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Event-Based Science meets National Science Education Standards!
Event-Based Science is a new way to teach middle school science. It is an award-winning, standards-based program in which newsworthy events establish the relevance of science topics; authentic tasks create the need-to-know more about those topics; and lively interviews, photographs, Web pages, and inquiry-based science activities create a desire to know more about those topics.
weather barometric pressure clouds track precipitation wind storm
The task in Hurricane! turns your class into teams of experts. Each team will publish a newspaper account of a real hurricane that is approaching one of 11 American cities that have been chosen as the teams' home cities. Each home city has a history that includes hurricane strikes and damage.
NSTA Recommends Hurricane!
Each team of 6 students has its own Editor-In-Chief, Hurricane Specialist, Meteorologist, Natural Hazards Planner, Reporter, and Environmental Scientist. As this team receives daily information on the hurricane bearing down on its coastal city, decisions must be made. Action must be taken! The public must be informed!
Teaching Suggestions From The Field
has activities designed
for Special Needs Students.
has two remote-sensing activities
sponsored by NASA.
Hurricane! Resources
A "pdf" file containing web sites, books, material lists, and correlations with National Science Education Standards.
Use the BACK button in your browser to return to this page.
HTML Version
If you are a teacher who is about to do the Science Activity called Hurricane Tracking, we have created a tool called Update Tracking Data. It is an MSWord file that presents tracking data for Day 8 through Day 13. Download the file and print out the three pages. Then cut out and glue the appropriate weather maps from Hurricane! Teacher Guide page 43 onto Update Tracking Data. Two maps will fit on each page. Make transparencies from these pages and use the transparencies to present additional tracking data as your students complete the activity.
Update Tracking Data Download
EBS Breaking News
Copy the box and its contents, then paste them into the Hurricane! main page as well as the ebs.html (Welcome) page. Also put the box in the Summer issue of Events.
Hurricane season begins June 1 and ends November 30.
The Hurricane Season 2016 Prediction
On May 27, theNOAA's Climate Prediction Center announced its hurricane outlook for 2016. NOAA's 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook indicates that a near-normal hurricane season is likely this year.
During hurricane season---June 1 through November 30---you can use the Event-Based Science Hurricane! page as your starting point for tracking the Atlantic latest storm. Try clicking on on the word "tracking " or on the tracking map below to see what's happening now. You can also use the map on the right below to get almost real-time wind and wave-height measurements from a data buoy near any active hurricane.
Hurricanes in the Pacific do not usually threaten the mainland US. But if you want to see tropical storm activity in the East Pacific chick here .
Buoy Data
One way to engage your students in the topic of hurricanes is to have them support families who were directly affected by a recent hurricane. Begin your search for ways to help with these two organizations:
The American Red Cross
Salvation Army
2016 Atlantic Hurricane Names
Hurricanes are named alphabetically. The first tropical storm or hurricane of the year has a name that begins with "A" and the second is given the name that begins with "B." Each year's list contains names that begin from A to W, but exclude names that begin withQ and U.
Beginning in 1953, the National Hurricane Center has publishes a new list of names for tropical storms and hurricanes. The first lists had only female names; but since 1979, the lists have alternated between male and female names.
Six lists of names are used. These lists rotate unchanged unless there is a devastating hurricane. When that happens, the name of that hurricane is retired and another name replaces it.
Underlined names below are linked to a tracking map for that Hurricane or Tropical Storm.
Are you and your students tracking a hurricane? Are you trying to predict whether or not it will strengthen or weaken? You can use a wind shear map to help you.
Wind Shear can cause a hurricane to weaken!
Wind shear is the result of streams of air flow at different altitudes. It ranges from a low of 0 to 5 to highs of 40-50.
For example, if there is an easterly flow of air at 30 mph at 40,000 ft., and a westerly flow of air at 25mph at 20,000 ft., the wind shear is 5.
High wind shears tend to disrupt smaller tropical depressions as they are forming.
Wind Shear Map You can look at a map of current wind shear here. You may find it hard to figure out at first. This may help:
Find the white outlines of land so that you can see the part of the ocean area you're interested in.
The yellow lines showing wind shear are like lines on a contour map.
A circle with a 20 or lower on it is an area of low wind shear. If you have one of those low wind shear areas where your hurricane is developing it means that there's not enough wind sheer to disrupt it. The tropical storm or hurricane you are tracking is likely to grow.
If the wind shear is higher that 30 where your storm is developing you will probably see it weaken or even disappear.
Find the white outlines of land so that you can find the part of the ocean you're interested in.
Yellow lines showing wind shear are like lines on a contour map.
A circle with a 20 or lower on it is an area of low wind shear. If you have a low wind shear area where your hurricane is developing it means that there's not enough wind sheer to disrupt it. With low wind shear the tropical storm or hurricane you are tracking is likely to grow.
If the wind shear is higher than 30 where your storm is developing you will probably see it weaken or even disappear.
Correction Alert
A wording problem has been found in the "Cloud Formation" Discovery File on page 5: "These tiny droplets condense onto solid particles ...", although correct could be misread as the already formed droplets collecting around particles rather than the original condensation of the droplets occurring onto the particles. Similarly with "additional water droplets attach themselves to the surrounding particles".
Another problem was found in the figure on page 36. The cross-section shown for the stationary front is actually a cross-section of an occluded front which is one in which a cold front has caught up with a warm front thus lifting all the warm air off the ground as shown in the figure. A stationary front is one that still has warm air at the ground on one side and cold air on the other side (as suggested by the map symbol) and thus could turn into a warm front or a cold front if it starts moving.
Building and Testing A Hurricane Resistant Building
Roger Johnson (science teacher, Maplewood Middle School, Maplewood, NJ) has designed a great new activity to go with Hurricane! Click here to read about his activity: Hurricane-Resistant Building Design
Despite the forecasts that Hurricane Opal would hit their town in a little more than 24 hours, the residents of Pensacola, Florida, remained relatively calm on October 3, 1995. They pulled their boats out of the water, boarded up the beachfront businesses and went about their daily routines, fearing no more than perhaps a few fallen trees and a missed day of work. At that time, the National Hurricane Center predicted that Opal would remain a Category 1 storm, packing peak winds of around 90 miles per hour---a veritable creampuff as far as hurricanes go.
Then overnight, as the hurricane moved across the Gulf of Mexico towards the city, something happened that no one predicted. The hurricane gathered energy from some then unseen reserves, jumped up in intensity to a strong Category 4 storm with peak winds of 150 mph, and threatened to turn Pensacola into a deluge of seawater and rain. The whole region went into a frenzy. The residents gathered what they could, evacuated their homes, and lined up bumper to bumper on Interstate 110 in an effort to flee.
What happened to the forecast and the forecasters? Get the answer from NASA's Earth Observatory.
Links To Hurricane! Related Web Sites
(Links are checked monthly. They were working on the date of the last update.)
Hurricane Andrew Sequence - NASA
Damage Caused by Hurricane Isabel, 2003
Courtesy US Fish and Wildlife Service
Courtesy, Cedar Key Chamber of Commerce
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Mangaluru: C H Krishna Shastri Balila (75), author, academic, columnist and thinker, passed away in a private hospital on Sunday, Feb 7 evening.
He is survived by wife, two sons and a daughter. He will be sorely missed by a large number of his past students, admirers and colleagues in the educational field.
He was otherwise in good health and had attended some events that took place in the earlier week. He was suddenly taken ill a few days ago and hospitalized, but he failed to recover.
He hailed from Balila in Sullia taluk. Beginning his career as a teacher, he displayed extraordinary skills and came to be known for his innovative methods of teaching.
Having specialized in English and Social Science, Shastri taught at the Vidyabodhini High School in Balila for long years, finally retiring as the headmaster of the same school. He was also known for his unique way of compering events and rendering running commentary at sports meets.
During the past few years, he had settled down in Bijai in the city. Yet he continued his keen campaign for liberal methods of education. He was staunchly opposed to the ranking system in examination results. Many of his contemporaries and admirers feel that his fund of knowledge was not suitably utilized by the education authorities in tasks like setting the textbooks and syllabi.
Shastri regularly wrote in newspapers on issues of social import and community welfare. His fervent and fearless views on certain sensitive issues and need for transparency in literary and religious institutions may have touched some raw nerves. But he kept airing his thoughts, nevertheless.
On a personal note, this writer having known him from student days, a feeling of personal loss will always be felt. We shared a common matter as our foremost subject of concern – how common errors can be avoided while learning English as a foreign language. He had already written a number of articles on English errors of Indian students.
It was only ten days earlier that we had decided to hold a few one-to-one brainstorming sessions and to put our heads together on ways and means to put this mission into action. But destiny thought otherwise.
Even in death he was different from others. As wished by him, his body was donated to the Kasturba Medical College for medical research. He had taken this decision long back, which his friends and admirers came to know of only after the news of his death was conveyed.

