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Short track speed skater Elise Christie suffered Winter Olympics heartache for the second time this week after the race referee ruled she had not finished her 1500 metres heat at the Iceberg Skating Palace.
The 23-year-old Scot put in a final burst which saw her edge Italy's Arianna Fontana in a photo-finish, but the referee spotted that she had skated centimetres inside the black finish line instead of over it and had therefore not registered a time.
Christie's result was flagged up as DNF (did not finish), adding to the anguish she suffered on Thursday when she was disqualified in the final of the 500m for crashing into Fontana.
And Christie, fighting back the tears, then revealed she had also been the victim of threatening messages on social media following her 500m disqualification.
"I have had a few people threatening me," she told the BBC. "It's been a tough few days."
Speaking about Saturday's DNF ruling, she added: "I'm gobsmacked. I'm finding it quite hard."
GB short track coach Nicky Gooch, explaining the DNF ruling, said: "The referee has said Elise didn't cross the line. She has crossed inside the finish line and he has ruled that that is off-track. Therefore he is saying she hasn't finished the race.
"She (has) done nothing wrong in the race, tried to make sure she was nowhere near Arianna and get her on the line, but the referee has called off-track.
"It's been called before but not something that normally happens. I was shocked. I looked at the video and you're talking centimetres."
There was more disappointment for Team GB in the next heat for 23-year-old Nottingham skater Charlotte Gilmartin, who finished fifth out of six.
Great Britain's women's curling team made it three round-robin wins in a row at the Sochi Winter Olympics with a 10-8 victory over South Korea.
Losing 2-0 after the first end in the morning session at the Ice Cube Curling Center, skip Eve Muirhead's side immediately bounced back with a three then stretched 5-2 ahead.
However, South Korea could not be shrugged off easily, stealing two points in the ninth to lead by one going into the final end.
Muirhead saved the day, though, with three shots on hammer to leave GB with four wins and two defeats ahead of their meeting with Switzerland on Saturday night.
Great Britain's men's curling team saw their victorious streak in the Sochi 2014 round-robin stage come to an end as they were beaten 7-5 by defending Olympic champions Canada.
The game was a cat-and-mouse affair in the first five ends, with David Murdoch's GB rink - who had won five of their six matches to date and their last four in a row - stealing a point in the third to go 2-1 up and then, after the Canadians had responded with three in the fourth, posting two in the fifth to level at 4-4.
Following a blanked sixth, Canada used the hammer to register one in the seventh, and the two teams then traded individual points before Brad Jacobs' men stole another in the 10th to secure the victory.
British alpine skier Chemmy Alcott was crushed after finishing 23rd in the ladies' super-g in what is almost certain to be her last event at a Winter Olympics.
The 31-year-old was looking to build on her respectable result in the downhill earlier this week, but although she managed to complete her run on Saturday, with several athletes crashing out at Rosa Khutor Alpine Center, she was left thoroughly unsatisfied.
A time of one minute 29.14 seconds saw her finish 3.62secs adrift of gold medallist Anna Fenninger.
"The other day I had tears of happiness and now I've got tears of frustration," said Alcott. "It's amazing how quickly your expectations run away with you."
Alcott took little consolation from competing in her fourth Winter Olympics, despite only returning to full-time training in December after breaking her leg for a second time in August.
"I'm not here just to finish, just to compete - even after what I've been through I still wanted to come here and race," she said.
Austria's Fenninger triumphed by over half a second in a time of 1min 25.52secs, with pre-event favourite and super combined gold medallist Maria Hoefl-Riesch having to settle for silver.
The German was 0.55secs adrift, while another Austrian Nicole Hosp earned bronze after finishing a further 0.11secs back.


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Squeeze plays ¿DTV compression and scaling
In DTV, data compression shoehorns the millions of bits of sight and sound information into the narrow broadcast pipeline and enables them to emerge at the receiving end as real-time audio and video. In the mean time, scaling-and image-shaping techniques are employed to redraw a 2-mega-pixel image on a canvas that can display only a fraction of the picture data available.
For compression, an example that illustrates the challenge is to be found in a chart of DTV formats [p. 42]. If a single frame of 1080-line interlaced DTV comprises some 2 million pixels, and there are 30 frames in each second of video, the uncompressed data transfer rate then is 995 Mb/s. Because the maximum data transfer rate for the 6-MHz DTV channel is just 19.4 Mb/s, the data must be compressed powerfully and quickly before transmission-then quickly decompressed at the DTV set.
MPEG-2 compression (used for DTV, DVD, and elsewhere) ignores redundant picture data so as to economize on bits. In a movie, for example, backgrounds that change little from frame to frame need not be re-encoded bit for bit. Unchanged blocks of pixels can be coded to repeat, and only updates within the scene need be re-encoded, such as shadows on an actor's face caused by head and lip movement.
Encoding is more easily accomplished with pre-recorded programming, such as movies, than with live action such as sports. Although used for both, predictive analysis and motion compensation are indispensable in accounting for scene changes on-the-fly in live programming. As one might imagine, live action broadcasts such as sports triage the background detail to bring the most bits to bear on the live action afield.
Meanwhile, in the pictures-by-numbers game, typical CRT-based DTV displays cannot put HDTV's entire 2-megapixel image on screen. Most so-called HD displays deliver 1to 1.5 megapixels at best, and as for the 480-line progressive scan SO displays, they field just a fifth of all incoming HD-l080i signal.
Credit mechanical tolerances and physical laws with contributing to the conundrum, at least where inherently analog CRTs of direct-view or projection-type are concerned. Digitally addressed liquid-crystal display, plasma, and other display technologies could beat the rap, but cost too much for consumers as yet.
With direct-view TVs, the beam-spot size is governed by mechanical factors. Although shadow mask/aperture grille perforations could be made finer, picture brightness would suffer. Meanwhile, compensating for brightness with greater output from the electron guns raises questions about metal-tolerance of the mask or the grille-like at what point does misshaping under hot bombardment from electrons distort the image?
This omits the issue of power consumption, or how much juice the consumer is willing to spring for unless the warmth can be recycled throughout the house and defray home-heating bills from the local utility company.
For the record, Thomson Consumer Electronics, Indianapolis, Ind., specs its 38-inch widescreen direct-view set at 1 megapixel—a compromise that, to quote tube-division vice president Tom Carson, balances mechanical and environmental factors with a resolution that is crisp at typical viewing distances (roughly 10 feet) for a set that size.
Metal masks are not an issue with projection sets, but lens-diameter size for the three (red, green, and blue) CRTs is. At present, 9-inch guns constitute the heavyweight artillery for DTV, although some manufacturers favor 7-inch batteries for reasons of reliability and practicality. Theoretically, a CRT lens can be of infinite size to yield a spot beam that is infinitesimal. But, in the real world, the set has to be light in shipping weight and able to negotiate the threshold of a typical home's front door. Again, for comparison's sake, Thomson's 6l-inch ProScan HDTV rear projector throws 1.5 megapixels onscreen—a resolution that executive vice president and chief operating officer Jim Meyer has said the company is comfortable with in terms of picture height in relation to viewing distance.
All the same, what happens when a 2-megapixel 1080-line interlaced HDTV broadcast is displayed on a 1.5-megapixel HDTV set or, for that matter, an SDTV screen with fewer than 400 000 pixels? It is not a matter of decimation—such as killing of digital-footmen on an arbitrary or pre-determined basis, according to engineers brave enough to field the query. Instead, downconversion is handled by yet another sleight-of-digits in the DTV trick-bag, generically called scaling.
Dean Malmstrom, head of Sarnoff Corp.'s DTV Professional Products Group in Princeton, N.J., told IEEE Spectrum that although typical DTVs decode every bit transmitted, an individual set selects the key pixels (actually, macro-blocks of pixels) needed to display the image according to the set's display capabilities (aperture-grille, shadow-mask, or some other type).
