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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Thursday voted nearly unanimously to punish Russian human rights violators as part of a broader bill to expand trade with the former Cold War enemy.
The bill goes to President Barack Obama, who is expected to sign it into law, despite Moscow's warning that the jab on human rights would harm relations.
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Going back to Cali…
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May 03, 2013
Pete Sison, visiting Ojai, California, feels the Merrimack love all the way on the West Coast. Shout out to Villanova Prep for a great visit. And a welcome to Shane (on the right) who's starting Merrimack in the fall!


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Pizza firm raising money for vets
September 11. 2013 9:36PM
PITTSFIELD — Brad Sterl, CEO of Rustic Crust Old World Crusts and Flatbread Pizzas, is challenging New Hampshire companies to join him in supporting disabled veterans via the purchase of specialized wheelchairs.
Rustic Crust and its sister brand, American Flatbread, are raising funds for the purchase of all-terrain wheelchairs for veterans, and the brands have launched a Facebook campaign to enlist their 75,000 fans to donate toward the purchase of these state-of-the-art "track" chairs.
"I hope other New Hampshire businesses will join us in this amazing effort," says Sterl. "As we debate war in Syria, let's keep our focus on the brave service men and women who continue to serve our country and represent the best of America around the world."
Companies and individuals wishing to donate can do so by visiting the companies' two Facebook pages — www.facebook.com/americanflatbread or www.facebook.com/rusticcrust.


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Every time we play not to lose, instead of playing to win...we lose.
It was apparent the first half (keeping with the run run, pass crap). Not kicking a 50 yard FG...Not going for it on 4th and half a yard...
Then we got behind, and actually started to open it up again..
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It appears the Bruins' stable of young, up-and-coming defenseman has been reduced by one.
According to Sports.ru, Yury Alexandrov is leaving the Boston organization to sign with SKA St. Petersburgh of the KHL.
The 2006 second-round pick (37th overall) skated in just one professional season in North America, and it was a roller-coaster ride with more dips than high points. He finished last season with the Providence (AHL) farm club with 6-13-19 totals and a minus-6 rating in 66 games for the playoff-less P-Bruins.
Alexandrov turned 23 in June.


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Colorado regulators embarked on their maiden voyage into loosening state telephone regulations recently, approving policies to ramp up the market while phasing out subsidies to telecoms that serve areas with adequate competition. The move, however, doesn't sit well with rural telecommunications providers, among others, who worry the policy shift could undermine service in areas beyond the state's population centers.
Colorado regulators embarked on their maiden voyage into loosening state telephone regulations recently, approving policies to ramp up the market while phasing out subsidies to telecoms that serve areas with adequate competition.
The move, however, doesn't sit well with rural telecommunications providers, among others, who worry the policy shift could undermine service in areas beyond the state's population centers.
The three-member Colorado Public Utilities Commission discussed rules to create a framework for reforms in a major overhaul of Colorado's telecommunications regulations. They considered methods to phase out the state's "High Cost fund" that Colorado land-line and wireless subscribers pay into. The 2.9 percent fee subsidizes residents and businesses in rural areas where it costs providers more to offer service than they are able to recoup in charges. All told, the fund ends up costing Colorado ratepayers $54 million annually.
Joshua Epel, chairman of the commission, said their goal is to enhance competition, not impede innovation while balancing that with the public interest.
"I believe our regulatory approach will strike the right balance," Epel said. "Portions of the state have effective competition, therefore I believe we can reduce, over time, much of the high cost support in such areas. However it is imperative that we continue to provide some support in certain rural, high-cost areas and perhaps continue that support indefinitely."
Commissioners OK'd policies that will be used by administrative law judges to define effectively competitive service areas (ECA's) as three or more facilities-based, non-affiliated providers that are independent of each other that offer basic phone service in the same geographical area. Most of the state would fall in that designation, according to PUC staff.
Once that occurs, commissioners hope to lift state-administered price-control regulations and end rate-of-return regulations on basic land-line services in such areas.
But part and parcel of more relaxed regulations means providers in such areas would no longer be eligible to receive high-cost fund subsidies. Some rural telecom providers, which typically face high costs of providing service over long distances to relatively few customers, are taking a skeptical approach to the pending rule changes, fearing they could create havoc in the rural market and destabilize providers.
"The PUC's decision to create an effective competition test that can be used to determine funding for rural high-cost areas—especially one that presumes wireless service is substitute for basic telephone service—could have a negative impact on quality of service and price for rural customers," Pete Kirchhof, vice president of The Colorado Telecommunications Association, said in a statement released by the group.
Commissioners said they were also mindful of averting abrupt cutoffs of the high-cost fund.
"It's very important for the state to not create price shock in this area," Commissioner Pamela Patton said. "We need to move very carefully with this."
Providers would be offered due process and the opportunity to argue their case regarding extenuating circumstances and their continued need for the subsidies before an administrative law judge, avoiding an automatic cutoff of the funding while a final decision is pending.
Commissioner James Tarpey agreed with Patton and stressed that the circumstances are going to vary significantly across the state.
"Cost is a major item to be looked at. Why do they have the support (of the subsidy)? What are the exact costs we should be taking into account?" Tarpey asked.
"We might be talking about competitors that have vastly different systems for providing service. But that doesn't mean that just because they have those costs that we have to honor those 100 percent," Tarpey added.
This year saw an earlier attempt by state legislators to revamp the state's telecommunications laws, phase out the high-cost fund, and redirect funds to provide broadband in rural areas, but the legislation stalled in May. Patton indicated she did not believe the commission had the legal authority to redirect high-cost fund subsidies to augment rural broadband services.
The PUC will continue to flesh out the rules and put them in place by the middle of next year.


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SAO PAULO (AP) — A new oil law that gives a greater share of royalty revenues from Brazil's vast oil fields to non-producing states went into effect Friday and producing states filed appeals against it with the Supreme Court.
The law was published in the official gazette after President Dilma Rousseff signed it Thursday.
The new law shares oil royalties, from existing and future drilling and production concessions, more evenly among all of Brazil's 27 states instead of favoring top oil producers such as Rio de Janeiro, Espirito Santo and Sao Paulo states.
The three state governments said on their websites they filed their appeals Friday. All three contend the legislation is unconstitutional because it breaches existing production contracts.
Officials in Rio de Janeiro, the largest producing state, have said the law will deprive Rio of $1.7 billion in 2013 alone, endangering preparations for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.
Rio state Gov. Sergio Cabral said the law would bankrupt the state and many of its municipal governments, 87 percent of which depend on oil-generated revenues.
The Espirito Santo governor, Renato Casagrande, has said his state stands to lose more than 10 billion reals ($5 billion) over the next seven years.
Congress approved the law late last year.
The law lowers the percentage of petroleum royalties shared among producing states from 26.25 percent to 20 percent. Rousseff vetoed that provision, but Congress overrode the veto last week.
Non-producing states will see their share increase from 7 percent to 21 percent, while the central government's share will drop from 30 percent to 20 percent.
The rest of money goes to municipal governments in producing states.