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Today, U.S. Senators Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME), Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) introduced the Reducing Overlapping Payments Act, which aims to protect the Social Security Disability Insurance and Unemployment Insurance programs by reducing overlapping benefits. The bill requires the Social Security Administration (SSA) to suspend Disability Insurance (DI) benefits during any month in which a recipient also collects Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits, while also ensuring the SAA has the necessary information to identify overlapping DI and UI payments. According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), in fiscal year 2010 over 117,000 individuals received more than $850 million in overlapping payments.
"The disability and unemployment insurance programs are vital and help scores of Mainers and Americans make ends meet, but both are financially stretched. Preserving those funds will allow us to keep resources intact for those who need it most," Senator King said. "The bipartisan Reducing Overlapping Payments Act takes a critical step toward protecting the solvency of these programs by closing a loophole that has enabled the inappropriate payment of overlapping benefits."
"In order to protect safety-net programs for those who truly need them most, Congress must act to reduce wasteful and overlapping payments," Dr. Coburn said. "Absent new legislation, there is no way to prevent beneficiaries from essentially double-dipping and receiving disability insurance while also obtaining unemployment insurance. The non-partisan GAO has said both programs face serious financial challenges, so I am pleased there is bipartisan support to close this loophole. The President also proposed closing this loophole in his most recent budget, and I look forward to working with him to implement his proposal."
"With our national debt exceeding $16.7 trillion and many of our essential benefits programs continuing on an unsustainable path, we must get rid of the waste, fraud and abuse in our system to make sure that those who need benefits will continue to receive them," Senator Manchin said. "This commonsense proposal strengthens our entitlement system by prioritizing our resources based on our values, while also keeping our promises to seniors."
"With the Social Security Disability Insurance Trust Fund's projected depletion in 2016, it's unacceptable that thousands each year game the system by collecting benefits for two conflicting purposes," said Senator Flake. "Preventing the dual collection of disability insurance and unemployment insurance is a common-sense step toward bringing greater solvency to the disability insurance program which so many Americans truly in need depend on."
Source: http://www.king.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senators-king-coburn-manchin-and-flake-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-reduce-overlapping-benefit-payments


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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Natural Resources Police say two commercial fishermen have been charged with striped bass violations.
Natural Resources Police say Dolan Lee Hurley, 67, of Cambridge has been charged with failing to tag striped bass within 200 yards of his net. Natural Resources Police say Hurley was charged after officers found 500 pounds of untagged striped bass onboard a commercial vessel more than 1,000 yards from the net.
The charges against Robert Hodge Newberry, 52, of Crumpton include possession of untagged and undersized striped bass. Natural Resources Police say Newberry was charged after the commercial fishing vessel Open Ticket was boarded Tuesday near Sharps Island.
An Aug. 17 trial date was scheduled for both in Dorchester County District Court.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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Sunday, 5 August, 2001, 01:49 GMT 02:49 UK
'Ticket clue' in hunt for bombers
Police hunting the dissident republican terrorists behind the Ealing bomb have found a bus ticket which could help lead them to the culprits, it is reported.
The ticket - containing a fingerprint believed to belong to a dissident republican - was found near the scene of the BBC bomb blast in March.
It is thought the BBC attackers escaped into central London on a bus after leaving the explosive in a taxi parked outside Television Centre.
The ticket is timed and dated to within an hour of the bomb being planted and was found in a skip full of rubbish from the bus, the Sunday Times reported.
Scotland Yard said it was examining a ticket found after the attack which was "of interest".
'Return to normal'
Police investigating the bomb attack at Ealing say they should have finished their search for forensic evidence by Sunday night.
Two people are still being treated in hospital, for injuries caused by Friday's blast and by flying glass.
Some local businesses have been getting back to work, but much of the area remains closed to the public.
Scotland Yard's Anti-terrorist branch believes there are two Real IRA "cells" operating in southern England, other newspaper reports said.
The Sunday Telegraph reported that detectives were studying footage from cameras along the M40 in the belief the bombers may have travelled to London from the Oxford area.
Click here to see a map of the blast area
Scotland Yard has said that Ealing local authority will decide when the area can be reoccupied, once the forensic search is complete.
Hundreds of security video systems are being examined for signs of the bomber who left the grey Saab 9000 outside busy high street pubs.
Click here to see a map of the blast area
Scotland Yard has said that Ealing local authority will decide when the area can be reoccupied, once the forensic search is complete.
Hundreds of security video systems are being examined for signs of the bomber who left the grey Saab 9000 outside busy high street pubs.
Flooding caused by bomb damage has affected 40 shops in a shopping centre near the blast site.
John Birch, of Ealing Council, said some buildings may have to be demolished due to structural damage.
Some shops and the local cinema have reopened, and 10 weddings have been held at the town's register office, just beyond the cordon.
'Disorganised bombers'
Earlier, former IRA member Sean O'Callaghan told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he knows who the bombers are, but dismissed suggestions they may live in west London.
"They don't particularly live anywhere - one of them has been missing from home now for two years.
"It is known that he is very heavily involved in the Real IRA."
The bomb - containing up to 40kg of homemade explosive - blew up near Ealing Broadway railway station seconds after midnight on Friday.
It caused widespread damage in a 200m radius minutes before 150 people were about to leave a karaoke night at the nearest pub.
Police have had a good response to public appeals for information about the car used in the attack.
The car, registration E304 HPY, was bought from Assured Car Finance in Green Lanes, Ilford, Essex, on 19 July by a man with a Northern Irish accent.
Detectives say the man was in his thirties, with blond hair and a pock-marked face.
Anyone with information about the man or vehicle is urged to contact police on 0800 789321.
See also:
03 Aug 01 | UK
Survivors' tales of terror
03 Aug 01 | UK
Blair condemns bombers
02 Aug 01 | Northern Ireland
Dissidents blamed for airport bomb
03 Aug 01 | UK
Residents' anxious wait to go home
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The St. Louis Rams, though home for the NFC playoffs, finished the 2012 season with a positive combined net points differential against second-seeded San Francisco and fifth-seeded Seattle.
Their defense and special teams deserve some of the credit, for sure.
2012 Single-game NFC West QBR Highs
So does quarterback Sam Bradford.
As concerning as it might be for Rams fans to see young quarterbacks emerging elsewhere in the NFC West, they should know Bradford generally did his part in hard-fought games against the more talented 49ers and Seahawks.
The Rams' third-year quarterback finished the 2012 season with a 67.1 Total QBR score in four games against San Francisco and Seattle. Fifty is average. Players with a 65-plus score or higher over a full season would generally command Pro Bowl consideration.
Bradford posted a 2-1-1 starting record against Seattle and San Francisco. He completed 62 percent of his passes with three touchdowns, two picks and only six sacks on 156 dropbacks. He added three first downs on seven rushes.
Bradford posted a season-high 82.0 QBR score during the Rams' 24-24 tie at San Francisco in Week 10. He completed 26 of 39 passes for 259 yards with two touchdowns and no picks. That included seven third-down pass completions resulting in first downs. That game demonstrated the Rams at their best on offense, with the potential for more (top deep threat Chris Givens missed that game).
A penalty for illegal formation against receiver Brandon Gibson wiped out an 80-yard strike to Danny Amendola in overtime, a play that likely would have delivered the Rams to victory while affecting the NFC playoff race and possibly getting St. Louis to .500 for the season.
Now, for the not-so-good news: Bradford's QBR score was a below-average 43.2 against all other opponents. His starting record in those games was 5-7, with four of the victories against Arizona (twice), Buffalo and a tanking Tampa Bay team.
I've felt as though a player drafted as early as Bradford was drafted -- first overall in 2010 -- should occasionally dominate a game. There should be times when the opponent leaves the stadium thinking something along the lines of, "Hey, when Sam Bradford gets hot like that, there's not much anyone can do about it."
We haven't seen those types of games from Bradford. We still might if the Rams continue to upgrade the players around him. For this season, he was good enough to help the Rams compete on pretty even terms with the two best teams in the NFC West. That's a start.
With that, let's take a player-by-player look at NFC West quarterbacks in relation to Total QBR for Week 17:
Colin Kaepernick, San Francisco 49ers (81.4 QBR, 114.6 NFL rating). Kaepernick completed 16 of 28 passes for 276 yards with two touchdowns, zero interceptions and one sack. Kaepernick carried three times for 5 yards and zero first downs. There are times when players with high NFL passer ratings don't fare so well in terms of QBR. That was the case for the 49ers' Alex Smith last season. QBR was telling us what the 49ers told us when they decided to replace Smith with Kaepernick this season (although Smith's QBR score was much higher in 2012). Kaepernick, like Smith, has posted high passer ratings pretty consistently. QBR also likes the way he's playing. I think that's a very good sign for the 49ers in the long term, and perhaps in the short term as well. Kaepernick finished the regular season with a 76.8 QBR score. That ranked third in the NFL behind Peyton Manning and Tom Brady. Smith ranks seventh with a 70.1 QBR score this season.
Sam Bradford, St. Louis Rams (69.0 QBR, 74.7 NFL rating). Bradford completed 25 of 42 passes for 252 yards with one touchdown, one interception and zero sacks. Bradford carried one time for 6 yards and a first down. Bradford's QBR score was 73.2 in the first half and 65.2 in the second half. Bradford has generally been better in second halves this season. He was pretty consistent against Seattle.
Russell Wilson, Seattle Seahawks (65.7 QBR, 136.3 NFL rating). Wilson completed 15 of 19 passes for 250 yards with one touchdown, zero interceptions and six sacks. Wilson carried 10 times for 58 yards and the game-winning touchdown. He had three first downs rushing and 32 of his 58 yards after contact, with a long rush of 15 yards. Wilson struggled against the Rams' pressure in the first half, taking five sacks. He outplayed Bradford in the second half, but Bradford still finished with a slightly higher QBR score, largely because he took no sacks.
Brian Hoyer, Arizona Cardinals (43.4 QBR, 73.8 NFL rating). Hoyer completed 19 of 34 passes for 225 yards with one touchdown, one interception and two sacks. Hoyer had one carry for 6 yards and a first down. Hoyer threw a touchdown pass, a significant achievement for the Cardinals recently. They had tossed only two scoring passes with 15 interceptions from Week 7 until this game.
The chart below shows QBR scores for quarterbacks relevant to NFC West games in Week 17. Rankings in the first column reflect all NFL games for the week.


