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Shortly after I started Youngman, Incorporated a guy from Florida moved up to setup an Atlanta branch of Party Boys. He was an amiable, overweight doofus. He damaged his standing with boys by sleeping with them.
Neal was his name, he'd repeatedly play Tommy Vee's RubberBall ("Rubber ball, I come bouncin' back to you / Ah-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh"). I often suspected that when he was alone he'd listen to the song and cry. He was a sensitive Jewish kid who probably went into the business to find sex but was hoping for love. His attempts to seem sophisticated and tough were woefully insufficient. For a few years in Atlanta I was surprisingly social. I'd hang out with all sorts of people including Neal. Being Atlanta's two gay telephone pimps was all we had in common. Our conversations have vanished from memory.
Neal, hating Atlanta, later sold the business to Charles Ray. Sometime after I'd left the Atlanta Barb I ran into Charles. He'd closed Party Boys; don't know if I ever knew why. But he was avid to setup another gay escort service and wanted me as a partner. I was unemployed, sponging off my friend Ariel (David Wayne Cochran - maybe if you ever search for your name you'll see this). Being a lazy, unmotivated young man, I thought it sounded like a swell idea..
Charles Ray was managing a restaurant and fed me well. Sitting in a booth next to the jukebox we'd scheme for hours. I grew to hate Rubber Band Man, Car Wash and Dancing Queen.(Not too many years ago I found myself owning the first two and the first present I bought my Charles as an Abba collection.)
Charles started paying my rent and giving me a small allowance to tide me over until we got things going. He thrust a couple of roommates on me. The amphetamine addict passed out with a lit cigarette and almost burned down the house. The con man stole a stack of blank payroll checks and persuaded clerks to cash them even though he had no ID. His plausibility was almost a superpower. One kid who spent a night repeatedly told me that he wasn't gay even though he'd sucked his best friend's (a street hustler) cock. I hadn't asked. Pretty he was but I wasn't going to make a pass at such a fucked up boy.
Love that's fresh and still unspoiled
I wish that Charles's bodybuilder friend had been one of the imposed roomies. An ex-con (like most of Charles's friends) he had a serious honesty that reminded me of Victor. I liked him. He'd cruise butch looking young men with nice naïve eyes. A description of me back then I guess. One night he asked me if I'd like to fuck. I've never given a more ready or surprised yes to that question. Surprised because he guys I could tell he liked watching all appeared to be very athletic, I wasn't. Surprised how my liking for a big, tall, hairy guy had grown to include lust. He was in an open relationship. Not taking tricks home was one of the rules. When we got to my place the speed freak was there. We'd try to get together a few more times but something always intervened. Aside from being fond of him, sleeping with a heavily muscled guy would've seemed almost a new kind of sex. Wonder if it would've altered my preferences. Never have I more regretted one that got away.
Charles and I talked about putting out a gay personal ads magazine. Charles said somebody from the mafia - no kidding - would drop by to talk about financing it. Was he really a Mafioso? I don't know. Armed robbery had put Charles in prison for many years. He'd robbed finance companies back in the days when they kept cash on hand. Have you ever met an ordinary looking person who seemed terrifying? Mr. Mafioso gave me the willies. He also knew a tremendous about gay publishing and distribution and turned us down.(Atlanta was the mob's southern headquarters for porn. The man who controlled it lived in an isolated armed compound in the suburbs.)
Another conman pal of Charles showed up. He was connected with the gang that ran bingo games at Veterans clubs (the only places in Georgia where bingo was legal). I earned an semi-honest dollar by putting together a pro-veterans booklet.
Plaza Drugs on Ponce de Leon Avenue (where many of the intersecting streets change names so white people didn't live on the same streets as blacks) was open 24 hours. Its daytime clientele must've been ordinary enough. Late and night when Charles Ray and I went there the sandwich shop was filled with hustlers, petty thieves and junkies. Charles knew many; I enjoying hanging out and listening to them. Wouldn't want to do it again. Their lives were bounded by self-imposed want, thin friendships, parole officers and scoring. Tight, boring lives really. More colorful at a distance.
Visiting Victor and Nancy in Eden, NC I tried to pass some stock dividend checks and spent a few weeks in jail. Charles never seemed able to pull together the money to start a callboy agency or much of anything. I was getting bored. Moving to San Francisco sounded like a fun idea.
I called a guy I knew only through phone calls. "Richard of San Francisco" ran what he said was the oldest gay escort service in the city. I'd called only to see what he could tell me about moving out. He invited me to stay with him.
For a trip to paradise?
Greyhound was running a special: $50 to anywhere in the US. With maybe $75 I bought my ticket and said goodbye (I thought) to Atlanta. My bus trip was made miserably memorable by the crazy lesbian who sat next to me for over a thousand miles. There'd be a bloodbath she said if people knew the horrible truth she knew. Something about the Kennedy assassination, I can't recall if she shared the details. Being told that I was willowy didn't make up for the hours of weird confidences.
Towards evening my bus pulled into the San Francisco terminal. I had less than a dollar on me. What I didn't have was Richard of San Francisco's phone number. If I'd known that I could've walked to the corner and bought a copy of The Advocate from a vending machine my afternoon would've been easier if forgettable (in Atlanta you bought The Advocate in adult bookstores).
When the only sound in the empty street, Is the heavy tread of the heavy feet
I sat in the terminal feeling nervous and stupid. It was getting dark and by the standards of an Atlanta summer, cold. Any minute I expected to be noticed and told to move along (to where?).
