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Lance Armstrong has been banned from cycling because he gave up fighting against charges of doping by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. Now, he has found out the ban extends to the Bank of America Chicago Marathon. According to Runner's World, organizers of the Oct. 7 run are upholding the ruling that keeps him from all sports.
Armstrong was planning to run to raise money for the Livestrong Foundation.
"It seems a little over the top to pursue him beyond the cycling arena to me," John Conley, whose company owns and operates the Livestrong Austin Marathon and Half Marathon, told Runner's World.
Though Armstrong's camp sees this as a personal plot against the cyclist, it's the opposite. U.S. Track and Field has to enforce rulings by USADA, and the organizers of the Chicago Marathon know it's in their best interest to stay on USADA's good side.
This marathon isn't some fun run. Some of the world's elite regularly run and win the event. Chicago, along with Boston, New York, London and Berlin, is one of the world's major marathons. Ignoring USADA's ruling for anyone, even a celebrity, would put Chicago's standing as a major in jeopardy.
Sorry, Lance, but the 45,000 people who run the streets of Chicago after training for months shouldn't have their marathon's standing put in question simply because you want to run. There's nothing keeping you from raising money for Livestrong in other ways.


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myselphabet posted a topic in Bass GearHello everybody! I opened this topic for the people (like me) who are interested in the latest plans for Ricci's famous Othorn. Since it is not so easy to get hands on the plans, at least from the designer himself, it might be nice if the plans could be attached in this thread (and if desired by Ricci making this thread visible only to members?). Maybe the same for the Gjallarhorn and renaming this thread or even make a new one. myselphabet To be deleted: I hope, they aren't already uploaded in this forum, making this post redundant. I searched in here, on AVS and on diya for a while and was unable to find the PDF at least. I got one from a friend which dates 03/05/11, which is older than the SolidWorks pictures by Rice in the other forum's threads. Anyway, it would be nice to have the latest PDF, SolidWorks and maybe a SketchUp uploaded in here for future generations of Othorn (and Gjallarhorn) builders.


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Andrew Giel visited Cuba as a tourist 10 times between September 1955 and December 1959, traveling as far as Trinidad in Santi Spíritus. Fifty years later, Mr. Giel printed 8 x 10 enlargements from the original transparencies. Those prints are fou...
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ROME (CNN) — Benedict made what is likely to be his last ever public appearance Thursday, thanking cheering crowds for their "friendship" as he steps down as leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.
"I am no longer the pope but I am still in the church. I'm just a pilgrim who is starting the last part of his pilgrimage on this earth," he said.
Benedict's historic resignation as pope takes effect at 8 p.m. (2 p.m. ET).
His final words and a blessing were given to some 10,000 people who had gathered at Castel Gandolfo, the summer papal residence, to bid him an emotional farewell.
"With all my heart and prayers and thoughts and strengths, I'd like to work for the common good and for the good of the church and mankind," he said.
"I feel very much supported by your sympathy. We will go together ahead with the Lord, for the good of the church and the world. Thank you very much."
Smiling slightly, he made the sign of the Cross to bless the crowds and disappeared into the building.
It is likely to be the last time he is seen in public.
At 8 p.m., the Swiss Guards, the soldiers who traditionally protect the pope, will ceremonially leave the gates of the residence and seals will be placed on the entrance to the pope's Vatican apartment, the Vatican said.
Benedict earlier left Vatican City for the last time as pope amid pomp and ceremony.
An honor guard of Swiss Guards lined up to bid him farewell as he left the papal apartment, alongside senior Vatican officials and staff.
Applause swelled as Benedict, looking frail and carrying a cane, climbed into a car that took him to the helicopter that flew him to Castel Gandolfo.
The sound of bells from St. Peter's Basilica chimed across the city of Rome as the helicopter soared overhead, passing above landmarks like the Colosseum.
Although Benedict will eventually return to Vatican City to live out his days, he will never again set foot there as pope.
His final tweet, sent at 11 a.m. ET from his @Pontifex account, read: "Thank you for your love and support. May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives."
The pope has the right to wear the symbolic Fisherman's Ring until 8 p.m., Lombardi said.
After that the ring and Benedict's papal seal will be "destroyed" by means of making scratch marks so that they can no longer be used to seal documents, he added.
The process of transition to a new pope will then begin.
Benedict, who will be known as "pontiff emeritus," will spend the next few weeks at the residence before moving to a small monastery within the Vatican grounds.
'Unconditional obedience'
He entered his final day as pontiff with an unusual act — a pledge of "unconditional obedience" and respect to whoever takes up the reins after his dramatic resignation later.
His promise came in a last meeting Thursday morning with the cardinals who will pick his successor, almost certainly from within their own ranks.
"I will continue to serve you in prayer, in particular in the coming days," he said, as they work to elect the new pope.
His words appeared designed to answer concerns that the presence of a former pontiff might lead to confusion or competing loyalties once the new pope is installed.
Benedict told the cardinals it was a "joy to walk with you" during his nearly eight tumultuous years at the head of 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide.
Vatican spokesman the Rev. Thomas Roscia said he believed 144 cardinals had attended Benedict XVI's farewell to them as pope. That includes both cardinal-electors, who are under the age of 80, and cardinals who are not eligible to vote for the next pope.
Not all the 115 cardinals eligible to vote were present, said another Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi.
Two cardinals are suffering ill health, making their attendance uncertain, although arrangements may be made to enable them to vote, Roscia said.
The new pope is almost certain to come from within the cardinals' ranks.
Symbolic departure
In their meeting Thursday morning, the cardinals gave Benedict a standing ovation, and then one by one each met the pope to say a final few words.
Cardinal Roger Mahony, the retired archbishop of Los Angeles, tweeted after the event that he had asked the pope to pray for the people of Los Angeles.
"He grasped my hand and said 'Yes'!!" Mahony said.
The current Catholic archbishop in Los Angeles earlier this month disciplined Mahony for his mishandling of "painful and brutal" allegations of sexual abuse by priests. Mahony's decision to travel to Rome to take part in the election of the new pope has been controversial because of that.
The Vatican has said it wants to have the next pontiff in place in time for the week of services leading up to Easter Sunday on March 31.
A series of meetings to set the timetable for the conclave — the secret election of the new pope — will begin as of next week and the cardinals need to prepare, said Lombardi.
They will receive the formal invitation to attend on Friday, he said.
Secret election
Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi of Italy, tipped as a possible future pope, tweeted Thursday morning that he would be away for a few days.
A number of other cardinals, including Ghanaian Peter Turkson, also considered a frontrunner, and New York's Timothy Dolan are also present on Twitter.
Cardinals are forbidden to communicate with the outside world — now including by Twitter — during the conclave, held within the Sistine Chapel.
The Vatican declined to say whether BlackBerrys, iPhones and laptops would be taken away from cardinals when they are in the conclave. There is no Internet access inside Santa Marta, where the cardinals will stay during the conclave, Lombardi said.
The @Pontifex account will go dormant Thursday until the next pope decides whether he wants to use it, Lombardi said.
Benedict, who will not be involved in the election, will not get any advance notice of who his successor will be, Roscia said. The pope emeritus will find out who has been elected at the same time as the rest of the world.
Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan of Mexico, who turned 80 last month and so is not a cardinal-elector, would not be drawn to comment Wednesday on who the next pope might be.
As to whether the cardinals are talking to each other about it now, he told CNN: "There are contacts, of course there are contacts. But what people talk about, who knows?
"There is a saying in Rome: He who enters the conclave as a possible pope comes out a cardinal."
Mired in scandal
Benedict's resignation opens up the prospect of unforeseen opportunities and challenges for the Roman Catholic Church.
Many are wondering whether a new pontiff will choose to lead the church in a different direction — and can lift it out of the mire of scandal that has bogged down this pope's time in office.
Even as Benedict's final week began, Vatican officials were trying to swat down unsavory claims by Italian publications of an episode involving gay priests, male prostitutes and blackmail. Then the news broke that Benedict had moved up the resignation of a Scottish archbishop linked over the weekend by a British newspaper to inappropriate relationships with priests.
Last year, leaks of secret documents from the pope's private apartment — which revealed claims of corruption within the Vatican — prompted a high-profile trial of his butler and a behind-doors investigation by three cardinals.
Their report, its contents known so far only to Benedict, will be handed to his successor to deal with, the Vatican said.
Vatican magistrates may have authorized the tapping of two or three telephone lines during the cardinals' inquiry into the leaks, Lombardi acknowledged Thursday.
He was responding to a report in the Italian weekly magazine Panorama claiming that there had been a large-scale wiretapping and surveillance operation during the investigation.
Lombardi denied there had been "a massive" operation on the scale reported by the magazine," saying there is "no foundation" for the article. Roscia said that if there was any wiretapping or surveillance, "it's a very small process."
Both spokesmen denied that the operation had been ordered by the three cardinals, saying that if it had happened, it was ordered by magistrates.
At the same time, the church faces continued anger about what many see as its failure to deal with child sex abuse by priests.
So, when Benedict announced on February 11 that he would step down, becoming the first living pope to resign in 598 years, there was inevitable speculation that his move was in some way linked to the brewing scandals.
Dolan, the most senior Catholic cleric in the United States, told CNN's Christiane Amanpour that the new pope wouldn't seek to alter the teachings of the church, but could change the way they are presented.
There is an urgent need for a recovery and renewal in the church, Dolan said.
'The Lord seemed to sleep'
The danger for the Vatican is that the scandals risk overshadowing what others see as Benedict's real legacy to the church: his teaching and writings, including three papal encyclicals.
Proof of the Vatican's irritation came with a stinging statement Saturday complaining of "unverified, unverifiable or completely false news stories," even suggesting the media is trying to influence the election of the next pope.
The constant buffeting by scandal will doubtless also have taken a toll on an 85-year-old man whose interests lie in scholarly study and prayer rather than damage control.
Benedict suggested as much at his final general audience Wednesday, when in front of cheering crowds in St. Peter's Square he spoke of steering the church through sometimes choppy waters.
There had been "many days of sunshine," he said, but also "times when the water was rough … and the Lord seemed to sleep."
The pope also called for a renewal of faith, and for the prayers of Catholics around the world both for him and his successor.
Italian iReporter Giovanni Francia was in St. Peter's Square to witness the scene. "There was a good atmosphere, (but) full of the sense we have lost a sort of 'grandfather,'" he said. "Now we are a little more alone."
Although his departure leaves the church facing many questions, Benedict suggested that its future, "at a time when many speak of its decline," lies in seeing it as a community of many people united in a love of Christ, rather than as an organization.
CNN's Richard Allen Greene reported from Rome and Laura Smith-Spark reported and wrote from London. Hada Messia also contributed from Rome, Barbie Latza Nadeau from Castel Gandolfo and Sarah Brown from London.


