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It seems like an everyday thing now. You get online or turn on the TV and there it is. Another headline of a child/toddler getting hold of a gun, playing with a gun, and dying by a gun.
Some of he public and media seems to getting tired or numb to such stories. The Arizona death of a 3-year old, didn't even make it to mainstream media news, and it's been four days. Why? Is this kind of story no longer shiny and sexy news? I'm angry. Children –babies are dying for no good reasons, while pompous NRA advocates are finding more ways to lobby/buy more pro-gun laws. In Arizona, the state where this child died, Governor Jan Brewer passed two anti-safety gun laws this very week. One demands resale of guns that were brought to community gun buybacks events, by citizens, wanting to help get firearms off the street and out of the hands of wrong people. Brewer ignored those citizens and also passed a law making it illegal to gather or maintain background checks on current gun owners. Yes, you read that right.
I wonder if the Arizona governor has any feelings about this toddler's death. If so, did it cause her to rethink her new laws? At three, many children are still in diapers. How the hell do we live in a country, where a toddler can so easily find a gun, and shoot himself in the face? How many innocent children, and adults are going to die in this country before all lawmakers start doing the right thing.
3,835 wrongful deaths have occurred by guns, since the Sandy Hook gun massacre. That's over 75% of the total American deaths in the Iraq war (4,486 U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq) About 70 of the known gun deaths since Sandy Hook have been children. This means we have basically allowed three more Sandy Hook Massacres to take place, one child at a time. Here are three very recent tragic child deaths;
This week, in Yuma Arizona, 3-year old, Darrien Nez, shot himself after finding a 9mm pistol in his 35-year old grandmother's backpack
April 17, in Kansas, a 7-year old, Gavin Brummett, shot himself in the head while firing a semiautomatic handgun. He was on a family shooting trip.
Related articles
- Arizona Law Puts Kibosh On Gun Buybacks In Phoenix (americanfreedombybarbara.com)
- Two-year-old gets shot and killed and, yawn, it's just another day in America (kstreet607.com)
- Don't forget Sandy Hook (salon.com)
- Gov. Brewer signs law to force Arizona gun buy-back programs to resell the guns they collect (dailykos.com)
- Phoenix police holds gun buyback before gun resale law takes effect (jurist.org)
- In gun-friendly Arizona it's now the law: Thou shalt not destroy guns (thestar.blogs.com)


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Management in the Metropolitan Police is making increasing use of target-setting, whereby officers are required to achieve designated numbers of stops and arrests, regardless of whether the crime situation merits them, according to the Metropolitan Police Federation (MPF).
Those who fail to fulfil enforcement quotas face being named and shamed in "league tables" and sometimes punished in other ways, it said.
The pressure to hit targets is so intense that more and more officers are falling sick with stress, while others are quitting in disgust, it added.
The MPF said it had received the views of hundreds of officers on the subject and had found disintegrating morale as they chased targets which were sometimes impossible to achieve
A spokesman said: "The target culture is leading to bizarre situations such as officers squabbling over who is going to arrest a suspect and get the kudos of scoring another tick on their performance sheet.
"It is also unremitting. One officer spoke of colleagues who are off sick being pressured to return to work and facing barrages of phone calls from management demanding to know when this will happen."
Officers' views have been placed in an MPF report which says officers are discouraged from spending time on duties which do not count towards targets but which nonetheless may be important to the public, the spokesman said.
One officer complained, for example, of being unable to "go the extra mile" for crime victims because of numerical targets - and this was despite the Met having a Total Victim Care policy.
The imposition of policing-by-targets is in defiance of the Home Secretary, Theresa May, who has repeatedly condemned them, the spokesman said.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "We are faced with many challenges, not least delivering improvements against the background of a reduced budget, however, despite this we do not recognise the claim that we have a bullying culture.
"We make no excuses for having a culture that values performance. We have pledged to reduce crime, increase confidence and cut costs. It's a big task and we have a robust framework in place to ensure we achieve this. The public expects no less.
"We aim to be the best police force for London and are transforming the way we deliver policing in London so that we are efficient and effective and responsive to the changing needs of Londoners. This will mean more officers on the streets fighting crime in neighbourhoods and using technology that helps them to deliver more to the victims of crime and prevents others from suffering from crime in the first place.
"We are already seeing results. The latest figures show crime in London falling faster than it has for years and we know from our surveys that both public confidence and victim satisfaction is increasing month on month."
:: The findings of the MPF's research are given in a report entitled The Consequences of a Target Driven Culture within Policing - From the 'Voice' of Metropolitan Police Officers.

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I saw the first episode. Now I never had an military experience, unless boy scouts count, but I could see this they were fundermentally flawed in their training. Heck, one of these "recuirts" had been with them for 6 months and had no clue how to fire a weapon (ar15/ak47). He even called an AR an AK. 6 months and no one has trained him in firearms??
Than their Family retrieval team thing was just scary. 5 armed people going into a home and clearing it with live weapons with children in the house, who trains like this?? Only highly skilled personnel train like this. These were not them. As they are leaving with the secured family members in vehicles you hear one curse. Opps, he just dropped his gun, still in the holster, on the ground while entering the van.
I may be considered an arm chair commander by some, but these people do not have the training to be doing these types of "missions". Just IMHO. I could be wrong, but I really thought these people were mostly wannabees. Nothing wrong with their basic concepts, but training would actually be required. Real training, not just hitting a range and pitching a tent, and poorly for that matter.
Wow, I could not believe what I was seeing. I'm sure there is much more and I could go on, but what's the point. You get the idea by now.
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Don't SGI manufacture a big bad SMP server with 16-32 cpus instead of clusters with 1000s of cores or cpus? Enterprises are interested in big bad SMP servers, not clusters. For instance, the IBM P795 weighs ca 2.000kg and it has up to 32 cpus.
Until SGI sells a big bad SMP server with as many as 32 cpus, I won't be impressed. Anyone can make a huge cluster with 1000s of cores and tons of RAM. Until anyone offers a Linux server with 32 cpus for sale, I wont be impressed. The problem is that Linux can not scale beyond 8 cpus today. No one has ever offered a 16 or 32 cpu Linux server for sale. SGI could be the first to make Linux scale beyond 8 sockets? And then SGI could target the Enterprise market, instead of chasing HPC scientific number crunching specialized companies, running large Linux clusters.
Just look at the ScaleMP solution, which is very similar to SGIs cluster called Altix, UV, etc. ScaleMP also has 1000s of cores and runs a single image Linux kernel, in their large servers. But, ScaleMP uses a software hypervisor which tricks the Linux kernel into believing it is running on a single SMP server, when in fact, the kernel runs on a cluster. But using a software hypervisor is not the same thing as a running on a true SMP server. The largest SMP servers have 32 or sometimes, even 64 cpus. The largest HPC clusters have 1000s of cores and tons of RAM.


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Goodbye, Dad
What would I be thinking if I were in her place?
"Could you drive a little faster, please?" she asked as I finished taking the car down the steep curves and the road began to straighten out at Sha'ar Hagai. I nodded, slid my hands over the steering wheel in an attempt to wipe off the flop sweat and stepped on the gas a little more. I don't like driving at night, certainly not with the kids asleep in the back seat and definitely not on the highways.
"How are you?" I asked because I couldn't find the right words. She just kept on silently staring at her cell phone, checking that she hadn't missed a call. What is she thinking about now? I tried to guess what was going through her head. What would I be thinking if I were in her place, God forbid? I'd probably be flooded with memories, I thought to myself. What memories does she have of him? They must be good ones, otherwise she wouldn't be crying. They must be childhood memories. At times like this, childhood memories are the only ones that are etched into the brain.
For some reason I picture her as a little girl with a huge smile and a genuine laugh, the kind only children have, and now I see how her father, much younger, is picking her up in his arms. This is the picture she must have in her mind now, I was sure, even though this memory must have been shaped by those American movies where whenever a character misses a parent there is a flashback to an old home movie of happy smiling children surrounded by their loving, protective parents.
What would I recall? And why won't any memories of my own father come to me right now? I've always been so certain of my prodigious memory, able to recite every little thing I experienced from age three through kindergarten, and now I find I'm inventing memories that never happened. Is it the same for her? Maybe she doesn't have any memories of him, maybe she's trying at this very moment to insert him into childhood pictures that he was never a part of. Inserting him by force in the preschool birthday party that never was, making him build a sand castle on the beach with her.