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February 24, 2005
V No. 250727
Ingham Circuit Court
LC No. 02-001399-NI
Before: Zahra, P.J., and Neff and Cooper, JJ.
Plaintiff appeals as of right from the trial court?s order granting defendant?s motion for
summary disposition. We reverse and remand. This appeal is being decided without oral
argument pursuant to MCR 7.214(E).
Defendant?s car backed into plaintiff at a high rate of speed, striking her right leg and
throwing her ten to twelve feet into the air. He then sped away. Plaintiff sustained acute fracture
of the mid-shaft of the right tibia and acute, displaced fracture of the right fibula. The force of
the impact also bent a titanium rod that had been surgically inserted in plaintiff?s right tibia as a
result of an earlier injury. At the time of the accident in this case, plaintiff was no longer under a
physician?s care for the earlier injury.
Plaintiff filed suit alleging that the injuries sustained in the accident constituted serious
impairment of body function under the automobile no-fault act. MCL 500.3135(1). The trial
court granted defendant?s motion for summary disposition pursuant to MCR 2.116(C)(10),
seeming to focus on the duration of plaintiff?s impairment and suggesting that the limitations on
her ability to lead a normal life were self-imposed. We review a trial court?s decision on a
motion for summary disposition de novo, making all legitimate inferences in favor of the
nonmoving party, in this case plaintiff. Skinner v Square D Co, 445 Mich 153, 161-162; 516
NW2d 475 (1994).
On appeal, defendant concedes, as he did at the trial court, that plaintiff?s injuries were
objectively manifested and the injuries impaired an important body function. The only issue that
remains is whether plaintiff?s injuries affected her general ability to lead a normal life. MCL
500.3135(7). This issue is resolved as a matter of law if there is no factual dispute concerning
the nature and extent of the injuries, or if there is a factual dispute concerning the nature and
extent of the injuries, but the dispute is not material to whether the plaintiff has suffered a serious
impairment of body function. MCL 500.3135(2)(a). Here, the nature and extent of plaintiff?s
injuries are well documented and we conclude that there is no material dispute over whether
plaintiff has suffered a serious impairment of body function as that term has been defined by our
Supreme Court in Kreiner v Fischer, 471 Mich 109, 130-134; 683 NW2d 611 (2004).
Kreiner instructs us that to determine whether an injury has resulted in a serious
impairment of body function we must consider its effect on the course of a plaintiff?s normal life
which is further to be measured by whether the course or trajectory of the plaintiff?s normal life
has been affected. Kreiner, supra at 131. The Kreiner majority went on to hold:
In determining whether the course of plaintiff's normal life has been
affected, a court should engage in a multifaceted inquiry, comparing the plaintiff's
life before and after the accident as well as the significance of any affected
aspects on the course of plaintiff's overall life. Once this is identified, the court
must engage in an objective analysis regarding whether any difference between
plaintiff's pre- and post-accident lifestyle has actually affected the plaintiff's
"general ability" to conduct the course of his life. Merely "any effect" on the
plaintiff's life is insufficient because a de minimis effect would not, as objectively
viewed, affect the plaintiff's "general ability" to lead his life.
The following nonexhaustive list of objective factors may be of
assistance in evaluating whether the plaintiff's "general ability" to conduct the
course of his normal life has been affected: (a) the nature and extent of the
impairment, (b) the type and length of treatment required, (c) the duration of the
impairment, (d) the extent of any residual impairment, and (e) the prognosis for
eventual recovery. This list of factors is not meant to be exclusive nor are any
of the individual factors meant to be dispositive by themselves. For example,
that the duration of the impairment is short does not necessarily preclude a
finding of a "serious impairment of body function." On the other hand, that the
duration of the impairment is long does not necessarily mandate a finding of a
"serious impairment of body function." Instead, in order to determine whether
one has suffered a "serious impairment of body function," the totality of the
circumstances must be considered, and the ultimate question that must be
answered is whether the impairment "affects the person's general ability to
conduct the course of his or her normal life." Id. at 132-134 (footnotes omitted).
Here, plaintiff, a very active student, suffered multiple, acute fractures of her right leg.
She spent six to eight weeks in a cast, was not able to return to work and had to cancel an
independent study course. She was forced to cancel a planned vacation. Even after her cast was
removed her activities were limited: A film student, she was unable to carry around the required
lighting and film equipment for her studies and her recreational activities, such as skateboarding,
were limited.
We hold that plaintiff suffered a serious impairment of body function as a matter of law.
While the duration of her impairment was relatively short ? six to eight weeks ? in that time she
could not work, attend school, or engage in any of her usual recreational activities because she
was in a hard cast and could not move about without crutches. Even after her cast was removed,
her physical activities were limited. She was forced to cancel an independent study course which
she did was not able to complete until more than six months after the accident. She was forced
to cancel a planned vacation. The activities the trial court focused on, to which plaintiff
returned, did not resume until six months or more after her injuries. It is clear to us that
plaintiff?s impairment was significant and extensive.
We do not read Kreiner to require that plaintiffs must suffer serious impairment
permanently in order to be entitled to meet the requirements of serious impairment of important
body function. Indeed, Kreiner held that impairments of a short duration can be sufficient to
meet the serious impairment threshold. Id. at 134. Under the totality of the circumstances in this
case, including the seriousness and extent of the fractures, the nature and extent of treatment with
casting and crutches, and the lifestyle alterations, all support a finding that plaintiff suffered a
serious impairment of body function as a matter of law.
Reversed and remanded for entry of summary disposition for plaintiff. We do not retain
/s/ Janet T. Neff
/s/ Jessica R. Cooper


