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Not exactly a manic Monday, but a clutch of deals to open the week. Futures are indicated modestly higher and there are no major economic reports today.
On the deal front:
- VF Corp. agreed to acquire Timberland for $2 billion in cash, or $43 a share. Timberland jumped to $42.76 from $29.99 in premarket trading. Timberland's shares got crushed in early May when it reported soft earnings.
- Allied World Assurance is acquiring fellow reinsurance firm Transatlantic Holdings in a $3.2 billion all-stock deal. Transatlantic is up 18% premarket.
- And lastly, Wendy's/Arby's Group said it would sell its Arby's unit (great potato cakes!) to Roark Capital Group, a private-equity firm, for $430 million. Wendy's/Arby's is indicated higher. The company had announced plans to sell Arby's back in January.


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Matthew's Birth
Like anyone who's ever tried to record their birth story, it's hard to put into words something so incredible and awesome as the birth of your child. You can never really find the perfectly accurate words that describe and capture such an event. Keeping that in mind, here is the birth story of my third child, and first home birth:
I awoke on Thursday, July 15th around 4:30am, with regular but relatively painless contractions. But the fact that they woke me up and were consistently about 5-7 minutes apart gave me hope that my body was getting into labour mode and this baby was on it's way. I woke up Rich, my husband, thrilled to tell him that after being overdue for what seemed like eternity, it looked like this baby was deciding to make an entrance. We got the bed prepared for the birth and called our midwives to let them know that things were happening, and to stay prepared.
Soon, the whole house woke up for the day. Our four and two year old sons were ready and raring to go, but luckily my parents were visiting, as well as a brother and sister, so they kept the boys entertained and happy while Rich and I stayed in the bedroom and talked about life and watched a little T.V.
Around lunch time, the contractions were still around 5-7 minutes apart and still not too painful, so Rich and I decided to go for a walk around a mall. Well, we walked and walked and occasionally the contractions would come a bit closer, and sometimes I would have to walk a bit slower through one, but they really didn't stay that way, and I was getting tired of walking. We headed back home for some rest and with hopes that things wouldn't stay this way for too long.
Though I didn't think it was possible at this point in my labour, I was able to take a much needed nap when we arrived home. The Lord knew I wouldn't last the whole labour on the amount of sleep I had under my belt, so He made it so I could nap for a while, without waking for a single contraction. I was so grateful for that rest! And the moment after I woke up, the contractions started again, following the same pace as before.
Joy, my midwife, called periodically throughout the day, to check on my progress and see if she was needed. Unfortunately, things weren't picking up really, so I told her we'd call her back when things seemed to be getting more productive. I felt a bit silly to have called her so early that morning to get her on alert, but I didn't know prelabour would continue on this long. And she didn't mind, either.
Around dinnertime, though the contractions were still only around 5-7 minutes apart, they started to get stronger. I found myself having to focus through them a bit, now. But because they didn't get any closer, I didn't think they were doing anything productive. I found myself starting to feel a bit discouraged with how I was feeling and consequently, dealing with the contractions. My mom must have known that I was getting a bit down, because she came into the bedroom, and started rubbing my back and offering uplifting words and encouragement. That helped me get a better outlook, and deal with labour better.
As the sun went down that night, so did my spirits again. The contractions were still only 5-7 minutes apart, but were even stronger than before. The children were in bed asleep, and everyone else was making their way to retire for the evening. I wanted to be able to go to sleep right along with them, but there wasn't anyway I would be able to manage that. I must have looked crushed, because my mom and dad came to my side and gave me hugs and encouragement. Then someone suggested we offer a special prayer that I would be able to do just fine, and that I would be holding my baby soon. Again, my spirit was lifted up and I felt like I could keep on going.
As Rich and I laid in the dark on our bed, I knew I wasn't going to get any rest there. I told him that I needed a tub, with the hope that I might be able to doze in between contractions. I asked him to keep an ear open in case I needed him. The warm water was nice and relaxing. I rocked back and forth through my contractions and I started to feel like maybe they were coming closer together, finally. I called Rich to come in and time some, just to see. But was dismayed to learn they were still… you guessed it, 5-7 minutes apart. They were very strong now, and I was starting to sound a bit through them, as well. As they got stronger and stronger, with each consecutive one, I tried repeating phrases through them. "I'm okay. I'm okay." But that didn't seem to make me feel good, so I went back to making whatever sound came out with that particular contraction. I knew I was reaching a breaking point, so I asked Rich to call Joy and ask her to come to our home, now. When he had her on the line, she asked to speak to me. I reluctantly got out of the tub, and let her know that though the contractions were still only 5-7 minutes apart, they were very strong, and I needed her. She reassured me she was on her way. I must admit, there was a part of me that dearly hoped we hadn't called her prematurely again, but at this point, I just felt I needed her there with me.
After we hung up, I sought the tub again, for relief. I had only been in there for a few more contractions, when suddenly, I felt that feeling. It's that unmistakable feeling that you have when your body starts to push, just a little at first, but nevertheless, push. I was taken a bit by surprise because my contractions had never come more closely than 5 minutes. How could I be at this point already? I told Rich that I started to feel like the baby was coming, and that he should get my mom up. It didn't take her long to be upstairs, by the tubside, rubbing my back again and sounding through the contractions with me. Rich, wisely, had called Joy to tell her that I was starting to get that pushing feeling, and to step on it. Joy, consequently, called Meryl, our backup midwife, and asked her to hurry here also. Meryl stood a good chance of making it to our birth before Joy would. Joy had mentioned to Rich that I should step out of the tub and pant on the bed, as someone would be there very soon. Just the thought of leaving the water at this point was enough to make me cringe, so I opted to stay just a few more minutes. I remember Rich asking my mom what the definition of "transition" was. She answered it was when contractions start coming one on top of another and are super strong. Because, up until this point, my contractions hadn't been like that at all, we determined that I wasn't in transition yet. But, within a few more contractions, all that changed. They started coming hard and heavy and soon my body was actively doing its job of pushing a baby out. At this point, my mom, dad and Rich helped me move from the tub to the bedroom. I made it there just in time for the next contraction. Joy called again and asked to speak to me. I had only a few moments in between contractions, so it was a brief conversation, and I don't know what we really said, but I knew she was coming and that was very good. I tried to pant through a few contractions, but wasn't able to control that incredible urge to push each time. It's not like I really wanted to push, but it's just an overwhelming feeling. Soon Meryl arrived and made a dash for the bedroom. My dad went out to help take things from her car to where we were birthing, as she knew she was needed more in the bedroom, than transporting equipment from her car. She checked to ensure there was no lip, and stopped short when she felt our baby's head in the birth canal. My water broke next, and that was a bit of a relief of pressure. I was finding that being on all fours wasn't very comfortable for me, so I tried kneeling and holding onto Rich for support. I didn't like the feeling of pushing, and wasn't really relaxing to let the baby out, so Joy, who had arrived sometime within that time frame, would get right in my face making eye contact, and help me to slow my breathing and let go. I was grateful she knew that I needed that.
Again, I didn't like that position, so I moved into a semi-reclined position with Rich sitting behind me for support. This felt much better, and I felt like I could let go of my bottom a bit more and let my body do its job. With Meryl guiding our baby's little head and applying warm compresses and Joy helping me slow down and let go, I was finally able to let our newest baby slip out from my body, and up into my arms. I pulled him onto my chest and Joy put a warm blanket around us both. There's nothing quite like the instant relief you feel when your body is finally still and quiet. You are almost numb with peace. I held this beautiful little being so snuggly, and was just so relieved it was done, that I didn't even care to see if our new one was a boy or girl. Finally we took a peak, and were delighted to see we had another little boy! All those girl hand-me-downs would have to wait yet again!
Someone went to wake the our other boys so they could meet their newest brother. Ryan (4) had slept through the entire thing, and sleepily came out to see what all the fuss was about. Michael (2) had woken moments before our son was born, and my mom had gone in to keep him busy for the few remaining minutes. When he came into the room, his first words were, "OUCH!" and he pointed down to where there was a bit of blood on some sheets and where our baby's umbilical cord was coming out of me. But they both took a good look at their newest sibling and welcomed him in their own ways. They helped get the birth day cake from the kitchen so we could celebrate the occasion. Cake in the middle of the night doesn't happen everyday!
Soon, they were put back to there beds, though reluctantly. The baby and I went to have a nice warm, candlelit bubble bath. While we were in there, the bedroom turned from where I'd had a baby, to our regular, comfy bedroom. When he'd had enough soaking, Joy and Meryl took him, dried him off and dressed him. I relaxed for a few more minutes, and then went to be with our sweet little baby. They weighed him and he was 7lbs. 8oz. They also checked him over and all seemed, as we had suspected, well.
He thought he'd try nursing a bit now, and took to that quite well. I only had one sore nipple and for only a couple of days. After all this, the three of us, baby, myself and Rich, felt it was time for bed, for real. We all nestled in and turned out the light. The midwives finished up the paperwork in the living room, and checked on us just as they were leaving. I was hard to believe what the night had brought. And I was on top of the world.