And where the hell is my father in all those memories I know I should have? Why doesn't he appear before my eyes? Maybe I'm just anxious, I thought to myself. Yes, I'm too nervous. I'll breathe a little more slowly. Ah, OK - I smile briefly as the childhood images return in full force. I wasn't mistaken, no. I'm almost happy for me, for her, for our parents. There he is in all his glory, the superhero, an inseparable part of the picture, coming to visit me in preschool. And here he is with the old Sussita in the garage. I wiped the smile off my face - This wasn't the time. She was crying softly now and looking at her cell phone again. "Please, a little faster," she repeated when we got on the Trans-Israel Highway.
I really wanted to floor it, but I couldn't. I hoped she could see it in my face. There was no chance of even getting up to the speed limit at that point. The car seemed to be sliding, first right and then left. Maybe it was the wind, that wasn't blowing? Or maybe one of the tires needed air. I'm sorry, I wanted to say, but I can't go any faster. I have no control over the car, and with every little bend in the road I'm just praying we won't end up in a ditch. These French cars, I thought, I need a new car, something with more stability that gives a feeling of total confidence. And I know that this car is fine, so why do I feel as if I'm fording a raging river?
Once again she looks at her phone and I take the blame onto myself. For a few days now she's been saying something's wrong with her phone and she's not getting all her calls and messages. I should have taken it in rather than just hoping it would somehow heal itself. Had she received the first phone call from the hospital, we surely would have been there by now. All I could do now was try to drive a little faster, and I couldn't even do that. I'm sweating again and the headlight beams from every oncoming car seem to shatter into a thousand pieces, sending me into a whirlwind of fear and mechanical taps on the brakes.
Something's wrong with the windshield, I thought. I'll replace it, no, I'll replace the car and it will have an anti-glare windshield especially for night driving. Maybe if the kids weren't sleeping in the back seat I could drive a little faster. I give her an apologetic look and am relieved to see an expression on her face that contains no resentment. But it's an expression I've never seen before, and I don't know how to interpret it. A hollow look that might mean she is not having a single clear thought of any kind. Maybe this is the expression of someone who cannot herself identify this new feeling and is trying to cope with it, to label it, to understand its meaning for the first time.
"Faster," she said, and I knew it wasn't from anger, or because she could actually sense how fast I was driving, if at all. I could have stopped on the shoulder right then and I'm sure she still would have asked me to drive a little faster. Does it really matter if we make it in time? If it were me I'd want to make it. But I don't know why. Curiosity, perhaps? A desire to give one last look that just says despite it all I love you very, very much. Or perhaps the expectation of a last look from him, a look that says I hope you know that despite it all I always loved you. Is that it? A request for mutual forgiveness, a goodbye expressed in one last look?
As I turned right at the Kfar Sava exit I told her, "Soon I'll let you off and then I'll go on with the kids. OK?"
She didn't answer, and stared at the phone in her hand. She didn't say a word. Now she was crying, and her entire body shook uncontrollably.
"The kids," I scolded her shamelessly.
She took a deep breath, closed her eyes and said, "Drive slow."
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Call for Prayer as Cyclone Yasi Hits Flood-Ridden Parts of Australia
Salvation Army Australia has called on the country to unite in prayer as cyclone Yasi rips through the already flood-ridden state of Queensland.
"We want to pray for safety, for perseverance and togetherness in what will be an extremely difficult time for so many people," said Captain Meaghan Gallagher.
Cyclone Yasi crossed the coast of the northeastern state at midnight local time, or Wednesday 6 a.m. ET, causing carnage as heavy rain and winds up to 189mph tore roofs off houses and knocked down power poles and trees, cutting power across the state's north. The state's weather bureau reported rainfall of more than 13 inches in affected towns.
The unprecedented storm was listed by the Bureau of Meteorology as a Category 5, the highest on the Australian classification system as it hit the coast, but has weakened since, downgrading to Category 4 at 3 a.m. Thursday local time and Category 3 at 5 a.m. as it began to move further inland.
The Salvation Army was already working to assist victims of the January flood crisis that affected over 75 percent of the state, when evacuation warnings were first issued.
Forty-seven clients from the Christian charity's homeless facility in Cairns were evacuated to a nearby primary school due to the threat of surging water.
Just before the cyclone was predicted to hit, Hillsong Church tweeted,"Our hearts, thoughts and prayers are with the people of Queensland tonight…stay safe and strong."
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But March brings the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, an event that appeals to even casual sports observers for a healthy reason: We like to see the little guys win.
Truth be told, for every victory by David, there's 10 for Goliath. Bryce Drew led Valparaiso to the Sweet 16 in 1998, the same year that Prairie View lost to Kansas by 58. Most people remember the former, and that's a good thing.
But blinders don't come with the business cards at TIME.com, so it's only fair to remind ourselves that college sports are rife with greed and hypocrisy, and that gambling is a big attraction to the tourney. But that's not why most people will be glued to the tube, apart from an innocuous $5 office pool. They'll watch for the right reasons.
That a possible upset is the basic appeal of the Big Dance is indeed an interesting notion, because that attitude is not exactly prevalent in all sports.
Upsets are welcome at the Olympics, so long as Americans come out of top. Rulon Gardner winning wrestling gold in Sydney was inspirational. The Soviet Union beating the U.S. men's basketball team in Seoul failed to inspire anything but the creation of the Dream Team.
And forget about pro sports. Upsets aren't even considered:
MLB: I hope the Yankees win/lose because I love/hate them.
NFL: I hope the Super Bowl is close.
NBA: I hope John Stockton and Karl Malone don't put me to sleep.
NHL: I hope that guy has a good dentist.
It seems that a declaration of desire for upsets is required when submitting office pool bracket sheets. "I've got Michigan State and Duke in the final, but I just want to see some upsets."
It's a rather refreshing attitude for sports fans to take.
And it sure beats watching the XFL because they have "no wussy coin toss."
TRIVIA TIME (answers below)
1. Who was the last player to win the Wooden Award in the same year his team won the NCAA title?
2. Who is the NCAA Tournament's career leader in scoring average (minimum of six games)?
3. Which team scored the most points in a championship game?
4. Among active head coaches, which two men have guided teams to the most number of NCAA Tournaments?
5. Who was the last player to be named Most Outstanding Player for a Final Four in which his team did not win the championship?
Sick of losing the annual office pool to the art-loving secretary or the boss' 12-year-old son?
Well, I know I am.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, so before penciling in those brackets (and we do suggest pencil, in case the opportunity for cheating later arises), take a tip from tournaments past:
We'll Stay the Weekend The teams with the longest active winning streaks in first-round games are: Kansas (17), Kentucky (10), Iowa (9), Boston College and Oklahoma State (8 apiece).
Let's Play Two Since 1992, five teams have entered the tournament as a No. 1 seed and with two losses on the season. Four have won the national championship: Duke (1992), UCLA (1995), Kentucky (1996) and Connecticut (1999). Stanford is the only team in this year's field to fill both qualifications.
Four Could Score No. 4 seeds are 7-4 in the regional finals, which is certainly impressive when compared to No. 2 seeds' 13-17 record when playing for a berth in the Final Four.
Five's Alive, but Only for a Time No. 5 seeds have advanced to the Sweet 16 on 21 occasions, but they've won just three games in the regional semifinals.
Nine Is Fine Since the NCAA Tournament field was extended to 64 in 1985, No. 9 seeds have a 35-29 advantage over their eighth-seeded, first-round opponents. Last year, however, the eights posted a 4-0 record.
1. UCLA forward Ed O'Bannon was the last player to win the Wooden Award in the same year his team won the NCAA title (1995). Three others have pulled the double feat: Louisville's Darrell Griffth (1980), Kansas' Danny Manning (1988) and Duke's Christian Laettner (1992). Michael Jordan was named the Wooden Award winner in 1984, two years after his North Carolina team won the national championship. UNLV's Larry Johnson won the Wooden Award in 1991, the year after the Runnin' Rebels were shocked by Duke in their bid to repeat as champions.
2. Austin Carr of Notre Dame scored 289 points in seven games from 1969-71 for a whopping 41.3 scoring average. He's trailed in the top five by four NBA Hall of Famers: Bill Bradley, Princeton (33.7); Oscar Robertson, Cincinnati (32.4); Jerry West, West Virginia (30.6); and Bob Pettit, LSU (30.5).
3. The UNLV Running Rebels scored 103 points in their 30-point blowout victory over Duke in the 1990 championship game. They remain the only team to have broken the century mark in a final.