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In 2002, I suffered from post-partum depression following the birth of my second child. I knew right away that something was wrong: lying on the operating table after an emergency C-section, I felt virtually no connection with my newborn son. Where was the joy of the miracle of birth that I felt with my first delivery?
In almost every way this experience was the complete opposite of becoming a mother for the first time two years earlier. My first child arrived after a relatively easy pregnancy, labor, and delivery; she was a happy, predictable baby who slept through the night at two months. I felt euphoric about this beautiful baby and our new little family. How else could I have hosted a dinner party for 40 people when she was only three months old!
My second child arrived after a brief but frightening labor and emergency surgery. He cried more, slept less, and ate more. His screams ripped me from sleep and interrupted the nice routine I had with my daughter. I was sleep deprived, irritable, confused, and hopeless. On good days, I put the garbage in the laundry basket, forgot my own last name, and wondered how I was going to survive the next 21 years with this screaming baby, let alone the next twenty minutes. On bad days, I yelled at my children to stop crying, tried to run away from home, and told my husband I wanted a divorce.
It was easy to see that something was wrong. The hard part was getting help.
At my six-week postpartum checkup, I told my doctor that things weren't going well. With no discussion about symptoms, she asked if I wanted Prozac. I still remember thinking: Why are you asking me if I want medication without even asking what is wrong? I left her office with nothing more than a business card for the mental health experts in our HMO.
Two weeks later, after a particularly sleepless night, I called the number on the card. Thus began one of the worst days of my life. Even though I was distraught, I was told to call back during normal business hours. I was passed from person to person, each time crying as I retold my story. I overheard a health care worker tell her supervisor that I was homicidal. I was warned that I would be reported to child protective services if I had hurt my children. The doctor's recommendation was sleeping pills. I wondered if he meant for me or for the baby.
All I wanted was a verbal hug from someone – anyone – who could tell me that I was going to be all right, that there was help available, that others had been through this and had survived. Instead, since I had seen both the nurse and the doctor, I got a bill for two office visits.
All right, I thought, I can find help myself. Internet research turned up no referrals in my area. Several psychologists I called were not accepting new patients. Local hospitals advertised postpartum depression support groups; none were available. By the time I would log onto the Internet or make a phone call, one of my children would be awake and crying and needing attention. Doors were slamming in my face despite my best efforts.
I tried other therapies – massage, acupuncture, counseling, exercise. But the stress of arranging childcare, especially for a high-maintenance baby who refused a bottle, outweighed any benefit I received from these outings.
Eventually my husband found a doctor who specialized in women's mood disorders. After six months of trying to get help, I got the reassurance I needed: others had been through this and there was a solution. Anti-depressant medication quickly returned me to my old self.
Two years later, in 2004, my third child was born. With support from my doctors, I remained on anti-depressants during the entire pregnancy and while breastfeeding. When I reminded my OB/GYN that I had raised concerns about depression following my son's birth, she apologized for not being more sympathetic and said that the medical community had learned a great deal about PPD since then.
This time, at my six-week postpartum appointment, I received a screening questionnaire about depression. The medical community has indeed come a long way.


