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2013 February 04, 10:00 CET
Trademark infringement results in jail term
A Swedish court has sentenced one person to a one-year jail term and a five-year ban from trade, and awarded damages to SKF, after finding him guilty of violation of Swedish trademark law in relation to the SKF trademark. The court found that he intentionally purchased counterfeit SKF products. The products were thereafter sold with a high profit margin to unknowing customers.
The criminal and civil court case was the result of a police raid in March 2010 of stores in Stockholm and Avesta (located in the central parts of Sweden) where the police found thousands of counterfeit SKF products. SKF cooperated with the police in the identification of the counterfeit bearings.
Counterfeit SKF products are non-SKF products illegally marked with the SKF trademark and packed in SKF-like packaging. Counterfeit industrial products like bearings can considerably reduce the service life of machinery and in the worst case endanger human lives. SKF is actively cooperating with law enforcement authorities around the world to facilitate legal measures against those involved in the trade of SKF counterfeit products.
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SKF is a leading global supplier of bearings, seals, mechatronics, lubrication systems, and services which include technical support, maintenance and reliability services, engineering consulting and training. SKF is represented in more than 130 countries and has around 15,000 distributor locations worldwide. Annual sales in 2012 were SEK 64,575 million and the number of employees was 46,775. www.skf.com
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The Pentagon and Oil
Nick Turse wrote, on Tom Dispatch (17.07.08): "For years, "oil" and "Iraq" couldn't make it into the same sentence in mainstream coverage of the invasion and occupation of that country. Recently, that's begun to change, but "oil" and "the Pentagon" still seldom make the news together. "
SOHBET KARBUZ has been following "Oil" and "the Pentagon" since 1999. Karbuz' most complete article, US Military Energy Consumption- Facts and Figures, with extensive footnotes, was published in May 2007 on Energy Bulletin.
From this article, we learn that:
- The U.S. military is the single largest consumer of energy in the world. The American GI is the most energy-consuming soldier ever seen on the field of war. In 2005, The U.S. Navy was the largest diesel fuel user in the world.
- The DoD's total primary energy consumption in Fiscal Year 2006 was 1100 trillion Btu
- Defense Energy Support Center (DESC) sold $13 billion of energy to DoD services in FY2006. More than half of it was to Air Force. Oil accounts for more than three-fourths of DoD's total site delivered energy consumption. In terms of fuel types, jet fuel(JP-8) accounts for more than 50% of total DoD energy consumption, and nearly 60% of its mobility fuel. In 2006 Air Force consumed around 2.6 billion gallons of jet-fuel, which is the same amount of fuel U.S. airplanes consumed during WWII (between December 1941 and August 1945).
- Nearly three quarters of DoD site delivered energy is consumed by vehicles … Only one quarter is consumed in buildings and facilities. According to the DoD's Federal Energy Management Report for FY2006, the DoD spent approximately $3.5 billion on facility energy and $16.5 billion on energy for tactical vehicles. To this we should add 238 million spent on non-tactical vehicles. DoD consumed 97 million gasoline gallons for its non-tactical vehicles and for that it spent 238 million dollars.
- The fixed costs of defending Persian Gulf oil amounts to $137.8 billion annually.
- The U.S. military consumed almost 180 million barrels (or 490 thousand barrels per day) of oil in 1985 worldwide. In 2006, its oil consumption was down to 117 million barrels (or 320 thousand barrels per day),[10] despite increasing activity in Iraq and Afghanistan. The discrepancies in these facts are discussed by Karbuz in Fact 7.
- The US spends about 150 thousand barrels abroad ("pessimist estimate") per day.
- Whatever the true figure, oil consumed by the U.S. military does not show up in world oil demand. For more explanation, see under item #425 in October 2004 issue of ASPO Newsletter.
- Delivery of Fuel: Over 70 percent of the tonnage required to position today's U.S. Army into battle is fuel. The Air Force spends approximately 85 percent of its fuel budget to deliver, by airborne tankers, just 6 percent of its annual jet fuel usage." … Of the top 10 battlefield guzzlers in the U.S. Army, only 2 are combat vehicles (the Abrams tank and the Apache helicopter). The other eight carry fuel and supplies. Over half of the fuel transported to the battlefield is consumed by support vehicles, not vehicles engaged in frontline combat. … The Army has 40,000 troops involved in either the distribution or movement of energy.
- All Air Force's future aircrafts under procurement (F-22 Raptor, F-35 as well as new aerial refueling tanker KC-X, etc) run on oil. They will remain in service at least until 2030.
From Military Oil Consumption in Afghanistan and Iraq (10.06.07), we learn that:
The DLA supplied more than 2.8 billion gallons of fuel to Operation Iraqi Freedom and more than 2.2 billion gallons of fuel support to Operation Enduring Freedom as of March 2006. This makes more than 5 billion gallons, or more than 119 million barrels of oil. Today 56 000 barrels of oil per day, with a cost of at least $3 million, is consumed by military in Afghanistan and Iraq .
"Unfortunately, total amount of paid and unpaid oil used by the US military in "freedom" operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, and its true cost (including delivery) are still a mystery, not helped by the fact that 'The US military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan (including the ones identified here) are not counted in the 3,748 military sites listed in the Base Structure Report for Fiscal Year 2005 of the US Department of Defense'.
In Afghanistan
According to the DLA facts (DLA removed link), as of March 2006 "more than 2.2 billion gallons of fuel," which makes 52 million barrels, was supplied to Afghanistan.
- On any given day, there are more than 300 trucks, carrying approximately three million gallons of fuel (71429 barrels), en route to military locations downrange. Interesting discussion, with map, of fuel supply lines.
- In total, the US military consumes roughly 16 kb/d of oil in Afghanistan. Of this amount roughly 2.7 kb/d comes from Turkmenistan, 2.4 kb/d from Uzbekistan and 10.8 kb/d from Pakistan.
In Iraq
According to the DLA facts (DLA removed link) as of March 2006, the US military oil consumption in Iraq was more than 2.8 billion gallons, which makes 67 million barrels. According to Colonel Rohrer, Director of Bulk Fuels, American forces in Iraq use more than 1.3 million gallons (31 kb/d) of fuel each day. According to an Atlantic Monthly article, however, it is 1.7 million gallons of fuel a day (40 kb/d).
