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COLUMBUS CREW vs LA GALAXY
COLUMBUS CREW STADIUM, Columbus, Ohio
August 15, 2012 (WEEK 24, MLS Game #223)
7 p.m. ET (NBC SN)
The Columbus Crew return to competition in one of the marquee matchups of their calendar, taking on the LA Galaxy on Wednesday evening at Crew Stadium. With last weekend's match postponed following the death of Crew midfielder Kirk Urso, the Crew's last match was a 1-0 loss at D.C. United that ended a two-game winning run. The Galaxy rebounded from a 4-0 loss in Seattle with a 4-0 win against Chivas USA last weekend, securing their hold on fifth place in the Western Conference.
REFEREE: Edvin Jurisevic. AR1 (bench): James Conlee; AR2 (opposite): Brian Dunn; 4th: Sorin Stoica
MLS Career: 49 games; FC/gm: 22.5; Y/gm: 3.7; R: 4; pens: 6
INJURY REPORT: COLUMBUS CREW -- OUT: FW Tommy Heinemann (L knee surgery); GK William Hesmer (R hip surgery); MF Bernardo Anor (L knee ACL tear); DOUBTFUL: DF Nenamja Vukovic (L ankle sprain); DF Rich Balchan (sports hernia rehab); QUESTIONABLE: MF Danny O'Rourke (L ankle sprain) … LA GALAXY – OUT: FW Edson Buddle (R knee surgery); DF Leonardo (R knee inflammation); QUESTIONABLE: DF David Junior Lopes (L ankle sprain); MF Kyle Nakazawa (back spasms)
INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: LA: Landon Donovan (USA)
SUSPENDED: none
- SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD: none
- SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS: CLB: Bernardo Anor, Chris Birchall, Tony Tchani, Sebastian Miranda … LA: David Beckham, A.J. DeLaGarza, David Junior Lopes
ALL-TIME (36 meetings): Crew 15 wins (3 shootout), 48 goals … Galaxy 13 wins (0 shootout), 45 goals … Ties 8
AT COLUMBUS (16 meetings): Crew 8 wins (1 shootout), 25 goals … Galaxy 4 wins (0 shootout), 18 goals … Ties 4
7/20: LA 1, CLB 0 (Franklin 69)
9/24: CLB 0, LA 1 (Barrett 90)
• This is the only meeting between the clubs this season.
• The Galaxy have won the last four meetings between the teams, over the last two seasons, including a pair of 1-0 victories last year. Columbus last defeated LA Sept. 29, 2009, a 2-0 win at Crew Stadium.
• The Crew haven't won against LA at The Home Depot Center since the 2007 season, now winless in four trips.
• Coaches record: Bruce Arena vs. CLB: P24 W14 L8 D2… Robert Warzycha vs. LA: P6 W1 L4 D1
The Columbus Crew come back to league play after a weekend off, seeing their two-game winning streak come to an end last time out, falling 1-0 to D.C. United at RFK Stadium. The Crew sit in seventh place in the Eastern Conference with 28 points from 20 games.
• The game's lone goal came in the 49th minute, after stellar work from rookie Nick DeLeon. After dribbling into the corner, he cut back on Crew defender Josh Williams, spun away and sent a cross into the box. Long Tan backheeled the ball, and Crew goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum batted it away. But the rebound bounced right to Chris Pontius, who deposited it into the goal.
• Crew head coach Robert Warzycha made one change to the team that took a 2-1 win against Sporting Kansas City at Livestrong Sporting Park. Milovan Mirosevic came into the midfield for the suspended Cole Grossman.
• COLUMBUS CREW (4-2-3-1): Andy Gruenebaum - Sebastian Miranda, Carlos Mendes, Chad Marshall, Josh Williams - Chris Birchall, Milovan Mirosevic (Tony Tchani 68) - Dilly Duka (Ethan Finlay 84), Eddie Gaven, Justin Meram (Emilio Renteria 66) - Jairo Arrieta.
• The Crew's scheduled match last weekend against Toronto FC was postponed so the club could attend the funeral of rookie midfielder Kirk Urso, who suddenly passed away the weekend before.
• "It would have been such an emotional strain on everybody to have gone to the wake, the funeral, get back and all the memorial stuff that would have been going on at the stadium – the [tribute] video, everything," goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum said. "I almost feel like it would have been a little much."
• The rescheduling of the match for August 22 now gives the Crew three consecutive weeks where they'll play two games. Four of the six games will be at Crew Stadium.
• "It's nothing we haven't had before when we were in the Champions League," defender Chad Marshall said. "We seemed to go Saturday-Wednesday-Saturday-Wednesday for two months in a row late in the season. It's a grind for sure. We're getting guys healthy. We're going to need to be deep. Maybe guys who haven't done much this year are going to get called upon. I'm sure they'll step up."
• With Cole Grossman suspended, Milovan Mirosevic moved into a central midfield role after missing the previous three matches with an adductor strain. He lasted until the 68th minute, when he was replaced by Tony Tchani. "I've had a whole week of training sessions. I feel ready to play," Mirosevic said. "The danger time is over I think."
• For the first time in his three starts since coming to the club, striker Jairo Arrieta was kept without a goal or an assist.
• "D.C. United has very good defenders so obviously we had to sit back a bit. I think he was trying to play as good as he could and he had a decent game. You obviously want 50 crosses to you every single game but that's impossible," said Warzycha.
• Emilio Renteria made his first appearance in three matches, coming on a substitute for the final 24 minutes of the match.
• "We were close but the last pass and the last shot weren't there," said Eddie Gaven. "We were doing a good job at getting balls into the box but the ball just didn't seem to bounce our way."
The LA Galaxy rebounded from a 4-0 loss with a 4-0 win, storming to victory in the third SuperClásico of the season on Sunday evening at The Home Depot Center. The Galaxy are in fifth place in the Western Conference with 36 points from 25 games.
• The Galaxy broke through in the 27th minute. Robbie Keane collected a loose ball just inside the Chivas half, and slipped a pass to Landon Donovan on the right side of the penalty area. Keane continued forward into the area, racing to the near post for the return ball which he banged inside the post.
• The Galaxy stretched the lead to 2-0 in the 64th through Juninho. Donovan raced down the field on a quick counterattack and fed the Brazilian, who calmly curled a shot over Kennedy's head and into the upper right corner.
• Juninho scored his second goal of the match 10 minutes later. After a quick build-up which saw the ball moved from right to left, Juninho snuck back post to one-time Donovan's cross past Chivas goalkeeper Dan Kennedy.
• Center back Omar Gonzalez finished off the night's fireworks by heading home a Donovan corner kick with seven minutes left.
• Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena made three changes to the team that fell 4-0 to Seattle Sounders FC at CenturyLink Field. Todd Dunivant came in at left back for Bryan Gaul, and Hector Jimenez and Mike Magee started in midfield for David Junior Lopes and David Beckham.
• LA GALAXY (4-4-2): Josh Saunders - Sean Franklin, Omar Gonzalez, A.J. DeLaGarza, Todd Dunivant - Hector Jimenez (Michael Stephens 75), Marcelo Sarvas, Juninho, Mike Magee (Bryan Gaul 79) - Landon Donovan (Jose Villarreal 89), Robbie Keane.
• For just the second time in MLS history, a team followed a four-goal loss with a four-goal win. In 2008, the New England Revolution lost 4-0 at Columbus on September 6, then defeated Chivas USA 4-0 on September 11.
• "We were disappointed with last week," said Landon Donovan. "That game ended 4-0 but we were a little better than that on the day, but we still had a lot to improve on so we were anxious to get back on the field. It feels better, but it only counts for three points."
• Donovan equaled an MLS record with his four assists in a single game, tying the mark last set by Dwayne De Rosario in the Houston Dynamo's first game in 2006. It was also accomplished by Carlos Valderrama in 1997 and Chris Henderson in 1999.
• "Landon really was focused on playing well tonight and when he wants, he is as good as any player in this league" said Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena. "And I felt he and Robbie, once again, were in great form."
• Donovan now has 105 assists for his MLS league career, moving past Jaime Moreno into fourth on the all-time list. Next up is Preki, who had 112 assists for his league career.