An old fellow came up and asked sympathetically if I needed a place to stay. The surface sympathy didn't fool me. I knew that and how I'd be expected to pay. Desperate and alone, I shrugged my mental shoulders and said thanks. Bus station pickups must've been his regular hobby; it was only a few minutes to his grim little apartment. Nor did it take long to give him his payment. My mind was too focused on my dilemma to care. But I evidently hadn't been invited to stay long. When he started talking about passing me along to a friend I panicked.
Richard of San Francisco had mentioned that Rev. Ray Broshears was a friend of his. Broshears was a local gay activist, famous for founding the Lavender Panthers. (For a short time they patrolled the Castro with rifles. A predecessor to the Pink Pistols.)
Publicity hungry Broshears' number was in the phone book. He invited me to come over. Like many freelance minority politicians Broshears was theatrical, vain and capricious. Making a big production out of making sure that I wasn't a dangerous crank he consented to call Richard of San Francisco. After a short bus ride to the Church Street district I was safe.
Richard had invited me out because we'd chatted back in the Youngman Incorporated days. He knew I could handle his boys and clients. Unexpectedly he wanted me to be one of his boys. The men who'd offered to pay me on the streets of Atlanta I'd always answered with a smile and "no thanks." . Broke and dependent in San Francisco I let him chivvy me into seeing a couple of his regulars.
Who would like to sample my supply? Who's prepared to pay the price
Cal Culver aka Casey Donovan worked for Richard of SF. Culver (who I'd later meet) was the quintessential tall, blond hunk next door. Being a famous gay porn star didn't pay well back then. Once when Cal wasn't available I was sent in his stead. Wildly curly longish brown hair, moustache, hairy body, I was at the opposite end of the erotic spectrum. (I've never found myself attractive. Probably why I was always surprised when pretty boys did.)
The client was gracious in his disappointment. I sat naked in a chair and chatted with him for about an hour. I half-wished I was what he wanted but was relieved that I wasn't. I took my money and split without being touched.
Number two was gross. He was fat, drunk and wanted lots of attention. Deep kissing, extensive touching with the TV blasting in the background is all I remember of my time in the expensive but tacky hotel room. Thankfully there was no sex; I don't think I could've gotten it up.
Let the poets pipe of love in their childish way
The last experience was mostly concentrated boredom strongly tinged with unpleasantness. I wasn't upset, disconcerted, angry. But I didn't have the right mindset to play for pay. It wasn't virtue that made me decide I'd sold myself for the last time.. Looking back I'm chagrined with myself for having so little flexibility. For a time I thought it might have been my unhealthily romantic nature that confined me. But I still enjoyed casual sex. It wasn't shame or a preference for beauty that kept me from selling myself again. I didn't want to be a professional boytoy for the same reason I didn't want to dig ditches. Prostitution was too sweaty, boring and demanding for a lazy, over-sensitive guy like me.
I spent some time working for Richard on the phone. Later he'd move me to West Hollywood to setup a callboy service there.
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William Hoffman passed away on January 16, 2013. Born in 1919 in Portland, Oregon, Hoffman graduated from Lincoln High School, where he received the T.T Davis Award for outstanding scholar.
He graduated with a mathematics degree and earned his PhD in mathematics and statistics in 1953 from the University of California at Berkeley. His first job was in the Radio Propagation Division of the U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory. He then worked at the Rand Corporation, Hughes Research Laboratories, and the ONR Probability Project at Cornell University.
In the early 1960s, Hoffman joined the staff at Boeing Scientific Research Laboratories, and, from there, followed his interest in pattern recognition, which he developed while attending the XIVth General Assembly of the International Scientific Radio Union in Tokyo as an official U.S. delegate. He eventually changed his area of research to mathematical psychology.
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Nearly one in three respondents to a poll of over 300 FSB rural and tourism members said the next six months would be difficult for their business.
Small firms were crucial for the survival of village communities and the death of one small firm could have a devastating impact, the FSB said.
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FSB rural affairs chairman Linda Walton called for government help so rural firms could weather the downturn.
"Rural businesses have been quietly suffering during these testing times just as much as big, city businesses – but behind the dramatic headlines of big business failures.
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Ms Walton said a Treasury top-up of the non-domestic rates pool would enable local authorities to give 100% rate relief to small rural businesses across England.
Ms Walton said: "The rural recession rate relief scheme we are putting forward could be the difference between the death of small rural communities or their survival."
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Newborn infants can do lots of things. They can breathe, swallow, see, hear, startle, grasp, withdraw from noxious stimuli, taste, smell, cry and more. An experienced physician can elicit a broad range of behaviors. Perhaps surprisingly, the basic spinal circuitry for walking is present. If you take a neonate, support its weight, and put the feet on the ground, the infant will begin "stepping"; that is, take alternating steps, left-right-left, on the ground. How is this done? Does this suggest that an infant, with the right training, could walk?
Where does 'Stepping' come from?
How do the infant's brain, spinal cord and limbs execute the behavior called stepping? Is the infant's cerebral cortex commanding the spinal cord, "move left foot" followed by "move right foot"? The consensus is, no, the brain is not involved. The stepping motions are organized in the spinal cord. Evidence for this idea comes from a wide variety of animals who, after the spinal cord is separated from the brain, still show basic locomotor patterns. These animals cannot balance, but they show alternate stepping with left and right legs when body is supported and feet touch the ground. The conclusion is that the basic circuitry for locomotion is organized in the spinal cord.