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Mangaluru: Two men riding a motorbike relieved an entrepreneur of his bag containing cash and valuables near the Umamaheshwari temple in Kapikad near Ullal on Saturday night.
Chandrashekhar, who runs his business in Bunder, had locked his shop late in the evening and, as usual, was carrying the cash collections for the day in a bag. He took a bus towards home and got down at Kapikad.
As he set out on foot, two men arrived in a bike, threatened him and reportedly snatched the bag from his hand and sped away. The bag contained about Rs 1 lakh in cash, his voter ID, PAN card and other records.
It is suspected to be the act of persons who were very well aware of his daily routine and practice of carrying the cash collected on the day in the bag homewards.
For quite some time, the bike is said have trailed the bus in which Chandrashekhar had travelled from the city towards Ullal.
The Ullal police have registered a case.


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Is Kansas City's Oriol Rosell set to swap one Sporting for another this summer?
The Spaniard has been one of MLS's top midfielders over the past year-plus, and if a Wednesday-morning tweet from CNN's John Sinnott is to be believed, that excellence has drawn the attention of Lisbon-based powerhouse Sporting Clube de Portugal.
1. Transfer news: Former La Masia graduate Oriol Rosell returning to Europe. Leaving Sporting Kansas City for Sporting Lisbon #fcb
— John Sinnott (@JohnSinnott) May 14, 2014
The London-based Sinnott reported that Rosell, a product of FC Barcelona's famed La Masia academy, will make a summer transfer back to Iberia after posting some of the best passing statistics in MLS history this season.
2. Sporting Lisbon bound Oriol Rosell, who played under Oscar Garcia at #fcb, produced Xaxi like statistics in MLS http://t.co/CD3dwplfIn
— John Sinnott (@JohnSinnott) May 14, 2014
Sporting CP are a founding member of Portugal's Primeira Liga and finished in second place behind Benfica in the top flight this season, which concluded last weekend, earning Sporting CP a place in next season's UEFA Champions League.
The Lisbon club has shopped in MLS before, having taken Colombian striker Fredy Montero on loan from the Seattle Sounders last year before buying him outright in January. Montero was Sporting's leading scorer this season.
"Oriol Rosell remains under contract with Sporting Kansas City, and the team's full attention is on our match against Philadelphia tonight," said a Sporting Kansas City spokesperson when contacted by MLSsoccer.com on Wednesday.
The summer transfer window for MLS clubs runs from July 8 to Aug. 6. Rosell joined Kansas City during the summer transfer window in 2012.


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The Australian Greens are demanding a curb on corporate donations before they agree to back legislation that gives political parties millions of dollars from the public purse.
Labor and the coalition have agreed on a plan that will give parties and successful independent candidates the annual equivalent of $1 for each vote they receive at a federal election.
A document leaked to the media suggests the federal government has set aside $37 million in this year's budget so the scheme can start in June.
Greens leader Christine Milne says her party will not support the move without a curb on corporate political donations.
"The quality of our democracy, the quality of public policy, depends on people in parliaments making decisions on the merits of the case not according to the corporate donations," she told reporters in Canberra on Tuesday.
Independent senator Nick Xenophon said now was the time to clean up the system to make it more transparent and accountable.
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"This is the weirdest interview I've ever done," says Max Cavalera by phone, as he wanders down the highway from a broken-down tour bus outside of Salt Lake City. "I'm walking around mountains," he says. "It's actually refreshing." Cavalera, the singer/guitarist who currently leads metal band Soulfly, was also co-founder of the renowned band Sepultura. Cavalera is talking to us just days after the announcement that Soulfly bassist Bobby Burns had suffered a mild stroke and would be unable to continue with the band's current tour. Burns will be replaced by underground legend and Nuclear Assault / Anthrax / S.O.D. / Brutal Truth alum Dan Lilker during the Houston performance. Among the topics of discussion is the recent reconciliation between Cavalera and his brother Igor after several years of estrangement, and the continued rift between both Cavalera brothers and their former bandmate, Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser.
Houston Press: The first thing on everyone's mind, of course, is your reconciliation in August with your brother Igor, who recently announced his official departure from Sepultura. At this point, with both you and Igor having tensions with Andreas Kisser, what is it going to take to bridge the gap with Kisser?
Max Cavalera: I hope not much. That kind of friendship doesn't just disappear. Not to me, at least. The time you have with somebody like that, man...I hope it'll come to the point where we can laugh, talk shit and fight again. And [Sepultura bassist] Paolo too. I love Paolo. We always fought when we were in the band! Me and Andreas once trashed a hotel room in Russia fistfighting. I don't hold grudges. I'm more about making friends than enemies.
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HP: Okay, so say everyone becomes friends again. Say Igor rejoins Sepultura -- which, at this point, still seems possible -- and you guest on each other's records, etc. They still have a commitment to your replacement, Derrick Green. How would you feel if they decided to continue with him?
Cavalera: It's not up to me. I say let the fans decide. I've never met the guy, but if the fans think that that's Sepultura, then let them continue.
HP: You and Alex Newport had a side project for a while, Nailbomb, and in the Point Blank liner notes, it says "fuck Skin-head O'Connor" and in the Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide liner notes, it says "fuck Michael Jackson" Why?
Cavalera: Nailbomb was a hate project. Albums always say "thank you" to this and that. I hate Michael Jackson, and Alex said "I hate Sinead O'Connor." We wanted to say that instead. At that time I didn't know much about her. It was more like punk rock fun.
HP: So she never did anything to you and you never met her?
Cavalera: No.
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Cavalera: Probably.
HP: You use a lot of religious imagery, but oftentimes you'll switch to lines like "motherfucker you don't understand." How do things like the Hindu om symbol connect to hostility for you?
Cavalera: That's just me. I like the extremes. I try to find some kind of spirituality in the shit I do, but I try to find my own way. I don't have to become a sheep to be spiritual. I disagree with churches, where they cut off your balls. To me, the people I look up to who were spiritual had real struggles, people like Chico Mendes. Even Gandhi got beat up by cops and shit like that. The lyrics even surprise me sometimes. Many lyrics, I still don't know exactly what they mean. I mean, this is not math or school. You don't have to be a thousand percent precise. Soulfly performs Sunday, October 8, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres. Call 713-225-1717 for more info.


