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jose gonzales
Since marijuana is safer than aspirin, it would be hypocritical not to say "no.".
tyrone jackson
Remember, the FDA is primarily a political organization, and has been since its inception in 1938. (e.g. Remember, Royal Copeland created the exemption of homeopathic medicines from the safety & efficacy requirements in order to protect his family homeopathy business, which was being destroyed because science based medicine had become so effective.).
marilyn j-k, ph.d.
Aspirin's effect on blocking production of prostaglandin E2 to protect the stomach (increased mucus and decreased acid) is often mentioned as a problem but there are many others. Aspirin also inhibits the prostaglandins that protect the kidney against ischemia when blood flow is reduced when people faint from excessive treatment for hypertension. Aspirin also inhibits the prostaglandins that increase blood flow to the colon, which can be used to treat diarrhea but causes constipation in most people who previously enjoyed normal bowel functions. Aspirin can inhibit the production of prostacyclin that dilates blood flow to the lung and prevents pulmonary hypertension. It inhibits thromboxane A2 production to slow the activation of platelets, but it also inhibits prostacylin production that normally counteracts the action of thromboxane A2 to prevent stroke. By inhibiting cycloxygenase making prostaglandins, anything increasing phospholipase A2 and arachidonic acid release will then drive production of leukotrienes (bronchoconstriction and white cell recruit to the lung) which is why some people have trouble breathing after taking aspirin. There are so many beneficial prostaglandins made by cyclooxygenase. I'd rather retain a balance of prostaglandins to regulate body functions normally as needed. Aspirin intermittently is not harmful, but aspirin every day for 10, 20, 30 years deters the body's coping mechanisms and over long periods, something is bound to happen that requires the bodies normal versatility of responses. Why change that unnecessarily in health people when they have nothing wrong to prevent; let their bodies naturally adapt to all changes by balancing prostaglandin productions..
robert shubinski
Its all about statistics here. An aspirin a day reduces the risk of heart attacks by 50% like we have been told for years now. But that statistic is misleading because one has to factor in the incidence of myocardial infarction which is about 208 per 100,000. In other words only 2 people out of 100 will get a heart attack in a given year. So a 50% 'RELATIVE RISK' reduction means that 50% of those two heart attacks will be prevented by aspirin, and the prevention strategy prevents only one heart attack per 100 persons taking the aspirin. Now factor in that about 15% of folks taking an aspirin a day will have a side effect or a complication such as bleeding in the stomach. Thus, 99 out of 100 people will be taking the aspirin for nothing and 15 of those 100 people will get a serious side effect. This use (or misuse) of 'relative risk reduction' statistics is common in medicine because it exagerates the benefit of an intervention in the study results. If one wanted to state the benefit of an aspirin a day in terms of 'absolute risk' reduction, one could say that an aspirin a day has a chance of benefiting one person in a hundred and a risk of harming 15 people in a hundred.. Now taking the reasoning one step further, if we had a pill that could prevent ALL causes of death for one year including accidental causes and we dispensed the pill to all persons age 65 and older as a sure thing death preventer, only one in 20 people would benefit since 19 or 20 people were not going to die that year anyways. 19 of 20 people would take that pill for nothing and if it happened to have risks and side effects ( all effective remedies do, including alternative or natural remedies . ..) then one would have to factor in those risks before taking the pill, lest the remedy be worse than the disease. Now if my magic death preventer pill only prevented all cancer deaths, only one in 59 people would benefit, assuming cancer causes about one third of all deaths in that age group. If we had a pill that would only prevent death from say colon cancer than the likelihood that a person taking the pill would benefit is very small indeed. In summary, the only way one can make sense of a medical statistic is to use absolute risk reduction numbers, relative risk reduction percentages are useless unless you also know the frequency of the illness in the target population and use the same type of statistic to measure benefits as one would use for risk and adverse reactions..
mary c
Mary b., You need to find a new doctor that you can trust. Do it now before you have real problems....
Sadly, nowhere in this article's physician comments was there any acknowledgement of why we should be prescribing aspirin-it isn't the marginal CHD event prevention, it's the Cancer prevention. Recent evaluations the many randomized ASA trials that have been done has uncovered a relatively large and statistically significant decrease in cancers after 5 years of ASA use. This realization is relatively new. See: Rothwell, et al., Effect of daily aspirin on risk of cancer metastasis: a study of incident cancers during randomised controlled trials, The Lancet, 2012, 379:1591 - 1601. Rothwell et al., Short-term effects of daily aspirin on cancer incidence, mortality, and non-vascular death: analysis of the time course of risks and benefits in 51 randomised controlled trials, Lancet, 2012. Algra & Rothwell, Effects of regular aspirin on long-term cancer incidence and metastasis: a systematic comparison of evidence from observational studies versus randomised trials, The Lancet Oncology, 2012, 13: 518- 527. Rothwell et al., Effect of daily aspirin on long-term risk of death due to cancer: analysis of individual patient data from randomised trials, Lancet, 2011. Bosetti, et al., Aspirin and cancer risk: a quantitative review to 2011, Annals of Oncology 2012; 23:1403– 1415. Jacobs et al., Daily aspirin use and cancer mortality in a large US cohort, J Natl Cancer Inst 2012. Bardia A, et al. Association of aspirin and nonaspirin nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs with cancer incidence and mortality, J Natl Cancer Inst. 2007;99(11):881–889. Chan et al. Long-term aspirin use and mortality in women, Arch Int Med. 2007;167(6):562–572. There is little we can do to prevent cancers, the second leading cause of death. Unless there is a particularized reason to fear bleeding, long-term daily aspirin use is our best bet. (Note that these RCTs generally used 325 mg ASA.).
Mr. Shubinski: It turns out that an aspirin a day reduces the relative risk of heart attacks by about 5% to 10% in primary prevention, not 50%. (See, for example, JAMA. 2006;295(3):306-313 or Lancet 373.9678 (2009)1849-60 or Am J Cardiol 2006;98:746–750 or BMJ (2009) 339.) 5% to 10% is still an impressive number for something that costs a penny a day and the numbers are even better for secondary prevention. Unfortunately, aspirin also unequivocally increases major bleeds, which is why anyone with a particularized risk for major bleeds should not take it. But for most people, it is the cancer prevention benefits, cited above, that make a 325 mg aspirin a day smart. (With respect to your discussion of relative cost-benefit calculations, look up the definitions and calculations of "NNT" and "NNH," number- needed-to-treat and "number-needed-to-harm, on wikipedia, for example.).
