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I know this is going to come as a complete and utter shock to you, but three of the best players in college football are in trouble.
Two have been indefinitely suspended; another is out for at least two games. All continue to reap the benefits of being able to play a game – it's just a game, people—better than the poor saps below them on the depth chart who would have been dismissed for less.
Yet here's the strangest part of this sad, sordid story: Even with the heightened awareness of late of athletes and their poor behavior, these guys still think they're bulletproof.
They're just college kids. They're just 20 years old. They're just doing what every other student at every other university does—only they're under a microscope like no other.
"I guess if you know you're under a microscope," says Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray, "you should act like you're under a microscope."
What a novel concept.
Ohio State tailback Carlos Hyde is a person of interest in an assault in Columbus, Ohio, and is suspended indefinitely.
Florida linebacker Antonio Morrison, after punching a man in the head and still being allowed to stay in school, was hanging around a nightclub last weekend—he's 19 years old —and eventually interfered with a police action by barking at a police guard dog. He has been suspended for at least the first two games.
LSU running back Jeremy Hill punched a man in the head outside of a bar, and the brutal video of the event is circulating on the Internet. It's the second time in less than two years Hill has been arrested and convicted of a crime, including carnal knowledge of a 14-year-old girl.
Yeah, these three fine, upstanding young men deserve a free college education and elite coaching staffs to get them ready for the NFL—where they'll pander to them even more, pay them outrageous salaries and summarily throw them away when they're of no use anymore.
At what point does it sink in? At what point do these guys realize less than five percent of college football players make it to the NFL? Even less have an extended career; most are out in less than four years.
At what point does player behavior away from the field become just as important as player performance on it?
"My uncle always told me, don't ever do anything to bring shame to your family name," said Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron. "I've always remembered that. To me, that's the most important thing. The rest of this stuff comes and goes."
So while the college football narrative focuses on NCAA compliance and player stipends and how to share all that television money, putting a new shade of lipstick on the pig simply allows us to lose sight of the mud in the pen.
If the tragedy in Boston with Aaron Hernandez taught us anything, it's this: You're not doing anyone any good by ignoring bad behavior. At the very least, you're hurting the player with bad behavior.
At the very worst, he eventually hurts someone else.
Look, I understand the concept of second chances. Ticky-tack stuff happens all the time in college, and most of those problems can be overcome.
But when you're dealing with physical assault—with a player whose body is at peak physical condition because of the training he receives at a university—there's no excuse to ignore a significant warning sign.
We can go through all the machinations of Ohio State and coach Urban Meyer and his history of dealing with troubled players at Florida. Who cares?
In this instance, Meyer could have taken a bold step: eliminated a problem from his team and sent a message to the rest of his players. Too bad that's the minority reaction in sports these days.
More commonly, we have Les Miles saying he will wait until the legal system runs its course. Miles called Hill's arrest and conviction for simple battery a "legal entanglement"—which is coachspeak for I'm waiting to see what the judge says. The big question: Why wait?
Why, in this society we've built, are we afraid to call a bad dude a bad dude? Why are we so willing to give second and third chances instead of taking a stand against young men who think they're entitled to something—anything—because they're faster and more athletic than the next?
Meanwhile, Vanderbilt linebacker Chase Garnham, at the moment the Hyde news was breaking, decided to finally address his decision to join the Ed O'Bannon lawsuit against the NCAA.
He doesn't want to disrupt his season, doesn't want to bring attention on himself while his team is coming off a season for the ages. So he sent this Twitter message:
"Despite what you may think, I am extremely thankful for the opportunity to represent and receive an education from a world class university."
He's not bulletproof, he's human.
What a novel concept.


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I would like to start this thread just so we can stop using those spoiler tags when discussing in the movies thread!
I have now watched the movie in snippets several more times, and plan to watch it in it's entirety later tonight so I will be glad to discuss further as I have time!
To start it off, I would like to stress that I think this movie is excellent, and the best adaptation thus far of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel of the same title. The first film adaptation was in 1964. That movie was titled The Last Man On Earth and starred Vincent Price as Dr. Robert Morgan (rather than Neville). I watched the majority of it and had a hard time really enjoying it. To be honest, I have a hard time enjoying most movies made that long ago. The quality of film making has risen dramatically over the last couple of decades and only continues to rise.
The second adaptation was 1971's The Omega Man, starring Charlton Heston as Dr. Robert Neville. I recently watched this movie as well, and it was much better than The Last Man On Earth, but was still kind of lame. Most of my problem with it is that it was made in 1971 and lacks most of the quality that I'm now spoiled with. By 1971 standards, it was probably a pretty good movie. I like Charlton Heston quite a bit, so it was at least entertaining....
The current adaptation is titled the same as the original book, so that kinda blows my idea about the whole Bob Marley connection and why the film was titled as it is.
That is all for now, but I would love to discuss this movie as much as possible, so somebody please post some ideas! I hesitate to write that I would rather it not turn into a discussion about whether it is a good film or not, because I know there are some users who didn't care for it. I'm not gonna suggest that someone refrain from posting what they thought about it, just know that I would rather this be a thread where people who actually LIKED the movie can discuss the movie without having to defend the quality of the movie or try to convince someone whether it was actually good or not. Let's face it, nobody is gonna convince me it isn't, so I don't expect to convince someone who didn't like it that they should!

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I'm fairly new to 3D, so forgive me a relatively newbish question. I'm making a little space sim in XNA/Game Studio Express, and I'm wondering whether a skysphere is too resource-hungry. Right now the ship flies in all three dimensions with the camera locked right behind it, so I'll need to see the stars in the distant background in all directions, not just "up". But does a sphere require too many polygons? And is it going to be too huge to map a single texture to?
Also, I note that EVE online and other games sometimes implement "space dust" as one moves to create an illusion of movement. How is this sort of thing done? A particle effect around the ship?
No its a prefectly reasonable question. I'd recommend going for a sky box, its just easier to make, and easy to make the textures for it too.
I'd guess you're right about the particle effect around the ship. You could probably get away with static particles places randomly round your environment.
I did the same thing for rain, its like the rain cloud is following you round!