Joy and Meryl made several home visits over the next week, and were always just a phone call away. This had been our first homebirth and though the labour went nothing like how I had expected it would go, it had been incredible and miraculous. My mom mentioned that life around the home really hadn't been interrupted and no one came home days later with a new little baby for siblings to be jealous of. All things that she had not been able to avoid years ago.
I am so grateful for the experience we had. I felt that my two previous birth experiences had all led up to this one. And I was able to do it! I'm also very grateful for all my wonderful midwives. Penny, my third midwife, was on holidays, so she wasn't able to be there for the grand finale, but I know she would have done a great job, too, as she had with all my prenatal appointments. Joy had been there for my second child's birth and I was very glad she could be apart of this third experience. She and Meryl knew just what I needed before I even did. All three are wonderful women and I will always be thankful to them for their wisdom, care and compassion.
Matthew Richard McCue came to spend his life as a part of our family, on Friday, July 16th , at 2:43am. We've been richly blessed ever since.
- Heather McCue
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FARGO, N.D. — Weary residents of this sandbagged city came together in churches Sunday, counting their blessings that the Red River finally stopped rising and praying the levees would hold back its wrath.
A brief levee break that swamped a school provided a warning of the kind of threat that still hangs over them in the days ahead.
Church services on Sunday morning in Fargo took on even greater significance as people gathered after a week of round-the-clock sandbagging.
"At a time like this, we need to call on God's providential assistance," said the Rev. Bob Ona, pastor of Fargo's First Assembly of God church.
The Red River continued its slow retreat Sunday after cresting a day earlier, dropping below record level to 39.88 feet. City officials have said they would breathe easier when the river falls to 37 feet or lower, expected by Saturday, meaning a lengthy test for sandbag levees that residents hastily constructed last week.
Fargo faces another test this week as a storm approached with up to a half-foot of snow and powerful wind gusts that could send ferocious waves crashing into and over the already-stressed levees.
The sandbag effort resumed Sunday as helicopters began dropping 11 one-ton sandbags into the river to deflect its violent current and keep it from eroding vulnerable areas of the dike system.
The aerial effort also included an unmanned Predator drone used to watch flood patterns and ice floes and provide high-definition information. North Dakota has more than 2,400 National Guard troops engaged in the flood fight across the state.
The helicopter sandbag effort was focused on an area of the river that put another scare into the city during the night when it burst past a levee and submerged a Lutheran school campus.
Oak Grove Lutheran Principal Morgan Forness said city officials, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the National Guard unsuccessfully tried to contain the gushing water after a floodwall buckled around 1:30 a.m. The water kept spreading and "we couldn't contain it. … it's inundating all of the buildings," Forness said.
Moorhead, a city of 30,000 across the river in Minnesota, also was fighting to hold back the river. Mayor Mark Voxland said he was concerned but still optimistic about how long his city's dike could last against the pressure of the river water. "Some of us aren't sure how strong they might be," he said. "We have a long way to go."
The flood was caused by an enormous winter snowfall that melted and combined with more precipitation to send the river to record levels.


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PONCE, Puerto Rico — Jose "Chegui" Torres, a former light heavyweight world champion and Olympic silver medalist, died Monday, his widow said. He was 72.
He died of a heart attack at home in his native Puerto Rico, Ramonita Ortiz told The Associated Press.
Torres won the light heavyweight title by beating Willie Pastrano by technical knockout at Madison Square Garden in New York. He made three title defenses before losing to Dick Tiger on a close decision in 1966.
Torres began fighting when he joined the U.S. Army as a teenager, and won a silver medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics while competing for the United States.
After retiring in 1969, he became a representative of New York's Puerto Rican community, chaired the New York State Boxing Commission in the 1980s and served as supervisor for the World Boxing Organization. He also wrote two biographies — "Sting Like a Bee" on Muhammad Ali and "Fire and Fear" on Mike Tyson.
Torres was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1997.
"Puerto Rico has lost a great Puerto Rican, a very valiant person who aside from being a great athlete, was a great human being," David Bernier, president of the U.S. territory's Olympic committee, said in an interview with radio station WKAQ.
The mayor of Ponce, on the island's southern coast, declared three days of mourning and ordered flags to be flown at half-staff in honor of Torres.
Ortiz said Torres will be buried Thursday in Ponce.


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SANTA FE, N.M. – The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced $2.5 million in federal funding for New Mexico to replace aging buses and transit vehicles that will improve transit service for thousands of people who take public transit every day. The three projects are among 255 projects in 48 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico selected to receive a share of $787 million in funding.
"President Obama's support for an America built to last is putting people back to work across the country, including here in New Mexico, modernizing our nation's roads, rails, bridges, and public transit systems," said Secretary LaHood. "By investing in the transit infrastructure people depend on to get where we need to go each day, we will keep our economy moving forward well into the future."
Deputy Federal Transit Administrator Therese McMillan was in Santa Fe today to announce a $1.9 million grant to the City of Santa Fe to replace aging buses in the Santa Fe Trails bus fleet with compressed natural gas buses that will reduce emissions, save on fuel costs, and provide more reliable service.
"With over half the city's buses at or near the end of their useful life, these funds go a long way to put more comfortable and efficient clean-fuel vehicles on the road to meet rising demand for service," said Deputy Administrator McMillan. "This is a big win for everybody, by reducing highway congestion, improving air quality, and offering balanced transportation choices for residents who need a dependable ride to work, medical appointments and elsewhere."
In addition to the Santa Fe grant, FTA also announced funding for two additional projects in New Mexico:
- City of Las Cruces: $278,050 to purchase replacement paratransit vehicles for use in the city's Dial-a-Ride program to improve service for seniors and people with disabilities.
- New Mexico Department of Transportation: $340,000 to help the Rio Metro Transit District in Albuquerque to develop new and improved ways to cost-effectively manage and maintain the condition of their facilities and equipment.
The funds are provided through FTA's FY2012 State of Good Repair and Bus Livability programs. The selection process was highly competitive, with FTA receiving 836 project applications representing $4 billion in funding requests from transit providers. In FY2010 and FY2011, FTA awarded more than $1.8 billion in grants for hundreds of state of good repair projects, primarily involving buses and bus facilities.


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Editor's Viewpoint: Farewell to a gent
Photographer John Harrison had the ability to make friends with anyone, equally at home in the presence of the proverbial man in the street or in the corridors of power.
And among the many hundreds at his funeral yesterday, there was not one who would have uttered an unkind word about John. With an oration by Rev Ian Paisley, attendance by the First and Deputy First Ministers and other politicians as well as hundreds of friends, colleagues and people whose life he touched, sometimes very briefly, his funeral was worthy of a statesman. But John was even greater - he was a gentleman.


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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Postcard from Laos: Alila life less ordinary
Love is in the hair
Insider address book: Amanda Wakeley
Inside London #9: sensational cabaret show La Soirée troupes into town
Hotel of the Week: Hotel Healdsburg
We're California dreamin' this week, and dishing out our prize to a wine-country wonder in Sonoma County. We're not the only fans: Trazzler's Adam Rugel counts it as his favourite weekend escape. Something to do with hotel heaven, and a farmers' market…
Style Cockle-warming wine retreat
Setting Sonoma vineyard country
Why this week? From late November until late February, Smith members can get 25 per cent off three-night stays at Hotel Healdsburg in California.
Our favourite bits We love the Dry Creek Kitchen's tastebud-teasing Californian fusion food and wine cellar, which, as you'd expect in this vine-covered corner of America, holds a staggering range of tasty tipples. The secluded garden pool is lined with extra-comfy loungers and surrounded by olive trees. Even the standard rooms are special – they all feature six-foot bath tubs, similarly generous beds, French doors opening onto private balconies and oak floors covered with Tibetan rugs. And our favourite favourite bit? The policy of allowing you to load up your own tray from the buffet breakfast and then take it back to bed with you (better, and quicker, than room service).


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Ancient watercourses
London was once criss-crossed with rivers and the Crossrail route bisects a number of these ancient waterways.
At Royal Oak, in west London, we have discovered a 68,000 year old channel, close to the route of the historic River Westbourne. Excitingly, the ancient waterway contained a large collection of animal bones from species that are now extinct in the British Isles, including prehistoric reindeer and bison. The bison bones are, Bison priscus; which was one of the most widespread large mammals in the Pleistocene period. The animals lived throughout Europe and Asia from at least 500,000 years ago. As the climate warmed these animals, along with the mammoth, disappeared from Britain and Europe.
The River Westbourne once rose in Hampstead and flowed south to enter Hyde Park, at the Serpentine, before passing through Chelsea to meet the Thames. In the early 1800s the River Westbourne was diverted into an underground brick pipe called the Ranelagh Sewer.