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hybris helps businesses on every continent sell more goods, services and digital content through every touch point, channel and device. Join a team that promotes an empowered culture, allowing all employees the ability to contribute and to make a difference. We value people that do what it takes to deliver superior results to our customers. We embrace innovative technology and new ideas. At hybris you will find a challenging work environment with smart, dynamic colleagues and abundant opportunities to demonstrate your abilities and learn new skills.
With the growth of our customer base, we are expanding our Customer Management organization and have positions open in the US, Canada and Latin America. The Customer Manager is a significant contributor to the success of hybris and its customers.
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Financial planning, tax management, and investment management. At Brinton Eaton Wealth Advisors, a fee-only firm in Morristown, New Jersey, says Jerry Miccolis, a senior financial advisor with the firm, "We feel strongly--and we're organized this way--that you can't do an adequate job in any one of those three areas without your arms around the other two." The firm's investment philosophy involves building portfolios on a foundation of ETFs, partly because they constitute a more efficient way of performing asset allocation, partly because they're a more efficient way of rebalancing a portfolio, and partly because they're a more efficient way to tax loss harvest.
Miccolis, who in addition to being a CFA and CFP is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS) and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA), spoke to editor Jamie Green in late August about the benefits of tax loss harvesting in general, why ETFs are particularly helpful when doing so, and why tax loss harvesting is something that ideally should be done year-round, not just in the fourth quarter.
To put our conversation into context, tell me how your firm is set up.
Everthing is done on a team basis; there's a dozen of us in total [at Brinton Eaton], nine of us are professionals. We tend to work pretty closely together, so it's not like one of us does financial planning, another does taxes, another does investment management--we all are experienced in all three, though we have varied strengths--mine are more in the investment side.
Talk about your actuarial experience.
It's a great background to have. Much of investment is really risk management, and my prior career was 25 years with Towers Perrin, the consulting firm, where I ran their risk management practice, so a lot of those techniques are pretty transportable into the investment world. We've got a lot of scientific improvements in the way we approach investments for our clients that I was able to bring with me from the risk management side--modeling.
This is a good year for harvesting, because of the way the markets have behaved?
It's gone violently sideways, which is an ideal situation for tax loss harvesting. It's not a situation we'd desire or ask for at the beginning of the year, but now that we find ourselves in it, we need to make what we can out of it.
It presents opportunities for tax loss harvesting, at least the way we do it.
What about tax loss harvesting in the traditional sense?
It's typically done near the end of a year, when you have a position in a certain stock and it's at a loss--you take the loss and then try to find something comparable, either another stock or an index fund or a sector fund, and/or wait 31 days and then buy back into that stock and hope it hasn't had a runup since.
What we do is more throughout the year, and it's primarily through ETFs, in fact, almost exclusively through ETFs (see "About That Floor" sidebar at end of this article).
Let's back up and tell you why we have ETFs in the portfolio. Regardless of the portfolio's size, we will start each portfolio out with a floor or working layer of ETFs across all our major asset classes and sectors. So if you look at fixed income, you look at different maturities. If you look at equities, you look at small cap, mid cap, and then within large cap, the different industry sectors. We also have a third category which we call alternatives, in which we have real estate and commodities. So if you look at all those asset classes/sectors, there may be 20 of them.
We want a floor, a working layer, across all 20 of those categories, that we fill with ETFs. If an ETF doesn't yet exist, then we'll use a mutual fund. Then we'll top off each of those sectors with individual securities, portfolio size permitting.
So we find ourselves with a working layer of ETFs and a market that's violently sideways, where the ETF is at a loss. One thing about ETFs is that there's a lot of competition, so there's more than one ETF in a subsector. So let's take the finance sector: there's an iShare and a SPDR, among others. If you happen to be in the iShare finance sector ETF, and it's at a tax loss for the year, it could be February. There's nothing to prevent you from selling it and buying the SPDR finance sector ETF the same day, because technically they don't follow the same index: the iShare follows the Dow Jones finance sector, and the SPDR follows the S&P finance sector. It's not the same security, and it's not tracking the same index. There's nothing to prevent you from replacing one with the other on the same day. It's not like selling Bank of America and buying it back the same day; you have to wait 31 days.
But in our modeling, we've modeled both indexes, and for portfolio diversification purposes, one's as good as the other. They're both correlated with the other indexes in the portfolio--the other industry sectors, the commodities, the real estate, the bonds, in the same way. So for portfolio construction purposes they're virtually interchangeable, even though for tax purposes they're as distinct as can be.
Any time that the ETF you may be holding in that sector shows a tax loss of a given size--there's a materiality threshold here, if the threshold's too low, you'll be doing so many of these swaps during the year that you'll give away the benefit in trading costs, so we set a materiality threshold before we'll even look at a tax loss harvesting trade. The rough rule is that there has to be a $2,000 loss. The theoretical threshold is lower than that, but as a practical matter we set it at that, because by the time you make the trade, prices move, so we set it at $2,000 to give ourselves a little margin of error. Even if it's as low as $1,000 by the time the trade is consummated, it still pays for itself.
The cost of trading the ETF will be the same as a stock, but you won't be left with an odd lot. We try to keep our clients' stock in even lots of stock, because we want everything to be instantly marketable. But odd lots of ETFs are so liquid, it's just more efficient the way we operate to use them. These are rebalancing trades. In tax loss harvesting, it makes more sense to do them with ETFs because of the different families of ETFs like I said earlier, for portfolio construction purposes they're virtually identical. For stocks, there's no virtually identical replacement for Bank of America, or PNC, or MetLife. But two ETFs are sisters, almost identical twins.
You've done no damage to the portfolio, you've left it exactly as you intended for an asset allocation point of view, you've stockpiled the tax loss, and you don't have to sit on the sidelines for 30 days hoping it doesn't move up.
Why not use an index mutual fund for tax loss harvesting?
Mutual funds will work, but there are other advantages to using an ETF. One, it trades throughout the day, so you're not subject to the abuses that made all the headlines a few years ago. They're more tax efficient because they don't throw off capital gains distributions during the year because other people happen to sell their shares. You can control when you take the gain or loss with the ETF, and they're generally less expensive. Most mutual funds that are sector specific are actually managed, so you're paying higher expense ratios. An ETF generally just tracks the index; it doesn't try to outsmart the index.
We know how we want the portfolio to behave, we know what indexes we want to follow, so what we want is something that will faithfully follow that index and not try to beat it and miss half the time.
Editor-In-Chief James J. Green can be reached at email@example.com.
About That Floor
At Brinton Eaton, portfolios of any size are built on a "floor" of ETFs, topped off by individual stocks, bonds, or alternatives like real estate and commodities. Jerry Miccolis explains the reasoning:
"One is that we spend much time and modeling to get the asset allocation right to begin with. So we know what classes and what sections we want to be in, and in what proportion given that client's risk tolerance.
The most efficient way to get there, to get the diversification we want inside each of those 20 classes/sectors, is to get there all at once through an ETF. So if we want a certain percentage of the portfolio to be in healthcare or biotech, and we want a good representation of that sector, the most efficient way to do that is through an ETF.
The second reason is that because of the modeling we do, we have pretty rigorous rebalancing standards. If the portfolio drifts outside its desired allocation by more than a certain tolerance, we rebalance back to it. Those rebalancing trades are relatively small fine-tuning trades, and it's more efficient to do that with an ETF than an odd lot of stock.
The third reason is tax loss harvesting. If there were no tax loss harvesting, we'd still have a layer of these ETFs for those other reasons."