4. Arizona's Lute Olson and Oklahoma State's Eddie Sutton each will be making their 22nd appearances as a head coach in the NCAA Tournament, tops among active coaches. Syracuse's Jim Boeheim trails closely at 21.
5. Houston center Akeem (as Hakeem was known then) Olajuwon was named the Most Outstanding Player of the 1983 Final Four after averaging 20.5 points and 20.0 rebounds for the two games. But it was North Carolina State and coach Jim Valvano who danced on the floor after winning the national title.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Don Edgren, an engineer who led a team building the first Space Mountain and had a role in building various Disney parks, has died. He was 83.
Edgren died of a hemorrhagic stroke Dec. 28 in Eugene, Ore., his daughter, Kathlee Partee, told the Los Angeles Times. The Murrieta resident had been visiting relatives.
Mr. Edgren's 33 years of Disney problem-solving began in 1954, when the engineering firm he worked for was hired to help prepare Disneyland for its opening the next year. Mr. Edgren was then hired by Disney in 1961, said Marty Sklar, an executive vice president of Walt Disney Imagineering.
Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean was already being built as a walk-through attraction when Walt Disney decided to transform it into a boat ride, to open in 1967. Mr. Edgren and his engineering crew had to figure out a way to take the expanded ride deeper underground.
"Don knew it was an engineering challenge, but he had that can-do spirit. Nothing was impossible," Sklar said.
In 1963, Mr. Edgren went to New York as a project engineer on Ford Motor's exhibit at the 1964 world's fair, one of four shows Disney created for the event. The huge rotunda featured audio-animatronic dinosaurs and moved people through the building in vehicles on a fixed track, a setup that became a fixture of many future Disney rides.
After leading the engineering team that completed Disneyland's New Orleans Square in 1966, Mr. Edgren went to Florida as chief of field engineering for Walt Disney World. He led the team that built the first Space Mountain, which opened in 1975. He later became director of engineering for Tokyo Disneyland.
"Walt Disney was a great man. To think I worked for Disney studios – my God, it was great. It wasn't just a plain old job," Mr. Edgren told the Riverside Press-Enterprise in October.
A Los Angeles native, Edgren was born Sept. 11, 1923, to a mason and his wife.
After graduating in 1942, he joined the Army Air Forces and flew combat missions during World War II, his family said.
Back home in 1945, he married his high school sweetheart. He attended USC and earned a civil engineering degree.


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Grounding the Multitude
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The thesis investigates alternative visions of democracy through a design project that allows different public groups and individuals to more actively participate in the political realm. The site for the proposed project is the UN Headquarters in New York City, chosen for its juxtaposition of old and new world orders. The project manifests its vision through an architectural representation intended as a platform of multiplicities. Using tools from the backdrop of everyday life: security needs and communication, it attempts to break the static nature of the UN by making it more interactive--like the borderless, virtual world of the Internet we increasingly inhabit today-- and through its new architectural framework to create a self-perpetuating system for social justice.
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It is, for now, still rare that a woman owns a big-time soccer club but Lu Snyder has always been a trail blazer, paving a path for Women In Soccer.
The San Diego SeaLions, whose first season began in 1988, is one of the oldest women's soccer clubs in the world and have been a member of the WPSL since the WPSL's 1998 inaugural season. They are known and respected nationwide for putting on a highly-professional match-day experience for soccer fans. The three-time WPSL champion SeaLion, are excited to get back on the pitch this spring as they look to make another run at a championship.
GoalNation spoke with Owner and Assistant Coach Lu Snyder on the success of the San Diego SeaLions and her experience in the beautiful game.
Soccer News: Striving for excellence and success on and off the pitch — the San Diego SeaLions will be seeking to add a fourth WPSL National Championship to their trophy case when the 2017 Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) season kicks off this May.
Six months ago the SeaLions were preparing for their 2016 championship match versus the Boston Breakers Reserves, and although they fell just short of a fourth title then, San Diego's top-level women's soccer team is preparing to return to the pitch for their 30th season.
Founded in 1997 with a handful of teams by WPSL Commissioner Jerry Zanelli, the league now fields over 110 teams with the league's success attributed to his hard work and the efforts of those dedicated people on his team.
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Okay, California Pacific Airlines ready again
FAA-certified, but start dates out of Carlsbad airport uncertain (psst, April)
Ken Harrison 8:30 a.m., Nov. 18
Platinum Equity, the Beverly Hills private equity firm that bought the Union-Tribune for a song, has been trying a similar caper with bankrupt Delphi, the auto parts maker that once belonged to General Motors. GM, the government's auto task force and Platinum quietly put together a deal in which Platinum would get a large stake in Delphi by only plunking down an initial $250 million in cash and $250 million in a loan. GM, being subsidized heavily by the government, would make a $2 billion cash injection, make a $500 million loan, and also take on $1.6 billion of Delphi's pensions. But in bankruptcy court, Delphi's lenders screamed that there was to be no auction -- just this secret deal. The judge didn't like it either, saying, "They're (Platinum) just guys in suits. Why can't other guys in suits pay more?" According to the latest information, Delphi will have to conduct an auction. Possibly Platinum won't get that fat, subsidized deal.
Delphi lost value years ago when replacement auto parts became 'commoditized'. Its overpriced parts are primarily sold in GM dealerships. Its the '$100 for a taillight lens?!' thing.
Nowadays, cars are so good one doesn't need to pay top dollar for most replacement parts. What you need is a good mechanic.
I like the Ford Escape. Look under the hood, and lo and behold, theres an engine compartment a novice can work on.
Thats what I like about retro rides. Pop the hood and see what an internal combustion engine looks like.
On to US Auto: So Sergio Mechanico finally got his down payment money together. Show us the Fiat 500 Cs, Sergio, but not in 18 months. Pronto. Chrysler needs some small cars to bring people into the showroom.
GM is in the same shape as Ford. Our 2010 line ups are going move a whole lot of units. Its a question of credit availability. New cars are just too expensive these days to pay cash for. In coordination with overall economic recovery, we have to be patient and absorb some of the shaky paper thats in the financial system.
Asian auto is looking pretty good. Lexus and Infiniti are bound to get squeezed due to price point pressurization from higher and lower priced models, but hopefully the airbags won't go off.
I like the Nissans new look. Where did you say their design studio is located?
KIA has a great entry level ride, Mazdas quality control and finish is superb, and the Subarus are there if you don't want to drive a cookie cutter car.
Euro Auto: Are we going to get the new Alfa Romeo, or just go to the opera and pine away over it? This is the question. VW continues to excel, the Porsches are just too sweet, and Austin Minis haul ass, but they could be better on gas mileage. On the upper end of the price scale, Euro auto continues to deliver very fine cars- with personality.
Response to post #1: It appears from your essay that automakers in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. are all making good cars. But consumers aren't in a buying mood. They are deleveraging, and credit isn't all that available anyway. So those smooth-running cars may sit on lots for quite a while. Best, Don Bauder
I like the Nissans new look. Where did you say their design studio is located?
LOL....at Nissan's "San Diego Design Center".
Response to post #3: The bluebird of happiness is right in your own back yard, it appears. Best, Don Bauder


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Robbie Williams becomes a father
Congratulations have flooded in for pop singer Robbie Williams after his wife, Ayda Field, gave birth to their daughter on Tuesday.
The 38-year-old Take That star wrote on his blog: "Praise be, it's Theodora Rose Williams, affectionately known as Teddy... Born 3.33pm on 18.9.12, 7lb 4oz.
"Baby, Mummy and Daddy are all rockin... Thank you for your best wishes XXXX."
Bandmate Gary Barlow tweeted: "Massive congrats Rob and Ayda. So happy for you", and former Boyzone singer Ronan Keating also sent his congratulations.
Williams is the fourth member of Take That to become a father after Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald.
The couple also received congratulations from DJ Chris Moyles and children's food guru Annabel Karmel, who tweeted: "Congratulations @robbiewilliams and Ayda. Welcome to the world baby Theodora Rose."
Williams and his US actress wife recently announced they had chosen a traditional name for their daughter, adding that there was going to be "no mad celebrity baby name".
He said: "I do have a sort of celebrity name but it's not Apple-esque. It's a very solid, old-school name."
Williams has said he would prefer his child to grow up in the UK instead of Los Angeles, where the couple currently live. He described children educated in LA schools as having "a massive sense of entitlement" and that they are "dull and dumb".