Reznik, MD
No universal medications are available. Well known facts- no benefits from ASA in elderly female, no benefits if ASA is using along with NSAIDs. For some reason these facts are ignored by majority patients and physician. GI ASA complications are by far higher in elderly female also. The most impressive fact - how "evidence based medicine " is working. Today "evidence" making not using ASA- malpractice, tomorrow- "evidence" making using- malpractice. The same with HRT, use of Niacin, rising HDL, I am not talking about diet modification for multiple diseases, as well as promoting drinking" more water". Evidence based medicine?! What about common sense? Why we are so selective in accepting evidence? Stool transplant is one of the best example. Another important evidence nobody want to accept- there is clear evidence that Board certification of the physician is not translated in quality of providing care. These are just very few examples how the system is working..


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Johannesburg - The number of social grant beneficiaries in the country has increased by more than 300% in the last nine years, the SA Institute of Race Relations said on Monday."SA is becoming a welfare state... the number of social grant beneficiaries is on a constant rise. Grants risk creating a dependency syndrome," spokesperson Nachi Majoe said in a statement, commenting on figures in its latest South Africa Survey released last week.In the 2009/10 financial year the country had nearly 14 million social grant beneficiaries. The child-support grant made up the highest share with over nine million beneficiaries. The old-age grant was second highest, with over two million beneficiaries.By 2012 the national treasury predicted there would be 16 million beneficiaries.Thirty percent of the country's population of 49.9 million were currently receiving social grants.
28.05% is receiving grants. Poor journalism...
And why are you the expert.
LOL... ummm... duh.. tell us something we didn't know?
nearly 50 million citizens and only about 10% are taxpayers supporting the welfare state.
At the rate people are leaving the country, the 10% will be 9% in no time and then 8%, 7%.......
Don't forget all the members of parliament and the rest of thier buddies.
You hit the nail smack on the beanie. It's not sustainable, but the question is at what point does the ANC government wake up to that unassailable, inescapable, fact?
It is unsustainable and we will end up rioting like Egypt and Tunisia with any luck. It is inevitable
The sooner we start the real revolution the better. Oust the deadwood and let taxpayers take back their power.
This is a big concern to me, where will this end. The ANC goverment better start creating jobs asap. I'm not even sure that if the SA economy is running @ full capacity would able to sustain 16mil mouths.
We have to stop imegrants and start creating jobs for our own people, surely they come first. The second thing that must stop is the corruption how many jobs can be sustain ? How many jobs can be created if we sort out service delivery ? We have to start with proper education our children first.
We should start teaching them to "fish" so that they don't ask for bread anymore !
Governments CANNOT and never have been able to 'create' jobs. All they do is take your money pay themselves and a little to the people employed. This bunch of play at governing are the worst of the lot. Governments are not productive now nor have they ever been. What is needed is for the Malema's of this country to stop spouting nationlisation and to encourage foreign investment whereby one then creates productive industries that employ people. People that have a modicum of education that is.
Herman, You must add 250 000 new workers (mouths) from Zimbobwe to your calculations. Remember too that these mouths are going to reproduce too and the consequences are another 750 000 extra mouths to feed and provide with grants. Ayoba Ubuntu.
@Madelane - Well stated, no government has ever been able to sustain ongoing employment without the entrepreneurial skills of the electorate – The only jobs government can create is that of civil servants, members of parliament, police, fire-fighters, soldiers, etc. teachers and hospital staff should be self sustaining if the establishments are well run on business principles, unfortunately we are a welfare state so all the above can only be maintained through taxes.
Over taxation will result in more entrepreneurs and established business leaving to neighbouring states offering tax reprieve, creating growth there instead of here. A further catalyst fuelling the exodus and or stifling growth is the stringent BEE rules and regulations which overwhelm and bury burgeoning entrepreneurs in their effort to create business and work in pursuit of profit. (I read an article that the minister of labour intends coming down harder on business)
Government should encourage and not hinder entrepreneurial effort unnecessarily – All people within our rainbow nation, at grass roots level, should take hands and assist each other in concerted efforts to meet each others needs through sound business principles.
Failing which ... We won't have a snowballs hope in ...
@Madelane - Well stated, no government has ever been able to sustain ongoing employment without the entrepreneurial skills of the electorate – The only jobs government can create is that of civil servants, members of parliament, police, fire-fighters, soldiers, etc. teachers and hospital staff should be self sustaining if the establishments are well run on business principles, unfortunately we are a welfare state so all the above can only be maintained through taxes.
Over taxation will result in more entrepreneurs and established business leaving to neighbouring states offering tax reprieve, creating growth there instead of here. A further catalyst fuelling the exodus and or stifling growth is the stringent BEE rules and regulations which overwhelm and bury burgeoning entrepreneurs in their effort to create business and work in pursuit of profit. (I read an article that the minister of labour intends coming down harder on business)
Government should encourage and not hinder entrepreneurial effort unnecessarily – All people within our rainbow nation, at grass roots level, should take hands and assist each other in concerted efforts to meet each others needs through sound business principles.
Failing which ... We won't have a snowballs hope in ...
The most important thing to control is the breeding! We are going to end up like the UK where these youngsters breed for their social grants. The small taxpaying base in this country can just not afford these never ending grants. Birth control needs to be preached all day everyday. Oh! sorry we can't because our president is the biggest culprit!
We had a welfare state for whites pre-1994. All thats happened is that bits extended to neveryone else.The breeding among the whites was encouragede. Why discourage it now?
@Lihle: Oh bullshit! You have no idea what you are talking about. Idiot.
Pity I didn't benefit from it. And boy was I dirt poor!
Besides, lihle who mentioned race? You racist dumbass!