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Etihad selects Thales HUD for its new Airbus A350XWB
- Thales will equip the first 12 A350XWB aircraft of Etihad's fleet with a dual-configuration HUD.
- HUDs are becoming a crucial optional component. The dual-configuration benefits to pilot/copilot situational awareness and efficiency.
- Thales is HUD supplier of choice on Airbus and strengthens an already global footprint with second dual HUD contract signed over the past several months.
During the Dubai Air Show, Thales announces the selection by Etihad of its dual configuration Head Up Displays for the first 12 aircraft of its new Airbus A350XWB fleet scheduled to be delivered from December 2017 by Airbus.
A total of 62 A350XWBs have been ordered by Etihad.
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The dual-configuration (pilot/copilot) HUD is a newer development to the more traditional, pilot only HUD configuration. It is gaining traction in the commercial market as it improves situational awareness and efficiency of both pilot and copilot, by giving them the same level of eyes-out instrument visibility during critical phases of the flight, especially in low visibility and adverse weather conditions, thus improving safety.
The group already equips single configuration HUDs on Qatar Airways A380s. This is the first dual-configuration HUD in the Middle East, which strengthens Thales's already strong position in the Middle East for this segment. It also closely follows the announcement in September, of the first ever contract for a dual-configuration system the group signed, with China Southern Airlines for their entire fleet of 30 Airbus A320s.
"We have placed considerable efforts in making our HUD the most perfectly tailored system to the needs of pilots. The growth of our footprint worldwide and the choice by Etihad, one of the world's most successful airlines to deploy a dual-configuration across its newest fleet, is a proof of success of this system, and of the benefits it brings to pilots." Daniel Malka, Thales Vice President, General Manager for Avionics Services Worldwide activities.
The interest by many global airlines to equip their newest aircraft with a HUD configuration is growing at an unprecedented pace. With most new build long-haul aircraft coming off assembly lines equipped with a HUD, Civil Aviation Authorities such as the Chinese CAAC, have made a basic single-configuration HUD, mandatory on all aircraft they register. Thales is amongst the world's leading HUD developers and has been selected as the supplier of choice for HUDs on all Airbus aircraft.
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Sophisticated solutions needed for society's violenceExtreme exposure to violence in the formative years distorts a child's or teen's view
Traveling East on I-90 and passing Ellensburg, we saw numerous windmills atop the hills as we made our way towards Vantage.
From one of our young boys came the uninformed, yet insightful question, "Do those big fans make the wind?"
The December 14, 2012 tragedy of Sandy Hook Elementary broke our hearts. We grieve for the loss and the pain of the families.
As I listen to the debates that have followed those tragic events, I can't help wonder to what extent political responses will be about the "windmills" believed to be the cause, instead of the violent "winds" that leads to such events.
There are great parents and young people growing up in our country today. Home is where we first learn to be civil and responsible; and it is reinforced in school.
With good core values, appropriate modeling, and the ability to distinguish right from wrong young people learn to value themselves and others – so, if or when one with this foundation views "violence" in media he/she does not necessarily act in a similar manner.
However, some children and teens grow up with inadequate or ineffective supervision; they are over indulged or exposed to or have readily available access to a multitude of media that includes graphic violence.
There are interactive video games in which they get to star as the "shooter."
These have no real consequences, other than gaining or losing "points" in the game, or moving to higher levels of accomplishment depending on one's "success".
Extreme exposure to violence in the formative years distorts a child's or teen's view – violence is learned. When these young people have emotional challenges, they act out with what they have "learned" for how to deal with it.
If a young person has a foundation of seeing violence as an acceptable response and one adds troubled life experiences, social/emotional issues, and the availability of high powered weapons -- then that combination can result in an act of social violence that shatters the safety of life.
Educators, law enforcement, and caring people in communities across our country have intercepted, intervened, and helped to prevent perhaps hundreds of school incidents that would have caused the loss of life.
Truly, the good will and care of the loving and responsible people in our world are what keeps us all together in society.
Sincere thanks to all of you who are aware of and who are constructively involved in our collective safety every day in our schools and community.
So how do we really improve public safety? Just as the real nature of the problem is complex and multifaceted; effective solutions will have to be equally sophisticated.
Central in this is that we as parents, educators, elected officials, citizens, and taxpayers need to effectively protect and educate young minds and make available the mental and physical health supports that families and young people need to develop responsibly.
If we Americans are not comprehensive in our actions, we will address "windmills" and then wonder "why" -- each time a violent wind results in the unnecessary loss of life.
Dr. Nick Brossoit,
It's to be expected that small children need help reconciling exposure to violence in media, but -very- few children entering into their formative years have any issues separating real life from fantasy. Any child outside that norm is likely mentally ill and in the care of professionals. I'm happy that this piece doesn't explicitly call for banning violent video games, movies, music, or books but it practically does. Media has always been targeted by parents and regulators, but it's never been the problem.
Parents are too quick to pull the trigger on violent video games. The real media-related problem in our society is how parents and regulators react to news of school shootings:
"Events like this, if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; these two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me. Experts will try to figure out what I was thinking. The kids and teachers at school will see they shouldn't have messed with me. I'll go out in a blaze of glory."
~Roger Ebert in wake of Columbine Shooting
Beatles fans refuse to name Lennon's shooter, but over-zealous parents watching their television sets, wanting immediate, heavy-handed action, unwittingly exacerbate school violence. Government interests pile on, using the tragedy as a vehicle to take our civil rights away. It's all very Orwellian. Respectfully, blaming school shootings on video games is Tilting at Windmills.
I would agree that blaming the shootings on video games is vastly simplistic. But we need to realize that there is NO single solution, and that an array of methods will, in time, make a difference.
Good parenting means quality time, and lots of it, with the kids, as well as an eye on what they watch and do. Do these things, and the "video problem" will be on its way to being solved.
The same with reasonable steps in gun control. It's not the solution, but sane laws and their enforcement are another step.


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For the 3 day event Duncan had an Installation of the Pin Studio in the Supper Rooms where he finished the Pin Portrait of Wayne McGregor. Using over a quarter of a million drawing pins, it took 6 weeks. The 2 Pin Portraits are 300cms x 300cms.
Duncan MacAskill was artist in residence at Toynbe Studios from 2005-2007 during the refurbishment of the building, Mapping Artsadmin is exhibited throughout the building.
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CAMERON—Gleta Ann Wallace, 57, of Texarkana, formerly of Cameron, died Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, in Texarkana.
Memorial services will be held at a later date.
Ms. Wallace was born in Houston and raised in Cameron.
She graduated from C.H. Yoe High School in 1975 and Sam Houston State University in 1979 and had lived in Atlanta for the past 20 years.
Ms. Wallace was preceded in death by her parents, Walter and Bernice Wallace; two sisters, Margaret "Peggy" Thomas and Leslie (Deenie) Campbell; and a brother, Alton "Mike" Reed.
Survivors are two daughters, Lesi Jo and husband Ken Fredrick, Kelsee Ann Edmondson, all of Texarkana; a brother, Joe Wallace and wife Debbie of Cameron; two sisters, Carol Smith and husband Waylon of Queen City, Karen Calvert and husband Bruce of Crane Hill, Alabama; a brother-in-law, Tommy Thomas of Huffines; three grandchildren, Kanye, Shelby and Journeé of Texarkana; and an uncle, Gabriel Cavazes of Cameron; also, numerous nieces and nephews.