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As an APL+Win developer, I would like a new menu option (Edit | Word Wrap [On | Off]) so that I can view entire line content when editing any workspace object.
Acceptability Criteria
1. For character matrices, I will need to be able to distinguish the start of a line and the start of a continuation line - perhaps a symbol in the left grey margin?
2. For functions, showing line numbers against the start of a line and no line number against the beginning of a continuation line will provide adequate visual indication.
3. For numeric matrices, the existing worksheet-like presentation needs no change.


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RC Lens vs LOSC Lille: Derby du Nord returns to Ligue 10
RC Lens and LOSC Lille will meet for the 108th time on Sunday in what is Les Douges 70th year anniversary since the merger of SC Fives and Olympique Lillois.
RC Lens were relegated to Ligue 2 in 2011. However, the game will not be played at Lens' Stade Felix Bollaert and will instead be at the Stade de France in Paris due to their home stadium being renovated.
The Derby du Nord dates back to the 1930s when RC Lens first took on Olympique Lillois – which became an even bigger derby when Lens gained promotion to the first division in 1937.
"With only 40km between the two cities, it is one of the true regional derbies that France can claim to have," said Lille season-ticket holder, Andrew Gibney.
Like the Derby du Rhône and Le Classique, the two teams have a class divide. Lens is a city known to be more working class whilst Lille, are known as being more "bourgeois."
There has been no clear dominance from either of the two teams. Lille have won on 40 occasions and Lens 33, whilst both sides have had stretches of not winning in five attempts.
The first meeting of Lens and LOSC was on September 23 1945, the visitors won 3-1. Just two years later, the two teams met in the Coupe de France, Lille winning 3-2 in what would be their third Coupe de France trophy.
The majority of adult male fans support Lens, as 20-years ago, Lille was playing their football in the second division, whilst their rivals, Lens won the title in 1998.
Ahead of the European Championships held in France next year, Lille built the Stade Pierre Mauroy, a 50,186 capacity stadium. Despite being the bigger of the two cities, Lille struggle to fill their stadium, whereas Lens as a town, has a much smaller population, often getting 40,000 plus at the Stade Felix Bollaert.
The main fan group at Lille is the DVE "Douges Virage Est," who are this season celebrating their 25 years as the clubs main group this season. Made up of young men, they bring banners to every away, whilst sitting in the Tribune Nord during home matches.
RC Lens fans against PSG, 2014 (Video Courtesy of Elitexzone_Fr)
Violence isn't as such a big issue in France as it has been made out to be in the past.
"They just want to show their colours and represent their city and team," said Gibney. Also within the fans at Lille, you have much smaller supporter groups, Y'est D'Dins and the Douges D'Honneur, for the mature fans.
Despite both sides struggling for quality at the minute, neutrals can expect blood and thunder on the pitch with plenty of vocal support from the stands, with Lens having the bigger core support.
RC Lens have been struggling off the field of late. Due to not having a stadium as theirs is being renovated for Euro 2016 – the French club have agreed a deal to play 16 'home' games at SC Amiens 12,000 capacity stadium.
With a win this weekend, Lens can move out of the relegation zone and possible above their rivals, depending on other results and goal difference.