• "When we defend that way it makes my job really easy; I don't have to do a whole lot of defending, I can focus on the things I'm good at," said Donovan. "When I had the ball, guys made good runs, intelligent runs, they wanted the ball, they wanted to score so it made it really easy."
• The back four of Sean Franklin, Omar Gonzalez, A.J. DeLaGarza and Todd Dunivant started for LA for the first time this season. That quartet played every minute of LA's four postseason games last season.
• "It felt great to have the old backline and you could just tell we were playing with confidence," said Gonzalez. "Everyone was just on and it finally felt like last year where everyone was playing, from the goalkeeper up to the forwards, everyone was on. It was a great game for us."
• Said Donovan: "I think we're all really excited to get those four back on the field. I think David Lopes has done a good job playing in some tough games when we needed him and Brian Gaul too in a lot of these games. But those four are really comfortable together; they're confident, they move well, they communicate well and they make our job really easy so it's nice to have them back together."
• Five of Robbie Keane's team-leading 10 goals have come from Donovan assists. Over the last 12 games, the Galaxy's Designated Player trio of Donovan, Beckham and Keane have combined for 18 goals and 18 assists.
• "The more we play the better we are. I think we really just understand the game the same way and we read the game the same way," Donovan said of Keane. "So not every play is perfect, but the idea usually is there. I think technically he is so good that he can pull off the plays and he makes it really easy for me because he moves in a way where it's very predictable, so when he moves I know where he wants the ball and I try to get it to him."
• Juninho scored the first multi-goal game of MLS career. He is the fourth different player to score two or more goals in a game this season for the Galaxy, joining Beckham, Donovan and Keane.
• With David Beckham in London attending the closing ceremony for the XXX Summer Olympic Games, Juninho paired with Marcelo Sarvas in the center of midfield.
• "They were fantastic. Those two played really, really well in there. It's good now it gives Bruce some headaches and decision-making," said Donovan. "When you've got a guy who's one of the best players in the league who's not here and those two play that well, then it's a good problem to have and now we get David back and hopefully we can do even more with it."


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KidzStuff™ is a brand new line of innovative children's wellness products designed by doctors from the Miami Children's Hospital. From infant trimmers to sunburn treatments and insect repellent clothing, KidzStuff™ products are specially designed to solve parents and their little ones' everyday woes.
This revolutionary idea is a brainchild of Miami Children's Hospital president and CEO, Dr. Narendra Kini. In his experience working as a pediatric physician in the hospital's emergency room, Dr. Kini faced similar challenges with most parents to their children, such as nail infection due to improper clipping, which could be easily avoidable by parents using the proper childcare tools to their youngsters at home.
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"Our goal is to add three to five new products each year," shares Debbie da Silva, KidzStuff™ retail operations leader. "For 2014, we are working on a battery operated ear cleaner. It has an LED light and a little silicone tip at the end that rotates, so a parent does not have to scoop out the earwax. Most importantly, it has a stopper so it does not allow the tip to be inserted far enough to damage the eardrum. Also in 2014, we will be introducing mini first aid kits, and will have a burn and bite kit that will have instructions and everything needed to treat these conditions. The kits will target what the doctors see as the most common issues."
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Wholesale prices are about half of retail, while the minimum order is ten pieces. For more information, visit the consumer website at www.shopkidzstuff.com.

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That test is with a pure grayscale subject, so that CFA pixels of any color are near perfect proxies for luminance measurements, making it an unnaturally easy case for retaining resolution in demosaicing.
On real world issues is that sharp luminance boundaries are likely to go with shifts in color, causing more oclor moiré issues and so need a stronger OLPF or stronger postprocessing to avoid aliasing artifacts. I prefer the rather consistent subjective observstion with natural subject matter that it takes about twice as many Bayer CFA photosites as X3 photosites to get comparableperceived sharpness.
By the way, what is your resolution measure? 50% MTF? Extinction resolution? Something else?
The whole game will shifts of course if we get to the regime of oversampling, with resolution limited almost entirely by the lens, not the sensor. Then the main potential advantage of X3 over CFA is the effect on low-light performance of counting most of the received photons versus only about 40% of them.
P. S. As Erik pointed out, the actual human fovea uses single color photodectors more like a CFA sensor: cones each of whcih gives a signal for one of red, blue, or green ... along with a few pure luminosity signals from rods. Not quite theGRBWtried by Kodak and Sony at times, but closer to that than to Foveon X3.
I am not sure that this line of reasoning have much relevance.
Bart,Which math are you referring to? Your measurement of a mere 6% difference in extinction resolution with a pure gray scale target is not of much interest to me, though at least gray scale is far less bad than the other extreme of pure red/blue resolution charts. Do you have comparisons based on MTF50 or similar?
That is interesting if a bit vague. Are you saying that the last picture with the large cyan circle is a picture from a shot you took? Sorry, I have a bit of trouble following the post. I may need more coffee.
What I think I can interpret is that in de-bayering most detail comes from luminance information.
The circle from a black white star pattern is very close to nyquist while the circle from your red blue is about double. So the ability to get a color right is much worse than getting luminance right, so color accuracy on fine color detail is suspect.
That is the point of the thread right? To say getting real color data at a point is much better than guesstimating.
Bayer is great when you have sections of similar tones. Any fine random or fractal type pattern would look poor. I think that matches with our experience using the cameras. You need a few similar pixels for it to guess the color.
Bart, Thanks for the details, though unfortunately they have the familiar limitations of a purely mathematical attempt to quantify a subject that involves the complications of the human visual system. All we get for sure is that a Bayer CFA sensor can retain some slight resolution at extremely low MTF (so that features might often by invisible in practice) almost up to Nyquist, while color details might be limited to as low as half that, while an X3 sensor can be close to Nyquist regardless of color issues, though the significance of "color resolution" is unclear, due to the way our eyes work.
Perhaps the easiest way out is to accept that sensor resoluton is heading towards being abundant ("oversampling is coming"), so that other comparisons like low light handling, dynamic range, and color accuracy are far more important.
Exactly, although the worst case scenario is very unlikely to occur. We can get an idea of what the relative importance of color is for resolution by looking at the 'ab' channels of a 'Lab' colorspace image. Color resolution doesn't fluctuate as rapidly as luminance does. That's why the Bayer CFA works as good as it does.
Not quite 'lab', but perhaps sufficient for this discussion:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%27CbCr"A color image and its Y, CB and CR components. The Y image is essentially a greyscale copy of the main image."
Hi, Exactly, and that BTW is also why such colorspaces compress so efficiently (even at high quality settings), because 2/3rd of the image has low frequency low modulation data which requires fewer bits to encode the per pixel differences.Cheers,Bart
It's actually that nature of scalar quantization in the usual compression formats that make dependence on a color space important. Effectively, the color channels in the various color spaces are the directions they point in. Some directions compress more with scalar quantization. However, if vector quantization is used, which typically offers more compression than scalar quantization, then directionality doesn't help. And effectively, RGB, YCbCr, or another matrix-derived color space should compress the same.
I'd suggest that YCbCr combined with spatial downsampling of Cb/Cr channels (e.g. "4:2:2", "4:2:0" etc) is used because it:1. Is low cost computationally2. Performs bandwidth reduction before a codec (that may have a high processing cost per input pixel)3. Maps reasonably well to perceptual correlates, meaning that you can reduce precision (quantize) with fairly low complexity while still having reasonable rate/distortion trade-offs4. Maps reasonable well to redundancy in real-world images, meaning that the bandwidth that is dropped often contains little informationI imagine that all of this can be done with vector quantization
...YCbCr is just one set of such directions. Not the optimal. Optimal depends upon image content. However, if we want to pick a fixed transformation for all images, much like YCbCr, there exists better transforms than YCbCr that result in more compression. YCbCr is not bad, but there are better choices....
By sensitivity I mean required exposure time at a given ISO setting. Some are suggesting that up to a stop can be gained by not filtering out 2/3rd of the spectrum at a given sampling position, which is not true because the 2/3rds are added through interpolation instead of being sampled directly.
I am having a little trouble understanding how 2/3rds of the information would be made up digitally in post. Aren't we confusing exposure with brightness, like when an underexposed image's brightness is increased through Compensation in post? The difference can be found in the noise - even just in the luminance channel.