Subsequently, the set performs some noise shaping and other enhancements on the otherwise shortchanged picture. How well this triage-and-massage is performed differentiates one brand's DTV from another, according to Sony DTV guru Phil Abrams. Proof of the pudding? Get thee to a TV store, and compare like broadcasts or canned demos on the variety of DTVs on display. — S.A.B.

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National City leaders face the challenge of trying to please both homeowners and business owners as they work to rid the city's west side of businesses that pose health and safety hazards to their neighbors.
Residents had mixed responses to the city's amortization report, which City Council members reviewed July 24. Most residents urged moving forward with the process of eliminating operations that threaten the neighborhood's safety, but some business owners said the criteria used to rank companies in order of elimination priority were unfair or inaccurate. Meanwhile, the nonprofit Environmental Health Coalition and several parents of Kimball Elementary School students want the city to eliminate polluters near the school immediately.
National City has one of the highest asthma rates in San Diego County, which the coalition attributes to the fact that pollutant-producing industrial businesses are intermingled with homes, schools and parks.
The problem is worst in the western side of the city, known to residents as Old Town, which is home to 222 polluters per square mile compared with the county average of 17 per square mile, the coalition says. The area features a hodgepodge of businesses and homes, many of them right next to each other, thanks to a post-World War II push to industrialize the city even in its residential areas.
Cities in the 1950s were each encouraged to pick a unique industry to emphasize locally as part of an effort to re-brand and stimulate the economy, said Mayor Ron Morrison. As a result, National City provided incentives for auto-related companies to mix among the existing homes on the western side of the city, in hopes that residents would eventually move east.
Many didn't, and in 2004 the city hired a planning consultant to help re-establish Old Town as a safe and healthy neighborhood. That involved adopting new zoning laws.
Two years later, the City Council passed a law known as an amortization ordinance to provide for the removal of businesses that do not conform with new zoning codes, once each company's investment has been recovered, or amortized. Now the city begins the difficult task of prioritizing which businesses to amortize first, and how.
This latest report features a ranked list of 145 businesses that no longer conform to approved land uses in Old Town National City. They were evaluated based on a set of 26 criteria, ranging from the current assessed value of the land to what kind of security features they incorporate. Other criteria included proximity to a "sensitive area," such as a school or park, and proximity to a residence.
"The plan is to re-establish the west side as a healthy, safe and vibrant neighborhood where people engage in community life," said Planning and Development Director Brad Raulston.
Three parents urged council members to start its amortization process with the 37 businesses adjacent to Kimball Elementary School that they say are emitting toxic fumes.
Puppet Safari owner Mary Powell said she feels some of the ranking criteria are unfair. There should be an exception in the neighborhood's new plan for arts-related businesses that can help revitalize the area, she said. She also feels that businesses should be allowed to stay put if they are willing to go green with more environmentally friendly materials and practices.
"My manufacturing business is mis-described in that report that you paid a lot of money for," she added.
Morrison urged all the speakers to put their concerns in writing, detailing any inaccuracies for city staff to review.
The report is available to the public for a 30-day review and comment period ending Aug. 24, after which the planning director will meet with the council to confirm the criteria, establish an amortization period, and in February recommend to the City Council which businesses to begin amortizing first.


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Sometimes I feel like a terrible blogger. And a terrible dairy blogger. And a terrible dairy wife.
I started this blog as a coping mechanism to grapple with the realities of dairy life—a life I knew nothing about before meeting my handsome Dairy Man.
But somewhere along the line, I became perceived as a dairy "expert." Inexplicable.
As we all remember, I did not grow up on (or even near) a farm. I spent my formative years in a suburban land of city water, sidewalks, and neighborhood parks.
The closest I ever came to agriculture was Teusink's Pony Farm. It was basically just a petting zoo with horse rides. Though I was surrounded by ducks, bunnies, and goats, I could hear honking car horns. I was within walking distance of ice cream. I could place one foot on the farm and the other in the asphalt parking lot of a nearby church.
Teusink's did not prepare me for farm life.
I didn't experience true rural isolation until I moved to our old white house on the dairy. I didn't experience the reality of farming until I was painting our laundry room by myself or trying to keep a barrage of black flies at bay.
I'm getting used to it.
The longer I live this dairy life, the more assimilated I become. It makes sense to use my writing to explain dairy processes and farming practice. In some circles I am the dairy expert. Mom is so proud.
It's profound when the fiery pink/orange sun sets in the orchard across the street. It's profound when my husband—weary, frazzled, and spattered with dirt—attentively looks into my eyes to say "I love you." It's profound when I drive a quarter mile into an isolated field to bring the DM some dinner and spend a few minutes reconnecting.
This life is not extraordinary. We wake up and beat the pavement (or the dirt) just like everyone else. But each day is a gift and I am grateful.
Other dairies are bigger. Other people are smarter. Other houses are cleaner. Other cows have higher milk production. But none of this matters when I look at the beauty of the life I'm blessed to live.
There's nothing mundane about the love I feel for that man; there's nothing dull about the passion he feels for his demanding profession; there's nothing ordinary about our dependence on a powerful God.
This farm life is more absurd than I ever could have known. I've lived through planting, harvesting, cow jailbreaks, and barn building. I've gone to bed alone. I've eaten a delicious steak from a steer who lived up the hill from my kitchen. I've driven Subway into fields and waited, waited, waited.
I worry about running out of things to say, but I've recently realized that every life (whether full of cows, taxi cabs, or diapers) is seeped in richness. Ours is no different. It's my goal to remember this—to delight in new knowledge and turn old experiences on their side.
A good dairy blog written by a prissy city girl should be equal parts cow and contemplation. And that's what I strive to do. As I share the oddities of dairy life from an "expert" perspective, I will also stay true to the pencil-skirt-wearing immigrant behind the veil.
I will never stop learning. I will never stop growing. And I will never stop being thankful that I get to live this life. (If nothing else, for the material!)
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Beetard wrote:Distance is mainly about pulling the disc close to your chest and a strong hit. The runup is mainly a psyche up factor.
Yeah, it'll add a little D, but it won't double it or anything. Chances are unless you have a really smooth and athletic runup (effecient with good timing, well coordinated with the pull) , you can do a standing throw that will be only 20 feet less than your runup throw.
I had issues with that, too. The stuff from the "Masterbeato's Form" thread will help fix that if you're interested.tushamajig13 wrote:the standstill is more accurate, but I tend to shank more shots without a run up...probably just the way i developed my game
Just minor improvements distancewise over what I posted here:bcsst26 wrote:A quick question for garublador and blackudder. How far are you guys throwing from a standstill? I have been working from the hit backwards and am just wandering how far I should expect from a standstill. Also from one step?? Thanks.
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How do you feel about bucking the stereotype that fat and ugly people can't be successful?
I believe it's what's on the inside that's important.
And that is what? Diabetes, liver failure and huge fatty deposits around your vital organs? Probably needing Viagra too? Sorry to get personal but how is the 'bedroom issue' with Mrs Claus? Word on the the street is that you can't get it up. Pretty harsh but out there.
You really are pushing it, aren't you? There's always room on the naughty list for someone like you.
Let me ask you a question, smarty pants. Have you ever seen Mrs. Claus not smiling?
Well, I've never seen Mrs Claus so it's a moot point. I would like to imagine that she has a smile on her face IF after whizzing around the world, you can still deliver the very last present. Have a great Xmas. kk


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Punto returns after Classic experience with Italy
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Infielder Nick Punto returned to the Dodgers on Friday from his World Baseball Classic adventure with underdog Team Italy, encouraging Major League Baseball to take the tournament to an even higher level.
"I hope we can get owners to buy in, so we can put the best team out there," said Punto, who also participated in the two previous Classics. "It's a pride thing for our country, like you want to be an Olympic gold medalist. I'm speaking from an emotional standpoint. We need to get the Verlanders and Kershaws and the horses out there."