"Each of the 150,000 soldiers on the ground consumes roughly nine gallons of fuel a day. And that figure has been rising." The number of soldiers varies, so figures can be confusing. [see footnotes].
See Fuel Consumption per US Soldier per day (20.04.08). The last news report citing this issue was here. [Military Feels Fuel-Cost Gouge in Iraq in April 2008]
From US Military Oil Use Abroad (27.07.08). we see Karbuz' estimates which include non-tactical vehicles, i.e., fleet vehicles such as trucks, passenger cars, SUVs etc.
- Total US military oil consumption went up from 295 kbd in 2000 to 363 kbd in 2007.
- OCONUS (oil consumed abroad) oil consumption accounted for 50% of total US military oil consumption in 2007, compared to only one-third in the year 2000. The US military oil consumption abroad was 180 kbd in 2007.
See more articles by Sohbet Karbuz:
Privatization of Warfare in Iraq (01.08.07)
More Fight – Less Fuel
(16.02.08). Critique on Defense Science Board Report: "lacks direct and precise answers to what it was asked to deliver."
DOD and Alternatives to Conventional Oil (12.06.08)
Dr. Sohbet Karbuz currently works for an energy industry association in France. A former official of the International Energy Agency, He also worked as a scientist in Germany and Austria.
Sarah Meyer is a researcher living in the UK.
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JQuery Selectors Examples
Here are list of some popular JQuery selectors. Best way to learn JQuery selectors is to try them. We will following HTML code snippet to demonstrate How different JQuery Selector works.
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Here is the our HTML page, which we will use in this example. It contains couple of common tags e.g. list items, h1, h2 and p, by using jQuery selector, we can get any of this element or a list of elements.

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1) ID Selector - starts with # and select elements whose id attribute matches. For example ${"#languages"} will chose HTML tag, whose id is languages, which is unordered list (
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2) Class Selector - starts with dot ( . ) and select list of elements on which that class has applied. For example $(".functional") will select all HTML elements which has attribute class = "functional", which is list item
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. This selector can return either only one element or more than one element, based upon how many elements have that particular class applied. This is generally used to select similar category elements i.e. more than one elements. Understanding the difference between class and id selector is also very important from interview point of view, its one of the most frequently asked jQuery interview question.
3) Element Selector or Tag Selector - selects all specified elements from DOM e.g. ${"h2"} will select all
 elements. Since this JQuery selector selects named HTML tags, it is also known as tag selector. This selector is often used to grab a set of elements for particular tag and then apply some class on it or perform manipulation on them.
4) Descendent Selector - this JQuery selector is more specific, it allows you to choose descendants of an HTML elements. For example $("#movies li"} will select all list items (li) which are descendent of HTML element, whose id is movies. In this example $("#languages li"} will select all list items from unordered list (
). jQuery has one more selector, which is similar to descendent selector, but there is some subtle difference between them, which we will look in next section.
5) Child Selector - child selector is more specific than Descendent Selector. If an element has children's and grand children, then using descendent selector will select all descendents, which includes direct children and grand children. If you use JQuery child selectors, then it will only select direct children of an element. Child selector is denoted by greater than sign (>) For example in following HTML structure, if we need all the
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6) Multiple selector : This jQuery selector allows you to choose more than one element in one shot. By using multiple selector, you actually combine two selection in one call. For example if you want to select element with CSS class functional, as well as list item with id="web", you can use jQuery multiple selector as ${".functional, #web"). Just remember to put comma between two arguments.
7) Pseudo class : jQuery allows you to use CSS like pseudo classes e.g. $('li :even') to select even elements, $('li :odd') to select odd items, :first to select first item, and :last to select last list item. This gives you immense power to select most specific element of your choice. Here is an example of jQuery pseudo class selector, $("#languages li:first") will return first list item from unordered list
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That's all on JQuery Selectors examples, we have seen examples of major jQuery selectors including ID selector, child selector, tag selector, descendent selector, multiple selector and pseudo class selector. As you can see, JQuery selectors are inspired with CSS selectors, So if you are good with CSS selectors, you will pick jQuery selectors quickly. On the other hand, if you are not so familiar with CSS selectors, then this gives you a chance to learn that as well.
Further Reading
The Complete jQuery Course: From Beginner To Advanced!
Up and Running with jQuery
jQuery Fundamentals By Dan Wahlin
Recommended jQuery books for further reading
If you are interested in learning JQuery and knowing more about power of this amazing JavaScript library, you can checkout following books. Head First jQuery is my favorite but other two are also good companion book.


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08 Feb AJIL Symposium: Reply to Comments on "The Travaux of the Travaux"
[Julian Davis Mortenson is Assistant Professor of Law at Michigan Law.]
I am most grateful for the thoughtful comments offered by Bart, Richard, and Ulf. Their observations are well-informed, generous, and extremely useful in advancing the conversation about treaty interpretation. So first and foremost, sincerest thanks to each of them.
In my response, I hope (1) to clarify the question that seems principally at issue in the discussion so far, and (2) to suggest how the historical evidence helps answer that question. As Ulf rightly points out, the article's aim is not to march through a unified field theory of treaty interpretation in the exhaustive fashion of a single subject treatise. It is, rather, to debunk a theoretically central misunderstanding about the interpretive role of travaux under the VCLT as a historical document.
The article is thus fundamentally a historical inquiry. But it also has obvious doctrinal implications. While those implications are not the article's central concern, I will briefly expand their logic as outlined on page 5 of the draft posted on SSRN. I take some time to spell this out because—with the exception of Richard's kind and detailed approbation of the historical analysis—the commentaries in this symposium understandably engage less with the particulars of the history than with its doctrinal implications for contemporary interpretive practice.
So here is a sketch of the case for those implications:
- First: Every mainstream understanding of treaty interpretation contemplates the use of travaux to resolve ambiguity that remains after the methods described in Article 31 are applied. We argue about the use of travaux in other circumstances. But no one seriously contests that they are not just available but potentially decisive in the face of ambiguity. (This is why any perceived doctrinal circularity is illusory. Since all parties to the debate are in agreement on at least this point, for doctrinal and argumentative purposes we can treat the relevance of drafting history in cases of ambiguity as an axiom requiring no proof.)
