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Motorcycle trailer hitches are some of the most useful inventions in the history of motorcycle travel. It's not uncommon these days to drive down the street and see someone with a motorcycle utilizing a hitch to transport their belongings or even pets. The use of these hitches is growing in popularity due to the ease of use and the widespread availability of different types of hitches. Is a trailer hitch right for your motorcycle?
One of the biggest advantages of the hitch is that motorcycle riders can transport items that they couldn't otherwise. Everyone loves to drive their motorcycles, but the only real downside is that you often can't take anything with you. The handy equipment attachments allow you to attach a small trailer to the back of your motorcycle so that you have a way to take some things with you when you need them. Pets sometimes travel in enclosed pods on the back of trailer hitches.
Another great advantage of the hitch is that it makes the motorcycle appear larger. Many accidents involving motorcycles occur because the drivers of larger vehicles didn't see the motorcycles. When a motorcycle has a hitch attached to it with a trailer, it becomes much more visible on the road. Since so many people use cell phones while they drive today, it's never a bad idea to make your motorcycle appear larger on the road. People are less likely to hit you with their vehicles if they can see a larger motorcycle with a trailer attached to the back.
One of the biggest drawbacks is gas mileage. This is especially true if you plan to ride your bike with the trailer for long distances. Motorcycles are universally loved for their incredible fuel efficiency, but pulling a trailer will sap that mileage away. You'll have to spend more money on gas if you pull your trailer often. The usual mileage that you get on your bike will disappear until you stop the use of the trailer. Plan your budget accordingly if you think this will affect you.
Another drawback is that you still can't transport as much with a motorcycle as you can with a car. Some people may think that the hitch with the trailer means they can replace their car completely with a motorcycle. That's not a good idea since no trailer can help a motorcycle transport as much stuff as a car. You shouldn't rely on your motorcycle to carry too much stuff. It's not healthy for the bike to pull heavy trailers. This can lead to flat tires and engine problems if you're not careful.


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Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law. Since 2002 Professor Freedman has served as a consultant to numerous legal teams involved in challenges to the government's post 9/11 detention policies.
The criminal law paradigm is now, and has been from the beginning, the right one to apply to the fight against terrorism.
The decision whether to respond to the events of 9/11 within a war or a criminal framework was from the first day a policy choice. If President Bush had been competently advised by the White House Counsel, Alberto Gonzales, he would have been told so and further told that either decision would implicate legal restraints. What actually happened, according to the President, was simpler: "I didn't need any legal briefs, I didn't need any consultations, I knew we were at war."1 And his counsel accepted that statement as though it were a description of objective empirical reality rather than a political determination.
Suppose instead the President had said on September 12, 2001:
My friends, a terrible crime has been committed on our soil. To the extent that a government sent infiltrators here, we will deal with that government by wiping it out. But to the extent that a small group of murderers thinks it can disrupt our institutions and cause us to abandon our core values, we will show the world the contrary. We will capture them wherever in the world they are. We will give them a fair trial, which we will invite Al Jazeera to broadcast, just as we did when our embassies in Africa were blown up. And we will let the world judge whose sort of government it would rather live under.
Indeed, in a criminal trial replete with due process, an excellent defense team, and protection of the government's security needs, an openly selected jury in a public trial convicted the embassy bombers but refused to sentence them to death on the grounds that doing so would create martyrs. As a result, those defendants —like the Blind Sheik, the people accused of planning to bomb tunnels and bridges in New York, and those who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993 — are serving long sentences and are forgotten.
John Yoo might concede this point but would likely argue that the criminal process functions to adjudicate past events, not to deal with ongoing threats that have to be stopped. In fact, however, law enforcement authorities frequently act to forestall future activities. The available tools include, to take just a few examples, arresting people for conspiracy, detaining them for immigration violations, and holding them as material witnesses while collecting information.
To be sure, since an arrested defendant has the right to remain silent the government cannot require him to provide information, with or without the use of coercion. But then again, the overwhelming outcome of all criminal cases is a plea bargain—as in the John Walker Lindh case—and in a plea bargain the defendant has every incentive to voluntarily provide accurate information.
That's just not good enough, responds James Comey, the U.S. Attorney who handled the case of Jose Padilla and later served near the top of the Justice Department. We were very sure that Padilla was bent on blowing up buildings, but—take your choice—we either "could not use the evidence because of the sources and methods that generated it,"2 or our evidence was "clear and convincing," but maybe not "beyond reasonable doubt." Simply stated, we in the executive branch decided that we wished to be free of legal constraints limiting our power to imprison citizens and therefore unilaterally declared ourselves exempt from judicial review of our decisions.
If Dr. Wen Ho Lee — who was said to have "links" to China and whose dealings with the secrets of the hydrogen bomb allegedly posed a risk of blowing up the planet — had been designated "an enemy combatant" he would still be imprisoned today.
Certitude is not the test of certainty. Governments are sometimes mistaken. That may be through tyrannical malice or it may be through incompetence, as in the case of Brandon Mayfield who was wrongly connected to the Madrid train bombings. Or it may be through a commendable desire on the part of executive officials to err on the side of caution. Whatever explanation you like, one purpose of due process is to ensure simple accuracy.