The only problem with a skybox is you might be able to see where the edges come together because of the texels being noticeably smaller near the edges. A skydome or sphere would alleviate this. But it's a minor artifact, I wouldn't worry about it unless it becomes really noticeable.
Thanks for your replies. A follow-up question: what size skybox and solar system is reasonable? Is it feasible to put sun and planets and tiny spaceship all in the same scene, within the same skybox?
I imagine the size of such a scene is limited by stretching of the texture, not to mention memory. I'm using 3Ds Max to make my scene, and I'm trying to figure out how much of a solar system I can depict in one scene.
You dont need to draw the sky box to any particular scale. I would draw it first with Z off so that it gets drawn over by anything else, no matter how far away it is.
Here's a article I found http://gpwiki.org/index.php/Sky\_Box although its OpenGL not XNA
The texture really needs to be quite big, probably a similar size to your screen res.
re: is sky sphere too expensive compared to sky box..
If you're only talking about the amount of polygons rendered, the cost of the sky sphere is neglible compared to the sky box. I'd wager that a couple thousand polygons here or there won't make much of a difference.
Who wrote that?
Original post, "I'm wondering whether a skysphere is too resource-hungry"
Yup, being new to 3D, I had wondered whether the extra polygons to draw a sphere would make any difference. Sounds like not.
For a space sim, ask yourself if you even need a skybox. Take a look at celestia (http://www.shatters.net/celestia/gallery.html). Very nice looking and it doesn't use skyboxes. If you plan on supporting navigation between universes, skyboxes would be out of the question too.
Many thanks for the link. Wow, Celestia is fantastic! Um, how can I get my universe to work like that?
Looking at Celestia's files, I see just a couple of dozen models of significant objects -- mostly regular things like asteroids, Mir and Hubbell. So they probably just have one or two spheroid models for planets and suns, and textures to put on them. I can certainly handle just making a couple dozen models for a space scene, and I can handle making textures. But how to render all the tiny points of light you see until you get close to them?
Are you familiar with spatial division? The idea is to divide your scene into smaller parts. Each sector will have a set of particles representing the stars. You don't even need to texture them, their bright emissive colour will be convincing enough. Secondly, all the stars in a given sector are placed in a vertex array, for quick and efficient rendering. As you get close to one, don't even bother removing it. Keep rendering it, but then overlap it with the real star/texture/planet/etc...
Thanks, TheNut. Nope, I'm pretty new to 3D, so I am not familiar with spatial division. That sounds like what I have in mind, though. So if I wanted to make a game with, say, 25 solar systems, how large would each 'sector' be?
You'd probably need to test to find an optimal size.
Hey all, brand-new here myself and this is my first post. Be honoured B)
I was under the impression that skybox and sky sphere (I'll use the term "sky dome" in this post) are two different technologies.
A sky dome is actual geometry that surrounds a level. Therefore, you either end up with a lot of polygons in your sphere or really large geometry that shows seams, especially if you use a cube.
A skybox is when you have a separate area in a map--like a little room--with only a camera and the sky elements in it. When the player's camera rotates, so too does the camera in the skybox. The view in the skybox is composited with the view from the level--just added into the background. That way the player will never bump up against the geometry that makes up the sky dome, only against the geometry of the level--because there IS no geometry making up the sky, only a masked-in image that's been rendered somewhere else.
That's lifted pretty much verbatim from Luke Ahearn's book 3D GAME TEXTURES.
IMO, you'll get a much better effect--especially for your space sim which requires lots and lots of, well, space--if you use the skybox technique I mentioned here, and not a sky dome or sky sphere.


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DRMA Spotlight - Dial800: Cracking the Code19 Feb, 2013 By: Thomas Haire
Scott Richards, CEO of Los Angeles-based Dial800, doesn't hesitate when asked how the company earned recognition as part of the prestigious Inc. 5000 for the second consecutive year.
"We want to give tremendous thanks to all of the people in the direct response business who work with us and support us," he says. "They've trusted us with their business, and they are why we're on the Inc. 5000. They're why we're adding new employees. Without them, we're nothing."
A company with more than two decades of success under its belt, Dial800 provides marketing optimization tools to help marketers increase leads and sales. The Direct Response Marketing Alliance (DRMA) member, helmed by Richards and James Diorio, chief operating officer, just enjoyed its second consecutive year of expansive growth. "The marketplace is embracing the value that Dial800 brings," Diorio says. "We had 22-percent growth in 2012, and it's the second year in a row we've had that kind of growth — in a down economy."
Both Diorio and Richards say that the company's position as a provider of memorable 800 numbers, call tracking, call routing and unified data reporting has put it in a special position in the DR space. "Clients may come to us for one thing, but there's a much greater value proposition," Diorio says. "What they find is that they get a toolkit they can use to collaborate with their partners or their sister companies. The reality is, if anyone in the chain doesn't succeed, that chain isn't going to work."
Richards agrees. "Today, the margins are so thin in DR. Before, when you had so much cake, everyone could eat all they want and they didn't care about the crumbs left on the floor. But, nowadays, if Dial800 helps you get all those crumbs off the floor, it could make the difference between a non-profitable campaign and a profitable one."
While much of Dial800's initial push into the DR space was centered on RapidRecall — its ability to provide marketers with better, more memorable 800 numbers for its customers to respond to — the company has wowed a number of clients with its ability to enhance campaigns with its AccuRoute call routing solution and CallView360° call tracking platform.
"The numbers are the backbone of our business," Diorio says. "But what's been great this year is how we've evolved in our tracking and routing solutions. AccuRoute takes all the knowledge we have in the routing world and makes it easy for our clients. People will only work with a technology if it's easy."
Behind all of that technology is a base that features a pair of "mutually redundant" data centers in Los Angeles and Dallas that are online 24/7, according to Diorio, whose technological expertise has been crucial to expanding the power of Dial800's solutions for DR marketers, media agencies and call centers.
"He built a couple of companies in technology," Richards says. "He's managed full tech staffs, and his whole background is in technology design. The infrastructure of technology is extremely important to him and to the people he's brought in."
The company's commitment to technology solutions that are easy to use is part of its perceived strategic advantage over what Diorio calls a group of "really solid competitors." But Richards defines what he sees as the big difference for those using Dial800's array of solutions.
