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Another In Custody Death For The Kern County Sheriff's Dept. -- The Third In Four Months
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The Kern County Sheriff's Department has no problem taking people into custody. It just seems to have trouble keeping them from dying. For the third time in four months, an arrestee has died while in custody.
Back in May, Kern County deputies responded to a call about a possibly intoxicated man sleeping in someone's yard. The man's combativeness (not much of which is shown on the available video of the "arrest") apparently could only be handled by nine law enforcement officers, who deployed batons and a police dog in order to restrain him. By the time it was all over, the man (David Saul Silva) had "become unresponsive" (nice use of the passive voice) and was rushed to the hospital, where he died.
According to the official coroner's report, the batons and attack dog, along with the weight of any number of officers on his back, had nothing to do with his death. The coroner's call? Heart disease.
On July 1st, Kern County deputies arrested 51-year-old Ruben Ornelas for heroin possession and took him to Central Receiving in downtown Bakersfield. At 1:30 am on the 3rd, Ornelas was "found unresponsive" in his holding cell and rushed to Mercy Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A Sheriff's Department spokesman said Ornelas was in a cell with others, but there was no sign of a struggle or trauma. The official cause of death?
The sheriff's department says there were no signs of foul play, and the coroner's office told The Daily News that the cause of death was determined to be "hypertension due to cardiovascular disease."And now, there's a third person who hasn't survived the department's policing.
According to a press release by the Kern County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to the Walgreens store at 2629 Mt. Vernon Ave. at about 8:35 p.m. regarding suspicious persons. Two males were inside the store acting strangely, and both were possibly under the influence of a controlled substance.Here's more, straight from Sheriff Donny Youngblood.
Officials said Ledesma became uncooperative when the deputy attempted to detain him. Ledesma resisted arrest and fought with the deputy for approximately two minutes before additional deputies arrived, including a K-9 unit.
"Mr. Ledesma was resisting, kicking the officer. He was struck with a baton several times to gain compliance. He would not submit to the arrest. He was warned that the K-9 would be placed on him if he didn't stop resisting," said Sheriff Donny Youngblood.No mention, eh? By who, his deputies? Not surprising, as hitting people in the head with batons is against department policy. Here's the video the Sheriff's Department has made available, captured by a bystander's cell phone.
Sheriff Youngblood says when a deputy arrived to a call at Walgreens on Mount Vernon Avenue, he found Ledesma in a nearby park and believed he was under the influence of PCP. The deputy called for backup and the sheriff says five deputies tried to subdue Ledesma, including the K-9 officer on patrol near the scene.
"They said they struck him with batons. There's no mention that he was struck in the head with a baton," said Youngblood.
This, too, is "under investigation" and the department is still waiting for the full coroner's report. A preliminary toxicology report has been released, and unsurprisingly (read that however you want), the coroner found several drugs in Ledesma's system.
[R]eport revealed Ledesma had PCP, amphetamines and Benzodiazapine in his system.My guess is that this death will also be ruled "accidental" at worst, or chalked up to a preexisting heart condition. Being beaten, restrained and attacked by a dog will have had nothing to do with it. There's a pattern here and it goes back further than the last four months.
In December of 2010, three deputies arrived at Jose Lucero's house to speak to him about the repeated bogus 911 calls he'd been making. According to Lucero's family's lawyer, Lucero was a recovering meth addict who suffered from mental illness. Apparently, Lucero had fallen off the wagon and was using meth again, which, combined with his mental problems, led him to believe a friend of his was being assaulted -- hence the repeated calls to 911.
When Lucero didn't cooperate, the three deputies (who were joined by a fourth) tased him 29 times, hit him 33 times with batons and deployed pepper spray. All of this happened in front of Lucero's parents, whom the deputies repeatedly asked to leave. The incident lasted all of six minutes, and Lucero was dead by the end of it.
The cause of death according to the coroner?
Lucero's official cause of death was cardiac arrest following police restraint in association with methamphetamine intoxication.A bad heart, some meth in the system and a little "police restraint" was all it took to kill Lucero in less than six minutes. Why, he practically brought it on himself with his drug use and weak heart.
The coroner may have declared Lucero's death to be at least two-thirds Lucero's fault, but a jury found the four officers guilty of using excessive force and awarded his parents $4.5 million in damages. Despite this decision, the department's counsel kept blaming the outcome on everyone but the responding deputies.
[T]he parents were repeatedly told to leave the home and kept coming back to see what was happening, said Chief Deputy County Counsel Mark Nations. That makes them at least partially responsible for any emotional distress, he said.Way to blame the victims, counselor. I'm not surprised Lucero's parents didn't accept the deputies' invitation to "please leave the house so we can assault your son without any witnesses." Unfortunately, refusing to leave didn't change the outcome, either.