Humans moved into and out of Britain as the ice ages came and went during the Pleistocene era. Ice was so far south it would have been too cold to live in Britain. The age of the ancient channel coincides with a period when people migrated back into northern Europe.
Could the bones we found at Royal Oak portal be the result of hunting? Initial observations suggested that some of the bones had small marks on them. These may have been tool marks. Archaeologists are able to tell the difference between tool marks and other types of wear. When the bones were examined with high power microscopes the marks were found to be made by gnawing carnivores, possibly wolf or bear, and trampling.
It is likely that the animals were washed away in flood waters and then scavenged by carnivores. Collections of animal bones were no doubt a common sight in this turbulent landscape and were moved again in further floods, dispersed around the channel banks and edges, broken by trampling and then buried over with soil sediments until finally re-exposed in our excavations.
We have also investigated the River Tyburn channel at Bond Street, a small tributary of the River Fleet at Farringdon believed to be Faggeswell Brook and the Walbrook River that once divided the city of London.


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Neymar Gets Matching Tattoo with His Sister, Who Shows It off on InstagramJanuary 7, 2014
Neymar's latest addition to his tattoo collection is a piece that matches with his sister. The duo have a pair of diamond tattoos dedicated to one another.
Neymar has the word "Sorella" ("sister" in Italian) above the diamond, while sister Rafaella has "Fratello" ("brother" in Italian) on her arm.
According to SambaFoot, "Esporte Terra published the pictures from the social network site Instagram and Adam Rose of Nautica Tattoo Studio did the Tattoos."
The 21-year-old has been settling into life at Barcelona, and has been tasked with leading the line in the absence of Lionel Messi, who is set to return to action after a hamstring injury this weekend.


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ACHS Counselors Welcome Gov. Terry McAuliffe
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Boys Basketball - James River District & Conference 20 Champions, & State 2A Finalists
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Highest GPA in World History II
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MOUGINS, France — The Material Girl parted with a few personal possessions — a custom-made white guitar and the contents of her handbag — at a benefit to raise money for AIDS research.
Madonna emptied her purse and came up with a magnifying mirror, hair clips, skin blotting tissues and lip gloss. She put it on the block along with a one-of-a-kind diamond-encrusted alligator bag donated by Chanel. The lot sold for $472,000.
The 49-year-old singer asked the crowd not to insult her with low bids: "This lip gloss touched my lips."
The benefit on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival late Thursday raised more than $10-million for the American Foundation for AIDS Research, a record for the annual event. Sharon Stone played auctioneer.


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It's a tense time as Ethan, Gwen, Theresa and Pilar wait for Jane's test results to come back, to see if she can be a donor for Jonathan. Ethan is torn, wanting Jane to be a match, but worried about the risk to his daughter. Theresa goes to Gwen and tries to get her to change her mind, let Theresa tell Ethan that Little Ethan is his son. He would be a much better donor for Jonathan. Gwen refuses, still not wanting to risk losing Ethan to Theresa. Theresa wonders what Gwen will do if Jane isn't a match, will she really let Jonathan die?
Luis is stunned to find a shaken and battered Pretty trapped in the warehouse basement with him. An emotional Pretty tells Luis how Alistair threw her down there when she refused to help him destroy Fancy and Sheridan. She goes on about her grandfather's terrible treatment, the horrible names he called her and playing on her worst fears – that no man will ever love her or give her children. Luis wonders how that man could be so cruel as Pretty revels in Luis' attention.
Tabitha works on destroying the love between Noah and Paloma to get a step closer to getting Endora back. Tabitha zaps Noah and Fancy to a romantic B&B room and manipulates them into each others arms, ready to make love and be caught by Paloma. Meanwhile Sheridan stops Paloma and tells her she needs Paloma's help as a police officer – Luis is missing and Sheridan fears his life is in danger.
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TAMPA — The Bucs may say they don't know whether Aqib Talib will be suspended again by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, but they are preparing as if their troubled cornerback is going to miss games this season.
Coach Raheem Morris said he planned to treat Talib's situation as if he were an injured player.
Talib met with Goodell on Tuesday in New York. He faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon stemming from his role in a shooting March 21 in Garland, Texas.
"For me, it's next man up," Morris said Tuesday. "… It's the next guy out of the box. There's a reason you practice, there's a reason you practice with depth. There's a reason (general manager) Mark Dominik drafts and steals corners from people because we prepare for everything. We want to be the deepest team in the league and the youngest team in the league. Hungry. Go out and play.
"I wish Aqib nothing but the best, but next man up theory. Don't even blink."
The truth is, the Bucs haven't had the use of Talib's talent for some time. He was suspended for the first game last season for assaulting a St. Petersburg cab driver in 2009. He missed the final four games of 2010 with a hip injury he suffered Dec. 5 against Atlanta. Talib also missed both preseason games with a hamstring injury, though he could play Saturday against Miami.
"I don't know if he's going to be here or not as far as this upcoming game," said E.J. Biggers, Talib's replacement at left cornerback. "I mean, he's the best corner we have on the team, so obviously, we want him to be around. I'm praying for the best for him."
Biggers, a seventh-round pick in 2009, normally serves as the Bucs' third defensive back on passing downs. Last season he started five games and finished with 53 tackles and one interception. With Myron Lewis nursing a hamstring injury, Elbert Mack has moved up to take over as nickel cornerback.
"Obviously, when (Talib) gets back, it bumps everybody back a spot from wherever you were," Mack said. "You know, it limits your playing time or it can give you more. You just never know. You've just got to go out there and make the best of your opportunity."
Despite missing five games, Talib led the Bucs with six interceptions in 2010. Tampa Bay went 4-1 during his absence. The exception was a 23-20 overtime loss to the Lions that ultimately kept the 10-6 Bucs out of the playoffs.
Without Talib, the Bucs had nobody to match up with Lions Pro Bowl receiver Calvin Johnson, who had 10 catches for 152 yards. Tampa Bay opens the regular season against Detroit on Sept. 11 at Raymond James Stadium.
"Megatron," Morris said of Johnson. "We'll see. Right now MLew (Lewis) has sort of been hampered by the hamstring, so I don't know exactly where he is. But that would be a nice matchup with MLew. It could be a possible nice matchup with Biggers' quickness. You could put the old crafty vet (Ronde Barber) on him. Let go out there and be scrappy and possibly win.
"Ronde is up for any challenge. I would never put anything past him. We'll just have to go see. D.J. Johnson is another big, long corner. See where he is. See what he could possibly do. We've got a bunch of different things to throw at him."
Time will only tell if Talib will be one of them.
"I think a couple guys have played well for us in the preseason," Dominik said. "It is what it is in this league. Sometimes you have tough injuries you have to deal with. Sometimes you have other things that could affect your football team.
"As Coach Morris said, next man up. That's how we'll handle it."
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Constitution struggle opens Bolivia's old east-west divides
LA PAZ, Bolivia: The symbols of Bolivia's constitutional standoff reflect its divided soul: an Andean rainbow and a red Spanish cross.
A new charter completed last month by backers of President Evo Morales names the wiphala, a colorful checkerboard banner of indigenous pride, as a national symbol. Santa Cruz state — home to Morales' fiercest opponents — has declared its autonomy under a seal bearing a red Christian cross left by the Spanish conquest.
All still salute Bolivia's official red, yellow and green flag. But as the nation's first indigenous president met Monday with opposition governors in La Paz for talks over the bitter impasse, the two factions faced a national identity crisis dating back long before the country's 1825 founding.
Morales, whose political base lies largely in the western highlands, is seeking support for his new constitution. Santa Cruz and three other eastern lowland states have refused to recognize the charter and issued their own broad autonomy declarations.
Both propositions will face voters this year — the new constitution in a nationwide ballot, the autonomy statutes locally in the four states. Morales also plans an up-or-down referendum on his presidency and each of Bolivia's nine state governors. No election dates have been set.
Reconciling the rival proposals will give Bolivians a chance to search for what unites them, Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera said in an interview with The Associated Press.
"Both documents refer to something we have in common, though they stress different things," Garcia said, sitting on a sofa in his modest La Paz apartment. "What's interesting is how important the struggle for identity has become — the importance of asking 'Who are we?' to place ourselves in the world."
That question is key to Bolivia's current tug of war over power, money and land.
Morales' constitution would replace the opposition-controlled Senate with a new body granting wider representation to the country's indigenous groups.
An autonomous Santa Cruz, meanwhile, would keep a larger share of the state's crucial natural gas revenues while sheltering its vast soy plantations and ranches from redistribution to the poor.
The roots of division can be traced back to the 1500s, when Bolivia's colonization began.
When Spanish conquistadors heading south from Peru established La Paz and settled the surrounding western highlands, they encountered strong resistance by the Aymara Indians, Morales' own bloodline. The conquistadors enslaved hundreds of thousands of Aymara and Quechua Indians at a huge silver mine at Potosi.