The intrinsic circuitry in the spinal cord has been investigated in a primitive fish, the lamprey (Goulding, 2009). In intact lampreys, locomotor patterns flow from head to tail, while right and left sides of the body alternate in contractions, producing a "slithering" swimming pattern. When the lamprey spinal cord is removed from the body and disconnected from the brain, identical activity patterns are seen. The circuitry in the isolated lamprey spinal cord is complex and is sufficient for its locomotion.
The intrinsic walking circuitry in the spinal cord an example of a "central pattern generator" or CPG. It's important to note that the walking CPG is not a reflex. Built into the spinal cord are sets of reflexes, such as the stretch reflex and the withdrawal reflex and CPGs. Reflexes are simple, phasic responses to stimuli. CPGs are stereotyped motor sequences, frequently rhythmic, that can be triggered by a variety of mechanisms. CPGs are not unique to the spinal cord; for example, CPGs organized in the brainstem include breathing and swallowing.
Returning our attention to the infant, we now recognize that a primitive locomotor pattern, the locomotor CPG, is present in the infant's spinal cord and is responsible for the infant's stepping response. The general idea is that adult locomotion is erected upon the platform of spinal cord CPGs. During locomotion in the adult the motor cortex does not need to send descending signals for each muscle contraction; the CPG in the spinal cord can handle lots of the work.
Is it possible for a newborn baby to walk?
Why can't the infant walk? If we were to take a newborn and give it intensive walking training, could it walk very early in life, perhaps at one month? The answer here is no (or, to be more cautious, "very highly unlikely"). Walking takes more than turning on the spinal cord CPG. Perhaps the most important addition is balance, something the infant does not have. Humans only have two legs, making balance a complex task. The problem the brain has to solve is move the body so that body's center of gravity is directly above the feet. Balance relies on three sense modalities: the vestibular apparatus in the ear; vision and pressure sensation (from the feet). Let's examine these one at a time.
The vestibular apparatus in the ear contains the balance organs: the semi-circular canals, the utricle and the saccule. These are sensitive to gravity forces, the position of the head in space and movements of the head. The vestibular nerve (part of the VIIIth cranial nerve) projects into the brainstem terminating in the vestibular nuclei. Neurons in the vestibular nuclei project to the spinal cord (vestibulo-spinal pathways) and are critical for balance. The vestibulo-spinal pathways are not mature at birth. The infant's spinal cord does not get a strong set of vestibular balance signals.
Vision also plays an important role in balance. You can demonstrate this to yourself by seeing how long you can balance on one foot with eyes open and try the same thing with eyes closed. The stability (or instability) of visual cues is an important signal that you are stable or falling. Vision is processed in the forebrain; the pathways from the infant's forebrain to spinal cord are not mature and functional.
Finally, pressure sensors from the feet are important. Although this sensory information enters the spinal cord, it is transmitted to the brain for processing. As noted above, the motor tracts that connect the infant's brain with spinal cord are largely non-funcational.
I've asserted several times that the pathways from the infant's brain to spinal cord are incomplete at birth. There is strong evidence for this. The figure below shows a pair of histological sections stained for myelin. The staining is such that brain tracts (myelinated axons) are black and gray matter is gray. The section on the left is from a newborn; the one on the right is from a 40 week old infant. The dramatic difference between these two is the white "hole" within the region of white matter in the infant spinal cord that isn't present at 40 weeks. This is exactly the region of the cortico-spinal tract, the motor pathway from cerebral cortex to spinal cord. In the newborn infant the cortico-spinal fibers are not myelinated. Myelin is the axon coating that permits rapid and efficient conduction of information (action potentials). At birth the myelin coats have not begun to form, so the cortico-spinal tracts can't function.
Why are babies so immature?
Adult-like locomotor patterns come much earlier for many species. For example, a newborn horse walks within hours of birth. There are two factors to consider. One is that humans are an "altritial" species, meaning that we are relatively poorly developed at the time of birth. As described in detail above, a newborn's spinal cord and brain are not ready for walking. Second, the human two-legged pattern of locomotion is particularly complex — balancing would be much easier if we had four feet on the ground. Walking feels simple, natural, and thought-free. It's not. Programming this remarkable capacity into our nervous system takes a particular level of development followed by years of trial-and-error learning.
In brief, an infant's stepping behavior is due to a Central Pattern Generator working at the spinal level. The brain makes use of Central Pattern Generators in developing complex adult behavior patterns. However, in the infant stepping behavior is a Central Pattern Generator without higher brain control. The baby will have to wait for fiber tracts to mature before taking her first functional steps.
Goulding, M. (2009). Circuits controlling vertebrate locomotion: moving in a new direction. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 10(7), 507–518. doi:10.1038/nrn2608
Eyre, J. A. (2007). Corticospinal tract development and its plasticity after perinatal injury. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 31(8), 1136–1149. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2007.05.011
Ivanenko, Y. P., Dominici, N., Cappellini, G., Di Paolo, A., Giannini, C., Poppele, R. E., & Lacquaniti, F. (2013). Changes in the spinal segmental motor output for stepping during development from infant to adult. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(7), 3025–36a. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2722-12.2013. this is a fascinating and detailed summary of the development of stepping from infant to adult. Suggested from twitter by @selfishneuron (Eigen Victor).
postscript. This post was motivated by a comment by Jean-Francois Gariepy on an earlier post. Initially, I thought it would be simple and brief, focusing on the concept of CPGs. Turned out longer than anticipated, complex and requiring some research. And this doesn't touch crawling or the learning process!
postscript 2 (July 4). Just noticed that brainfacts has an entry from December, 2012, Captivating Rhythm, that discusses "Central Pattern Generators" in invertebrates. A nice complement to vertebrate locomotor CPGs. The advantage of invertebrates is that scientists can dissect the pattern neuron-by-neuron. The advantage of vertebrates is that they are us.