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NASSAU, Bahamas — Reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith buried her son Thursday in a ceremony punctuated by screams and cries, nearly six weeks after he mysteriously died while visiting her in the hospital where she had given birth to a daughter.
A gold-colored hearse brought Daniel Smith's body to the cemetery, followed by three white limousines. The mahogany casket was whisked inside a large green tent for the service attended by about 20 people. Wailing and screaming was heard from inside the tent.
"My dearest son Daniel, you were my rock, you were the only one who could keep me solid," read a program from the service. "Why God took you away from me now I do not understand."
The 38-year-old former Playboy playmate, who gave birth to a daughter three days before her son died Sept. 10 at her hospital bedside, attended the service, said Loretta Butler-Turner, director of the funeral home hired by the family. Baptist Bishop Neil Ellis conducted the service, Butler-Turner said.
At least six police officers guarded the main entrance to the cemetery, barring everyone except for invited guests. Other officers in uniform and plain clothes stood outside the tent. A small crowd of onlookers gathered just outside the cemetery.
The casket left the funeral home in a van but was transferred en route to the hearse "to honor the wishes for privacy of the family," Butler-Turner said.
Howard K. Stern, a longtime attorney for Smith who says he fathered the baby girl, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, was to deliver a tribute to Daniel at the service, according to the program.
Meanwhile, a lawyer for Larry Birkhead, a former boyfriend of Smith who claims he is the girl's father, said she was traveling to Nassau to depose Smith and Stern on Monday. The attorney, Debra Opri, has filed a lawsuit on Birkhead's behalf demanding that mother and daughter return to California for DNA paternity testing.
An attorney for Smith could not immediately be reached for comment.
Daniel Smith died after spending the night at the hospital with his mother and newborn half-sister. An American pathologist hired by Anna Nicole Smith has said he died from a lethal combination of methadone and two antidepressants.
Bahamas Chief Magistrate Roger Gomez said Thursday that police had not yet submitted a report on their investigation. Authorities will evaluate that report and the Bahamian pathologist's conclusions to determine whether a jury inquest is necessary. Official toxicology results have not been publicly released.
Daniel Smith appeared several times on the E! reality series "The Anna Nicole Show." He was the son of Anna Nicole and Bill Smith, who married in 1985 and divorced two years later.
Earlier this month, about 50 family and friends, including Bill Smith, gathered at a church in Mexia, Texas, to mourn Daniel's death.
Anna Nicole married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994, when she was 26 and he was 89. He died the following year and she has since been involved in legal disputes over the estate.
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Technology, including yield monitors, remote sensing and computer-assisted irrigation control, is helping farmers across the Cotton Belt increase yields, reduce expenses and improve efficiency.
A panel of farmers, consultants, Extension specialists and research scientists who shared research data and in-field experiences during the recent Beltwide Cotton Conferences at Anaheim, Calif., agreed that cotton yield monitors are not yet as accurate as those for corn and other grains but, even with a few inconsistencies, still provide valuable information growers can use to improve profitability.
Mississippi farmer Kenneth Hood has installed yield monitors on each of his cotton pickers and says the information he gleans from the instruments helps him increase yields.
Hood uses an Ag Leader monitor and a Trimble 132 computer. "With this technology I can locate every inch of a field," Hood said.
He said an accurate record of crop production activities is an essential part of the program. "Collecting the most accurate information possible allows us to use the yield monitor data to make changes.
"We can evaluate each variety, each production practice and specific areas within a field to determine what works and what does not. We can determine what went wrong in certain areas to lower yield and make corrections or abandon those sites."
Hood says farmers must be precise with field names, yield load names, swath widths, row spacing and other field data.
"Pre-harvest calibration and system setup is essential. We may calibrate for each variety because of different boll characteristics and lint percentage."
Hood says monitors pay for themselves quickly. He estimates that his Ag Leader system will cost approximately $9,800 for top-of-the-line accessories, about $5,700 for a less complete but workable system.
"If I can add just 10 pounds per acre to my yield, on 600 acres, I can pay for the high-end system in three years. With a 50 pound per acre increase, I can pay the system off in about a year."
On 1,200 acres, a 10-pound yield advantage would pay out the first year. With 50 pounds, payoff would be even quicker.
"These monitors pay for themselves," he said. "That's why I have one on every picker I own."
Hood likes the Ag Leader because of accuracy and low maintenance. "I don't have to clean lenses as often," he said.
Andrew Thompson, Brooks County, Ga., has used a Farm Scan monitor on 1,700 acres of cotton for the past three years. "We've had no mechanical problems with the monitors, but we clean the lenses every morning before we get started."
Thompson said the combination of yield monitors and aerial photography has allowed him to identify nematode infestation sites and to evaluate treatment programs.
"I run the pickers myself, so I know where weak spots are," he said. "But any farmer who doesn't harvest all his fields himself, needs something to provide that information. He may decide, based on yield monitor data, to take part of a field out of production.
"We can compare results over several years to see if solutions, such as nematicides, work or whether the area is simply not profitable."
Thompson said cotton farmers always have weak spots in fields. "We have areas where we know we'll find boll rot. We seldom make a middle or bottom crop in these areas. Identifying these spots allows us to do a better job of managing plant height to reduce boll rot losses. The difference shows up on yield monitors."
Thompson said monitor manufacturers should improve lenses. "We can't afford the time to clean lenses as often as we need to to assure accuracy," he said.
Joe Boddiford, a Screven County, Ga., farmer, tested no-till peanuts with a harvest monitor and found serious yield differences compared to conventional peanuts. "We noted a severely reduced yield in the no-till plots," he said, "but each farmer has to do what's best on his farm. And what's best is what works.
"Yield monitors help determine what's working," he said. "We can identify site-specific yield variances that are sometimes so subtle we can't see them from a combine or cotton picker. We also identify irrigation deficiencies."
Boddiford agrees with Thompson that cleaning lenses is a problem. "We haven't found a really good commercial yield monitor for cotton yet," he said. "We're getting close, and it's time to put monitors on at least one picker to begin building a baseline of information."
He said a monitor will pay off just by identifying whether scrapping a field is justified."
Brock Taylor, a cotton consultant from Escalon, Calif., says yield monitor data "looks pretty good compared to other yield measurements."
"We've been practicing precision farming for 20 years," Taylor said, "and have found that cotton yield monitors provide a tool we can use to reduce costs and document production practice benefits."
He said farmers using variable rate application technology have to use yield monitors to show advantages.
"We can evaluate stand, nutrient, chemical applications, etc., to determine efficacy," he said. "To maintain the lint yield trend we've enjoyed for the past few years, we have to adopt new technology."
Yield monitors are only part of what could be termed a technological evolution on Jerry Brightbill's Plainview, Texas, farm. Brightbill adopted technology to "squeeze every bit of effort possible out of every minute worked on his farm.
"We figure we have only 600 minutes a day to work, and we have to make every one of them count," he said.
Brightbill uses technology to control all his irrigation systems, via computer (a Trimble 170), from his office. He can alter water pressure, change speeds, turn systems on or off and trouble-shoot from a computer console.
"If we have breakdowns, we know exactly where the problem occurs and can send a repair crew directly to that site. That saves time and wear on vehicles."
Brightbill also knows exactly where pivots are running at any given time and can schedule spray applications on the dry sections. Computer technology also helps him track production practices.
"We always know when we applied a specific material or performed a specific production practice," he said. "We know when, where and what. That could be essential information if we have questions later on drift or application problems."
He said technology has allowed him to reduce chemical expenses by 3.5 percent.
"Remote sensing has allowed us to see a field as an entire picture," he said. "Infrared photography also shows us where weaknesses occur. We left a cover crop on one location three weeks longer than in the rest of the field. We documented a significant yield loss in that location and realized that leaving the cover on too long was the difference."
Brightbill also uses a guidance line at planting for his no-till cotton. "We follow that line with all subsequent field operations. That saves time. We use software to create early- and late-planting zones."
He said technology allows him to build layers of data on soil characteristics and other factors useful in crop management decisions.
"A row-track guidance system on cotton strippers keeps harvest operations at 100 percent efficiency."
He said yield maps help identify management zones and improve overall yields. "We use maps and other technology to identify problems and help us find solutions quickly. We've been able to document that rotation with corn increases cotton yields. We also can determine if the increased yield will pay, based on higher costs and lower price for the grain."
Brightbill said technology has allowed him to reduce costs by 10 percent and increase yields by "at least 10 percent. We make the most of every minute we farm."


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The United States is considering launching a punitive strike against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, blamed by the U.S. and the Syrian opposition for an Aug. 21 alleged chemical weapons attack in a rebel-held suburb of the Syrian capital of Damascus. The U.S. said the attack killed 1,429 people, including at least 426 children. Those numbers are significantly higher than the death toll of 355 provided by the aid group Doctors Without Borders.
President Barack Obama said he has decided that the United States should take military action against Syria but will seek congressional authorization for the use of force.
Here's a look at key Syria developments around the world Sunday amid heightened tensions over potential military action:
Secretary of State John Kerry asserted the United States has evidence of sarin gas use in Syria. A day after President Barack Obama stepped back from his threat to launch an attack, Kerry said in interviews that the administration learned of the sarin use through samples of hair and blood provided to Washington by first responders in Damascus.
Syria's deputy foreign minister, Faysal Mikdad, claimed that Obama stepped back from his threat because his administration lacks evidence of Syrian government involvement in purported poison gas attacks. Syria's state-run news agency SANA quoted Assad saying that his government can handle a U.S. strike, saying that Syria is "capable of confronting any external aggression."
U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked the head of the U.N. chemical weapons inspection team to expedite the analysis of tests from samples collected from its visits to alleged chemical weapons attack sites in Syria. He said two Syrian government officials are observing the process as mandated by guidelines that safeguard the samples' chain of custody. Nesirky declined comment on when results were expected.
Francois Fillon, France's ex-prime minister and leading figure in the opposition UMP party, said the French parliament should get the same privilege the U.S. Congress will have to vote on Syria intervention. France's parliament is scheduled to debate the issue Wednesday, but no vote is scheduled. President Francois Hollande backs Obama's decision for a strike. The French constitution doesn't require such a vote unless and until a French military intervention lasts longer than four months.
Pope Francis condemned the use of chemical weapons and called for a negotiated settlement to the civil war in Syria. Francis spoke with anguish about Syria: "My heart is deeply wounded by what is happening in Syria and anguished by the dramatic developments" on the horizon, an apparent reference to the U.S. and France considering a military strike against the Syrian regime.
Five U.S. Navy destroyers were in the eastern Mediterranean Sea — armed with dozens of Tomahawk cruise missiles, which have a range of about 1,000 nautical miles (1,151 miles, 1,852 kilometers) and are used for precise targeting. Obama announced Friday that "we are prepared to strike whenever we choose."
Iranian state TV said an Iranian parliamentary delegation in Damascus visited with Syrians allegedly injured in chemical weapons attacks that the Assad regime blames on rebels. They were also expected to meet with the Syrian prime minister and foreign minister.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israel's prime minister tried to soothe a jittery nation unnerved by the standoff between the U.S. and Syria, saying Israel is "calm and self-assured" and ready for "any possible scenario." More Israelis lined up to receive free gas masks, fearing Israel could be targeted in retribution if Syria is hit by a punitive strike.
Syrian refugees continued crossing the border into Turkey, despite the delay of a possible U.S. military strike targeting Assad's government. Refugee Mohammed Yaser said arms shipments to rebels would hurt Assad more than a U.S. strike: "If they give us weapons, we can deal with it in one week."
The Arab League at an emergency meeting in Cairo called on the United Nations and the international community to take "deterrent" measures under international law to stop the Syrian regime's crimes, but could not agree on whether to back U.S. military action.