In the lowland east, meanwhile, Spanish settlers moving north from Paraguay and Argentina met opposition from the local Guarani, Guarayo and Chiquitano Indians, but Jesuit missionaries and a lack of precious metals to exploit softened the culture clash.
The separate histories reverberate today.
Morales often rails against the evils of European colonization, and donned a traditional Inca costume for his 2006 inauguration atop the ancient Tiwanaku ruins.
The eastern opposition, led by the Santa Cruz Civic Committee, takes a different view.
A painting hanging in the committee office shows a crowd of European and mestizo, or mixed heritage, men in powdered wigs and buckled shoes celebrating the state's 1810 declaration of independence from Spain. Barefoot Indians look on from the sidelines.
"We in this region are positive about the conquest," Committee Vice President Luis Nunez told the AP. "It reflects who we are now."
Bolivia's historically severe segregation has hindered the creation of a national mestizo identity so central to many other Latin American countries. Most Bolivian Indians were not allowed to even vote until a 1952 revolution.
A 2001 census found 62 percent of Bolivians over the age 15 identifying themselves as indigenous — but study authors never listed mestizo as an option.
Much smaller surveys have since found a majority call themselves mestizo. In Bolivia, however, that classification often represents a blend of culture instead of race.
In recent generations, Indians across Bolivia have abandoned the countryside for the cities, where they have built new lives among the same cheap Chinese electronics, fried chicken stands and pirated U.S. movies as their mixed-blood neighbors.
Members of this new class make their own way in the urban mix — some in traditional bowler hats, others in hoodie sweat shirts — declaring themselves "mestizo" or "indigenous" depending on who asks.
Such fluid demographics tempt everyone to play the race card.
Morales often refers to his indigenous supporters as the "moral reserve of humanity," subtly casting his reforms in a light of racial infallibility.
Santa Cruz's European-descended leaders boast that their vibrant economy welcomes all Bolivians. But they rarely condemn attacks by young, stick-wielding whites on the state's growing population of Indians migrating from the highlands.
"There's an ethnic factor here that makes all of this much more explosive and difficult to resolve," said Fernando Molina, editor of the Bolivian news magazine Pulso.
Garcia sees the race debate as uncomfortable but unavoidable.
"We were, and continue to be, a profoundly colonial society, where our differences, our jobs, our opportunities are all a function of skin color," the vice president said. "Undoing this requires making the problem visible. And sometimes we don't like to look at ourselves in the mirror."
Bolivia's fractured reflection may never entirely become whole. But a complete break between east and west is unlikely.
The poor, dusty highlands desperately need the east's produce and gas revenues. In turn, an independent, conservative Santa Cruz would find itself alone in the landlocked center of a left-dominated continent, two borders away from the sea or key trading partners in the Andean Community of Nations.
"If Bolivia as a whole is weak, the two halves divided would be weaker still," said Carlos Borth, a senator with the opposition party Podemos. "At the last minute, material interests will prevail."
It will take more than material interests for South America's poorest country to square its differences.
"The crisis unites us," Garcia said. "Today the elite have to think, 'What do I have in common with my maid?'"


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Hello, im am a programmer currently studying A.I. and soon i will start with my master project.
My idea is to focus on squad based A.I. in a first person 3d shooter, but this leaves me with some questions:
What is the best ( or: a good) game to use for this purpose. I would like to implement my A.I. in an existing game, since i dont want to spend to much time on anything but A.I.
I have looked into the quake3 source, and made some very simple mods. It seems reasonably easy to implement simple features, but since I cant run it from VC++ directly, I am unable to trace, or otherwise debug easily. I fear that this could be a very big problem when implementing complicated A.I. features. Does anybody have experience with implementing A.I. in quake3, or any other (relatively new) 1st person 3d shooter?
I hope someone is willing to help me, since I really have no clue how to approach these initial (and important) choices.
but since I cant run it from VC++ directly
Why not? Are you talking about the game executable or the game-logic "scripts"? The former is definitely runnable, the latter is runnable if you compile it as a dll rather than as bytecode (using the special compiler).
I have looked into the quake3 source, and made some very simple mods. It seems reasonably easy to implement simple features, but since I cant run it from VC++ directly, I am unable to trace, or otherwise debug easily.
I haven't ever made a mod for Quake3, but if it uses DLLs for mods, you should be able to debug it by using VC++'s Attach To Process feature. It might be handy to have two monitors if you don't already, so you can run the debugger on one and the game on the other (minimizing or task switching away from a game can be a bad idea).
Another possibility would be HL2 (the Source engine); it's highly moddable and I think it already includes some pretty sophisticated AI.
I tried to do everything as much as possible like the tutorial stated. So I opened the VC++ project that comes with the "quake source download", and opened it. When I try to run it, it asks for an exectable (which should be quake3.exe -> according to the tutorial), but when I then run it, it wont load since it cannot find the files it needs (files from the map baseQ3). This is not so weird since the source is not in the same map as the executable. When I copy the quake files to my source map, i am able to run the game from VC++, altough it seems like it is just running quake3.exe, and the just compiled source is just ignored, since changes in the code are not visible, and breakpoints that are set, do not get triggered.
You probably need to pass some command-line arguments to quake3.exe to tell it to load your mod. You can do this in the project settings, under debug.
You should set the working folder in your project configuration to quake3's root folder (e.g., C:\quake3). This is what matters, it does not matter where the actual executable is located. The breakpoints may not hit because matbe you're running the original executable rather than the one you have compiled?
thanks for the help. It turned out that everything runs fine when i use the command line arguments, and set the right working folder.
changes occur directly now, and breakpoint also seem to work. One thing i wonder tough: when im running the project, and a breakpoint gets triggered, i cant get to my VC++ screen, since quake refuses to let me. The screen just freezes, and the sound starts repeating. I have had this problems with other fullscreen application to: is there any way to get past this ( I am under the impression that quake does not support window mode).
Like I mentioned, use two monitors (or, if you have a second computer around, you may be able to use remote debugging).
Unfortunately, many games don't play well with task switching even when they're running normally, and when they're frozen by a debugger breakpoint it's anyone's guess what'll happen. However, the situation might be improved under Windows Vista, due to its new window manager.
Q3 does support windowed mode, that would be the best way to debug.
Using multiple monitors like Reedbeta said might be an option, but if I'm not mistaken the debugger requires the primary monitor, and there's no in-game option to choose the hardware device in q3 (which therefore also defaults to the primary) - although there might be a q3 console flag that controls which device is used.
the debugger requires the primary monitor
Just curious, but why is that? What keeps you from dragging the VC++ window over to the second monitor?
I have no idea, but I've read that somewhere in the MSDN. However, I can't seem to find that anymore
VC++ also supports remote debugging if you have an extra computer. The link of the day is http://www.kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=841177


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Toyota Halts Sales of Popular Models - Accelerator Stuck Problem Recall
Sharon....I'm not an engineer. My degree is in computer science. Unfortunately, I started an MBA, but put it on indefinite hold several years ago, choosing to spend more time with my family over night classes and hours of "home time" studying. Some say I did the right thing. I does bother me from time-to-time that I never finished the MBA....maybe after I retire many years down the line (when it will do me the least good).
Overall, they've been a good corporate citizen to the local communities and to the U.S. But, P&G has their moments to make one pause with "what were they thinking?". It's definitely a different culture.....knowing a lot of their employees. You'll know a "P&G-er" when you meet one. That's not a bad thing. The reason I left Xerox after 10 years was for the same reason. I was engulfed in that culture, and didn't want to be.
Enough about me, back to Toyota. From working with them, and having friends who work with them, overall they're very secretive. For a very long while, their engineering staff used a Computer Aided Design/Engineering (CAD/CAE) tool that was developed by them alone, even though there were much better solutions in the commercial market place. They've change in recent years and do now use commercially available CAD/CAE tools. But, those tools are only good if you implement them.
I think one of Toyota's issues with relation to their current woes relates back to not doing enough CAD/CAE. They have to to get their vehicles designed. But, it's clear, in their race for expansion, that they didn't do enough. Nor, did they do enough real world testing. They can even do electronics and software simulation that would have uncovered a good portion of this issue. Clearly, they didn't do enough of that. They were in too much of a hurry to get new products out the door and onto the showroom floor.
I read most of the automotive trade rags. Usually, there's a car that someone snapped a pic of showing real world testing in remote locations for things like extreme cold or extreme heat operation for example. I've seen those tests from just about every major auto manufacturer. Can't remember ever seeing Toyota do that....ever.
I've owned Toyotas.....3 of them to be exact....one Tacoma, one Camry and one Avalon. They weren't any worse than any other brand I've owned when it comes to glitches. They weren't necessarily better, either. Maybe back in the '80s and '90s when General Motors, Ford and Chrysler were really making junk they were better. But, not now.2018 Acura TLX SH AWD ASpec
I've seen those tests from just about every major auto manufacturer. Can't remember ever seeing Toyota do that....ever.