- Second: The complex, multilayered, and rather-quirkily-drafted provisions of Article 31 and 32 are a textbook example of such ambiguity, both in their individual meanings at the subsection level and in their overall structural interrelationship. One might reasonably rely (for example) on the structural separation of Articles 31 and 32 to conclude that they instantiate an interpretive hierarchy that disfavors travaux. But one might also reasonably rely (for example) on the existence of the "special meaning" and "confirm[ation]" provisions to conclude that they do not. This ambiguity is stubborn, and no amount of deductive gymnastics can make it disappear.
- Third: Because the treatment of travaux under Articles 31 and 32 is ambiguous, every mainstream theory of treaty interpretation must concede a potentially decisive role for the VCLT's drafting history in resolving that ambiguity. Putting it as one might in a legal brief: assuming arguendo with the most conservative commentators that resort to travaux is available only in the case of ambiguity, that condition is easily satisfied here.
- Fourth: Careful review of the VCLT travaux—and it is on this point that the article focuses—demonstrates that Articles 31 and 32 were understood to reject a hierarchical or mechanistic view of interpretation. The holistic view of interpretation adopted by the drafters extended in particular to the use of travaux, which were viewed as automatically incorporated among and conceptually equivalent to the many other (potentially contradictory) indicators of legal meaning enumerated in the VCLT.
With the exception of the last bullet point, these statements are obviously asserted rather than demonstrated. But if each of them holds up, then as a matter of modern legal meaning the VCLT instantiates neither an interpretive hierarchy generally nor a hostility (suspicion, inhospitality, etc.) toward drafting history specifically. The Vienna settlement erected neither barriers, nor thresholds, nor negative presumptions regarding the use of travaux. Instead, it incorporated drafting history as a central and indeed crucial tool for identifying correct legal meaning.
Bart puts his finger right on the most important open question about this bottom line doctrinal conclusion. Given the conceded prevalence of learned professions that such a hierarchy does exist, it's not out of bounds to argue that subsequent practice under the VCLT conflicts with its original meaning. (Note that, as explored in a shorter paper available here, the VCLT does not tell us how to resolve such a conflict. But bracket that for now.)
Partly because of the stark contradiction that Ulf observes between actual interpretive practice and professions of interpretive principle, however, it is my strong instinct that no such practice has in fact arisen among states parties to the VCLT. But the burden here will be on anyone seeking to dislodge the Vienna settlement. They will have to show, in the precise terms of Article 31, that contrary "subsequent practice in the application of the treaty . . . establishes the agreement of the parties regarding its interpretation." If you can't make that showing, then it's hard to avoid the following doctrinal conclusion: Drafting history is generally and automatically available as a source of meaning in every single case. And that's true even if—as Richard so nicely shows with the meaning of "poison" under the Rome Statute—the particular travaux of a particular treaty might not in fact illuminate a particular question facing a particular interpreter at any particular moment.


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A month after President Obama won reelection, America's most powerful liberal groups met to plan their next moves. Here's what they talked about.
It was the kind of meeting that conspiratorial conservative bloggers dream about.
A month after President Barack Obama won reelection, top brass from three dozen of the most powerful groups in liberal politics met at the headquarters of the National Education Association (NEA), a few blocks north of the White House. Brought together by the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Communication Workers of America (CWA), and the NAACP, the meeting was invite-only and off-the-record. Despite all the Democratic wins in November, a sense of outrage filled the room as labor officials, environmentalists, civil rights activists, immigration reformers, and a panoply of other progressive leaders discussed the challenges facing the left and what to do to beat back the deep-pocketed conservative movement… More →


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22.214.171.124 Representation of water vapour in models
General circulation models do not impose a fixed relative humidity. Assumptions built into the models directly govern the relative humidity only in the sparse set of grid boxes that are actively convecting, where the choice of convection scheme determines the humidity. In the case of moist convective adjustment, the relative humidity after convection is explicitly set to a predetermined profile, whereas the mass flux schemes compute a humidity profile based on microphysical assumptions of varying complexity. The relative humidity elsewhere is determined by explicitly resolved dynamical processes, and in fact undergoes marked spatial (e.g., Figure 7.1b,c) and temporal fluctuations. Nonetheless, all models studied to date produce a positive water vapour feedback consistent with the supposition that water vapour increases in such a way as to keep the relative humidity approximately unchanged at all levels (Held and Soden, 2000). The strength of the water vapour feedback is consistent amongst models, despite considerable differences in the treatment of convection and microphysics (Cess et al., 1990).
The "convective region" is potentially a source of modelling errors, since the evaporation of detrained precipitation and other poorly characterised and heavily parametrized processes are essential to the moistening of the atmosphere. Tompkins and Emanuel (2000) showed that in a single-column model, numerical convergence of the simulated water vapour profile requires a vertical resolution better than 25 mb in pressure (see also Emanuel and Zivkovic-Rothman, 1999). Thus, the apparent lack of sensitivity of water vapour feedback in current GCMs to the way convection is treated may be an artefact of insufficient vertical resolution. An alternative view is that the water vapour flux is vigorous enough to keep the convective region at a substantial fraction of saturation, so that the details of the moistening process do not matter much. In this case the convection essentially extends the boundary layer into the free troposphere, making condensed water abundantly available to evaporation, but in the form of droplets or crystals. Indeed, Dessler and Sherwood (2000) find that satellite observations of tropical water vapour can be understood without detailed microphysical considerations, even in the convective region. Radiosonde observations (Kley et al., 1997) and satellite UTH data (Soden and Fu, 1995) reveal free troposphere relative humidities of 50 to 70% throughout the convective region. Udelhofen and Hartmann (1995) find that moisture decays away from convective systems with a characteristic scale of 500 km, so that convection need not be too closely spaced to maintain a uniformly moistened region. As noted by Held and Soden (2000), the evidence for the opposite view, that convective region air becomes drier as temperature increases, is weak.
This moistening of large-scale tropical subsiding zones by large-scale advection is a process explicitly resolved in models, and in which one can have reasonably high confidence. Care must still be taken with the design of numerical advection methods to avoid spurious transport. In this regard, there has been notable progress since the SAR as models are increasingly using semi-Lagrangian and other advanced advection methods in place of spectral advection of water vapour (Williamson and Rasch, 1994). These methods virtually eliminate spurious transport arising from the need to adjust negative moisture regions, as commonly happens in spectral advection.
In the extra-tropics the ubiquitous large-scale synoptic eddies which dominate moisture transport are explicitly represented in GCMs, and there is reasonably high confidence in simulated mid-latitude water vapour feedback. The eddies maintain a fairly uniform monthly mean relative humidity of 30 to 50% throughout the year (Soden and Fu, 1995; Bates and Jackson, 1997).
