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Who is your Favorite former NJ Devil?
Lfecher replied to LivingThread's topic in Helli would have to say Ken Danyeko or Chris Terreri (sorry can't spell) lol. they were the best i loved chris because he was an awesome goalie and ken what can i say awesome fights and an awesome team player
Help me develop a rally towel
Lfecher replied to LivingThread's topic in Hellwe def can't use Flame because it will make it sound like calgary and the rangers will mock us just like someone said in this forum. Horns just doesn't go because it will be mocked as well.. i was thinking of something along the lines of : "bring the heat" - on the front and have on the back: "the nasty red and black are back!" or vice versa
Rangers Suck Chant
Lfecher replied to DEV1LDR1VER's topic in Hellwho cares the rangers suck and who cares it lightens up our spirits after a game because even tho we aren't doing that great. I have been a real fan since i was born and always will be and its our thing to say that the rangers suck just like the flyers suck but who cares its ur choice to say it. if you don't want to say it then thats ur choice but others will say it not matter how drunk we are.
thanks! hope to see everyone there!
another question is: is the $10 for one autograph or for whatever stuff u want signed?
can we bring stuff for him to sign? like jerseys, pics? --i know thats a stupid question


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Smart Award winners look to the future
Queensland's business top guns have named climate change, population and the tyranny of distance as the biggest challenges they face.
Winners in the 2007 Queensland Government Smart Awards Alan Morrison, managing director of BSD Robotics, Oakey Abattoir general manager Howard Halter and Firewire Surfboards director Nev Hyman have spoken at length to ABC Local Radio Brisbane's Madonna King about the highs and lows of starting a business.
Mr Halter accepted a Smart Award last week on behalf of Oakey Abattoir, which has introduced a computer system that allows customers to track back their cut of meat to the animal it came from.
He says climate change has the potential to make or break his industry.
"We're going through one of the longest droughts that we have done and it's creating costs we've never had to be associated with, as in the levels of the costs, which drive up grain prices, inevitably drive up cattle prices, [and] we have water issues," he said.
Burleigh-based Firewire Surfboards won the rising star award for establishing a factory that uses computer-aided design and robotics to create 300 fibre composite surfboards a week.
Mr Hyman says the biggest challenge he has faced is Australia's relatively low population.
"It's a bit ironic really because Australia's regarded as probably the leading force with surfboard design and professional surfers and things like that," he said.
"And when you consider Quiksilver, Billabong, Rip Curl all came from Australia originally, but it comes down to population base. We specifically chose the US to focus on without introducing the surfboards at all to Australia."
BSD Robotics, based at Acacia Ridge, won the small-to-medium manufacturing and mining category for its efforts to export equipment that helps laboratories automatically process dried bio-samples.
Mr Morrison says it is hard to nominate just one factor, but says his company continues to face challenges due to its Queensland base.
"We're a long way away from the major markets in the world and really to do our job properly we need to be getting all of that feedback every moment of every day from laboratories that are using our equipment," he said.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — North Fourth's annual celebration of theater and dance will open with comedy sketches and Broadway choreography next weekend.
Performances by the Equilibrium Theater Company and the Buen Viaje Dance Company have been created in honor of House District 17 and Senate District 13 legislators and friends.
The Equilibrium Theater Company was founded in 2001 for adults with developmental disabilities committed to telling their stories. The 14 actors have been working throughout the past year to create and perform an original piece of theater. Past programs have leaned toward the serious, with scripts centering around issues of disability, artistic director Kate Costello said.
"In the past, we did a full-length play," she said. "This time, we decided on individual scenes to turn into skits."
Think "Saturday Night Live" without the satire, she added.
The six shorts starring 14 actors will incorporate the Marty Robbins classic "El Paso," a blind date, a rock star, a radio talk show host and the song "Good Morning Starshine" from the musical "Hair."
The 21 members of Buen Viaje ("good journey") are polishing a suite of Broadway numbers to include "Be Our Guest" from "Beauty and the Beast;" "One" from "A Chorus Line;" "Grease Lightning" from "Grease;" and "One Night Only" from "Dreamgirls."
The choreography will mix jazz with theatrical dance, artistic director Bradd Howard said.
"They loved the idea, plus they're well-known numbers," he said.
A special opening from 6-9 p.m. on Saturday, June 28, will honor state Rep. Ed Sandoval, Rep.-Elect Deborah Armstrong, former Sen. Dede Feldman, Sen. Bill O'Neill, as well as VSA Arts president emeritus Orlando "Orlie" Sedilo and founding director Beth Rudolph.
North Fourth Arts is operated by VSA Arts of New Mexico. Affiliated with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the center is dedicated to full accessibility in the arts for people of all abilities, ages, cultures and income levels. For information, visit vsartsnm.org.


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2009-08-27MARYVILLE, MO | By: Wayman
Three parkign lots normally open will close all day today those are the one North of Brown Hall, the one North of the Station, and the one located behind Hudson/Perrin Hall. The Brown Hall lot will be closed tomorrow as well. The East Portion only of the parking lot spanning Phillips and Franken Hall will be closed for parking today and tomorrow. Anyone needing to park on the Campus in Maryville can look up the parking lots at The University's website www.nwmissouri.edu.