Funny you should mention that. On one of my trips to Hawaii I saw the then not released Lexus RX400h being driven around the Big Island. I stopped into the local Toyota dealer in Hilo and they had no idea they were there. So was it testing or just using the testing budget on a trip to Hawaii? It seems I read later they had 6 of their new hybrid RX models in Hawaii for the press to do reviews. So it was probably advertising and not testing.
Rhonda Smith testified that at 35 mph, pushing the ignition button still did not shut off the ignition but at 33 mph it did shut off. There are numerous other NHTSA accounts that the electronic input to the computer to shut off the engine was being ignored. The same is true of Rhonda's experience that the electronic command from the shifter to put the car in neutral or reverse was ignored. The gas pedal's electronic input that the engine should be at idle was being ignored. Even when the car did shut off, the dash lights stayed on indicating the car was still in a confused state. When her husband put it in neutral, the car made sounds like it was trying to start again. Keep in mind that the computer controls virtually everything.
Has your PC ever locked up to a point where CTL-ALT-DEL and all other inputs are ignored? Have you ever had to hold the power button down on your laptop for a hard shutdown (which works due to a built in hardware override)? These sudden acceleration incidents are sometimes triggered at the same time that the driver taps the brake (sends an input to the computer), not the gas. If Toyota's engine control computer's confused state sets throttle to "full" and ignores further inputs, that would basically describe these incidents. The emergency advice to put the car in neutral, pull over and shut off the engine will prove futile. It only works in the demonstrations on TV because the computer is working during the demo.
Has your PC ever locked up to a point where CTL-ALT-DEL and all other inputs are ignored? Have you ever had to hold the power button down on your laptop for a hard shutdown (which works due to a built in hardware override)?
I have had those situations on almost every computer I have worked on or owned. It is either a Firmware or Software glitch. Hardware problems become evident very quickly and can be fixed. Software anomalies can and do happen. The NHTSA has said they were able to cause problems in Toyota DBW systems with EMI interference. They dropped that back in 2007. And who made that decision? Was it the employee ties shared with Toyota and the NHTSA?
Exactly. This point may have been made earlier, but whatever effect the brakes do originally have quickly becomes less effective as they get glowing hot from the first 1000+ feet of hard braking against a WOT.
I think it is taking a long time for it to sink in that the computer controls virtually everything and most driver actions are just "electronic requests". I am sure we will ultimately learn that Toyota has a design flaw that other manufacturers did not miss in their designs. The data log they keep talking about that saves a few seconds of information may also prove useless. In this "confused" state, who knows if the computer will have written anything meaningful to the log? Unfortunately for Toyota, finding it may require a technician to be under the hood running diagnostics while the vehicle is in that confused state racing down the highway out of control. Please see my post #1725.
gagrice...the tests I've read about usually take place in harsh environments like the desert, or in the northern areas of Alaska.
I don't think Hawaii would qualify as a "harsh testing" environment....2018 Acura TLX SH AWD ASpec
carbuff....I did some basic calculations in one of the posts. At 60 MPH, a car is traveling at 88 ft/sec. At WOT (or 120 MPH) you double that to 176 ft/sec. In Ms. Smith's case, even pressing the on/off button, and holding it for 3 secs, as Toyota stipulated to turn off the engine, she mentioned that the car was traveling at about 100 MPH. Rough numbers, that means she was going at least, about 100 ft/sec.
So, that being the case, holding down the on/off button (if she knew she had to hold it down for 3 secs), she was traveling the length of a football field before she realized the on/off button wasn't working. All this, while she was trying to dodge other traffic.
Brakes are going to fade pretty quickly at those speeds, and coincides with other witnesses stating that smoke and flames could be seen coming from the car.....the brakes had way overheated, and I'm sure became ineffective, very quickly. So, that debunks Toyota's statement that the brakes will always overcome acceleration.
The real question here is, how did the car slow and eventually come to a stop (after miles of this harrowing experience. We don't know...well, because Toyota didn't want to know by getting the car into their labs and finding out what happened. I'm certain that Lexus didn't want to buy the car back from them, because Lexus wouldn't agree to do so (that costs Toyota money). What's even scarier, is this car is still on the road, being driven by someone who probably has no clue about its history. So, it could happen again....to someone else. That puts not only the driver's safety in question, but also anyone else who's on the same road, at the same time.
Even at this juncture, I don't know if Lexus is trying to track the car down to get it into their labs to find out the root causes. Should be easy enough to find out by running the vin#, though.2018 Acura TLX SH AWD ASpec
Since that Lexus was repaired it may have had new throttle system installed???? I reviewed Sean Kane testimony he gave under oath to congress and found mention of Gilbert's preliminary findings, Does seem to have something to do with ETC?? But can not find Dave Gilbert's report anywhere???
This is a question I have, and was not stated at hearing. Since vehicle has had no further problems it may have new system, or Mrs. Smith's bug was only a one time bug?? Updates, etc, are done all the time. I know at Ford, I got one, and was just told needed update - told
was no big deal. No info on work order though??? Also had checked and Toyota work order where I complained about electrical and my minor incidents of increased engine acceleration were not on work service order either. I can't make any allegations because I am not sure why omissions of info and have no proof.
I just have to be more viligent and insist complaints on work order, and make sure written documentation exist on final report. I accept blame myself, as I did not insist and was too lax. No excuse, considering all the professional CE continuing ed courses - documentation and law over the years.
Don't forget at hearing one congressman asked Lentz why Toyota never took each of the problem cars and tested them thoroughly. Since these cars had the problems those are ones that should be tested, not the ones that had no problems. This congressman said that should have been the first common sense approach???? I would have to check my notes who this congressman was.
jdm9 Posts: 38Yes of course, weve all had computer freezes where Control alt delete or even holding in the off button seems to take much longer than 3 seconds or maybe even doesnt work at all , but lets take it a step further. and please anyone feel free to correct me on this as I have no computer/auto technical/computer control system expertise whatsoever.
I dont think that my computer has ever kept working after Ive pulled the plug out of the wall. How exactly can that be accomplished (mechanically, bypassing all computer controll) in a vehicle?
Some have suggested a fuel cut off /limiter and it seems to me to be reasonable to think that if you did that , the vehichle would have to stop. Others have suggested some sort of mechanical cut to an electrical wire/battery cable/alternator wire or possibly even an instant drain on the oil pan. As I said, Im a technical neophyte, and electronic engineer /computer wizards may just dismiss these ideas as so 1970s.
Its true that the expertise of some of the posters here like ww, graphic, sharon yourself and many others are phenominal and all add to the general pool of information that Toyotas total lack of leadership has failed to provide. I think, however that finding a suitable mechanical solution is just as valid an approach and will present a suitable solution that at least gives Toyota owners peice of mind, decades before Toyota ever mans up.
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"..same time that the driver taps the brake..."
On rare occasions, well past occasions, I have noted that my headlights would often dim as I applied the brakes. I always assumed that was the result of the sudden instant load of the rear brake lights on the 12 volt system.
But.....maybe not.
All of these new cars have an Anti-lock Braking System and that means they have an ABS pumpmotor. I know for a fact that when I "tap" the brakes on my '92 LS400 the ABS ECU checked the pumpmotor manifold's reserve brake fluid pressure and if it is not up to a predetermined level it starts the pumpmotor almost simultaneously with the brake "tap".
That ABS pumpmotor is, can be, one hell of a load on the car's battery and charging system, the pumpmotor's startup SURGE current would undoubtedly result in a HUGE downward spike in the 12 volt supply system.
I have experienced instances with my '01 Porsche wherein the ABS system seemed to go wacko with a marginal battery. While still able to crank and start the engine did so only slowly. The ABS fault light would come on shortly after starting the engine. New battery and the symptom went away.
Another thing that I mentioned earlier was the probable EMI spike to the 12 volt system at WOT when the A/C compressor's electromagnetic clutch circuit is opened.
You may have noticed that even if your PC remains unplugged for a long period of time it still retains the correct date and time of day information. Not so noticeable is taht it also retains ALL of the setup information that can be modified by the user. That is done by incorporating a small wristwatch style/type "button" battery on the motherboard, generally good for 10 years or more.
In your car the information kept in "volatile" memory, memory that must be kept powered if the information is to be retained, is continuously powered by the car battery even with the ignition switched off.
Unplug your car's battery for a long enough period and these "learned" parameters will be lost and must be relearned over a fairly short period of driving.
"..design flaw that other manufacturers did not miss..."
IMMHO it is much more likely that Toyota/etc's firmware supplier, Denso, has incorporated a new feature, firmware feature, at Toyota/etc's request, that has not yet been migrated, adopted, by other asian, along with a few US marques, using Denso as a prime supplier.
The fairly recent firmware integration of the TC, VSC, BA, EBD, etc, functions comes immediately to mind. And one of the more recent "features" added by Toyota/etc, FIRMWARE features, was the addition of the routine that "watches" the rate at when foot pressure is removed from the gas pedal in order to avoid a needless, and sometimes detrimental, transaxle upshift.