But here's the issue: the department goes overboard, deploys excessive force and somehow, the coroner finds that everyone the department restrains to death has heart problems. Lucero might have survived being tased or beaten roughly every six seconds if he'd been blessed with a stronger heart. What appears to be excessive force is always found to be by-the-book restraint.
The Kern County Sheriff's department's close relationship with the coroner is far from unusual. Sheriffs and coroners are generally intertwined. But in the case of this sheriff's department and its skill at deathbringing, it might be better to bring in someone more independent. While I'd like to believe the coroner's office only reports to Sheriff Donny Youngblood (here's a PDF showing the chain of command [page 2]) rather than caters to him, these recent incidents don't give me much confidence.
What seems to be happening is that once the coroner decides the officers' actions weren't directly related to the death of the person in custody (i.e., crushed larynx, signs of asphyxiation, head trauma), the sheriff clears his deputies of any wrongdoing. Even the awarding of $4.5 million in a wrongful death suit failed to result in any further punishment of the officers involved, one of whom (Ryan Greer) was also involved in the David Saul Silva case.
In addition to the coroner's ability to find latent heart problems behind every tasing and beating, the sheriff's office itself has been less than forthcoming with additional evidence. In Ledesma's case, the Sheriff's official website says there's footage from both a cell phone AND a security camera and that both are available. However, a visit to the official Youtube account of the Kern County Sheriff's Office shows that only the cell phone footage has been uploaded. What's on the other recording? (Most notably missing from the cell footage is the police dog in action. You can see the aftermath in the upload but not the actual attack, as well as nothing previous to Ledesma being on the ground.)
In Silva's case, the California Highway Patrol has continued to refuse to release its dashcam footage and the Sheriff's office itself hasn't released anything captured by cameras or mikes worn by other officers.
Youngblood also has had help in keeping his own backyard from being cleaned up. Last August, Jaime Duran was beaten severely by deputies while being taken into custody. Of course, the officers were very careful not to hit him in the head with their batons, but they were very enthusiastic about making sure his legs didn't go untouched. (More pics here and here.)
After Duran filed a claim against the county, Internal Affairs sent the case to the DA's office, looking to prosecute on charges of excessive force and filing a false report. The DA's office refused to prosecute, saying it couldn't prove these charges beyond a reasonable doubt. And again, the Sheriff's department itself held back information, including helicopter footage which captured the incident.
There seems to be an acceleration of incidents involving Kern County deputies, and given the responses from the district attorney, the coroner's office and Sheriff Youngblood, it's going to keep on accelerating. "Internal investigations" tend to clear deputies of wrongdoing. Coroner's reports latch onto pre-existing conditions as the cause of death, and seem to give no weight to the fact that being beaten (even by-the-book) and restrained by multiple deputies may have something to do with the resulting deaths. These reports imply that the deceased were walking dead anyway, and the deputies' actions only possibly accelerated an eventual outcome.
Even paying out a settlement in a wrongful death suit has failed to alter deputies' tactics, and why should it? The deputies were cleared by the Sheriff's office of any wrongdoing. Youngblood says he gives no preference to his deputies when under investigation and treats them "like any other member of the public." But as jpmassar points out in his discussion of the Silva beating at the Daily KOS, that can't possibly be true.
Can you imagine if nine random people found a drunk on the sidewalk and beat him to death, videoed by numerous witnesses. How long do you think it would be before they would be in a jail cell and arraigned on millions of dollars bail (or more likely the DA would demand none at all)?The prevailing argument seems to be that these deputies do what they need to do to take dangerous and resistant suspects into custody. The danger aspect is always played up when defending against excessive force allegations and the implication is that these reactions were prompted by officers who feared for their own safety when confronted by resistance. But here's the scorecard: three people "restrained" to death (and a fourth dying while in jail) in three years by Kern County deputies. Contrast that with the department, which has had three deputies killed in the line of duty -- in 30 years.
The tactics deployed far outweigh the threat, and the lack of accountability provided by Youngblood's office only encourages further abuse.