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I am a recent Graduate from UCLA with a MBA in Marketing. The innovation of video in our social has changed and grew a culture around what our lives are going to be. As more and more camera are given the ability to shoot in HD and Video it has given the average user a chance to able to create video. Same with how cell phone camera changed how we collect and send news. I was wondering why can we do the same for resume and Interviews on Video
it's only the next step in our revolution in how things are being made and going to go right? Take a look at this blog talking about how video resumes is going to change the way we will apply for jobs in the future.
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Section 110(2) of the Copyright Act was enacted in 1976 to provide an exemption so that certain performances and displays of copyrighted works connected to classroom instruction would be permitted without the need to obtain a license or rely on fair use. Since that time, technology has changed dramatically and there has been general agreement that Sec. 110(2) should be updated for the digital age. There was much discussion about distance education in Congress when debate centered on provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in 1998 (P.L. 105-304). Rather than include a new exemption for distance education at that time, Congress directed the Copyright Office to consult with representatives of copyright owners, non-profit educational institutions, and non-profit libraries and archives, and to submit a study to Congress with "recommendations on how to promote distance education through digital technologies, including interactive digital networks, while maintaining an appropriate balance between the rights of copyright owners and the needs of users of copyrighted works."
The Copyright Office subsequently held a series of meetings and public hearings and in May 1999 issued their Report on Copyright and Digital Distance Education. The report recommended updating the current copyright law exemptions for distance education and at the same time building in adequate safeguards to respond to the concerns of copyright owners. At the beginning of the 107th Congress, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Ranking Member Patrick Leahy (D-VT) agreed to introduce a distance education bill as one of their top priorities for the committee this year.
They cosponsored S. 487, the Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2001 (the "TEACH Act") based on the recommendations of the Copyright Office. This spring there were intense negotiations between copyright owners and the education, library and archive communities that resulted in a balanced distance education bill that, according to Chairman Hatch, "promotes the use of high technology in education, such as distance learning over the Internet, while maintaining appropriate incentives for authors."
On June 7, 2001 the "TEACH Act" passed the Senate by unanimous consent and was referred to the House for consideration by the Judiciary Committee. The Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property held a hearing on S. 487 on June 27, 2001.
The "TEACH Act" amends Sec. 110(2) of the Copyright Act by:
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Now for those who haven't heard of the books, Slide is about a girl who slides into the mind of other people and sees and experiences the world through that person's perspective.
Of course, being able to do what she does, she often learns unpleasant things about people she'd rather not know, yet nothing prepares her for the day when she slides into the mind of someone standing over the body of a girl, holding a bloodied knife in said person's hand.
Book 2 introduces us to a new character and focuses on Vee having really strange out-of-body experiences happening to her.
In today's post, Jill chats to us about giving certain quirks to her characters – things she wishes she had and that she could pull off – like giving her main character Vee pink hair for instance.
For me this was such a fun post – and one that I can really relate to - because I'm seriously hoping to go with pink hair myself at some point (Well, black hair with pink streaks to be more specific)..
But anyway, I'll stop rambling now – and hand the reigns over to Jill.
Before I do so though, here's more information about Slide and Imposter, followed by Jill's lovely guest post.
Vee Bell is certain of one irrefutable truth--her sister's friend Sophie didn't kill herself. She was murdered.
Vee knows this because she was there. Everyone believes Vee is narcoleptic, but she doesn't actually fall asleep during these episodes:
When she passes out, she slides into somebody else's mind and experiences the world through that person's eyes.
She's slid into her sister as she cheated on a math test, into a teacher sneaking a drink before class.
She learned the worst about a supposed "friend" when she slid into her during a school dance.
But nothing could have prepared Vee for what happens one October night when she slides into the mind of someone holding a bloody knife, standing over Sophie's slashed body.
Vee desperately wishes she could share her secret, but who would believe her? It sounds so crazy that she can't bring herself to tell her best friend, Rollins, let alone the police.
Even if she could confide in Rollins, he has been acting distant lately, especially now that she's been spending more time with Zane.
Enmeshed in a terrifying web of secrets, lies, and danger and with no one to turn to, Vee must find a way to unmask the killer before he or she strikes again.
Add Slide to your Goodreads TBR pile.
What if a killer took control of you?
Vee Bell's gift (or curse) of "sliding"—slipping into the mind of another person and experiencing life, briefly, through his or her eyes—has been somewhat under control since she unwillingly witnessed the horrific deaths of her classmates six months ago.
But just as things are getting back to normal, Vee has a very bizarre experience: she loses consciousness and finds herself in a deserted area, at the edge of a cliff, with the broken body of the boy who took advantage of her on the rocks below.
As Vee finds herself in stranger and stranger situations with no memory of getting there, she begins to suspect that someone she knows has the ability to slide—and that this "slider" is using Vee to exact revenge on his or her enemies..
Add Imposter to your Goodreads TBR pile.
Guest post: Pink Hair and Alice in Wonderland Tattoos
Over the past few years, people have given YA writers a ton of crap for "wish fulfillment" in their stories.
You know the schtick: dozens of sexay guys fall in love with the main character, who is subtly gorgeous but doesn't realize it. I'm no better. I wrote Rollins's character with Jared Leto (back in his My So-Called Life days) in my head the whole time.
Likewise, I write my characters with my own fashion quirks or rocking the trends I wish I could pull off. For instance, Vee's pink hair. I've always wanted pink hair.
I remember back in the 90s when everyone was dying their hair with Kool-Aid.
My mother was having none of it.
The best I got were blonde highlights. In college, I probably could have done the pink hair thing (I had my eyebrow pierced, for Pete's sake), but something held me back. Maybe fear. I don't know.
When I wrote Vee, though, I got to live vicariously through her (coincidentally enough). I gave her the pink hair I always wanted. I also put her in Converse shoes and gave her all the band t-shirts I had growing up.
In IMPOSTOR, there's this new character with a badass Alice in Wonderland tattoo.
That came from me standing in line at Panchero's and seeing this gorgeous girl with a white rabbit tattoo on her arm. I would love to put some art like that on my body, but something is still holding me back. I've been turning over the idea of a tattoo in my head for years now.
Something like, "Be your own hero." I don't know if I'll ever pull the trigger.
But, until then, I get to dress my characters in the things I'd love to wear.
Thanks for stopping by Jill.
Jill Hathaway lives in the Des Moines area with her husband and young children. Having earned her BA in English Education from the University of Northern Iowa and her MA in Literature from Iowa State University, she teaches high school English and dual credit courses for Des Moines Area Community College.
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Title: How Many Times Did You Add That?
After watching the video clip of the Hershey's plant, students will use grid paper to investigate multiplication as repeated addition.
This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
Standard(s): [SS2010] LWT2 (2) 7: Explain production and distribution processes.
Title: You Scream, I Scream, We all Scream for Ice cream !
Fun and yummy lesson to do on a sunny spring afternoon. Have the students take a poll of their favorite choice of ice cream and create a bar graph showing the information.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science University, GEMS-U Project.
Standard(s): [MA2015] (2) 23: Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories. Solve simple put-together, take-apart, and compare problems using information presented in a bar graph. (See Appendix A, Table 1.) [2-MD10]
Title: Lost Buttons
In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students investigate subtraction more directly, beginning with the easier take away mode. They model take away subtraction with buttons and write subtraction sentences. They also work with the additive identity (0) as an addend and as a difference and find missing addends.
Standard(s): [MA2015] (2) 18: Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve word problems involving lengths that are given in the same units, e.g., by using drawings (such as drawings of rulers) and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem. [2-MD5]