Williams and Field, a Turkish-American, have been in a relationship for five years. Theodora is the first child for the couple, who married two years ago.


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BioSafe Systems unveiled its new branding at this years fall trade shows.
The new look is designed to stand out on store shelves while maintaining a cohesive, sustainable image.
With the introduction of the new image and names, BioSafe is looking to increase brand recognition while continuing to provide customers with the same eco-friendly products they are looking for.
Changes to the product names are listed below:
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Gubernatorial rivals Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman have agreed to participate in Maria Shriver's annual women's conference, where they will join the sitting governor to discuss California's future.
The Oct. 26 event was announced Wednesday in a statement by California's first lady and will come one week before the general election. It will be moderated by Matt Lauer, host of the "Today" show on NBC.
Brown and Whitman have criticized Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the state Legislature for their handling of the state's fiscal crisis budget. California this year broke its record for the longest the Legislature has gone without approving a state budget.


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BOSTON (CBS) – Almost exactly a week after Tropical Storm Irene knocked out power for more than 500,000 Massachusetts residents, service has been restored to almost everyone.
As of Saturday evening, a few hundred people were without power, but both NSTAR and National Grid said that all of those customers would have their electricity back by the end of the day.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Kim Tunnicliffe reports on proposals to punish utility companies
Many businesses are still working to get back on track from the storm.
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Arlington County police are looking for a police impersonator who committed a robbery.
The suspect, posing as a police officer, took $160 from a man's wallet after asking to see his identification and vehicle registration just before noon Friday in the 3700 block of North Lee Highway in Arlington, Va.
He was allegedly driving a black convertible Ford Mustang at the time of the robbery.
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To keep an aquarium healthy and clean, this article explains to you how to use the water changer.
1Get an Aqueon water changer/siphon.
2Install the siphon by unscrewing the compression nut and slide onto one end of the flexible hose, firmly slide the flexible hose as far as possible over the barbs on the faucet valve, slide the compression nut back up and screw it on.
3In a similar fashion, unscrew the compression nut in the intake tube and slide it on to the remaining tube in the flexible hose, firmly slide the flexible hose as far as possible and tighten.
4Typically, you will need to remove an aerator nozzle from the faucet before attaching the water changer.
5Use the adapter provided and attach it to the faucet.
6With the adapter in place, tighten the faucet valve to the sink.
7Turn off the heater and filter and remove any obstructions.
8Place the intake tube into the aquarium.
9Make sure the two blue valve levelers are open and in the up and down position.
10Turn on the water.
- Water should begin flowing from your aquarium, to clean the gravel insert the intake tube into the gravel and then pull out.
11When you have completed pulling water from your aquarium, pull the intake tube out of the aquarium keeping the blue valve level in the open position, place the intake tube into the sink and place the blue valve level in the faucet valve to the closed position.
12The water should now run out of the intake tube, let the water continue to run to remove all dirty aquarium water, use this time to adjust the temperature flowing out of the intake tube.
13When the aquarium water has been removed from the hose and the temperature adjusted, turn the blue leveler in the faucet valve back to the open position and take the intake tube back to the aquarium.
14Turn the blue faucet level to the closed position and water should begin flowing down.
15While waiting for the water to flow, add the correct amount of Aqueon water conditioner.
16When the aquarium is full, turn of the faucet.
17Remove the intake tube from the aquarium and into the sink, roll the hose and disconnect the faucet valve for future use.
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Chile vs Northern Ireland Live Stream Free: Watch Pre-World Cup 2014 Friendly Football Online (Start Time)
Chile will play Northern Ireland in a pre-World Cup 2014 warm up friendly on Wednesday night as Chile look to finalize preparations for their trip to Brazil next week. Today's game will kick off at 8 p.m. ET and can be watched online through free live stream (details below).
Chile have been drawn in Group B for the World Cup alongside World Cup holders Spain, the Netherlands, and Australia.
That means Chile will really have their work cut out to get out of the group stages as Spain and Holland will be favorites to progress. But Australia too will provide a challenge and have a number of skilled players that will be looking to make an impact at this year's tournament.
Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill could be without Burnley's Chris Baird for today's match: "We have not ruled Bairdy out, we will leave that until the last minute, but he is a serious doubt. He had it before the Uruguay game but played extremely well."
O'Neill added: "To be fair to Chris, many players probably would have asked to go home and he has not done that. He wanted to stay and give himself the best chance to play."
He continued, "For a senior player in particular, that is encouraging. It is the type of example we want. Bairdy knows we need him to play, so he is going to do everything possible."
Chile against Northern Ireland in a pre-World Cup international friendly will take place on Wednesday night with a start time of 8 p.m. ET. The game can be watched online through free live stream by clicking here.


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The new Mercedes W04 is unveiled by Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg at Jerez
Lewis helps take the wraps off his first non-McLaren car
By Pete Gill and William Esler
Last Updated: 05/02/13 9:51am
Looking relaxed and refreshed, a smiling Hamilton and Rosberg stood side-by-side as the wraps came off the new car which carries their hopes of lifting the team into the ranks of the sport's elite.
"I am so excited I couldn't sleep last night," exclaimed Hamilton. "It looks a beautiful car, I'm really excited about getting into it and finding out what it feels like.
"It's the start of a new chapter for me, a new adventure, and when I walked through the doors in Brackley, I was so excited to get down to work. I've been at the factory for a few days now, getting to know the guys, meeting my mechanics and engineers, learning myself into the team and I have never seen a group of people that is hungrier for success than this one."
However, despite the days in the factory, Hamilton admits he has had little opportunity to influence the car's design.
"I've had barely a finger on it yet, it won't be until I drive it that I can actually say how it feels," he told Sky Sports News.
"The simulator is one thing, but the correlation is always different and it won't be until after the next couple of days that we can start to get a feel for it and I can see what direction I want to push the guys in.
"I'm heading into this with an open book, a blank sheet and I really don't know what to expect. I just hope it has lots of downforce."
Hamilton and Rosberg were joined at the launch by recently-appointed Executive Director Toto Wolff and, perhaps more pertinently, Ross Brawn, the Mercedes team boss whose future has been subject to fevered speculation in recent weeks.
According to Brawn, the W04 is "a clear step forward in design and detail sophistication over its predecessor."
It features a new five-element front wing design and a second-generation Coanda exhaust at the rear while retaining a pushrod front suspension and a pullrod rear suspension.
Unlike the Lotus E21, the first of the 2013 cars to be revealed, the new Mercedes also wears a small modesty panel after the team disovered a 'small gain' from its use during aerodynamic testing.
"2013 marks the start of a second era for our Silver Arrows works team," said the Team Principal.
"The restructuring we undertook at the team over the past 18 months are now growing in maturity and this is reflected in the F1 W04, which is a clear step forward in design and detail sophistication over its predecessor. Many thousands of hours of work have been invested by our technical teams in Brackley and Brixworth to ensure that the new car delivers a step change in performance compared to last season.
"We are also hugely proud to welcome Lewis to the team as a works Mercedes-Benz driver. With Lewis and Nico, we have what I believe to be the strongest driver line-up in Formula One and I know that a healthy level of competition between them both will help drive the team forward."
The launch of the car has proved to be something of a piecemeal event, with the team's website providing the first glimpse of the W04 on Saturday night and this Monday's official launch preceded by the car's shakedown in front of the early arrivals at Jerez.
It's official debut will take place on Tuesday morning when the first test of the winter commences at the Spanish circuit.
The 2013 car launches
Lotus - January 28th, Enstone.
McLaren - January 31st, Woking.
Force India - February 1st, Silverstone.
Ferrari - February 1st, Maranello.
Sauber - February 2nd, Hinwil.
Red Bull - February 3rd, Milton Keynes.
Mercedes - February 4th, Jerez.
Toro Rosso - February 4th, Jerez.
Caterham - February 5th, Jerez.
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As a participant in several of SSP's programs, including the Intel Science Talent Search and the ISEF, I can personally attest to the degree SSP programs have influenced the lives of its participants, including myself. The STS and ISEF provided me with opportunities to meet and spend time with many other students who were also passionate about science - many of these acquaintances have evolved into close friends I know I will keep in contact with for a lifetime. I learned so much through participating in these programs, and also deepened my own interest in scientific research while interacting with other students, government officials, and even Nobel Prize winners. These science programs are also inspiring to the public; I heard numerous parents and visitors to the ISEF and STS project exhibition halls express that the intellectually enthusiastic atmosphere was infectious. Not only does SSP have a wonderful goal of spreading interest and excitement in scientific research to students from all backgrounds, but the success of its programs show that this goal is actually being realized. All the SSP programs I have attended have been a perfect mix of professionalism, energy, and excitement. They are impeccably run, and it's clear that the SSP staff really cares about the students' experiences. I will always be grateful to the SSP for the amazing opportunities it gave me during my high school years.