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In the past eight years, Americans have seen their flag burned in Jordan and Egypt, their embassies attacked in Serbia and the Philippines, their leaders criticized by Europeans, Africans and South Americans.
But with the election of its first black president, America on Wednesday was again seeing millions of people worldwide praise it as a symbol of hope, opportunity and the power of democracy.
"All day, I've had friends and students coming up to me and saying, 'Now you can be proud to be American again,' " said Scott Blinder of New Jersey, who teaches at Britain's Oxford University.
Sen. Barack Obama's victory was cheered from his ancestral homeland of Kenya, where the government declared today a national holiday, to Indonesia, where hundreds of students at his old elementary school danced in the rain, to Obama, Japan, where residents sported "I love Obama'' T-shirts.
Most world leaders joined in the congratulations, clearly hoping Obama's presidency will provide the kind of leadership and fresh ideas that have been scarce in the waning days of the Bush administration.
Europe needs Obama's "energy, his rejection of injustice and his determination to go forward to build a safer, fair and more stable world,'' said French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner. "Together, we must seize this historic opportunity to combine our efforts to meet the economic, climate and security challenges that face us all.''
Even Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a combative foe of Bush, congratulated Obama on the "historic election of a descendant of Africans" and called for "new relations" between the two nations.
A far cry from the day when portraits of John F. Kennedy hung in homes around the world, America's reputation abroad plunged during the Bush years despite the initial burst of support after the 9/11 attacks. The war in Iraq, the abuses at Abu Ghraib, the disdain for longtime allies — "old Europe,'' as it was dismissively called — were viewed as evidence of an America grown arrogant and imperial.
From the early primaries, much of the planet has been transfixed by the story of Barack Hussein Obama, whose ties to Africa and Asia made him seem a true citizen of the world. During a European tour last summer, he drew crowds in Berlin and elsewhere that surpassed those of even the biggest rock stars.
By Tuesday's election, polls showed overwhelming support for Obama in most countries. Reflecting the unprecedented interest were banner headlines — "Make the world better!'' urged a German tabloid — and nonstop TV coverage that transformed pubs in Ireland and malls in the Persian Gulf into election-viewing centers.
"I didn't sleep this night in Israel because I was following the results and biting my nails,'' said Abraham Diskin, a political scientist at Israel's Hebrew University. When a reporter phoned Wednesday morning, Diskin still had the TV on, listening as former Prime Minister Ehud Barak recalled the positive impression Obama made during a July visit.
Still, Israelis are of mixed mind about Obama, who faces enormous foreign policy challenges with two wars, the nuclear ambitions of Iran, a newly assertive Russia, the always tense Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a long line of countries that will want him to put their interests first.
A majority of Israelis backed McCain, long a hawkish supporter of Israel, while "there is more uncertainty with Obama because this is not a person that was in decisionmaking positions in the past,'' Diskin said.
"On the other hand, very close to half of the Jewish population have hopes that Obama will be more involved in the peace effort (with Palestinians)," he said, "and will exercise pressure on both sides to promote if not the possibility of peace, at least a peace agreement.''
In Pakistan, an often troublesome U.S. ally, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani wasted no time telling Obama that the United States must stop missile attacks on Taliban and al-Qaida targets inside the country or risk losing the war on terror.
Other Pakistanis, though, preferred to let Obama relax a bit and savor his victory. "Support for him has been extremely positive,'' says Mueen Afzal, Pakistan's former finance secretary. "Compared to the Bush administration, Obama is a breath of fresh air, really.''
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Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) is set to announce its Q1 fiscal 2014 earnings on August 20, where we expect it to post mid-single digit growth. Its key pacemakers & defibrillators business, which was a major drag on revenue growth for the last two years, seems to be getting back on track. Further, revenues will be supported by the continued growth in cardiovascular, diabetes and surgical technologies businesses. Spinal franchises, however, will continue to register a drop in revenues. For the quarter, we expect gross margins to weaken slightly mainly due to pricing pressure in some businesses and foreign exchange fluctuations. However, Medtronic's cost-cutting efforts, which include several rounds of job cuts, should lend support to overall operating profit margins.
Last quarter, Medtronic reported 4% growth in revenues to $4.5 billion. For 2014, the company has provided revenue growth guidance in the range of 3% to 4%. Below we take a look at the important trends that could impact the company's performance during the quarter.
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As witnessed in Boston Scientific's earnings, procedural volumes and corresponding demand for implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) continued to remain dull in the U.S. (Read Boston Scientific Surprises With Revenue Growth And New Products). Hospitals continue to manage their inventories very tightly and their bulk purchases may have declined on a year-over-year basis. However, we don't expect it to weigh on the pacemakers & defibrillators division as, in the last quarter, the company was able to keep its procedure volumes stable despite similar weakness. Procedural volumes growth in international markets like China will add to revenue growth. Pricing improvements will also lend support. Pacemaker sales should also register mid-single digit growth. While the pacemaker demand in the U.S. remains a little weak, the international markets will more than offset the pressure. The Advisa pacemaker, a second generation MRI-safe pacemaker, continues to see strong sales in Japan.