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Originally it was reported that it was once a year due to declining ratings, but TPTB are the ones who are saying it's still twice a year as far as they know. If ratings continue to go downhill, who knows. Eventually, I bet it will be demoted to once a year, then to the summer, before finally being axed completely. Despite it's declining ratings, it still does a heck of a lot better than the majority of TV shows.
I enjoy Derek's dancing & his choreography, but my first thought when reading that was: "Oh no. Here we go again. He gets the ringer & the judges' partiality won't give anyone else a chance."
I've come to dislike him being on the show because of this.
The cast and their partners are being announced liiiive on GMA Feb. 26th. Despite debating whether or not to take a break, DWTSGossip on twitter has an article from Cheryl saying she's looking forward to this upcoming season; still not any real (or good) news about the cast. Nothing about any pros confirmed, though I feel it'll be the same group, minus Derek. 12 couples this time. Rehearsals are starting a few days before the announcement.
Louis van Amstel said that rehearsals starts on February 25. I wonder if that means he's the one who's taking Derek's place in the lineup (assuming the others from last season remain the same)?
Maks and Peta are no more
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text: Eva Dinse Retzlaff9/8/1924 ~ 2/28/2012Eva Dinse Retzlaff our sweet mother, stepmother, grandmother, great grandmother, great aunt and wonderful friend passed away Wednesday, February 8th. We will always remember her for her faithful care and attention to her family and unwavering support and kindness to her many friends. She lived and loved to be of service and will be dearly missed by many. Eva was reliable, generous, thoughtful, dedicated, and hard workingall qualities that helped her live a long comfortable life surrounded by family and friends who cherished her. We will long mourn her passing. Eva was born in Falkensee bei Berlin Germany, September 8th 1924 to Bruno Dinse and Erna Nickel Dinse. She immigrated to the United States in 1952, and has been a citizen since 1957. She married Carl F. Retzlaff October 15th 1952 in the Salt Lake Temple. Eva was also an active and devoted member of the LDS church. She is survived by her sister, Christa Hamil, brother, Hartmut Dinse (Ruth), son, Martin Retzlaff, his four children and three grandchildren, stepsons, Carl Retzlaff (Doris), their three children and seven grandchildren, and many more beloved grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces, nephews and dear special friends. She is preceded in death by her husband, Carl, brothers, Peter and John Dinse, stepdaughters, Miriam Edgar and Dagmar Winward, and stepson-in-law, William Winward. Funeral services to be held Monday, February 13th 1:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake 31st Ward 1078 South McClelland Street (1040 East). Messages and tributes for the family may be posted at: www.larkinmortuary.com.


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Who is more protective?
So who is more protective, Momma Bear or Daddy Bear?
We both can be very protective, it just depends on the situation. I wouldn't want the child around my kid again who bit them hard enough to draw blood
Exactly! And you will at some point. It sucks! (I've done day care for 15 years and through 3 of my own kids)
Quoting keeckhardt:
I was thankful that it was my kid that got bitten. May sound off, but it would have been much harder if I had to call a parent and tell them their child got bitten.
Quoting Juniper53098:
This is us, too. I run an in home daycare, so my daughter has gotten bitten a few times by other kids. I've just always been thankful that she didn't do the biting ever. DH is pretty calm, too, but he did get upset that she was getting bitten.Quoting MamaJane:
You work with kids, you know. That's why you had a different reaction. When one of my kids got bit (And they have many times) I was just relieved that it wasn't my own who had bit. Usually this understanding comes with time. And I'm sorry for your little girl. That made me cringe. Face injuries are the worst.
I think Tom and I are about equal, however like you 2, I think I have a better understanding then he does.


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Tea attempt #2:
First cup of water had to be dumped because someone somehow got coffee grinds IN the hot water spout. Second cup came out clean. Progress. Obviously, i decided to go with Vanilla Comoro, hoping to get the sickly sweet taste of basically boiled fruit out of my mouth.
Once it's coooled, I'm happy. Yes, vanilla Comoro is sweet but nothing like my travel mug disaster. The vanilla is nice but not too forward and I can actually taste the tea. I've saved the bag for another steep (this is one of the last two pre-bagged vanilla comoro I got from Meghann M). This is nice. Thank you, tea gods.


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Nov 18, 2016
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Minor Character Reading: tracing an English literary society through its culture of investigation
This talk takes Woloch's notion of the 'distribution of attention' between characters in the novel as a starting point for considering an anthropological approach to cultures of reading (in part prompted by an invitation from English colleagues putting together a special issue of the PMLA). The analysis works through my ethnographic study of a British literary society: The Henry Williamson Society (the named author is a now largely forgotten twentieth century English nature writer and historical novelist). More specifically, I seek to excavate the ways readers enthusiastically commit to the characters of Williamson's novels. Indeed, I investigate the appeal of the minor character, both as a loved feature of the books and as an ontological position for readers to adopt themselves (readers sometimes like to imagine that they are minor characters in their own lives). The talk places Woloch's literary analysis in dialogue with the anthropological theory of 'distributed agency' developed by Gell in order to examine further the idea of the reader as someone who 'gives' and may in turn 'receive' attention. It concludes by asking whether it might be more helpful to conceive of their activities as a form of reading without 'culture'; a query intended to redirect our attention to the potentiality of considering that if plurality must be invoked it might better be located in the dynamism of the reading person.


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One of my favorite times of the year is upon us as bowl games give the opportunity for 35 teams to head into the offseason on a positive note. It is also the one time of year where you get unique factors of several teams playing with interim coaches while also seeing some teams unmotivated to be in certain bowls.
After going 101-34 in the regular season (73-61-1 versus the spread), here are my picks for the first set of bowl games that kick off on Saturday. (Games that run from Dec. 21-26.) Keep checking back on ESPN Insider all bowl season, as I'll be giving my picks for every game.
Gildan New Mexico Bowl
Washington State Cougars versus Colorado State Rams
Saturday at 2 p.m. ET, ESPN
After a disappointing first year in Pullman, Mike Leach has the Cougars back in a bowl for the first time in 10 years. The Cougars' pass-happy offense is led by quarterback Connor Halliday who, despite throwing for 4,187 yards, leads the country in interceptions (21). WSU's defense had an up-and-down year as it allowed just 265 yards per game in the first four games, then allowed 604 YPG over the next five.
I picked the Rams to go to a bowl in my preseason magazine, but things were not looking good for them in the early going as they started the season 2-4. However, a 52-22 win over rival Wyoming turned their season around as they posted five wins in the final seven games. The offense saw quarterback Garrett Grayson set the single-season school record with 3,327 passing yards while running back Kapri Bibbs exploded in the second half of the season and finished with 28 rushing touchdowns.