Excuse me Lihle. My grandparents came from an era where they had 9-14 children. I dont know a single white South African family who has more than 4 children - and even those are rare. I did, however, meet a young Zulu man recently whose father had 67 children and 10 wives! Who do you think is going to feed all those children? I earn well and couldnt afford it, so I wonder how he will. Get your head out of the sand you idiot!
Lihle - I see your from matric class of 2010
@Lihle. I wonder why the white population has increased from 5 million in 1970 to approx. 5million in 2010 against the 16 million blacks in 1970 to the approx. 40 million now. I think the breeding amongst the whites were encouraged so that the tax base could be increased.
Lihle, The only person who encouraged the whites to breed was the long gone leader of the Herstigte Nationale Party HNP. It was not popular then and not now because it goes against the grain of western philosophy.
Lihle, you are right about one thing, we should have breeded a lot more . But let me tell you something, it is because your race breeding is out of control. Do you think that a mere grant of R200 a month for a child is sufficient for that child's welfare. That is the difference between us you see, and that is why you will remain poor because you have too much mouths to feed.
Lilhe...there are not enough strong insults for your obvious lack of intelligence (epidemic, endemic I suppose), but granted, it must just be awful enough being you, and I'll settle for that justice.
@ Linhle, pre 1994 white people were encouraged to breed in and audacious bid by the anti-black apartheid government to rid white people of thier racial minority status. It also served to beef up thier numbers as there was a threat of a civil war and black people had far greater numbers.
In this case however the people that are multiplying at the fastest rate are poor people with no resources. Meaning their kids grow up very disadvantaged and have the odds of making a meaningful contribution to the economy in their lifetime severely reduced. Unfortunately due to our recent past, apartheid, bantu education etc, approximately 99.9% of the most impoverished people are black. So if you encourage poor people to stop multiplying you inadvertently encourage a group that happens to be predominantly black to stop having kids. Its not a black or a white thing, its a plea to grant seekers to stop having more grant seekers.
And now we are thrown into slavery. Not only paying for the sins of our fathers, but also the sins of all whites that started slavery. Bring it on... what the hell...
Correction: Slavery was not started by whites.
Oh grief...here we go again. Wake up and look at Africa where places like Kenya have been independent for fifty years and nothing has changed. Haiti is another example. So stop blaming someone else for your lack of ability which incidentally can be obtained very easily by making sure that the despised whiteys create more industry and work opportunities thereby affording you the opportunity to learn the necessary skills.
Typical of the mentality. If it is free grab it.
Unfortunately even if it is free people are not grabbing anything unless it is money and for that I am very sorry for.
@Lihle - you are the the stereo type malema syndrome scum, go and get an education so that you can particpate in some intellectual discussion you prick. Basic economics is a good place to start......................
This article is outdated by a few years. Becoming? I don't think so, it is already a welfare state. Get with the program, poor journalism
Wish we could get back to being a "Night-watchman state"
Start a program to stop the poor & uneducated from breeding like rats. Don't breed if you can't feed.
"Bonk" for your money!!
@ monster, 28.05% ?, maybe the article was written 2 days ago!
"becoming"? No, have been for a while!
Some beneficiaries at least have death certificates...at least 5% of the 28.047658% and Lihle you are probably one of them numbskulls.
They're doing it all backwards. How about rewarding people for NOT having children they can't look after? I've heard of too many cases where women have four kids just so they can claim the R250 monthly child grant. Nobody bothers working then because they can scrape by on R1000 a month and a rdp house. And if the children die of disease and malnutrition they just have more to replace the 'earners'. What really pisses me off is that they drop the babies with grandma and take the child grant for themselves. Then poor grandma must support the children on her meagre pension. Take care of the pensioners by all means, they have at least hopefully contributed to the economy most of their lives!
Whites are the proverbial canary in the ANC`s coalmine and that canary is on life support. An apt quote by Dr. Adrian Rogers - "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
so true !
The population is growing like a plague, and the tax base shrinking.... who is going to pay?
unemployed? just have more kids...your ticket to free money and more poverty.
As hy staan steel hy... as hy le teel hy.
- Ancient Chinese proverb.
Haikona. Mmmmm!!
Stop the breeding, can't feed 'em, don't breed 'em. Simple!!!
Saw an initiative somewhere to have mandatory drug testing for people on Welfare. i believe this is a great move. One better would be to only give welfare to people that voluntarily sterilise themselves. If you can't afford to feed yourself, stop breeding more mouths to feed!!!
Creating more jobs will not solve this ... why would one work if you can recieve by doing nothing
What a shame that a country with so many resources should bottom out in the way it has. Too many out-stretched hands, either grabbing what they can get or pathetically unwilling to even try to help themselves.
Blame labour law, plus why dont we come up with a system that allows the unemployed to work part time or something for thier grant, they add no value yet they suck up soo much money
this is encouraging laziness. no wonder so many poor people breed so much.
Well what do you really expect when our borders are left wide open to any "Tom, Dick or Harry" who arrives in our country. Their chances of employment are nil so automatically they get a free house, water, electricity and sewage removal. Our locals have to wait at least 20 years for these freebies. Who wants to wek anyway ??
Nine million children on social grants?? How about bringing in the "law" of ONE child per family? And sorry but if you want a child while you are still at school, you have to get out and get a job! Take responsibility for your actions. Too many school girls are pregnant in school, and this sets a bad example for the younger girls.
this too has been iritating me;4 Gods sake why wud u concieve a child while knowing u won b able to feed them. email@example.com

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said a whiting to a snail.
"There's a porpoise close behind us,
and he's treading on my tail.
See how eagerly the lobsters and
the turtles all advance!
They are waiting on the shingle
will you come and join the dance?
Will you, won't you, will won't you,
will you join the dance?
Will you, won't you, will won't you,
won't you join the dance?
You can really have no notion how
delightful it will be,
When they take us up and throw us,
with the lobsters out to sea!"
But the snail replied "Too far, too far!"
and gave a look askance
Said he thanked the whiting kindly,
but would not join the dance.
Would not, could not, would not,
could not, would not join the dance.
Would not, could not, would not,
could not, could not join the dance.
"What matters it how far we go?"
his scaly friend replied.
"There is another shore, you know,
upon the other side.
