."
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Wins not representative of lefties' August outings
CHICAGO -- Chris Sale and Jose Quintana still have starts to make over these final two days of August, but going into those mound efforts, the trio of White Sox southpaws, including John Danks, has not won a game this month.
Sale has an 0-2 record with a 2.53 ERA and 43 strikeouts in 32 innings over five August starts. Quintana stands at 0-3 with a 5.08 ERA in five starts, while Danks is 0-3 with a 6.75 ERA over five starts. Hector Noesi and (3-1) and Scott Carroll (1-3) have the only starters' wins this month for the White Sox entering the weekend's four-game series against the Tigers.
"It's probably a little bit different for me compared to them," said Danks, comparing his month to Sale and Quintana. "Quite frankly, I've had a pretty bad month. I haven't put myself in position to win many ballgames.
"With how Chris and Jose have thrown the ball, it's unfortunate. It's part of the game. Those guys understand that. Just get ready for the next one. It's unfortunate that they can throw the ball as well as they have and really have nothing to show for it."
Many present followers of the game consider the pitcher's victory to be anywhere from outdated to inconsequential. Sale always has been one to argue for the importance of the statistic, with Danks seemingly understanding both sides of the argument. He points to WHIP and ERA as better examples of how pitchers are performing.
"There's a lot that has to go right that is out of your control to get a win," Danks said. "But at the same time, if you don't do your job, you are not going to get a win anyway. I don't think it's any accident that the elite pitchers year in and year out are the guys leading the leagues in wins, too.
"A lot of that is staying in the game long enough, keeping your team in the game and giving yourself a chance to get that go-ahead run. We all like wins. Wins are the sexy stat for a pitcher. I wouldn't discredit it, but certainly I know that there's more that goes into it than just individual performance."
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Max Wade, the teen charged with trying to kill a couple in Mill Valley and stealing a $200,000 Lamborghini, should face additional charges for trying to pull a loaded gun on the detectives who came to arrest him, a county prosecutor said Thursday.
Deputy District Attorney Yvette Martinez-Shaw said she will ask the judge to hold Wade for trial on charges of deterring officers through threats or violence, and possessing a loaded concealed weapon he did not own. Wade, 18, of San Rafael is already charged with attempted murder, vehicle theft, burglary and other crimes.
Martinez-Shaw made the disclosure during the second day of Wade's preliminary hearing. After the hearing, Judge Kelly Simmons will decide whether there is sufficient evidence to justify a trial.
Wade was expressionless but apparently alert during witness testimony Thursday. His demeanor has been noticeably more sedate this week than during his smiling court appearances at the beginning of the case.
Authorities allege that Wade rode a motorcycle next to a pickup truck on April 13 in Mill Valley and fired a handgun at a teenage couple inside. The alleged victims, Landon Wahlstrom and Eva Dedier, escaped with minor injuries from flying glass.
Authorities allege that Wade tried to kill them because Dedier had rejected him romantically. Dedier testified that she knew Wade because he supplied fake IDs to her and her friends, sometimes driving a yellow Lamborgini.
The prosecution alleges that Wade stole the Lamborghini in March 2011 from British Motor Cars, a luxury car dealership in San Francisco. Police said the Lamborghini, which belonged to restaurateur and television chef Guy Fieri, was stolen after someone entered the building through the roof and rappelled down to the car.
During testimony Thursday, a San Francisco detective who investigated the Lamborghini case, Inspector Matt Hanley, testified that Wade was a suspect early on, but there was insufficient evidence to arrest him.
Hanley said he discontinued the investigation on June 22, 2011, but figured someone in Marin would see him driving around in the car and report him to authorities.
"Everyone in Marin County knew about (the theft)," he said. "It was in the papers."
"Would you opine that this was a one-person job?" defense attorney Charles Dresow asked on cross-examination.
"No," Hanley said.
Wade is the only suspect charged in the Lamborghini theft. In any case, the car was not recovered for another 10 months, after Marin sheriff's investigators had identified Wade as the suspect in the Mill Valley shooting. With Wade under heavy surveillance, investigators were able to track him and the Lamborghini back to a storage facility in Richmond where he allegedly kept the car.
Sheriff's Detective Ryan Petersen, taking the witness stand Thursday, said Wade fled when investigators moved in to arrest him, and apparently reached into his waistband for a weapon.
Detectives tackled Wade before he could pull the weapon — later identified as a loaded Glock — and had to use force to subdue him, Petersen said. He said he struck Wade twice in the pelvis and another detective, Greg Garrett, grabbed his arms.
"Max Wade was flailing back and forth," Petersen said. "He seemed out of control to me."
Investigators later searched the storage container and seized the Lamborghini, a motorcycle, weapons and ammunition, fake IDs for three states, equipment to jam radio and cell signals, a replica police uniform and writings about alleged plans for more crime.
The preliminary hearing continues Friday. Wade is being held in lieu of $2 million bail.
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Bubble Boy: That's easy. It was the Moors.
George: Oh noooooo! ...it was the Moops!
Mine tend to be more obscure. Here's one:
Bubble Boy: That's easy. It was the Moors.
George: Oh noooooo! ...it was the Moops!
Okay...just thought of another one:
Kramer goes to a fantasy camp. His whole life is a fantasy camp. People should plunk down two-thousand dollars to live like him for a week. Do nothing, fall ass-backwards into money, mooch food off your neighbors, and have sex without dating. That's a fantasy camp. --George
I don't want a big, flat noodle.
George, there are no jerk stores.
...but then Jerry put a Pez Dispenser on my leg.
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Serenity now!
Spongeworthy (One of my favorite episodes)
Jerry:, 'But the question is, are you still master of your domain?'
Elaine:, 'I'm queen of the county.'
"It will always be Myanmar to me."
Elaine: "It shrinks?"
Jerry: "Like a freightened turtle."
Elaine: "I've yada yada sexed."
What if this wasn't a rhetorical question?
All models are wrong. Some of them are useful.
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Nothing to see here. Please disperse.
No soup for you!
Look away, I'm hideous! - Kramer
Either my neighbor or I will say this everytime we get together to smoke cigars.
I was in the pool!
But are you the master of your domain?
A Festivus for the rest of us
Women go after doctors like men go after models. They want someone with knowledge of the body. We just want the body.
You could do your taxes in the time it takes me to have an orgasm.
I think we really need to be in front of the television set. You take TV out of this relationship, it is just torture.
I'm Cosmo Kramer, the Assman!
It went straight to video. That makes me the premiere.
"In my day you had musicians who experimented with drugs. Now it's druggies experimenting with music" - Alfred G Clark (circa 1972)
maybe the dingo ate your baby
i'm a marine biologist
Jerry: You have no idea what an idiot is...
George: Is that right? I just threw away a life time of guilt free sex and floor seats for every sporting event at Madison square gardens. So please... a little respect... for I am Costanza, Lord of the Idiots.
KRAMER: Hewwo and welcome to Movie phone. If you know the name of the
movie you'd like to see, press one.
GEORGE: Come on. Come on.
KRAMER: Using your touch-tone keypad, please enter the first three
letters of the movie title, now.
(George presses 3 keys)
KRAMER: You've selected ... Agent Zero? If that's correct, press one.
GEORGE: What?
KRAMER: Ah, you've selected ... Brown-Eyed Girl? If this is correct,
press one.
(George looks baffled)
KRAMER: Why don't you just tell me the name of the movie you've
Costanza: The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.
Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?
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