We expect revenues from the cardiovascular segment to continue to grow despite weakness in the U.S. and European stent markets. New products like Resolute Integrity drug eluting stent (DES) have been doing well in the international markets. The renal denervation device (a radiotherapy-based system to treat high blood pressure), Symplicity, should also register modest growth. However, we have our eyes on the updates related to the progress of the upgraded version as competition is getting intense with many players including Boston Scientific entering the market. (Read our note Boston Scientific Acquires Vessix Vascular To Bolster Peripheral Intervention Business for further details).
In the structural heart part of the cardiovascular franchise, transcatheter valves will continue to be the major growth driver with mid-teens growth. Surgical technologies will get a boost from the continued adoption of products for navigated spine procedures. We also expect moderate growth in the diabetes franchise as growing competition will partially offset strong sales of its innovative insulin pumps.
The only business that is expected to weigh on revenue growth is the spinal division. The key product of this division, a bone graft paste called Infuse, continues to see a decline in use in spinal surgery following efficacy concerns. The company was hoping to address these concerns with the outcome of an independent review from Yale University. However, the outcome, which became public in June, has not come in favor of the company. It suggested that Infuse doesn't show significant benefits over conventional spine surgery and may even lead to serious side-effects including cancer and sterility in men (Read Medtronic: Independent Review Raises Doubts On Benefits Of Infuse Bone Graft). The Infuse bone graft still constitutes a significant portion of overall revenues from the division even as its annual sales dropped from around $900 million in 2011 to nearly $500 million in 2012. The continued adoption of Solera and the Atlantis Vision Elite cervical plates, however, will continue to lend some support.
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We expect gross margins to remain under pressure due to stiff competition and pricing pressure in developed markets. While the launch of new products will lend support to some extent, a stronger U.S. dollar will also adversely impact gross margins. However, with various cost cutting measures including job cuts in place, we expect R&D and SG&A expenditures as a percentage of revenues to decline. The medical device maker is axing 2,000 more jobs worldwide as part of its plan to cut as much as $1.2 billion in costs over the next few years. This should lead to some improvement in its overall operating profit margins.
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Four Cedar Shoals football players will sit the bench during the 2008 season opener, lagging punishment for the role they played in a brawl at Lakewood Stadium in Atlanta on Saturday.
Following a pair of on-field fights in the first round of the Class AAAA football state playoff game, officials ejected eight players in the second quarter.
Mays High School, which advanced to the second round with a 40-14 win and will face East Paulding, will be without three Raiders - Naeem Thomas, Corey Heard and Octavius Woods. The players, two of whom were starters, will serve a one-game suspension for their ejection.
Five Jaguars - senior Taylor Pass, juniors DeDe Lattimore, Bubba Freeman, and TaBrian Resby, and sophomore James Gordon - also were removed from the game. Lattimore, Freeman, Resby and Gordon will serve a one-game suspension at the start of the 2008 season. Pass was sent to the locker room and spent his final high school game watching in the stands.
Cedar Shoals coach Scott Wilkins said his players will carry out their one-game suspension per Georgia High School Association rules, but will not be disciplined further.
"I was not upset with our players. I was disappointed in a couple of us," he said. "A couple of our guys maybe lost self-control. ... But they worked real hard to get themselves in a situation where they were (Saturday) night, which was to play a state playoff game. I don't think there was any way that we could prepare for the environment and situations our football team was placed in."
City of Atlanta athletics director Billette Owens-Ashford refused to comment on the fights.
Atlanta Public Schools media specialist Joe Manguno and Mays interim coach Dominic Callaway did not return repeated phone calls Monday.
Cedar Shoals Athletic Director Roger Edmonds was out of town because of a death in the family and was unavailable for comment.
A few minutes into the second quarter on Saturday, both teams bombarded the field and tussled after Desmond Walker's 19-yard touchdown gave Mays a 26-0 advantage. Both coaching staffs and security officials attempted to gain control of the clash, and play was delayed for more than 10 minutes.
Another fight was sparked when running back Ramonte Scott was tackled for a loss. A scuffle ensued on the Cedar Shoals sidelines, and Pass, who was accused of punching a player, was ejected.
After the game, Pass denied that he punched anyone and said he was trying to break up a fight up between other players. Wilkins said he doesn't believe Pass did anything wrong.
Wilkins said emotions were running high from words exchanged before the game. The Cedar Shoals coach, who would not comment Saturday on the pre-game events, changed his mind Sunday.
The Jaguars arrived to Lakewood Stadium about 5:15 on Saturday, Wilkins said, before the officials and the Mays football team did.
"We kind of surprised the stadium manager by being there so early," he said. "It was a chance for us to walk the field, look around and kind of jog and see what the field and turf was gonna be like in a no-stress situation."
The Mays' coaching staff was unhappy that the Jaguars were on the Raiders' half of the field, Wilkins said, and got visibly angry.
"Several of their coaches became rather animated and were talking tough to our coaches and our kids," Wilkins said. "I just thought it set a bad tone for the whole thing. It became a very hostile, threatening environment almost immediately."