"They can route calls, and we can route calls. But, with our 800 numbers, we'll give you more calls to route," he says. "There's nobody else out there that can make that claim — or even tries to make that claim."
That makes collaborating with others in the industry easier. "Collaboration is only possible based on the integration of the individual technologies in each individual company," Diorio says. "We're called on often to streamline. If we're working with a call center, we'll be called on by a media agency to make sure everything is working well. We've worked hard to make it as simple as possible for them to integrate with each other."
With the company debuting version 2.0 of its CallView360° platform in January, that opportunity for industry-wide collaboration on campaigns is growing. "CallView360° 2.0 isn't an addition to the first version," Richards says. "We built the house again, from the absolute foundation. It's a quantum leap — people have never seen anything this advanced in call tracking."
Diorio adds, "It all starts with understanding your call volume. We have tons of ways to slice and dice that data — time of day, day of week, source, destination, result, sale, etc. That's a key part of call tracking. We've also enhanced it, so working in conjunction with call routing, everything is seamless and integrated."
The system is also enhanced thanks to a deal Dial800 made to incorporate a GUI interface into COREMedia Systems' DR media tracking platform, which gives media buyers uniform call center data.
"Its almost impossible to generate three- or four-to-one MERs today. And when you're just hoping to get close to a break even on a continuity program on the front end, marketers are looking deeper under the covers," Richards says. "They're saying, 'We have to look at some demographics. We have to listen to these calls. We have to find out what we can do to make this piece better.' Our toolset enables them to do that."
But it's not just the tools, Diorio adds. "Our clients get a concierge when they work with Dial800," he says. "They are there, day in and day out, with the account."
Richards is even more strident in his description. "The difference between customer service and concierge is that customer service is reactive and concierge is proactive. If a client has a problem, they call and you try to solve their problem — that's customer service. A concierge will analyze their accounts and try to see where there are opportunities to tighten up and to optimize what they're doing. Then we take a proactive approach to the client."
That kind of proactive approach has served Dial800 well, and the company is committed to continuing down that path. "The response we've had in this industry has been great. We've worked hard to clarify our value proposition," Diorio says. "But it's only because it's been received by the marketplace that we've been able to enjoy these gains. In 2013, the goal is to continue to do great by our clients — and the industry." ■


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mikenz66 wrote:Thanks Christopher::: that's a helpful chart. It's always useful to have an idea of the real data. It clearly explains why this is potentially more serious for the public than Three Mile Island and what the natural radiation exposures are (though of course, these vary a depending on what sort of soil/rock you live on, how your house is constructed, and so on, e.g. whether you have exposed bricks inside your house...).
Annapurna wrote:Dear...
We continued after Chernobyl.
Perhaps we'll find a way out of this too.
But then,- it has to stop.
Which will be hard, because some people still can't read the signs...
Yesterday, I watched on TV how the different nations are reacting to this....it seems in some parts of the Czech republic the 'message' hasn't arrived yet.
There are rather uneducated people working in nuclear plants, it feeds their bellies, work is all they want, and since their boss told them their reactor is safe they believe him....
They think the rest of the wolrd is being hysterical and has bad plants.
And that they have a good one, of course.
chownah wrote:There have been many comments in this thread that claimed that renewables can not provide the bulk of the electric power for a country....below is a link to a Yahoo article that claims that in the month of March, 2011 in Spain MORE THAN 60% OF THE ELECTRIC POWER CAME FROM RENEWABLES NAMELY WIND, HYDRO, AND SOLAR......
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110331/sc ... 93ZXJpbnM-
PLease note that every year the cost of renewables goes down and the efficiency of renewables goes up.....while every year it seems the cost of nuclear goes up and I don't know about the efficiency of nuclear....
The plant operators also deliberately dumped 10,000 tons of tainted water — measuring about 500 times above the legal limit for radiactivity — into the ocean Monday to make space at a storage site for water that is even more highly radiactive.
"We must keep putting water into the reactors to cool to prevent further fuel damage, even though we know that there is a side effect, which is the leakage," Nishiyama said. "We want to get rid of the stagnant water and decontaminate the place so that we can return to our primary task to restore the sustainable cooling capacity as quickly as possible." To that end, the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., said it jettisoned the 10,000 tons of water Monday, clearing space in a waste-storage facility. The government decided to allow the step as "an unavoidable emergency measure," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said.
An additional 1,500 tons will be dumped from a trench under the plant's units 5 and 6. That water is threatening to interfere with the workings at those units, whose reactors are under control.
Radioactivity is quickly diluted in the ocean, and Edano said the dump should not affect the safety of seafood in the area.
Thousands of radioactive waste barrels rusting
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Greenpeace research unveils nuclear legacy
Paris, 19 June 2000 Greenpeace today released new images of the legacy of radioactive waste dumping at sea from ships. The shocking footage was taken in the Hurd Deep, in UK territorial waters just off the Channel Islands and some 15km north-west of Cap de La Hague (France).
It shows corroding, broken and disintegrated barrels of radioactive waste, remnants of some 28,500 barrels tipped into the sea by the UK between 1950 and 1963. Hurd Deep is one of many such dumpsites used until a global ban was agreed in 1993.
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency's 1999 Global Inventory of Radioactive Wastes in the Marine Environment, the total radioactive inventory of the Hurd Deep is a staggering 57,942 GigaBequerels.
"Although dumping radioactive wastes at sea from ships is now banned, paradoxically the discharge of radioactive wastes into the sea via pipelines from land is not," said Mike Townsley of Greenpeace. "Such 'double standards' are not maintained for technical or scientific reasons, but only because the operators of the nuclear reprocessing facilities in La Hague (France) and Sellafield (UK) want to save money."
"It is cheaper for them to continue to use the sea as a radioactive garbage bin than to store this radioactive waste on land; for the nuclear industry, money comes first and the environment second", said Mike Townsley (2).
Each year, Europe's giant nuclear reprocessing facilities at Sellafield in the UK and La Hague in France, discharge hundreds of millions of litters of radioactive waste into the sea. The amount of radioactivity discharged from La Hague and Sellafield in only 9 months exceeds that dumped in the Hurd Deep.