Facing some shadowy international plot against the country, it is important for all concerned to get the facts straight. And, contrary to the idea that "on 9/11 everything changed," there is nothing in the least bit new about this. There was a real Gunpowder Plot in 1605 to blow up the Houses of Parliament but in an effort to demonstrate links to Spain many people were tortured and ultimately wrongly executed – thereby weakening rather than strengthening the political institutions of England. Nor do we need to look deep into the past to know that even when due process protections do apply, the legal system is fallible: there have been 124 exonerations of Death Row inmates since 1973.
Limit the power of our executive officials is not a bug; it is a product feature. The difference between a government that acts on what it "knows" and a government that is required to prove its charges in adversarial proceedings before a neutral tribunal is the difference between a government of laws and a police state. And lawyers who fight to enforce this difference are not engaged in "lawfare" but in promoting the precise values for which the United States armed forces should be fighting when they go to war in the name of the American people.
Does constraining Executive action involve risks? Of course it does. So does allowing Nazis to march in Skokie. If the Nazis ever gained office they would abolish free speech. But we take that risk consciously. In a land of free speech Nazis are much less likely to come to power. Conversely, to allow the government to suppress them in order to guard against that risk is both to sacrifice the vibrancy of discussion on which we stake our hopes of a better future and to hand our enemies a pre emptive victory by becoming like them in order to defeat them.
As he was leaving office in December 2006, Donald Rumsfeld said,
I don't think I would have called it the 'war on terror.' . . . I've worked to reduce the extent to which that [label] is used and increased the extent to which we understand it more as a . . . conflict . . . against a relatively small number of terribly dangerous and violent extremists. 3
That's the correct definition of the problem, because it leads to solutions that call upon this country's greatest strength.
That strength is not our military strength. Secretary Rumsfeld ultimately figured out that the United States armed forces simply cannot occupy every inch of the globe. In fact, at this moment those forces are stretched perilously thin. To defeat ideologies opposed to ours we will have to win the hearts and minds of people around the world. That requires demonstrating in deed adherence to our professed ideals. The Executive's insistence on arrogating unlimited power has squandered what is in fact America's greatest strength: the moral force that comes from being an example to the world, a country that others justifiably want to emulate, one confident enough in its own values that its President wears his amenability to the rule of law as a republican crown rather than casting it aside in times of stress.
Today, a young person in an authoritarian nation who were asked to compare the behavior of her government in addressing perceived security threats with that of ours might well answer—accurately and tragically—that there is not much difference. That is by far the greatest long term damage that has been done to the interests of the United States by the terrorism policies of the current administration.
The strongest blow that could be struck against ideologies opposed to ours would be the recovery of our commitment to the rule of law. The preservation of its safeguards is a powerful weapon against our enemies and an inspiration to our friends. The right way, as well as the genuinely American way, to deal with "a relatively small number of terribly dangerous and violent extremists" is to prosecute them.


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NAFTA Continues to Decimate Mexican Hog Industry, VT Law School Study Finds
October 11, 2011
SOUTH ROYALTON, VT -- NAFTA's poorly-negotiated trade liberalization policies have been manipulated to exploit Mexican consumers, farm owners and laborers, leading to the demise of that nation's hog industry, according to Vermont Law School Assistant Professor Pamela Vesilind.
Vesilind, an animal law expert, analyzes the latest developments in this issue, which over the past 20 years has left Mexico with more meat but far fewer farmers, in a study titled "NAFTA's Trojan Horse & the Demise of the Mexican Hog Industry." The article is published in the University of Miami Inter-American Law Review.
"In many ways, this transformation echoed the industrialization of agriculture in the southern and mid-western United States in the late 1980s and the 1990s, but with one critical distinction: In the U.S., domestic corporations led the agriculture transformation," Vesilind writes. "Not so in Mexico, where the catalysts were primarily foreign-owned, multinational corporations, mostly second-generation corporations to the American agricultural 'revolution.' These industrial farming corporations thrived in Mexico, but their success has been devastating to Mexican agriculture."
The article discusses NAFTA's tariff rate quotas, how they failed to protect Mexican hog farmers and how foreign-owned corporations were able to apply a two-sided strategy to take over more than one-third of domestic pork production while developing Mexico into a leading importer of U.S. pork products. The article also reviews why industrial animal farms-or confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs)-are unsustainable without considerable government support, why the CAFO model is even more unsustainable in emerging nations like Mexico, and the U.S. pork lobby actively opposes NAFTA reform.
Vesilind, whose expertise includes animals in agriculture, is available to discuss her NAFTA study and other animal law and policy issues at 802-831-1320 or email@example.com
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Any Virginia fishermen?
Any fishermen here in Virginia? Looking to relieve some of the casting itch I've been getting. I fish freshwater as well as saltwater too. Coming from Louisiana I am not familiar with any laws yet. And I have not gotten a fishing license yet either. I'm looking at buying a kayak here soon and doing some fishing from that as I have done it back home fresh and saltwater.
I fish for bass, sacalait (you northern folks call em crappie), bream and catfish.
Now for saltwater, redfish and speckle trout.
As far as place to fish and what to use and where to put in at and where they will be (saltwater wise) I am clueless. Someone with fishing knowledge of coastal and inland Virginia out there?
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08-18-2013, 08:15 PM #2The TideWater area is great for fishing, when I was stationed there I had a half dozen special spots that never let me down.
Right on NS Norfolk the rocky jetty near the runway is great for Flounder, Sea Bass, and Blue Crabbs.