The timing of the tournament still places a limitation on the pitchers that are available. Punto said he spoke to Michael Weiner, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, about the possibility of having pitchers report to Spring Training by mid-January or early February to enable their participation, "because it means that much."
Italy pulled off upsets of Mexico and Canada to advance into the second round before being eliminated with one-run losses to the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
"We didn't feel like we were underdogs," said Punto. "Obviously, on paper, match us up and we can't compete. I get it. But it's baseball, so you throw strikes and make the plays and any team can beat any team."
Manager Don Mattingly even predicted that Punto would be the first of his players to return to Spring Training.
"The skipper was wrong," Punto said.
"This is definitely an experience I would recommend to anybody who gets the opportunity. It's great for this time of year, to get in real game action with an intensity you don't get in Spring Training exhibitions. I believe it really helps prepare for the regular season."
Punto said the improvements from previous Classics are noticeable.
"Everything from the crowds to the fan experience to the organization," he said. "It keeps getting better. All the little things that come with baseball were on point."
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Best Non-Pacer Fan
i'll go with n8r...atleast with him you don't really feel the presence of a non-pacer
I was going to go K until I saw that ajbry is on this list. That's just too funny. I need time to ponder...
You, Never? Did the Kenosha Kid?
I voted for me for 1 reason:
Nobody and I mean NOBODY else should vote for me - and I can't stand the thought of seeing zero votes next to my name.
Sorry folks but seeing as the Knicks will matter again this fall (even though we'll still suck) I'll try to do better.
The poster formerly known as Rimfire
went with d_c on this one.
ajbry and grace though, hardly seem to be non-pacer fans
d_c has been stellar.
Um, she can't name half our roster. Hell, I doubt she'd be able to name our starters.
However, now that she's got League Pass, she regularly watches every team that has even a remote tie to Pacers teams of the past. And she clued me into how bad Kirk Hinrich was over a year before it became obvious to everyone else (except for those here who didn't actually see him play this year and think he's still worth trying to get.) That alone warrants my vote.
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I miss Dipperdunk
Well, we can at least take comfort that he has an improving team to keep him happy.
Come to the Dark Side -- There's cookies!
Well at least the voters thus far realize I've never said I didn't like the Pacers. They're my second favorite team...
And although I enjoy reading Kstat's post and he always makes a great contribution, I have to go with d_c, my fellow Warriors fan.
Because his basketball comments are good, and because he knows the truth about ethanol.
And I won't be here to see the day
It all dries up and blows away
I'd hang around just to see
But they never had much use for me
In Levelland. (James McMurtry)
All that being said if I didn't read this board I wouldn't be able to name as many players as I did.
I'm going to go with Robertmto because he actually has a reason for being on here (he's from Indy right?) unlike the rest of them. I guess I could say grace but she probably ignores me so Robertmto it is.
I vote Grace because she is a wise---, and that is a quality I admire.
OK, OK, there's more than one of those in the list of nominees...but I had to go with someone.
I like all these folks, and that's a fact.
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I voted for myself cause KNICKS RULE!!!!!!!!! Hell Yeah KNICKS RULE!!!!!!!
Thanks for the votes people. If you need a reason to sway to me, All I have to say is I am a knicks fan.
I have no idea why I'm getting votes. If I knew that was gonna happen I'd have voted for someone else.
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d_c gets my vote
How should I interpret my lack of votes?
Good: you people realize I'm still actually a Pacers fan.
Bad: you don't value my posts and just consider me as an irrational Jack fanboy.
So which is it?
Half of option two.
I am in a Bump mood right now
Gotta go with my Shawne Williams fan-in-arms and fellow discusser of speedbag, MTO.
Congrats, Kstat!
The last time I won this award, the Pistons won the championship.
Good omen?
It wasn't about being the team everyone loved, it was about beating the teams everyone else loved.
Division Champions 1955, 1956, 1988, 1989, 1990, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
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Thanks for the votes guys, and congrats KStat
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Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan said he worries about the flying skills of pilots today. The type-rated Learjet 45 pilot, who was the last man to walk on the moon, commented to AIN at last month's Bombardier Safety Standdown in Wichita, "I worry about the complacency that technology is imposing on pilots. Pilots tend to become overwhelmed with all the lights on these glass panels and forget they still have a responsibility to fly the airplane."
Cernan believes that part of the solution is pilots being honest about their flying skills and their shortcomings. Reflecting on his own skill level, he said, "Just because you've gone to the moon doesn't mean you're exempt from making stupid decisions. I've made a lot of them in my life." Cernan, who now flies a Cessna 421, hopes honesty about his own vulnerabilities will allow other pilots to see their own a little more clearly. He said his 421 has a glass PFD and MFD and terrain avoidance technology that's "supposed to keep me from killing myself; but if that technology fails, I still need to fly the airplane and miss that mountaintop."
He added that attending the Safety Standdown has forced him to be more introspective when he flies. "It's easy to preach and a little more difficult to do," he said. "I always feel a little guilty now when I'm flying if I take a shortcut that I told someone else not to try. I call it the standdown effect."
Larry Walters (not verified)
November 5, 2012 - 6:17pm
Ego kills more pilots than anything else.
Manny Puerta (not verified)
November 6, 2012 - 11:47am
Agree with Gene Cernan, but the other side of the coin is to not dumb the process down to the lowest common denominator. The weak ones need to have their skills brought up to the professional level demanded by the profession, rather than accommodating and accepting by lowering the standards. Like Butch Voris (the leader of the Navy's first flight demonstration team) said, "If you can't be the best, don't get into the airplane." We've seen multiple results of that not being the prevailing attitude, with less than desirable consequences.
Brent (not verified)
November 7, 2012 - 5:23am
Gene is spot on. I think as technology advances our flying skills are often slowly eroding. When looking at some recent accidents, it seems clear to me.
David Walker (not verified)
November 9, 2012 - 6:43pm
Ditto - he is spot on. When did aviation ever stop training regression from technology? Fly the aircraft.
David Walker (not verified)
November 9, 2012 - 6:56pm
No I don't think pilots realise they are part of the problem. Personally my background is professionally aviation and computer/IT; and I can say this - humans WILL pass off responsibility to technology until they don't know what is going on, nearly all the time. Its a Human-Computer-Interface (HCI) problem. What I would feel safer with is pilots who are given availability of automation, but are required to keep levels of competence without that automation (all of it). Airline competence schedules must be near prehistoric compared to the technology. Current training has not caught up with computerisation - at all. The idea of piloting being entirely taken over by automation is a misnomer believed by airline pilots scared of losing their jobs too. I can tell you it will never happen; that's from a computer science perspective, with aviation knowledge.
Robert v Lieshout (not verified)
November 8, 2012 - 3:09pm
Is it possible for a pilot to take over a plane when the technic fails?
Robert (not verified)
November 13, 2012 - 4:49pm
Lots of you guys are IFR rated, fly glass cockpit but at the root of things if all fails in an aircraft, what is left to make this aircraft land safely?
It is the person that learned the basics and kept those basic skills updated.
As simple as a GPS showing you where to go....how far you are from destination...well... when that GPS decides to fail on you...are you ready to fly with the good old map on your lap? Are you ready to face the music ?It became easy to prepare a flight with this technology , but when all fails... are you really prepared?
Robert (not verified)
November 13, 2012 - 4:50pm
Lots of you guys are IFR rated, fly glass cockpit but at the root of things if all fails in an aircraft, what is left to make this aircraft land safely?
It is the person that learned the basics and kept those basic skills updated.
As simple as a GPS showing you where to go....how far you are from destination...well... when that GPS decides to fail on you...are you ready to fly with the good old map on your lap? Are you ready to face the music ?It became easy to prepare a flight with this technology , but when all fails... are you really prepared?
William Saltiel... (not verified)
November 16, 2012 - 12:08am
...will fly you straight into the ground with the utmost of smartness and precision if you let it. They can be a great assist under certain circumstances, but knowing when --- and how --- to shut all of that off and fly the aircraft manually is important as well.