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The Cararra Studio. Chapter 1: 3D Modeling Concepts and Techniques
Polygonal Modeling
Polygon models are the most basic and common types of geometric models used in 3D.
Vertices, Polygons, and Normals
A vertex, or point, is the fundamental building block of all 3D objects. Vertices are defined by their x, y, and z coordinates, but by themselves, vertices have no volume or area and cannot be rendered (in other words, they are invisible). However, when three or more vertices are linked by lines, a polygon is formed, as seen in Figure 1.5. A polygon is a type of curve that can either be open or closed (Figure 1.6a), and it can be empty or filled (Figure 1.6b).
|FIGURE 1.5 The parts of a polygon.
|FIGURE 1.6 An empty polygon (a) and a filled
polygon (b).
Polygons can have any number of vertices to define their shape, but in 3D models, it is best if they have three vertices to form a triangle or four vertices to form a quadrangle (quad for short). Polygons with more than four vertices will not subdivide or smooth as well as triangles or quads. Moreover, a polygonal model composed of quads is generally smaller in file size than a polygonal model composed of triangles—assuming that both models have the same number of vertices. Unlike a single vertex, which is always invisible, when a polygon is filled it becomes a visible 3D component that can be rendered. A filled polygon has surface characteristics that will interact with light; it can have color, reflect light, and cast shadows (see Figure 1.7).
|FIGURE 1.7. Filled polygons can
interact with digital light.
|FIGURE 1.8 A series of connected
polygons build a polymesh.
Although a filled polygon can be rendered, by itself a polygon has no volume, no thickness, and is rigid. However, when several polygons are connected, by sharing their edges and vertices, they form a polymesh—a three-dimensional shape (see Figure 1.8). In Carrara Studio, polygonal models can be directly manipulated by using the Vertex modeler.
All polygons are said to have a backside and a front side. The direction in which a polygon is facing is referred to as the face normal. As polygons are created, they will automatically be front-facing polygons. Polygons that have front-facing normals will render correctly. It is important to be aware of face normals because every now and then, you will find that a dark polygon mysteriously appears in a render or in a preview of a polygonal model. The culprit is almost always a polygon that has had its normal reversed. Reversed normal polygons are also common in imported 3D models, especially with DXF files. It is important to correct reversed normals because they will not accept textures correctly or render correctly (see Figure 1.9).
FIGURE 1.9 A polymesh with a single reversed normal.
FIGURE 1.10 (a) Vertex normals give a faceted polymesh a smooth surface.
(b) Note that the silhouette is not smoothed
By now, we know that a polymesh is composed of flat polygons that share vertices
and edges. Therefore, when light reflects off a polymesh, it will appear faceted
(like a gem cut) (see Figure 1.10a). In other words, each polygon in the model
will appear flat. To overcome this inherent property of a polymesh, vertex normalsare
used to give the model a smooth appearance. Simply put,
vertex normals average the angles of the polygons that surround a particular
vertex and calculate a smooth surface, as seen in Figure 1.10b. When switching
from flat shading to Gouraud shading in Carrara Studio, you are turning vertex
normals off and on.
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Apartment eviction is never a pleasant experience. A tenant who rents a property should always seek a harmonious relationship with his landlord. It is also the same for the part of the property owner. Peaceful accordance can prevent problems between the tenant and the landlord. Now if it happens that your landlord makes an attempt to evict you from the property, there are certain things you can do to protect your rights, more especially if the eviction is retaliatory in nature. To know more about this particular type of eviction process, here are some useful information about it.
Retaliatory eviction refers to the illegal process by which a landlord evicts a tenant from the rented property through unlawful measures such as increase of rent, refusal to renew monthly tenancy contract, restriction of access of a certain part of the rented property, and removal of basic utilities and services such as water, heat, electricity, or gas. Common reasons that drive landlords to evict their tenants through this measure are complaints made to government agencies regarding a violation of the housing code or terms of lease or the tenant's participation in a tenant's union.
In some states, an automatic presumption time frame is imposed. If a landlord commits one of the unlawful actions mentioned above within the automatic presumption time frame that usually ranges from sixty days to one year from the time of the tenant's legal activity depending on the state of location, landlord's action is considered retaliatory eviction. To put it more simply, if a tenant files a complaint against the landlord for violating housing code and the landlord cuts of electricity or water within 60 days or whatever the automatic presumption time frame is, the landlord may be sued for retaliatory eviction.
If you are facing retaliatory eviction from your landlord, you have three options. First, you can move out and sue for damages. This way, you no longer have to suffer the harm inflicted on you by the landlord and you can recover compensation for the damages you incurred due to his actions. Your second option would be to stay in the rented property and still sue for damages. Finally, you can withhold your rent and sue for damages.
If you have been a victim of retaliatory eviction, it is advisable that you contact a landlord and tenant attorney right away. Your lawyer will guide you through the step-by-step procedure on suing for damages and at the same time, help defend your rights.


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Zinz Construction and Restoration, Inc. was founded by Bruce L. Zinz and his wife, Marcella, on the basic principles that define them: hard work, integrity, compassion, and fairness. While Bruce had several opportunities to merge his talents with other established businesses, Bruce and Marcella believed it was essential to create their own name in the industry in order to highlight their values and beliefs on how customers, insurance clients, and employees should be treated.
Our first day of business included the development of our Mission Statement. Today, our Staff includes more than 20 full time professionals that continually strive to carry out the principles and values of our Mission Statement. Each one of us is dedicated to making Zinz the best in the construction and restoration industry.
Our Home Office is located at 1725 Salem Parkway West, inside Phase II of the Salem Industrial Park. Our 7,500 square foot facility is home to the offices of our administration, project managers, estimators, human resources, and marketing professionals. Our Home Office also includes a state-of-the-art climate-controlled cleaning and storage area that is second to none. Our content restoration area can store the contents of up to 10 households in a safe and secure environment.
At Zinz, we offer a variety of construction and restoration services. Our construction services include residential and commercial remodeling, additions, and new construction. We pride ourselves in being able to handle any project regardless of size. At Zinz, no project is too big or too small.
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Zinz Construction and Restoration, Inc. is a member of the Better Business Bureau and the Youngstown Warren Regional Chamber and Safety Council. Members of our staff are certified through the Institute of Inspection Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC), as well as the Association of Specialists in Cleaning and Restoration (ASCR). Please click here to view our Privacy Notice.
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Use the Edit Placement command to adjust the global position and orientation of the manikin within the scene. With three clicks, you can:
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- Identify the manikin's position in the scene by selecting a location on a planar or non-planar surface.
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MONTESANO, Wash. – The preliminary hearing for Steven Daniel Kravetz, the man suspected of attacking a judge and a sheriff's deputy in the Grays Harbor County Courthouse on Friday, also served as a follow up hearing to a 2009 Failure to Appear charge, stemming further from a domestic violence charge that remains pending a hearing.
Kravetz accepted a court appointed lawyer while he "looked for his own" to face 2 counts of 1st Degree Assault charges, the assault suspect sat surrounded by Grays Harbor County Sheriff's Deputy's this afternoon.
Bail for Kravetz was set at $750,000 for the charges, as well as another $2,000 each for two previous court cases from Grays Harbor County. Lewis County Judge R.W. Buzzard also ordered that Kravetz have no contact with Deputy Polly Davin, Judge David Edwards, and his own mother Roberta Dougherty.
Investigators believe that Kravetz walked to his former laywers office in downtown Montesano Friday afternoon and called his mother for a ride home, about 1 hour after assaulting Deputy Polly Davin, and Judge David Edwards in the historical county courthouse.


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You remember him: unnaturally thick hair, tucked-in sport shirt, half-sitting on the front of the desk with a fleshy thigh splayed to the left, the crew-socked calf dangling below. He could be any teacher--that is, until he flubs virtually all historical events and the fact that his pants are not pants, but really unnatural fibers formed into trademark blue or gray Sansabelt shorts. He is Coach History.