The further off from England
the nearer is to France
then turn not pale, beloved snail,
but come and join the dance?
Will you, won't you, will you,
won't you, won't you join the dance?
Will you, won't you, will you,
won't you, won't you join the dance?"
It's the birthday of the man who wrote Show Boat (1927)composer Jerome Kern, born in New York City (1885).
It's the birthday of one of the founders of the American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers, born in London (1850).
It's the birthday of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, born in Cheshire, England (1832). He was a painfully shy mathematician and church deacon who kept fastidious charts showing what his guests had eaten when they'd dined with him and what chair they'd sat in. He even summarized and filed all of his correspondence in a catalogue system containing 98,000 cross references. Afflicted by a stammer, he was more comfortable with children than with adults, especially with the three young daughters of his college dean. While taking them on a rowboat outing in July of 1862, he spun a tale about a girl named Alice, who fell down a rabbit-hole into an unexpected underground world. The middle daughter, whose name was Alice, begged him to write the story down for her, and so he obligingly scrawled out what became Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1863), followed several years later by a sequel called Through the Looking-Glass (1871).He thought that young children should be allowed to read picture books in church during the sermon, so that church would be a bright and happy memory, and so they wouldn't turn against religion later in life.
It's the birthday of the man who created the Periodic Table of ElementsRussian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, born in Tobolsk, Siberia (1834).When he was 35 years old, Mendeleev organized the chemical elements into a table in order of increasing atomic number.
It's the birthday of pianist and composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born in Salzburg, Austria (1756).His father, Leopold Mozart, was a noted composer, and so by the time Wolfgang was six he was performing on the harpsichord before the imperial court of Vienna. By the time Mozart died at the age of 35, he had written nearly 50 symphonies, 20 operas and 23 piano concertos.
On this day in 1302, Dante Alighieri was expelled from Florence for his political activities. For the next 20 years he moved from place to placeVerona, Ravennaas political currents dictated. While in exile he wrote his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, which established his native Tuscan dialect as the literary language of Italy.
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The recently formed Trumbull County equine 4-H club, dubbed the Boot Scootin' Buckeyes, recently competed at the United States Equestrian Drill Association international drill team competition in Alexandria, Ky. Events consist of riding as a team in an intricate pattern of maneuvers, some while holding flags, coordinated to music.
The team is just one year old, and it is the only equine 4-H club in Trumbull County dedicated strictly to drill team riding. After only six weeks of practice, the group scored fourth in its division in last year's competition.
This year, with improved overall knowledge, more competitive outfits and flags, extensive practice time and increased difficulty of their self-designed routines, the group expanded from four to six members.
The original, four-horse team comprised Amanda Accordino, Alexis Accordino, Jennifer Corley and Kendra Garlock. They took first place in the Youth Quad division, which included competitors from Ohio, Kentucky and as far away as Canada.
The six-horse team includes the original four, and adds Mackenzie Evan and Cierra Gabrielson. They placed first in the Novice Youth Freestyle division and third in the Youth Freestyle division.
The group will compete in November at the 4-H Nationals at the Kentucky horse park.
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Champions Trophy 2013: Men with moustaches weaving magic for India
Both of them were wandering in the domestic circuit and weren't sure of their places in Team India even a year ago. While Shikhar Dhawan, despite being talented was inconsistent, Ravindra Jadeja was impressive only in domestic cricket or the Indian Premier League. But as far as the current scenario is concerned, it is difficult to remember how the Indian team has survived all these days without these two players. They have shown tremendous improvement in their game and are likely to be a part of the team for a very long time.
The 'Sir Jadeja' jokes haven't ended yet. Cricket fans still post weird and hilarious stuff about Sir Ravindra Jadeja on social networking sites. Every now and then, even MS Dhoni cracks a joke on him. But with each game that he is playing, the cricket fraternity is stunned to see what a significant cricketer Jadeja is proving to be for the Indian team. More than his batting, his bowling has been wreaking havoc in the minds of the best of batsmen.
Meanwhile, Dhawan has grown in confidence after scoring his maiden Test ton against Australia. Something else which works in his favour is the confidence that Dhoni has shown in him. With Sehwag and Gambhir not being in the picture for quite some time, the Indian skipper might have told the left-hander to enjoy his game without bothering about his place in the team.
Jadeja is proving to be a terrific all-rounder. There haven't been many matches where Dhoni has thrown the ball at him and he hasn't got him breakthroughs. The batsmen now fear facing him keeping in mind his tendency to bowl with an accurate line and length and pick wickets on a regular basis. And the best part about Jadeja is that he never seems to be playing under pressure. He bats down the order and even though he has become Dhoni's go-to-man when he needs wickets, the Indian skipper never seems to be in a hurry to toss the ball at him. He is enjoying his cricket, and he doesn't even mind the Sir Jadeja jokes as it keeps the team in good mood.
The Indian team had been missing a genuine all-rounder for quite some time now. While Irfan Pathan seemed to be the probable candidate, nobody even considered Jadeja for it, let alone bringing him in the squad. Every now and then he scored some big knocks in the domestic circuit which made his comeback into the Indian team possible. But now he is there as a bowler who can pick wickets and score runs at a brisk pace when needed down the order.
Dhawan, on the other hand, is a mix of Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir. He isn't the one who will go after the bowlers from the very first ball, but after spending some time at the crease, he can score boundaries at will. He has now scored three international tons on the trot, and being technically sound, he is fit for any format of the game.
The current Indian team is one of the best we have seen in a very long time. Dhoni is focusing on in-form players, a reason why somebody like Yuvraj Singh was dropped from the Champions Trophy squad. Dhawan has proved that he is meant for the big stage, and while 'Sir Jadeja' continues to impress, we are set to take a formidable side to Australia for the ICC World Cup 2015.


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Data protection authorities from France, Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Italy agreed on the joint action after Google failed to reverse changes it made to its policy last year.
If successful, the regulators could impose fines or restrictions on Google's operations across the entire 27-country European Union.
Last year Google merged 60 separate privacy policies from around the world into one universal procedure.
The European organisations say the new policy does not allow users to figure out which information is kept, how it is combined by Google services or how long the company retains it.