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Nancy O'Dell is Oprah's OWN show host, and has proven to be a force in all areas of her career as a journalist, author, producer and entrepreneur. One of the country's most respected and leading entertainment journalists, Nancy was on the team that started Access Hollywood and served as anchor for 13 years from 1996 to 2009. She has also contributed reports to NBC's Today and Dateline.
She is a published author, with her first book, Full of Life: Mom-to-Mom Tips I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was Pregnant, debuting in the top three of all motherhood books and as a top-selling gift book. Full of Life was released by Simon Spotlight in April 2009. Nancy also recently added to her success as a businesswoman by debuting a line of high-end outdoor furniture called "Red Carpet by Nancy O'Dell" and carried in stores across the nation. She is also a partner with the nation's largest mom video-blogging website, Momversation, and contributes on a regular basis. Her second book, Full of Love, is available now, as is the Nancy O'Dell Collection through scrapbooking powerhouse Creative Memories. Nancy is the spokesperson for Rusk/Babyliss, the first time a salon line has partnered with a celebrity and her red carpet–ready jewelry line for QVC, which premiered on the network in the spring of 2010.
Nancy has been chosen by NBC for the past nine years to host two of their popular annual network broadcasts, The Golden Globes Arrivals Special and The Tournament of Roses Parade. In 2007, she hosted the backstage portion of the Golden Globes telecast. She also hosted the Emmy red carpet preshow for NBC (2006), ABC (2000) and Fox (1999). A member of the Academy of Country Music, Nancy was the original host and consulting producer of the long-running country music talent search series Nashville Star. Recently, Nancy has been seen several times on the Emmy-winning television series 30 Rock, the Disney Channel's Hannah Montana in guest roles and made a coveted celebrity appearance on Sesame Street. In 2006, she appeared in the Golden Globe–nominated film Thank You for Smoking and had a recurring role as herself on FX's Dirt from 2006 to 2008. In 2009, she hosted NBC's coverage of the Kentucky Derby with Bob Costas, as well as the Bravo special Ladies First: Bravo at the Kentucky Derby. In 2003 and 2004, she co-hosted ESPN's ESPY Awards Red Carpet Show, and she hosted NBC's broadcast of Christmas in Rockefeller Center in 2004 with Al Roker. Nancy hosted Miss USA 2004, 2005 and 2006, and in 2007, she made history by being the first woman to ever host the beauty competition while pregnant. She also hosted Miss Universe in 2005 and the annual Prism Awards on FX in 2008 and 2009.
An award-winning journalist, Nancy has been honored with three Associated Press Awards, two Society of Professional Journalists Awards and an Emmy and has been nominated for seven additional Emmys. In 2009, Nancy was honored by the entire beauty industry for the inaugural Beautiful Humanitarian Award by the Professional Beauty Association, an award given to a public figure who exemplifies beauty both inside and out. In addition, she was nominated two years in a row (1999 and 2000) for the prestigious ICG Publicists Guild Press Award, recognizing excellence in entertainment reporting. She was also ranked by Shape as one of the "20 Hottest Stars Right Now."
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Submitted by Eric Sprott & Etienne Bordeleau of Sprott Asset Management,
Recent outflows from physical gold exchange traded products (we use the SPDR Gold Shares, GLD) have been interpreted by the financial press as a sign of weakness in the demand for gold as an investment vehicle.
However, a closer look at the evidence suggests otherwise: the largest outflows in the history of the GLD (see Figure 1) started well before the large drop in the price of gold we observed on April 15th, 2013 (-9%, which represents a 1 in 11 years event). In fact, the net redemption of shares of GLD started as early as the second week of January 2013 (on a 3-month cumulative rolling basis). In this note, we will explore the theory that it was the shortage of physical gold and the ensuing arbitrage opportunity that drove market participants to redeem shares of GLD.
So why are the bullion banks that act as Authorized Participants for GLD, a group that includes JP Morgan and HSBC and others (who by-the-way were mostly bearish on gold leading to the April Crash), redeeming so many shares of GLD?
One explanation could be that they are trying to match supply and demand so that the net asset value (NAV) of the ETF is in line with its price. Historically, we have observed that large movements in and out of the GLD are associated with large discounts/premiums to NAV (Figure 2). This is due to the constant creation/redemption of the shares to minimize the discrepancies between the ETF share price and the NAV. However, the recent wave of redemptions has occurred even while the premium to NAV has been very stable, hovering around 0% for most of the year.
Source: SPDRgoldshares.com and Sprott Calculations.
Last Observation: May 28, 2013 (Week 22).
Source: SPDR Gold Trust, Sprott Calculations.
Note: Large flows are defined as weeks where the average % change in tonnes lies in the top or bottom 10% of its distribution (i.e. tail events).
We believe that the answer lies in the discrepancy between the paper and physical markets for gold. Over the past few months, there have been rumours of bullion bank customers unable to redeem their gold. While, at the same time, physical demand in Asia has been extremely strong this year. According to the World Gold Council (WGC), Indian imports should reach 230-400 tonnes in Q2 2013 (an increase of more than 200% year-over-year) and imports from China keep breaking records (the WGC now forecasts total Chinese imports of 880 tonnes for 2013).
This is reflected in the large premium customers in these markets pay over the "London Fix", the price one should be able to get for physical gold. One way to measure the extent of the demand imbalance for physical gold in Asia is to look at what has been termed the "Shanghai Premium", which is the difference between the quoted physical gold price on the Shanghai Gold Exchange and the London Fix gold price. Figure 3 above shows a weekly time series of the Shanghai premium in USD/oz. of gold. Since the beginning of the year, the Shanghai premium has been consistently above zero and historically large, reaching more than $50 per oz.
Source: Bloomberg. Last Observation: May 28, 2013 (Week 22).
Definition: Shanghai Gold Exchange Au9999 Gold (USD) minus London Gold Market Fixing Ltd - LBMA AM Fixing Price/USD.
"The Shanghai Premium is calculated on a weekly basis. Formula: (SHGF9999 Index * CNYUSD Curncy * 31.1g/oz) - GOLDLNAM Index".
Putting the pieces together
It is clear that demand for physical gold in Asia is strong and that the price of gold in these markets is well above the "Western" price. This creates arbitrage opportunities for market participants that have access to large and cheap quantities of physical gold in the West. The bullion banks happen to be the only ones able to redeem GLD shares for gold, and the GLD, with its 1,000 tonnes of inventory, acts like a large physical gold bank.
Source: Bloomberg, SPDR Gold Trust, Sprott Calculations.
Note: Shanghai Premium shown as a 3-month Moving Average GLD flows are rolling cummulative flows over 3 months
According to the GLD prospectus, the bullion banks can create or redeem units for as little as 10bps (0.10%). Even with transport and insurance costs (which are arguably lower for large transactions and large international banks), there is a clear arbitrage opportunity for the bullion banks when the Shanghai premium (or any other physical gold price premium in emerging markets) is as large as it has been recently.
Moreover, because of the intense demand for physical gold we have seen so far this year, it is very probable that the bullion banks themselves are in a shortage of physical gold, hence the need to use the GLD reserves.
Indeed, since 2005, there has been a strong negative correlation between GLD flows and the Shanghai Premium (-53%) (Figure 4 above). This means that large outflows (redemptions) from the GLD are typically associated with high premiums in the Shanghai gold market. This association has been particularly marked since the beginning of the year, with historically large outflows corresponding to an all-time high in the Shanghai premium.
To conclude, the evidence presented here suggests that, contrary to what has been stated in the financial press, the flows out of the SPDR Gold Trust may have been generated by the bullion banks to take advantage of an arbitrage opportunity in the physical market. This arbitrage opportunity occurred because of the intense demand for gold stemming from Asia and the inability of traditional suppliers to provide this gold (hence the large Shanghai premium). We believe that this activity further supports our hypothesis that there is a lack of availability of physical gold and an obvious dislocation between the physical and paper gold markets.
In these conditions, it is not hard to imagine that prior to April 15, the bullion dealers, with their large resources, were tempted to sell large amounts of gold futures in order to lower the spot price and make the arbitrage even more profitable by increasing the spread and sparking a tsunami of buying in Asia.
To us, this is clearly a bullish signal for gold.