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Rock 'n' roll can be broken down as follows: 10% fashion, 10% music and 110% HAIR. We know that adds up to 130%. That's why we're writing for a fashion site and aren't quantum physicists. But it also acts to highlight just how important good hair can be in the making of a musical and cultural icon, and cementing the status of bona-fide rock 'n' roll stars. Where would Elvis be without his quiff? Or Bowie's Ziggy Stardust without his…his unique style? On the dole queue, that's where. Here, Brandish pick out the 20 most iconic hair styles in rock 'n' roll history.
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David Bowie
Flaming red with a quiff up top and party mullet at the back, David Bowie's transformation into Ziggy Stardust was one of the most striking in pop history. With the sci-fi influenced Ziggy Stardust look, Bowie opened the floodgates for a whole sea of androgynous stars and, to a lesser extent, made homosexuality and bisexuality less of a rock 'n' roll taboo in the process.


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Date(s) - 01/18//2017
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Sacred Grounds Cafe
If you cannot say it here where can say you say it? Never doubt that a small group of committed individuals can prompt societal change, indeed that's all that ever has.
This is the longest running poetry open mic known. Sacred has been serving up good food and fine poetry since 1972. I invite you to check out Sacred's live streaming at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sacred-Grounds-cafe Tune in just after 7pm Wednesdays local time or to view the most recent chapters of the ongoing never ending stories. Or check out the video archive: http://www.creativeideasforyou.com/SacredGrounds_YouTube.pdf
To poets one and all, if you want connections to San Francisco poetry, you can do so by the following link http://www.creativeideasforyou.com/OPG_Cal_List.pdf