The European regulators, led by the French, have demanded specifics for anyone using Google on what is being collected and a simpler presentation.
Any fines would have a limited financial impact on Google but successful legal action could hurt its image and block its ability to collect such data until it addresses the regulators' concerns.
Proposed Europe-wide data protection legislation will take until at least 2015 to be fully implemented.
Google dominates the European market for internet searches. According to one survey, 95% of searches in Europe are carried out through Google, compared with about 65% in the US.
Tensions are ramping up between privacy organisations and technology companies due to their growing ability to spin online usage data into vast profits.
This is especially the case in Europe where privacy laws tend to be strong and nearly every country has a regulatory body.
However, internet users have consistently shown a willingness to give up privacy in exchange for convenience and new online services that Google and other tech companies offer.
Google says it merged its myriad privacy policies in March 2012 for the sake of simplicity, and that the changes comply with European laws.
But Johannes Caspar, a German data protection commissioner, says the company's policies are vague - it uses the word 'may' dozens of times on a single page when describing its rights to data.
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The St. Johns County Sheriff's Office is one step closer to having its own training facilities that would include a gun range and driving track.
The Board of County Commissioners approved the $925,000 purchase of more than 49 acres of land at the end of Agricultural Center Drive that Sheriff David Shoar hopes will be the site of a comprehensive training facility.
"There's really nothing more important that we do … than our training," Shoar told the commission on Tuesday morning.
Most of the funding would come from law enforcement impact fees, about $750,000, said Michael Ryan, county spokesman. The remaining funding would come from the county's general fund, he said.
Commissioner Cyndi Stevenson said she was concerned about funding but felt more comfortable with the deal after learning a chunk of the money would come from impact fees.
More money would be needed to build facilities at the site.
The Sheriff's Office pays yearly fees of about $48,000 to rent the site off Gaines Road where they currently train, said sheriff's office spokesman Chuck Mulligan. He said the Sheriff's Office also is considering public-private partnerships to help with the cost.
Sheriff's office officials have been looking for a permanent place to train.
The property on Agricultural Center Drive provides space to build a storage facility, which also is needed, officials said.
The site also is appropriate because of its proximity to a gun range, Shoar said. People who live near the current training facility would probably hear less shooting and driving noise once the sheriff's office shifted its operations to the Agricultural Center Drive location.
The first thing on the construction agenda at the site would be the driving track and gun range, Shoar said.
Other uses for the site could include dive training, K-9 training and classrooms, Mulligan said.
Officials have been looking at the property for years.
"A lot of thought went into this," Shoar said. "A lot of planning."
A woman from the audience said she was concerned about not having full disclosure on spending if a private company was involved, and she asked for the name of the company being considered.
Shoar declined to give the name of the company but said partnerships could include a worldwide manufacturer of a firearm.
The talks are in the very early stages, though, Shoar said.
Shoar said any deals would have to be studied by the Sheriff's Office, the board and the public before going forward.
Another option with the facilities could be leasing them out to other agencies, which also would bring in money.
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Can Horses Get Grave's Disease/Bilateral Goiter?
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Q:Have you ever heard of a bilateral goiter (both the left and right sides of the thyroid gland are enlarged) in a horse? I have a 7-year-old Tennessee Walking Horse gelding. He has had a goiter all his life that has not caused any problems. After coming home from being away for a week, I noticed a second lump, and possible goiter, on his neck. My veterinarian checked the lump and said he has never seen or heard of a bilateral goiter. He is looking into it, and I thought I would research it also.
My boy is showing classic "human Grave's disease" signs, not that it has ever been seen in a horse.
Alycia Partei, Reno, Nev.
A: You indicated that this gelding is exhibiting clinical signs that are typical for Grave's disease in people. Grave's disease is an autoimmune condition in which the patient's thyroid glands are overactive and enlarged. Thyroid overactivity is referred to as hyperthyroidism and has been rarely reported in old horses (older than 20 years) affected with thyroid cancer. Grave's disease has never been reported in horses and hyperthyroidism has not been reported in such a young horse. Although you did not describe the observed symptoms for this horse, hyperthyroidism in old horses tends to be associated with excitability, sweating, weight loss, increased appetite, and hair coat abnormalities.
As you noted, thyroid gland enlargement in adult horses is most commonly asymmetrical and benign (without clinical signs). Enlargement of either the left or the right thyroid is a very common finding in mature horses and is usually diagnosed as a benign thyroid adenoma (tumor). Less commonly, one-sided thyroid enlargement (bilateral in some cases) might be diagnosed as a developmental cyst (even in mature horses) or, rarely, cancer. Dietary factors might cause enlargement of both the left and right sides of the thyroid. Dietary factors that might be considered include abnormal levels of dietary iodine (is the horse's ration being supplemented with a kelp-based product?); excessive dietary calcium; consumption of Brassica plants (such as broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, and mustard); white clover; rapeseed; linseed; or food contaminated by sewage.
In this case it is logical to evaluate the suspected goiters (left and right) to ensure that both are indeed thyroid gland enlargements (other local enlargements, such as lymph nodes, might masquerade as goiter). Veterinary examination by ultrasonography could be helpful to characterize the nature of the abnormal structures and to help differentiate between different causes of thyroid enlargement.
If your veterinarian suspects the clinical signs (similar to Grave's disease) could be resulting from thyroid disease, some readily available thyroid hormone blood tests could be considered in this case. Certainly, it should be straightforward to rule in or rule out whether this patient is affected with hyperthyroidism. If necessary, biopsy of one or both enlargements might be needed to characterize the reason for thyroid enlargement in this horse.
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Philip J. Johnson, BVSc (Hons), MS, Dipl. ACVIM, Dipl. ECEIM, MRCVS is Professor of Equine Medicine and Surgery at the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine
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You want to share you laptop device to a Bluetooth mobile connect.
Such as Bluetooth is bit like WiFi in that allow you connect devices others without getting nature attach them also a cable.
First you have laptop and also mobile.
See this pic.
To connect a Bluetooth device to your PC you need to pair it first and go to setting charm.
Your laptop automatic searching a bluetooth device.
Bluetooth devices will show up after a short wait.
Now this tab show in your laptop screen want send file,receive file.