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NOTRE-DAME OF PARIS (341 pp.) -Allan Temko -Viking ($6.75). I darted a contemptuous look on the stately monuments of superstition.
-Edward Gibbon (speaking of the Gothic cathedrals)
All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.
-Henry Adams
A disciple of Adams rather than Gibbon, Medievalist Allan Temko, 31, has put his love and knowledge of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame into an astute and eloquent book that merits shelfroom with Adams' famed Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres. But while Adams sought out only the major thread of medieval unity, Author Temko weaves...


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Anne Hathaway Is a Google Translate Singing Machine on 'The Tonight Show'
Anne Hathaway's singing talents were not left on the Les Miserables set.
The Oscar winner, who simply cannot believe she is a huge star, showed she really does have some serious pipes when she stopped by The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Monday night (Apr. 17) to belt out a few popular songs after the lyrics were run through Google Translate.
The results? A Top 40 take unlike none other.
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Meanwhile, James Corden also kept things musical on The Late Late Show when he took part in a rap battle against Riz Ahmed. It looks like "Carpool Karaoke" may have met its match.
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And Jimmy Kimmel Live! had some fun with the cast of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, by playing "Guess the Guardian," in which the host asked the stars if they could answer questions about each other.
As you may have guessed, things didn't exactly go according to plan.
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Congresswoman claims a Filner groping (years ago)
Former San Diego mayor allegedly went in for a kiss
Don Bauder 5:30 p.m., Nov. 20
Panadería Nacionál
1701 National Avenue, Barrio Logan
Outside, you're near the Coronado bridge. Inside, you might just as well be in, say, San Salvador, Mazatlan, or Tijuana. It's a little dark. Behind old varnished wood and glass sliding doors sit piles of cakes -- pasteles. Emilio, grandson of Feliciano Moreno, who opened up here in 1962, says everything today is as it was 40 years ago. The postres (dessert treats), anyway. Traditional postres include barras -- bars of sweet bread flavored with egg and cinnamon and topped with thick layers of margarine and sugar -- and riels, turnovers stuffed with pineapple or apple. Called "rails" because rows of them look like railroad tracks. Or shocking-pink pastelitos, called polvorones because you press them and poof! They pulverize into red clouds.


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ok, I know 55 celcius at full load is bad... because it is lightly unstable...
my question is, how can I cool this down?
I have 2 case fans and the PSU. one fan blowing cool air in from the bottom frount, and another blowing air out just below the PSU (right next to the cpu, and then there is the psu fan...
I also hace an alpha PAL 6035 with a sunon fan blowing the air away from the cpu...
I am useing standard radioshack goo at the moment, should I get some artic silver?
also, where can I get some panaflo fans, this case sounds like a jet engine.. it is loud!.. too loud!
any suggestions on cooling this down?
Nothing like BS!
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Requests for Senate Initiative funding conclude each January 1 for the next year's State budget (the State fiscal year runs from April 1 through the next March 31). Municipalities and not for profit corporations are eligible to apply for funding. Projects most likely to be funded include requests for capital assistance (building construction/equipment purchase) in amounts of $10,000 or less, for specific purposes. Fire, Police, and Emergency Medical Services are priority projects, as well as projects for municipal programs. Agencies and municipalities which have previously received, but failed to timely spend Senate Initiative Funding or capital grant funding, will be given a lower priority.
Attached as a PDF is the current list of "member item" grants authorized by Senator Bonacic for our Senate District.
Copies of prior years grants dating to 2006 are available upon request by emailing Senator Bonacic at email@example.com.