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The perfect mix of '20s inspiration and modern style, this party-ready dress is right at the top of the "What's Hot Now" list. Accent the silver-tone beads with a shimmering clutch and sparkling heels for an enviable dance floor look.
• V-neck. Sleeveless with adjustable spaghetti straps. Blouson.
• Beaded detail. Smocked waist. Keyhole at back.
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That quote may be a tad alarmist though. The mitigating factors are that to perform the attack you must first be authenticated to the database which means having a valid username and password. If security best practices are followed in the first place the potential for exploitation of this attack should be minimized.Every supported version of Oracle, running on any operating system is vulnerable to this attack, which can be leveraged by even low-privileged users to gain complete control of the database.
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The victim, Robert Inzar Jr., was taken to Baptist Medical Center and listed in serious but stable condition.
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Lycaon pictus (West Africa subpopulation)
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Lycaon pictus (West Africa subpopulation)
|Parent Species:
See Lycaon pictus
Common Name(s):
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Critically Endangered C2a(i); D ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Woodroffe, R. & Sillero-Zubiri, C.
|Hoffmann, M. & Hilton-Taylor, C.
|Niagate, B., Rasmussen, G., Sidibe, M., Sogbohoussou, E. & Tehou, A.
The population of African Wild Dogs in West Africa is currently estimated at just 70 adults (15 mature individuals) in two subpopulations (see Table 2 in the additional supporting information for the Lycaon pictus assessment), and continues to decline as a result of ongoing habitat fragmentation, conflict with human activities, and infectious disease. The population therefore meets the threshold for listing as Critically Endangered under both criteria C (the largest subpopulation numbers 11 mature individuals) and D (since total population size is only 15 mature individuals).
|Range Description:
|Historical data indicate that African Wild Dogs were formerly distributed throughout sub-Saharan Africa, from desert (Lhotse 1946) to mountain summits (Thesiger 1970), and probably were absent only from lowland rainforest and the driest desert (Schaller 1972). They have disappeared from much of their former range. The species is virtually eradicated from West Africa, and survives only in Senegal and in the W Complex of protected areas in Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger.
The current geographic distribution of African Wild Dogs was estimated using data compiled by the IUCN SSC range-wide conservation planning process for Cheetahs and African Wild Dogs, including regional strategies (IUCN SSC 2008, in prep.) and subsequent associated national action plans (www.cheetahandwilddog.org). Current African Wild Dog range was considered to comprise only the "resident range" identified by participants in the IUCN SSC process: this represents land where participants were confident that African Wild Dogs had been confirmed to be resident within the previous 10 years. Land where residence was not confirmed (e.g., possible range, unknown range) was excluded.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Benin; Burkina Faso; Niger; Senegal
Possibly extinct:Côte d'Ivoire; Guinea-Bissau; Mali; Nigeria
Regionally extinct:Gambia; Ghana; Sierra Leone
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
|Click here to open the map viewer and explore range.
|In West Africa, the African Wild Dog subpopulation is currently estimated at just 70 adults (15 mature individuals) (see Table 2 in the additional supporting information for the Lycaon pictus assessment). This subpopulation continues to decline.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|African Wild Dogs are generalist predators, occupying a range of habitats including short-grass plains, semi-desert, bushy savannas and upland forest. The species mostly hunts medium-sized antelope. Whereas they weigh 20–30 kg, their prey average around 50 kg, and may be as large as 200 kg. In most areas their principal prey are Impala (Aepyceros melampus), Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros), Thomson's Gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) and Common Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus). They will give chase of larger species, such as Common Eland (Tragelaphus oryx) and African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer), but rarely kill such prey. Small antelope, such as Dik-dik (Madoqua spp.), Steenbok (Raphicerus campestris) and Duiker (tribe Cephalophini) are important in some areas, and warthogs (Phacochoerus spp.) are also taken in some populations. African Wild Dogs also take very small prey such as hares, lizards and even eggs, but these make a very small contribution to their diet.
Generation length
Data on lifetime reproductive success of 19 alpha (breeding) females in western Zimbabwe indicate that 50% of reproductive output was achieved by age 5.5 years (SD 1.35, range 3–8; G.S.A. Rasmussen, unpubl. data). An alternative method, considers the average age of mothers of known litters, without the need for data on lifetime reproductive success. This method gives good agreement with the IUCN recommendations on calculating generation length, indicating a mean female breeding age of 5.7 years from the Zimbabwe dataset. Using this method, data from 18 litters born in Kenya to known-age mothers suggest a mean generation length of 5.0 years (R. Woodroffe, unpubl. data). Both studies suggest a minimum age at first breeding of approximately three years. Based on these data, for convenience we have estimated changes in African Wild Dog populations using a generation time of five years.
|Use and Trade:
|Across most of its geographical range, there is minimal utilization of this species.
|Major Threat(s):
The principal threat to African Wild Dogs is habitat fragmentation, which increases their contact with people and domestic animals, resulting in human-wildlife conflict and transmission of infectious disease. The important role played by human-induced mortality has two long-term implications. First, it makes it likely that, outside protected areas, African Wild Dogs may be unable to coexist with increasing human populations unless land use plans and other conservation actions are implemented. Second, African Wild Dog ranging behaviour leads to a very substantial "edge effect", even in large reserves. Simple geometry dictates that a reserve of 5,000 km² contains no point more than 40 km from its borders – a distance well within the range of distances travelled by a pack of African Wild Dogs in their usual ranging behaviour. Thus, from an African Wild Dog's perspective, a reserve of this size (fairly large by most standards) would be all edge. As human populations rise around reserve borders, the risks to African Wild Dogs venturing outside are also likely to increase. Under these conditions, only the very largest unfenced reserves will be able to provide any level of protection for African Wild Dogs. In South Africa, "predator proof" fencing around small reserves has proved reasonably effective at keeping dogs confined to the reserve, but such fencing is not 100% effective (Davies-Mostert et al. 2009) and is unlikely to be long-term beneficial for wildlife communities.
Even in large, well-protected reserves, or in stable populations remaining largely independent of protected areas (as in northern Botswana), African Wild Dogs live at low population densities. Predation by Lions, and perhaps competition with Spotted Hyaenas, contribute to keeping African Wild Dog numbers below the level that their prey base could support. Such low population density brings its own problems. The largest areas contain only relatively small wild dog populations; for example, the Selous Game Reserve, with an area of 43,000 km² (about the size of Switzerland), is estimated to contain about 800 African Wild Dogs. Most reserves, and probably most African Wild Dog populations, are smaller. For example, the population in Niokolo-Koba National Park and buffer zones (about 25,000 km²) is likely to be not more than 50–100 dogs. Such small populations are vulnerable to extinction. "Catastrophic" events such as outbreaks of epidemic disease may drive them to extinction when larger populations have a greater probability of recovery – such an event seems to have led to the local extinction of the small African Wild Dog population in the Serengeti ecosystem on the Kenya-Tanzania border. Problems of small population size will be exacerbated if, as seems likely, small populations occur in small reserves or habitat patches. As discussed above, animals inhabiting such areas suffer a strong "edge effect". Thus, small populations might be expected to suffer disproportionately high mortality as a result of their contact with humans and human activity.
|Conservation Actions:
|A regional conservation strategy is currently being drafted for North and Western Africa subpopulations (see www.cheetahandwilddog.org).
|Woodroffe, R. & Sillero-Zubiri, C. 2012. Lycaon pictus (West Africa subpopulation). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T16991108A16991960. . Downloaded on 19 September 2018.
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Refreshing: Our winning photo plus the next challenge
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 Hi, everyone. Photo Challenge guru Scott Kleinberg here. Photo Challenge (theme:refreshing) has come to an end. Looking through all of these entries was quite refreshing to say the least! As you may know, taking the top spot comes with some prizes: 1. In conjunction with the Digital Photo Academy, the winner will have the opportunity to attend a workshop in Chicago! The workshops are for people of all levels. You can learn more about the Digital Photo Academy and the workshops at this link. 2. Your photo featured in our gallery on RedEye's website (along with some editor's comments about why your photo was so special). 3. This week, your photo will appear on Page 2 in Thursday's RedEye. Read below the photos for all the details on next week's challenge. Thanks so much to everyone that participated! We start with the honorable mentions, then go to the five finalists and save the best for last - the winner. Next week's contest Your assignment: Shoot photographs with the theme "A day off." Explanation: It's almost Labor Day and soon summer will be over. But there's still time to take a day off and enjoy what's left of the warm weather. So we want to see what you see on a day off. **REMEMBER: A day off can be a weekend.** My advice as always: Have fun and be creative - that's the No. 1 way to get our attention. Upon completion: Email the photograph into email@example.com with "redeyephoto" in the subject line. ***NOTE: Because I get so many photos, you must include the word redeyephoto in the subject line otherwise I can't guarantee I'll see your entry. Please include your name, your age, your neighborhood, location of the photograph and caption information.*** Firm Deadline: Noon Central Time every Wednesday. The dossier: We want to capture the best images Chicagoans have to offer. Every week we will have a new theme, and RedEye will select the best photograph to run in the paper. Official rules Read them all right here.
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I think Matt and I will have to start calling this the Road Runner Blog if this keeps up.
I found this online a few days ago on a movie poster website. WB would sometimes package up "Cartoon Revues" of their shorts for theatres to run on Saturday kiddie matinees (trailers for some of these Bugs Bunny Cartoon Revues can be seen on the various Golden Collection DVD sets). Here's an (ugly) poster for a 1966 "Cartoon Revue" focusing on "the fastest characters in the cartoon world": Road Runner and Speedy Gonzales. I think it would be a safe bet to assume that 1965's "The Wild Chase" was among the shorts on the playlist.
Monday, April 2, 2007
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Drag racing/funny cars were a hot item in the mid-1960s, especially in California, which probably explains the poster and the number of drag racing gags in the D-FE era Warner Bros. cartoons.
That doesn't make the cartoons good (or the posters), it just means the crew was trying to stay topical as much as possible with subjects they could deal with, during a period where there was enough stuff going on they either couldn't relate to or were too controversal to make jokes about.
- April 4, 2007 at 5:10 AM
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Speedys sombrero is deformed.
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Archbishop's Lecture - Civil and Religious Law in England: a Religious Perspective The lecture around which the controversy over Sharia Law has swirled.
Dialogue between Christians and Muslims is a "vital necessity", says Pope "'As an example of brotherly respect with which Christians and Muslims can work together,' [the Pope] said, 'I'd like to quote a few words Pope Gregory VII addressed in 1076 to a Muslim prince in North Africa who had been benevolent towards Christians under his rule. Pope Gregory VII spoke of the special charity Christians and Muslims owed each other because 'we believe and confess one God, albeit in different ways. Every day we praise Him and venerate Him as Creator of the centuries and ruler of this world (PL 148, 451).'"
Asia Times, 11.28.06
Church-Islam dialogue: the path starts from Regensburg's Pope "Benedict XVI's speech at Regensburg received a lot of criticism but it in fact launched an effective model for Islamo-Christian dialogue: refusal of violence, love of truth, interpretation, mission. The only way to go beyond the trivially tolerant appearance of dialogue promoted by many Muslims and by a good part of the Catholic Church...Benedict XVI seems to suggest to Muslims: we must read the text in its context; and this is fundamental for beginning an Islamo-Christian dialogue. We must reread the sacred texts to see "the circumstances of revelation" In this, the Pope is resuming the healthy tradition of interpretation which was alive in the 9th century. Unfortunately, this no longer occurs in contemporary Islam."
Asia News
Reflections of a British Muslim Extremist "British activist Ed Husain was seduced, at the age of 16, by revolutionary Islamist ideals that flourished at the heart of educated British culture. Yet he later shrank back from radicalism after coming close to a murder and watching people he loved become suicide bombers. He dug deeper into Islamic spirituality, and now offers a fresh and daring perspective on the way forward."
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Boehner says he supports Obama on Syria
Sep. 03, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-nur) says he will support President Barack Obama's call for the U.S. to take action against Syria for alleged chemical weapons use and says his Republican colleagues should support the president, too.
The Ohio Republican says the use of chemical weapons must be responded to. He says only the United States has the capability and the capacity to stop Syrian President Bashar Assad and warn others around the world that such actions will not be tolerated.
Said Boehner: "This is something that the United States as a country needs to do."
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By John McCrank
NEW YORK (Reuters) - While most pollsters had declared the U.S. presidential election too close to call before Tuesday, many gamblers had pegged the winner early and got it right.
On November 4, two days before U.S. voters went to the polls to choose their next president, Irish bookmaker Paddy Power said it would pay out 400,000 pounds ($650,000) to those who bet President Barack Obama would keep his job.
The odds, which had fallen to two-to-nine for Obama, were just too hard to ignore, and 75 percent of the money staked on the election favored the Democratic incumbent over Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
"We paid out early as we like to have a bit of fun and give our customers an added incentive to bet with us," said Claire Davies, a Paddy Power representative.
On Sunday, the Dublin-based firm took out a controversial half-page advertisement in The Irish Times, stating, "Sorry Romney, you're not black or cool. We're paying out early for an Obama victory."
Online prediction market Intrade, also headquartered in Dublin, opened on Tuesday showing Obama with a 68.2 percent chance of getting re-elected.
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Around 6,000 traders, three-quarters of whom were American, with the rest in Europe and Canada, bought a total of 4.1 million shares on Obama. Each share for Obama paid out $10.00. The 3.4 million shares traded on Romney did not pay out.
"When you put your money up there, you are basically saying it isn't who you want to win, but who you think will win, so it gives it a little bit more weight," said Luke Rahbari, a partner at Stutland Volatility Group, which runs a hedge fund platform that trades volatility of equities and commodities.
"It's probably better than the exit polls," he said, adding that he has not traded on Intrade but looks to it to see where money is flowing.
While the clients who put money on Obama at the betting firms were getting paid, many investors in the U.S. stock markets were taking losses. The Dow Jones industrial average slumped more than 300 points, or 2.36 percent, on Wednesday.
"Considering that the end result of the election is the status quo, there are questions over whether we can forge a bipartisan agreement to solve the 'fiscal cliff' issue," said Phil Orlando, chief market strategist for equities at Federated Investors Inc of Pittsburgh.
The fiscal cliff refers to the $600 billion package of U.S. tax increases and spending cuts that begin to kick in at the start of 2013 and could push the country into recession, unless the Obama administration and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives can reach a deal.
Intrade said it plans to offer a market on fiscal cliff predictions in the near future.
Paddy Power, meanwhile, was already offering odds on the winner of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
On Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Romney running mate Paul Ryan were both at seven-to-one odds, while Romney himself and Vice President Joe Biden were further down the list of 18 potential contenders at 16 to one and 25 to one, respectively. Donald Trump was the long shot rounding out the list, at 100 to one.
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Offensive Variation and A Short Word about DefensePosted by nvr1983 on March 19th, 2009
When Ben Allaire isn't drumming up meaningless college basketball statistics, he's writing about the Virginia Cavaliers over at Dear Old UVa. RTC appreciates having Ben stop over this week to make some numerical sense of this year's NCAA Tournament field.
What the analysis thus far has told you is how consistent a team is, without regard to how good they are. In theory, a team could be consistently abysmal and do well in its Pythagorean consistency. Granted, that team would be unlikely to make the big dance, but we wouldn't have controlled for it.
Take a Pitt as an example. We've seen that Pittsburgh is a maddeningly inconsistent team in terms of offensive efficiency. As you probably have guessed, it's a major function of their over-reliance on DeJuan Blair, but it's a tad bit more subtle than that. Pitt is first overall in the country at offensive rebounding, again as a function of Blair's obscene board work.
This reliance on offensive rebounding makes them susceptible to foes; if Blair gets in foul trouble, they have trouble producing points.
Furthermore, they don't shoot that many free throws relative to their field goal attempt (in an attempt to get more offensive rebounds?). Free throws can be a consistent and efficient way to get the ball in the hoop.
Back to the main point: perhaps none of these reasons matter for Pitt to succeed. Maybe Pitt is so outstanding, even their bad times are good times.
That's why I've "devised" a measure of offensive consistency relative to the offensive efficiency. Basically, I've just divided the standard deviation of offensive efficiency by its mean. Statistically, this is known as the coefficient of variation (CV).
The CV often used to assess how wide a distribution of numbers is. It has an added wrinkle here in that teams are trying to minimize the top (low variation) and maximize the bottom (high offensive efficiency). Thus, teams want this to be as low as possible.
Think about it like a dart board. The main goal is hit the bull's-eye. Do you hit it once every ten shots, but otherwise are all over the place or are you consistently off by three inches? Really, you want to hit the bulls-eye often and when you miss, you want to be close to it.
Here are the top/bottom five teams seeded fifth or below in the coefficient of offensive variation:
|Top Performers
|Off CV
|Bottom Performers
|Off CV
|Oklahoma (B12) [2]
|Illinois (B10) [5]
|North Carolina (ACC) [1]
|Pittsburgh (BE) [1]
|Duke (ACC) [2]
|Memphis (CUSA) [2]
|Syracuse (BE) [3]
|Michigan St. (B10) [2]
|Washington (P10) [4]
|Louisville (BE) [1]
I guess this answers our conjecture about Pitt, but also raised a number of questions about Memphis and Louisville: two teams that many have winning it all. Will they have enough firepower to last eight games? You have to wonder.
I assume that no one is surprised to see Illinois tops at the bottom considering they're (1) in the Big 10 and (2) that debacle against Pitt. Michigan St. has been pretty awful at times as well.
On the left side, we have OU. Jeff Capel has put together a great offensive group in Norman. Jeff, if you're reading this, Charlottesville is lovely this time of year.
UNC is no surprise at #2. The secondary break is king, as is Ty Lawson (when he plays).
Duke is a surprising #3. I think most people think of Duke as been rather sporadic on offense because they rely on the three so much. Not so, they can hang with the top teams in the country on offense.
Lastly, I'd like to note that had we not included only the top five seeds, Siena would've been tops still. Fran McCaffery's crew is really solid on offense. Fran, if you're reading this, Charlottesville is lovely this time of year.
A final word on filling out your bracket, I'd hoped to do something with defense before today. Alas, it was not to be. I'll still probably come up with something about it, but it won't help you fill in your bracket. Be cautious with teams that force a lot of turnovers. From all the analysis that I've done, teams that force a lot of turnovers aren't very efficient on D and are likely to get upset.