Chesapeake bay bridge tunnel first exit still on the bridge before the tunnel portion, Flounder, Sea Bass, Blue Crabb, Stingray, and sharks.
Lynhaven inlet and tributaries, Flounder, Blue Crabb, Shark.
Duck inlet, Flounder, Sea Bass, Shark.
Back bay around Knotts Island, Flounder, Sea Bass, Blue Crabb. This spot has an added benefit, you might just run across an old fella that youll recognize, he makes a point of inviting Sailors to his house for a beer and lunch. If ya run into him say hi to Andy Griffith for me, his buddy Don knotts used to hang out on the water too, I cant count the times I ended up at Andys house for lunch after a morning on the water fishing.
And my last special spot was right on the Elizabeth river in front of the PETA national hdqtrs fishing for Sea Bass and Blue Crabb, if they try to chase ya away remind them of Virginia and Federal law which states No Private Person or Private Entity can own property all the way to the water, they can only own property to within 25" of the high water mark or tideline on a public waterway. I got more fun out of screwing with PETA than I did actually Fishing.
If your fishing from a Kayak the Back Bay area is the best place to fish, even though I had a 27" Wellcraft NovaSport fisher I spent more time fishing the back bay in my 13" canoe with a good friend of mine.
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Most spots we used Squid/Calamari unless we were going after Blue Crabb, then we used Chicken necks and backs aged in the sun for a day or so to toughen it up.
I had three rods, a 10' saltwater spinning combo, a 5' deep sea rod, and a 13' Surf casting rod. Nothing fancy, the salt water spinner and surf rods I bought at NS Norfolk Exchange for $30 ea or so, the deep sea rod I bought at NS Alameda for $20 to use off of piers, jettys, and for chasing Sturgeon in the Sacramento river.
Lots of weights and downrigger set-ups, hooks and line according to what your fishing for.
08-18-2013, 09:11 PM #3That's awesome Tim. Thanks for some secret spots.
08-18-2013, 09:33 PM #4We used to fish Lake Smith a lot. That was before the houses started to be built around the lake. Other than that X2 what TB said.
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08-18-2013, 09:37 PM #5Found a kayak for 200$ that you sit in and after some modifications ill try her out. Though I haven't bought one yet. I'm gonna try and do a little more bass fishin first and make the move to saltwater
08-18-2013, 09:37 PM #6No problem.
Keep in mind I last visited/fished the area in 2004 so some spots couldve changed, but Im betting a few of them survived.
I never did any fresh water fishing while I was out there, I once visited a freshwater pond out on Fentress Auxilary field, since its a fenced in Military reservation and somewhat remote the pond never gets fished, they were taking Bream, and Bass out of it when I was there. Might be something to look into.
08-18-2013, 09:40 PM #7Never heard of the field. Relatively new to the area still.
08-18-2013, 09:48 PM #8hit me up if you wanna go out man, i know a few spots we can try....
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Never Say Never Again [Blu-Ray]
Director : Irvin Kershner
Screenplay : Lorenzo Semple Jr. (from a story by Kevin McClory & Jack Whittingham & Ian Fleming)
MPAA Rating : PG
Year of Release : 1983
Stars : Sean Connery (James Bond), Klaus Maria Brandauer (Maximilian Largo), Max von Sydow (Ernst Stavro Blofeld), Barbara Carrera (Fatima Blush), Kim Basinger (Domino Petachi), Bernie Casey (Felix Leiter), Alec McCowen (Q), Edward Fox (M), Pamela Salem (Miss Moneypenny), Rowan Atkinson (Nigel Small-Fawcett), Valerie Leon (Lady in Bahamas)
Never Say Never Again will always hold a troubled spot in the James Bond film franchise, which is currently the longest running in motion picture history. On the one hand, it will always be the "unofficial" Bond film (not counting the 1967 spoof Casino Royale), meaning that it was not produced through Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli and Harry Saltzman's production company, which owns the rights to the James Bond character and Ian Fleming's original novels. On the other hand, it was the film that brought Sean Connery back to the role he had originated in 1962's Dr. No after a 12-year absence, which in and of itself was monumental. The title of the film, in fact, was coined by Connery's wife, who reminded him that he had proclaimed that he would "never again" play Bond after 1971's Diamonds Are Forever.
Never Say Never Again owes its existence to a lawsuit over James Bond creator Ian Fleming's 1961 novel Thunderball, which was produced as a film in 1965. Fleming's novel was actually written from a screenplay idea that he had concocted in the 1950s with producer Kevin McClory and writer Jack Whittingham. When Fleming published the novel as sole author, McClory sued, and the case was eventually settled out of court. Part of the settlement allowed McClory to have cinematic rights to the story and characters, and nearly 20 years later he was able, with the help of producer Jack Schwartzman, to put together a new version of Thunderball, albeit one that had to be completely different from the previously filmed version of Fleming's novel.