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Universities participating in the program include Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Purdue University, Rutgers University, University of California at Berkeley, and the University of California at Davis. Initial projects will address software quality, privacy and security, mathematical optimization and clinical decision support.
"The program will allow faculty and students to freely conduct research without concern over IP management issues," said Stuart Feldman, vice president Computer Science, IBM Research. "This will not only help advance the state of the art in software but also will serve as a great illustration of the benefits of collaborative innovation with the open source community."
The program will enable researchers at IBM to actively collaborate with faculty and students at top U.S. universities on a number of strategically defined software projects, specifically chosen for their immense societal importance, technical difficulty and need for a collaborative effort.
Beth Burnside, Vice Chancellor for Research, UC Berkeley, agrees that, "Our faculty are pleased to work with IBM as part of IBM's program in open collaboration. Berkeley faculty have long held that in many fields the impact and public benefit of university research is maximized by an open collaboration approach." And Pradeep Khosla, Dean, Carnegie Mellon University adds, "This program is driving additional investment in innovative university and IT industry research and CMU has always been keenly interested in growing these relationships."
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As many of you probably know, uber-eco-mag Plenty Magazine, and their website PlentyMag.com, shut down last month due to the slumping market and depressed outlook in the magazine industry. It's a scary world out there right now, especially in green media (though I was excited to read that Inhabitat closed on a funding round of $500k) and I was sad to see Plenty fall victim to the times.
A lot of people wondered what would happen to PlentyMag.com's online content and users.
Well, I found out this morning- they are coming here to MNN.
Plentymag.com's RSS feeds are being re-channeled with MNN content, their newsletter subscribers will start recieving a special Plenty version of the MNN newsletter, and it sounds like some of their content will start to migrate over to our site.
Here's the full email from Mark Spellun, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Plenty.
Dear Friends of Plenty,
Like all of you, we were saddened when Plenty folded earlier this year. The economic climate that has claimed so many media outlets, pulled us under as well. We've had a bit of good news emerge, though, and wanted to share this with you all first. The Mother Nature Network(MNN.com), a new environmental site founded by Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell, is going to be a new source of green news for Plentymag.com readers. They'll be creating environmental content similar to the best items that we had at our site and making it available to you. MNN is run by an experienced group of environmental journalists who will be excellent stewards of our mission. Some of their offerings you may value:
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* For those of you who visited plentymag.com and subscribed to our RSS feeds, you'll now begin receiving your news feed from MNN. When the switch-over begins, you'll receive an original note in your feed that describes the great content and video feeds that you'll now have access to.
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Receding Horizon Control: A Suboptimality-based Approach
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Receding Horizon Control: A Suboptimality-based Approach
PhD thesis, Chair of Applied Mathematics, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 2009
Keywords: MPC; prädiktive Regelung; nichtlineare Stabilitätstheorie; Regelgüte; Abtastung; Suboptimalität; Adaptivität; suboptimality; adaptivity
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Within the proposed work we consider analytical, conceptional and implementational issues of so called receding horizon controllers in a sampled-data setting. The principle of such a controller is simple: Given the current state of a system we compute an open-loop control which is optimal for a given costfunctional over a fixed prediction horizon. Then, the control is implemented on the first sampling interval and the basic open-loop optimal control problem is shifted forward in time which allows for a repeated evaluation. The contribution of this thesis is threefold: First, we prove estimates for the performance of a receding horizon control, a concept which we call suboptimality degree. These estimate are online computable and can be applied for stabilizing as well as practically stabilizing receding horizon control laws. Moreover, they not only allow for guaranteeing stability of the closed-loop but also for quantifying the loss of performance of the receding horizon control law compared to the infinite horizon control law. Based on these estimates, we introduce adaptation strategies to modify the underlying receding horizon controller in order to guarantee a certain lower bound on the suboptimality degree while reducing the computing cost/time necessary to solve this problem. Within this analysis, the length of the optimization horizon is the parameter we wish to adapt. To this end, we develop and proof several shortening and prolongation strategies which also allow for an effective implementation. Moreover, extensions of our suboptimality estimates to receding horizon controllers with varying optimization horizon are shown. Last, we present details on our implementation of a receding horizon controller PCC2 (http://www.nonlinearmpc.com/) which is on the one hand computationally efficient but also allows for easily incorporating our theoretical results. Since a full analysis of such a controller would exceed the scope of this work, we focus on the main aspects of this algorithm using different examples. In particular, we concentrate on the impact of certain choices of parameters on the computing time. We also consider interactions between these parameters to give a guideline to effectively implement and solve further examples. Moreover, we show applicability and effectiveness of our theoretical results using simulations of standard problems for receding horizon controllers.


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Joanna Dean released one solo album in 1989. It's called 'Misbehavin'' and I still play it often.
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Joanna then joined the group Bad Romance. They released one album in 1990 called 'Code of Honor'.
Is it just me or does Joanna bear a striking resemblance to a young Nicole Kidman?


text: Last week, Julia Galvin travelled from Ireland to Finland to find a "husband" to carry her over a 253-meter track to win her weight (120 kg or 264 pounds) in beer. The contest Galvin competed in was an international affair held on July 4 said to stem from a 19th century legend in which a notorious thief, Ronkainen the Robber, made wannabe members of his posse carry grain or swine along a course. (So women are the natural replacement for pigs and grain?) Others claim that the contest stems from the "tribal practice of wife-stealing" (hence the need for fake husband and wife teams). Of course "wife stealing" was actually a tactic of war practiced all over Europe, but making it sound like an exotic "tribal practice" certainly does put a quaint spin on things! [Reuters]


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The first Romance of the Three Kingdoms for the NES is still my love and joy, even though my cart's battery has long since stopped saving. Anyway! Suddenly with an urge to revisit and play this game, I noticed a lot of name errors, most that were fixed as soon as the 2nd game came out. Sohere's what I've got, using a lot of name research to find names that just didn't exist, and their closest counterparts to the correct name.
This is a list of names I have changed, and I am posting this hear to see if people agree with these changes, or even to point out ones I missed I could change:
Gou Yu to Xun Yu, Gan Jin to Yu Jin, Chen Qiao to Chen Qun, Zhou Liao to Zhang Liao (Cao Cao)
Xu Shou to Xu You (Yuan Shao), Sun Gan to Sun Qian, Wei Yang to Wei Yan (Liu Bei)
Liang Ji to Yue Jin (Yuan Shu) (This was a hard one to figure out! But everything about him fits)
Liang Xing to Liang Gang (Yuan Shu) (Xing belongs to Ma Teng)
Liu Gong to Lu Gong, Liu Coing to Liu Cong (Liu Biao)
Guo Xi to Guo Si, Xu Long to Xu Rong, Zhang Cen to Zhou Cen (Dong Zhuo)
Deng Lan to Deng Xian (Liu Zhang), Liang Gang to Liang Xing (Gang belongs to Yuan Shu)
Wei Pin to Wen Pin, Fu Ren to Fu Shiren, Sha Ke to Sha Moke


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The Family Farm Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America
An entire way of life is rapidly dying right in front of our eyes. The family farm is being systematically wiped out of existence in America, and big agribusiness and the federal government both have blood all over their hands. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the number of farms in the United States has fallen from about 6.8 million in 1935 to only about 2 million today. That doesn't mean that there is less farming going on. U.S. farms are producing more than ever. But what it does mean is that farming is increasingly becoming dominated by the big boys. The rules of the game have been tilted in favor of big agribusiness so dramatically that most small farmers find that they simply cannot compete anymore. Back in 1900, about 39 percent of the U.S. population worked on farms. At this point, only about 2 percent of all Americans now live on farms. Big agribusiness, the food processing conglomerates, and big seed companies such as Monsanto completely dominate the industry. Unless something dramatic is done, the family farm is going to continue to be wiped out of existence. Unfortunately, it does not look like things are going to turn around any time soon.
The way that the farming industry is structured today, it is simply not economically feasible to operate a small family farm. According to Farm Aid, every week approximately 330 farmers leave their land for good.