Jeff Fleming (not verified)
November 16, 2012 - 2:37pm
Do not forget the good old "needle, ball and airspeed" that will never fail. At least not due to electronic failure. On some of the new glass cockpits, you might be hard pressed to even find these basic instruments. Hold a heading, keep the wings level until you can figure out where you are and how to get the plane safely on the ground. We should all know how to do this.


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More than a week after an accused sex offender was invited on a school field trip, the Crete Public Schools Superintendent finally is speaking out.
Superintendent Kyle McGowan is confident he resolved the situation. But, the victim's family said it's not over yet.
"I don't want to make excuses for some poor judgment that was made because I think we all must first look out for individual students and students as a whole," McGowan said.
The explanation came the week after an accused sex offender chaperoned a field trip.
That man, 52-year-old Chad Eggebraaten is court ordered not to be around anyone younger than 15 years old, especially the Crete High School student he's accused of sexually assaulting.
"I don't think there's a need for a person who has a charge of first degree sexual assault to be in our school," McGowan said. "I think that was not a good choice, wasn't needed."
The alleged victim's parents said it comes down to the man in charge: Principal Tim Conway.
"He needs to be contrite and apologetic," the girl's mother said. "He needs to talk to his staff in a way that helps them see, 'hey as a leader I made a really bad choice.'"
While the district ended its investigation, the girl's parents want more. They're in the process of filing a formal complaint with the state Board of Education.
"I was a little worried that it would just be a slap on the wrist and it's never talked about again," the alleged victim's mother said. "I didn't want that to happen."
What the family wants is for it never to happen again.
"It's just reflective of someone who is trying to put themselves in the presence of children and you have to wonder what's the healthy outcome of that," the girl's mother said.
"It is something I don't want to make excuses about because I think that it could have been handled better, but now everything that has been done at least on our part as a school, has taken place," McGowan said.
After numerous calls, Eggebraaten and his attorney both decided not to comment.


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George Lucas intends to use his wealth to benefit education.
Lucas, who sold Lucasfilm to Disney last month for $2 billion in cash and $2 billion in Disney stock, indicated he will use most of his wealth to educate children in a written statement elaborating on earlier word that educational endeavors will be the big beneficiary of his philanthropy.
"As long as I have the resources at my disposal, I will seek to raise the bar for future generations of students of all ages," he said in a formal "pledge" to improve education.
Calling education "the key to the survival of the human race," Lucas said that a robust future depends on "the social, emotional, and intellectual tools we provide to our children."
Lucas, of San Anselmo, observed that a good storyteller is ultimately a teacher — "using the arts as a means of making education emotionally meaningful" — but that the educational system often fails to make use of the tools at its disposal.
"When I was in high school, I felt like I was in a vacuum, biding time. I was curious, but bored. It was not an atmosphere conducive to learning," he recalled.
"It's scary to think of our education system as little better than an assembly line with producing diplomas as its only goal. Once I had the means to effect change in this arena, it became my passion to do so — to promote active, lifelong learning. I believe in the artisan school of learning, through apprenticeships and Aristotelian questions and discussion."
In this light, he created his educational charities, Edutopia and the George Lucas Educational Foundation, which boost educational innovations, cooperative and project learning, mentorship, parental involvement and technological advances.
Marin County Superintendent of Schools Mary Jane Burke embraced the Lucas statement, saying the filmmaker is "in the forefront of advocating for education and 21st Century skills." Lucas' Edutopia launched a training session in social media for educators last week, she said, lauding the organization as "cutting edge."
Lucas' views on education, Burke added, "are what great educators in Marin County, in the state and across the country strive for. ... George Lucas is a big assist for all educators."
Lucas outlined his educational philosophy this way: "We need to build new foundations, fostering independent thought and a desire to keep learning. Our students need to come away with more than just survival skills, and more than just what is required to complete the program. We need to promote critical thinking and emotional intelligence. We need to focus on building an education system that promotes different types of learning, different types of development, and different types of assessment. We have an opportunity and an obligation to prepare our children for the real world, for dealing with others in practical, project-based environments."
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Let it be known that Lady Fiona Herbert, the eighth Countess of Carnarvon, occasionally answers her own phone. When I call the Countess's office to discuss her new book, Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey, I am unusually anxious; it's not every day I speak to a member of the British aristocracy. "Hello?" answers a startled-sounding voice. I nervously ask if Lady Carnarvon is available. "This is Lady Carnarvon," the voice replies, erupting into hearty laughter—which, happily, is not directed at me. The Countess had been reaching for the phone just as it rang and was caught off guard. "I'm completely useless as a receptionist," she says.
For a woman who lives at Highclere Castle, one of Britain's most impressive "family piles," as well as the primary setting of the spectacularly popular PBS costume drama Downton Abbey, Lady Carnarvon is surprisingly warm and unpretentious.
She projects an image of slightly disheveled glamour: her household is not a well-oiled machine, but something more akin to a living archaeological site, where one might just discover a decades-old scrapbook while foraging through an out-of-use desk drawer. "We found a staircase recently. That was quite exciting," she tells me.
Downton Abbey isn't Highclere's first brush with fame—parts of Eyes Wide Shut were filmed there, and British tabloid curiosity Jordan celebrated her 2005 wedding at the castle, arriving via a pumpkin-shaped carriage—but the phenomenal success of the series has thrust the Carnarvon family's ancestral home into the spotlight like never before. It's also spawned a cottage industry of Downton Abbey tie-in books, including two competing biographies about Almina, the colorful and controversial fifth Countess of Carnarvon. Read More


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Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is characterised by inflammation and scarring of the lung and is the leading cause of death in patients with systemic sclerosis, and contributes significantly to morbidity and mortality in many other connective tissue diseases (CTDs) such as polymyositis/dermatomyositis and mixed connective tissue disease. When ILD is extensive and/or progressive, immunosuppressive medication is often required to stabilize lung disease and alleviate symptoms. Current standard care for CTD associated ILD is extrapolated from studies performed in individuals with systemic sclerosis and comprises low dose corticosteroids and intravenous cyclophosphamide followed by oral azathioprine. In some individuals even this intensive immunosuppression is insufficient to prevent deterioration, and in a significant minority of affected individuals this results in respiratory failure and death. Rituximab has recently been reported as an effective 'rescue therapy' for stabilizing and even improving ILD in this patient group. Based on observations gained from this experience, the investigators believe that rituximab is a potential important alternative to current best therapy for this patient group. This study has therefore been initiated to evaluate the efficacy of rituximab (compared with standard therapy) in patients with progressive CTD related ILD.
|Interstitial Lung Disease Scleroderma Idiopathic Inflammatory Myositis Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
|Drug: Rituximab Drug: Cyclophosphamide
|Phase 2 Phase 3
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Randomized, Double Blind Controlled Trial Comparing Rituximab Against Intravenous Cyclophosphamide in Connective Tissue Disease Associated Interstitial Lung Disease
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Genetics Home Reference related topics: idiopathic inflammatory myopathy pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis systemic scleroderma
Drug Information available for: Cyclophosphamide Rituximab
Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center resources: Systemic Scleroderma Mixed Connective Tissue Disease Dermatomyositis Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy PolymyositisU.S. FDA Resources
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Absolute change in FVC [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- • Change from baseline in diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide (DLco) [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- • Change from baseline in health related quality of life scores [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- • Change from baseline in global disease activity score [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- • Progression free survival [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]composite endpoint of mortality, transplant, treatment failure or decline in FVC > 10% compared to baseline
- • Adverse and serious adverse events (as defined in GCP) [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Actual Study Start Date:
|November 2014
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|November 2020
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|November 2019 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Rituximab
1g given at baseline and two weeks.
|Drug: Rituximab
Active Comparator: Cyclophosphamide
Intravenous dose of 600 mg/m2 body surface area. 6 doses given 4 weekly.
|Drug: Cyclophosphamide
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 80 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 18 to 80 years at visit 1
A diagnosis of connective tissue disease, based on internationally accepted criteria, in one of the following categories21-24: (see Appendix 1 for details)
- Systemic sclerosis
- Idiopathic interstitial myopathy (including polymyositis/dermatomyositis)
- Mixed connective tissue disease
- Severe and/or progressive interstitial lung disease associated with the underlying connective tissue disease.