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#Trouting Is Now a Thing
If you look up "Trouting" in the dictionary right now, you'd see "the act of catching or trying to catch trout, either for food or sport." They might need to update that soon. #Trouting is taking over. Angels outfielder Mike Trout tweeted this out earlier and people ran with it (see what I did there?):
Really ? @lilquist11 pic.twitter.com/9gnncd3e0P— Mike Trout (@Trouty20) June 24, 2013
Trout is one of the fastest guys in the League, so it makes sense that #Trouting is from a picture of him stealing a bag. The best thing about this is it makes me look fast. I'm basically going to go #Trouting anywhere I go. Go #Trouting to the Cave in the morning. Go #Trouting when I fill up my water bottle. Staying hydrated in the greatest way possible. Speed on top of athleticism on top of baseball swag. Unbeatable combo.
We of course got in on the action at the MLB Fan Cave:
Hey @Trouty20, what do you got on this Fan Cave #Trouting? @MLBFanCave https://t.co/qdYNcB9Qgb— Danny Farris (@ohshootitsdan) June 25, 2013
Check out more photos submitted by Trout's followers:
It's what we do.. #trouting @Trouty20 pic.twitter.com/ExqA0zsuZN— Savanna Cadler (@savvcadd) June 25, 2013
Yeah I did dress up just for this lol #trouting @Trouty20 pic.twitter.com/cCv4BjJVQZ— lauren ? (@l_bracamonte) June 24, 2013
Trouting in the OC #trouting pic.twitter.com/nXHSOSh7oK— Matty Shibs (@mattshibuya) June 24, 2013
#trouting with trout in Washington! @Trouty20 pic.twitter.com/KWNgcHwzjq— Callie Harwood (@callieharwood) June 24, 2013
Ball players from whidbey #trouting @Trouty20 pic.twitter.com/S0ie0NUe4H— Ricky Muzzy (@RickyMuzzy) June 24, 2013
@Trouty20 let's get this trending! #trouting pic.twitter.com/XOgkpC5UZ1— ?Garrett O'Riley? (@G_ORiley) June 24, 2013
#trouting #angels @Trouty20 pic.twitter.com/fwmTNSod9b— Amber Steinheiser (@amberr218) June 25, 2013
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READ about Piers Morgan's long career in journalism here.
As the debate surrounding the bombings in Boston – and the subsequent investigation – grows to include everything from Miranda rights to enemy combatant status and a potential death penalty, on Tuesday evening "Piers Morgan Live" invited Arnold Schwarzenegger to offer his insight and perspective.
Joining Piers Morgan live and in studio as part of the program's recently created "In The Chair" segment, the former California governor offered a firm position:
"When it comes to the death penalty, yes, I believe in the death penalty," noted the bodybuilding champion turned actor turned politician. "We've had the death penalty here for years now, in California. People try to reverse it all the time. I was all for it. During my term, there were several people that were punished."
In Los Angeles this week speaking about immigration reform at the University of Southern California, Schwarzenegger shared his opinion on the case currently polarizing the nation.
"Would you execute Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, if he's convicted?" asked the host.
"I don't know the whole story," said the guest. "I think that the courts should play this out. Then we see what comes out of that. If convicted, I think that yeah, he should get the death penalty. Yes."
Watch the clip, and listen to the interview, as Schwarzenegger explains why he feels the case of the Boston Marathon bombings has less to do with immigration then simply someone "going off the deep end," as has happened previously in American history.
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Check out what this dirt bag did with the Nunez kid and the San Diego State killing. That tells all you need to know about this guy.
I looked him up,Will:sentence was commuted.Another hearing for August 4th of 2011–do you know what happened?
Was a stabbing the original crime?(Only found one report on it.)
Look up the part where he didn't kill anybody.
Contra the crank.
Piers, you have no BALLS if you don't investigate and do a true investigation on how this dirt bag handled the Nunez kid's killing of the San Diego State student. Contact the DA of San Diego County and the murdered kids family and the look into the politics surrounding this case. Feel free to contact me. Do the right thing and expose this guy for what he is.
In the real world, "the Nunez kid" didn't kill anyone.
Piers, you have no BALLS if you don't investigate and do a true investigation on how this dirt bag handled the Nunez kid's killing of the San Diego State student.
Don't know much about the case,can anyone enlighten me?
I think the terminator should take care of him. Strap his but to a loaded pressure cooker and then give him 30 seconds to answer questions before he sees the same fate.
Rather Craft or Blackwater agents
I swear if he gets a death penalty I will be so aggravated beause no were does it say if some one does something you should ake away their life if Dzhokhar "did do it" (don't believe that he did) it doesn't give you the right to give him death this I why I don't like the government because they think they could do what they want and If you go on YouTube look up -"Proof Blackwater or Craft agents blew up the marathon" and you will see the proof that the brother are innocent
Right,and the hijacked car never happened?
Please don't tell me you are buying the 'Danny' story. That is the most unbelievable aspect of this whole unbelievable story!
It was on youtube it's gotta be right! With this much stupidity we all deserve to be blown up
Anyone who buys this story with all its contradictions from police, FBI, and media wins the prize for most gullible.
What gives any individual or the State the right to decide if a person is going to live or die. Doesn't anyone have fears about wrongful convictions, it is ineffective at deterring crime concerns and about the State taking people's lives . By far, more countries have abolished the death penalty than practice it.
Always contentious capital punishment,Jacquie,nothing new there.A guy on here,Griff,mentioned Derek Bentley a week ago,someone hanged for a policeman's murder in '53 in England:he wasn't the full shilling[good Wikipedia file],and,if like Scotland they had diminished responsibility on their statute books it would never have happened:there was a sense of collective guilt afterwards–'what have we done?'–but it's too late for him.
England&Wales enacted The Homicide Act incl.diminished responsibility in 1957.
China: 3,000+
Iran: 580+
Iraq: 129+
Saudi Arabia: 84+
United States of America: 43
It is not understood how people can call themselves catholic and at the same time supporting the death sentence, however that is human, to get outraged after this sick, mental, brainwashed and idiotic attack.
How do we know who is the next, nice, friendly religious guy, well liked next-door citizen, always smiling and so on, who is planing to be a cold blooded killer? And for what? This guy is 19. he life is over as well.
Killing a murderer is killing as well. There is no alternative word for killing.
Let's hope that, if there is an afterlife, the people can say as an excuse: our justice system made me do it.
Someone has posted, don't remember where: if you kill someone and you have an uniform – that is legal.
Law created from people for the people.
However in this case as in so many others those mentally ill suicide killers, probably were told by their ill idols that they will be in haven with the master after becoming mass murderers and just believe that.


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Pack of Reckless Bikers in New York City Chase Man in Land Rover, Beating Him in Front of Wife and Child, See Full Video
New York City police have arrested one motorcyclist and are looking for two more in connection with a high-speed chase — caught on video — and beating involving a band of motorcyclists and a man in an SUV with his wife and 2-year-old daughter, the Daily News reports.
The New York tabloid says Christopher Cruz, 28, was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment, menacing, reckless driving and acting in a manner injurious to a child less than 17. The Daily News says police are looking for two more bikers for allegedly pulling Lien from his vehicle and beating him.
The video, posted on YouTube, was captured by a helmet cam worn by one of the approximately 30 bikers in the group. At one point, the six-minute video, which has drawn more than a million views, shows a biker smashing the window of the SUV with a helmet.
The chase began after the driver of the SUV, identified as Alexian Lien, 33, of Manhattan, apparently called 911 to report bikers driving erratically in an unauthorized rally known as Hollywood Stuntz, NBC News reports, quoting police.
After cyclists converged on Lien's vehicle, the driver apparently clips one of the bikers who cuts in close. NBC News quotes New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly as saying that rider suffered a broken leg.
The scrape prompts other bikers to surround the vehicle, according to Kelly. "They take their helmets and start to dent his car, and apparently his tires are slashed there with a knife," he says.
Lien then appears to panic, hits the accelerator and knocks down some cyclists as he speeds off down the West Side Highway.
After a high-speed chase, the SUV is once against brought to a halt by the swarming cyclists. The video then shows two bikers running over to the vehicle and smashing in the windows with a helmet.
Lien was treated at New York Presbyterian Hospital for lacerations to his back and face from what police say was a subsequent beating, which is not shown on the YouTube video posted by Michelinman900. His wife and child were not injured.
The Daily News quoted police as saying they are still investigating the incident, but that LIen is not expected to be charged.
The tabloid says one of the bikers who was hit, Jeremiah Mieses, 26, suffered two broken legs and may be left a paraplegic.