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Mark Hughes has encouraged QPR to promote 'stability' and keep him in charge for the rest of the season after Saturday's loss to Southampton heaped more pressure on the club to look for a new manager.
The QPR boss has come under intense scrutiny this season with the London club failing to register a win from their opening 12 Premier League matches.
QPR chairman Tony Fernandes is yet to publicly condemn Hughes' string of results, but the fans have been far more ruthless, calling for an immediate replacement.
However, Hughes has urged the club that it is important to look towards the future at Loftus Road.
"Stability is absolutely what this club needs in the long term," he said. "Until you get to that point where you can establish yourself in the Premier League, then you have to go through periods where there is doubt or apprehension about what the future holds.
"We are at that point in time now, but I think wholesale changes once again for this club would be the wrong decision in my view. You would expect me to say that but I honestly believe it.
"The owners understand that we're at that place in time. We just need to get through this, come out the other side and look back at this and think, 'we needed to go through that period to grow stronger'. It is difficult for everybody at the moment but we're not going to run away from it."
QPR sit bottom of the Premier League ladder on just four points and are favourites to be relegated this season.
The objective of building on last season - where QPR escaped relegation on the final day - now looks unrealistic, forcing Hughes to look for quick changes.
"We're at a point in time where we need to understand where we are," he said. "We're not talking about a successful mid-table finish now because, given the manner of the performance against Southampton, we are in danger of gonig down.
"We have to recognise that, we have to get the right mentality to move us forward and maybe the right players. I take responsibility for that and, given the performance, I picked the wrong players [against Southampton]."
QPR slumped to a 3-1 loss against fellow strugglers Southampton, prompting fans to criticise the motives of its players.
"I can understand totally the frustration of the fans and they are well within their rights to say that," Hughes said. "I can assure them that is not the case. Everyone is working exceptionally hard to turn this around.
"We just didn't perform as a team. When you have a poor performance, the fans, given where we are, they are absolutely right to criticise."
Information from the Press Association was used in this report.