"..that debunks Toyota statement...acceleration..."
No, most braking systems will probably RESTRAIN the car from accelerating from a standstill or even from a reasonably low speed. Not trying to defend Toyota/etc by any means.
"...how did the car slow...."
Metal to metal rotor and brake pad's metal backing contact once frictional material burned away...?? It's also possible that the ATF became so overheated (boiled..??)that the transaxle's hydraulics began to fail.
You should be aware that the "surface" cause for reflashing my not be the BASE cause. The dealer may not actually know, even for reflash causes seemingly fully disclosed, what "corrective" measures are incorporated into a reflash, industry "IP" secrets and all that.
Thanks for responding. Computer science. I do understand what you are saying about not getting you MBA. Going to night school and family are extremely difficult. You would be missing out on many
of those special one time moments with your family.
Yes, the "corporate veil"!!! Understand this quite well. Familiar with CA codes.
One Question - You say P&G???? I mention PGE??? Here in California known as Pacific Gas and Electrical. Same??? Different in your area - different regional area?? I live in California.
PGE sure made big mistake with their role in placing hired guns on this California Blue Ribbon Panel and their hired guns role publishing false scientific study on chromium. Of course panels findings thrown out finally, and journals retracted study. But the unethical integrity publicly on display was evidenced in court proceedings - & by PGE second lawsuit loss 2006 for chromium pollution in another area. Yes, corporate protection first!!! Wrong approach. But they march on.
I can also definitely understand your comments about that type of culture. And your leaving. Just from family insider knowledge about corporations
Toyota being secretive. Yes, it does appear they are very secretive. I think most of auto manufacturers are secretive, but have heard Toyota is more so. Whether true - not sure. I have lots of difficulty comprehending US Toyota does not have more control over US decisions. Differing cultural & legal systems come into play also. Corporate approach to UA/SUA??
I am still upset they used Exponent to defend their electronics though. And for good proven past undesirable actions. I don't believe DHTSA can pay $1,0000,000+ to have another nonbiased firm analyze and report. DHTSA only has two electrical engineers plus small staff dedicated for defects & investigation issues is not large. I am not sure legally DHTSA can make Toyota turn over all their designs, firmware, etc. to conduct excellent independent nonbiased engineering tests.
???? Department has many other issues to address too. Answer to this????
Toyota is not only auto manufacturer with problems of UA/SUA. The others had better clean their act up too. Toyota is taking heat because of San Diego accident deaths and UA/SUA events. Do they need to?? Yes. It was their vehicle and they have had problems. Is it fair??? Yes sadly. Once again it is their auto. If it would have been Ford, GM, Chrysler, etc it would be that manufacturer taking the heat. Sometimes officials are too complacent, and do not act as good watchdog agency for many diffferent reasons. And auto manufacturers don't behave is my personal guess. Hear too much -
this excuse of proprietary information!!!
Toyota reliability - seems manufacturers are catching up to Toyota. I strongly feel all autos in US should be required to have mandatory brake override. And those systems need standards imposed into regulations as well. Best system.
There were questions at hearing about the black boxes (EDR)
for autos. I was very disturbed no congressman or LaHood was aware there was already a panel that addressed this issue in past. And law was passed. Standards are set already. Implementation date too! I found this quite disturbing!!!! I think the date is September 1, 2011. And EDR's must be made publicly available. DHTSA will have then too.
No - no tests I found at 100/mph. Claims it can be done. Documentation articles for lower speeds. Just am not sure a woman would have strength/force to do it.
Big question and lots of questions why Toyota did not take this car that had problems documented and attempot to produce ame event??? This was a vehicle that had fault occur. Why take an auto that has no problem and test??? Most good business mind approaches to problems would deduct this. Then legal issues come into play it seems/maybe!!! Lots more going on here it seems. This asked at hearing too by congressman. Lentz gingerly walked around question. Said he would try to get.
"..why Toyota(/etc) do not take this car.."
Much too great a potential for the public/press learning of the incident and thereby coming to the conclusion of a problem. Japanese culture does not readily allow for open admission of mistakes. On the other hand we cannot rule out the possibility of a problem that was already well known to Toyota/etc but wished to keep it secret, well hidden from the public eye.
Seems was both Toyota and DHTSA. Was Bush administration appointees then. DHTSA now has Obama appointees in upper management slots. Then you throw in the two prior DHTSA employees who left and joined Toyota representing them at DHTSA. I was not happy to see where they threw out all high speed events!!!! Doing so made complaints look like minor issue. Deaths from high speed discarded and eliminated. ll long duration and high speed gone. Appeared to possibly affect all future investigations in the futre over multiple years.
Now at hearing congressmen kept saying to Toyota 70% of UA/SUA events ae not dealt with through recalls. Guess we wait to see if they are finally addressed properly. See if all manufacturers have to address too??
Sharon.....too many regional acronyms.... :shades:
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Corporate liability and cultural issues - seems both and probably more too! This would definitely/undeniably be the first good management common sense approach. Test the known problem car!! This could produce the UA/SUA answers!!!
Proctor and Gamble. Now we were talking about two different corporations!! Quite familiar with P&G. Loved them. But PGE - I am disturbed at theirs unethical action. I can imagine what you were thinking if you thought I was attacking P&G.
Thanks for clarifying.
Mrs. Smith said in testimony her car decided on it own to decrease speed, but was still at higher acceleration when she stopped, but not racing like it was six miles earlier. She indicated - erratic up & down a little at end. Just turned off once stopped per her testimony. Then when attempting to load on AAA truck flatbed - husband shifted to neutral for vehicle loading & vehicle attempted to restart itself. AAA witnesed this.
I understand what you are saying. Thanks.
Didn't she say the cruise control light came on about the same time the car started accelerating...??
Makes me wonder if the cruise control knob/lever, or the CC "firmware", somehow got stuck in the set/accelerate position.
The 2010 ES350's ABS pumpmotor/manifold assembly has 2 fuses, a 50 amp fuse and a 30 amp fuse. My guess would be that the 50 amp serves the pumpmotor and the 30 amp the various solenoids involved. That might mean as must as 100 amp" short term surge current each time you "tap" the brakes.
And the A/C compressor clutch is served by a 10 amp fuse but with absolutely NO EMI/RFI supression around/for the electromagnetic clutch coil. Probably one HUGE spark, HIGH voltage spark (25,000 volts..??) across the clutch relay contacts as they open when WOT is used.
obyone Posts: 8,054There is one road on the Big Island that the rent a car companies will not let you drive on. It's an old road stretching across the island and if you ever make it to the Big Island I highly recommend the trip as I use to drive it couple of times a year on an Army contract. It's called Saddle Road.
Saddle Road
A description was given in CHP report of brakes SanDiego accident. Seemed like they were totally ruined from excessive attempts to brake. Since this was a dealership loaner brakes should have been good shape when loaned. Loaner vehicle probably had low mileage as well.
Toyota dealership had indeed placed incorrect floormat in car.
I have a copy saved in my files, but because of privacy can not send. Anyone else have??
I forget if she did. Just reviewed my notes - not there either. If she did I missed it. Checked both Mr. & Mrs. testimony notes I took.


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Why do we write?
Is it simply to communicate an idea? Or is it something we must do, part of our DNA like our mother's smile and our father's quirky sense of humor?
I suspect the latter is true for most writers, including the winners of Thrive's short fiction contest held in conjunction with the Randolph Writers.
In this issue we begin publishing those winning entries, six works of prose that will delight and inspire you. The winners are of various ages, many of them teens, one a senior adult, Leon Yow, who has taken up writing in his retirement.
When I asked what sparked their creative desire, the answers were telling:
"I have wanted to be a writer my whole life," says Amber Poole, 27, of Burlington. "I remember writing my first story in kindergarten about a Native American boy who 'had no feathers' (in his headdress) and being so excited when my teacher — Mrs. Craven — bound it together like a 'real' book."
Jade Mercer, a 15-year-old, home-schooled youngster from Asheboro, was in the fourth grade when the writing bug bit.
"We always had a lot of writing assignments and they were my favorite part in Language Arts, so I starting creating most of my stories when I was 10," she recalls.
Liberty teen Stephanie Eller credits her mother, Sayword, as a "great inspiration." (Sayword is president of the Randolph Writers, but lest you think favoritism played a role in Stephanie's win, Sayword excused herself from all judging duties.)
"I read a lot of her short stories," Stephanie adds, "and it really just made me want to write like her."
Erin Cox's answer strangely mirrored my own experience.
"There was never one specific moment that made me think, I want to be a writer," writes the 16-year-old who lives on a small farm between Coleridge and Ramseur. "It was more an accumulation of a million little moments. I wrote my first story before I could actually write; my mom typed it on the computer for me. I've always had the stories in my head. I would rewrite TV shows and movie endings that I wasn't happy with. I guess I saw it as a hobby …
"One day I gave my seventh grade English teacher a poem I had written for a school project. She pulled me aside after class and told me I had a gift, and I should use it. That sparked a change in my viewpoint. What if writing wasn't just a pastime for me? What if I could do this for the rest of my life?"