Simulation of water vapour variations with natural climate fluctuations such as the annual cycle and El Niño can help provide tests of the verisimilitude of models but may not be sufficient for assessing climate change due to increases in greenhouse gases (Bony et al., 1995). Models are quite successful at reproducing the climatological free tropospheric humidity pattern (e.g., Figure 7.1b,c). Model-satellite comparisons of UTH are still at a rather early stage of development; the AMIP simulations did not archive enough fields to provide an adequate understanding of UTH, and there are problems in determining which model level should be compared to the satellite data. Also there are uncertainties in UTH retrievals (see Chapter 2). Caveats notwithstanding, the ensemble mean of the AMIP simulations shows a moist bias in UTH compared to satellite data, but this result is rendered uncertain by apparent inconsistencies in the computation of model relative humidities for intercomparison purposes. The models studied by AMIP (Bates and Jackson, 1997) appear to show little skill in reproducing the seasonal or interannual variations of convective region UTH, though many show significant correlations between simulated and observed sub-tropical and extra-tropical UTH fluctuations. The latter lends some confidence to the simulated water vapour feedback, as the dry sub-tropics and extra-tropics account for a large part of the feedback. Del Genio et al. (1994) found good agreement between the observed seasonal cycle of zonal mean UTH, and that simulated by the GISS model.
Humidity is important to water vapour feedback only to the extent that it alters OLR. Because the radiative effects of water vapour are logarithmic in water vapour concentration, rather large errors in humidity can lead to small errors in OLR, and systematic underestimations in the contrast between moist and dry air can have little effect on climate sensitivity (Held and Soden, 2000). Most GCMs reproduce the climatological pattern of clear-sky OLR very accurately (Duvel et al., 1997). In addition, it has been shown that the CCM3 model tracks the observed seasonal cycle of zonal mean clear-sky OLR to within 5 Wm-2 (Kiehl et al., 1998), the GFDL model reproduces tropical mean OLR fluctuations over the course of an El Niño event (Soden, 1997), and the collection of models studied under the AMIP project reproduces interannual variability of the clear-sky greenhouse parameter with errors generally under 25% for sea surface temperatures (SSTs) under 25°C (Duvel et al., 1997). Errors become larger over warmer waters, owing to inaccuracies in the way the simulated atmospheric circulation responds to the imposed SSTs (which may also not be accurate). The LMD model shows close agreement with the observed seasonal cycle of greenhouse trapping (Bony et al., 1995), but models vary considerably in their ability to track this cycle (Duvel et al., 1997).
Indirect evidence for validity of the positive water vapour feedback in present models can be found in studies of interannual variability of global mean temperature: Hall and Manabe (1999) found that suppression of positive water vapour feedback in the GFDL model led to unrealistically low variability. An important development since the SAR is the proliferation of evidence that the tropics during the Last Glacial Maximum were 2 to 5°C colder than the present tropics. Much of the cooling can be simulated in GCMs which incorporate the observed reduction in CO2 at the Last Glacial Maximum (see Chapter 8). Without water vapour feedback comparable to that currently yielded by GCMs, there would be a problem accounting for the magnitude of the observed cooling in the tropics and Southern Hemisphere.
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Source: Indianapolis Star
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April 7, 2020, 5:48 pmLeBron JamesSF, Los Angeles Lakers
The NBA "would like to have a champion crowned by Labor Day weekend," per Adrian Wojnarowski.
Wojnarowski was on "Get Up" on Tuesday morning with host Mike Greenberg when he gave the latest timeline that he is hearing. Woj made it a point of emphasis that this is the ideal timeline that the NBA is hoping to complete this season by, and added that if this comes to fruition there is no question that the start of next season would be delayed. This is the latest timeline that we are hearing about, and we will have to see how realistic this is as time passes.
Source: ESPN
April 6, 2020, 9:11 pmLeBron JamesSF, Los Angeles Lakers
NBA teams will not be allowed to conduct in-person or live video workouts for NBA Draft prospects but will be allowed up to four hours of virtual meetings per prospect.
Whenever the draft happens, it will be with the least amount of research in quite a while. Teams will be without tournament game tape for college prospects and without the ability to watch live workouts. Combined with a lack of consensus on who the best players are, this could lead to a wild draft with the eventual best players going much later than usual.
Source: Shams Charania on Twitter
April 6, 2020, 8:36 pmLeBron JamesSF, Los Angeles Lakers
Adam Silver said there will be no way to know the NBA season's fate until at least May 1st.
It's not much of a surprise to hear that Silver doesn't expect to have enough information to make a determination about the season until next month at the very least. He also mentioned that the NBA has looked a lot at games without fans.
Source: Tim Bontemps on Twitter
April 6, 2020, 5:15 pmTyrese MaxeySG, College
Tyrese Maxey has declared for the NBA draft.
The freshman from Kentucky finished the college season with averages of 14.0 points, 4.3 rebounds, 3.2 dimes, 0.9 steals, 0.4 blocks and 1.1 threes per contest. Maxey is gifted with a tremendous knack for scoring and has the looks of a lottery selection, though obviously this draft season could be a very strange one.
Source: Malika Andrews on Twitter
April 5, 2020, 8:40 pmDennis Smith Jr.PG, New York Knicks
Marc Berman of the New York Post is reporting that with new leadership in place for the Knicks, the team is likely to shop Dennis Smith Jr. this offseason.
Knicks President Leon Rose has no attachment to Smith, and with head coach David Fizdale and assistant coach Keith Smart no longer around to justify his retention, there is little reason for the Knicks to continue relying upon DSJ's services. He struggled all season, from a back injury, to the loss of his stepmother, to an obscure oblique injury, and a concussion in February. Smith will be worth a flyer for another team to roll the dice on, but it is unlikely he gets a real chance to be the Knicks point guard of the future again. It will be difficult for Smith to become a standard league option no matter where he is playing next season. He is simply too lousy a shooter from the field and free-throw line. His turnover rate also remains an issue in 9-CAT formats.
Source: NY Post
April 5, 2020, 8:22 pmAshton HagansPG, College
Sophomore point guard Ashton Hagans announced his intention to leave Kentucky and enter the 2020 NBA Draft.