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Ngozi Okonjo Iweala
There are multiple reports that the kidnappers of the mother of Nigeria's Finance minister, Prof. Ngozi Okonjo Iwela, Professor Kamene Okonjo, who was kidnapped yesterday at the palace of her husband, Professor Chukwuka Okonjo, the traditional ruler (Obi) of Ogwashi-Ukwu, have reportedly made contact with the family demanding a ransom of $1billion.
For now, no concrete detail has been established by Nigeriafilms.com on the reported demanded ransom by the abductors. Okonjo Iwela's mother, who is believed to be in her late 70's and a medical doctor, was kidnapped at about 1:30pm on Sunday in Delta State.
We promise to report more updates as we get them.
Do you have a story/gist for publication? Please email it to [email protected]
chickito | 12/10/2012 7:05:36 AM
hummmmmmmmmmmmmmm na wa ooooooooo
Nneoma | 12/10/2012 7:11:24 AM |
This kidnappers correct dye abeg! I said it here, they will never make their demand in naira bcos even those rogues in power don't count their stolen loots in naira anymore. No bargaining, Ngozi pay 1billion dollars, or kiss those kidnappers smelly asses. How i wish this is happening to that vulture eyes Mrs. Allison Madueke. Anyways, its turn by turn, next on d list is GEJ & his woman friend (Opkolo eyes petroleum Minister). We are watching.
Jane | 12/10/2012 8:12:19 AM |
It is good that kidnapping is also affecting those in power. Perhaps this is the time to have a rethink and do something serious about our security situation.
Not only that, this is time to say no to corruption and stand by good governance.
glass | 12/10/2012 7:08:37 AM
If dis z true den, dem pity her small.abeg if una collect d chezz make una no 4get d oda polithiefers..
The annoying part is that NA STILL OUR MONEY DEM GO TAKE PAY DE RANSOM.
tito | 12/10/2012 7:39:47 AM
1billion is 2 small…make it 200billion…
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How to ruin a new 958 Porsche Cayenne - ASMA widebody kitDo not know what this company was thinking but apparently there is a market for this. This is the ASMA body kit for the new 958 Cayenne and it just looks like someone tacked on as much plastic crap as they possibly could. The face of the car looks like it is going to eat you and throwing LED's on it does not exactly take attention away from the huge gaping hole in the front. The ducts in front of the rear wheel arch just do not look good either. The whole thing is just a mess. We will not say anything further except quote Autogespot who had this to say about the car, "Who would buy something like this? Arabs seem to be the right answer."
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The court in Glostrup, near Copenhagen, remanded the three in custody for four weeks after a closed-door hearing.
"The court has complied with the prosecution's request for custody for four weeks, the first two weeks in isolation," Lykke Sørensen, the head of the legal department of Danish intelligence agency told TV2.
The trio was arrested Wednesday along with two other men for hatching what Danish officials called a plan to "kill as many people as possible" in an imminent assault on the Copenhagen offices of the Jyllands-Posten daily.
In 2005, Jyllands-Posten published a dozen cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that triggered violent and sometimes deadly protests around the world.
Denmark's intelligence service, PET, only identified the three men remanded in custody as a 44-year-old Tunisian, a 29-year-old Swede born in Lebanon, and a 30-year-old Swede.
It said all three resided in Sweden and drove to the Copenhagen suburbs overnight Tuesday.
The Swedish tabloid Expressen, named the suspects as 29-year-old Munir Awad, 30-year-old Omar Abdalla Aboelazm, and 44-year-old Tunisian national Mounir Dhahri.
According to the paper, Awad had been arrested twice before on suspicion of links to terrorism: in 2007 in Somalia and in 2009 in Pakistan along with Mehdi Ghezali, a Swede who had spent two years in Guantanamo Bay.
Danish intelligence said Wednesday the men would face charges of "attempted terrorism."
The head of the intelligence agency said some of the suspects were part of "a militant Islamic group with links to international terrorist networks."
A fourth man arrested Wednesday in Stockholm in connection with the plot was set to appear in court in the suburb of Sollentuna at 3pm.
Official documents showed the court would decide if the suspect -- 37-year-old Swedish citizen Sahbi Zalouti, who according to PET is of Tunisian origin -- would be remanded in custody for "preparation of terrorist crimes."
A PET spokeswoman said the fifth man detained Wednesday -- a 26-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker arrested in his apartment in a Copenhagen suburb -- would be released.
"He is still suspected of trying to conduct terrorism," Trine Marie Ilsøe told AFP, adding he could not be remanded in custody since he had not been sent before a judge.
She did not specify why he had not gone to court with the three others, but Danish media reported the suspicions against him were not as serious as against his suspected accomplices.
PET said officers also seized "plastic strips that could have been used as handcuffs, a sub-machine gun with silencer as well as ammunition," during the arrest operation.
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Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS) recently discovered that several hotfixes released during the past two weeks were infected with a virus. Here are the most important facts regarding this issue.
The affected hotfixes were not accessible to the general public. We have identified the specific customers who downloaded them, and are in the process of contacting these customers and helping with remediation.
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The infection resulted because Microsoft's corporate standards regarding virus-scanning procedures were not followed on one of the servers used to prepare hotfixes. Through this oversight, several hotfixes became infected with a virus. Upon discovering the situation, PSS immediately launched an investigation to determine the scope of the problem and, on April 23, 2001, released an advisory providing preliminary information to the affected communities of users.
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The virus at issue here is the FunLove virus. While the virus is not destructive, it does degrade the performance of the operating system. In addition, because it can spread via network shares, it can be difficult to remove once ensconced in a network. The virus has been known since 1999, and all major anti-virus products can detect it.
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Adobe has released an update to its Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in, available immediately as a free download. Adobe Camera Raw 5.2 extends raw file support to an additional seven camera models, including the Canon EOS 5D Mark II and Panasonic DMC LX3. This update provides several new enhancements including the Targeted Adjustment Tool for on-image refinements and output sharpening for print or screen output. Also, users now have the ability to create a snapshot of all adjustments made to an image as a bookmark for future reference.
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Hello everyone
My goal is to find the maximums/minimums between two zeros and when it occurs for some velocity data that are in the form of a column vector.
I tried to find where are zeros upward, find where are zeros downward, and then to find the maximum/minimum in between.
The problem is that my code does not work and I do not understand why. I'm pretty sure I must not be far for the good answer.
How can I find the maximum of U between an upward going and a downward going zero and the minimum of U between a downward going and an upward going zero ?
My code is:
indx=find(U(1:end-1,1).*U(2:end,1) < 0);
for k=1:length(indx)
But then I have a message error : ??? Subscripted assignment dimension mismatch.
Thank you very much in advance for your help
Give a short example
for k=1:length(indx) new_U(k,1)=max(U(indx(k))):U(indx(k+1)); end
error : ??? Subscripted assignment dimension mismatch.
Yes, there's no guarantee the number of elements from one set of indices is the same length as the next. If you want to save these subvectors then you'll have to use a cell array to handle the varying lengths.
Another way to find zero crossings is to look at
d=[0 diff(sign(U))]; find(d==2) % +ive crossings find(d==-2) % -ive crossings
There are also a number of peak-finding routines on the FEX or findpeaks() in the Signal Processing Toolbox (altho iirc it doesn't isolate on the zero crossing intervals)
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OK, I can't seem to find a utility I had that does basically what you were/are looking for that I thought was around but here's a straightahead implementation using the above idea of diff()==2...
function pks = peaksbetween(x) % peaks from column vector x between zero crossings
ix=find(abs([0; diff(sign(x))])==2); % zero crossing loc's pks=zeros(length(ix)-1); % one less peak than x'ings for i=1:length(ix)-1 sx=x(ix(i):ix(i+1)-1); % subvector between x'ings [~,ipk]=max(abs(sx)); % peak location in subvector pks(i)=sx(ipk); % and signed max/min value end
To return the locations in the original vector means unwrapping the local location to the global--I left as "exercise for the student"... :)
If I can find the vectorized version I'll post it--I know it's around but this is a new install and it must not have gotten over from the utilities on the previous release or I put it somewhere other than I recall--altho which didn't find it so it's not on path... :(
Thank you very much for your answer, it works really well. I knew little about diff()==2 before and I'm going to investigate this more. Regarding the vectorized version, I should be able to extract the first column of the matrix to turn it into a vector if you can't find it. I'll sort out how to return locations. Thank you again
I knew little about diff()==2 before...
You have to think about ways to find out what it is you're looking for to come up w/ such--in this case it's starts w/ realizing that you don't need the magnitude only the sign to determine the zero-crossing point and that then when the time vector is turned into simply the sign of the result that only when it changes is there any difference between adjacent values. The ==2 is simply owing to that being the difference between 1 and -1. To keep the index into the original vector at the same point one then just prepends a 0 to the difference vector.
For the routine to handle arrays you have to add the logic to handle the second dimension--it's doable but takes some pre-work to check on sizes and then the addressing and didn't figure worth confusing the logic of the algorithm w/ the details...I've forgotten exactly how I did implement it originally; it's been a number of years and I've not done much signal processing in last almost 15 yr since returned to family farm... :)
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Updated version that also returns locations in original vector. I did for simplicity restrict the input to a column vector; just add logic to ensure correct orientation of the pieces internally if want to handle either...or just brute-force a row vector to a column vector internally and then return the same orientation as the input--that's actually probably the better idea but will leave as "exercise for the student" to choose/implement if wish.
function [pks, ipks] = peaksbetween(x) % peaks and locations from vector x between zero crossings and location
if size(x,1)==1, error('X must be a column vector'), end if numel(x)~=length(x),error('X must be a column vector'), end
ix=find(abs(diff(sign(x)))==2)+1; % zero crossing loc's L=length(ix)-1; % one less peak than x'ings ipk=zeros(L,1); for i=1:length(ix)-1 sx=x(ix(i):ix(i+1)-1); % subvector between x'ings [~,ipk(i)]=max(abs(sx)); % peak location in subvector end ipks=ix(1:end-1)+ipk-1; % max loc in original vector pks=x(ipks); % and signed max/min value end
One more variant...I'm still learning about accumarray and friends... :)
Using a local function to return the indices from max() then accumarray to remove the explicit loop. Too bad there's no syntax for returning alternate return values only.
function [pks, ipks] = peaksbetween(x) % peaks and locations from vector x between zero crossings and location
if size(x,1)==1, error('X must be a column vector'), end if numel(x)~=length(x),error('X must be a column vector'), end
ix=find(abs(diff(sign(x)))==2)+1; % zero crossing loc's L=length(ix)-1; % one less peak than x'ings ipk=accumarray([1:L]',[1:L]',[], @(i) imax(abs(x(ix(i):ix(i+1)-1))) ); ipks=ix(1:L)+ipk-1; % max loc in original vector pks=x(ipks); % and signed max/min value end
function idx=imax(x) % Return max() indices as first argument
[~,idx]=max(x); end
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The charge was that the company had violated French laws prohibiting the advertisement, exhibition or sale of any objects likely to incite racial hatred, and that it had offended the 'collective memory' of the country - an allusion to the Holocaust years - by allowing online auctions of Nazi paraphernalia.
In the court case last May, Yahoo's lawyers smiled indulgently and patiently explained to Judge Gomez in words of one syllable that the internet was a borderless phenomenon, that the laws of France could not possibly apply to a US company based in California and that in any event it was technically impossible to block French users from accessing the offending websites.
The judge, however, was neither intimidated nor impressed by this transatlantic guff. Nor, one suspects, did he take kindly to being patronised. Instead he handed down a verdict against Yahoo, but with a stay of execution until a panel of three established experts in internet technology, headed by Vint Cerf (one of the godfathers of TCP/IP, the protocols that still underpin the net), could advise him on whether it was indeed technically impossible for a US-based site to identify and exclude French surfers.
The experts duly deliberated and reported - with a perceptible uneasiness on Vint Cerf's part at least - that a filtering system based on inspecting the ISP addresses of site visitors and keywords used in searches could block 90 per cent of French users. The judge then confirmed his ruling, and gave Yahoo 90 days to comply, telling the company it would be fined $13,000 for every day thereafter that it was in breach of his order. It is not yet clear what Yahoo's response will be, though the company lawyers were making the ritual noises about appealing the verdict to a higher court.
There are some delicious ironies here, are there not? To those of us who have endured decades of cultural imperialism, in which American companies claim an apparently God-given right to impose their values on every territory they choose to occupy, US outrage at the French verdict raises, at best, hollow laughter. A society that thinks that the writ of its Digital Millennium Copyright Act should run worldwide is hardly in a position to be affronted by the temerity of a French judge's assertion that French law should prevail over an American company.
There was some huffing and puffing about how impotent the French courts would be if Yahoo decided to ignore Gomez's judgment. US legal experts seemed unanimous that Yahoo could not be extradited. (How, one wonders, would you extradite a server farm?) But the Jewish groups that brought the original court actions promised pressure to prosecute Yahoo's owners individually if the company does nothing about the Nazi memorabilia sales on its auction site.
Some optimists argued that Yahoo is effectively immune to legal pressure since it has no assets in France. But this falls at the first hurdle - a thriving website named www.yahoo.fr. And besides, the revelation last week that Yahoo has entered into a partnership with Minitel - France's pioneering but now antiquated online system - to provide email and other services to Minitel users, suggests the company does want to operate in France. So the smart money is on Yahoo swallowing its Californian pride and playing ball with the sainted MÒ Gomez. C'est magnifique!
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Pointer men's basketball team starts season with a win
APPLETON, Wis. – Five Pointers scored in double figures on Thursday evening as the No. 15 UW-Stevens Point men's basketball team opened the season with a 72-64 victory over the Vikings of Lawrence University at Alexander Gym.
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Lawrence jumped out to an early lead with a three-point basket by Davis DeWolfe and stayed in front for much of the first stanza, leading by as many as 10, 21-11, at the midway point of the half.
The Pointers answered with an 18-2 run over the final 10 minutes of the half, capped by a Trevor Hass (New London, WI/New London/Augustana (SD)) layup, to take a six-point advantage into the locker room, up 29-23.
UWSP continued to build a lead to start the second half, pushing the lead to 18, 53-35, with 10:44 remaining in the game.
Lawrence slowly chipped away at the Pointers lead, cutting the deficit to five,62-57, with 1:25 remaining, but clutch free-throw shooting down the stretch sealed the 10-point victory for UWSP.
Tyler Tillema (Randolph, WI/Randolph), Clayton Heuer (Wisconsin Rapids, WI/Lincoln/UW-Green Bay), and Hass each tallied 14 points on the evening while Alex Richard (Spring Green, WI/River Valley) chipped in with 12 and Joe Ritchay (Wisconsin Rapids, WI/Lincoln) added 11. Ritchay also had a team-high six rebounds on the evening.
LU's DeWolfe led all scorers with 23 points on 8-of-10 shooting from the floor.
UW-Stevens Point (1-0) returns to action on Saturday, Nov. 17 with another road contest at St. Olaf College in St. Peter, Minn.
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King Felix wins Cy Young
With the announcement today that Seattle's Felix Hernandez won the American League Cy Young award, I wanted to provide some transparency as to the way that I voted. I voted for Hernandez for the Cy Young, followed by New York's CC Sabathia, Tampa Bay's David Price, then Clay Buchholz and Jon Lester, with my ballot standing as one of two on the Cy Young from the Boston chapter of the BBWAA.
In the results, released this afternoon at 2 p.m., Hernandez (167) was followed by Price (111), Sabathia (102), Lester (33), and Jered Weaver (24), with Buchholz coming in sixth (20).
Believe me, it was not easy this season, with perhaps half a dozen viable candidates for the top spot in the rankings. And I spent a lot of time poring over the numbers, in order to make sure that I voted the right way in a year in which the Cy Young was inevitably going to be controversial. It was going to be controversial if Hernandez won, with his 13 wins, and controversial if Hernandez lost, too, given all the support he had received from the mainstream media and from the stats-heavy blogging community.
Like Zach Greinke and his 16 wins last season, when he won the 2009 Cy Young, Hernandez might not have had the wins, but that wasn't exactly his fault. He played with the worst offense in baseball, a team that hit just .236 as a group in 2010, and which scored only 513 runs, 100 fewer than the Orioles, the next-to-last offense. It's not easy to come up with wins under those circumstances, even if you have a best-in-the-AL 2.27 ERA, and are compiling 232 strikeouts (one fewer than Jered Weaver, who led the AL) in 249 2/3 innings, and I don't think Hernandez can be faulted for that. Hernandez also led the league in WAR (wins above replacement) for pitchers, at 6.0, ahead of Buchholz, Sabathia, and Weaver (5.4).
Contrast that with Sabathia, who won 21 games last season, aided significantly by the offense that played behind him. He might have helped lead the Yankees, a team with multiple holes in its rotation for much of the season, to the postseason, but he didn't top any other important statistical category.
Ultimately, I judged that Buchholz and Lester, while having monster seasons for the Sox, didn't do quite enough to warrant being at the top. Though I'm a bit surprised that Buchholz didn't get more support or votes, especially since I think he outpaced Lester this year, watching both in the vast majority of their outings.
Price, despite his excellence, wasn't bound for the No. 1 spot either, with his home-road splits and WHIP playing into that.
That left Sabathia and Hernandez. So even though the Mariners were out of it almost before they started the season, and even though Sabathia pitched all summer under the pressure of a postseason race, that doesn't count enough in my book to push Sabathia over the top. In the pure terms of the way he pitched, of how effective he was at getting the other guys out, Hernandez was the better pitcher this year. That's why I voted for him.
But, unlike many years, there is no one right answer in this. It was the hardest vote I've had to make in my four years of voting, and I can completely understand why four voters gave their top spots to Price, and why three more gave theirs to Sabathia. Ultimately, though, I was one of the 21 voters who had Hernandez on top, and I firmly believe that he deserves the 2010 AL Cy Young.