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The Grand Slam's Canadian Open could soon become an annual Manitoba curling tradition.
Buoyed by the relative success of the second straight Slam to be hosted at Winnipeg's MTS Centre, the World Curling Tour wants to keep coming back. Again and again.
At the very least, the WCT hopes to pick up the option to return here next January.
"We'd like to keep the Canadian Open here every year," WCT president Paul Boutilier said yesterday. "And for sure for next year. After all, tradition is what the sport's built on. We're already talking (to MTS Centre organizers)."
Kevin Donnelly, the Centre's boss, likes the idea of making it an annual affair but will likely just stick to the original three-year commitment for now. That way, should Winnipeg be awarded the 2008 Brier, as expected, the Slam would back off for a year.
"The spirit of the original deal was to look at it as a three-year commitment, and we're still game for it," Donnelly said.
This week's Slam drew a total attendance of 43,523, a few thousand down from last year's 47,000, then a Slam record when both the event and the new arena were a novelty.
WHEW! The most relieved man in the arena yesterday afternoon was John Morris. He finally beat fellow Albertan Randy Ferbey 7-5 in the semifinal before 4,785 witnesses.
"Yeah, that's a bit of a demon, or monkey off your back," said Morris, who is now 2-13 in his last 15 games versus the reigning world champ. "But that's why you play on tour. If you play Ferbey enough, you're going to beat him, and I'm really proud of those guys. It's just a relief."
Ferbey settled for the $12,000 semifinal cash.
"They played really well," credited Winnipeg native Dave Nedohin, who throws last rock for Ferbey. "He made some really big shots, and you're not going to keep beating those teams all the time, so we'll let him win one out of every so many, I guess. Not let. We actually played pretty good, too. It was a good game."
MARTIN BOUNCED: Manitoba's Jeff Stoughton needed an extra end to bounce Edmonton's Kevin Martin, the defending champ, 6-5 in the other semifinal.
"Jeff's team played well, especially at the start," Martin said. "But we were brutal, especially the first six ends."
Martin also got $12,000.
"We tried our best," he said. "I love these events. The problem is everybody's so good, you're just not going to win every time."
OLYMPIC HOPES: Martin, by the way, believes that both Canada's Brad Gushue and Shannon Kleibrink are good enough to medal, if not get gold at the Olympics.
"(Gushue) just has to keep his focus for the whole event, because it's such a different event," said Martin, who won Olympic silver in 2001. "Curling's a part of it, but it's so much bigger. But as long as they can keep their focus on the game, they'll do fine. Obviously, they are brilliant shooters, so the curling part's not going to get in the way of them winning. I like their chances, for sure. I like Kleibrink's chances, too. She's a good shooter.
"From a curling point of view, we really want them both to medal. Get in there and medal. Grab gold if you can but get in there and medal. ... It's important for funding, it's important for sport, for everything, you've got to get in there and medal. Then, for yourself, get gold."


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Who doesn't appreciate a good ol fashion monster smackdown? Roger Corman certainly does. The prolific producer's latest is "Dinocroc vs. Supergator", which, as you might have guessed, pits a Dinocroc against a Supergator. Two enters, but only one leaves! Or some such. Thanks to the good folks over at Anchor Bay Entertainment, we have four copies of "Dinocroc vs. Supergator" to give away to four lucky winners, including two standard DVD copy, and two Blu-ray copies. Read on for the details.
Monster smackdowns are as old as the movies themselves. Frankenstein vs. The Wolf Man. Godzilla vs. King Kong. Billy the Kid vs. Dracula. Freddy vs. Jason. But now Anchor Bay Entertainment proudly unleashes the ultimate Monster (S)Mash: Dinocroc Vs. Supergator, from Oscar®-winning executive producer Roger Corman. Dinocroc Vs. Supergator reunited Corman with cult star David Carradine (Death Race 2000, Kill Bill), in one of his final performances.
Scientist Jason Drake (Carradine) has been holed up deep within a secret island laboratory of an unscrupulous biotech corporation. Doing what? Meddling with the laws of nature, of course! When he turns his attention from mutating fruits and vegetables to alligators, crocodiles and dinosaurs, something's bound to grow to horrific proportions — and escape! Now, two of his most terrifying creations are loose on a tropical island paradise. Bullets won't stop them. Explosives only tick them off. And their ravenous appetite for scientists, tourists, mercenaries and swimsuit models keeps growing.
In pursuit of the scaly beasts are an undercover investigator (Corey Landis), a sexy Fish & Game officer (Amy Rasimas), and a cold-blooded swamp hunter known only as "The Cajun" (Rib Hillis). But how can they stop two forces of perverted science that can outrun SUVs, crush buses, and snack on sleazy producers in hot tubs? When these monster lizards ultimately meet in battle, will mankind be the defeated species? Get ready for a bone-crunching, body-chomping, earth-trembling battle to the death!
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W. H. Pim ~ Lucas County, Iowa
The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, March 23, 1905
THOS. HALL received a severe gash below the left eye Tuesday by being kicked by a mule while working at the Big Hill mine.
MISS FISHER returned to her home at Burlington Monday after a week's visit with her cousin, MISS NELLE HUNTER.
MRS. ELLA HOBLITZELL went to St. Joe Monday to visit her daughter.
AL BERRY and wife came up from Knoxville Saturday to visit with relatives a couple of weeks.
The firemen and their families enjoyed a box supper at the opera hall Monday evening.
JOHN LANE was a Chariton visitor Tuesday.
MISS C.A. MILLER visited in Boone Wednesday.
D. DONEHUE was in Des Moines on business last week.
MR. DAVIS of Beacon is the guest of his son HARRY, this week.
BERT VORHIES of Hiteman visited with his parents, J.R. VORHIES and wife from Saturday until Tuesday.
ROLLAND TREDENNICK and MISS GRACE ROBERTS were married one day last week at Chariton and will go to housekeeping on a farm northwest of Lucas.
B.F. CLAYTON of Indianola was a Lucas visitor Sunday.
MRS. WILL CHILDERS who has been visiting the past month with Lucas relatives, returned home Wednesday.
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The remains of a Michigan man and 10 other World War II airmen whose plane crashed in what now is Papua New Guinea have been identified and will be returned to their families for burial, the Pentagon announced Thursday.
The airmen include 1st Lt. Richard T. Heuss, 23, of Berkley, Mich. He and nine of the men will be buried as a group March 24 at Arlington National Cemetery.
A funeral is scheduled Friday at Arlington for Army Air Forces Technical Sgt. Charles A. Bode, 23, of Baltimore.
The crew's B-24D Liberator disappeared after taking off from Jackson Airfield in New Guinea on Nov. 20, 1943.
The others are 2nd Lt. Robert A. Miller, 22, of Memphis, Tenn.; 2nd Lt. Edward R. French, 23, of Erie, Pa.; 2nd Lt. Robert R. Streckenbach Jr., 21, of Green Bay, Wis.; Tech. Sgt. Lucian I. Oliver Jr., 23, of Memphis; Staff Sgt. Ivan O. Kirkpatrick, 36, of Whittier, Calif.; Staff Sgt. William K. Musgrave, 24, of Hutsonville, Ill.; Staff Sgt. James T. Moran, 21, of Sloatsburg, N.Y.; Staff Sgt. James B. Moore, 21, of Woburn, Mass.; and Staff Sgt. Roy Surabian, 24, of Medford, Mass.
The government of Papua New Guinea notified U.S. officials in 1984 of a World War II crash site in a ravine in Morobe Province, the Defense Department said. A U.S. search team located B-24 wreckage and some human remains but couldn't complete the mission because of the dangerous terrain.
In 2004, local villagers turned over human remains they had previously removed from the area, the Pentagon said.
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It's a basic law of economics that Jefferson leaders and residents learned firsthand last week.
When a commodity becomes scarce, the price goes up.
Jefferson City Council members voted to raise the price of water last week in an effort to recoup the $114,000 a month the city must pay to buy water from the Jackson County Water and Sewer Authority, after its own reservoir dried up.
The water is pumped into Jefferson's pipes from the Bear Creek Reservoir and the city of Commerce's reservoir.
The rates are based on how much water homes and businesses use, but in most cases, the new rates will almost double water bills across the city.
Jeff Fillip, director of public works for Jefferson, said the new rates are only an emergency measure and will be rolled back when Jefferson's reservoir is usable again. That will take several rainstorms, but it's bound to happen sometime, Fillip said.
The rate hike, which was approved at a meeting on Sept.f 19, already has been relaxed because of concerns it would cause an undo burden on Jefferson residents.
Other cities and counties haven't yet passed on the cost to customers.
The Jackson County Water and Sewer Authority recently increased water prices, but that was spurred by a need for more revenue to pay off debts the authority racked up building infrastructure.
Jackson, Barrow, Clarke and Oconee counties aren't having to pay more for their take from Bear Creek Reservoir yet, said Melvin Davis, chairman of the Upper Oconee Watershed Authority, the group that manages the Bear Creek Reservoir.
But it may cost more to pull water from the Bear Creek Reservoir as the water level drops, said Kevin Williams, manager at Bear Creek.
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Craig Hartsburg couldn't hide his anger or disappointment.
As the Senators coach emerged from the dressing room a few minutes after the 4-2 loss to the Boston Bruins last night at Scotiabank Place, he wore a look of disgust on his face and he couldn't hide his displeasure in a post-game press conference.
Hartsburg can handle the odd loss or two, but he didn't like the way last night's defeat to a division opponent unfolded -- with the Senators giving a lacklustre effort to allow the Bruins to head home with the two points in Ottawa's first game against a Northeast Division foe this season.
"I don't think we played a really competitive 60 minutes," said Hartsburg. "We competed in spurts, but you're not going to beat teams in this league unless you compete for 60 minutes. We were too soft on the puck and it cost us goals.
"I thought our third period was the best period. Again, we've got to be able to do it for 60 minutes. There's got to be pride to win battles and we lost too many. We're going to have get stronger. I don't know the theory behind it, but we've got to work harder to get the puck in a better place."
While Nick Foligno and captain Daniel Alfredsson (playing his second straight game after returning from knee surgery Friday) scored for the Senators, it wasn't enough to stop the Bruins, who got two goals from Phil Kessel and a three-assist performance from Marc Savard.
The Senators know they have to be better and more consistent.
The Bruins are always a tough opponent and the players were frustrated by the fact that every time they made a mistake, it landed in Ottawa's net.
"You look at us in the third period and we're in there battling and we're winning the battles," said Spezza. "We controlled the play in the third and we've got to do that for 60 minutes. (Hartsburg's) been preaching the whole time we've got to be a hard-working team. We've got lots of skill, but if we can be a hard-working team, we'll be a lot better."
The biggest surprise of the night may have been Boston coach Claude Julien's decision to start goalie Manny Fernandez ahead of Senators killer Tim Thomas.
Thomas had a 4-1-1 record against the Senators with a minuscule .99 goals-against average.
The decision didn't make any difference. The Senators weren't able to get much by Fernandez with their 23 shots. It was a tough game with a lot of hard hitting, but the Senators struggled to find consistency at both ends of the ice.
"I don't think we were very consistent and we definitely didn't win enough battles," said Alfredsson, who scored his first of the season at 15:40 of the second to cut the Bruins lead to 3-2 going into the third.
With Blake Wheeler serving a goaltender interference penalty, Alfredsson took a pass in the slot and fired a bullet by Fernandez with Spezza creating traffic in front to give the Senators a fighting chance to get back into the game going into the third.
Before Alfredsson's goal, the Senators had to rely on Martin Gerber, making his second start in as many nights, to come up with big stops.
The Bruins looked like they wanted it more. They caused turnovers and beat the Senators to loose pucks.
"You can't blame (Gerber)," said Hartsburg. "There was mistakes on every goal."