Hagans is projected to be a late second-round target for the draft and is unlikely to make noise as a rookie in the NBA. One has to hope he lands on a team devoid of point guard options to let Hagans emerge with much fantasy value as a rookie. He averaged 11.5 points, 6.4 assists, 3.9 rebounds and 1.9 steals per game while serving as the starting point guard throughout this season with the Wildcats.
Source: UK Athletics
April 5, 2020, 8:11 pmTheo MaledonPG, International
French point guard Theo Maledon has completed all of the required paperwork to make himself eligible to be selected in the 2020 NBA Draft.
Maledon is an up-and-coming prospect who will be only 18 years young on draft day. He was a contender to take home the Rising Star award based upon his play in the Euroleague this season before the action was cut short due to the coronavirus. He's been in the French system since he was 14 and is considered a pick just outside the NBA lottery on many draft boards. He was averaging 7.1 points and 2.3 assists in 17 minutes of action.
Source: ESPN.com
April 4, 2020, 9:49 pmZach LaVinePG, Chicago Bulls
Pacers GM Chad Buchanan declined to interview for the Bulls' top basketball operations position.
Buchanan said he and his family are happy in Indianapolis and he is not interested in leaving. The Bulls are clearly moving fast with building their new front office after the announcement that GM Gar Forman and VP of Basketball Ops John Paxson are expected to move to different roles in the organization. A change in the front office and coaching staff could only be positive for fantasy purposes as the Bulls rank 29th in offensive rating this season. Hopefully a change would bring a more fantasy-friendly system with an emphasis on developing the younger talent on the roster.
Source: Shams Charania on Twitter
April 4, 2020, 9:09 pmLeBron JamesSF, Los Angeles Lakers
The NBA and ESPN are working together to televise a H-O-R-S-E competition with several high-profile players.
Woj reported that the details of this competition are still being finalized, but it sounds like players will shoot in isolation, most likely in their home gyms. This would be a much needed source of entertainment for everyone who loves the NBA and, with bragging rights on the line, we would likely see some stellar performances from the NBA's best players.
Source: Adrian Wojnarowski on Twitter
April 4, 2020, 8:51 pmLauri MarkkanenPF, Chicago Bulls
According to Joe Cowley of the Chicago Sun-Times, Lauri Markkanen had been unhappy with the direction of the Bulls organization even before the league went on hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Markkanen was so displeased, in fact, that he went on to state that if the situation were to remain unchanged, he'd prefer to be elsewhere. The Bulls power forward was a fantasy mess in 2019-20 and some of that could be attributed to the coach and some of it, to his injuries. Still, his statements put the team in a rough spot. considering Markkanen has been widely regarded as a core piece of their future plans. The Bulls are already shaking things up though, making moves towards freshening things up in the front office. The Markkanen-Bulls relationship is a must-watch storyline, especially given his potential in fantasy hoops.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times.


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People across Scotland are being invited to contribute their views on the futre direction of the police force.
Police Scotland has launched a new long-term draft strategy and are asking the public to help refine it.
The force says that demands on policing are changing and it needs to adapt and develop to maximise public safety and remain sustainable operationally and financially.
It also pointed out that patterns of crime are shifting, often enabled by new technologies, while at the same time the population is ageing, becoming more diverse and the duty to protect the vulnerable is becoming ever more complex.
The strategy, Policing 2026, which was developed by the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) and Police Scotland, aims to chart the next phase in the transformation of policing, creating a workforce of police officers and staff who are focused on where they can add most value to protecting and serving the public.
Andrew Flanagan, SPA chairman, said: "From a position of strength, we need to ensure that Police Scotland adapts to these changes and has the range of skills and capacity to deal with growing demand and that we do so in a financially sustainable way.
"Policing is a vital public service and it is essential that we listen to those we wish to serve to ensure we meet their expectations. Through this consultation we are asking for everyone to provide their views on the approach outlined today and I would urge as many people as possible to take part."
Chief Constable Phil Gormley said: "The service must transform to realise and release the full benefits of being a single organisation. Local policing will remain at the heart of what we do, supported by a wide range of specialist capabilities.
"In an ever-changing world, people will continue to turn to the police service for a myriad of reasons, which means it's never been more important to understand our demand, both current and future, in order to be able deliver a service which is relevant, has legitimacy and above all maintains the trust and confidence of the public."
The full document can be found at www.scotland.police.uk/policing2026 and responses, the deadline for which is May 8, can be submitted at https://consult.scotland.police.uk/consultation/2026/


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Symposium: Some of us just aren't cut out for a career in America's pizza-industrial complex
Christopher Bradley
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Symposium: Some of us just aren't cut out for a career in America's pizza-industrial complex
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Symposium: Some years ago I took a short holiday to Rome. Perhaps not the pizza capital of the world, but at the very least the capital of the pizza capital.
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The last election of 2018, redone in 2019, that some folks desperately want to mean something for 2020. Be careful with the Bellwether.
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Writs are back this week, with the story of a prisoner who was executed twice, an ill-tempered judge throwing an ironic fit and another who appoints himself prosecutor, space law, the NFL lawsuit fumbles, dumb criminals and more.
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Where to even start...
An army vet friend suggested that soldiers and vets be allowed to voluntarily get the virus in order to maintain readiness, provide an immune workforce and research antibodies. These guys and gals are hardcore. 🇺🇸
— Andrew Yang🧢 (@AndrewYang) April 6, 2020
Let's assume Yang didn't mean this as the malicious stupidity it could be taken as, because I don't think he did. Assuming the friend and conversation happened at all, the idea of doing "chicken pox party"-style herd immunity already has had disastrous results both in England where it was initial policy and more recently in Kentucky, where such a party lead to infections.
Just because veterans are praised -- deservedly -- for the sacrifices they make on behalf of all of us, and their willingness to do so, doesn't mean they should be sacrificial every time a sacrifice needs to be made. Especially when it would be a meaningless sacrifice at that.
Veterans have done enough of those kinds of missions, thank you very much.Comment →
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A couple weeks back our Saul DeGraw wrote a piece called Life Under Quarantine where he relayed some of his thoughts and observations about this weird time in which we live.
This was one of the comments:
This commenter wrote a whole chain of these remarks, and they were quite witty. They would have made for a marvelous standalone piece, scathing social commentary, one I would have praised to the skies. But the way they were presented, as comments on an individual author's article and in response to other commenters who chimed in to commiserate with the author, rankled me.