Was it a deficient paycheck, a shortage of certified teachers or just a Texas school thing that brought the coach from the field house into the classroom? It certainly wasn't a love of history. He was honest about that. And, to be fair, there were some double-duty coaches who knew what they were talking about, but Dallas comedian Andy Long must not have found too many during his 12-year study of classrooms in Dallas, Corsicana, Garland, Plano, Richardson and other districts.
Inspired by his visits to the classroom, Long created his one-man play Without Class--a day at the fictitious Southwest North Dallas High East. Students of the audience can flash back to earlier days in DISD, GISD, RISD (you get the idea) schools as they meet Coach Knippe (in his Texas History class, of course), pantomime fanatic and theater arts/health education instructor Mr. Oaklawn, amateur magician and physics teacher Sandy McCracken and others. We can even flash back to our own health class as the football team captain presents an oral report in the form of a rap song. (Hey, Long, were you in our health class or something?)
Andy Long performs Without Class at 8 p.m. June 1 at the Pocket Sandwich Theater, 5400 E. Mockingbird Lane. Tickets are $10. Call 214-821-1860.
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Those public school memories may be painful at first and daunting to face head-on, but something tells us that this time no one will get mocked for his Cure T-shirt. And we hope that no one will have striped eyebrows (what was that anyway?). And at least we all might get out of class having learned a lesson: Try private school.


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Obviously the Mayan doomsday thing was nothing to worry about.
And, no, the world is not going to end when the Earth is sucked into some black hole or hit by a screaming meteor. Stop worrying about such nonsense.
The truth is we're going to bring the end of the world upon ourselves through one simple act: Upgrading.
Talk about doomsday. All I wanted to do was upgrade the Wi-Fi signal in our modest home. OK, "wanted" might be a little strong. I'm a proud late adopter. I hate to upgrade. I don't want to make my technology better because I know that always makes it worse.
But our 8-year-old router constantly crashed. It was slow in delivering the goods when we'd try to load Web pages, especially in the evening when apparently the entire neighborhood was downloading "The Godfather" trilogy.
Anyway, how hard could it be to replace a router?
I decided to swap our overpriced AirPort Extreme with a new overpriced AirPort Extreme. Hey, the thing lasted eight years and I wanted something that would work seamlessly with the smaller AirPort Express we use to broadcast our iTunes over our old living room stereo speakers. Besides, Alan at the Apple (AAPL) store explained that what you're paying for is the customer service, the support, the knowledge that if anything goes wrong, Apple will make it right.
But what could possibly go wrong? Other than our DSL modem croaking as soon as I hooked up the new router.
I called AT&T, our Internet provider. The technician came up with a solution, but not before asking me to unplug and plug in every conceivable cord and cable. (I became a little suspicious when she had me unplug the toaster and then plug it back in.) Oh, the solution? Sixty-nine dollars for a new modem sent by UPS.
Thus began the dark days — 80 straight hours without a home Internet connection. And no, none of us were armed with a smartphone. (Late adopter, remember?) I've heard about people who swear by "unplugging," going on a digital diet, shutting off life's machines and living life's precious moments.
Listen, it's one thing to voluntarily push yourself away from the digital feast sated. It's another to be desperately seeking the smallest crumb of Internet connectivity.
At hour 36, after I'd crept over to the neighbor's house to feed off their robust Wi-Fi signal, I saw a Facebook post from my cousin: "Yesterday was my second Sunday without technology. My choice to begin this practice. I highly recommend taking a day off from handheld devices and laptops, to do what we would have done before technology arrived!"
Uh, what?
The thing is, technology has arrived and it's here for a reason: I need it.
For days, I walked around in an Internetless daze. I didn't know if my alma mater was playing basketball or whether various very important people were trying to reach me by email. I couldn't look up the ZIP code for Scituate, Mass. I couldn't track the progress of the online Christmas gift assault we'd launched through Amazon and Shutterfly.
On day three of the darkness, our 15-year-old daughter, Riley, realized she was going to have to text her friend just to find out what the weather forecast was.
"We live in a cave," she said. "We have no knowledge."
And it was true. Google (GOOG), you see, isn't making us dumber. Google is making us smarter. Without it, we didn't know anything, including what to do with ourselves.
Of course, I made the speech when the Internet went dark. "Kids, this will be great. We'll huddle together and play board games. We can read by the fire. Maybe Mom will knit us sweaters or churn some butter."
But I didn't believe any of it, and neither did my wife or two daughters. In fact, they began to turn on me. As if it were my fault that we didn't have an Internet connection. Well, I mean, it was my fault, but shouldn't I get credit for trying to make our lives better?
The new modem did finally arrive. I hooked it up and — after two more calls to AT&T and an hour or so of tinkering with settings — the Internet was back. Mostly.
No, the AirPort Express would no longer play our iTunes over the old speakers and our wireless printer didn't work. But YouTube, Facebook, "Words with Friends" — they were all back.
And that AirPort Express problem? Nothing a quick trip to the Apple Genius Bar and $83 couldn't fix. (Why is it the genius advice from the Genius Bar always seems to be: "Buy a new one.")
So now, after several days, innumerable phone calls, a trip to the Genius Bar and about $350, things are almost as good as they were when I started. No, the printer still doesn't work and I'm too exhausted to wrestle with it.
But you know what? It's not exactly the end of the world.
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A Twitter account that appeared to be run by the Virginia State Police looked real but the agency says it was a fake.
Spokeswoman Corinne Geller tells The Roanoke Times that the social networking website suspended the Twitter account called @VaStatePolice after the agency requested its removal.
Geller says a reporter's question drew the agency's attention to the bogus account. She says it looked legitimate but it wasn't. Most of its postings linked to real state police news releases.
Geller says she doesn't know who ran the account, which had nearly 130 followers.
The Virginia State Police has a Facebook page but it doesn't have a Twitter account.
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Take two Korean twins into the Australian bush and you could have trouble telling them apart. That's what happened when we took loaded up a Kia Sorento and a Hyundai Santa Fe to the gunwales with people and camping gear and headed into the bush to Queensland's majestic Carnarvon Gorge.
Our test vehicles were both top-spec diesel models, just the type of vehicle a grey nomad are considering for their lap of the continent.
After more than 2000km of highway, country road and limited dirt and offroad driving, we had a hard time telling them apart. They look, feel and even sound similar. Making a buying choice could be even more difficult. Far from being out of their depth in the Aussie bush, these Korean softroaders excel with a quiet, comfortable ride and performance levels that will challenge the average Aussie's view of what it takes to get around west of the Great Divide.
The Koreans are forging ahead with Hyundai not far behind Ford, even outselling them in February. Hyundai's sister company, Kia, is a long way back, but surging past Mercedes-Benz and BMW and not far behind Suzuki. Their keys to success are not cheap and cheerful vehicles, but reliable, quality products.
What are the differences?
The Santa Fe and Sorento are basically built off the same platform with the same underpinnings, shared engineering and engines. On several occasions during the test, I forgot which vehicle I was driving, so similar are the controls and appearance, especially inside.
Outside, there is more difference. Voting on the most stylish was divided among friends and family with some preferring the bulkier and more noble look of the Hyundai and others admiring the sleeker Kia with its extra touches of chrome bling.
The differences are basically an optical illusion as the silhouettes are almost identical. Kia has made their SUV appear sleeker and slimmer by having higher black plastic mouldings which reduce the amount of painted panels. By comparison the Hyundai looks a little saggy in the rear end. Interiors are also fairly similar and you could easily step from one to the other and operate all the controls and audio functions without having to look.
Both have a load of creature features fitted: six airbags, rear parking sensors, cruise control, climate air and leather steering wheel. One of the best features of the two vehicles is the reversing camera screen in the rearview mirror, which is the first place you look when reversing.
And how about those electric front seats. They move forward, back, up and down, tilt and have adjustable lumbar support - more positions than the Kama Sutra.
The interior differences are few and far between, but could be crucial in making a buying decision. For example if you have rowdy kids, you might want to go for the Hyundai which has a clever convex mirror under the standard rearview mirror which allows parents to check on who started the latest fight.
If you have a lot of MP3 players, mobile phones, portable fridges etc, you also might like to buy the Hyundai as it has four 12V outlets compared with two in the Kia.
The Hyundai also has an airconditioning vent in the centre console which acts as a chill box. The console has a two-stage lid which helps keep some items separate. However, the Kia has a bigger bin with a small removable inner small bin inside.
Both have good build quality inside and while the plastics are a bit hard in places, the Hyundai has slightly better feel on the steering wheel. Its leather seats are also just a shade softer, but neither is particularly plush against your backside.