Many old timers are trying to hang on for as long as they can. A very large percentage of family farmers are in their fifties, sixties or seventies at this point. Today, only about 6 percent of all farmers are under the age of 35.
Most young people these days are not too eager to choose farming as a career. A lot of young adults that grew up on family farms have decided that investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in a business that requires you to work 12 hours or more per day most of the year for very meager wages is simply not worth it.
In recent years, many family farmers have been forced to find second jobs in order to support their families. Many farm families are constantly on the verge of financial ruin. It is a really tough life for many of them.
Sadly, less than 25 percent of all farms in America bring in gross revenues in excess of $50,000. The following comes from the EPA website….
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Why would a commercial about California cows be shot in New Zealand? At least one state lawmaker found that to be udderly ridiculous when he heard about an ad produced by the California Milk Advisory Board (CMAB).
It seems producers of the Happy Cow commercials flew the 6800 miles or so over to New Zealand because it was cheaper they argued, and the smartest use of dairy farmers' funds. A CMAB advertising executive told the L.A. Times that the board was exercising its "fiduciary responsibility to spend the (the dairy farmers') hard-earned dollars as efficiently as we can" and that it was a "minor portion of production. " And furthermore, the cows that are identified as California in the ads will be actual California cows.
The CMAB argues that the situation is being blown out of proportion and defended themselves in a press release calling it : "Setting the Record Straight: We carefully considered all options for producing this round of commercials and the business decision was made to save money on the commodity end of the TV commercial production cycle – shooting of non-Californian cows on a soundstage – to help save the industry so that it can continue to produce the top quality dairy products that consumers have come to expect."
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The board goes on to explain the crew spent 4 days in New Zealand , which they say adds up to only 10% of the entire production.
But the CMAB is supervised by the California Department of Food and Agriculture and as far as Assemblyman Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) is concerned that's not the smartest way to use the people's money. He says there is a very "basic philosophy, that hard earned tax payer dollars, public funds... should go to help retain and create jobs in California."
The CMAB's website even has a section about how "California Cows Live Happy All Year Long. California dairy producers make sure their cows are kept cool with misters and in the winter, they are often washed in the barn with warm water to help them relax."
Lieu whose district includes, Torrance, West L.A., and Venice says he's been very supportive of the California film industry by creating and passing tax credit legislation to make it affordable to film in the state. "It's crazy to go to another country to do one of the things we are known for," he adds.
So Lieu proposed AB 1778, which requires all promotional commercials made on behalf of the State of California and paid for wholly or in part with public funds must be produced in California. The state assembly didn't take long to chew that one over and passed it, now it's on to the state senate. Lieu says the Milk Advisory Board is not challenging his legislation.


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AUGUSTA, Ga. — The best thing that could happen to Marc Leishman is to have someone, a friend perhaps, break his rearview mirror.
He doesn't want to look at what's coming up behind him on the leaderboard of the 2013 Masters, or back into the history of Australians at Augusta National Golf Club, either.
One might spook him, the other might depress him.
But for one day at least — and maybe longer than that, depending on how dire the weather decided to be overnight and into Friday, with lightning in the forecast — the 29-year-old from Warrnambool got to share top billing (with Sergio Garcia) after the first round of the Masters, having fired a six-under-par 66 on a warm, sticky day that always held a hint of gathering storms.
Warrnambool, for those who have never visited it, is at the far western extremity of Australia's spectacular Great Ocean Road, along the sea-battered cliffs on the country's southeastern coast, a road built by soldiers and dedicated to the casualties of World War I.
The losses suffered by Aussies at the Masters have been neither as numerous nor as final, but for as many great players from Oz who have tried and failed to win the green jacket here — from Peter Thomson to Bruce Crampton, Bruce Devlin to Kel Nagle, Graham Marsh to David Graham to Geoff Ogilvy to Adam Scott to the all-time star-crossed Masters victim, Greg Norman ... well, you get the idea.
Marc Leishman doesn't need to be reminded.
He watched Norman's collapse in 1996 — when the Shark took a six-shot lead into the final round and shot 78 to Nick Faldo's 67 — and ...
"Obviously it was disappointing for, well, him. But that's golf," said the winner of last year's Travelers' Championship, who has missed four cuts and had only one top-10 finish all this season.
"Having come here now and played this course a few times, you can see how what happened, happened. It (78) is not that bad a score on Sunday conditions. Obviously Faldo played awesome. But you know, that's life, I guess. I don't know what else I can tell you about that."
In other words: next question.
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Thursday's leaderboard provided quite enough cause for anxiety, thanks.
Included on the first page alone were Leishman's co-leader, the mercurial Garcia, who one of these days is going to get out of his own way and win a major, ageless Freddie Couples, who can play this course in his sleep (and often looks as though he is), Paulina Gretzky's main man Dustin Johnson, expert lurker Matt Kuchar, the excitable Rickie Fowler, who survived two double bogeys to shoot 68, past champions Trevor Immelman and Zach Johnson, the ultimate grinder Jim Furyk and Adam Scott — as well as two of the less-fancied challengers, Englishman David Lynn and Spaniard Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, who really ought to look into initials.
Plus, prohibitive favourite Tiger Woods opened with a 70, as did half the world, it seemed; the difference being that three of Woods's four Masters titles have come after shooting 70 in the first round.
Canada's 2003 Masters champ Mike Weir shot a highly respectable 72.
"The first time I was here (2010), I was a bit of a deer in headlights, I guess," said Leishman, who shot 72-79 then, and missed the cut. "Found myself looking around a little bit too much and not concentrating on getting the ball in the hole, which is what you need to do. I would find myself thinking about what I'd seen on TV as a kid. Like I'd think about Freddie Couples's ball staying up in the bank on 12, while I was on the 12th tee.
"But also that week, I just hit it in a lot of bad spots and I think I learned a lot by doing that. That's helped me this week so far. So to be here is awesome and to be sitting here is pretty cool. But, you know, it's only Thursday afternoon."
And plenty of first-round leaders have fallen by the wayside as the week has played out.
Many a player thought the humidity had left the greens sticky and slower than usual, resulting in a lot of putts left short.
Weir had a bunch of those. So did Woods, and so did defending champion Bubba Watson, who struggled to a 75 that included, by his own stats-keeping, four three-putts.
"It was benign, especially starting out," said Woods. "The wind picked up in the middle part of the round. Got a little bit swirly there at Amen Corner, as usual. But overall I think the biggest challenge today was just the speed of the greens. They just weren't quite there. They looked it, but just weren't quite putting it."
Overall, the course was soft and inviting, the pins not too severe.
"Yeah, today was a really gettable day," said Brandt Snedeker, one of those at 70. "I played with Justin (Rose, also 70). Justin played great. He had a chance to shoot a really low one out there, the putts just kind of seemed to hang on the edge for him all day. But the ball is really moving out there. All the par‑5s are extremely reachable. If you wanted to go low, today was the day to do it probably."
With the Sub-Air suction system beneath the greens, and some of the fairways, even a lot of rain might not make a huge difference, but wind could.
50 and ties and within 10 shots makes the cut.
Most of the players who brought solid games into the week are still in it, few played their way out, and only a couple of those near the top could be considered longshots, although Lynn finished second — distantly — to Rory McIlroy at last year's PGA Championship, so he's not a rank outsider.
"If you speak to more or less every golfer who is out here on various tours, they will all believe that they have performances in them, as good as the top guys," Lynn said. "I've always believed that I could perform well. I just don't do it consistently enough. And why, I don't know; I guess right place, right time at the PGA and everything going right for me to putt in a performance like that.
"But you come out the other side with a bit more confidence; to turn up at the Masters this week; to not get too carried away with the occasion, and to think you've experienced big tournaments before."


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Śiva sūtras: the yoga of supreme identity : text of the sūtras and the commentary Vimarśinī of Kṣemarāja translated into English with introduction, notes, running exposition, glossary and index
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There is no denying that dolphins and whales are extremely intelligent and social creatures — research has backed up this concept for decades. Now a group of animal rights advocates is taking this a step further and is seeking legal rights for the majestic species.
According to a profile in Wired magazine, over the next several years, the Nonhuman Rights Project intends to make its case in a court of law. If successful, a dolphin could become the first non-human to be considered a legal person.