When the Raiders came on the field, Wilkins said the Jaguars already had gone back on their side of the 50-yard line.
"A verbal spar had begun," Wilkins said. "Several of their coaches were disrespectful to our coaches and made some unbelievable, inaccurate and off-the-wall accusations, which I shall not address. It was the darnedest thing I've seen in 30 years. I've never seen anything like that.
"I was extremely disappointed, to say the least, with the conduct of the whole situation from the other side of the 50-yard line," he said. "It was almost like our team was bated and challenged into something that was not supposed to be a part of the format for the evening, which is to play a high school football game. It became very personal quickly."
In the end, the Raiders rolled to a victory. After the game, the players didn't meet in the center of the field to shake hands, although the head coaches did.
Wilkins' game film doesn't show the fighting because the tape was turned off after the plays.
"For anybody that watched the news and for anybody that read the Atlanta paper, they're going to get an impression that's not a positive impression about Cedar Shoals, about Athens and our football program," Wilkins said. "That's extremely unfortunate. I'm proud of our football team, and I'm proud of our football program, our school and our community. It's very unfortunate that 16 guys had to end their high school careers as high school football players under those extreme circumstances."
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The discovery on Nov. 2 of two newborn remains on private land near Astoria in eastern South Dakota is under investigation by the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation and the Deuel County, S.D., Sheriff's Office. Agents of the South Dakota DCI and a Brookings, S.D., police officer were interviewing the woman related to this ongoing investigation, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said in a statement today.
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From the previous thread, you guys told me to use elements from the right helmet to put into the cyber-knight helm. I came up with the one on the right. Now it's time for the sci-fi elements! But first of all you might be thinking: "why the hell does the older helmet (the one on the left) look nicer than the one on the right?!" It's cause I haven't added any textures, bumpmaps, and it has much lower polygon count. LOWER POLY COUNT! BUT WAI?! Because I'm going to be putting the Cyber-Knight into a video game I'm working on. (AND NO I'M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT THE GAME IS ABOUT...it will have dragons, and some dinosaurs- but that's for another thread) I haven't decided what to put onto the helmet to make it sci-fi because I made this helmet 15 minutes before posting this, I'm hoping some of you guys have ideas! The best ideas get put onto the helmet. The shit ideas don't. You want lasers, phasers, rocket launchers, and chainsaw launchers on it?! Cool. I'll probably put a funny version of the helmet up and the actual design that I'm going to put on the finished suit. [quote]tl;dr: What would you add to the helmet on the right to make it seem more sci-fi? Post a funny and a serious idea, I'll make a serious and funny version helmet and post the results when I get enough suggestions and time to actually make the damn thing! [quote][url=http://www.bungie.net/7_I39m-making-a-helmet-pick-the-design-community/en/Forum/Post?id=61441010]Previous thread (result was helm 3, the middle helm)[/url][/quote][/quote] [b]Obligatory dragon render (cause I'm sure Helveck would appreciate it lol): [url=http://s20.postimg.org/ae50teye5/Dragon_Magic.jpg]You like space magic? How about some Baby Dragon Magic?[/url][/b] [quote]More images of helmet: [url]http://s20.postimg.org/bpcs1vtzx/helm2.png[/url] [url]http://s20.postimg.org/r0ml2hrbx/helm3.png[/url][/quote]
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So far, I'll be adding a antenna and flaring the corner of the eye guard. No other suggestions?
A radio/antenna
Edited by Charlemagne: 8/7/2013 6:36:46 AMI like it, just clean it up a bit. Try flaring the joint on the side up and back (30°-50°). Somewhat how it does on the original, but a bit larger and sharper, more sci-fi.
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Meth Lab Explosion, Man Burned Over 70% Of Body
FRESNO, Calif. (KMPH) —
West Fresno residents are in shock after a massive explosion from a meth lab catches several homes on fire, and blows out windows in the area.
The explosion happened at a home on Katy Avenue, near Ashlan and the 99 Freeway around noon Thursday.
Crews rushed a man to the hospital with burns so severe witnesses say his skin was melting off his body.
The explosion moved the house several feet off its foundation.
Police say the crooks moved in about a month ago, and now it could take several months before neighbors move back in to their homes.
Johnny Paredes, his wife and two kids were inside their home when their neighbor's house suddenly exploded.
Johnny Paredes says, "I just heard a big explosion and all the windows shattered and came in, and then I noticed there was fire right outside my house, and got the kids and wife out."
Johnny was just thankful no one was in the kitchen.
But the family's dog did get some cuts to its paws.
As for the house the meth was being cooked in?
Special Agent Dan Bufford says, "I've never seen one this size, 26 years in narcotic enforcement. You can see the magnitude by the garage door, how much pressure was inside that house when it blew."
Now the real investigation work is underway, because there is so much damage. Authorities tell me it will take them into the morning hours just to process the scene for evidence.
The house must be bulldozed and leveled, but neighbors are concerned about the meth waste that may be in the ground.


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What Iowa's Been Up To
Iowans across the state haven't skipped a beat this fall as they get ready for the first Democratic caucus of the 2012 campaign on Janua
Iowans across the state haven't skipped a beat this fall as they get ready for the first Democratic caucus of the 2012 campaign on Janua
For our latest "Better Know A Turf" entry we're giving you a look into the Iowa caucuses from the perspective of someone who's never par
Neighborhood team members from Johnston huddled around a computer screen during our Mock Caucus last week. Iowa Attorney General Tom Mil
Sometimes it helps to get advice straight from a pro. Riley, a college freshman in Iowa, is on his way to becoming an expert grassroots
Here's the latest entry in our "Better Know A Turf" blog series, where we've been highlighting each of our 8 office "turfs" across Iowa.