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Friday, July 25, 2008
Good Morning America 25 July 2008
Lark's kids were on Good Morning America this morning. Oldest and youngest daughters, son in-law and grandson. It is so fun to have a two year old call you on the phone and say in a little voice "did you see us?"
The photos were taken of my TV from a video recording of the program.
3 comments:
- Talyn said...
Am I famous because my sisters were on TV?
- July 25, 2008 at 6:45 PM
- Cheryl said...
How fun! I'm sure you could see them clearly. That's a blast.
- July 25, 2008 at 7:50 PM
- G & G Hiatt said...
I am a great-grandson of Shadrach and Betsy Quimby Roundy through Jared Curtis and Ellen White Roundy. I have never seen the picture of Shadrach & Betsy together. Thanks for posting it.
Sometimes when I "Save picture as" from a blog it doesn't print out very well. Would you happend to have a copy of that picture you could scan and send to me via email? Would sure appreciate it.
My email address is
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New Movies This Week: 'Edge of Tomorrow,' 'The Fault in Our Stars'
This week in theaters, two highly different movies arrive: the first, a science-fiction action-adventure; the second, an uplifting story of hope rising against all odds.
New Movies This Week: 'Maleficent,' 'A Million Ways to Die in the West'
This weekend we get a fresh interpretation of a classic fairy tale, along with a wacky-looking western comedy from the guy who made 2012's hit about a foul-mouthed stuffed animal, 'Ted.'
That Stick-Figure Decal on Your Car Could Be Putting Your Family in Danger
They're all over the place—stick figures of a family stuck on the back window or bumper of a car or truck—but are these innocent-seeming decorations actually adding to a family's risk?
Man Who Hates Paying Taxes Threatens to Kill IRS Agent Investigating Him
Paying taxes isn't any fun, we know, but still—you really shouldn't threaten to kill the IRS agent who's asking about the money you owe Uncle Sam.
Very Aggrieved Man Sues NYC for $2 Undecillion (That's 2 Followed by 36 Zeroes)
Anton Purisima feels he has been unjustly harmed by a great many people, and he would like some compensation. A LOT of compensation.
New Movies This Week: 'X-Men: Days of Future Past,' 'Blended'
It's been like three whole weeks since we've had a new major comic-book movie hit theaters, so you can all relax now—the X-Men are back! As are Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, in their their third rom-com together.
September 11 Memorial Museum Opens With Ceremony for Families [PHOTOS]
On Thursday morning, President Obama dedicated the National September 11 Memorial Museum in a ceremony attended by families of the victims, first responders and numerous political leaders.
New Movies This Week: 'Godzilla,' 'Million Dollar Arm'
Get ready for the return of one of cinema's greatest monsters, plus an inspiring story of a few huge underdogs who get a chance to play Major League Baseball.
Hero Dad Makes Spectacular Foul-Ball Catch While Holding Daughter [VIDEO]
Most people won't ever be lucky enough to catch a foul ball at a baseball game, but one sure-handed fan put the rest of us souvenir-seekers to shame.
New Movies: 'Neighbors,' 'Moms' Night Out,' 'Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return'
We get a brief break from the action blockbusters this weekend, with a few high-profile comedies and one animated sequel to a beloved classic.


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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) – The Masters is underway. Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player all hit their ceremonial first tee shots Thursday morning to mark the beginning of the year's first major.
Palmer, the four-time champion, started the proceedings by striping his shot squarely down the center of the fairway. Then Player, making his debut as a ceremonial starter, flew his along the same line, about 40 yards past The King. Nicklaus also hit the fairway.
Three-time champion Phil Mickelson, wearing his green jacket, was there for the start even though he has the day's last tee time, at 1:53 p.m.
Craig Stadler, the 1982 champion, was among those in the first competitive threesome.
Tiger Woods had a 10:35 a.m. tee time and Rory McIlroy was set to go off at 1:42 p.m.


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Buoyancy Budget of the North Atlantic
OCCI Project Funded: 2004
Proposed ResearchBoth temperature and salinity affect the density of seawater, so the separate fluxes of heat and freshwater are important when trying to determine whether upper-ocean waters can become dense enough to sink below the surface. In the North Atlantic, significant sinking occurs because of a loss of buoyancy due to the large heat fluxes from ocean to atmosphere. This sinking of dense waters allows significantly larger flows of warm southern waters into the region than would otherwise occur, with a large impact on northern hemisphere climate.
However, there has been much speculation that the present trend of global warming will cause a decrease in North Atlantic sinking if too much freshwater is added at the surface. Global warming is predicted to accelerate the water cycle, and good evidence that this is occurring can be seen in oceanic salinity trends. In this project we are evaluating the magnitudes of the buoyancy changes due to heat and freshwater fluxes at the surface of the North Atlantic. A new flux climatology produced by colleagues Lisan Yu and Robert Weller is being combined with new rainfall estimates from satellites. Calculation of Evaporation – Precipitation (E-P) for the Atlantic is a step in the process of obtaining the buoyancy fluxes due to heat and freshwater. A map of the annual average E-P for 1988-1999 is shown in the figure below. When our buoyancy flux computations are completed, we will have a better understanding of the potential for decreased sinking rates of high latitude waters.