"Hurd Deep and the other former ocean dump sites stand testament to the irreversibility of dumping radioactive wastes in the ocean -- regardless of whether from a ship or a land-based pipe", said Mike Townsley.
Carried by the ocean currents, radioactivity from La Hague and Sellafield has already been detected in sea life around the coasts of Scandinavia, Iceland and the Arctic, and will continue to build up in the food chain, threatening the health of millions of people, unless the discharges stop immediately.
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Anyway, a quick search revealed that this kinda radioactive waste dumping has been going on in various ways, for a long long time...Thousands of radioactive waste barrels rusting
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octathlon wrote:The situation continues to go from bad to worse and at this point they're playing it by ear. Yeah, it's pretty bad when you deal with a nuclear accident by making it up as you go along. Have you read about their efforts to plug up the cracks by pouring different kinds of stuff in it, even trying the absorbent stuff used in baby diapers? didn't work of course. It reminds me of the BP spill last year.
Kim O'Hara wrote:Worrying stuff, Christopher. Have you got anything more recent on the Sellafield and La Hague discharges?
There's a joke in the solar industry about when "grid parity" – the time when solar becomes as cheap as fossil sources – will happen.
…The truth is, it will happen in phases – one market and one technology at a time. But according to two top solar executives – Tom Dinwoodie, CTO of SunPower and Dan Shugar, formerly of SunPower and current CEO of Solaria – "ferocious cost reductions," are accelerating that crossover in a variety of markets today.
…Manufacturing costs have come down steadily, from $60 a watt in the mid-1970's to $1.50 today. People often point to a "Moore's Law" in solar – meaning that for every cumulative doubling of manufacturing capacity, costs fall 20%. In solar PV manufacturing, costs have fallen about 18% for every doubling of production. "It holds up very closely," says Solaria's Shugar.
…As SunPower's Dinwoodie puts it: The 17 GW installed in 2010 is the equivalent of 17 nuclear power plants – manufactured, shipped and installed in one year. It can take decades just to install a nuclear plant. Think about that. I heard Bill Gates recently call solar "cute." Well, that's 17 GW of "cute" adding up at an astonishing pace.
…Here's another important statistic: When SunPower built the 14-MW Nellis Air Force Base system in 2007, it cost $7 per watt. Today, commercial and utility systems are getting installed at around $3 per watt. In 2010 alone, the average installed cost of installing solar PV dropped 20%.
…So what does all this mean? It means that the notion that "solar is too expensive" doesn't hold up anymore. When financing providers can offer a home or business owner solar electricity for less than the cost of their current services; when utilities start investing in solar themselves to reduce operating costs; and when the technology starts moving into the range of new nuclear and new coal, it's impossible to ignore.
According to SunPower's Tom Dinwoodie: "The cross-over has occurred."
What happens now?
In the short term, workers will continue to cool the reactors and clean up as much contamination as possible. But in the longer term they will have to actually remove the uranium from the reactor cores and transport it away from the coast, where it poses a major environmental and health risk.
This will create an unprecedented challenge. The radioactive fuel inside the reactors is believed to have melted down completely, and some or all of it has probably leaked from the stainless-steel pressure vessel in which it was housed into the concrete enclosure below the reactor. The radiation will remain powerful enough to kill for decades to come, so workers will have to find a way to clean up and remove the fuel remotely.
Given the current levels of radiation near the reactors, it may be years before workers are even able to take a first look at what has happened inside.
octathlon wrote:There is also a huge mass of debris that was swept out to sea by the tsunami, slowly floating across the ocean:
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/c ... ns-tsunami
The tsunami's mess is expected to make a major local contribution to the worldwide problem of human refuse spreading across the world's oceans. The items range from mile-long ghost nets that strangle marine life to tiny bits of plastic indistinguishable from plankton.
"Even before the tsunami, (oceans were) a dump for rubbish flowing in from rivers, washed off beaches, and jettisoned from oil and gas platforms and from fishing, tourist, and merchant vessels," the researchers said in this story posted last spring soon after the quake. "The massive, concentrated debris launched by the devastating tsunami is now magnifying the hazards."
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the immunogenicity and safety of an adjuvanted A(H1N1)v influenza vaccine in HIV-infected and immunosuppressed patients after one and two injections.
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- To investigate the immunogenicity via anti-hemagglutinin responses following an adjuvanted H1N1 vaccination in HIV-positive and immunosuppressed adult patients [ Time Frame: baseline, day 21, day 42 ]
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- To evaluate the effect of pre-existing anti-influenza immunity and recent history of seasonal influenza and H5N1 vaccination on seroresponses to the H1N1 influenza vaccine [ Time Frame: baseline ]
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Bickel M, Lassmann C, Wieters I, Doerr HW, Herrmann E, Wicker S, Brodt HR, Stephan C, Allwinn R, Jung O. Immune response after a single dose of the 2010/11 trivalent, seasonal influenza vaccine in HIV-1-infected patients and healthy controls. HIV Clin Trials. 2013 Jul-Aug;14(4):175-81. doi: 10.1310/hct1404-175.
Gueller S, Allwinn R, Mousset S, Martin H, Wieters I, Herrmann E, Serve H, Bickel M, Bug G. Enhanced immune response after a second dose of an AS03-adjuvanted H1N1 influenza A vaccine in patients after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2011 Oct;17(10):1546-50. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2011.02.004. Epub 2011 Feb 13.
Bickel M, von Hentig N, Wieters I, Khaykin P, Nisius G, Haberl A, Stephan C, Herrmann E, Doerr HW, Brodt HR, Allwinn R. Immune response after two doses of the novel split virion, adjuvanted pandemic H1N1 influenza A vaccine in HIV-1-infected patients. Clin Infect Dis. 2011 Jan 1;52(1):122-7. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciq003.
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'The entry-level cap for players age 22 is $850,000 per season and an $85,000 signing bonus each year. Kennedy reportedly will receive $550,00 if he plays in the NHL and $215,000 in games-played bonuses each season and signing bonuses of $85,000 each year. In he plays in the American Hockey League, Kennedy's salary will be $62,500.'