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Sergio Huerta M.D., F.A.C.S. obtained an A.A. in biology from West Los Angeles College, he earned a B.S. also in biology from the University of California, Los Angeles. He continued on as a medical student at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA School, earning his M.D. with thesis on June 15, 1998. During medical school, he co-wrote a review text for the United States Medical Licensure Exam Step II (Classical Presentations and a rapid review for the USMLE II, J&S publications 1999) and a review book for medical students on surgery (the Pocket Review of Surgery, J&S publications 2000). He completed his surgical residency at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center. After completing two years of surgical training, he embarked on a two year hiatus to engage in research in the fields of clinical nutrition and nutritional oncology. During this period, he wrote and published numerous articles in the fields of surgery, oncology and nutrition. He is currently the surgery clerkship director at UTSW. He teaches medical students and residents. He was the inaugural chairman of an annual scientific forum for residents interested in research, which he chaired from 2000-2005. Dr. Huerta completed his residency in general surgery at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center in June 2005 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is a member of the editorial board of multiple medical journals.
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- David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (1998)
- Internship
- University of California Irvine Medical Center (1999), Surgery
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- UCLA Center for Human Nutrition (2002), Nutritional Oncology
- Residency
- University of California Irvine Medical Center (2005), Surgery
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- Apoptosis
- Cell death
- Cell proliferation and metastasis
- Colon Cancer
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Featured Publications
- Gene expression profile of metastatic colon cancer cells resistant to cisplatin-induced apoptosis.
- Huerta S, Harris DM, Jazirehi A, Bonavida B, Elashoff D, Livingston EH, Heber D. Int J Oncol. March 2003 22(3) 663-70.
- PC-SPES inhibits colon cancer growth in vitro and in vivo.
- Huerta S, Arteaga JR, Irwin RW, Ikezoe T, Heber D, Koeffler HP. Cancer Res. September 2002 62(18) 5204-9.
- 1alpha,25-(OH)(2)-D(3) and its synthetic analogue decrease tumor load in the Apc(min) Mouse.
- Huerta S, Irwin RW, Heber D, Go VL, Koeffler HP, Uskokovic MR, Harris DM. Cancer Res. February 2002 62(3) 741-6.
- Alternative mRNA splicing in colon cancer causes loss of expression of neural cell adhesion molecule.
- Huerta S, Srivatsan ES, Venkatesan N, Peters J, Moatamed F, Renner S, Livingston EH. Surgery November 2001 130(5) 834-43.
- Abnormal gallbladder finding in a septic patient with blood loss.
- Lopez JA, Tulip H, Huerta S JAMA 2013 Oct 310 14 1498-9
- Acute abdominal pain and abnormal CT findings.
- Bao J, Lopez JA, Huerta S JAMA 2013 Aug 310 8 848-9
- Role of p53, Bax, p21, and DNA-PKcs in radiation sensitivity of HCT-116 cells and xenografts.
- Huerta S, Gao X, Dineen S, Kapur P, Saha D, Meyer J Surgery 2013 Aug 154 2 143-51
- Rapid progression of a germ cell tumor encasing the inferior vena cava and aorta following a radical orchiectomy.
- Hakiman H, Margulis V, Kapur P, Huerta S Rare Tumors 2013 Apr 5 2 79-82
- Clostridium difficile enteritis: A report of two cases and systematic literature review.
- Dineen SP, Bailey SH, Pham TH, Huerta S World J Gastrointest Surg 2013 Mar 5 3 37-42
- Coughing-induced bowel transection in a patient with an incarcerated inguinal hernia: a case report.
- Hakiman H, Delibero J, Pham T, Dineen S, Huerta S J Med Case Rep 2013 7 1 47
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- Surgery Core Clerkship Teaching Award
- Surgery Core Clerkship Teaching Award
- Surgery Core Clerkship Teaching Award
- Faculty Medical Student Teaching Award
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Afghan lawmaker Saima Khogyiani from Nangarhar poses under pictures of former Presidents of Afghanistan's lower house in the parliament in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 26, 2014.
Under Afghan law, 20 percent of council member seats are reserved for women, who are also figuring prominently in presidential campaigns.
Three presidential hopefuls have taken the bold step of choosing a woman as a running mate, including one of the front-runners.
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Afghan lawmaker Toorpekai Patman from Kabul poses next to guards of honor in the parliament in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 26, 2014 .
In the last elections in 2010, 69 women won seats in Afghanistan's 249-seat parliament.
The next parliamentary vote will be held in 2015, but first are the April 5 presidential and provincial council elections.
Afghan lawmaker Fatema Aziz from Kunduz poses under an oil painting in the parliament in Kabul, March 26, 2014.
When the Taliban ruled, women rarely left their home. When they did venture beyond their four walls, they wafted through crowded markets covered from head to toe in the all-encompassing burqa.
While most women in conservative Afghanistan may still wear the burqa, today's Afghan woman has choices she never had before, like running for parliament.
Afghan lawmaker Hamida Ahmadzai, who represents Afghanistan's colorful Kuchi, poses for a picture inside the Afghan parliament in Kabul, March 26, 2014.
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"Mr. Amenábar, working from an insightful script that he wrote with Mateo Gil, focuses on two moments when the ancient culture war reached a fever pitch and shows that no group is entirely innocent of violence and intolerance. Whoever is in power tries to preserve it by fair means or foul, and whoever wants power uses brutality to acquire it. So in the first half of the film the insurgent Christian mob draws pagan blood, and the beleaguered pagan elite, including Theon and Orestes, meets the threat with savagery."
Other American reviews can be found at Movieline and Vanity Fair. Here's pictures from a special screening at NYC's MOMA on Wednesday. So check with your local art-house theater and see if they'll be getting it.
So Far So Good For Pagan Festival In Livingston: The much-discussed Memorial weekend Pagan festival in Livingston Parish, Louisiana is now underway, and other than a minor incident of vandalism, there don't seem to be any major problems.
"Cliff Eakin, owner of Gryphon's Nest campground on Bull Run Road, said he expected the bulk of the weekend's participants to arrive today. Eakin said he had one instance of vandalism by teenagers on the campground's sign, so he hired security personnel to protect participants in the weekend celebration … The event that started Friday night was scheduled to run through Monday. Perry Rushing, chief of operations of the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office, said he had met with Eakin, the operator of the campground, and was assured that the event would consist of people practicing their religion and would not involve anything illegal. "We have no interest in that," Rushing said."
Rushing, who initially said he "vehemently opposed" a Pagan festival in his Parish, now says he doesn't expect any problems. Let's hope he's right, and the locals realize that the world didn't end simply because a bunch of Pagans decided to congregate in their Parish for a weekend of camping and celebrating.
Is Alternative Right, Wrong? Nick Pell of the socialist-oriented Red Star Times, and one of the former masterminds behind Key23 and Key64 (and now Esozone), puts the spotlight on the conservative "radical traditionalist" site Alternative Right.
"My first subject of study is Alternative Right, a particularly noxious website that brands itself as "radical traditionalist." For those who aren't familiar with the term, radical traditionalist is a term used by hipsters, goths and faux-erudite who espouse fascist ideology but want a term with more intellectual cache. Radical traditionalist favorites include Oswald Spengler, Julius Evola and Alain de Benoist. Associated (allegedly) political movements include Eurasianism, metapolitics, third positionism and national anarchism. Alternative right is an exemplar of radical traditionalism and fascism in as much as it begins with hatred of minorities, women and the working class and proceeds to construct a bizarre mish-mash of gobbledygook as "ideology" after the fact."
My readers may remember my own foray into the world of Alternative Right when I covered their interview with Asatru leader Stephen McNallen (here's McNallen's response to that article). There definitely seems to be some nasty elements hiding within some of the rhetoric at Alternative Right, especially their sympathetic coverage of the National Anarchists, who really do seem to be neo-fascist in orientation. I do think one can be a radical traditionalist (at least as some people define it) without being a racist or a crypto-fascist, but you certainly can't do it while tolerating and including those elements in your "big tent".
Reviewing the Chaplains Under Fire: Pagan author and poet Erynn Rowan Laurie, who writes for the PNC blog Warriors & Kin, has an in-depth review up at Patheos of the documentary "Chaplains Under Fire", which explores the world of military chaplains.
"One interview illustrated the difficulties faced by non-Christians quite clearly. Rev. Billy Baughaum of the International Conference of Evangelical Chaplain Endorsers, a retired military chaplain, verbally and physically expressed absolute disgust and revulsion for the Wiccan faith, openly mocking it. At one point in his interview, he said, "I think the Wicca religion is repulsive, however if there's a Wicca [sic] chaplain who comes, I will swallow my grimace, but I believe the first amendment, he has a right or she has a right to pray to the horned god of the north. … Although I think it's a bunch of baloney personally … if that's what they want to pray to I will put on my greens again and get in a foxhole and I'll support their right to do that." A statement that he believes in first amendment rights is not a commitment to neutrality in actually helping servicemembers in need of spiritual counsel. How genuinely can someone serve another spiritually when they are attempting to "swallow my grimace" and disguise hatred and contempt for the person seeking help? I cannot imagine feeling comfortable in the office of a chaplain who openly and publicly states that other religions are false and that they find them repulsive; that hatred cannot help but transfer over to the individual practicing the hated faith."
The whole thing is very much worth reading, and I encourage you to do so. As we enter Memorial Day weekend, being aware of what our Pagan military personnel (past and present) have to deal with on an ongoing basis is vitally important.
Good Journey Alexei Kondratiev: In a final note, I'd just like to point to a few touching blog memorials for Celtic scholar Alexei Kondratiev, who died earlier this week from a heart attack; including tributes from Jason Fisher, Erynn Rowan Laurie, and Cat Chapin-Bishop.
"Here is what I do know: For twenty-five years, I have been a Pagan, and for all of those years, I have felt that I am weaving something, a kind of cloth or tapestry, together with my friends. Paganism is so new, and, when it is working well, so warming and so full of hospitality, that for me at least, the heart of my experience as a Pagan has been the weaving together all of our separate lives to form one fabric, one community honoring the earth and the old gods. I've never cared particularly who called himself a shaman, who a Witch or a Hellene or a Druid, because I have felt it in my bones how much we are woven together as kin. Believe it or not, today is the first day I have properly understood: the whole time I have been weaving, weaving my life and the lives of those I love into this fabric, time has been unweaving it again at the other end. Alexei has died. And part of the world is gone."
For those who can make it, the wake will be Tuesday, 1st of June, from 2pm-5pm and from 7pm-10pm at Gleason Funeral Home 149-20 Northern Blvd, Flushing, 11358. The funeral, Wednesday, 2nd of June, 10:45am, St Andrew Avellino 158th Street and Northern Blvd, Flushing.
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Philadelphia (CNN) -- For me, touring the SS United States felt kind of like I was exploring my grandmother's attic for the first time, not knowing what I'd find.
The ship offers lots of room for surprises. It stretches the length of New York's Chrysler Building and is 100 feet longer than the Titanic.
Its legendary decks were the site of untold stories, where movie stars rubbed shoulders with famous musicians and kings.
And it's fast. On its first voyage, the SS United States set a trans-Atlantic speed record -- three days, 10 hours and 42 minutes -- a feat that has never been surpassed.
The ship's late designer William Francis Gibbs constructed the vessel with fireproof materials, saying, "You can't set her on fire, you can't sink her, and you can't catch her."
Now, six decades after its heyday, the vessel dubbed "America's flagship" is in need of a rescue. Expensive maintenance may force the owners to sell the historic ship for scrap metal, unless a solution can be found.
During my tour through the dark and damp shell of former grandeur, the vastness of Gibbs' creation became even more evident.
Gibbs, a naval architect responsible for nearly 5,500 Navy vessels that helped win World War II, put everything he had into his ultimate ship. The 2,200-passenger liner also was meant to double as a troop transport ship if war broke out.
Gibbs' obsession with creating the perfect ocean liner has now transformed into his granddaughter's obsession with saving it.
"My grandfather was once asked who do you love more, this ship or my grandmother, and he said, 'the ship, a thousand percent,' " said Susan Gibbs, executive director of the SS United States Conservancy. "This is an extraordinary American achievement, an amazing expression of our post-war history, and it would be so tragic to see it destroyed."
Standing in the sunlight flooding the hefty enclosed promenade, Gibbs admits she never traveled aboard "The Big U."
"I didn't know my grandfather. He died when I was young," she said, gazing out the floor-to-ceiling windows. "But I've gotten to know him through this ship. His spirit is here."
"He felt this was the perfect ship and loved what she said about the nation. He saw the ship as a metaphor for the nation's post-war strength, pride and accomplishment."
Gibbs remembers traveling to Philadelphia from her home in Washington to see the SS United States for the first time. Along the way, she read her grandmother's diary out loud in the car.
The journal revealed tales about the ship's maiden voyage and a joyful conga line celebrating the new speed record. It unveiled a bygone era when passengers donned mink stoles and enjoyed a liquor selection that included 49 kinds of scotch.
Full of nostalgia, Gibbs snapped back to reality when the car edged closer to the dock. She gasped at her first sight of the weathered ship.
"When I walked on board, it was only a shadow of that," she said. "I was saddened, but determined that we cannot let the ship go."
Walking through the ship's empty belly, I can feel that sadness too. Gone are the stately furnishings and decorations. All that remain of the cabins are outlines on the floor, accompanied by plugged toilet holes.
It was hard not to feel like I was trespassing on property that was ransacked. Only this was no robbery -- the ship's interior fittings were auctioned off in the '80s.
Despite the missing fittings, the SS United States remains nothing less than majestic.
The longer I was on the ship, the easier it was to imagine it full of life. I could picture Marlon Brando chatting with artist Salvador Dali in the ballroom; hear Duke Ellington on stage tickling the ivories on one of the ship's fireproof pianos; or watch President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy strolling on the decks.
Dan McSweeney's father worked as a steward on the SS United States. Today, he oversees the liner's redevelopment project and is looking for partners to help save it.
Out of service since 1969, the former reserve ship for the U.S. Navy has been docked in Philadelphia since the mid-1990s.
The goal is to turn it into a stationary entertainment complex and museum.
"It's an irreplaceable part of American history, and once it's gone, it'll never come back, and we'll never have anything like it in the future," said McSweeney, managing director of the SS United States Redevelopment Project. "It's not a vanity project. This is going to create jobs and be the crown jewel of a waterfront district."
"If we lose it, we'll never get it back."
For now, the clock is ticking.
Keeping the ship afloat costs nearly $80,000 a month for basic maintenance, insurance and security.
The SS United States Conservancy launched a website where visitors can sponsor a piece of the ship for $1 per square foot.
Gibbs says they have about two months before they'll have to sell the ship for scrap -- something she won't even allow herself to think about.
"Its name is the SS United States, and she's been here (in Philadelphia) for 17 years because she's not done yet," Gibbs said. "We have to save her."
As Gibbs and I found our way off the ship, my shoes crackled against the crumbling, faded green surface of the outside deck -- like walking across an abandoned tennis court.
We waved goodbye, and I wandered across the dock and turned around. Tilting my head back as far as I could, I stared up at her mighty bow.
I couldn't help but notice the ship's towering sides were stained with streaks of rust -- the tears of a once proud iron lady.
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David Cameron has come under renewed pressure over his policy on Gaza with a call from MPs to do more to persuade Israel to lift unjustified restrictions on the movements of Palestinians.
The Commons International Development Committee said some controls on the movements of Gazans - who are rarely allowed to leave the territory - were not "proportionate" and in some cases ran counter to international law.
It urged the Government to do what it could to persuade the Israelis to improve the supply of water and electricity which are frequently cut off.
The call came after Foreign Office Minister Baroness Warsi announced she was quitting the Government as its policy on Gaza was "morally indefensible" and counter to Britain's national interest.
The committee - whose members visited Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories earlier this year - said they were "shocked" by what they had seen.
While they appreciated Israel's security concerns in the face of Hamas rocket attacks, they warned that its policies were ultimately likely to prove counter-productive.
"We saw a country whose people have known immense suffering now imposing conditions on their Palestinian neighbours which cause a different but very real suffering and often without real security justification," the committee said.
"We saw Israel taking a range of actions that hinder Palestinian economic development and must, at the very least, cause deep resentment on the Palestinian side, even amongst the most moderate and pragmatic people, and so will actually worsen Israel's own security."
The committee also questioned evidence provided to it by the Israeli Embassy in London following their visit.
"Some of the evidence we were given on our visit are difficult to reconcile with that subsequently provided by the Israeli Embassy," it said.
A Government spokesman said: "We welcome the International Development Committee's strong support for our work on economic development in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and agree that sustainable development can only happen if economic restrictions are eased.
"We will continue our work to help strengthen Palestinian institutions and build a prosperous and stable future Palestinian state. We are also committed to lasting change in Gaza, though we recognise that reconstruction and growth cannot happen until we have a durable ceasefire."