Thus, Never Say Never Again was produced and released in 1983, not incidentally in direct competition with Broccoli and Saltzman's Octopussy, which was the second-to-last outing for Roger Moore. Bringing Sean Connery back to the role he had created was the filmmakers' biggest coup, and it is likely that the film never would have happened without his participation. Of course, by this time Connery was in his early 50s, which the screenwriters cleverly worked into the story (the screenplay is credited to Lorenzo Semple Jr., but nearly half the work was done in uncredited rewrites by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais). In this regard, Never Say Never Again marked a significant departure from the increasingly cartoonish Moore Bond films, focused as it was on an older, more psychologically attuned 007 who was essentially being pulled out of forced retirement to save the world once again. A good chunk of the film's opening takes place at a health spa where Bond's cantankerous supervisor M (Edward Fox) sends him to eliminate all "free radicals" from his diet of rich food and dry martinis. While taken directly from the novel, this sequence creates a humorous foundation from which to develop Bond's character in his later years, although that dimension is largely dropped by the end of the movie in favor of rote action.
The plot concerns the nefarious international terrorist organization S.P.E.C.T.R.E., which is run by the evil genius Blofield (Max von Sydow), stealing two American nuclear warheads and then threatening to detonate them unless the world's governments pay up. S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is operating primarily through its number one agent, a billionaire industrialist named Maximilian Largo (Klaus Maria Brandauer), whose dirtiest work is carried out by Fatima Blush (Barbara Carrera), a beautiful and exotically accented killer who takes psychotic pride in her work (one of the film's best moments features her dancing down a massive staircase to the tango after being given the assignment to kill Bond). The love interest is Domino Petachi (Kim Basinger, then a complete unknown), Largo's naïve girlfriend whose brother (Gavan O'Herlihy), an Air Force officer, is key to Largo's plan.
In comparison to other James Bond films in the late '70s and early '80s, Never Say Never Again holds up relatively well, especially in the way it harkens back to the earliest films in the series. Connery easily sinks back into Bond's tuxedo, bringing all his confidence and wry humor while also tweaking them just slightly to account for Bond's older and, in some ways, rusty status. The plot tends to drag a bit at times, but director Irvin Kershner, who had recently helmed one of Hollywood's biggest follow-ups, The Empire Strikes Back (1980), still manages to keep it interesting. He finds a good balance between humor and action without ever letting the film become too campy or jokey (Rowan Atkinson, in his screen debut, comes closest as a bumbling British ambassador in the Bahamas). There are plenty of exotic locations and a few stand-out action setpieces, including a wild chase in which Bond races through a small French villa on a supercharged motorcycle, an underwater battle with a shark, and an amusing twist on the old stand-by card game between hero and villain that is here reimagined as the video game to end all video games.
Yet, at the same time, Never Say Never Again is hampered by some real obstacles, particularly the way it gets off on the wrong foot with an otherwise decent action sequence involving Bond rescuing a kidnapped heiress that is inexplicably scored to a cringe-worthy love ballad (an obvious sop to the rival series' use of songs during the opening credits). Some of the characters are a bit flat, too, including Basinger's Domino and Brandaeur's Largo, who is clearly intended to be a more human kind of adversary but, as a result, lacks a true villain's lethal panache. Luckily, Barbara Carrera is on hand, vamping up Fatima Blush's cold-blooded, man-hating ruthlessness without quite overstepping her bounds. She brings a sense of crackling intensity to every scene she's in, and it's almost a shame when her demise arrives, although you can't say she doesn't go out with a bang.
Never Say Never Again "Collector's Edition" Blu-Ray | |
Aspect Ratio | 2.35:1 |
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Subtitles | English, Chinese, Korean, Spanish |
Supplements | |
Distributor | MGM Home Entertainment |
Release Date | March 24, 2009 |
Never Say Never Again is presented in a new high-definition 1080p transfer on a dual-layer 50GB disc. The image looks excellent, definitely the best I've ever seen it look, with natural-looking colors, good detail, and strong black levels and shadow detail, which is particularly crucial in the various underwater sequences, which tend to look too murky on home video. The image is so good, in fact, that the film's use of stock footage of submarines really stands out as such. In short, the transfer improves substantially on the previously available DVD, which had bleeding colors and too much evidence of dirt and wear. The DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround soundtrack, which was mixed from the original three-channel surround track, sounds quite good, with effective directionality and crisp dialogue. | |
The screen-specific audio commentary features Steven Jay Rubin, author of The Complete James Bond Movie Encyclopedia, interviewing director Irvin Kershner, who doesn't need a whole lot of prompting. Kershner is more than happy to talk about every aspect of the production, including the more controversial elements, which makes the commentary consistently engaging. Also included on the disc are three featurettes that include interviews with Rubin, Kershner, screenwiters Lorenzo Semple Jr., Dick Clement, and Ian La Frenais, actresses Barbara Carrera, Pamela Salem, and Valerie Leon, Producers Sales Organization executive John Hyde, Talia Shire, and Jason Schwartzman (wife and son of producer Jack Schwartzman, respectively). The first featurette, "The Big Gamble" (16 min.), covers the film's trouble production history and how it came to be made. It pulls few punches, with Clement and La Frenais criticizing Semple Jr.'s screenplay and Kershner criticizing just about everyone (although he loved working with Connery and Barbara Carrera). "Sean is Back" (8 min.) looks at the return of Sean Connery to the role of Agent 007, while "The Girls of Never Say Never Again" (10 min.) examines the role of the film's main female characters. Finally, the disc includes a truly terrible theatrical trailer and a photo gallery of movie posters, stills, and production photos. |
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Professor finds flaw in global chart on waters between Korea, Japan
MONACO (Yonhap) -- A key global chart showing oceanic boundaries and names all over the world has not demarcated the boundary of the waters separating the Korean Peninsula and Japan, a Korean professor said Wednesday, claiming the current sea map with the flaw is invalid as a basis for nautical charts.