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CINCINNATI -- Justin Upton, B.J. Upton and Brian McCann had Wednesday off for the Braves' series finale against the Reds.
Manager Fredi Gonzalez said before the series that McCann would not play the finale. The six-time All-Star made his season debut Monday after missing the first five weeks of the year recovering from offseason shoulder surgery. Gonzalez did not want McCann to catch three games in a 48-hour period.
As for the Upton brothers, Gonzalez simply wanted to give them a breather.
"You look at the schedule, and you see these [12:35] games in the middle of the week, and you kind of [make] a mental note that this is a good day to play your bench," Gonzalez said. "Let the [bench players] in there and let them play. It usually works out pretty well, because you get some energy. They haven't played in four or five days, they're going to go [all out].
"And by the way, we got three guys on the bench that we can plug in wherever we want at any part of the game."
It will be the first day off of the season for Justin Upton, who has played in all 32 games, hitting .278 and leading the Majors with 12 home runs. His brother, B.J., has played in 30 games and is hitting .153 with three home runs and five RBIs.
McCann, meanwhile, got his first hit of the season Tuesday, ripping a two-out, bases-loaded single to right off of Reds starter Homey Bailey that plated two. McCann is 1-for-8 with a walk since returning from the disabled list.
"Nobody plays 162 anymore," Gonzalez said. "You've got to play your bench, especially in the National League."
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With a change in law still pending, Grand Junction Police Department officers have been told to stop issuing ounce-or-less marijuana tickets, which look to soon run afoul of Amendment 64, according to documents obtained by The Daily Sentinel.
The directive, sent to Grand Junction patrol officers on Friday night, was crafted by police administration and the city attorney's office, Police Chief John Camper said Wednesday.
"Therefore and effective immediately it is the policy of the GJPD not to cite persons age 21 or older that possess and/or consume 1 ounce or less of marijuana and/or cultivate and possess 6 or less plants as allowed by the Amendment," reads the directive.
"With a supervisor's approval GJPD officers may in their discretion write an offense report and forward the same to the U.S. Attorney," the directive continues. "Although it is unlikely that the U.S. Attorney may charge and/or prosecute federal marijuana offenses officers may submit reports/requests for prosecution."
The department's move comes as Amendment 64 has yet to become law in Colorado, pending certification of the Nov. 6 general election results, which must happen no later than Dec. 6.
Grand Junction's abrupt halt in enforcement comes as the Mesa County Sheriff's Department has yet to issue policy instructions to deputies, which Sheriff Stan Hilkey suggested is a matter of time.
"Whether we go earlier or later, we're all going along with the intent of coming into compliance when the law becomes law," Hilkey said.
Mesa County District Attorney Pete Hautzinger said he will continue to prosecute pot possession cases of one ounce or less "until the law is officially changed."
Camper said his intent was to give patrol direction.
"We want to make best use of their enforcement time, and having them enforce something that's going to soon be legal is not a good use of their time," said Camper, while being critical of what he called a "crappy" amendment.
"I remain very concerned about the negative effects this ill-advised amendment will have on our community and our youth," he said.
Interim Palisade Police Chief Mike Nordine said he's also instructed officers to stop issuing tickets for possession of less than 1 ounce of marijuana for persons 21 and older, with an eye on compliance with Amendment 64.
"Prosecuting any such case is going to be extremely difficult by the time any of them get to court," Nordine said. "It seems to me to be a whole lot of battle for not much return at this point."
Fruita Police Chief Mark Angelo couldn't be reached for comment Wednesday.
Camper's policy directive notes consumption of marijuana in public is still forbidden.
Amendment 64 also provides that a person may grow up to six plants with three or fewer being mature.
"Keeping plants and product together is not an issue so long as the 'growing takes place in an enclosed, locked space, is not conducted openly or publicly and is not made available for sale," the directive reads,
Possession of more than an ounce of marijuana will still be illegal, absent medical marijuana approval.
What about drug paraphernalia?
"The legislature will likely revise possession of drug paraphernalia laws to exclude 'marijuana' accessories for those 21 years of age and older; however until the law is revised an officer may cite state law offenses," the directive reads.
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WARSHIP HMS Dauntless sailed into Liverpool for the first time today for the International Mersey River Festival.
The Royal Navy Type-45 destroyer docked at the city's Cruise Liner Terminal at around 10.30am.
Members of the ship's company will now take part in a rededication ceremony for HMS Liverpool's ship's bell at Our Lady and St Nicholas Church of England. The bell is on permanent loan to the city.
The Royal Navy's Fleet Commander, Vice Admiral Philip Jones, who is from Wirral, is also in attendance.
The bell will be carried by four apprentices from Cammell Laird and accompanied by two members of Dauntless' company and two Royal Marines drummers.
It will be first time Dauntless has visited Liverpool. Commanding officer Adrian Fryer, said: "We are thoroughly looking forward to playing our part in the International Mersey River Festival.
"It promises to be a colourful and inspiring spectacle and we are delighted HMS Dauntless will take a central place at the heart of it.
"We look forward to welcoming visitors on board and sharing our experiences of this great ship and the Royal Navy."
HMS Dauntless will be one of many vessels throwing open its gangway to the public from 11am-4pm on Saturday and Sunday.
As well as being able to learn more about the ship and chat to the crew, visitors will also be able to see the ship's Lynx helicopter which will take pride of place on the flight deck.
It is just one of the attractions at the festival.
Ashore at the Cruise Liner Terminal there will be displays of unarmed combat, diving equipment, displays of survival equipment, the Royal Marines weapons dome, a field gun display by Sea Cadets, recruitment stands and much more.
The Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines Scotland will also perform over the weekend.
HMS Dauntless joined the Fleet in November 2010, shortly after being the first of the class to fire the new Sea Viper missile.
Destroyers are part of the backbone of the Royal Navy, committed around the world 365 days a year hunting pirates, drug runners or submarines, defending the fleet from air attack, and providing humanitarian aid after natural disasters.
Commanding officer Adrian Fryer, continued: "The rededication of HMS Liverpool's ship's bell on Friday will allow members of my ship's company to play their small part in marking the esteem in which the Type 42 destroyer was held by the city of Liverpool.