The Kia brings a little bling inside with nice touches of chrome and the word "Sorento" in the door kicker which lights up. It's a slightly more upmarket feel in the cabin. Instruments are near identical except that the Hyundai lights up in blue and the Kia in red. Both have three rows of seats and separate airconditioning controls for the passengers and even the supplied iPod cable will work in either vehicle. So a buying decision could come down to your favourite colour.
In driving dynamics there is even less of a divide. They both steer slightly lightly around the centre and have an initial tip in the body on turn-in, but don't wallow or lean too much more under heavy cornering.
Brake pedals have a plush feel, but deliver similar strong stopping performance even when packed and on loose surfaces. Tyre noise and grip is similar despite the Hyundai running Khumo 235/60R18 tyres and Kia on Nexen 235/60R18 rubber. The diesel engines are the same and have identical power and torque figures, pulling surprisingly well up some steep Central Highlands inclines.
Both have a slight turbo lag off idle, but then the power then comes on hot and strong, sometimes giving a bit of a tug on the steering wheel and sending the outside wheel for a short spin until the stability control cuts in if you are on loose or slippery surface. I had previously found the Hyundai engine noise a little intrusive, but once settled into the rhythm of the highway, it was not a problem and no louder than the Kia.
While both have capable off-road drive components with electronic locking diffs, slightly more serious off-roaders who like to tackle steep descents may consider the Kia which has a hill descent selector.
Over a week of bush driving, both diesel vehicles returned identical fuel econmomy figures of eight litres per 100km. That was the same figure I obtained from the Santa Fe over a week of purely urban duties. The extra load and off-road duties obviously offsetting the highway cruise.
So if you are making a choice between these two capable Korean SUVs it might come down to the flip of a coin or your favourite colour. Either way, you shouldn't be disappointed.
Hyundai Santa Fe vs Kia Sorento
PRICES: $48,490 (Santa Fe Highlander), $48,990 (Sorento Platinum)
ENGINES: 2.2-litre turbo diesel
POWER: 145kW
TORQUE: 436Nm
TRANSMISSION: 6-speed auto
FUEL TANK: 70 litres
TOWING: 2000kg (braked)
KERB WEIGHT: 1988kg (Hyundai), 1959kg (Kia)
SAFETY: stability control, six airbags and 5-star crash rating


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Former Beatle Paul McCartney and fiancee Nancy Shevell have arrived at a town hall in central London for their wedding.
The couple stopped and waved for photographers and fans at Old Marylebone Town Hall before entering for the ceremony Sunday. Shevell was wearing a white dress designed by McCartney's daughter Stella.
They are expected to celebrate with friends and family later at a reception at McCartney's house in nearby St. John's Wood.
Shevell, 51, will be McCartney's third wife. They were engaged earlier this year.
McCartney, 69, is one of the most successful singer-songwriters of all time. He married his first wife Linda Eastman at the same town hall in 1969. She later died of breast cancer.
His second marriage to model Heather Mills ended in divorce in 2008.


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Delight in the Sounds of the Season with Pandora Holiday Genre Stations
Nov 28, 2012, 08:30 ET from Pandora
OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pandora (NYSE: P), the leading internet radio service, today announced the annual release of its twenty-two highly anticipated holiday genre stations, including two new stations debuting for the 2012 holiday season: Navidad Mexicana and Navidad Tropical. These festive stations, each specially created by a Pandora Music Curator, offer listeners a broad range of seasonal sounds to accompany and personalize any holiday tradition or celebration.
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Holiday listening is already off to a strong start on Pandora, with more than 2.5 million listeners tuning into the holiday genre stations over Thanksgiving weekend. During the 2011 season, more than 27 million holiday stations were created on Pandora in total and the three most popular holiday songs that played were: "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas," "Winter Wonderland" and "Carol of the Bells." Now, listeners can once again get in the seasonal spirit with a variety of personalized holiday stations on Pandora. Here is a sampling of our 2012 holiday genre offerings:
Christmas Radio (http://www.pandora.com/?sc=miG300), Pandora's most popular holiday genre station, makes for the ideal background music for all of your favorite holiday activities. Offering an extensive mix of Christmas favorites and timeless holiday classics from Nat 'King' Cole to Mariah Carey, this station is the perfect soundtrack for shopping or entertaining.
Classical Christmas Radio (http://www.pandora.com/?sc=miG302), which features orchestras, soloists and choirs from Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops Orchestra, Antonio Vivaldi and The Cambridge Singers, will provide relaxing seasonal sounds while you decorate the tree and wrap gifts this year.
R&B and Pop Holidays Radio (http://www.pandora.com/?sc=miG307) is the perfect music to celebrate the season with friends. Mingle the night away to the latest Christmas releases from today's hottest artists as well as a festive mix of R&B and pop classics from Mariah Carey, Michael Bublé, Trans-Siberian Orchestra and the cast of Glee.
Family Christmas Radio (http://www.pandora.com/?sc=miG717) will allow you to unwind with family as the kids open gifts from Santa. This kid-friendly station features artists such as Sponge Bob Squarepants and Kidz Bop that will be sure to delight any child during the holiday season.
Hanukkah Radio (http://www.pandora.com/?sc=miG584) is great for those celebrating Hanukkah this season. Enjoy Jewish holiday music with hits from Margie Rosenthal and Erran Baron Cohen.
Navidad Mexicana (http://www.pandora.com/?sc=miG825) and Navidad Tropical (http://www.pandora.com/?sc=miG826) are Pandora's exciting new additions to the holiday genre station collection. Both stations highlight the holiday celebrations of Mexico and the Caribbean with songs from artists like Eydie Gorme y Los Panchos, Jose Alfredo Jimenez, Guillermo Buitrago and Celia Cruz & La Sonora Mantancera.
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The Texas Rangers have signed free agent outfielder Jairo Beras.
This from the Rangers:
Beras, a 6-foot-5, 195-pound right-handed batter and thrower from San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, will not be permitted to participate in official games until July 1, 2013.
He may participate in workouts and practices in the interim.
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Provo resident Angie Layton has no regrets about being on "Survivor: Philippines" and the eight days she spent as part of the Matsing Tribe.
The 20-year-old model and fashion student was voted off the show on Day 8 of the 39-day contest, which was in the third episode.
"I was proud of myself," said Layton, whose tribe ended up at tribal council three weeks in a row. "I gave it 110 percent."
She felt she shined during the second episode's immunity challenge as she helped pull a sled to retrieve puzzle pieces twice — more than any other woman in the competition.
Watching that last episode wasn't nearly as bad as she thought it would be.
"It was exciting, actually," Layton said in a phone interview with the Deseret News. "I thought it was going to be a lot worse."
Her memory of that tribal council was of crying more than what they showed.
The biggest challenge of the show was simply being out in the elements and having it rain just about every day.
Watching the series, she noticed how the other two tribes' shelters were nicer than the Matsing Tribe's, and the Kalabaw Tribe even had a little cave it could use to get out of the rain.
Being out in the elements helped her realize how appreciative she was of life at home in Provo and how supportive her friends and family have always been.
Layton received a lot of screen time during the second episode, when 28-year-old Roxanne "Roxy" Morris noticed Layton and Malcolm Freberg, 25, had cuddled to stay warm.
"It came off more than what it seemed it was," Layton said, adding that she wished they had shown more of their debate before going to tribal council.
The second episode was when she answered a question about what changes she could see for the tribe and said that having more cookies would be nice. Her friends that she watched the episode with, along with her Twitter followers, found it amusing.
Cookies, along with a bag of Doritos, were waiting in the vehicle after her elimination.
"It was so good," she said.
It's a far cry from the coconuts and rice they were eating and the shells they tried to cook.
On Day 2, Morris, who is a seminary student, talked religion with Layton, who is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
"I tried to explain how it works," Layton said of the discussion that wasn't aired.
From here, Layton is concentrating on school and work, and her goal is to participate in the 2013 Miss Utah USA competition.Comment on this story
Layton was the 2010 Miss Teen Utah USA and was third runner-up in the national pageant.
She said "Survivor" was more difficult than those pageants because she was constantly trying to prove herself to stay on the island, and her family and friends weren't right there cheering for her.
And even though they voted her off, Layton hopes that fellow Matsing Tribe castaways Freberg and 41-year-old Denise Stapley go far in the competition.
Would she go again?
"If they asked me, I would go tomorrow," Layton said.