Kim Shin, a professor at Seoul-based Kyung Hee University and head of the East Sea Forum, made the claim in Monaco as South Korean delegates have intensified diplomatic efforts for the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) to concurrently use the name "East Sea" alongside the current "Sea of Japan" appellation. The five-day IHO meeting from Monday is aimed at revising the global chart, titled "Limits of Oceans and Seas" and better known as S-23, including the water expanse presently referred to as the Sea of Japan. Seoul wants the chart revised to include the name East Sea as well. "A flaw has been found that the current edition of S-23 does not demarcate a boundary of the East Sea, which is currently referred to as the Sea of Japan," Kim told reporters. "Because a boundary is nonexistent, the single reference of the Sea of Japan in the current edition is fundamentally invalid," Kim said. Seoul sent a 16-member delegation to the quinquennial IHO meeting but the delegates have said it is difficult to predict the outcome of the meeting. Since the last conference in 2007, South Korea has revved up its diplomatic campaign to press the IHO to concurrently use East Sea and Sea of Japan to refer to the sea at this week's meeting aimed at revising the third edition of S-23. The naming issue is particularly sensitive for Seoul as Tokyo has continually stepped up efforts to claim the South Korean islets of Dokdo in the East Sea. South Korea keeps a small police detachment on the volcanic outcroppings. Korea has long campaigned for the adoption of its favored name for the waters that are widely termed the Sea of Japan, after Japan registered that as the official name with the IHO in the early 1920s, when Korea was under Japan's colonial rule. The IHO published its first oceanographic chart for the region in 1929 and has since updated it three times, but each time, the body of water has been marked as the Sea of Japan. Korean historians and experts believe the sea's original name was the East Sea, but that the term Sea of Japan became more widely adopted because Korea failed to properly counter Japan's campaign to change the name due to Korea's colonization by Japan and the 1950-53 Korean War |


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September 13, 2009
September 13, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. — Following last night's 55-7 win at Anderson, DePauw moved up three spots to 20th in the latest D3football.com Top 25 poll.
The Tigers totaled 153 points in the poll, while Mount Union retained its top ranking with 623 points and 23 first-place votes. Wisconsin-Whitewater is second with 602 points and the remaining two first-place votes.
DePauw opens up the home and Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference portion of its schedule when it hosts Centre at 1 p.m. on Saturday, September 19.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - P.J. Hairston is North Carolina's top scorer this postseason. He also leads the team in eye rolls.
Hairston, who injured his left, non-shooting hand in the ACC tournament opener for the Tar Heels, will again wear a protective wrap when eighth-seeded UNC (24-10) faces ninth-seeded Villanova (20-13) on Friday night at the Sprint Center.
He has displayed inarguable toughness by bouncing back quickly from the gruesome-looking injury, but coaches and teammates still tease him about being overly dramatic with his ailments.
"With P.J., sometimes you just kind of have to double check to make sure he's not adding a little bit of fluff to it," freshman point guard Marcus Paige said. "He really is a tough kid when it boils down to playing. You just respect the fact he's hurt. You also respect the fact he sucked it up."
A day after receiving eight stitches to close the nasty wound in the webbing of his left hand, Hairston scored 13 points in an ACC tournament semifinal win against Maryland. Roy Williams joked about his toughness, and lack thereof in the past, prompting an exaggerated eye roll from the sophomore in the adjacent seat.
Hairston exploded for 28 points in a championship game loss to Miami. Two days later, during a press conference in the Smith Center, his tolerance for pain became the subject of a question to Dexter Strickland, who was warned to "answer wisely" by his 220-pound teammate.
Strickland took a playful jab at Hairston, who again looked toward the ceiling with feigned disgust.
"It's always kind of a joke," Hairston said Thursday in front of his locker in the Sprint Center. "They know how tough I am regardless of if they say I overreact on my injuries. I still end up playing just fine."
Hairston, who went 13-for-27 from 3-point range and averaged 20.7 points in three ACC tournament games, said Tuesday that he hoped to have the stitches removed before his team's NCAA tournament opener. The timetable has changed to Monday, meaning he'll wear the wrap for one or two more games.
That's the plan, at least.
Last season, before a road game against Kentucky, Hairston tweeted that he wouldn't be able to play because of a sprained wrist. Two days later, he hit three 3-pointers and scored 11 points at Rupp Arena.
That tweet was a boy-who-cried-wolf reason for skepticism, and it hasn't disappeared.
Earlier this month, Hairston languished in pain as he headed to the bench with 17:33 remaining in the second half at Maryland. He returned 38 seconds later and scored 10 more points, bringing his team-high total to 22.
Hairston said he thought he "was gonna die" when he was being stitched up after the ACC tournament win against Florida State, revealing that he screamed when alcohol and soap were used to clean the wound. He started the next afternoon and defended himself to a roomful of reporters earlier this week.
"Anyone in the room knows, you have an open wound and put alcohol and soap and anything to clean it out, everybody would scream," Hairston said. "So let's not get carried away."
Strickland compared Hairston's hot shooting against Miami to something straight out of a video game, and Villanova coach Jay Wright is concerned that he'll catch fire again Friday.
The Wildcats allow opponents to make a lot of 3-pointers and shoot a high percentage while doing so. That plays to UNC's strength, especially with Hairston getting stronger and stronger.