On the other end of the experience scale is Sandra Redding, a Randleman transplant to Greensboro. With a bachelor's degree in English and a master's in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, she is a published author of 200 stories, poems and articles, and four books.
"Writing sustains and informs me," she says. "I can't imagine a life without it."
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Oklahoma State forward Le'Bryan Nash may have given Kansas State the ultimate compliment when he stepped out of the locker room after a 74-71 loss to open Big 12 play on Saturday.
"They just outplayed us. They played hard every time. They don't care what the situation is, they just play. That's what we need to do," he said. "We played tentative and we need to play hard every game. That's what I'm going to do from now on. Play 100 percent and give 100 percent."
Nash scored 20 points, Markel Brown finished with 16 and Marcus Smart added 15 for the Cowboys (12-2, 0-1), who still had a chance to tie the game just before the final buzzer sounded.
Nino Williams made two free throws with 5.7 seconds left to give Kansas State a three-point lead, and Smart quickly raced up the court. The Cowboys' leading scorer got a decent look from the wing, but his running 3-point attempt clanked off the rim as the game ended.
"They executed on the offensive end, but we just didn't execute on our end," Smart said. "We ran plays and we called plays to give people shots and we missed it or couldn't capitalize."
Marcus Foster scored 17 points, Williams finished with 15 and Thomas Gipson had 10 points and 11 rebounds for the Wildcats (11-3, 1-0), who have now won nine straight games after losing to the likes of Northern Colorado and Charlotte earlier in the season.
"Just a great win, a gutsy win by our guys," Kansas State coach Bruce Weber said. "I'm not sure we were real pretty at times, they seemed to control the game, they'd get up five, we made a couple plays, we'd tie or take the lead, and then they'd go back up. … We got stops when it counted."
The Cowboys were playing without two key players.
Michael Cobbins, their best big man, sustained a season-ending Achilles injury on Monday, and freshman guard Stevie Clark — their second-leading scorer off the bench — did not play after he was arrested on suspicion of marijuana possession on Wednesday.
"This was going to be an adjustment game," Cowboys coach Travis Ford said. "It's been a tough week. We lost a major part of our team. We have to adjust."
he Wildcats, who've made a habit of pummeling opponents during their win streak, tried to wear down the short-handed Cowboys in the first half. They pawed and pressed and got physical with Smart and Nash as much as possible, and both of them were clearly frustrated.
Both of them also picked up two fouls late in the first half.
Kansas State was unable to take advantage of the brief stretch in which both sat on the bench, though. Foster scored in the waning seconds of the half to put the Wildcats in front, but the Cowboys raced up court and Brown managed to curl in a layup at the buzzer for a 38-37 lead.
The senior dished a bit of attitude at the Kansas State student section as he left the floor.
Oklahoma State tried to extend the lead early in the second half, and Smart's dunk and foul with about 13½ minutes left provided a cushion. But Smart decided to do a chin-up on the rim and slap the backboard after his slam, and he was hit with a technical — his fourth foul of the game.
While he took a seat, the Wildcats started to gather momentum.
Shane Southwell hit a 3 from in front of his own bench to knot the game 52-all with just over 9 minutes left, his first points of the game. A few minutes later, Nash picked up his fourth foul, and Cowboys coach Travis Ford put Smart back in the game.
The Wildcats went right at him, and Smart wisely backed down on a couple of occasions to avoid picking up his fifth foul. That allowed the Wildcats to surge ahead, taking a 65-60 lead when Foster slashed through the lane and curled in a layup with 3½ minutes remaining.
That matched the biggest lead of the game, and the gritty Wildcats managed to hit just enough free throws — and make just enough stops — to hold on at the end.
"We felt like that was one of the toughest games we've played so far," Gipson said. "For us to be young and come out and get a huge win against the No. 6 team in the nation, that feels real good."


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Nice podcast even though i played the beta it was interesting.
Urk ive been brainstorming alot.. about the topic of halo reach forge... i know you plan to upgrade it like everything else..but I would greatly consider you would work with me at least a little.. I had two brainstorms over the week about forge.. 1). The crosshair idea: I thought about and option that you can create a crosshair on an area of your choice..(option for each item) the item you link the crosshair to will have a line or something connecting it..to show which it goes to..but when you select the item after putting the crosshair..it shows how many feet away it is from the crosshair..this helps with putting spawn points evenly (lets say to even chances for people to race somewhere exc.) 2). The animation idea: This idea is pretty simple .. there is an animate object option for solid objects like double boxes rather than not solid like a crate..or container...there are 2 select animation buttons after you select animate object.. area 1..and area 2.... area one is the start area.. just press A where you want it... then you press the second area.. it will now move from area #1 to area #2 back and forth like a platformer game...i think players will have fun with that... as well as select animation speed option.. which could be used for obstacle courses.. to increase difficulty If you consider what i had to say i thank you .. and just in case.. anything like an xbox idea announcement is made and you would like my gamertag it is *nuculerboy* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sorry for the inconveniently long paragraphs of information Keep up the good work bungie! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
zip,i realy dont think so,but there is only one way to find out lets get halo reach! agreed?
where are all the skulls PLEASE REPLY!
im new here and i love halo!
acoustic orgasm?!?
I really don't get the point. The Dev Team says: "We always have been pretty good at bringing customization for the players to allow them to play by their preferences", but there is not gonna be any way to completely disable the auto-aim in Reach if the players simply want a pure experience. Even if Sage said so, I really don't agree with that statement. Game controllers are not mouse+keyboard, they play differently and it should be normal for the average user to to get warmed up as fast as a PC player, but that doesn't make the thumbsticks less precise. The players should ALWAYS have to choice and shouldn't be forced to play with auto-aim at anytime. I know the Dev Team works hard for non-gamers by tweaking that auto-aim system, but seriously... if I want to play without auto-aim, I shouldn't have to crack the game to have that opportunity. It sounds like FPS games are cursed by the "auto-aim is required on console games" mentality Other than that, looks great so far. [Edited on 04.07.2010 9:37 AM PDT]
does anyone know why mine wont load. the others work but the past two months they wont play :/ edit: nevermind [Edited on 04.06.2010 12:30 AM PDT]
Holy ************ *****, wow, that is kick-***. Covenant FTW Wort Wort Wort. Anyway i got an awesome covie clan its called the "Elites of Covenant" (interpret it anyway you want). plz join. i got alot of secrity roles. heres the link http://www.bungie.net/fanclub/e39/Group/GroupHome.aspx :) or you could go to my groups, either way [Edited on 04.05.2010 4:06 PM PDT]
Hey, can someone tell me if my Halo 3 armors will go to reach? I spent a long time getting recon. [Edited on 04.04.2010 9:01 AM PDT]
[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] urk [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Kapura [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] urk [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Dropship dude Hmm... it won't show up on my podcasts list. Guess I'm going to have to manually download. Epic fail. XD[/quote] For iTunes? We submit and wait it out. We've got no control over when Apple makes it live. If you want, I can start holding back the file we host until it's ready on iTunes. Lemme know. ;)[/quote]This is how you get subscribers: Let it go through iTunes so the people who REALLY love Bungie get it first, then you post it so the hangers-on can get it too.[/quote] If you really loved us, you'd listen twice.[/quote] More like 7 times. :)
OK... who was whistling the end of Zelda's Lullaby right as they were just getting to Jamie trying hard to "not be good at the game"?
very informative, great podcast 5 stars
still good times.. good times. [url=http://i44.tinypic.com/xggot0.jpg]you can has luke's sword.[/url] like he needs a few inches anyways. [Edited on 04.02.2010 3:45 AM PDT]
See, I would like to see qualification for the highest Arena division something that is earned over multiple seasons. It's probably a little late to tool that in since you seem fixed on month-and-wipe.
Amused: Sir, lol at the guy at the end sir.