"I know that my ship's company is proud to be included in the ceremony and parade, alongside former HMS Liverpool crew members and with Fleet Commander Vice Admiral Jones in attendance."
HMS Dauntless will leave Liverpool on Monday at approximately 11am.


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The USDA has suspended several livestock reports in the wake of automatic federal budget cuts. This includes reports the monthly Milk Production report and annual Milk Production, Disposition and Income report that would have been released in late April.
According to USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, these dairy-specific reports are just a fraction of the surveys and reports that will be suspended through the end of the government's fiscal year in September. Click here to read the full list of suspended surveys and reports from NASS.
"Before deciding upon the program suspensions, NASS reviewed its survey programs against mission and user-based criteria as well as the amount of time remaining in the fiscal year to conduct the surveys with the goal of finding available cost savings and maintaining the strongest data in service to agriculture. The decision to suspend these reports was not made lightly, but it was nevertheless necessary, given the funding situation," a NASS news release explained.
Dave Kurzawski, of FC Stone/Downes-O'Neill in Chicago, confirmed that the suspensions will begin with the March Milk Production report that was previously scheduled to be released on April 19. However, the February Milk Production report will be released as scheduled on March 19.
"Should the reports be scheduled for release starting next fiscal year, we believe the first report would be for the month of October to be released in mid-November," Kurzawski said. "The cuts will also include the July Cattle report which contains total milk cow numbers as well as milk replacement heifers."
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Many have worried about the aftermath of these sequester cuts for months. In late-February the CME Group warned that some livestock and dairy contract could be affected, and USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack fueled public concerns after announcing that the food inspectors could be laid off in response to these cuts, and consumers may experience "spotty shortages of meat." Others have pointed that the government would not – and did not – fall apart of the "sequester day of reckoning."


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The Turtle Creek Chorale has begun a search for a new executive director, who manages the business side of the nonprofit gay men's chorus. The current ED, Stephen Tosha, is departing to take a position with Morgan Stanley. Tosha will continue in the position until July 30. The chorale hopes to have a new ED in place by Aug. 1, when it begins its 32nd season.
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I'm not addressing those people. What is there to say to them anyway?
I want to talk to people who say they love basketball in general, those who express a longing for solid fundamentals and teamwork, and even those who say they want to watch players of good character on the court. Then there are folks that like to watch a star in action, the bandwagoners who just want to follow a winning team, and the fans who are disgruntled about high NBA ticket prices.
What stops any of you from supporting the Indiana Fever? They have a strong chance to win a WNBA championship this year, behind the stength of a great team lead by an all-everything perennial MVP candidate who is regularly recognized for her good works off the court.
I'll admit it - I find the men's game more exciting, overall. But I greatly appreciate the fundamental skills and heart of most of the players in the WNBA. It's clear to me when I look at the younger players that the skill levels and athleticism are improving by leaps and bounds (no pun intended) and along with that is an increase in the level of excitement these players bring to the court. I'm pleased to be able to support the growth of a league that encompasses all of these things.
A native Hoosier that lives across the country, I can't attend any games. I catch what I can online and buy team merchandise. When I move to Indy soon-ish I am definitely getting Fever season tickets and I just might try to swing a trip if the team makes it to the Finals. I think the energy of a crowd has an impact on athletic performance and I hope people turn out in force for the Fever during the playoffs. We have a unique opportunity to build something (a strong, fan supported franchise) that we can enjoy and be proud of. We can have our cake and eat it too! For those of you still living in the land of basketball - what's stopping you?
Just reading the first paragraph of Tameka's bio (http://www.wnba.com/playerfile/tamik...hings/bio.html) gets me all riled up. She's a rare talent, a joy to watch. Who wouldn't want to support this lady?


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Phillies get back off mat to top Braves in 13 innings
Five-run deciding frame follows Papelbon's blown save; Hamels stellar
ATLANTA -- Phillies closer Jonathan Papelbon sounded like a frustrated, but relieved man early Tuesday morning at Turner Field.
He had blown his second save of the season and his first since April 2 in the ninth inning against the Braves to waste a splendid performance from Cole Hamels on Monday night, but the Phillies scored five times in the 13th inning in a 6-1 victory. The Phillies improved to just 30-38, but a quick peek at the National League East standings shows they are just 5 1/2 games out of first place.
Somebody make sense of that, please.
"I think it's just one of those years where it's going to basically come down to who can make a good little run in the division, divisional games," Papelbon said afterward. "I think tonight, despite me going out there and blowing the game, we really made a statement. I'm proud of the guys for picking me up. It's good to see. It's good to see that kind of coming around."
But can the Phillies get on a run? They have not won four consecutive games in more than a year, and they just dropped two of three at home this past weekend to the Cubs.
"Yeah, I definitely think we can," Papelbon said. "We haven't been catching many breaks, but that's part of it. You've got to play good baseball, and with good baseball, it seems like you get the breaks."
Papelbon entered the ninth 2-0 with a 0.36 ERA and 15 saves in 25 appearances since he allowed three runs in just one-third of an inning to blow his first save in a one-run loss to the Rangers in the second game of the season in Texas. He had allowed just 13 hits, one earned run, seven walks and had struck out 21 in 25 innings since.
But he allowed a leadoff single to Justin Upton, who hit a humpback liner just over the head of shortstop Jimmy Rollins. Chris Johnson followed with a ball that just got past second baseman Chase Utley. Andrelton Simmons then blooped a one-out single to shallow right-center field to score Upton to tie the game.
None of the balls were hit hard, but they each found the outfield grass.
"I'd rather get beat with line drives and mistakes and homers," Papelbon said.
The Phillies survived a botched play in left field in the 10th inning, when Domonic Brown misjudged Freddie Freeman's fly ball to the warning track. Brown jumped into the wall as the ball landed to his left. He then looked skyward as the ball bounced back toward the field. Freeman cruised into third for a triple, but Justin De Fratus worked out of the jam.
"It looked to me like a catchable ball," Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg said. "And then, I assume he thought the ball bounced over the wall. He lost track of it there."
The Phillies took the lead in the 13th. Ben Revere hit a leadoff single, stole second and advanced to third on Rollins' flyout to right. The Braves intentionally walked Utley to set up a potential double play. It was the fourth time this season a pitcher intentionally walked Utley to face Ryan Howard.