"Survivor: Philippines" airs Wednesday evenings on CBS.
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"Free" — in regards to health care, housing or food — is such an interesting idea. The thought that having basics without cost sounds tempting to anyone who is struggling, but where does that "free" thing come from?
If we are talking about health care, it seems especially inviting. Consider, however, the cost that the doctor put into his education in time, energy and actual money. Ask him to give that away for free, and he becomes an unpaid servant to those he is treating.
His investment gains him nothing.30 comments on this story
But we can get the costs paid by the government or someone else, some would answer. Who is the government but other people who pay taxes, or that someone who gives donations to charity.
Having the state or other government agencies pay for things can easily and directly be equated to having your neighbor pay for your things. We pay with money in our current system, either from our own accounts or from the accounts of others.
Things — some of them even important and necessary — do not come free, even if we would like them to.
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A new chef and a change of menu has re-energised the Riverside Bar and Restaurant at Sutton Bridge.
Hungarian chef Zoltan Nyirfas joined the bar and restaurant in Bridge Road on August 1 and he has already made a big impact by introducing a new menu that's three times the size of the previous one.
It includes a wider selection of steaks, burgers and pasta.
Sally Chapman, bar manager at the Riverside said: "The reaction has been extremely positive and we've not had one bad comment.
"This is the start of a new idenity for us and we're planning on hosting poker evenings, live music and more.
"We also want to start using the downstairs bar and restaurant more."
Located just off the A17 in Sutton Bridge, the Riverside offers a wide range of meals and deals, with specials for the elderly and a traditional carvery offered every Wednesday and Sunday.
The bar also has a Free House stocking the finest wines, real ales and cask beers. Shoppers and drivers don't have to feel left out however as they can enjoy non-alcoholic drinks in the morning such as tea and coffee.
The Riverside also has a function room for special ocassions and caters for visitors to Sutton Bridge as well with bed and breakfast accommodation, with rooms that have a television and coffee making facilities in each room. For more details, call the Riverside Bar and Restuarant on 01406 351402.


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A popular proposal among Republicans in Nevada and nationwide is to take unspent money from the $787 billion economic recovery act — the stimulus bill — and return it to Washington, where it can be used for tax cuts or to pay down the national debt.
The idea has been popular on the campaign trail, where the leading Republican candidates in the U.S. Senate race in Nevada, Sue Lowden and Danny Tarkanian, both want unallocated stimulus money returned.
Were that to happen, Dennis Freimann has perhaps the best vantage point on the potential effect. The No. 2 in charge at Nevada's Recovery Act office, Freimann said if leftovers from the state's $2.1 billion share of the money were returned, "Then we're talking about a lot of people losing their jobs."
Nevada is receiving stimulus money for transportation projects, teacher salaries, energy efficiency and more. Halting that would eliminate jobs in a state with a steady 13 percent unemployment rate. Nevada lost 81,000 jobs in 2009 alone.
"You can look at it from just a logical aspect," said Freimann, a former county auditor who does not follow politics closely. "If they are providing $1 million to put people to work, and they take that $1 million away, are those people still going to have their jobs?"
The anniversary last month of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act renewed the debate over the program.
Republicans who voted en masse against the bill used the anniversary to mostly deride it as excessive and wasteful government spending that is adding to the nation's debt. Democrats defended it as a necessary intervention to soften the effect of the Great Recession.
The Recovery Act is bringing $2.1 billion to Nevada — $1.2 billion in direct aid to residents, including unemployment benefits, a $250 one-time check to seniors, income tax cuts, COBRA health insurance subsidies and an expansion of Medicaid health insurance for the unemployed.
Another $924 million went to Nevada agencies to pay for teachers' salaries, highway repairs, housing rehabilitation, forestry improvements and other programs.
The nation's leading economists have largely agreed that the stimulus has saved or created 2 million jobs, protecting the country from a deeper recession. But it is also true that the White House was unable to halt the jobless rate at 8.5 percent, as promised last year. The national unemployment rate is 9.7 percent.
Yet, economists mostly agree the stimulus is on track to reach its goal of saving or creating 3.5 million to 4 million jobs by the time the money is spent.
"Almost 2 million Americans who would otherwise be (unemployed) are working right now," President Barack Obama said in Las Vegas last month.
The Nevada Recovery Act office tallies 2,500 jobs saved or directly created by the $924 million sent to state agencies.
But economists put the actual number at 20,000 by factoring in the $1.2 billion in direct aid programs and the multiplier effect: If folks keep their jobs and have money to shop, store clerks keep their jobs, too.
"The idea that we'd be returning money we desperately need is ridiculous," said Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley, who voted for the bill.
"We're going to keep every penny that Nevada gets," Berkley said. "Every senior in Nevada got a $250 check. Every disabled vet — I have 18,000 of them — got a $250 check. We also received a good amount of money for transportation and infrastructure. That's creating jobs. We are spending that. There are good, important programs being paid for by the stimulus."
Sen. John Ensign was an early proponent of returning unspent stimulus funds to the U.S. Treasury, offering an amendment in July, as the recovery programs were getting under way. His proposal was to send the money back to Washington to pay down the debt of the federal unemployment trust fund, which is being drained as states seek loans to pay their share of jobless benefits.
Ensign argued it was more important to stop the rising debt than to fund the jobs the stimulus was producing. He thinks jobs can be better created through tax cuts.
"Let's show some fiscal responsibility," Ensign argued. "The reason I voted against the stimulus bill is because I thought a lot of the money was irresponsibly spent and it was going to run up the deficit.
"My dad used to tell me all the time when I was growing up: 'You have to watch the small amounts of money.' He used to say: 'If you watch the $20 bills, the large amounts of money will take care of themselves.' "
Yet even as Ensign was voting to return the stimulus money, he sought the Obama administration's help in securing transportation dollars from the stimulus for two Nevada projects. On Sept. 9 and Sept. 10, Ensign wrote letters to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, asking him to consider Nevada projects for Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants.
The first letter sought consideration for a rapid transit line in Southern Nevada. The other sought financial support for the V&T Railway reconstruction project in Northern Nevada.
"It is vital that our state seeks out projects and initiatives that will create jobs and provide long-term sustainability for some of our most economically distressed areas," Ensign wrote of the railway work. "That is why this project is ideal for TIGER funding."
Ensign was not alone in seeking federal stimulus funds for state projects — many fellow Republican opponents of the Recovery Act, including Sen. John McCain of Arizona, did as well.
Democrats have been compiling a "hypocrisy hall of fame" of lawmakers who opposed the stimulus, then asked for some of the money.
Ensign's office declined to discuss his letters to LaHood.
On the campaign trail, Lowden and Tarkanian have taken a similar approach to the stimulus.
"Enough is enough!" Tarkanian wrote on his Web site. "We should use the leftover stimulus funds to pay for much-needed tax cuts, giving the money back to the taxpayer."
Lowden thinks "the federal government should not be giving any more jobs to anybody," her spokesman said.
"The jobs should come from private money, private investment," Lowden spokesman Robert Uithoven said. "You should not be spending on these projects, kicking the can down the road and saddling future generation with debt."
That anti-big government rhetoric might rev up voters. But it could be a tougher sell for the 100 construction workers who are being hired for a $26 million highway-ramp project funded by the stimulus on Interstate 580 in Reno.
That highway project is among dozens in the state getting under way, with private contractors bidding on jobs that will unfold this spring and summer. Nevada Transportation Department spokesman Scott Magruder said the bulk of the stimulus spending will be out the door this year. "This is going to be the good summer, no doubt," he said.
But Lowden thinks if the Reno interchange and other transportation projects are worthwhile, then budgets should be cut elsewhere to pay for them.
So do Republicans in Washington. Just last week, Ensign voted again to return stimulus funds when a fellow Republican, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, proposed returning $160 billion in unallocated stimulus funds nationwide to provide tax cuts for small businesses.
Ensign said in a brief interview that he would not be taking money from the highway projects unfolding this summer in Nevada — he only wanted to return funds that have not been allocated.
But Freimann said it would be difficult to parcel out the unspent dollars because most of Nevada's money is spoken for. Of the more than $500 million the state has yet to receive, most is assigned to education, housing, energy and other projects.
If anything, he said, the state could use more funding from the federal government.
Every week his office gets calls and e-mails from businesses and organizations asking if they qualify for stimulus money — a solar project here, a youth program there.
"One of my biggest desires," he said, "is how can we find some additional funds."