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William Alexander (Bill) Cowan Jr.
William Alexander (Bill) Cowan Jr. age 87 of Saginaw, Texas, died at 11:41 p.m. Friday, March 22, 2013, at Odyssey House Hospice in Ft. Worth, Texas after a long illness.
Born September 3rd, 1925, in Los Angeles, California, he was the son of William Alexander Cowan Sr. and Ruby Frank Cowan Reed. He is survived by two sisters Barbara Reeves and Margaret Pemberton, one brother Richard Cowan, numerous nephews and nieces. On October 11, 1952, he married Anita Kathyrn Grafa in Ft. Worth, Texas. She survives him after 60 years of marriage along with two sons, Alan (Donna) Cowan of Boerne, Texas, and their children, Jennifer and Andrea and Douglas (April) Cowan of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and their children Tara (Brandon) Beauchamp, Ryan, Tyler and Haleigh, two daughters, Phylis Hornick (Alonzo) Davis of Ft. Worth, Texas, and her children Devin and Robyne and Kathy (John) Koza of College Station, Texas, and their son John Jr. He also leaves two great-grandchildren, Ashlynn and Ethan Beauchamp. He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother, John "Jack" Cowan.
Mr. Cowan proudly served in the United States Air Force during W.W. II and in the Korean War. He was a highly decorated war hero and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions as a gunner in Korea. He served with the 839th Bomb Squadron (The Gentlemen From Hell), 487th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force in England and the 13th Bomb Squadron (The Devils Own Grim Reapers), 3rd Bomb Group, 5th Air Force in Korea. After his retirement from service, Mr. Cowan was instrumental in the reactivation of the 13th Bomb Squadron now assigned to Whiteman Air Force Base in Knob Noster, Missouri. He held positions with the Saginaw Police Department, UTA Security and J&L Tank Co. in Saginaw. After retirement he liked to make birdhouses and tinker in his shop.
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Ever since her notorious performance at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, Miley Cyrus has become the talk of pop culture, with l'enfant terrible generating miles of headlines, outraged responses and more open letters from Sinead O'Connor than anyone can keep up with.
While pundits and artists alike have lined up to take pot shots at the young pop heroine, none less than the biggest rock star in the world has stood up and defended Cyrus' right to twerk to her heart's desire.
In an interview with Sky News, Sir Paul McCartney strongly supported Cyrus, saying that he's even A-OK with his 10-year-old daughter tuning into the "Wrecking Ball" singer's controversial performances.
"I watched it as an experiment to check, but you look at it and you say 'what's everyone shouting about?'" Sir Paul told Sky News presenter Charlotte Hawkins about Cyrus' VMAs performance. "I think it was only mildly shocking … it wasn't explicit at all," going on to add, "Come on, we've seen worse than that!"
The former Beatle made the comments while promoting his new full-length album, New, which is unleashed on the world this week (Oct. 15). McCartney has been working overtime leading up to the release, most recently previewing a handful of the New tunes during a surprise lunchtime performance on the back of a semi-truck in the heart of New York City's Times Square.
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Emerging Russian leaders study American libraries
Five librarians from diverse areas of the Russian Federation visited the University of Tennessee Libraries on July 11 and 13, 2006, as part of the Open World Program. The Open World Program is designed to give emerging Russian leaders a firsthand look at American democracy and civil society. The program also aims to promote understanding and create friendships between the two nations.
The visiting librarians included:
Svetlana Alenkova, a federal government official responsible for libraries throughout Russia.
Irina Arkhipova, deputy director of the Chelyabinsk Region Youth Library Resource Center.
Larisa Degteva, head of program development at the Lipetsk Region Children's Library.
Saida Kasuyeva, head of user relations at the Khasavyurt City Central Library.
Irina Kuznetsova, head librarian at Samara State Technical University.
Each U.S visit focuses on a theme that relates to the participants' professional or civic work. More than 10,000 emerging Russian leaders and professionals have participated in the program. The Open World Program is the first and only exchange program in the U.S. legislative branch. Established in 1999, the program is headquartered at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Click here to visit www.openworld.gov for more information.