"The problem so far is that all nonhuman animals are seen as being legal things," said Steven Wise, an animal law scholar, attorney and founder of the project. "If you're a legal person, you have the capacity to have rights. That's the fundamental problem we intend to attack."
Wise has been addressing the issue of animals, rights and the law for years. Author of "Rattling the Cage" and "Drawing the Line," in which he makes a case for giving legal rights to chimpanzees and bonobos, and introduces the idea of considering animals on species-by-species terms. He founded the Nonhuman Rights Project in 2007 as an organization to fight for legal rights on behalf of animals.
Will it be an easy journey? Not at all. "There would be tremendous resistance. People would worry — 'What are the limits? Is every animal in a zoo going to have a lawyer?' " Richard Posner, a judge on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, told Wired. "In the foreseeable future it wouldn't have traction."
But Wise perseveres, and with tenacity. In the three decades since he has been involved in animal law, he notes that society has evolved in ways that once appeared unthinkable: "Ethical vegetarianism is mainstream, cute animal videos rule our collective subconscious, and people like himself are invited to lecture at Harvard."
Not long ago, legal rights for whales and dolphins would have seen like a New Age lark, but now evidence is overwhelming that cetaceans are special — if not to the courts yet, at least to researchers.
What are the chances that cretaceous legal rights may become a reality?
"The Nonhuman Rights Project is not a case or two. It's a process," said Wise. "If we win, we'll file our next suit in that jurisdiction. If we lose, we might file in a different jurisdiction. We'll listen carefully to what judges are saying. We will continue to push and push and push." He continued, "We understand the difficulties ahead of us, and what barriers we have to overcome, but you have to begin somewhere. And we intend to win."


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Once you're diagnosed with HIV, you're HIV positive for life.
... Right?
For about as long as we've been aware that HIV exists, that has been the reality. But in just the last few months, we've seen new signs that it may be possible -- really, truly possible -- to defang HIV in a person who's living with the virus.
There's a big "but," however: For this to work, the person may need to be diagnosed -- and then start taking HIV meds -- very quickly after she or he was first infected. That little wrinkle appears to be the secret to the functionally cured baby who made worldwide headlines in March. It's also the key detail in a recently published study in which 14 people who began HIV treatment shortly after their infection were able to eventually stop their meds -- and yet still maintain extremely low viral loads.
That 14-person study, called the VISCONTI study, is especially exciting because the people involved don't appear to be any different, biologically speaking, from any other adult who's living with HIV. Unlike most people living with HIV, though, they were diagnosed very quickly -- generally within four to eight weeks of their initial infection, during the period doctors commonly call "primary" or "acute" HIV infection.
Once they were diagnosed, these people all started HIV treatment with some of the best available drugs at the time (all were diagnosed in the late 1990s or early 2000s) and remained on meds for between one and eight years, depending on the person. The drugs worked well, driving their HIV viral load down to extremely low levels and (in most cases) helping their CD4 counts rise.
Then, under the supervision of their doctors, these 14 people stopped taking HIV meds. And the virus didn't come back. It's now been between four and 10 years since they took their last HIV antiretroviral pill, and all of them still have extremely low viral loads and good CD4 counts -- almost as though the meds had helped "train" their bodies to fight off HIV on their own. It's also possible that, as other recent research suggests, starting HIV treatment early prevents the virus from settling into "reservoirs" within the body that our current meds are then unable to reach.
Now, it's important to note that the VISCONTI study only involves 14 people. We have very solid research, involving a much larger number of people, that warns us it's not a good idea to simply stop taking HIV meds, no matter how well we think we're doing. Do these 14 people have some kind of rare, genetic quirk that eventually helped their immune systems gain an upper hand on HIV after the meds provided an initial boost? Was the type of HIV they were infected with somehow less robust than other types, making this miracle more likely to happen?
We don't yet know. But for now, the VISCONTI results raise some exciting possibilities, especially for people who were fortunate enough to get diagnosed with HIV and then start HIV treatment within weeks of their infection. They suggest that, although a true cure for the virus is still a distant light on the horizon, the hope for a medication-free life with HIV may glow much more closely.
Myles Helfand is the editorial director of TheBody.com and TheBodyPRO.com.
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Millions Missing From DEA Money-Laundering OperationPosted by Bill Conroy - October 6, 2014 at 11:25 am
But No One With the Power to Investigate Seems to Care
At least $20 million went missing from money seizures by law enforcers, critical evidence was destroyed by a federal agency, a key informant was outed by a US prosecutor — contributing to her being kidnapped and nearly killed — and at the end of the day not a single narco-trafficker was prosecuted in this four-year-long DEA undercover operation gone awry.
US Gunrunning to Cartels: What the mainstream media doesn't want you to knowPosted by Brenda Norrell - September 30, 2014 at 10:32 am
US Gunrunning to Cartels: What the mainstream media doesn't want you to know
By Brenda Norrell
Mining and war devastation silenced at Indigenous World ConferencePosted by Brenda Norrell - September 30, 2014 at 8:24 am
Devastation of mining and war censored, Pacific Islanders withdraw support for Indigenous World Conference
Traditional Indigenous left out of World Conference in New YorkPosted by Brenda Norrell - September 22, 2014 at 12:27 pm
Traditional Indigenous left out of World Conference in New York
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Indigenous denounce UN Climate Summit, Indigenous World ConferencePosted by Brenda Norrell - September 18, 2014 at 2:28 pm
By Brenda Norrell
Narco News Needs Your Help at this Exciting MomentPosted by Al Giordano - September 16, 2014 at 1:49 pm
September 16, 2014
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In Memoriam: Gary Webb (1955-2004)
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Former ICE Informant, Jailed In Missouri, Claims He's Being FramedPosted by Bill Conroy - September 3, 2014 at 10:51 pm
"Lalo" Is A Man Who Knows Too Much
He has run afoul of the U.S. and Mexican governments — and the Juárez narco-trafficking organization. There's a $500,000 contract on his life. By any bookmaker's odds, he should be a dead man.
Charles Bowden has died, but his voice is louder than everPosted by Bill Conroy - September 2, 2014 at 9:48 pm
As one of the original authentic journalists, he trailblazed a path for others to follow
When I heard that he had passed, my eyes welled with tears. I'm of stoic Irish stock, so I don't shed tears easily, but the news of Charles Bowden's death (1945-2014) was not an easy thing to bear. He had been a mentor and a friend to me for a decade, and his leaving hurts.
Orchestrated censorship of Native news powerless to halt defendersPosted by Brenda Norrell - August 28, 2014 at 9:03 pm
By Brenda Norrell
Photo 1 by Owiskawin, photo 2 by Akimel O'odham Youth Collective
Zapatistas: Guardians of the land defending Mother EarthPosted by Brenda Norrell - August 6, 2014 at 10:16 am
Zapatistas confirm Indigenous Peoples will defend Mother Earth, as National Indigenous Congress begins
By Brenda Norrell
Photos by EZLN media collective
Massacre in Palestine: Zapatistas confirm solidarity with PalestiniansPosted by Brenda Norrell - August 5, 2014 at 2:09 pm
Massacre in Palestine: Zapatistas confirm solidarity with Palestinians
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Native Americans: Palestine: Another Sand Creek MassacrePosted by Brenda Norrell - August 2, 2014 at 6:42 pm
Palestine: Another Sand Creek Massacre
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U.S. Military: More Counter-Narcotics Funding Will Help Stem Exodus of Children from Central AmericaPosted by Bill Conroy - July 29, 2014 at 12:06 pm
Critics Argue Drug-War Money is Part of the Problem, Not the Solution
Some 58,000 migrant children, mostly Central Americans, have made the treacherous journey to the U.S. southern border alone over the past 10 months, but actions being considered by U.S. officials to combat the problem with more military and drug-war aid to their countries, critics warn, may worsen the violence that provokes this unprecedented exodus.
White supremacists at the Arizona borderPosted by Brenda Norrell - July 15, 2014 at 12:45 pm
By Brenda Norrell
The media has a short memory and a select agenda concerning white supremacists at the Arizona border. JT Ready of the border militia ultimately killed himself and his family, including a baby, in Mesa, Arizona.