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Aggragate all the bandwidth that will be required and then match that against what wireless can provide would be my first suggestion.
Bandwidth isn't the only overhead
a system that is running wireless is also running another program to make your connectivity.
On Ethernet you have about 25% overhead on the 100base network, just to maintain connectivity and communications.
On wireless, you are at HALF of that bandwidth right off the bat, and then WiFi has even more networking overhead to connect to the access points.
Then if you run VPNs for EACH system, you are adding even more overhead as everything has to be encrypted and decrypted on TOP of the existing overhead.
This is going to really hurt the IP phones, working in this soup he wants you to make. Stress this factor.
Show him the price of the Baracuda boxes or similar products you will need to be running to secure this wireless solution and show him how it isn't a cost saver that is worth the hit on performance.
Depends on scale
We just build an new office. Just 17 storeys high.
Cost of cabling vs wireless is 50 vs 77 (10 - 15.4) not included tele-mobile servicepoints as on GSM /GPRS /UMTS.
This is CAT6 cabling (tele/data), QoS for using VoIP for satelite offices) and for the conference rooms (25 with total capacity off 1200 guests) teleconference/videoconference/television/radio and so on.
LAN bandwith is 100 mbs from every connecting point.
Extra costs from wifi over cable is more into security of the LAN as anu other costs. This we didn't calculate as it was clear to us that just the trivial cost WIFI would exceed the cost of cabling.
But level of costs do change rather quickly so be alert to cost dropping on WIFI.
How good is your relationship with the CEO
You could explain in high technical detail, how so much bandwidth is needed for each application. Then explain how the bandwidth from a wireless access point drops off with distance, so that you will need to saturate the building with acess points to get the needed bandwidth.
Get as technical as you can. Then when the CEO stops you because he doesn't understand the technical stuff say, "That's why you hired me. I understand the technical stuff and I know that a 100% wireless solution is not cost effective in our environment."
Shared bandwidth
Wireless is shared bandwidth.
So let say you have 100 users and 54 mb of bandwidth (and you don't get 54 because of over head and how good the signal is))so 100 users and 54 (let's be optomistic and give 20mb)so each user gets about 200k of bandwidth.
You can run an office on that-NOT!
Wieless is good for internet ,email,not production.
All wireless is crazy, but you need to lower your wiring costs
I'd say what's needed is a compromise solution. The CEO's position is completely unrealistic and expensive, but your proposal is too expensive.
You can't do a "pure" wireless environment in this situation. The capacity and quality of service just isn't there and that doesn't even factor in the interference issues. A "54 mbps" 5 GHz access point is really a 22 mbps device. A "54 mbps" 2.4 GHz access point is really a 6 mbps device most of the time because it's going to be forced in to 802.11b operation by all the wireless phones. By the way, you can't get good Wi-Fi phones unless it's capable of Spectralink and you have a Spectralink infrastructure. That all costs a lot of money. Then also remember that 6 mbps capacity is shared among ALL the users in range of that Access Point.
The 6513 is an EXTREMELY expensive device, and it forces longer desktop cable runs. You can cut wiring and Cisco switch costs by a factor of 8 simply by spreading out some smaller switches and then uplink them to 24-port 1U gigabit switch via copper (less than 100 meters) or fiber (above 100 meters). This means you spend 8 times less on the smaller Cisco switches and your desktop CAT-5E or CAT-6 cable runs are shortened by a factor of 2-8 times (not to mention more reliable since they?re shorter).
Cisco Wireless APs are reliable but the WLC (Airespace controllers) are very expensive. Aruba?s products are less than ? the cost and they have features like a built in firewall which is missing in Cisco?s offering. This is why Aruba won the Microsoft campus deal.
There are plenty of papers on this but the perspective depends on who?s sponsoring it. My advice is based on years of consulting experience and I?ve designed many cutting edge LAN/WAN/WLANs.
Here's what i would do...
Explain to the CEO in the most simple manner what impact it would have, security, bandwidth etc.
oh, and dont forget reliability, a wireless network will go down (for random reasons) before a wired one will.
i like to explain bandwidth by comparing it to traffic (being in california, its an easy way to do it)
also i would see who uses more bandwidth in the company and make sure they get wired and lighter users get wireless
hope that helps.
A) Remind your CEO you ARE NOT Starbucks or a home network. Typically these networks don't have 110 users at a time on them.
B) Security could be a major issue. Explain that due to security issues with wireless, your data may be stolen (or worse modified).
C) VoIP over wireless = NO! Not only will you have a heck of a time getting everything setup properly, but you won't have enough bandwidth to support your users AND your phones.
D) Try to price cut a little on your envrionment. You don't have to go all Cisco or if you want to choose cheaper equipment. Having multiple switches is nice (you can implement VLANs and such later on), plus you have more room to grow than with the 6513. Have the switches feed into a central source and you should be good to go.
E) If you want to do any packet shaping, wireless will put the kybosh on that. Also load balancing via wireless (depending on your setup) could be difficult at best.
F) While wireless may be useful for you, an all wireless network with 110 employees is crazy. You might end up with less than 50kb/s per employee!
Good luck!
Just Explain....
...it's very easy, realy, if you really don't want it, (for you, there it sounds like a really bad idea) just explain that it will be great when all the employes and neighbours will be able to read his/her e-mails, and listen in on his/her phone (VOIP-SIP) calls. Gee, won't that be great. :-)
Different tactic
Like to start off by saying I'm a consultant. Not only do I do technology consulting, but I do business process consulting. Your CEO is looking at this from a dollars and cents point of view. You are not going to convince him by using terms such as bandwidth, output, throughput or any other technical terms. You need to build a business case that outlines the inherent dangers of going completely wireless from a dollars and cents perspective.
Show your CEO articles of how much its cost to recover from a hacked network. Show him articles on how costly it is to wire after the walls have been put up. Not too mention that it reduces the overall worth of his building. Show him soft numbers with regards to a reduction in productivity due to slower speeds and data retrieval. To win over your CEO, you're going to have to show him the costs if he doesn't put in a wired network. Bottom line; You need to scare him financially to get it done!
Also, sometimes it is really hard to get your point across when you are the employee. Sometimes, it is better to go to someone outside of the company to get your point across. If you truly want to help your CEO make the right decisions, you may want to contact a consultant. Unfortunately, your CEO may take his word over yours, but in the long run you will get what you need and the company will be better off for it!