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On Tuesday, shareware developer Maintain released version 6.8 of CocktailCocktail (Mountain Lion Edition), the popular shareware utility program that allows for additional Mac OS X system tests. The new version, a 5.6 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and features:
– Major improvements to the Pilot scheduler. The scheduler will be automatically disabled after installing this update and have to be enabled manually.
– Addresses compatibility issues with the latest versions of Firefox and Google Chrome.
– Added OS X 10.8.5 compatibility.
– Resolves a number of other issues discovered in the previous release.
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Veterans from the worlds of finance and technology are using their professional skills to take on a totally new kind of competitive arena: the National Basketball Association.
The season kicks off on the evening of Tuesday October 27, and the list of Wall Street and Silicon Valley billionaires chasing a return on investment on the hardwood is getting longer.
Apollo Global Management co-founder Tony Ressler earlier this year led a group of investors that includes NBA great Grant Hill to buy the Atlanta Hawks in a deal valued at more than $800 million.
Ressler is a seasoned Wall Street pro, and also put money into Major League Baseball's Milwaukee Brewers 10 years ago.
Gone are the days where a local real estate magnate or entrepreneur winds up running the town's team. Now, increasingly wealthy executives who made most of their money on either coast of the US are swooping in, and paying huge sums to take over pro franchises.
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Rivals 100 running back Knowshon Moreno out of Middletown South, N.J. is currently running track to fill the void from football during the offseason. The talented tailback from the Jersey shore has seven written offers he knows of, but is being pretty close-mouthed about the recruiting process. What's the latest?
"Track is going good right now, we just finished up and won our conference," he said. "A couple of meets ago I came in first in the 100 and 200. The last meet I came in fourth in the 100 and first in the triple and long jump."
How has track helped the 5-foot-11, 205-pounder in football?
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"It's definitely helping," he said. "It's made me faster and stronger, and it just helps with my speed and basic training."
Moreno still holds seven written offers that he's aware of from Rutgers, Maryland, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Michigan, Michigan State and Oklahoma.
Despite not receiving any offers in the last couple of weeks, how has the evaluation period been treating him?
"It's been nice and smooth," he said. "I was surprised to hear from Miami and Oklahoma just because they are big schools and really competitive, but I know I'll have to start narrowing my list of schools down soon and make a decision. Right now, all the schools are basically the same and no one is above anyone else right now."
This summer the running back plans to take in camps near home.
"I'm looking to go around the area and maybe in Maryland along with some other ones, but I don't want to go too far or anything."
As for a decision from the back, it looks like it'll be awhile.
"It'll be after the football season, I want to get that done first," he said. "I'm thinking it will be close to Signing Day."
Moreno was named all-area, all-state and all-city as he ran for 2,030 yards and 37 touchdowns last year.