When you click on your device to pair it you'll be given a code
I click send file this tab show now these searches show in your laptop.
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smokers who normally smoke 5-7 times daily for the last 15 years may develop Hyperthyroidism. It has been observed that they have slightly increased level of T3, T4 or TSH and low level of LDL.
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That human evolution follows a progressive trajectory is one of the most deeply-entrenched assumptions about our species. This assumption is often expressed in popular media by showing cavemen speaking in grunts and monosyllables (the GEICO Cavemen being a notable exception). But is this assumption correct? Were the earliest humans significantly different from us?
In a paper published in the latest issue of Current Anthropology, archaeologist John Shea (Stony Brook University) shows they were not.
The problem, Shea argues, is that archaeologists have been focusing on the wrong measurement of early human behavior. Archaeologists have been searching for evidence of "behavioral modernity", a quality supposedly unique to Homo sapiens, when they ought to have been investigating "behavioral variability," a quantitative dimension to the behavior of all living things.
Human origins research began in Europe, and the European Upper Paleolithic archaeological record has long been the standard against which the behavior of earlier and non-European humans is compared.
During the Upper Paleolithic (45,000-12,000 years ago), Homo sapiens fossils first appear in Europe together with complex stone tool technology, carved bone tools, complex projectile weapons, advanced techniques for using fire, cave art, beads and other personal adornments.
Similar behaviors are either universal or very nearly so among recent humans, and thus, archaeologists cite evidence for these behaviors as proof of human behavioral modernity.
Yet, the oldest Homo sapiens fossils occur between 100,000-200,000 years ago in Africa and southern Asia and in contexts lacking clear and consistent evidence for such behavioral modernity.
For decades anthropologists contrasted these earlier "archaic" African and Asian humans with their "behaviorally-modern" Upper Paleolithic counterparts, explaining the differences between them in terms of a single "Human Revolution" that fundamentally changed human biology and behavior.
Archaeologists disagree about the causes, timing, pace, and characteristics of this revolution, but there is a consensus that the behavior of the earliest Homo sapiens was significantly that that of more-recent "modern" humans.
Shea tested the hypothesis that there were differences in behavioral variability between earlier and later Homo sapiens using stone tool evidence dating to between 250,000- 6000 years ago in eastern Africa.
This region features the longest continuous archaeological record of Homo sapiens behavior. A systematic comparison of variability in stone tool making strategies over the last quarter-million years shows no single behavioral revolution in our species' evolutionary history. Instead, the evidence shows wide variability in Homo sapiens toolmaking strategies from the earliest times onwards.
Particular changes in stone tool technology can be explained in terms of the varying costs and benefits of different toolmaking strategies, such as greater needs for cutting edge or more efficiently-transportable and functionally-versatile tools. One does not need to invoke a "human revolution" to account for these changes, they are explicable in terms of well-understood principles of behavioral ecology.
This study has important implications for archaeological research on human origins. Shea argues that comparing the behavior of our most ancient ancestors to Upper Paleolithic Europeans holistically and ranking them in terms of their "behavioral modernity" is a waste of time.
There are no such things as modern humans, Shea argues, just Homo sapiens populations with a wide range of behavioral variability. Whether this range is significantly different from that of earlier and other hominin species remains to be discovered. However, the best way to advance our understanding of human behavior is by researching the sources of behavioral variability in particular adaptive strategies.
John Shea, "Homo sapiens is as Homo sapiens was: Behavioral variability vs. 'behavioral modernity' in Paleolithic archaeology." Current Anthropology 54:1 (February 2011).
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Draco watched as she peered out the window not saying a word. He could only imagine how much of a culture shock Vegas was going to be for her. He actually found it some what funny, realizing how sheltered Hermione Granger had kept herself. He imagined she would only leave her hotel room for work purposes only, seeing as she could order room service to cover not having to go out in public to eat. He laughed and she turned to confront it.
What is so funny Malfoy, she asked.
Well its just, he paused thinking of a nice way to put it, but couldnt find polite words enough for her, Well I imagine you will not be up to having any fun while we are here in this wondrous city; seeing as you seem to be a prude when it comes to having a bit of fun.
She rolled her eyes and retorted, You Draco Malfoy know nothing about me or how I have fun.
He laughed again and noticed the Excalibur, their hotel, from the window.
There is our hotel Granger, just like the ministry to put us in something like that, he said pointing to the massive castle shaped hotel. Hermione thought it was actually very neat looking, and very colorful all lit up at night.
I like it, she said with a tone of excitement in her voice.
Was that a bit of enthusiasm, Granger, he asked.
Draco, seriously do you think I am just some shrewd that plans on staying held up in her room the entire time, she asked him snobbishly.
Well I mean you will have to leave it to work on the mission, but I am sure you will return as soon as we are done, he answered with a playful grin.
Oh ya, well youll see, she said. Though he did have a point the wildness of this city sort of scared her, but she wasnt about to let Draco Malfoy ruin her first trip to the U.S.
Granger, have you even stepped foot in a dance club, played black jack or stood at a roulette table, he asked.
A what table, she asked in return.
Draco simply laughed and she again rolled her eyes at him. The cab came to a stop finally and they paid the driver and took their luggage up the escalator walk to check in. Their rooms were side by side and to Hermiones horror they seemed to be adjoining rooms. Upon realizing this she quickly double and triple checked the lock on the door between their rooms to make sure it was securely locked. She walked over to the curtains which were rich red velvet and pulled them open. The view was breathtaking. She could see almost the whole strip and lit up like it was excited her. She thought about how she semi challenged Draco about her having some fun while they were here and she could not decide whether she was eager to partake in this fun or nervous. While she analyzed this, as she analyzed everything, there was a knock at the door.
Ready for that fun, Granger, Draco said when she opened the door.
Draco, weve work tomorrow and I am exhausted. I cant believe you are not tired, she said.
Oh I am tired, but that is the rule in Vegas, first night no matter how tired you have to have some fun. And besides we dont have to work until Tuesday remember, Lockhart is in Reno for a few days and is scheduled to be back then. So get ready Granger, he ordered in a playful manner.
She opened her mouth to argue but he cut her off before she could get the words out.