In another case, a home invasion near the border, Shawna Forde was convicted of the first-degree murder of a child in Arivaca, Arizona, 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia, and her father Raul Junior Flores, in 2009.
Choctaw shares traditional stickball game in Americas journeyPosted by Brenda Norrell - July 12, 2014 at 1:09 pm
'No Borders' is the message of Choctaw sharing traditional stick
Dine' Klee Benally challenges genocide denier auctioning sacred items in ParisPosted by Brenda Norrell - July 12, 2014 at 9:44 am
Dine' challenges genocide denier in Paris, auctioning off sacred items of Hopi and Navajo
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US spies on American Indians and MuslimsPosted by Brenda Norrell - July 10, 2014 at 2:04 pmBy Brenda NorrellPhoto Denver Police as Native Americans protest Columbus Day 2007Today's news focuses on the revelations that the US is spying on prominen
The Untold Story Behind Why I Am a Narco News JournalistPosted by Bill Conroy - July 1, 2014 at 10:11 pm
"Authenticity Is Not the Easiest Path ... But It's The Only Path That Leads Forward" — Al Giordano
Narco News on July 9 will celebrate its fourteenth anniversary at a bash in the Big Apple. For me, it also will be a tenth anniversary fiesta. I started reporting and writing for Narco News in 2004.
US Guns Still Flowing Into Mexico on Peña Nieto's WatchPosted by Bill Conroy - June 20, 2014 at 12:42 pm
State Department Program Is Easy Target for Weapon-Diversion Schemes
The value of private-sector weapons and related training delivered to Mexico during the first 10 months of President Enrique Peña Nieto's presidency tallied $78.4 million and was on par with similar defense-article shipments during two of the last three years of Felipe Calderón's presidency.
Second Informant Surfaces in ICE's Mayan Jaguar Cocaine-Plane OpPosted by Bill Conroy - June 1, 2014 at 10:53 pm
Lakotas keeping it real in South Dakota, building resistancePosted by Brenda Norrell - May 7, 2014 at 3:01 pm
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Official US Cover-Up Still Obscures Motive for Juarez Consulate MurdersPosted by Bill Conroy - May 7, 2014 at 12:17 am
Reject Keystone: Native Americans protest outside John Kerry's homePosted by Brenda Norrell - April 25, 2014 at 1:10 pm
Native Americans, farmers and ranchers outside Secretary of State John Kerry's home, as round dance blocks Georgetown streets
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Tipis pitched on National Mall in Keystone pipeline fightPosted by Brenda Norrell - April 21, 2014 at 11:33 pm
Cowboy Indian Alliance takes Keystone pipeline fight to Washington DC!
Update Tuesday: Faith Spotted Eagle, Dakota, said in Washington today that Indian women are ready to defend their land from the Keystone XL pipeline. Read more:
Arivaca Arizona rises up against Occupying Army of US Border PatrolPosted by Brenda Norrell - April 17, 2014 at 9:42 am
Arivaca residents are once again fighting the Occupying Army of the US Border Patrol, and the corporate profiteering and failure of the mainstream media, which threatens to destroy their border community
Native Americans protest Bill Gates profiteering from private prisonsPosted by Brenda Norrell - April 14, 2014 at 12:14 am
Chief Arvol Looking Horse blesses new tarsands resistance campPosted by Brenda Norrell - April 13, 2014 at 11:13 pm
Chief Arvol Looking Horse blesses new tarsands resistance camp
By Brenda Norrell
Top photo Shielding the People Spiritual Camp at Rosebud, South Dakota, by Paula Antoine
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Live from Native American Film Fest Agua CalientePosted by Brenda Norrell - March 7, 2014 at 4:44 am
Live coverage from the southern California desert
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Bad Boys
Sean Penn in an American Scum.
16 Blocks
Bruce Willis is *not* John McClane in this mostly taut (but sometimes slack) thriller about a past-it New York cop escorting a chatterbox witness (Mos Def) to a grand jury, with a whole lot of dirty blues in between. Could have been great, but it's not.
Take (2007)
The paths of two strangers (Minnie Driver and Jeremy Renner) cross; the lives of each are forever changed. Some interesting ideas, very competently handled, but not really satisfying. I'm really not keen on the whole bleached out look, either.
Air Force One
What was I thinking, watching this? It's Die Hard on a plane, with Harrison Ford as a Presidential John McClane type.
Iron Man
Rather spiffy Jon Favreau-helmed adaptation of the Marvel comic about über-capitalist arms dealer and all-round playboy Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr), who takes on a crime-fighting alter ego with the help of a battle suit he builds himself. Good fun.
Psychological portrait of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, the dude who killed loads of boys and buried them in his basement as well as dressing up as a clown for block parties. Not fun. Still, I learned what a crawl space is.
Old School
Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn as heading towards middle age so try to reclaim the vitality of their youth by setting up a fraternity house.
Shakes The Clown
Bobcat Goldthwait as a booze-sodden clown. Nuff said. Also features a fresh-faced Adam Sandler.
Office Space
Really enjoyable mellow satire on white collar drudgery by Mike Judge, with Ron Livingston (the alkie S2 from Band Of Brothers) as a software engineer in Texas who hates his job. Good to hear Geto Boys on the soundtrack too.


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In general, I am accustomed to a sedate introduction to a new virtual world. Oftentimes this introduction takes the form of either a narrated video tailored towards an absolute newcomer or a kind-hearted offer for the neophyte player to partake in some kind of formal tutorial. Rarely do I find myself immediately overwhelmed by a sudden drop into the type of almost complete sensory overload as was common in an old TV show called "Quantum Leap," and even then the mind-bending transitions of that show occurred at the end of the previous week's show. You had a week to get your head wrapped around it.
This was an entirely different experience; the first thing I knew, I was sitting in a car at the starting line of a race. Thus it was that I found myself struggling to make the mental adjustment required to survive a race through the streets of Chicago as I jumped into Codemaster's GRID 2. As it turns out, the race ended up being quite the debacle, at least from where I was sitting.
Fortunately, my dismal results did not negatively impact the first impression I made on a guy named Patrick Callahan. Like many before him, Mr. Callahan thought that he had found a new way to break into the motorsport industry with a racing series he was calling World Series Racing. The fundamental idea behind the series was to gather up the best racing drivers from around the world, no matter what type of racing they specialized in. These drivers would then compete against each other in multi-disciplinary events, the variety of which would theoretically balance the field such that the best overall driver would emerge as the true champion. In order for this to work, the premier drivers in each country and style of racing would need to be convinced that this was worth their time, and I would be the ambassador to whom the task of proving sufficient prowess to impress them would fall.
I felt inadequate, to be honest. It was all quite overwhelming.
That said, this was a nice change from the normal rags-to-riches approach to a career mode in console racers. I would be given pretty good cars from the get-go, although one still expects to work through a progressive scale of increasingly desirable automotive hardware--that's still pretty much de rigeuer for console racers and we wouldn't want to get too far from the conventional approach, would we?
Once you work your way through the first race, there will be a series of cutscenes that subtly introduce the metric by which your progress will be tracked by showing Facebook-like pages and YouTube videos of your racing performance gathering 'Likes' from the people viewing them. From these scenes, it becomes clear that the unit of measurement will be the number of fans you attract via social media--when you get enough fans in each racing series, you unlock the next higher series.
Using what I call an Ambience Menu System that mimics the environment of your garage/race shop, you can manage your fleet of cars, their paint jobs and your sponsors. Each sponsor on offer has a value proposition that is in essence a racing objective. Easy ones to satisfy are things like "drive over 100 mph for at least six seconds," while others might prove to be a little more difficult. For example, I always do poorly at drifting, a weakness that I attribute to the fact that I am of an age where I have purchased many a tire--I know what they cost and I know what drifting does to them. Sponsors asking that I drift for some number of seconds or feet were not on my personal list of favorites. In any event, nearly everything you need to do, or want to do, in the game is accessed through the ambience menu. It doesn't take too long to figure out.