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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:
Chapter 73 of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section 4A, as appearing in the 2010 Official Edition, and inserting in place thereof the following section:-
Section 4A. A faculty member in a state university who has served as such for at least 6 years or, if a leave of absence has previously been granted to such faculty member, 6 years after the termination of the last such leave or after the date such leave would have been completed but for a deferral of the leave, may, upon written recommendation of the president of the university where the faculty member is employed, be granted by the board of trustees of the state university a leave of absence for study and research for a period of 1 year at 1/2 pay or for a period of a 1/2 year at full pay. Prior to granting such leave, the faculty member shall enter into a written agreement with the board of trustees stating that upon the termination of such leave the faculty member shall return to serve as a faculty member in the same or another state university for a period equal to twice the length of such leave; provided, that if the faculty member fails to complete that service, the faculty member shall refund to the commonwealth, unless excused by the board of trustees for reasons satisfactory to the board, an amount equal to the proportion of the salary received by the faculty member while on leave minus the amount for service not actually rendered as agreed. For the purposes of this section, service in a state college, including The Teachers College of the City of Boston, shall be deemed to have been service in a state university.
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Used to repair stripped or damaged threads also suitable for new applications requiring stronger threads and for changing from imperial to metric threads and vice versa.
Intermediate HSS second / intermediate tap and an installation tool
Ideal for alloys, other light materials and cast iron
Standard Kit:
Magnetic Tang Break Tool
Combo Tap and Installation Tool
Ideal for aluminium, magnesium, cast iron and most machinable steels
Pro XL Kit:
Provides an inexpensive repair of spark plug ports without replacing cylinder heads
Pilot nose tap included allows for accurate self alignment and successful thread repair
No unnecessary drilling required
Spark Plug Repair Kit:
When installing in a blind hole use a bottoming / finishing tap.
Tap Drill must be purchased separately for the Standard Kit.
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Slumming's offensive
I have never been a fan of John Whitehead, but the coverage in The Hook [Hot Seat, August 22, 2002] (http://www.readthehook.com/92395/hot-seat-john-whitehead-civil-libertari...) has sealed it in concrete. I have been a resident of Albemarle County for most of my life, born here and raised here "in the slums of Afton."
I take umbrage at Whitehead's classification of my neighborhood. Neither I nor any of my neighbors begged Whitehead to move into our area; the decision to do so was his. If anything, his presence makes my neighborhood less attractive.
Perhaps Whitehead should consider living elsewhere, we do not need him as a neighbor.
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Well, not a real MK VII, but how about a 1:76 scale model? We'll randomly select a winner from the commenters on the "Jaguar MK VII Model" thread on our official Jalopnik Facebook fan page. Details below.
While in the UK last month, I came upon an amazing little toy shop called Much Ado About Toys. It's a veritable Scalextric, Tekno, ETS and Corgi CandyLand. I picked up a few models and now I'm going to give them each away to you, our beloved readers. First up was the Miura, and then some others I don't quite remember. Now, the latest up for grabs is the Jaguar MK VII being held aloft by a slightly damp Sam Smith.
As we attempt to build the next generation of auto enthusiasts, we've got to find a way to get the pro-Jalopnik message out to the not-yet-car-loving masses. What better way for you to help spread the message to your friends — as loyal soldiers in the Jalopnik army — than Facebook?
All you have to do is head over and join our official Facebook page and drop a comment on the "Jaguar MK VII Model" thread there (not here!). Your comment serves as an entry into a random drawing for the model. All you have to do is join and comment.
Our standard contest rules apply.
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US tire makers have spoken, and they've told the country's cheapskates to upgrade their damn, crusty old, bald tires before they kill someone already. As reported in the Detroit News, Michelin USA and Continental Tire have joined Bridgestone and Firestone in the issuance of technical bulletins for dealers to replace tires that have trod the earth for a decade of longer. Six years is the norm for automakers' bulletins. Still, some say there's no real data to indicate that tires degrade over time to become unsafe, and that the companies have derived a timeline for their own benefit. Reeducation camps for those riding on original Bias Plys will open next Tuesday.
Aging tires spark new safety concern [The Detroit News]
New Red Smoke Tires Introduced for Drifting [internal]


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Statistical Methods for Correlated and High-Dimensional Biomedical Data
In the research supported by this MERIT award, Dr. Lin will develop advanced statistical methods for analyzing correlated and high-dimensional data in cancer research, especially for analyzing longitudinal and familial data, and high-dimensional genomic and proteomic data in epidemiological studies and population sciences.
An important area in genomic epidemiological studies is the need to select Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs), genes, or gene (SNP)/protein sets, e.g., genetic pathways, from a large pool of genes (SNPs) that are related to disease outcomes. Dr. Lin will develop advanced statistical informatics methods for high-dimensional genomic data in population studies, such as gene (SNP) selection, joint effects of genes in a genetic (metabolic) pathway, gene-gene (SNP-SNP) interactions, and gene-environment interactions, while accounting for the observational nature of epidemiological studies. Such methodological developments will proceed in close collaboration with basic scientists, genomic epidemiologists, and clinicians at Harvard School of Public Health, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Massachusetts General Hospital on large scale genomic cohort and case-control studies, especially in lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer deaths.
Dr. Lin will also develop advanced statistical informatics methods for analyzing proteomic mass spectrometry (MS) data. The emerging field of comparative proteomics presents an exciting opportunity for new cancer biomarker discovery. However, analysis of high-dimensional proteomic MS data is challenging. Dr. Lin will develop advanced functional learning methods for properly pre-processing high-dimensional proteomic MS data and for selecting proteins (peptides) as new biomarkers, studying protein-protein (peptide-peptide) interactions and protein-environment interactions, while accounting for the observational nature of population studies. The methodological development will be in close collaboration with Harvard/Dana-Farber proteomic researchers in basic science and population studies.
Software development would be an important component of the MERIT award so that these advanced statistical methods can be readily available to genomic and proteomic researchers in population sciences.