Get ready Granger, no ifs, ands or buts about it. I will be back an a few minutes to get you. Oh and be sure to were comfortable walking shoes, we are going to walk the strip. And with that he shut her door for her. Leaving her standing there perplexed.
After ten outfit changes and three hair style changes she was finally ready. She had chosen her favorite pair of hip hugger jeans and a playful Seeker t-shirt that just barely showed her belly button. She decided to wear her hair down and had straightened it, but was extra sure to bring a hair tie with her. There was no telling what her hair would do in this dessert weather.
Just as he had said, thirty minutes later Draco knocked again on her door. She paused before opening it, turned to the nightstand where she had a picture of Ron she set out, gave it a weak smile and then looked back to the door. She was about to walk around Las Vegas with Draco Malfoy, she felt in her pocket for cash just incase she was in need of a taxi, no telling if Malfoy intended on leaving her stranded somewhere. Once making sure she had her id and cash she opened the door.
Draco was wearing a simple gray t-shirt and jeans, which fit him rather nicely though she would never admit it, and a ball cap.
Glad to see you dressed casual Granger, figured we would hit some of the more casual places tonight and try out some of the dressier places tomorrow night, he said smiling at her.
Tomorrow night, she said in a inquisitive tone.
Seriously Hermione, if you think you are only getting off with one night youve got another thing coming. We are here for a few days, all work and no play makes for a boring day, he rhythmically said with a charming smile, Course must of the play comes in at night.
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In highly integrated processors, a concurrent fault tolerance capability is particularly important, especially for real-time applications. In fact, in these systems, transient errors are often present, but are difficult to correct online. Error recovery procedures applied for each processing or memory element require large amount of hardware and can reduce throughput. Residue arithmetic has intrinsic fault tolerance capability and requires less complex hardware. A single error correction procedure based on the use of a redundant residue number system (RRNS) and the base extension operation is proposed. The method uses a very small decision table and works in parallel mode; therefore it is suitable for high speed VLSI circuit realization. A parallel systolic architecture which realizes the algorithm is introduced.

error recovery; processing element; residue arithmetic; systolic redundant residue arithmetic error correction circuit; concurrent fault tolerance capability; real-time applications; transient errors; memory element; redundant residue number system; decision table; high speed VLSI circuit realization; parallel systolic architecture; digital arithmetic; error correction; parallel algorithms; systolic arrays; VLSI.
E.D. Di Claudio, F. Piazza, G. Orlandi, "A Systolic Redundant Residue Arithmetic Error Correction Circuit", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 42, no. , pp. 427-432, April 1993, doi:10.1109/12.214689


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I've recently got some problems with pain in my lower back. I went to doctor and found out there is something wrong with both of my kidneys. I quite panicked and while we are still in early stage of recognising my status (got ultrasound result, waiting for blood), I would still like to hear from anyone that can tell me more about it.
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For now I've been better, so I'm not planning to go see him before that. I urinate better as for back pain I've been ordered to eat two tablets per day, but today I've been having no considerable pain so I think I'll wait and see how it is if I don't take them.
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Roland Gilly was led to an interrogation room unsurprisingly, even though they had told him it was to be a debriefing. This would probably be their preliminary investigation to spearhead a future court martial, if all went horribly for the Mechanical Petty Officer. The only thing he could think to do was play along, answer honestly, and do his damnedest to paint the positives of his actions in a clear picture.
The man that eventually sat across from him- and the only other person in the room at that time- was a Lieutenant Dirinkovchka according to his perfectly kempt uniform. He had a few sheets of paper before him which were mostly empty, and a single ball-point pen. Dirinkovchka- or Diri, to his family and closest friends- was a straightforward and blunt kind of soldier, and still had the edge of a drill sergeant even though he'd been sitting behind a desk for the better of a decade. To begin, "This conversation is being recorded, and I will be making my own personal evaluation as well. Please state your rank and name, soldier."
Very plainly, he answered, "Mechanical Petty Officer Roland Gilly, sir."
"Very well. Roland, please explain to me the events that led to you piloting a MAGE."
"I was in the armory, taking inventory for the end of my shift when I noticed the Commander running training drills take off to engage approaching HARMs. A couple of the Recruits followed after him, asking for assistance. I noticed no one else was going to aid them, so I climbed inside the nearest ExoFrame and went to help."
The Lieutenant leafed through a few of his sheets to find the one he desired. "Your record here states that you have attempted and failed the entry examination twenty-two times. Why is that?" He obviously had the answer before him, but Roland entertained the question none the less.
"It is on record that there's a 15% chance that I may become unstable in extreme conditions such as combat, that my reflexes are not quick enough to handle the fast-paced combat experienced within an ExoFrame, and my decision-making skills were determined to be too slow and sloppy in the quick-response section."
"The same results twenty-two times. Some would call you insane for trying so hard."
"Or obssessed. Or passionate. Or stubborn. Yes, sir, I've been called many things, but I've only ever dreamed of being called one: MAG."
"I can see that, Roland. Despite these twenty-two failures, you still chose to get in a MAGE and engage two hostile Neci Maras. Why is that?"
"No one else was going to help them, and they certainly needed it. Furthermore, I know all of the MAGEs like they were my children. I've been maintaining almost every MAGE we deploy for the last fourteen years, sir. I know these ExoFrames better than most pilots. With this knowledge in mind, I felt it would be irresponsible for me to not take action."
"Did you consider the possibility that you might be making a mistake, Roland?"
"Yes, sir. I determined that if I was making a mistake that I would pay for it with my life. I also have enough in savings to pay for a quarter of the suit, should it have been damaged; I could only hope that my sacrifice for comrades and that money would be enough of an apology."
"Duly noted. Now please continue." The Lieutenant was then handed a cup of water by a man that had entered mere seconds earlier, only to leave immediately thereafter. Diri began to gulp it all down while MPO Gilly explained.
"I grabbed a shortsword and automatic rifle, then sprinted toward the scene."
"Why those weapons?"
"I needed weapons that would handle well at close range."
"Why not long range?"
"I don't trust myself to be accurate enough not to hit friendlies in my field of fire, and felt it would be best to be on scene, should anyone need immediate assistance."