- Chest HRCT performed within 12 months of study visit 1
- Intention of the caring physician to treat the ILD with intravenous cyclophosphamide (with treatment indications including deteriorating symptoms attributable to ILD, deteriorating lung function tests, worsening gas exchange or extent of ILD at first presentation) and where there is a reasonable expectation that immunosuppressive treatment with stabilize or improve CTD-ILD. In individuals with scleroderma it is anticipated that subjects will fulfil the criteria for extensive disease defined by Goh et al19
- Able to provide written informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Age <18 or >80 years.
- Previous treatment with rituximab and/or intravenous cyclophosphamide
- Known hypersensitivity to rituximab or cyclophosphamide or their components
- Significant (in the opinion of the investigator) other organ co-morbidity including cardiac, hepatic or renal impairment
- Co-existent obstructive pulmonary disease (e.g. asthma, COPD, emphysema) with pre bronchodilator FEV1/FVC < 70%
- Patients at significant risk for infectious complications following immunosuppression, including; HIV positive or other immunodeficiency syndromes (including hypogammaglobulineamia)
- Suspected or proven untreated tuberculosis
- Viral hepatitis
- Infection requiring antibiotic treatment in the preceding four weeks
- Unexplained neurological symptoms (which may be suggestive of progressive mutifocal leukoencephalopathy; PML). Neurological symptoms arising as a consequence of the underlying CTD do not necessitate exclusion.
- Other investigational therapy (participation in research trial) received within 8 weeks of visit 1
- Immunosuppressive therapy (other than corticosteroids) received within 2 weeks of visit 1 (randomization)
- Pregnant or breast feeding women, or women of child-bearing potential, not using a reliable contraceptive method
- Unexplained haematuria, or previous bladder carcinoma
- Unable to provide informed written consent
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Tyndall AJ, Bannert B, Vonk M, Airò P, Cozzi F, Carreira PE, Bancel DF, Allanore Y, Müller-Ladner U, Distler O, Iannone F, Pellerito R, Pileckyte M, Miniati I, Ananieva L, Gurman AB, Damjanov N, Mueller A, Valentini G, Riemekasten G, Tikly M, Hummers L, Henriques MJ, Caramaschi P, Scheja A, Rozman B, Ton E, Kumánovics G, Coleiro B, Feierl E, Szucs G, Von Mühlen CA, Riccieri V, Novak S, Chizzolini C, Kotulska A, Denton C, Coelho PC, Kötter I, Simsek I, de la Pena Lefebvre PG, Hachulla E, Seibold JR, Rednic S, Stork J, Morovic-Vergles J, Walker UA. Causes and risk factors for death in systemic sclerosis: a study from the EULAR Scleroderma Trials and Research (EUSTAR) database. Ann Rheum Dis. 2010 Oct;69(10):1809-15. doi: 10.1136/ard.2009.114264. Epub 2010 Jun 15.
Hoyles RK, Ellis RW, Wellsbury J, Lees B, Newlands P, Goh NS, Roberts C, Desai S, Herrick AL, McHugh NJ, Foley NM, Pearson SB, Emery P, Veale DJ, Denton CP, Wells AU, Black CM, du Bois RM. A multicenter, prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of corticosteroids and intravenous cyclophosphamide followed by oral azathioprine for the treatment of pulmonary fibrosis in scleroderma. Arthritis Rheum. 2006 Dec;54(12):3962-70.
Keir GJ, Maher TM, Hansell DM, Denton CP, Ong VH, Singh S, Wells AU, Renzoni EA. Severe interstitial lung disease in connective tissue disease: rituximab as rescue therapy. Eur Respir J. 2012 Sep;40(3):641-8. doi: 10.1183/09031936.00163911. Epub 2012 Jan 26.
Goh NS, Desai SR, Veeraraghavan S, Hansell DM, Copley SJ, Maher TM, Corte TJ, Sander CR, Ratoff J, Devaraj A, Bozovic G, Denton CP, Black CM, du Bois RM, Wells AU. Interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis: a simple staging system. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2008 Jun 1;177(11):1248-54. doi: 10.1164/rccm.200706-877OC. Epub 2008 Mar 27.
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|Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
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|NCT01862926 History of Changes
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2012-003633-42 ( EudraCT Number )
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|May 22, 2013
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|June 7, 2017
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connective tissue disease
interstitial lung disease
pulmonary fibrosis
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Connective Tissue Diseases
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Seven University of Colorado Boulder graduate students and alumni will go abroad during the 2012-13 academic year to pursue a variety of studies, research and teaching projects as grantees of the prestigious Fulbright program.
Their proposed subjects range from exploring desertification knowledge in Mali and the impact of collaboration with a foreign development agency, to studying medieval Islamic philosophy in Egypt and its potential to inform debates in Anglo-American moral philosophy.
"The depth and potential of our Fulbright students' work, to delve into difficult problems and bring about change for global communities, is remarkable," said CU-Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano. "It is a testament not only to the individuals who take on these complicated and important international topics, but also to CU-Boulder's output of lifelong learners and leaders who reach far beyond the classroom."
Including this year's winners, 125 CU-Boulder graduate students and alumni have received Fulbright awards since 1978.
CU-Boulder's 2012-13 Fulbright recipients and their destination countries are: Wm. Porter Bourie, Mali; Spencer Case, Egypt; Leela Greenberg, Spain; Barbara Grossman-Thompson, Nepal; Duncan Lawrence, Chile; Brock Mosovsky, Netherlands; and Keane Southard, Brazil.
Other research will include Nepali women's involvement in the Annapurna Conservation Area, a popular trekking destination, and how the Roman Catholic Church and labor institutions in Chile influence attitudes about immigration. Another grant winner will conduct a case study of two music education programs for Brazilian youth that were inspired by El Sistema -- a Venezuelan system of children's orchestras that, since the mid-1970s, has had hundreds of thousands of participants, many from poor socio-economic backgrounds.
In addition, Marni Scott will teach English in Austria through an award issued by the Austrian-American Educational Commission, which is the Fulbright commission in Austria.
"The Fulbright program was founded to increase mutual understanding between the people of the U.S. and other countries," said Larry Bell, director of CU-Boulder's Office of International Education. "This year's group will continue the longstanding tradition of CU-Boulder students fostering international relations as fine representatives of our campus, state and country, helping to advance communities across the globe."
Fulbright students are selected on the basis of academic and professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields. The 66-year-old program operates in more than 155 countries and currently awards about 1,800 grants annually.
Students interested in applying for the Fulbright program should visit http://www.colorado.edu/OIE/admin/graduate.html. The first application deadline for the 2013 academic year is Sept. 10, 2012. For program highlights and a list of CU-Boulder student Fulbright awardees visithttp://www.colorado.edu/oie/admin/CUFulbrightHighlights.html.


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I was excited to see the mail today, when the envelope on top had a return address of Great American Ballpark and read "Playoff Ticket Information - Open immediately."
I was one of those people who were sucked into buying the pro-rated full season plan for the final 19 home game. Of course I did this so I would have the opportunity to buy playoff tickets.
I really love my seats, which are in the sun/moon deck in 141. The maximum number of games throughout the playoffs at GABP is 10. So for my two seats for 10 games the price is $ 1,505.00. The Reds also give you the opportunity to purchase two bonus tickets thorughout the playoffs. So if I were to buy my seats plus the bonus seats the price is 2,985.00. This is expensive, but Major League Baseball sets these prices.