One of my personal pet peeves is when a person has a problem in this world, and ok maybe it's not the HUGEST problem ever, but it's irritating and painful to them, and someone chimes in to mock or correct them, telling them they don't have it that bad, that it could always be worse, yadda yadda yadda.
Now, this may surprise you since I write regularly about how terrible things were in the past and how we should look at our ancestors with more sympathy and understanding, and also that we who live in modern times should have a greater appreciation for the miraculous age in which we live. But those are observations in the general sense. Food for thought. Not a personal rebuke directed at any one person. When I write that type of article, I'm not intentionally coming out swinging against a specific individual.* I'm simply trying to provide historical and cultural perspective OVERALL, for people to think about or not as they so choose, instead of as a personal attack designed to embarrass someone.
I just find it rather unkind when people say "hey, I'm struggling right now" and the response is to pile on.
If you hit your thumb with a hammer, it hurts. It doesn't matter in that moment if there are people with thumb cancer or people born without thumbs or people whose thumbs are withering away from malnutrition in Outer Absurdistan. You still feel pain, great pain, even if you know that pain will go away in time, even if you know it's not literally the worst thing that has ever happened in human history. It hurts and people should respect that and provide comfort when their fellow human being is in pain, even if way down deep inside you don't think it's THAT big of a deal. And if you really can't provide comfort, if their complaints are so minor that you just can't even with that, then just walk away. Say nothing. Saying nothing is always an option. It is human nature to reach out to others when you're in pain, when you're scared, when you feel isolated, and that should not be an opening for some jerk to come in with another hammer and whack that thumb again.
Are there people out there who may be complaining a little TOO much sometimes? Sure. Should we all count our blessings way more than we do? Absolutely. I agree that there are many folks out there who are in dire need of a little perspective. But surely this perspective doesn't need to be in the form of a personal attack or a public rebuke - from which no one has ever learned anything from anyway. Personal attacks are made not to teach or inform, but to make the attacker feel a temporary frisson of pleasure at the expense of another, and I am of the opinion that personal attacks about people's coronavirus/quarantine anxiety are yet another pleasure we should probably forgo right now.
I think we can probably all agree the coronavirus quarantine is a lousy situation to find ourselves in, even if it is not the literally worst thing that has ever happened to a human being, even if the things we are mourning are as minor as the ability to purchase street tacos. And even a hangnail hurts. Complaining about small, relatable pains - hangnails and paper cuts and sunburns and mosquito bites and feeling awkward at parties and chomping down on the inside of our cheek really bad 17 times in a row - is one of those things that brings us together as human beings. We have all experienced pain, and loss, and fear, it sucks and it's part of the human condition to seek sympathy from others when we're hurting.
The last thing anyone needs right now is a big squeeze of lemon juice rubbed into their wounds.
*I admit I'm not perfect and have not always been a paragon of virtue on this site or on Twitter. Please respect me trying to do something positive here rather than take the opportunity to pedantically go back and screenshot things I've said that I probably shouldn't have. I admit I don't always live up to my lofty goals, but at least I have them.Comment →
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My husband is our designated leave-the-house person, which basically means he goes to the grocery store once a week. I'm appreciative, but there's a trade-off:
He shops like he's a contestant on Supermarket Sweep.
Brand name everything. Organics. Multiple packages of expensive junk foods that were not on the carefully curated list I gave him. Toiletry and household items that would have cost half as much at the Dollar General. Today, he successfully smashed our family record for most money spent on a single grocery trip.
Granted, prices are a little elevated right now, and it was a stock-up. I probably would have broken the record, too, if I'd gone myself. But he blew it out of the water. Like, he doubled what I normally spend...but did not procure double the groceries.
I was a good sport about it, though. I just ribbed him good-naturedly, while the two of us sat out on the back deck, washing our groceries down with Clorox wipes.Comment →
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1. Almost every analysis of the plague progression relies on the number of positive tests and/or the number of deaths. I think these numbers are so unreliable as to be only marginally useful. Many tests give unacceptable high false-negative numbers. Many infected are not getting tested. Many deaths are not being counted. These data may be useful for telling if and when we're bending the curve in individual countries. But be very cautious of drawing grand conclusions from them.
2. The new blood tests are being touted as a way for people to get back to work once they've had it. I don't put much faith in that right now. Again, the false positive rate is too high. And blood tests are not cheap.
3. We have no idea if chloroquine works. Only three studies have been published and all three are seriously flawed. Unlike Orac, I don't object to a kitchen sink approach in desperate times. But temper your expectations.
4. Social distancing seems to be working in that most of the curves are flattening instead of continuing on an exponential course. But that's not 100% clear yet. The new push for wearing masks will be a force multiplier for it, though.
5. A lot of our strategy hinges on a vaccine being available in 2021. Maybe. But vaccines are tricky things. In the end, our only option may be slowing the pandemic as it kills millions worldwide.
6. The PPE crisis is far more important than the ventilator shortage. Only a small fraction of those who go on ventilators survive. Meanwhile, doctors are being exposed to massive doses of the virus, which may worsen their outcomes.
7. Supply chains are a concern, particularly on food. The problem isn't so much a shortage of food -- although that could become a problem if migrant labor is hit by this. It's that our food supply chains are geared for us eating half of our food in restaurants. I suspect we will adapt. But that probably means buying huge shipments of ground beef instead of individual patties.
8. We haven't even begun to feel the economic pain.
9. The headline is needlessly hysterical, but it's hard to imagine anyone more unqualified for this crisis than Jared Kushner.
10. Despite all of this, I am trying to remain optimistic. We're going into a very rough and dangerous time. But if we keep our heads, we can emerge from it. I won't say we're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel yet. But I will say we're seeing that it is indeed a tunnel and not a bottomless pit.
(I originally stole this bit from Stephen Bainbridge but I don't think the concept is original to him.)Comment →
It's become something of a joke when economic numbers come out with the ubiquitous "unexpected" tag, but the data starting to come in on the economic toll of the COVID-19 virus and subsequent social shut-down was expected to be bad, and indeed is off the charts.
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The torrent of Americans filing for unemployment insurance continued last week as more than 6.6 million new claims were filed, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That brings to 10 million the total Americans who filed over the past two weeks.
Economists surveyed by Dow Jones estimated 3.1 million, a week after 3.3 million filings in the first wave of what has been a record-shattering swelling of the jobless ranks. The previous week's total was revised higher by 24,000.