Howard, who homered in the second, was 0-for-2 with a hit by pitch the first three times Utley had been intentionally walked in front of him. This time, Howard hit a ball that went between Freeman's legs for an error to score Revere and hand the Phillies a one-run lead. Four more scored, including two on a triple from Reid Brignac.
Papelbon was off the hook.
"Hard-fought game," Sandberg said.
Hamels allowed five hits, two walks and struck out six in seven scoreless innings, finishing the night with a 23 2/3-inning scoreless streak, his longest since a 25-inning scoreless streak from Aug. 24 to Sept. 8, 2010. He also finished with a 0.30 ERA (one earned run in 29 2/3 innings) in four starts this month, and a 1.56 ERA (10 earned runs in 57 2/3 innings) in eight starts since May 6.
"Just being able to make pitches when I need to," Hamels said.
Hamels worked out of a big jam in the seventh to preserve his scoreless streak. He allowed a leadoff single to Evan Gattis, and Upton followed with a double to left field to put runners on second and third with no outs. Hamels then hit Johnson with a pitch to load the bases.
But Tommy La Stella lined an 0-1 fastball directly at third baseman Brignac for the first out. Hamels then got Simmons to ground an 0-1 cutter to Utley, who threw the ball to Rollins to help start an inning-ending double play.
Hamels had preserved the lead, but it wouldn't last for long. But this time the Phillies made up for their shortcomings and started a seven-game road trip with a win.
Todd Zolecki 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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Practice survival: The new face of veterinary practice ownership
First, some general trends: The number of female owners in all areas of business is increasing. There are 8.3 million female-owned businesses in the United States, and the number of female business owners has grown 54 percent during the past 15 years, according to the 2012 American Express OPEN State of Women-Owned Businesses Report. The veterinary profession is starting to see these changes as well.
Recently Simmons and Associates, one of the largest veterinary practice brokerage firms in the United States, pulled together some interesting statistics on purchasing trends in veterinary medicine. A State of the Market report by the firm showed that in 2008—the first year of the recession—39 percent of veterinary practices were sold to women and 48 percent to men. And from 2006 to 2011, the majority of new buyers in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska were women—56 percent of practice sales. In 2010 and 2011, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, 30 percent of practice sales were to women, 50 percent to men and 20 percent to corporations. The data clearly show that women are buying practices even in these challenging times. And given that women represent more than 50 percent of the overall veterinary profession, it's likely this trend will continue.Navigating a winding path
One veterinarian I recently had the pleasure of meeting is Kate Knutson, DVM, owner of Pet Crossing Animal Hospital and Dental Clinic in Bloomington, Minn. Knutson is passionate about veterinary medicine and loves her profession. She's an active member of the Minnesota Veterinary Medical Association, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA), where she will be stepping into the role of president in 2013.
Although she's now a successful veterinary practice owner, Knutson is the first to admit that her career path wasn't necessarily clear-cut. She originally wanted to pursue advanced degrees from Johns Hopkins after graduating from veterinary school, but life didn't quite go the way she planned and challenges intervened.
In her second year at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, her father, who ran an engineering construction business in South Dakota, was disabled in an auto accident and sustained serious brain damage. Unable to work or return home, he was moved to a rehabilitation institute in Minneapolis, leaving it up to his daughter to run the business and attend to his personal affairs, which she willingly did in the hope of his eventual recovery. Looking back on those times, Knutson doesn't know how she did it. She was a veterinary student trying to run a full-time business in another state and be her father's caregiver.


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Information sharing
EEA's mission commits itself to providing timely, targeted, relevant and reliable environmental information to policy-making agents and the public.
There are many information users. For example, EU policy-makers need quality and timely information to better develop and implement environmental policies, and assess whether their policies are working or not. Information also empowers citizens and business to act.
We have the information – but we just don't share it enough
Globally and in Europe, we already have a lot of information – from satellites, sensor networks, NGOs, citizen scientists and the list goes on. But we just don't share it enough. Much of it is kept separate in silos and compartments.
True, there are many networks sharing environmental information. But the sharing can often be improved, and sharing between networks really needs work.
Sharing comes with other challenges
Furthermore, any step of an information management process - from identifying data to collection, distribution and communication - can be burdened with gaps or problems. Questions need to be answered and infrastructures developed before sharing becomes useful. That's where SEIS comes in.
Information is a prerequisite for environmental improvement
Europe faces challenges: One of the key findings of the EEA's "European environment state and outlook 2010 synthesis report" (SOER 2010) was that major environmental challenges remain which will have significant consequences in Europe if left unaddressed. The continuing depletion of Europe's stocks of natural capital and flows of ecosystem services will ultimately undermine Europe's economy and erode social cohesion. This prospect is not limited to Europe – we live in an increasingly inter-connected world with shared global megatrends.
People want to help: Fortunately, we want to secure a healthy environment. In the face of today's financial crisis and rapidly changing world, economic prosperity and human health are tightly bound up with it. Many stakeholders – policy-makers, decision-makers, energy producers, farmers, urban residents and hopefully you -- want to help.
Good information is needed: For individual and collective action to happen, we all need an excellent, common, accessible environmental knowledge base as a foundation. Information is a prerequisite for improvement.
See the big picture: We need to look at the whole picture, not just its parts, to develop proper responses. Another key realisation from SOER 2010 was that today's global environmental challenges are becoming increasingly complex, in large part because of the many inter-linkages across environmental and sectoral topics. Our global food challenge is an excellent example, with links to agriculture, biodiversity, climate change, water, floods, disaster relief… If we don't see the parts holistically, we won't solve the problem.
See now and far away: History is no longer a good indicator of the future. Today's changes can be explosive. We need to look more at what is happening now and everywhere. And we need to be more vigilant in detecting early warning signals in far away and unusual places, many of which are now unconnected from the mainstream, on the edges. That means keeping a close eye on glaciers melting in Greenland to project global climate change impacts. Or on the status of fish stocks in our shared seas.