Now the part I really have a problem with. Obviously if any of these games are not played, you get your money back, right? Wrong. The Reds will not return any of your money. Instead, they will credit your 2007 ticket account. So, basically by roping me into the final 19 game pro-rated plan, I'm forced to buy season tickets for 2007 if I want the playoff tickets. This seems very deceptive and unfair.
I know Cyclone bought the pro-rated plan as well. Were you aware of this policy?
Does this seem wrong or is it just me? Oh well, hopefully the Reds will make it all the way through and win World Series and play all 10 of those games.


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Fifth disease is another name for Parvovirus B19, a common viral illness in children. Fifth disease has also been called 'slap cheek disease' because of the tell-tale red rash children develop on their cheeks when they have the illness. Fifth disease is also called erythema infectiosum . Fifth disease got its name because it was the fifth of a group of viruses that produced similar symptoms. The other four illnesses are measles, rubella, scarlet fever and Dukes' disease.
Fifth disease is a human parvovirus and not the same as the parvovirus found in animals. You cannot catch Fifth disease from animals. About 50% of the adult population has already been infected with Fifth disease. Once you are infected with the virus, you remain immune to it for the rest of your life.
Fifth disease is generally not serious and usually produces very mild symptoms. In a very small percentage of pregnant women, Fifth disease may cause anaemia in unborn babies or miscarriage.
Like most viruses, Fifth disease is best prevented by thorough hand washing. Teach your children to wash their hands often with soap and water. Kids who get Fifth disease are contagious for the week before the rash appears, so once you find out that your child or another child that he plays with has Fifth disease, exposure has probably already occurred.
Fifth disease often starts with cold-like symptoms. Your child might have a runny nose and slight fever a few days before a rash breaks out on his cheeks. The rash may spread to his torso and may or may not itch.
Fifth disease generally goes away in a week to ten days with little or no treatment. You can use paracetamol to relieve any discomfort due to fever or minor achiness.
Call the doctor if your child's fever is higher than 38.9°C or if he is anaemic or has a compromised immune system.
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The future of British forces in the 21st century was on display in Upavon today in a huge exhibition of hardware and human capabilities.
The exhibition, which has taken two weeks to assemble and is codenamed Exercise Griffin Herald, shows the abilities of the newly formed Force Troops Command, based at Trenchard Lines Army camp across the road from the exhibition site.
Formed last September, Force Troops Command, which combines eight disparate Army brigades, is officially launched on April 1 and by July next year it will have settled into its Army 2020 structure.
Members of the media were able to see a demonstration of how the Vanguard field hospital operates in the 21st century.
In a chillingly realistic demonstration, a soldier who has lost both legs in a roadside bomb attack is brought into the operating theatre, where he is stabilised and given blood and plasma transfusions.
Surgeon Lt Col Ian Gurney said: "The clinical lessons learned in Afghanistan have been embedded in our current practice.
"The clinical care we can deliver in this field hospital is as good, if not better, than that available at a regional trauma centre in the UK."
Although there was a lot of military hardware on show, not least the monster AS90 155mm gun and the L118 105mm light gun, the Army showed that it is working smarter these days in preventing conflicts before they begin.
In his welcoming address, Major General Tim Radford, commanding officer of Force Troops Command, referred to "upstream" avoidance of conflict.
As was explained on some of the stalls in the exhibition, this involves assisting friendly forces in potential hot spots around the world.
Colonel Matthew Jackson said: "We are seeking to alter the behaviour of adversaries to the advantage of the military by making them do things that are favourable to us by identifying our target audience and sending a message to them."
The many ways of collecting intelligence on the enemy and sending it back to the troops that would find it useful was also on display.
The Land Intelligence Fusion Centre, based in Bulford, collates information from many different sources and transmits it to the commanders on the ground.
Army units are becoming increasingly dependent on information coming from unmanned aircraft like the tiny Desert Hawk 3, just over a metre in length, and the much larger Watchkeeper, both of which were on show.
Finally, the media met the youngest unit in the Army, the Military Working Dogs unit of the Army Veterinary Corps, which celebrates its fourth birthday this week.
The dogs not only detain suspects in the usual manner but can sniff out explosives in vehicles.


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In Monday's column we asserted that following hedge funds can produce consistent market-beating returns. We countered some arguments against this strategy and showed why hedge funds' 13F filings can be a valuable resource for the individual investor.
Today, we'll discuss a quintet of stocks that can help you achieve glory in 2013. Not surprisingly, this group consists of the five most popular stocks among the hedge funds we track. They are as follows:
1. Apple (AAPL): The proverbial top dog, Apple was the most popular stock among the 400 hedge funds we track, with 146 funds holding long positions at the end of the last round of 13F filings in the third quarter. Despite the pain that many Cupertino bulls have felt lately, we believe that Apple can have a stellar 2013, and not just because of the stock's cheap valuation.
Yes, a forward earnings multiple below 10 and a price/earnings-to-growth ratio near 0.6 are obviously attractive, but Apple also has a number of potential growth catalysts on the horizon that can boost shares to a fairer value.
The most crucial of these are a potential deal with China Mobile to deliver the iPhone 5S or a low-cost iPhone to the carrier's customers, a dividend boost, continued development of Apple's in-car "eyes free" system, an Apple TV and a smart watch.
It's quite possible that just one of these developments could pay off for value investors, and a projected dividend yield above the 10-year Treasury bonds provides a nice security blanket in the meantime.
2. Google (GOOG): Coming in second, Google had 132 hedge funds invested at the end of the third quarter, with 14 new money managers taking positions over this time. Some of the most prominent backers of this stock are Stephen Mandel and Philippe Laffont, while the most committed (as a percentage of his portfolio) is Robert Karr and his fund, Joho Capital, which holds more than 30% of its 13F assets in the stock.
While Google doesn't have quite the beaten-down valuation that Apple does, trading at a moderate forward price-to-earnings ratio near 15 and a trailing P/E in the low 20s, it still sports a near-10% discount to its industry's averages.
Aside from being constantly picked on by European officials for its advantageous tax setup across the pond, the most interesting development in Google's corner this year may be its first-ever entry into the OEM (original equipment manufacturer) smartphone space. The company's Motorola Mobility unit, dubbed the "X Phone," will play an integral role in the project and may just give Google a chance to pair its Android OS with an equally formidable piece of internally made hardware.
3. American International Group (AIG): A surprising member of this list, American International Group was truly a hedge-fund favorite in the third quarter, with a whopping 49 new funds taking positions in the insurer. When all was said and done, 110 of the hedge funds we track were long, and the total capital invested in the stock more than doubled to $12.5 billion.
On the surface, the massive interest in AIG appears to be driven by the closing of its bailout from the Treasury Department in the second week of December. It's possible that hedge funds were speculating on the occurrence of this event, and once we obtain 13F filings for the fourth quarter, we'll be sure to let you know how they behaved.
Now that the stock is free of federal overhang, general investors are now more willing to snatch up a stock that trades at a mere 0.7x sales and a PEG below 0.2.
AIG is also a leaner insurer, and sell-side analysts expect it to grow its earnings by 17% to 18% a year over the next half-decade. That's good growth at a reasonable price.
4. Microsoft (MSFT): Not many investors would call Microsoft their favorite tech stock. Still, that hasn't stopped the smart money from accumulating shares, as 96 of the hedge funds we track are bullish. While product releases of its Surface tablet and Windows 8 OS aren't generating too much excitement at the moment, Microsoft is still expected to generate better earnings growth over the next five years (9.6% annually) than it has over the past five (7.0% annually), according to analyst averages.
Trading at a mere 3.4x its cash flow, which is considerably below both Google (5.2x) and Apple (17.5x), Microsoft offers obvious value. Even more importantly, a benefit to many hedge funds is that Microsoft pays a projected yield of 3.4%, with a steady history of dividend increases.