"Hairston, within their offense, can at any time find a 3," Wright said. "Even if they're running something for (Reggie) Bullock, he can find one. I think this will be as good a 3-point shooting team as we've played all year."
That compliment can be taken at face value, with no need for an eye roll.
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By the second decade of the twentieth century Americans had become more active than they had been in the previous century, both on the job and off. The fashions of that more leisurely era restricted movement and were difficult to care for, making them inappropriate for life in the 1910s. Women and men began to look for ways to streamline and simplify their clothing and their households—to become more modern so that they could focus on keeping up with twentieth-century life. Designers began making clothes, houses, furnishings, and cars that looked neat, used a minimum of materials, and worked well—moves that kept American fashion from being derailed by shortages during World War I.
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- 1 cup baking cocoa
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- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2-1/2 cups sugar
- 4 Eggland's Best Eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 cups cake flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream
- 2 cups (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup butter, cubed
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- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4-1/2 to 5 cups confectioners' sugar
- Dissolve cocoa in boiling water; cool. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream, beating well after each addition. Add cocoa mixture and mix well.
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This is my favorite "go to" chocolate cake recipe. I have tried various ingredients to make chocolate cake moist but sour cream does a better job than buttermilk.
A nice very moist cake. I always us Hersey's Special Dark Cocoa and I think that helped to make it deep dark and great tasting.
The frosting was very very rich, in fact it was a little too rich for my taste . The next time I make this cake I will just use a butter cream frosting with pre-melted chocolate and a little less butter.
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We will discuss wine, food, and many other things. Welcome to our meetup! We will try different regions, grapes and blends. With wine being the headliner, we will also discuss food, recipes & whatever topic comes up. This group is to relax and let your hair down after your hectic day of work. Come join us! Make new friends & new favorite wines! Godwin
Do you like wine? Do you wish you knew a little more about it? Do you want to meet others who share your passion for wine and wine education? Then join WoW (Wine on Wednesday) Frisco's Wine Discovery Meetup group. We'll taste wines from the US and around the world ~ we'll swirl, we'll sniff, and yes - we'll sip! There are a lot of "wine groups" on Meetup.com, but a closer look reveals that they are really about selling wine ~ not so with WoW, we just love wine - no strings attached. This g …
This group is a networking and social group of wine enthusiasts. Whether you are just curious about wine and want to learn more or you're a true wine expert everyone is welcome. Have fun, learn, meet friends, and enjoy wines at our events. Our events will be social gatherings rotated around the Dallas/Forth Worth area at local restaurants and member's homes. This is a great way to network and meet fellow wine lovers. When you attend one of our wine tasting events we will be sampling some wines …
We are a "Texas Friendly" wine education group for people who want to know a little more about wine and have a good time, too. Our local chapter is a part of a statewide non-profit wine group which emphasizes wine education, fun and fellowship. As Texans, we have a soft spot in our hearts for Texas wine, but we drink wine from all over the world. We are the exact opposite of "wine snobs, " but are serious about wine and wine education. Come to one of our tasting and see what we are up to! Guests …
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I am your organizer, Dilek Caner. My background in wine involves working as a sommeliere at several restaurants in New York City, working at Wine & Spirits Magazine and running a wine school in New York for 5 years before moving to Dallas. I am in the Master of Wine program where we go through a series of tests including a few blind tastings and I am starting this group to find enthusiastic people to taste wine with. You don't have to be a master, just willing to learn and very very interested i …
This is a group for people who would much rather get lost in a good book than plop in front of the TV - and who enjoy good food and wine (or beer!) I'd like to meet about once/month at a restaurant around Flower Mound, Lewisville, Grapevine, Carrollton, Addison, etc. to talk about a thought-provoking (or just downright entertaining) book. We can vary what nights we meet, and am happy to take suggestions on what books to read next!
We enjoy all wines at all price points but even we have to admit that while there are many great affordable wines at reasonable prices - we still enjoy those big, giant and expensive wines now and then. Our Back Stage Pass Wine group will focus on some of these high end wines. We will get together to taste them and compare them to other less expensive wines. We will be tasting wines from all around the world including Cabernet, Bordeaux, Brunello, Amarone. We will taste Grand Cru and we may …
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We are looking for people that enjoy wine tasting and love to discover new wines. We feature many small production wines. Our facility can host events from 10 people to 300 people. We also offer open sampling on Saturday from 1-4 PM. If you are a wine lover and like to try new and different wines - please join our group.
Join us for some fun, informal networking! Have a glass of wine or maybe a beer while getting to know other business owners and professionals. Have fun while making new friends and growing your referral network. Our biweekly meetings are held on Mondays from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
This GUSTO Tasting Group was created because we wanted to share our enthusiasm for wine with others with the same enthusiasm. We host local tasting groups that vary in topic but are all intended to educate in a social and fun way. All our meetups are hosted with GUSTO Sommeliers and are open to anyone who wants to join a wine community consisting of both professionals and enthusiasts.
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This is a group for anyone interested in wine destinations and travel. All taste buds and experience are welcome. I started this group to meet other wine lovers and travelers. Looking forward to exploring where the vine takes us.