The career mode international tour starts in the US, and you start with an old American classic: the same car you used for the first race, the Ford Mustang. Not to worry, though: new cars will be coming at you early and often. The first race track in the race series will look familiar, too. It's Chicago again. Being your third time in the car (there was a time trial in Indianapolis, too), though, it is likely that you will be starting to get comfortable enough to start paying attention to the driving/physics modeling. This is admittedly a subjective observation, but as they did with F1 2012, Codemasters seems to have found a nearly perfect balance between arcade-style driving and, at the other end of the spectrum, simulation-level difficulty. While it's not perfect, there is a nice compromise between driving-on-rails easy and can't-even-get-moving realism.
As with anything of this nature, it may take a few minutes to get truly comfortable with it, but I felt like I got up to speed fairly quickly, albeit not with regards to drifting. I don't think I will ever be able to do that well. Which is an unfortunate weakness, given the premium placed on drift-style racing in the first few races. It came as a visceral relief to finally receive access to a car that was described as "balanced" rather than "drift." There were times, however, when the model seemed to become quite unforgiving. Those were primarily in situations where I may have gotten a little too close to the edge of the road, though, so it's hard to pin all of the blame on the driving model. It may have just been nerves.
Nerves? Well, yes. There were some races that I seemed to just not be able to finish well enough to make the progression to the next level. Keeping in mind that Codemasters has elected to perpetuate one of the most irritating conventions of console racers, by which I mean the habit of always making the human player start at the back of the field, there was always a balance to be struck in trying to pass all of the cars quickly but safely. It was not uncommon for the leaders to get too far out in front to be caught in a short race, nor was it uncommon to try to force a pass only to get wrecked. It was towards the end of a race in which the balance had worked out such that I had a chance of finishing in a decent position that nerves would enter the fray, much to my detriment. In other words, it seemed that I often choked when I finally had a chance for a good finish.
And it is for that reason that I eventually broke one of my cardinal rules: I had always viewed the "rewind" option (the racing equivalent of golf's "mulligan") to be cheating, but after attempting the same race dozens of times only to meet with ignominious failure, my ethics began to loosen up a bit. I used the rewind feature. And, as it turns out, once the barrier was broken I used it over and over and over. I am not proud of this, and I will speak of it no further.
Given the difficulty I had in making clean, safe passes while under time pressure, it should come as no surprise that there is one particular race mode that I absolutely detested. In "Overtake" races, the goal was to pass more cars than your opponent. That in itself proved easy to do, yet I continued to lose in attempt after attempt due to a pernicious wrinkle thrown in by the developers: the passes had to be absolutely clean; no contact was allowed with the other cars. And adding insult to injury, no contact was allowed with anything else, either! Making repeated clean passes in under five seconds between each pass would increase the point value of each succeeding pass, but the least little contact with anything at all would reset the value to the lowest setting. Thus, it was easy to pass more cars than the opponent did yet still lose the race by thousands of points. In fact, you didn't really need to pass more cars at all, you just had to be better and faster at it. There was no other mode that put as much pressure on the driver to be both aggressive and cautious in such a delicate balance. Unfortunately, I do aggressive far better than I do cautious--I never managed to win a single one of those races.
There was an equally innovative race mode that I did do well at, though. I ended up being a big fan of the "Live Route" races. In these races, the race course would change after each lap. This type of race put a premium on being able to instantly assess a corner rather than count on learning each turn through pre-race practice or good short-term memory based on previous laps. This was a type of race that at times rewarded the strategy of remaining in second place until the last lap as the car in front gave cues as to braking points and good racing lines through the turns.
Having more or less gotten comfortable with the single player mode, I started on the multiplayer. And by "started" I mean I spent more time getting registered on Codemasters RaceNet than it took to close the purchase of my palatial mansion. I've lost count of how many times I've had to struggle to find an unused user name and create yet another soon-to-be-forgotten password over the last decade and quite frankly, I'm sick to death of it. Still, that was the price of admission, I guess. I no sooner had finished that when I realized that I was also going to "start" in another way: I was going to start over on the slow, tortuous path of earning my way into better cars. The stable of cars that I had painstakingly built to the degree that I was starting to feel like a virtual Jay Leno was gone, disappeared into thin air faster that a pair of Air Jordans left unattended at the gym.
So, I thought, here I am again, starting at the back of the pack burdened with the slowest car on the track. Well...no. I was, in fact, perched at the very front of the pack, burdened with the slowest car on the track.
It was one of those "be careful what you wish for" things.
The countdown finished, the race was on, and I was shoved aside like an octogenarian trying to buy the last sixer of Bud Light at Walmart two hours before the start of the Super Bowl. Note that this was an appropriate introduction to the rigors of online multiplayer racing that I was about to encounter. The races are short and the fast cars are at the back of the field--all of the tactics learned in single player were essentially useless now. Brake for a turn, get punted into a wall. Aim for the apex, get punted into a wall. Keep a straight line down the long straights, get punted into a wall. You get the drift, right? Oh, that reminds me: I was back to driving (poorly) drift-style cars again too. Sigh.
Call me an elitist snob (really, go ahead. I am!), but when it comes to online multiplayer racing, I will stick to iRacing. Please note, however, that none of my experiences should be taken as criticism of GRID 2--it is simply the case that races with a random group of people are destined to be crash-fests of the highest order, although I do feel that the propensity of the GRID 2 cars to launch themselves high into the air after the lightest of brushes against a guardrail could be considered a slight design flaw.
Okay, yeah, maybe I'm a little bitter at my ignominious defeat at the hands of, well...just about everyone.
It got better with time, of course. Even with an average finishing position of 8th place, I was earning the money required to buy my way into better cars. And there were cases when I was allowed into races high above my level and was as a result the recipient of some very nice loaner cars--those were fun, although I somewhat resented having my winnings reduced by 50 percent to pay for the loan of the car. At the end of the day, though, I found that I still preferred the predictability and more level playing field found in the single player.
GRID 2 has all of the hallmarks of a modern console racer well covered, and even manages to move the genre incrementally forward with a few new innovations in the types of races available. It isn't as chock full of cars as some competing titles, but it doesn't need to be. There is a broad enough spectrum of different types of cars available to allow the player to sample any number of racing varieties. The tracks are also quite varied in their styles, ranging from internationally renowned permanent facilities like Yas Marina to open road hill-climbs in California to temporary tracks laid out in major cities. Something for everyone, in other words. The controls are well-balanced, providing both accessibility and challenge in equal measure.
My only regret is that I simply cannot drift.
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I've been fascinated with video games and computers for as long as I can remember. It was always a treat to get dragged to the mall with my parents because I'd get to play for a few minutes on the Atari 2600. I partially blame Asteroids, the crack cocaine of arcade games, for my low GPA in college which eventually led me to temporarily ditch academics and join the USAF to "see the world." The rest of the blame goes to my passion for all things aviation, and the opportunity to work on work on the truly awesome SR-71 Blackbird sealed the deal.
My first computer was a TRS-80 Model 1 that I bought in 1977 when they first came out. At that time you had to order them through a Radio Shack store - Tandy didn't think they'd sell enough to justify stocking them in the retail stores. My favorite game then was the SubLogic Flight Simulator, which was the great Grandaddy of the Microsoft flight sims.
While I was in the military, I bought a Commodore 64. From there I moved on up through the PC line, always buying just enough machine to support the latest version of the flight sims. I never really paid much attention to consoles until the Dreamcast came out. I now have an Xbox for my console games, and a 1ghz Celeron with a GeForce4 for graphics. Being married and having a very expensive toy (my airplane) means I don't get to spend a lot of money on the lastest/greatest PC and console hardware.
My interests these days are primarily auto racing and flying sims on the PC. I'm too old and slow to do well at the FPS twitchers or fighting games, but I do enjoy online Rainbow 6 or the like now and then, although I had to give up Americas Army due to my complete inability to discern friend from foe. I have the Xbox mostly to play games with my daughter and for the sports games.
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Officials: Vest saved cop in NYC shootout
Det. Mario Muniz, 45, was hit in the upper-right chest area by one of Mozdir's bullets, but it was stopped by his bullet proof vest
By Anthony M. Destefano and William Murphy
NEW YORK — An NYPD detective and two federal marshals were shot and wounded Monday in a Greenwich Village shootout that killed a fugitive child molestation suspect from San Diego who'd been on the run for two years, officials said.