EEA depends on information: The European Environment Agency's (EEA) mission commits itself to provide timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to policy-making agents and the public. For EEA, at least 80 % of all the environmental data and information that it uses has a 'spatial' dimension. 'Spatial' (or 'geographic') information describes a location and properties of phenomena on the earth's surface. Public authorities at all levels in Europe regularly manage and use geospatial information.
All levels of government need it: National authorities need quality information to prepare for emergencies such as floods, or to manage accidents such as toxic or oil spills. National environmental authorities in the EU also have many legal obligations to report their environmental data and information to EU bodies such as EEA. In turn, EEA assesses the information for its different products such as the SOER. EU policy-makers need quality and timely SOER information on the state of Europe's environment, trends, pressures and drivers to better develop and implement environmental policies. They then need it to assess whether their policies are working or not. European public authorities also report their regional environmental information, for example, to UN bodies to produce global assessments.
Don't forget citizens and business: Furthermore, environmental information is needed to empower citizens, so they can effectively influence public policy. They want to make informed decisions about the environment and how they consume. As the environment is a public good, they have a right to widely available information, such as air quality in their neighbourhood. European businesses also use environmental information, for example, to track their impacts on the environment; predict future supplies of resources needed for operations; or as an incentive to develop innovative commercial solutions for environmental problems.
We have the information – but we just don't share it enough
We have a lot of information: Globally, we have a huge amount of environmental data and information, covering a wide range of topics from different sources and people. For example, looking specifically at Europe, EU satellites are capturing volumes of images about how we use land and thereby impact the environment. National environmental institutions are collecting data on air quality using vast networks of automatic land-based sensors. Commercial ferries are using sensors to collect water quality data on route. And then there are the countless NGOs, scientific organisations, non-governmental organisations, local communities and citizens who contribute, be it about climate change, invasive marine species or urban environments.
But it's dispersed: But much of this data and information continues to be kept separate in silos and compartments. To some degree, that's human nature. Locally, we do a fair job as information is often shared in response to local needs and demands, and because of the proximity and familiarity between individuals and communities. But as geographic scope extends, sharing tends to decline, even though the information may be there. Long distances… different cultures, languages and technologies… different formats and standards… Keeping information hidden can also be deliberate, driven by territoriality, competition or profit – information means power for some.
We also have sharing networks: The world does have many national, regional and international networks of people and organisations, geared to sharing geographic and environmental information. Examples include the global Group on Earth Observations (GEO), the European environment information and observation network (Eionet), and countless nation-based and community-based networks devoted to specific locations or environmental topics. But sharing information within these networks can often be improved. Even more so, the sharing between networks needs work. Otherwise, information gaps will prevail.
Sharing comes with other challenges
The information cycle is complex: The lack of sharing isn't the only problem for users. Any step of an information management process or cycle can be burdened with gaps or problems.
Data identification and collection: It starts with identifying what data to collect in the first place – what is it that users want in the end? The next step, data collection, entails numerous decisions. For example, from where should the data be geographically sourced? Who should collect it -- authorities or citizens? What kinds of technologies should be used -- satellites or land-based sensors?
Processing and products: Once the data is collected, where does it go next? Will it automatically be wired to a central database? Does it need to go through many hands before arriving at a final destination? Once arrived, how will it be processed and who will do the processing? Does it need to be verified by experts or quality assured by data handlers? What kinds of datasets or data products are envisioned? Will they be static, like a graph, or interactive, like a map application?
Distribution and communication: Once the data is available, how will it be distributed and communicated? How will potential users be able to search for and discover it, download it and then finally use it? Is the data for everyone, or just some people or groups? How will it be grouped with other datasets? Will users be able to easily identify what the data is and where it came from, in case they have concerns?
Using ICTs: Is there any point at which there is too much data in one place and it all becomes unmanageable for the user? Or have our technologies progressed enough to allow vast amounts to be stored and efficiently used in one place? How can we best use advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) to generate an up-to-date view on the state of the environment?
Fast data: Last but not least, what about the timing? Going through all the steps above could take days or even years. But that's not very helpful if a user needs information to solve an environmental challenge today. So how can they get data that is asnear-real time as possible?
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Published: 2014-08-25, by Janel Torkington.
Navigon is a turn-by-turn navigational system, similar to Google Maps. It's unique in that it's a "real" GPS app - instead of accessing the maps over 3G like Google Maps, you anticipate where you're going in advance and download the detailed map of that area. That way, even if you drop off the grid, the app keeps directing you like nothing's happened.
The interface is solid, and the voice prompts are loud enough to be heard over mild car noise.
However, I'd only recommend purchasing this rather expensive app if you plan on spending quite a lot of time driving somewhere with no signal. Getting access to live traffic updates isn't free (it's included in Google Maps, plus other comparable navigational systems), and you'll also have to pay to re-download maps when they're updated. Honestly, it's a decent enough navigational system, but the price of Navigon feels really out of line with where free technology is these days.
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Ron, Tins, and Pollard, for Mags, Wilcox, and Sam Cassell works on RealGM.
I think we are already a contender as we are now. The Mags trade for Ron makes us a viable contender. Adding Sam in the backcourt pushs us even closer to the top.
5]Harrison, Foster, JO, Wilcox
4]JO, Cro, Granger
3]Granger, Mags, Jax, Fred
2]Jax, Mags, Fred
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Itivuttaka 1.24 A Heap of Bones
translated from the Pali by John Ireland
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... ml#iti-024
This was said by the Lord...
"Bhikkhus, the skeletons of a single person, running on and wandering in samsara for an aeon, would make a heap of bones, a quantity of bones as large as this Mount Vepulla, if there were someone to collect them and if the collection were not destroyed."
The bones of a single person
Accumulated in a single aeon
Would make a heap like a mountain —
So said the Great Sage.
He declared it to be
As great as Mount Vepulla
To the north of Vulture's Peak
In the hill-fort of Magadha.
But when one sees with perfect wisdom
The four noble truths as they are —
Suffering, the origin of suffering,
The overcoming of suffering,
And the noble eightfold path
Leading to relief from suffering —
Having merely run on
Seven times at the most,
By destroying all fetters
One makes an end of suffering. [*]
[*] This refers to the stream enterer, who is reborn at most seven more times before attaining release.