On an unadjusted basis, the total was 5.8 million, a number that some economists consider more relevant as seasonal adjustments are less relevant due to the unusual impact the coronavirus-induced shutdown has had on the U.S. economy.
The 4-week moving average, which smooths fluctuations, was 2.054 million, up 327,250 from aw eek ago and the highest since Jan. 14, 2017.
Before the coronavirus shut down major parts of the U.S. economy, the highest week for claims was 695,000 in 1982. The Great Recession high was 665,000 in March 2009.
However, the sudden stop as the government has instituted social distancing policies caused a cascade of joblessness unlike anything the nation has ever seen.
Those at the lower end of the wage scale have been especially hard-hit during a crisis that has seen businesses either cut staff outright or at best freeze any new hiring until there's more visibility about how efforts to contain the coronavirus will work.
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For the first time in 8 years, Bob Dylan has released new music. "Murder Most Foul" is a 17-minute epic that starts as a graphic retelling of the Kennedy assassination, but then turns into a sprawling take on culture in the Sixties and beyond.Comment →
The US Senate gaveled out of session in the early morning hours of Wednesday, announcing what Senator Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called "largest rescue package in American history" was finally ready.
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Senate leaders and the Trump administration reached agreement early Wednesday on a $2 trillion stimulus package to rescue the economy from the coronavirus assault, setting the stage for swift passage of the massive legislation through both chambers of Congress.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced the breakthrough on the Senate floor around 1:30 a.m., after a long day of talks with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and other administration officials.
"At last we have a deal," McConnell said. "After days of intense discussion, the Senate has reached a bipartisan agreement on a historic relief package for this pandemic. ... I'm thrilled that we're finally going to deliver for the country that has been waiting for us to step up."
"Help is on the way, big help and quick help," Schumer said. "We're going to take up and pass this package to care for those who are now caring for us, and help carry millions of Americans through these dark economic times."
The agreement capped five straight days of intensive negotiations that occasionally descended into partisan warfare as the nation's economy reeled from the deadly pandemic, with schools and businesses closed, mass layoffs slamming the workforce and tens of thousands falling ill.
The legislation, unprecedented in its size and scope, aims to flood the economy with capital by sending $1,200 checks to many Americans, creating a $367 billion loan program for small businesses and setting up a $500 billion fund for industries, cities and states.
Other provisions include a massive boost to unemployment insurance, $150 billion for state and local stimulus funds and $130 billion for hospitals.
McConnell said the Senate would pass the legislation later Wednesday. With the House out of session, action there could take longer, depending on whether lawmakers can agree to pass the bill by "unanimous consent," which would require agreement from all members of the chamber.
Airbnb recently changed its cancellation policy in light of the Coronavirus. It allowed all of the people cancelling their trips to just cancel and get their money refunded.
This pushed 100% of the Covid-19 losses onto hosts.
Calling all @Airbnb hosts that have been robbed by @airbnb's arbitrary decision to change its cancellation policy making #hosts bear 100% of the losses due to #COVIDー19.
We are building a class action lawsuit.
Please connect, we have much to discuss.
— Airbnb Host Class Action (@AirbnbHostClass) March 15, 2020
(Featured image is "classroom 2nd fl" by cayoup. Used under creative commons license.)Comment →
The move for a "Phase 3" coronavirus stimulus package is not going well. Or anywhere fast.
Senate Democrats blocked a massive coronavirus stimulus bill from moving forward Sunday in the Senate, as partisan disputes raged over the legislation that's aimed at arresting the economy's precipitous decline.
Negotiations continued even as the initial procedural vote fell short, with 47 senators voting in favor and 47 opposed. The tally was well short of the 60 votes that were needed to move forward. The number of "aye" votes was especially low because five Republicans are quarantined over coronavirus fears.
Although senators of both parties and Trump administration officials vowed to continue negotiating -- around the clock if necessary -- the failed vote was the latest negative signal about Congress' ability to come together around the legislation, which aims to inject close to $1.8 trillion into businesses and households. Policy makers are scrambling to address a spike in layoffs and businesses gasping for assistance as millions of Americans stay home to avoid contagion.
Ever since Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) introduced the legislation Thursday night, senators have missed one self-imposed deadline after another to reach a deal. The vote Sunday evening was delayed three hours so talks could continue after it became clear it would fail, but no resolution was reached and it failed anyway.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was not happy:
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#VirusVote: Senate fails to advance phase 3 #coronavirus stimulus bill 47-47, after Democrats opposed Big business bailout money, with limited relief for working families.
After vote @senatemajldr blasts @SpeakerPelosi for blowing up deal last minutepic.twitter.com/SHfqFfJ3y7
— Marty Golingan (@mgolingan1) March 22, 2020
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Gun activists stage 'armed march' at SXSW
SAN ANTONIO — Amid the party atmosphere of South by Southwest, a group of armed activists held a rally in the congested streets of downtown Austin on Wednesday, toting rifles and black-powder pistols openly among thousands of festival goers.
The group, Come And Take It Texas, held a similar march near the festival Saturday, during which many tourists took notice.
About a dozen activists carrying the unloaded firearms, started the Wednesday rally around 11 a.m. near the state Capitol. The conspiracy website InfoWars broadcast the event online.
"You'd be surprised, man. We get lots of people coming up wanting to take photos with us," Justin Delosh, director of the group, told radio station KUT. "It really sparks a lot of conversation."
A Second Amendment rally at the Alamo drew hundreds of armed protesters last year. Alex Jones, who runs the InfoWars website, appeared onstage at that event.
Organizers of the Alamo rally said the event was educational and meant to show that guns in public are not dangerous if they are handled safely. A counterprotest near downtown San Antonio argued that the demonstration was unnecessarily intimidating.
Tens of thousands of people from around the world attend the annual South by Southwest festival, which features an interactive, film and music section and is held in bars, restaurants and parks in downtown Austin.
Delosh told KUT the rally was set in hopes of engaging conversation about gun laws.
A person in Texas can legally carry long guns, such as shotguns and bolt-action and semi-automatic rifles in the open in public. To carry a pistol in public, a person must have a concealed-carry license and conceal the weapon from view.
Antique black-powder guns also can be carried.
A push in the Legislature last year fell short to allow open carry of pistols but both candidates for governor, Democrat Wendy Davis and Republican Greg Abbott, have offered their support to the issue.