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Pasta with broccoli rabe and sausage: 3 Long Island picks
Pasta with broccoli rabe and sausage, a popular dish at Long Island Italian restaurants, has its origins in Puglia, where it's generally made with orecchiette, or ear-shaped pasta.
In this part of the world, the pasta used is almost always short and stubby, the better to cradle the pieces of sausage and greens bathed in garlic and oil.
Here are three fine examples of the dish:
SACRAMONE'S RESTAURANT, East Meadow
While coal-oven pizza is an attraction at this gracious spot, the pastas rate highly, too. Try small shells with sausage and broccoli rabe; the greens are tender and not the least bit bitter.
2366 Hempstead Tpke.; 516-513-1919, sacramones.com
The restaurant formerly known as Cinelli's offers pasta Claudia -- fusilli bucati corti (short corkscrew pasta with a hole in the center) with broccoli rabe, sausage, sauteed cherry tomatoes and Italian goat cheese.
156 Davison Ave.; 516-678-9494, provany.com
At this popular Commack spot, fusilli Campagnola features fresh corkscrew pasta with tender broccoli rabe, spicy Italian sausage and sun-dried tomatoes in a roasted garlic and oil sauce.
2201 Jericho Tpke.; 631-462-6267, emilios-restaurant.com


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Ouverture de session
I Love You, Let's separate. Shadows of the Couple, Archetypal Roots and Analytical Work.
Dr. Michel Cautaerts. Belgian Society of Analytical Psychology.Brussels
Translated by C. Loane
Why talk about the couple? Because some people do not want, or do not need, individual help. Because analysis affects the couple.


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Fuzzy Thinking
You would think that a fuzz effect would be easily distinguishable from an overdrive or distortion—and some are—but others blur the line. Technically, there is a difference—distortions and overdrives usually use diodes and op-amps to achieve breakup, while fuzzes use transistors—but, sonically and feel-wise, there can be crossover.
Fuzz-pedal transistors can be of either the germanium or silicon variety. The first fuzz pedals used germanium transistors, and some players prefer these to later silicon transistors because they consider the latter harsher-sounding. Other players prefer the edgier silicon variety, with its extra gain. However, old germanium fuzzes were extremely inconsistent in tone, because the transistor values tended to vary greatly. Modern manufacturers such as Jim Dunlop, Electro-Harmonix, and Analog Man test each transistor to make certain the sound is more consistent.
Further, though some view fuzzes as a rather blunt and imprecise sonic "weapon," some fuzz units are as dynamic as an overdrive pedal and clean up when the guitar volume is backed off and respond well to variations in pick attack. Others do not clean up, but rather distort in a different manner.
In basic terms, the two extremes of the fuzz spectrum are represented by the original Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face on one end and the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff on the other. If you want to produce fat single notes with lots of sustain by running a fuzz through a clean amp, à la Robert Fripp, you are better served by a Big Muff-style fuzz. Why? Because, before it serves up a singing single note, a Fuzz Face-style unit needs the help of a slightly distorted amp or overdrive pedal placed between it and the amp, as well as a guitar with its own healthy sustain and modified picking techniques (aggressive picking helps). That said, there are also many fuzz units that fall between these two extremes.
Octave fuzz comes with its own set of proper playing techniques. The upper octaves come out best on the E and B strings above the 12th fret, and they're enhanced by using the neck pickup and rolling off the Tone knob. Octave fuzz effects are designed for single-note lines, but some groups of notes can be played harmoniously. If you are into dissonance, they offer a whole other world filled with clashing intervals to explore.


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These paid mobile apps are worth the price
Motown singer Barrett Strong once sang (as did The Beatles) that "the best things in life are free."
Well, not necessarily so. Smartphone owners may boast that most of their mobile apps were free. But when it comes to purchasing apps for your smartphone or tablet, some of the best out there actually cost money.
With the holidays now upon us, you can give someone you love an iTunes or Google Play gift card. Or with iTunes, you can actually send the app itself as a present and email it on a specific date with a holiday message (sorry, Google Play doesn't support this feature). If you get a gift card or are thinking of sending an app as a gift, here are a few suggestions of paid apps that I really like as well as some from a few of my colleagues that are worth the price.
Splashtop 2 Remote Desktop (iOS, Android, starting at $2.99)
As productivity apps go, this is a must-have app. This brilliant program connects your phone or tablet to your PC or Mac. It's saved my life more than once when I was at work but needed to access a file on my home PC.
It wirelessly connects to your desktop computer and displays your computer screen on your mobile device. You then move your finger around the interface like a mouse cursor. There is little to no lag, and the program works perfectly.
Air Video HD/Qloud Media (iOS, Android, $2.99)
If you're like me, you can never have enough storage in your mobile phone or tablet, especially if you load it up with tons of video and music. These two apps are perfect solutions to running out of space. These apps, one for iPhones and iPads and the other for Android devices, turns your home desktop computer into a server. Store all your video and music on your home computer and stream them to your phone with ease.
Solar Walk (iOS, $2.99)
You don't have an be an astronomy junkie to enjoy this gorgeous, fun and educational app that explores our solar system with stunning 3D models of all the planets and their moons.
The whole presentation is in 3D and allows you to spin around the planetary bodies and through the solar system. It also shows you all of the major satellites launched from Earth as well as the most well-known space missions. This is exactly why computer tablets were made.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (iOS, $19.99)
Don't let that steep price fool you - this is a full-fledged, full-featured port of the same game that would cost you 50 bucks for the consoles and PC. It's a wonderful strategy game in which you control a squad of marines searching for and fighting alien beings that crash land on Earth.
The 3D graphics are just as beautiful in the mobile version, and the game play is just as deep and robust as it is in its console counterparts. This is a great example that even the most complicated console games can be translated to mobile devices.
Infinity Blade III (iOS, $6.99)
I've touted this mobile game many times before, partly because it was developed by Utah game makers, Chair Entertainment, but also because it has to be the best-looking mobile game on the market.
It also has fun game play to match. You're a futuristic knight battling all sorts of ugly and ferocious titans by swiping your finger to swing your weapon. The graphics are as sharp and as handsome as any game on a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, but it's packed into a handheld device.
The Walking Dead (iOS, $19.99)
This game landed on many game critics' best-of lists for 2012, and with good reason. It's a scary, involving adventure game that replicates the horrors of the zombie-infested comic and television show. And like a TV show, it comes in a series of episodes that tell one over-arching story. The first episode is free but the rest cost money. This is a game that proves mobile touchscreen devices are the perfect platforms for classic point-and-click adventure games.
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving/A Charlie Brown Christmas (iOS, Android, $4.75 – $5.99)
If you're a boomer, you lovingly remember these classic Charlie Brown holiday specials that aired on television every year. Thanks to 21st Century technology, they now have been adapted as interactive books for mobile devices that not only tell the same precious stories we remember, but also includes interactive features and dialogue, sound effects and music from the original animated programs. It's a great way to hand down a tradition to your kids thanks to today's technology.
The Making of Star Wars (iOS, Android, $12.99 – $17.99)
J.W. Rinzler's fascinating journey through the making of George Lucas' "Star Wars" trilogy is now available as an ebook, but with so much more. There is a book for each film, and each volume not only has the original text of the book, but they also have added video clips, audio interviews and even more photos not included before. They're detailed accounts of the making of all three movies, told from the inside by those who worked on them. These are some of the best examples of what interactive ebooks can offer.