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A six year battle by The Humane Society
of the United States to stop animal fighting has been won
despite strong legal opposition by the cockfighting lobby
who poured hundreds of thousands of dollars in to hinder
the legislation.
The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed
the Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act followed
by the passing of the same bill last month.
Nearly every week, there are reports
of dog fighting and cockfighting crimes in the United States.
It is a vast underground network of people who revel in
seeing animals tear one another apart and gamble on the
outcomes of the staged spectacles. Now federal law enforcement
officials have the tools they need to uproot these underground
animal fighting enterprises and put a halt to the the abhorrent
cruelty inflicted on dogs, birds and other animals.
The HSUS has documented the cruelty
associated with animal fighting, but also a range of other
criminal practices, such as narcotics trafficking, gambling,
and violence against people.
The Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement
Act establishes a felony-level penalty of up to three years
of jail time for any interstate or foreign transport of
animals for fighting purposes (until now only a misdemeanour)
and makes it a crime to move cockfighting weapons in interstate
or foreign commerce.
The fighting dog's life is one of
misery. Valued only for their ability to win, dogs who survive
a match often receive little care for their injuries and
are barely provided with the basics they need to survive—food,
water and shelter. Many live on chains or in stacked cages
in extended isolation, only getting off for training or
a match.
Fights may last for as long as two
hours, with dogs often succumbing to shock and blood loss.
There is also no rescue for fighting dogs, as confiscated
fighting dogs are typically euthanized due to their unsuitability
for adoption.
Wayne Pacelle, the President and
CEO of The Humane Society of the United States in his press
release claims victory and a "joyous day for animals"
stating "Animal fighting pits will be closing throughout
the nation".
"With the passage of one of
the strongest animal protection laws in the nation, we expect
to see many cockfighters and dogfighters pack it in and
stop flouting the law," added Pacelle. "But some
dogfighters and cockfighters will not cease their criminal
activities, and The HSUS will do all within its power to
find these operators and bring these would-be felons to
The legislation now is headed to
the desk of President Bush, who is expected to sign the
measure into law. The new law will take effect immediately.
HSUS President states, "I can assure you that this
is a dark and long-dreaded day in the dogfighting and cockfighting
worlds… This victory reminds us to never give up and
that there are rewards for compassionate action and perseverance.
Unfortunately despite a penalty of
up to $75,000 for offenders, animal fighting still exists
in Australia. A seizure by RSPCA inspectors of cocks and
cockfighting equipment were reported on in the media as
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The controversial arthritis pain pill Celebrex could return to television in new ads by this summer pending negotiations under way between the drug's maker, Pfizer Inc., and the Food and Drug Administration.
Pfizer agreed to pull ads for Celebrex in the wake of the Vioxx imbroglio and just before of an FDA advisory panel said the drug and similar painkillers, known as Cox-2 inhibitors, increased the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Rival Cox-2 drug Vioxx was pulled by its maker, Merck & Co., in September 2004 and Pfizer ceased ads in December of that year after studies linked Celebrex to heart risks as well.