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Rangel to keynote conference on welfare reform, Oct. 6
U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel of New York will deliver the keynote
address at a Princeton University conference on welfare reform at 12:45
p.m. Friday, Oct. 6, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Rangel, the ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, is expected to lay out key priorities for the next Congress, presenting a major address on action areas in social policy.
The conference, titled "TANF@10: A Retrospective on Welfare Reform," is intended to focus on the passage of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, a landmark bill created by the Welfare Reform Law of 1996. TANF became effective July 1, 1997, and replaced what was then known as welfare: Aid to Families with Dependent Children and the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training programs. TANF was reauthorized in February 2006.
Scholars, practitioners and families whose lives have been affected by welfare reform will gather to discuss the changes TANF has produced, and what the future of welfare should look like. Presenting specially commissioned research will be Peter Edelman of Georgetown University, Olivia Golden of the Urban Institute and Robert Wood of the policy research firm Mathematica. Commentators will include Linda Gibbs, New York City's deputy mayor for health and human services, and Clarke Bruno, New Jersey's new commissioner of human services.
An original documentary short on welfare in the region will be released at the conference, as well as a specially commissioned survey on public perceptions of poverty and public assistance.
The conference will run from 9:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. in Robertson Hall. It is free and open to the public, but registration is required by completing an online form or by calling (609) 258-9065.
The event is sponsored by the Policy Research Institute for the Region in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Members of the news media planning to attend should contact Andrew Rachlin at (609) 258-9531.


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Archive for Thursday, August 18, 2011
Tonganoxie man remembered as good friend, master of anything with wheels
August 18, 2011
It seems that if something had wheels, Nick Owens could drive it — sometimes without some of those wheels touching the ground.
The Tonganoxie man died Saturday while swimming at Lone Star Lake in southern Douglas County. Though family still awaits word on the cause of Owens' death, they and other loved ones were remembering him Wednesday.
Many commented on his abilities, whether they were performed on a dirt bike, car or truck.
"He could do a wheelie from here to Kansas City," said Oliver Harris, one of Owens' friends and pallbearer at his service Wednesday, "and not put front tires on the ground."
Owens raced dirt bikes for years and also worked off and on for Jimmy Creten, who with his wife, Dawn Creten, race monster trucks Bounty Hunter and Scarlet Bandit respectively.
Creten asked Owens to race one of his trucks, Iron Outlaw, on the monster truck circuit. Owens had been racing for about a year and a half. He recently was named Monster Jam rookie of the year.
"He was a natural," Creten said. "And an old motocross guy. It's not too different, flying through the air on a bike or an ATV or monster truck. If you're flying through the air, you're flying through the air."
Creten said Owens "could do anything" and that Creten never had to tell Owens something twice. He was a quick learner.
A Hot Wheels replica of the Iron Outlaw was placed in Owens' casket, as was one his monster truck crew's shirts.
In the funeral procession, the Iron Outlaw truck made its way on a trailer from Quisenberry Funeral Home in downtown Tonganoxie to Maple Grove Cemetery just south of Tonganoxie, as did a host of motorcycles.
Owens' casket made the journey in the back of his uncle's 1955 Ford panel truck adorned with the words "Owens Garage."
Friends also noted Owens was successful at most things, whether it was working on vehicles, putting up fences or doing collision repair.
Some of that repair came in Creten's shop working on monster truck bodies.
Calvin Quisenberry, owner of the funeral home, estimated that 200 people attended the service and only standing room remained.
Brian Quisenberry, Calvin's son who also works in the family business, was one of Owens' classmates at Tonganoxie High School.
He described Owens as "a character." And if he ever rode in a vehicle Owens was driving, Brian joked, "Usually I was putting my seat belt on as quick as possible."
But he also was quick to point out that Owens was talented.
"Anything you could do with your hands, Nick could do pretty much," Brian said.
While finishing up at the funeral home after Tuesday's visitation, Brian heard the "Dukes of Hazzard" theme song playing, one of many that played on a loop during the visitation.
"There couldn't be a more fitting song for the kind of guy Nick was," Brian said.
Pallbearers wore shirts that read "Living Fast Forward," a tribute to a Kenny Chesney song that was Owens' favorite. On the back of the shirt, Owens' favorite phrase: "Let's Ride."
Cody Thornton, another friend and pallbearer, said Owens was always there for a friend, whether it was to go fishing or someone to talk to, "at the drop of a hat."
A large contingent of friends and family were at the visitation Tuesday as well.
Owens' older brother, Mike Gibson, said that the turnout was a testament to Owens touching so many lives and that his family couldn't thank everyone enough for the outpouring of support.
He said he also planned to ride his motorbike Wednesday night in honor of his brother.
"Tonight I'm going to go for a ride and my little brother's gonna be right there with me," Gibson said Wednesday afternoon.
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The possibility has been brewing for a while, and as the yoga industry continues to expand, even Uncle Sam wants a cut. In Missouri, yoga studios are now required to pay sales tax on classes and services beginning November 1. This after the decision that yoga studios and classes fall under a state law mandating that places of "amusement, entertainment or recreation, games and athletic events" are subject to sales tax. Yoga teachers are riled by the fact that yoga classes fall under any of these categories, and are paying the taxes "under protest."
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In a large meeting room on the second floor of the Paul Owens Training Facility at Carpenter Complex, spring training 2012 started with an all-day meeting. Outside, a morning mist turned into an afternoon rain.
Ruben and his staff, plus Charlie's staff of eight, 11 from the minor league staff and nine from the athletic training staff filled the room. Comments from Ruben and David Montgomery preceded a review of every one of the 57 players in camp.
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Today, Jim Thome: "My first camp was with the Indians minor leaguers in 1990. Tucson, Arizona. I remember my number was 59. I had a roommate, but darn I can't remember his name. Walking into the clubhouse full of players was the start of a whole new experience."
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HOUSTON (AP) — Another trip to New England awaits the Houston Texans, and coach Gary Kubiak knows what his team has to do to have a chance against the Patriots in the second round of the playoffs.
"We had a rough trip up there last time, but we've earned our right to go back," Kubiak said. "We want to go back and play a heck of a lot better than we did."
The AFC East champion Patriots trounced the Texans 42-14 at Foxborough on Dec. 10, and Houston gets another shot after beating Cincinnati 19-13 in Saturday's wild-card game.
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