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In this group you can meet other singles who share their love of food! I'm a Real Estate Broker who loves to cook, entertain and explore authentic foodon my spare time. If you're a foodie like me, you dream of finding others who love food too and know their way around the kitchen. This group is a great way to express your interest in cooking and eating. This is a group for single folks from their mid 30's to mid 50's years young who love food. If you're the kind of foodie that loves to attend t …
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This is a group for social events and beverage experimentations. We will consist of singles aged 30 to 50 in North Texas, but married folks and those in their 20's and 50's are welcome and will not be turned away! -(as well as those outside our geographic region are welcome to travel (here) with us)- Our primary focus will be coffee and wine, being social and meeting at restaurants and cafes. Just coffee and conversation and a good meal or two shall be great! Open to new ideas, including: wine a …
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Love food? Love wine? Love meeting new people and making friends? Come and meet fellow food-centric people at AIWF events. You don't need to be a member to come and the events range from informal picnics to fine dining. We are the Dallas-Ft. Worth chapter of a national non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of a flavorful life through education, fun social galas, networking events, dinners, and wine socials, all the while enjoying great wine (beer, spirits) and good food. We …
Our goal is to create one of a kind events by blending thought-provoking art exhibitions with tantalizing dining experiences inspired by the visual works. Each event will be a unique experience which brings together these varied artistic disciplines and provides the opportunity for our guests to learn first-hand about the techniques and inspiration for the creative masterpieces. With artist and chef on-hand our guests will be part of the artistic discussion, enjoy a unique sensory experience and …
The North Texas Homebrewers Association (NTHBA) is a group of homebrewers living in North Texas (mostly, but not limited to, Dallas and northern suburbs). We are interested in making beer, mead, cider, wine, and other fermented beverages at home. Our Webpage is @ http://www.nthba.org/
This is a group for anyone that loves to read and also loves good food. We will discuss a different book each month whilst enjoying food and wine in a friendly relaxed atmosphere in Fort Worth. I started this group to enjoy the company of other book enthusiasts and hope to re-read some of the classics and find some new favorites.
The purpose of this group is to have some REAL fun and try new places, particularly for sushi lovers around the DFW area. Dinner and drinks are really just the beginning of it. Please be sure to participate in the polls and message boards for maximum effect, and feel free to post topics of your own if you'd like. Thanks! Also, since we have consolidated the NW Tarrant Sushi and Miso Hungry mmm eat up with this one, we are reflecting the additional variety of cuisine and locations here. We hope t …
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This is a group that is passionate about finding new and unique craft brews, wine bars and spirit mixologists. We have so many great areas in Dallas - especially in Lakewood, Bishop Arts, Uptown, Downtown and around town, that this group should explore and learn all there is to know about local, regional and even international spirits. We will host Beer Education nights, wine tastings / pairings and other spirits such as tequilla, bourbon, whiskey and maybe even a Mezcal night. I welcome all age …
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Not sure if the TPU 'power button' logo is copyright or anything, but this websites logo is awfully similar: https://www.facebook.com/TechGuide.com.au http://techguide.com.au/
I say hack their site so that everytime someone tries to load the page they get redirected to the vid of a constant loop of a biscuit in a basket video or W/E the heck it is I kid, I kid.... Asus now has some TPU feature as well IIRC. The all powerfull W1zzards influence is spreading through all of geekdom like voracious fungus! Whats next? PS I think its all Mussels fault, he wanted to start his very own TPU in Aussie land lol
because the worlds full of copycats and ripoff merchants, and with a site as well renowned as TPU i would atleast think they would wish to copyright the logo, what if someone was browsing for the site and came across a dodgey version by chance claiming to be TPU and downloaded what they thought was gpuz (example) and it turns out to be malware. Not very good for the sites rep but thats just my two cents
the only reason i even noticed this, is because of the 'tech..." name. a similar icon is one thing, but a similar name AND a similar icon is a bit worrisome.
The similarities are scary. Hopefully this can get sorted I still think you were just trying to ge laid Edit: That Fenech guy is prolly a member here, lets sent the e-hit squad! hahaha
Techpowerup is copyrighted. No worries there. However he changed the logo enough to not get sued I would guess. Ive seen worse walk scott free. Why do any of you even care? Now you respect copyrights? The hypocrisy.
tpu doesnt own a patent of a power on button . Please this is ridiculous anyone can design that in photoshop easily. I think patent wars is what is exactly wrong with this industry .
Yes, this. Actually, if you look close, it is totally different. Clearly designed from scratch and not just copied and rotated. It might have been inspired by the TPU logo, or he might have just pulled up the power button symbol and put a red ring around it. The TPU logo has the circle going through the line, his has the line separate from the circle, his is the traditional power symbol.
You can copyright a layout. W1zz did this. However this guy changed the layout. W1zz doesn't have much ground I believe. However I could be wrong. I HOPE I'm wrong. lol Now you care about copyrights?
i see no reason to act. the logo is sufficiently different. good to see that some people think tpu is so awesome that they feel inspired by it.
its interesting to see the power button rotated to look like a 'G' .. but thats not how power buttons are oriented, are they? kind of silly and lacks originality.. TPU has the most original design! with the word 'power' incorporating the stanard IEC power symbol..
Yeah, you are right, but that was kind of the point I was making. Just because a logo has the same symbol in it, or in this case a similar symbol, that doesn't mean it is the same logo. And honestly, making a logo for an electronics site that has the power button symbol on it isn't exactly a crazy idea.