Det. Mario Muniz and two unidentified federal marshals were shot at close range by Charles Richard Thomas Mozdir, 32, whose last known address was in the North Park section of San Diego, police said. Modzir was shot and killed in the exchange of gunfire, police said.
Muniz, 45, was hit in the upper-right chest area by one of Mozdir's bullets, but it was stopped by his bullet proof vest, Police Commissioner William Bratton said at a news conference with Mayor Bill de Blasio Monday afternoon at Bellevue Hospital Center.
"His vest protected him from a more grievous injury had it entered his chest," Bratton said.
A police source said Muniz also suffered a wound to the abdomen. One marshal was hit in the buttocks and the other sustained a graze wound to the arm, a law enforcement source said.
A spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service didn't return calls for comment.
De Blasio said all the officers were in stable condition at Bellevue.
The exchange of gunfire occured shortly after 1 p.m. inside a smoke shop on West 4th Street near 6th Avenue, Bratton said. The three plainclothes members of the New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force believed Mozdir was working at the smoke shop, Bratton said.
After confirming Mozdir was inside, Muniz and the federal marshals attempted to arrest Mozdir, who then opened fire, Bratton said.
During the news conference, De Blasio and Bratton held up the vest they said likely saved Muniz's life. A small bullet hole could be seen on the vest's upper-right side. Bratton said the detective has more than 20 years on the department and had recently been promoted.
Bratton said about 20 cops are normally assigned to the fugitive task force. He didn't know how many shots were fired in the incident in the smoke shop.
Mozdir was recently profiled on "The Hunt" with John Walsh on CNN.
Lea Corbin, a spokeswoman for the Coronado Police Department near San Diego, said Mozdir was charged on June 12, 2012, with various counts of lewd and lascivious behavior with a child younger than 14 by force, two charges of lewd and lascivious behavior with a child and one charge of witness intimidation by threats of violence.
Mozdir failed to appear for a June 15, 2012, court appearance, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Detectives traced Mozdir to Georgia, where his car was found in a field, and then turned the case over to the federal fugitive task force, Corbin said.
Mozdir was described as alternately clean shaven and wearing a beard and traveling with a black Labrador retriever named Lucky.
"All I saw was cops and cops and cops," said Jerry Dewitt, 65, who lives on the block of the crime scene. "This is West Fourth street. Anything and everything can happen on this block."
Laura Fiorenza, 51, who moved with her husband to the neighborhood from Germany just six days ago, said the couple "were just saying we feel very safe in this neighborhood. Now, I've changed my mind."
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Precinct No. 9. Beginning at Caperton Wright's Black Smith shop
up the middle prong of Sand Lick along a road now already part-
ly made to the upper end of Hamilton Harper's field above the house
leaving the creek turning to the right up a ridge to the top [of] a main
flat ridge & with the same to the intersection of the Coal River Road.
And John A. Williams is hereby appointed Surveyor of the same with the
following hands. viz. Henderson Meadows, John H. Wikle, Wilson Right, Lewis
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12 November 1874
Hamilton Harper served on jury for State of WV vs. Andrew Pettry – Misdemeanor. (p. 317)
12 September 1877
Hamilton Harper served on jury for State of WV vs. Robert Beasley – 2 Misdemeanors. (p. 557)
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Micronesian in Hawaii
Micronesians are Hawaii's newest arrivals. We wanted to find out more about what it's like to make a new life here.
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Josefa Munez remembers the first time she realized that not everyone wanted her in Hawaii. It was a Sunday, and she had called for a taxi to take her and her children from Kuhio Park Terrace to Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace, downtown. After the driver picked them up, he started making comments about a nearby group of Micronesian women, also waiting to go to church. "He said, 'See, all these Micronesians, everywhere you see so many Micronesians. How come they wear those dresses like that? Why they come here and wear that?' He talked so bad," she remembers.
Munez was wearing an American-style outfit that day, and the last name with which she reserved the cab was courtesy of her Filipino husband—the combo was apparently enough to escape the driver's notice that she was Micronesian herself.
"He kept going on, and I stayed quiet in the back. I almost said something, but I held myself," she says. "I'm just going to pray for that person, not to keep saying those kinds of things. But I could see that my friends were right, because I heard directly from this man the things he said about Micronesians."
As the state's newest and fastest growing immigrant population, Micronesians face a lot of discrimination and stereotyping. Hawaii's unfamiliarity with the cultures of Micronesia, and Micronesians' unfamiliarity with our own, have isolated the community, but there are people working to bridge the gap. We spoke with Micronesians who have been here for varying lengths of time—one year, a decade, 20 years—to get a sense of what it's like to move to Hawaii from a tiny island in the South Pacific, and how they've managed to make lives here for their families.
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Josie Howard never expected to end up in Hawaii. In 1989, she was one of the earliest Micronesians to travel to Hawaii under the new Compact of Free Association between the Federated States of Micronesia and the U.S. Howard's plan was to get her degree from the University of Hawaii and return to her home country of Chuuk (formerly known to Americans as Truk).
But after finding both a job and a husband here, one thing led to another. More than 20 years later, she's still here, raising a family and working at Goodwill Hawaii as the program coordinator for Imi Loa, a job training program for recent immigrants. She's still got her musical Chuukese accent, but now she's the one helping other Micronesians succeed in a new, strange place.
After 20 hours of job, acculturation and language training, and 10 more hours of one-on-one counseling, Imi Loa places candidates with partnering businesses such as groundskeeping and janitorial services, and then sticks with them over the next year to make sure everything works out.
It's a tall order. Incoming candidates often speak little or no English, and may never have held a job before. Howard coaches them on typical skills, such as how to draft a résumé, but finds she also has to deal with basic cultural issues. "These people are coming from an underdeveloped area with limited resources, into this big city of Honolulu. A lot of them don't even know what to wear. I have to train people to get used to wearing pants."
Howard can't take anything for granted. Many recent arrivals don't have a stable living situation, or a reliable contact number at which potential employers can reach them. It's a catch-22 that leaves many immigrants stuck on public assistance, but Howard helps them take the first steps toward independence.
Howard introduced us to Helen Tipen, a Chuukese woman who moved to Oahu in early 2010, and speaks so little English that we spoke with her using Howard as an translator. In the nine months she's been with Imi Loa, however, she's held a steady cleaning job in Waikiki, rented a studio apartment for her family and started saving money.
Hawaii, she says, has been overwhelming. On Pollap, the atoll on which she grew up, there was no electricity, the houses were made out of coconut leaves and local woods, and the people lived off the land—taro and fishing. To suddenly be surrounded by high-rises was completely disorienting. "For the first month, just going from one spot to the next, I couldn't find my way back," she says. "It was too crowded, and all the buildings looked alike."
The first time she took the bus to her job site, Tipen says she had no idea how to figure out where she was (street signs were a new concept for her), and had to borrow a cell phone from a bystander so she could call her new boss for help. She was so flustered she started to walk off with the phone, peering up at the signs above, the phone's owner trotting after her.
Howard says people in Hawaii sometimes get the wrong idea about Micronesians' personalities. "I'm not a doctor in psychology, but I've observed that the cultural shock of coming to Hawaii can be confusing to the point where it makes a person look like they're mental," she says. "But they're just overwhelmed by processing all the new information in front of them, and so a new immigrant may come across as disorganized, out of touch with reality."
Tipen has a better handle on the basics by now, but she's still getting used to the daily grind of life in Hawaii. Five days a week, she wakes up at 3 in the morning, catches the bus from Waianae to Waikiki, and starts her shift at 6 a.m. After work, it's another long bus ride home, then errands and chores, and the next day she repeats the cycle.
"Life here is hard, because you live on money," she says. "Everything is money. Back home, it's up to me when I go get food, and what to eat. If I feel like sleeping, I sleep. There's no need to work the same hours."
Money does have its advantages. Tipen says she loves being able to buy the clothes she wants, as well as a much wider variety of food than she could get on her home atoll. And she's got her eyes on the future. Her husband has flown up to join her, and they're saving up to bring their other four children to Hawaii. "I want them to get an education, and learn how to speak English, and use computers," she says.
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