Dirikovchka nodded. "Proceed."
"On my way there, one of the NMs- the Neci Maras- fired a mortar amidst our MAGEs. Everyone took heavy damage from what I could tell, but the Commander was still in fighting shape and the Recruits seemed capable of taking on the other NM. As I got closer, though, the Commander and Recruits were further disabled. That's when I stepped in, shooting one Neci Mara while charging the other. I emptied my gun on the one, and impaled the other before tackling him."
"Sounds like a very reckless tactic, Roland."
"I had the element of surprise, and both were already slightly damaged. I felt there was no better way to make use of my advantages and still maintain everyone's well-being, my own included."
"What happened next?"
"The NM I shot down was disabled by the Commander. The other one was beat up."
"By you?"
"By the Isaac Risa I was piloting. The Commander locked it up before the HARM pilot was critically injured, but he's in Intensive Care I imagine."
"Why the distinction, Roland?"
"If you don't know, sir, the IR's are programmed to utilize nerve impulses in addition to vocal commands to increase their performance in combat by using the two sources of input in tandem with its own processing speed to increase response time and action speed. However, this makes it unpredictable for less knowledgeable pilots that do not fully understand its needs. I did not recall this information until it had begun to wail upon the NM without my input. I would have set it straight as well, but the Commander was able to act faster."
"Seems like things could have gone terribly wrong if he hadn't been there."
"The same could have been said for any Recruit, sir, but they also have basic training in the use of MAGEs. In my defense, sir, I was able to climb into a MAGE and defeat two enemies almost single-handedly using only the knowledge I've gathered from my time as a mechanic and manuals I've read. And although I did break the rules as an unqualified user of a MAGE, I also saved lives by my course of actions."
"Very strong speech, Roland. Seems like you have something else to say." Reading people was a skill this Lieutenant had picked up quickly and mastered over the last decade or so.
"Yes, sir. I would like to formally propose that my performance today be added to my record insofar as my potential as a ExoFrame pilot is concerned. I feel that I displayed exemplary intuition in standard maneuvers and combat, and that I should be considered for MAGE BASIC."*
"Is that so?" Lieutenant Dirikovchka seemed, in Roland's opinion, to be teasing the mechanic.
"Yes, sir. I mean every word of it."
"Anything else you'd like to note?"
"No sir."
"Very well then. You're free to go, but we'll be in touch." The Lieutenant rose, pausing only at the door. "Good luck, Roland. I have a feeling you'll need it."
"Thank you, sir. I believe you're right." Dirikovchka nodded and then left. Roland sat for a few minutes, contemplating all that had been said, only rising when a MP entered and ushered him out. The interrogation/debriefing had done little to settle his nerves. The Lieutenant had been impossible to read with his stonewall expression, and his words had been very flat. It was impossible to tell what they were going to do with him. With nothing left, Roland Gilly simply prayed to the forces that be.
*BASIC: Basic Actions Simulations for Intuitive Combat. This comes after boot camp, and is basic training for all MAGs. Its overall course can be described as the repeated simulation of the core maneuvers of ExoFrame combat with interspersed open-combat simulations- all designed to ingrain said maneuvers into reflexes that can and will save the pilots' lives.


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SEATTLE - Southern California was leveled by another post-Ohio State funk, taken down by upstart Washington with a late drive that must have looked familiar to the Trojans.
Erik Folk kicked a 22-yard field goal with three seconds remaining and Washington's fired-up defense stymied fill-in quarterback Aaron Corp and No. 3 USC in a 16-13 victory yesterday.
USC quarterback Matt Barkley, who directed an epic game-winning drive to beat the Buckeyes in Columbus, Ohio, last week, could only watch the latest stunning upset loss by the Trojans from the sideline. The star freshman was out with a sore shoulder.
It was Washington quarterback Jake Locker's time to shine and the Huskies' turn to pull out a win that will stand among the most memorable in the once-proud program's history.
USC was nearly a three-touchdown favorite against the Huskies. Washington (2-1, 1-0) came in riding a record 15-game Pac-10 losing streak. But again the Trojans were toppled by a team that seemed to be no match for all their blue-chip recruits and future NFL draft picks. USC (2-1, 0-1) has now lost to an unranked team each of the last four seasons.
"Washington wasn't the better team. They just outplayed us,'' said Joe McKnight, who ran for 100 yards on 11 carries with USC's only touchdown. "Clearly, we have superior athletes. But hard work beats athleticism any day.''
Carroll's team was stung by eight penalties, an 0-for-10 conversion rate on third down, and three turnovers inside the Washington 35. "We didn't get any better from last week,'' he said. "I'm not doing a good enough job of making the points of how we win.''
One year after Oregon State upset USC in the Pac-10 opener following an impressive Trojans win over Ohio State, an old friend upset Carroll's powerful team. Washington coach Steve Sarkisian was his offensive coordinator before taking over in Seattle in January, trying to rebuild a team that had the Pac-10's first 0-12 season last year.
"It's unbelievable,'' Sarkisian said. "It's a great moment for our program and hopefully sends a message of where we're headed.''
Corp, a sophomore making his first career start, was 13 for 22 for 110 yards with one interception. USC (2-1, 0-1) was held to its lowest point total since a 13-9 loss to UCLA Dec. 2, 2006.
Trailing, 13-10, with six minutes left, McKnight took off on a 34-yard run before fumbling, but split end David Ausberry recovered at the Huskies' 22, giving the Trojans a chance to go ahead. But Donald Butler, who was all over the field for Washington, stopped Stafon Johnson on third and 6. That forced the Trojans to settle for a 25-yard field goal by Jordan Congdon that tied it at 13 with four minutes remaining.
Locker wasn't done, though. He faced third and 15 with 3:03 left, but connected with Jermaine Kearse for 21 yards. Locker converted another third down with a 4-yard run to the USC 39.
Locker then fired 19 yards to Kearse to the USC 16, and a roughing-the-passer penalty put the Huskies at the 8 with 33 seconds left.
One running play later, Washington called on Folk with seven seconds left. The sophomore nailed it, giving Washington its first win over USC since 2001, Carroll's first season with the Trojans.