5. Citigroup (C): Last but certainly not least, Citigroup is the fifth most popular stock among the hedge funds we track, with 93 money managers bullish at the end of the third quarter. This banking giant is expected to see its top line grow by 8% over the next year, and double-digit loan growth looks to be on the horizon.
A global network gives Citigroup an obvious advantage over many of its more U.S.-focused peers, and the sell side expects better earnings growth over the long run (a five-year average of 11.0%), compared with JPMorgan Chase (JPM) (7.3%) and Bank of America (BAC) (7.9%). While leadership concerns remain, shares of Citigroup have actually gained 12.9 percentage points since Vikram Pandit resigned as CEO last October.


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Earlier this month, North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue released a comprehensive study on the state's potential for offshore energy, including the pros and cons of developing offshore wind power.
The report, prepared by the governor's Scientific Advisory Panel on Offshore Energy, contains the findings of a 2009 feasibility study of developing commercial-scale wind power in the Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds and in the coastal ocean of North Carolina, and also includes updates from developments learned over the past few years.
Among the report's findings was that North Carolina has the best offshore wind resource on the U.S. East Coast, accounting for 26% of the total East Coast resource in an area of less than 30 meters of water. According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), if the entire resource were to be developed with a 42% average capacity factor, it would meet the annual electricity demand of every coastal state from Florida to Maine.
That estimate, however, does not take into account how much of that area can be developed, nor does it consider the many hurdles to developing wind power off North Carolina's coast.
According to the study, there are 506 developable federal lease blocks off the North Carolina continental shelf in waters with depths of less than 40 meters. Each of these lease blocks represents an approximately three-mile by three-mile area, which equates to 4,554 square miles available for wind power development.
The risks
The study identifies a number of areas in which offshore wind development off North Carolina could pose ecological and human-use conflicts.
Bird behavior, in particular, could be problematic, as passerine birds migrate at night. However, a study conducted by North Carolina-based utility Duke Energy showed that half of the bird species native to the area never flew as high off the water as the minimum height swept by a standard 3.6 MW wind turbine.
Notably, although water birds are abundant in the sounds, no endangered avian species would be affected by the addition of offshore wind turbines, the study says.
However, other species – such as sea turtles and humpback whales – that live in the potential development zones are listed as threatened or endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act, and could be affected by the noise and electromagnetic fields from offshore wind turbines.
Despite these potential conflicts, some synergies exist between offshore wind development and the area's ecosystem. For instance, wind turbines are typically secured to the seabed with an anti-scour apron made of rock, which, in turn, creates a habitat for rocky-reef fish.
Another mutual benefit, according to the report, is that the presence of a wind farm would cause ships to avoid certain areas in which species usually suffer from the harmful effects of ship traffic.
The panel's report also cites a study by the University of North Carolina that found that training flights, radar communications and submarine detection make large areas off the state – especially in Onslow Bay – incompatible with offshore wind energy development. Heavily fished areas where bottom dredging or trawling is practiced could also pose dangers to buried transmission cables, the study found.
Logistical and regulatory hurdles
Like in many other states, as well as at the federal level, red tape burdens North Carolina's potential for offshore wind development.
"Existing North Carolina law presents significant legal and regulatory barriers to permitting wind energy development in state coastal waters," the panel's report states. "The existing state-level statutory framework for the issuance of submerged-lands leases has gaps as they relate to wind energy projects, and various regulatory issues may impede development of wind energy in state waters."
Additionally, as with many other wind projects – both onshore and offshore – one major barrier to offshore wind development in North Carolina is the lack of adequate transmission to bring the energy produced by the generation facilities to end users.
Because North Carolina lacks the coastal population density of many other East Coast states, offshore wind farms would require significant transmission upgrades to deliver the power to customers.
According to the panel's study, Dominion North Carolina's transmission system would only be able to accommodate about 10 MW of offshore wind capacity without upgrades. Progress Energy Carolina's grid would be accommodate up to 250 MW of offshore wind energy generation at Morehead City or Wilmington without major upgrades; however, much of this area has been deemed undevelopable due to wildlife and human-use conflicts.
According to the report, the transmission upgrades necessary to accommodate 3 GW of offshore wind capacity would require an investment of between $525 million and $1.31 billion.
The rewards
Not taking into account the necessary transmission upgrades, however, North Carolina is the cheapest state in the nation in which to develop offshore wind energy, with costs estimated to be between 20% and 25% lower than in other East Coast states, according to a report from the Energy Information Administration.
The carbon-reduction potential for offshore wind development is substantial, including in North Carolina. According to the panel's study, a small inshore farm with 30 3.6 MW wind turbines would be equivalent to removing 550,000 vehicles off the road over the project's 20-year lifetime, and a large offshore farm with 450 3.6 MW turbines would be equivalent to displacing one year's emissions from 9 million cars or from 12 coal-fired power plants over a 20-year period.
Developing offshore wind farms would also benefit the state by adding job opportunities and workforce development programs for the wind energy supply chain, as well as by giving the state revenue obtained from offshore wind leases and wind-related tourism.
Furthermore, North Carolina's investor-owned utilities must comply with a renewable portfolio standard of 12.5% by 2021 – which may be difficult to achieve without offshore wind power.
The recommendations
In its report, the governor's panel made several recommendations for offshore wind development in the state. First, they said, North Carolina should streamline its regulatory procedures with the appropriate statutes, rules and regulations that "foster and encourage appropriate offshore wind development consistent with concerns for the coastal environment and communities."
The state should also facilitate the development of the transmission infrastructure necessary to interconnect offshore wind farms, they said.
The state – and the governor, in particular – also needs to "engage with the industry to attract to North Carolina a wide range of supply-chain facilities and jobs associated with the emerging wind energy industry," they added.
Furthermore, the panel recommended that the state create a program for research and data collection in order to ensure there is adequate information to evaluate the impacts of offshore energy exploration and energy development, and suggested that North Carolina engage in comprehensive ocean and coastal resource management to ensure the sustainable use of ocean and coastal resources.
All considered, the panel found that although there are still major challenges in the development of offshore wind farms off the North Carolina coast, the rewards trump the risks.
"The disadvantages associated with development of commercial wind farms off the coast of North Carolina do not outweigh the advantages," the panel concluded.


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LOS ANGELES -- For a little more than three weeks, the Rockies' LaTroy Hawkins was a closer with little to close.
Between May 27 and Friday, Hawkins was asked to finish a tight game only once. He was lifted from a save chance at Philadelphia on May 28 when manager Walt Weiss went to Boone Logan for left-on-left matchups. Logan couldn't close the deal and ended up with the blown save. The other four games in which Hawkins appeared were non-save chances.
But when the Rockies returned to giving Hawkins leads during the five-game winning streak they brought into Monday's opener at Dodger Stadium, he made the most of them. Hawkins converted save chances in all three games of a sweep of the Giants this weekend.
Hawkins said he tried to treat all those non-save chances the same.
"Whenever I pitch, I try to 'X out' the situation," Hawkins said. "Sometimes it doesn't work like that. But mentally, I approach it as a tie game.
"But in all those days, I threw a lot, almost to the point I got sore trying to stay sharp, throwing bullpens and playing a lot of catch. But definitely the more I pitch in games, the better off I am."
Hawkins is 14-for-15 in save chances this season, and 2-1 with a 2.88 ERA overall. His ability to mentally define situations helps him handle base traffic. Opponents have a .292 on-base percentage against him, but more often than not he works out of the traffic.
"The mentality I take out there comes from trial and error -- from years of not being successful in situations," Hawkins said. "I'm as humble as they come. I just go out there and try to do the job. I've got a job to do for [front office members] Dan O'Dowd and Bill Geivett, and Walt, and my teammates. They signed me for a reason, and that's, hopefully, to get a save without giving up the lead."
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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It's too bad for residents of Lakeport about the increased rates of your water resources that will become apparent in January. Even the city councilmembers were upset, but had no choice in its passage because not enough people protested when the matter was first raised.