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- Johnson: France's World Cup predictions
Captain at the 2010 World Cup, Evra, 33, led his country's squad on strike in South Africa with the players upset at Nicolas Anelka's exclusion after he had insulted then-coach Raymond Domenech.
Though Deschamps brought a young Evra to prominence during their mutual spell at Monaco in the early part of the first decade of the millennium, and though the left-back remains the France coach's first-choice in that position, he will not lead his country again as long as the former World Cup winner is in charge.
"He will never be with me, and he knows it," said Deschamps, who has followed predecessor Laurent Blanc in naming Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Hugo Lloris captain.
"He knows why, but that doesn't mean he's not important. They are all important. He has a past. And some speak more than others. But even when it's good, it's not good."
Heavily criticised for his role in the protest in Knysna four years ago, Evra, who has regularly captained United, was also lambasted for speaking out at half-time of last September's pivotal World Cup qualifier in Belarus.
The full-back, who has 58 caps for his country, was named among the substitutes that night, but gave a talk at the interval with them trailing 1-0 in a game they went on to win 4-2 -- actions which were criticised by some sections of the media.
Deschamps said: "It's terrible for him. I get the impression that, whatever he does, it's not good. What he did that day fitted in with the way the squad works. I put myself in his position. He, just like others, can have a public image that does not reflect his personality.
"What you have to bear in mind is that a player is prepared for that. On the other hand, that's not the case for those who are around him and who love him. There's a certain aggression there today."
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We are now continuing our ShopSmith series of upgrades. We have already completed the upgrade of the Mark V from the Model 500 – Model 520 table upgrade. We also completed the up grade of the unit to the new PowerPro Headstock. Now we are going to transform using the Double-Tilt Base Upgrade Kit. The Mark V normally has the ability to tilt the unit upright to allow for drilling and above table routing/shaping. This upgrade turn the Mark 5 into an under table router, shaper and drum sander. Which in essence is just like the capabilities brought out for the Mark 7.
Many, like me, like the under table approach to shaping or routing. I like the items I am working on to be between my hands and the bit. I feel this is somewhat safer if not more convenient. This approach also makes interior cutting or shaping easier. Also in the under the table method there is not the need to remove the bit and setting to look at the work, you have to do this with over the top processes.
The upgrade process is simple to do. I think it took us about 2 hours and that was taking photos and all. It does take two people however.
Tools required:
- 5.16" Pin Punch
- 9/16/ Socket and wrench
- Ball Peen hammer
- Large flat head screwdriver
- #2 and #3 Phillips screwdriver
- 7/16 wrench
- 5/32" Allen Wrench (ShopSmith long handle)
- Large piece of cardboard
- 2 pieces of 3/4" plywood 3/4/ x 3 3/4 x 10" and a piece 3/4 x 8 X 12"
- Paste wax
The first thing we had to do was to make 2 supports. One is a simple flat piece of 3/4" plywood. This supports the headstock during the upgrade this is the piece of 10" stock 3 3/4" wide. The other piece is to create is the tube support. we ripped a piece 5" wide off the 12 " side. This gave us a 3/4"x5 "X 8" we then centered this piece perpendicular, creating a "T" to the left over plywood we just ripped and screwed the pieces together.
During the upgrade you are working on the ShopSmith with it upside down. So now remove everything from the Mark V except the main table. Slide the table and headstock to the far right and secure. Then stand the system in the upright, drill press mode, position and secure. Next we loosened the allen/set screws in the way bar ends. Now since our model was an earlier model there is a set of allen/set screws just past the pivot pin connecting the base arm on the way tubes.
Bring the unit down from drill press configuration. Slide the headstock to about 14-15" from the other end and secure. Install the main table so it is about 3/4" above the headstock. You can place the 3/4" piece of wood stock on top of the headstock and make sure the top of the table is in line with the wood you placed on top of the headstock. This will support the unit when you flip it over.
Place your large piece of cardboard on the floor. Put your headstock support piece, the 3/4" piece of stock, on the cardboard in the place where the headstock will land. Now with a helper flip the unit over so it is supported flat n the main table and the support board. The unit should be fairly stable now.
Remove the legs from the unit on both ends. It you have retractable casters DO NOT remove them from the legs.
Release the the head rest lock and lift the way tube up and place the T construction support piece you put together earlier. this is placed between the way tubes and bench tubes. Now using a 9/16" socket loosen, do not remove, the the 2 bolts that hold the bench tube lock bar against the way tubes.
Remove the head rest from the bench tubes and the way tube tie bar from the way tubes. If they do not come off lightly tap them with a rubber hammer to release them. Now remove the bolts and washers from the bench tube lock bar. Save these as you will use them for the new ends.
Nothing hard here. Replace the items with the new ones provided in your kit. Reinstall the legs. Make sure you read the directions included with the kit and you are familiar with the procedure.
Repeat for the other end.
Make sure everything is aligned then make sure you have tightened all bolts and set screws. Clean and wax up the unit. We do this anytime we work on our unit.
Over all this upgrade was very easy. Documentation is great and very detailed. The materials are top grade as you would expect from Shopsmith. Cost of the upgrade is VERY reasonable for the functions it give you. Now our Shopsmith is ready for the over / under table functions. We have included all the pictures of the process.
Well done very happy with this upgrade.


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Phone: 02 4388 5965
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Sun: By Appointment
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The Atlanta Falcons announced Tuesday, April 28, that they have signed undrafted free-agent WR Darren Mougey (San Diego State), QB John Parker Wilson (Alabama), DE Maurice Lucas (Colorado), LS Robert Shiver (Auburn), OL Jose Valdez (Arkansas), LB Derek Nicholson (Florida State), P Robbie Dehaze (Northern Arizona) and LB Brock Christopher (Missouri).
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Manchester day camp shed destroyed in arson
January 17. 2013 8:50AM
MANCHESTER - A shed designed to look like a castle, located at Melody Pines Day Camp on Crystal Lake, was destroyed Wednesday night in a fire officials say was the work of an arsonist.
The 20-by-30-foot building served a dual purpose: to store the summer camp's ski equipment and as a play structure for children. A slide was attached to it, allowing children to slide down and into the lake.
Erika Connors, who co-owns the 510 Corning Road camp with her husband, Stephen, said a neighbor across the lake spotted the fire just before midnight and called the owners. By then, fire trucks were already en route, she said.
District Fire Chief Michael Gamache said only the skeleton of the building, which was completely in flames, was standing when fire crews arrived.
Weather and access were issues for firefighters, who had to delay their initial attack. Still, crews had the blaze under control in about 15 minutes.
Fire investigators determined the blaze was an arson although they have yet to determine how and where it began.They also do not know if it is related to several other arson fires last summer in that neighborhood but are looking into that possibility.
Total damage, including the building, slide and equipment, is estimated at $30,000.