Exactly we shouldnt block innovation . Very soon apple might sue companies that create refrigerators since it looks like an ipad from a distance.
this is true. to the people saying "how can you patent a power button?" all i can say is "Apple" w1zz has spoken that he doesnt care since its different enough, so thats all that matters.
There you go making assumptions again, where did I once say anything about copyright? DONT ANSWER THAT. Silly MailMan :shadedshu


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Is it any wonder that "A Matter of Time," the September 2002 single-topic issue, brought out the pensive side of Scientific American's readers? Letter writers reflected, often at great length, on the mysteries of time. "We presume to break time up into little units when we define hours, seconds and nanoseconds," wrote Pete Boardman of Groton, N.Y. "But time is not an object to be divided or a substance that moves. Time is the measuring stick, the ruler, the clock. It is earth rotating on its axis. It is earth orbiting around the sun. It is sand flowing through a narrow hole in an hourglass, the repetitive swing of a pendulum, the decay of cesium atoms." Some even turned to poetry to express their reactions, such as the first of the other musings that await on the following two pages, for those who care to take the time.
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Bergen, Norway -- At NAB 2012, Vizrt Ltd, will showcase its latest advances in live graphics, channel branding, video editing, interactive content, multi-platform distribution, live sports and graphics analysis. Vizrt will exhibit in Booth SL5605 during the NAB 2012 convention, being held from April 14-19th at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
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Montana Highway Patrol has released discouraging statistics related to highway crashes and fatalities for 2012.
This year MHP responded to a growing number of fatal car crashes.
The number of fatal crashes occurring during the day has increased by 27%.
Last year there were 84 deaths that happened during day light hours.
This year that number jumped to 107 deaths.
MHP Butte Division Captain Gary Becker says the reason is because, "They get tired, fatigued, they're not paying attention and the next thing they know they're falling asleep or they're distracted within the vehicle and drift off, then they over-correct."
The number of fatal crashes on secondary highways increased by 255.56%.
In 2011 there were 9 fatal car crashes on secondary highways.
This year that jumper jumped to 32 deaths.
"A lot of those highways-there's not a lot of room for error. If you're off the road you're off the road and trying to correct and get the vehicle back under control is difficult," says Becker.
There is one common factor that ties these increases in fatal car crashes together-the seat belt.
"When the time comes that you really do need that protective device it's not available to you and it's too late to put it on because things are happening so quickly and the next thing you know people are being ejected out or they're getting tossed around inside the vehicles," adds Becker.
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Coffee and health: What does the research say?
By Mayo Clinic staffOriginal Article: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/coffee-and-health/AN01354
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Dr. Donald D. Hensrud is chair of the Division of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine with a joint appointment in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, & Nutrition at Mayo Clinic. He is an associate professor of preventive medicine and nutrition at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. Dr. Hensrud directed the Executive Health Program at Mayo Clinic for more than 10 years.
He received his B.S. from the University of North Dakota, M.D. from the University of Hawaii, M.P.H. from the University of Minnesota and M.S. in nutrition sciences from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He completed residency training in internal medicine and fellowship training in preventive medicine at Mayo Clinic and completed a clinical nutrition fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Dr. Hensrud is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, the American Board of Preventive Medicine and the American Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists, of which he is a past president.
His career interests have combined nutrition, weight management, and prevention. He is the author of many scientific articles and book chapters and was editor of Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight for EveryBody; The New Mayo Clinic Cookbook, which won a 2005 James Beard Foundation award; The Mayo Clinic Plan: 10 Essential Steps to a Better Body & Healthier Life; and The Mayo Clinic Diet, published in January 2010.
Dr. Hensrud says healthy lifestyle habits in diet and physical activity are extremely important as evidenced by a large body of scientific evidence. He also says implementing these lifestyle habits is realistic, sustainable and enjoyable. A primary goal of his work is to help people achieve this.
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What does the research say about coffee and health? Is coffee good or bad for me?
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Coffee has a long history of being blamed for many ills — from the humorous "It will stunt your growth" to the not-so-humorous claim that it causes heart disease and cancer. But recent research indicates that coffee may not be so bad after all. So which is it — good or bad? The best answer may be that for most people the health benefits outweigh the risks.
Recent studies have generally found no connection between coffee and an increased risk of cancer or heart disease. Why the apparent reversal in the thinking about coffee? Earlier studies didn't always take into account that known high-risk behaviors, such as smoking and physical inactivity, tended to be more common among heavy coffee drinkers at that time.
However, the research appears to bear out some risks. High consumption of unfiltered coffee is associated with mild elevations in cholesterol levels. And another study found that two or more cups of coffee a day can increase the risk of heart disease in people with a specific — and fairly common — genetic mutation that slows the breakdown of caffeine in the body. So, how quickly you metabolize coffee may affect your health risk.
Newer studies have also shown that coffee may have benefits, such as protecting against Parkinson's disease, type 2 diabetes and liver cancer. And it has a high content of antioxidants. But this doesn't mean you should disregard the old maxim "Everything in moderation." Although coffee may not be very harmful, other beverages such as milk and juice contain nutrients that coffee does not. Also, keep in mind that coffee accompaniments such as cream and sugar add fat and calories to your diet. Finally, heavy caffeine use — on the order of four to seven cups of coffee a day — can cause problems such as restlessness, anxiety, irritability and sleeplessness, particularly in susceptible individuals.
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