I think I heard the word Geomerge in there somewhere so (speculation) possibly the ability to hold something in a space without gravity taking over or having your objects seizure out of place. The one thing I hope for more than most is the ability to hold an object delete it and have the object I'm holding be deleted and not the object behind the cursor. I did read something in the presentation section about how forge was added late in the timeline of H3's production so I can see now that if it was included in Reach it would be greatly refined over H3's version. Keep up the great work guys I will stand behind any game that you guys create (Unless it sucks). I do have to say good luck with the media barrage you guys have to pull off in the next month. P.S. My father and I have been looking to no avail for an easter egg where a S'pht is sitting in a corner and makes that iconic sound. I shall be looking again and I hope to see or at least hear it. [Edited on 04.01.2010 4:11 AM PDT]
Who the hell was breathing and swallowing into the mic for the first part of the podcast? Goddamn that was so disgusting and annoying.
come on guys you gota keep your rythem. do some Breathing and just keep up your rythem. (Don't mind the spelling) any way's since supposedly since this is your last halo game do you wanna guys want to go past the 12 a year threshold. And hopefully obliderate Operas podcast. 8)
[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Wolverfrog 70MB? That's far too much for my limited Mobile Broadband allowance to handle. Anyone wish to summarise it?[/quote] Sure thing. -Field of Vision wider than H3 by about 25%. Spartans are slower and jump lower with less beatdown range to accommodate for this change. Not drastic but feelable levels. -Falling damage and falling stun are both back in. They are trying not to overdo it. -The DMR and Pistol both take 5 rounds to kill a fresh spartan. DMR is quite accurate, long range, and a "the definitive human weapon". They seem to be hard at work making the pistol a fierce and viable weapon this go round. The Needler Rifle is cross between the needler and carbine. It is a medium to long range weapon that can trigger a supercombine explosion and does "bonus damage" for headshots. Whatever that means. -The weapon sandbox has been streamlined to cut out weapons without a specific role. Currently, it seems like the SMG is out of the game completely, and I speculate that dual wielding is also out completely, although not said directly. -The grenade launcher is quite interesting. If you hold down the trigger when you fire it, the grenade will wait to detonate until you release the trigger, making it a good tool for anti-vehicle & anti-aircraft. It also has an EMP effect upon firing in this mode. Normal fire acts like a normal frag grenade, although a direct shot allows it to explode on contact. -Frag grenades have a bigger blast radius but do similar damage to H3 grenades. The blast radius increase is to compensate for grenades that don't quite hit their mark, but still deliver minimum damage, unlike in H3 where it's mostly hit or miss. -Melee will not affect your base health if you have ANY shield remaining, but one hit will always deplete it. A melee will also kill an unshielded spartan. -Elites are quite larger than Spartans and thus are easier to hit. To compensate they have more health, shield, and regain shields faster. They also seem to be the only ones who can "Roll", while Spartans get armor perms. That last part is purely speculation by me, but the evidence for it is strong. -Individual battles are intended to be longer, and shields stay down longer. Your base health will recharge 1/3 of the last damage value it took over time. E.G., If a spartan has 100 health 100 shields, and was taken down to 1 health, eventually he'd revert to 33 health 100 shields. A health pack is required to regain remaining health. -There seems to be this recurring theme of 'let magnitism and smaller reticules' for Reach. Mostly notable is that the Sniper Rifle will have even less magnitism than it did in H3. That's all I can remember D: [Edited on 03.30.2010 2:24 PM PDT]
Awesome podcast as always!!!
70MB? That's far too much for my limited Mobile Broadband allowance to handle. Anyone wish to summarise it?
Sounds great guys. That podcast was nice and juicy. Most the info we're getting seems to hint towards possibly the best Halo game yet. Still hoping for any details on the multiplayer respawn system and how that has been improved from Halo 3. Hear my plea.
[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Kyle112 I just had a mind image of some one jumping and assassinating a guy on a jet pack. Epic haha.[/quote] That would be Epic.... but then he dies and you fall to the ground and take fall damage. Sad face :( I can't wait for the videos of like the 10 person tall execution, lol. [Edited on 03.30.2010 8:47 AM PDT]


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Marist Brothers face questions over abuse by Brother Kostka in NSW, Qld and ACT
The child abuse royal commission will today open a public inquiry into how the Marist Brothers responded to abuse allegations in schools in the ACT, NSW and Queensland.
CHRIS UHLMANN: For the next two weeks the forensic glare of the child abuse royal commission will again be trained on the Catholic Church and in particular the Marist Brothers.
This time, the inquiry will look at how the Church and the New South Wales Department of Community Services handled allegations of abuse at the hands of Marist Brother John Chute, once known as Brother Kostka, and another brother known as Z-A.
The inquiry will also focus on how victims' compensation claims were settled by Catholic Church Insurance.
Emily Bourke reports.
EMILY BOURKE: Brother John Chute who became known as Brother Kostka was a repeat offender. Five years ago he was jailed for indecently touching six teenage boys from Marist College Canberra in the 1980s. But the admitted incidents represent only a fraction of those involving school boys over many decades.
BERNARD BARRETT: The royal commission will be interested to see how it was that people like Brother Kostka were harboured and sheltered and protected for, you know, 40 years while children were at risk.
EMILY BOURKE: Dr Bernard Barrett is with the victims' support group Broken Rites.
BERNARD BARRETT: In the case of Brother Kostka, he taught in over a dozen schools in the eastern states of Australia, ranging from Canberra to Lismore in northern New South Wales, Sydney, Brisbane. The royal commission is not looking at those crimes; it's looking at the way Church handled, or failed to handle it.
Whenever any student complained to another teacher, to a Marist Brother or to a lay teacher, the answer was, "Oh, look, don't worry" or, "I'll see what I can do". But then nothing would be done.
And it's only much later in the 1990s when one victim finally went to the police in Canberra and that's when some action was taken.
EMILY BOURKE: Jason Parkinson represented 90 victims who brought civil claims against the Marist Brothers in Canberra.
JASON PARKINSON: I believe it was a watershed moment; I believe it was the first time an order had been dragged kicking and screaming into court where the population in open court could see the way they were going to run these cases. And they didn't like what they saw.
EMILY BOURKE: Some of the civil cases still haven't been resolved. It's understood Brother Kostka is living in the community having served two years in jail and he still holds his title as brother.
Francis Sullivan is from the Church's Truth Justice and Healing Council.
FRANCIS SULLIVAN: One thing is definitely certain: in Canberra, there is a lot of anger and there is a lot of confusion. And the brothers need to explain fully how things were handled. There are victims and their families and friends' families who are keen to hear.
EMILY BOURKE: There's still anger and confusion to this day?
FRANCIS SULLIVAN: Yes, definitely. I mean, I live in this community and I know that what went on at the Marist college years ago is still in the forefront of many people's minds.
EMILY BOURKE: The Royal Commission will also look at circumstances surrounding the case of a Marist Brother code named ZA. His victims will be among the first witnesses to give evidence.
CHRIS UHLMANN: Emily Bourke with that report.
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New Orleans — Officials plan to begin work on 47 capital projects worth $186 million and will complete another 52 projects by the end of the year.
Many of the projects are post-Katrina repairs to or replacement of facilities the storm damaged but will restore the quality of life for residents, Mayor Mitch Landrieu said in a prepared statement.
"By prioritizing libraries, parks and playgrounds and public safety facilities, we are working every day to build the city we always knew we could be," Landrieu said.
Overall, the city last year completed 25 projects worth $60 million. Eight of those projects were begun in 2012, while 17 were carried over from previous years.
The city began 27 new project last year, representing an investment of $87 million. Among those projects: the St. Roch Market, a new headquarters for the New Orleans Police Department's 5th District, the Tremé Center and Joe W. Brown Center in the park of the same name in eastern New Orleans.
Projects city officials expect to complete this year include Joe Brown Park, Cita Hubbell Library in Algiers Point, NOFD Engine No. 26 on South Jefferson Davis Parkway in Mid-City, NOFD Engine No. 31 on Alba Road in Venetian Isles, Stallings St. Claude Community Center and repairs to the Milne Boys Home in Gentilly.
Capital improvement projects completed in 2012 were:
- Algiers Regional Library, $9,246,673.
- New Orleans East Regional Library, $7,579,200.
- Wesley Barrow Stadium, Pontchartrain Park, $6,476,282
- NOPD 7th District Police Station, eastern New Orleans, $6,382,917.
- Rosa Keller Library, Broadmoor, $6,797,279.
- Norman Mayer Library, Gentilly, $5,734,444.
- Robert E. Smith Library, Lakeview, $4,563,021.
- Louis Armstrong Park (phase 2), Tremé, $3,786,556.
- Oliver Bush Playground, Lower 9th Ward, $2,151,283.
- Comiskey Park and Playground, Mid-City, $833,359.
- Sam Bonart Playground and Pool, Lower 9th Ward, $429,915.
- Behrman Soccer Complex (Phase 1), Algiers, $2,286,817.
- Allie Mae Williams Multi-Service Center Phase 1, Central City, $839,901.
- Brechtel Park (park only), Algiers, $576,015.
- West End Park, Lakeview, $470,147.
- Parks & Parkways maintenance buildings, Gentilly, $383,710.
- Latter Library, Uptown, $321,079.
- NOFD Engine No. 40, Algiers, $232,320.
- Norwood Thompson Playground (phase 1), Gert Town, $137,996.
- High-mast lighting at Daneel, Dauphine, F.P. Jackson & Larry Gilbert playgrounds, $126,459.
- Behrman Park gym, Algiers, $118,214.
- Parks & Parkways Fuel Island, Gentilly, $110,438.
- Norwood Thompson Playground, Gert Town, $99,579.
- Carrollton-Hollygrove Senior Center demolition, $96,275.
- Kingswood Playground, eastern New Orleans, $74,816.