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Password Cracking Based on Learned Patterns From Disclosed Passwords
Password-based authentication systems are still the most commonly used mechanism for protecting sensitive information despite being vulnerable to dictionary based attacks. To guard against such attacks, many organizations enforce complicated password-creation rules and require that passwords include numeric and special characters. This paper demonstrates that as long as passwords are not difficult to remember, they remain vulnerable to \"Smart dictionary\" attacks. In this paper, a password analysis platform is developed to formally analyze commonly used passwords and identify frequently used password patterns and their associated probabilities.
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They didn't put in a logout timer on purpose, you know, the whole 'give the player more freedom thingie'.
You realize that even with a "logout timer" one can still kill the process and logout immediately right?
No game can prevent windows from killing a process.
At best they can put a delay before the server considers a character as logged out, so the char itself is still logged in for a few seconds.
It will be fixed but it's not a major issue for me honestly. If you do it in sPvP you're kicked out of the game anyways.


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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan said on Wednesday that the solution to the country's problem was fresh general elections, not the appointment of a new prime minister, DawnNews reported.
Khan said that the new prime minister will have to write a letter to the Swiss authorities to reopen money laundering case against President Asif Ali Zardari.
The PTI chief said that his party will certainly participate in the upcoming general elections.
He said that currently his priority was internal election within his party.
Earlier, the PTI chief had welcomed judgment of the Supreme Court disqualifying Yousuf Raza Gilani as prime minister.
Khan had described apex court's judgment on Tuesday as "historic because it has demarcated limits of judicial and parliamentary authority. It will set a precedent that once superior judiciary has convicted someone, no non judicial forum can hold otherwise.


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i used to have a colleague, two rabbits she had, Peter and Lazy.
black beauty & Whitey-chan !!
wah lau u all a lot of wild imagination and creativity! right now, test-driving Mittens for the black one with white feet, and maybe Totoro for the white/black splotchy one
Use a few days first see whether feels right anot. If not, then quickly change hahaha
BTW here's what they looked like before we bathed them:
Now after bathing, they look a lot fluffier and less scruffy heheh
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For some reason, when we first saw the picture, we thought the Wheeler-Rex Mantis was a little homeowner band saw that wouldn't look out of place sitting on a garage workbench. Then we saw the video and realized how big it is (it actually has attached wheels so it can be pulled around like luggage). As it turns out, it's a 110 lb, $2,500 piece of heavy-duty, industrial grade plumbing equipment.
It can handle up to 6" pipe and is available with a flat vise or a chain vise. The body can flip up and be used as a vertical band saw.
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HAYWARD — With the president of Chabot College gone — her last day was to be Dec. 31 but she left earlier this month on vacation — three contenders are in the running to replace her.
Celia Barberena announced her retirement last summer after serving as president for nearly four years, thanking the board and Chabot community for a gratifying stint and an "opportunity to serve this community and to fill my life with meaning and purpose."
The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District held forums to vet four finalists, two from within the district and two from outside. Since then, one has withdrawn for unspecified reasons.
The remaining candidates are:
According to college spokeswoman Laura Weaver, the board is expected to make a decision in February.
For more information about the president search and links to videos from the Nov. 28 forum, visit www.clpccd.org/hr/ChabotPresidentSearch.php.
Contact Eric Kurhi at 510-293-2473. Follow him at Twitter.com/erickurhi.


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On Tuesday, Republicans in the Senate blocked a bill that would have kept the interest rate on new, subsidized student loans from doubling to 6.8 percent this July, amid disagreements over how to pay for a $6 billion, one-year extension of the current rate. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney quickly released a statement, but it seems he forgot to include some details. I have your back on this, Jay. Here are a few edits that make this version a little fairer:
It is extremely disappointing [but not really] that Republicans in the Senate today voted to ask millions of students to pay an average of $1,000 each [over the course of a 10-year repayment window] in order to protect a loophole that allows millionaires to dodge payroll taxes [which could be closed to pay for something else more important than extending that student-loan rate]. On July 1, more than 7.4 million students across the country will see their interest rates double unless Congress acts [though the higher rate will only apply to new loans, not existing ones, and most people with student debt never had access the 3.4 percent rate, anyway]. We're pleased that despite failing to address it in their budget, Republicans in Congress now profess to be concerned about this coming rate hike [but of course they would, since, as this press release demonstrates, we have been trying to bludgeon political opponents with the rate-hike issue]. But now it's time for them to stop refighting old political battles [which is ironic for us to say, because this whole rate-cut thing started in 2006 as a Democratic campaign gimmick] and prove they're serious by proposing a real solution to keep rates low for students without burdening middle class families or undercutting preventive health care for women. [Notice how we got the "War on Women" in there?] We look forward to continuing to work with Congress to prevent rates from doubling and ensure that students continue to get a fair shot at an affordable education. [Of course, 6.8 percent would still be beyond fair to students with zero credit history.]
I hope the White House sees this in time. They wouldn't want people to get the wrong idea about this rate hike.
Update, 11:59 p.m.: The text above has been very slightly edited for clarity.