The residents of Lucerne are also faced with an enormous hike in water rates, but we hope to avert that by getting petitions signed throughout the area by Lake County residents and then contacting any authority we feel will respond. If you are not a home- or business- owner you will still feel the effect in increased costs that will be passed along to the rest of the community.
Sign a petition on our behalf. We hope to set an example for the rest of the county. Today, Lakeport; tomorrow, Lucerne. Who is next if other residents don't get involved? At least we will have the satisfaction of knowing that we tried to make a difference before the fact, instead of complaining after the rate increases.
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APPLE VALLEY — An Apple Valley man is expected to be in Victorville Superior court Monday following his arrest for allegedly shooting at a rival, San Bernardino County Sheriff's officials said.
Davion English, 18, is accused of shooting at a man Thursday afternoon near Straight Arrow and Thunderbird roads, according to sheriff's reports. The intended target was not struck.
The victim called Apple Valley deputies and reported English had shot at him. He also told authorities he and English had been involved in a fight previously, officials said.
Due to the proximity to Phoenix Academy, the school was locked down as deputies searched for English, according to a sheriff's news release.
Deputies went to a home in the 15000 block of Straight Arrow Road and were able to find English.
Investigators obtained a search warrant to search the home and reportedly discovered evidence linking English to the earlier shooting, according to the release.
English was booked into the Adelanto Detention Center in Adelanto on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
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All eyes have been on Congress for the past few months as the nation crept closer to the edge of the "fiscal cliff." Now that the cliff crisis has been diverted, some worry that Congressional discussion on gun control laws and the national budget will drown out and delay important debates surrounding immigration laws.
Immigration reform could potentially grant citizenship to 11 million people currently in the United States illegally and help alleviate a labor shortage felt by many facets of the agriculture industry, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times. Read more here.
If immigration reform is overshadowed by other high-priority issues, some advocates worry that an inefficient and distracted Congress could continue to hold up immigration reform.
This latest setback comes after years of tardy promises by politicians on both sides of the aisle.
Dairy Herd Network editor Tom Quaife wrote an editorial on the issue last year, urging someone in the government to step up and take a leadership role on the issue. In the article, Quaife lays out just a few examples of broken immigration reform promises by the Obama Administration:
- June 2009: President Obama pledged to push for immigration reform, tapping a top Cabinet official to work with Congress and make it a priority.
- November 2009: U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a speech at the Center for American Progress that immigration reform would be a priority for the Obama Administration in 2010.
As Quaife notes, until Congress steps up to face immigration reform, dairies will continue to operate in limbo and struggle to find American-born workers willing to do the physically demanding work required by dairy operations. To read more, see "Leadership needed on immigration reform."
Following the Dec. 14 shooting tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., gun control has taken center stage. There are more "fiscal cliff" showdowns ahead. And, if one of the Supreme Court justices announces his or her retirement, it could set up a lengthy confirmation process.
Despite this, advocates hope that politicians can multi-task and tackle multiple issues at once.


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The geographic location of health services can have a direct impact on health outcomes within countries, by affecting how quickly patients can seek care when faced with illness and injuries. Improved understanding of geographic variation and related inequity in access to resources within countries is increasingly being recognized as central to meeting development goals in the context of universal health coverage.
Measures of accessibility and availability of health services contributes to understanding the performance of health systems which facilitates the development of evidence based health policies. WHO-CHOICE supports the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to analyse physical accessibility to health services, linking the results to national planning and costing processes, and policy discussions on how to optimise investments in the health system.
In recognition of the key impact that Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) can have on maternal mortality and safe birth outcomes, recent analysis in four countries (Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic and Malawi) uses the AccessMod© software to assess availability and accessibility coverage to EmOC.
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Jordan Baker, 16, of Hastings, pled not guilty to attempted firstdegree murder Monday, as well as use of a weapon to commit a felony, theft and escape.
He is the younger of two teenage boys accused of stabbing two employees and stealing a car to escape from the Nebraska Youth Center in North Platte.
Baker stood quiet on the advice of defense attorney Pat Hays, who entered the plea on his behalf. Following that, Hays asked Judge Donald Rowlands to transfer the case to juvenile court.
Rowlands took the request under advisement.
Keenan Lambert, 18, of Miller, is also accused and is scheduled to appear soon in district court.
In other district court action, Aaron Kirts, 30, of North Platte, pled not guilty to burglary, theft, criminal mischief and shoplifting.
Chief Deputy Lincoln County Attorney Tanya RobertsConnick told the court that if Kirts is convicted on one or more charges, she plans to ask the court to designate him a habitual criminal.
Kirts was arrested June 8 after a disturbance at a family party at the Girl Scout cabin on the south side of Lake Maloney. A man, later identified as Kirts, walked through the cabin, dropped several sets of keys and created a disturbance with some of the family members. Deputies were called, contacted Kirts and arrested him for disturbing the peace.
When searching Kirts property, deputies found items that did not appear to belong to him, so they contacted the owner of Patmos Camp Ground just north of the Girl Scout cabin. The owner said the items were taken from the cabins and the keys Kirts left at the party came from inside the Patmos building. Kirts was charged with burglary, possession of stolen property and theft by taking.
A convict can be designated as habitual if he or she has been convicted of at least two felonies and receives at least one year sentence for each conviction.
The habitual criminal designation carries a sentence of 1050 years.
Kirts is currently in the county jail on a $50,000 bond.
Kirts record shows he was sentenced to the penitentiary in March 2005 for 410 years for burglary, felon in possession of a gun and terroristic threats. He was sentenced again in June 2012 for 13 years, for theft.
In other district court action Monday, Angela Ball, 28, of North Platte, pled guilty to second-degree forgery.
Defense attorney Patrick Heng asked that she be bound over to drug court and District Judge Richard Birch agreed.
Ball was arrested in July for forging as many as 10 checks at North Platte retailers, totaling nearly $1,300. The checks matched some that were stolen in early July from a 64year-old man in the 2400 block of North Oak.
Investigation of the checks began July 5 and on July 6 police were called to Famous Footwear where Roxanne Duran, 38, of North Platte tried to return shoes that were bought with one of the stolen checks. Duran was cited for aiding and abetting forgery.
Ball was found and identified. Second-degree forgery is punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a $25,000 fine.
Balls arrest record confirms her problem with drugs, showing several charges of possession of amphetamines as well as probation violations and disturbing the peace.
Alexis Harlow, 19, of North Platte, pled not guilty to being an accessory to a felony by concealing.
Harlow was arrested Aug. 12 in connection with an alleged terroristic knife threat at Lake Maloney four days earlier. Chief Deputy Roland Kramer said Harlow was in a car with suspects Lucas Swarthout and Kayla Wills.
Swarthout allegedly used a large knife to threaten a man who saw them acting suspiciously near his home.
After the threat, Swarthout allegedly gave the knife to Harlow, who put it in her bag and hid the bag in the bushes. A resident found it later and turned in to the sheriffs office.
Serial bad check writer Renee Deremer, 40, of North Platte, was arraigned by Lincoln County District Judge Richard Birch on four counts of writing bad checks. Deremer pled not guilty.
Deremer has a long record of hanging bad paper all over town. Not long after her last stint in court, she did it again. Chief Deputy Lincoln County Attorney Tanya RobertsConnick told the court that bad checks are still rolling in to her office.
Deremer says she suffers from extreme mental illness from an accident. She appeared in court in a wheelchair and seemed to be heavily medicated.
In May, Deremer was in county court facing charges of writing bad checks. At that time, Lincoln County Judge Michael Piccolo put her on one-year probation and ordered her to pay restitution of $685.68 to Modern Muffler and $106 to Regis Beauty Salon. Piccolo hesitantly put her on probation and warned Deremer that future violations would not be treated so lightly.
Deremers record show 16 counts of writing bad checks as well as numerous failures to appear, driving offenses and fugitive from justice. So far, she has five prior convictions for bad checks.
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