Volunteers and staff are busy building this campaign in Iowa—from organizing local teams to opening offices across the state. Talking Po
More than 50 @OFA_IA house meetings across Iowa last week. Cedar Rapids getting a shout out here: ow.ly/7WLL6 cc: @Matt_Bahooski— Jeremy
This is the second entry to highlight each of our 8 office "turfs" across Iowa. Earlier in the week we highlighted the work happening in
Working the phones @OFA_IA office building #iacaucus attendance. Getting back to basics!#iadems #rollupyoursleeves— Sue Dvorsky (@suedvo
We already knew our neighborhood teams were "Fired Up" for the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses, and now they're "Ready To Go" after at
"I walk in the office and I always hear 'how can I help?"- Chuck, an @OFA_IA Team Leader on why he loves #Obama2012 volunteers #iacaucus
This is the first in a new OFA-Iowa blog series where we'll highlight each of our 8 office "turfs" across Iowa. Today we'll kick things
All autumn the Republican candidates have been jockeying for the media spotlight -- but they've done very little actual organizing. They
We're less than one month out from the Iowa caucus, where President Obama got his first big win in 2008. For the next month, supporters
@OFA_IA with their #commit2caucus goal in sight Team Obamadale is lean mean #iacaucus machine! pic.twitter.com/MYZNUtn
This week, DNC Vice-Chair & Mayor of Minneapolis, RT Rybak, made a trip to Iowa to talk with local supporters about the importance of sh
Iowa volunteer Kelly is not wasting any time getting ready for the caucuses—she's already rounding up volunteers to make calls and get p
While five Republican candidates for President traveled across Iowa attacking President Obama with their media circus in tow, over 30 st
Kris took a transatlantic flight to come and visit her daughter Laura, our field organizer in Council Bluffs last week. We've always kno


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Oprah Winfrey donates $12 million to Smithsonian African American musem
The Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture is getting a massive financial boost from one of America's most prominent icons.
Oprah Winfrey is donating $12 million toward the $500-million project, museum officials announced Tuesday, in what they say is the largest donation to date.
The museum, which is currently under construction at the corner of 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, will put Winfrey's name on the facility's theater in honor of her generosity.
"Her gifts will forever be associated with harnessing the power of art and creative expression to build bridges between cultures and enrich people's lives," museum founding director Lonnie G. Bunch III said in a statement.
Half of the $500 million it will take to build the new museum came from congressional funding. The other half is being funded by donations.
Winfrey's $12 million gift comes in addition to the $1 million she gave to the museum in 2007.
"By investing in this museum, I want to help ensure that we both honor and preserve our culture and history, so that the stories of who we are will live on for generations to come," Winfrey said in a statement.
She has been a member of the museum's founding advisory council since 2004.
Since ground broke 16 months ago, crews have dug 70 feet into the ground, excavating enough material to fill 32,000 dump trucks.
"What we've really struggled with is just the realities of the site," says Lonnie G. Bunch, the museum founder. "The fact that this is where the Potomac ended in the 1800's which means water is crucial."
The 100-man workforce today will grow to 1,000 in a year. The museum is slated to open in 2015.


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Have Ford Questions? Ask a Mechanic for Answers ASAP
There would be a few things to check here. The system is more complex than an older system and may require the use of a factory scan tool to diagnose this concern. You said you were getting 3.94 volts on the gry/red wire. This circuit should have battery voltage any time the key is on. The same circuit and fuse also powers the left rear turn, license plate and right rear park stop lamps. The same relay that powers that fuse, also feeds power to the courtesy lamps and other ciruits through various fuses. If these are also a concern, there is high resistence in that circuit or relay, but it doesn't appear to be the case and I wouldn't suspect just a low voltage concern to just the back up lamps and not the other circuits. Are you sure you have your neg test lead on a good ground? Since you said the right side lamp illuminates, you probably do not have a voltage concern if the lamp lit brightly.
Now to the grounding side of the circuit. The backup lamps are turned on (grounded) by the rear electronic module. It receives it's signal from the pcm over a high speed data line telling it to turn on the backup lamps. The pcm gets it's signal from the trans range sensor. It is possible for the trans range sensor to be faulty and you may be able to test this yourself.
Using your volt meter, attatch the pos side to the battery pos terminal. Attatch the neg lead of your volt meter to the lt blu with black tracer wire at the tr sensor. Set your emergency brake. Turn the key on, leave the engine off. Place the shifter in the reverse position. Your volt meter should read battery voltage. If it does, My suggestion is to have it diagnosed by a professional with a factory Ford scan tool. If you show no voltage or little voltage, place the negative lead on the gry/red wire at the tr sensor. your meter should show battery voltage. If this time you have voltage, and the first time you didn't, the tr sensor is either faulty or improperly adjusted. If you have no voltage, I'm back to recommending a professional checking your vehicle.
Also verify connector condition at the tr sensor and that all pins are clean and fully seated into the connector. You may also want to give each wire a slight tug to verify they aren't broken inside the insulation.
Good luck and have a nice day.
You will need to backprobe the wires at the connector. You may be able to use a small needle or pin pushed into the backside of the connector for the circuits I explained above and touch the meter leads to the pin. You need to make sure the pin is making good contact to the wire within the connector or the test will be invalid.
You will need to remove the connector to install the pin. I suggest using a couple pins at the same time, not allowing them to touch each other or anything around it, so you don't have to keep unplugging the sensor.
Good luck. I wouldn't mind knowing what the fix was when it gets done, if you don't mind.


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Endurance E400 Elliptical Review
treadmill Doctor Note :
Spending $2K on an Endurance E400 is kind of like spending $100K on a Yugo automobile.
If Endurance can only offer ellipticals in this price range with the specifications and quality they are producing, then they need to get out of manufacturing ellipticals altogether. Retailers that are selling these products need to look in the miror and examine their own morality.


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Some Scientific Views Are More Equal Than Others in America
The Washington Examiner
February 19, 2011
Opinion across a startlingly broad political range has been solidifying lately in favor of discrimination -- not discrimination on racial or sexual grounds, but against some controversial ideas and those who hold them. The ideas have to do with evolution. Is this a welcome development?
A spate of lawsuits and complaints poses the question of whether, in scientific fields, a person holding unorthodox views on Darwinian theory merits being fired, denied a job, or other penalties.
Last month at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, senior computer specialist David Coppedge was fired, having first been demoted. What got him in trouble? A supervisor complained he was talking in favor of intelligent design with colleagues. He is suing.
Or meet astronomer Martin Gaskell, now at the University of Texas, to whom the University of Kentucky just paid $125,000 to settle his discrimination lawsuit. Gaskell presented e-mail traffic evidence from the faculty search committee that he was turned down to head UK's observatory because he wrote on his Web site that unguided evolution has "significant scientific problems."
At the Smithsonian Institution, supervisors punished evolutionary biologist Richard Sternberg for editing a pro-intelligent design essay in a peer-reviewed biology journal. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel found that Smithsonian colleagues created a "hostile work environment" aimed at "forcing [Sternberg] out."
Similar incidents have occurred at Iowa State University, the University of Idaho, George Mason University and Baylor University.
At the conservative National Review Online, columnist John Derbyshire opines in favor of the University of Kentucky and mocks Gaskell as a "crybaby."
Astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss, a frequent contributor to the conservative Wall Street Journal, writes in the New Scientist that any scientist who thinks evolutionary theory has problems is guilty of "incorrect interpretations of empirical data," making it appropriate for scientific institutions to deny him employment.
Less surprisingly, best-selling atheist biologist Richard Dawkins endorses discrimination against Darwin doubters. He makes a comparison to fanciful scenarios like "a doctor [who] believes in the stork theory of human reproduction."
However, the stork-theory doctor would have to be crazy. Not so Gaskell, clearly, of whom one principled astrophysicist on UK's hiring committee protested that Gaskell stood to be rejected "despite his qualifications that stand far above those of any other applicant."
Intelligent design presents scientific evidence that, over billions of years, an intelligent force guided life's evolution. Isn't that as incredible as biblical literalist creationism?
Saying so would require a thorough, searching examination of the arguments offered by intelligent-design theorists: the seemingly insurmountable problems posed to unguided evolution by considerations of population genetics, developmental biology, combinatorial inflation, ontogenetic information and more. From all appearances, nobody among the discrimination advocates has undertaken such an examination.
Another discrimination advocate, pro-Darwinian lobbyist Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education, commented to the Associated Press, drawing a distinction between acceptable and unacceptable reasons for penalizing beliefs.
"You can't discriminate based upon religion," Scott affirmed. "You can discriminate based upon scientific views." But by the logic of the discrimination promoters, it's hard to see why traditional religion shouldn't likewise be subject to penalties in academia.
Say you are a Christian biologist who believes in the Virgin Birth. One can easily picture discrimination advocates explaining someday why, under the First Amendment, religion per se may be protected but not religion when it crosses over into science, seeking to describe such presumed empirical events of the past.
That is no fanciful scenario. Apart from the deadening effect on science of any imposed orthodoxy, the widening agreement in favor of discrimination in the scientific realm should warn us of future assaults on freedom of thought.
David Klinghoffer is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute.


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Multi state high speed chase ends with one woman in custody
RAYNHAM, Mass. —
A Rhode Island woman was taken into custody Friday night following a high speed car chase that started in Rhode Island and ended with a crash and short foot pursuit in Massachusetts.
Police tell NBC 10 that the chase began in Central Falls, RI following a traffic related incident. The driver then led the Central Falls Police on a chase traveling on Interstate 95 North into Massachusetts where Massachusetts State Troopers from the H and D Troops assisted in the pursuit of the vehicle.
The operator of the vehicle, Chelsea Smith, 26, of Providence, R.I. was taken into custody by the Massachusetts State Police after fleeing down Interstate 495 South in a chase that reached speeds over 100 miles per hour before finally coming to an end as Smith crashed while attempting to exit onto Route 24 South in Raynham. Following the crash Smith attempted to leave the scene on foot, but was caught and taken into custody after a brief pursuit by the Massachusetts State Police.
According to police Smith is being held without bail in Massachusetts on multiple charges that include failure to stop for police, speeding, and fugitive from justice. Smith will be arraigned Monday in Taunton District Court, and will also face additional charges from the Central Falls Police for her offenses in Rhode Island.