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Browsing Working Papers (ECON) by Subject "økonomiske forhold"
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Abstract: Abstract: The balance of payments of Greenland has special features due to an important current transfer, bloktilskud, from Denmark. The trade balance does not exhibit a deficit of this order of magnitude but comparison of the bloktilskud and the deficit is difficult as official figures are available for the merchandise trade only. Figures for services are missing. However, guesses about the size of a deficit in the services' trade do not easily discard the impression of a large surplus on the current account. Over a ten year period it is suggested that accumulated surpluses could be twice the level of Greenland's GDP. This seems unlikely, but the available data raise a puzzle that ought to be addressed as it nourishes suspicion of unobserved accumulation of wealth. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7550
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Abstract: This paper provides an assessment of Greenland's tax system and contemplates changes that may be undertaken in the future to prepare for greater economic self-reliance and for the country's participation in the wider world economy. At the outskirts of Europe, Greenland is an autonomous part of the Danish kingdom, though currently not a member of EU. However, its cooperation with European countries and its dependency on international trade renders it necessary for the tax system in Greenland to be attuned to developments in the rest of the world. Drawing on a thorough international benchmarking analysis of Greenland's tax system, the paper's special focus will be on the corporate tax system and its interplay with personal taxation, as well on as the system of import duties. In particular, we carry out computations of effective marginal and average corporate tax rates, as well as average effective tax burdens on consumption, labour income and capital income, and compare these to similar measures for EU countries. In addition, we outline how Greenland's economic policy in other areas interferes with tax policy. Especially fishery regulation, management of government-owned companies, and housing policy have major implications for the tax system. Key words: international benchmarking, effective tax rates, Greenland JEL: H20, H25 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7595
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MapMap of LaPorte Co., Indiana "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862 by J.W. Leaming & John P. Carthcart in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the District of Indiana." LC Land ownership maps, 154 Includes business directories, distance table, views of public, residential, and commercial buildings. Insets: LaPorte -- Michigan City -- Westville -- Hudson -- Door Village -- Michigan City -- Rolling...
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Swirlicity is a fun particle drawing, swirling and twirling app based on the physics of fluid dynamics. It doesn't just let you draw and then swirl particles - it also has an attract and repel modes, automatic wind toggle, and even lets you turn any image of yours into particles and manipulate that! All this is done to a beautiful, calming ambient background music. You can also take screenshots - either tap the screen with two fingers at the same time, or press (and hold) the home button and then press the standby button at the top of your iPad. FEATURES: - Four modes - draw, swirl, repel, and attract. - Turn any image into particles to twirl! - Automatic wind toggle - just turn it on to enjoy automatic particle twirling. - Vibrant, beautiful colors. - Soothing and calming soundtrack. - Highly tuned and optimized, allowing thousands of particles on the screen at the same time. - Screenshot function supported. Please note that while several competing particle apps also came out recently, Swirlicity was developed completely independently from them. We decided to take a little bit more time to do additional testing and polishing, and have the app exactly as we imagined it. As a result were not the first to the market, but we believe we're the best. :) If you like our app, please check out our other games, too - "Project Phoenix", "Ultraviolet Dawn", and "Team Alpha". Or follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/SCSGames
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Configuring a Jabber client to access Citadel
Citadel's instant messenger functions may be accessed from your favorite Jabber client. This makes it very easy to keep in touch with other Citadel users around the clock by seamlessly integrating it into your desktop experience.
These instructions are for Pidgin. If you are using some other client (such as Trillian or Kopete) please perform whatever configuration steps are equivalent to these.
First, start up Pidgin:
Select "Accounts –> Manage Accounts" and then click "Add".
For the type of account, select XMPP.
Your user name will be your account name on the Citadel server. Spaces tend to be a problem, so you should either replace the spaces with underscores or use a valid Citadel email address as your username instead.
In the "Domain" box, enter the host name of your Citadel server.
"Resource" is not important; you can set it to any value you want.
Enter your password in the password box.
"Remember password" is up to you, but you'll probably want to check that.
Now toggle over to the "Advanced" tab. Check the "Allow plaintext auth over unencrypted streams" box. The service will not work without this option set.
The account is now configured. Check the "Enabled" box to log in.
Now your Citadel companions will appear in your instant messenger program! You don't have to worry about maintaining a buddy list. Since Citadel sites tend to be accessed by small groups of people, your buddy list will simply appear as a list of everyone currently logged into the server.


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Net Conversion necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 93 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
Logo needed for soon to be published book titled Copy, Paste and Bang! - A step-by-step man's guide to meeting women on the Internet
Copy, Paste and Bang!
Copy, Paste and Bang! - A step-by-step man's guide to meeting women on the Internet
The book is a how-to guide for men that are looking to meet women on the Internet who are interested in having sex. The principles in the book will work for any man, regardless of age, income or looks.
The logo will be integrated into the book's cover/jacket and also used in other mediums including web use. The website is an important area that will sell the book as well as provide an interactive forum where the author can provide updates, answer questions, and review online profiles.
- Irreverent logo that stands out from the crowd
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Earlier I blogged about ObjectDock and their Flyout Menus, but there is another application which is really better and good 8)
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How to Break Glass
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Today my friend made me go to a stained glass class. She said it was my idea, but I am pretty sure it was hers. Okay, I AM the one that signed us up, but I am pretty sure she said something about wanting to handle shards of glass with her bare hands. To start us off, the guy who owns the studio, henceforth referred to as "Glass Guy" picks up a panel of glass, describes its inherent glass-like qualities, and says, "Don't hold it over your head. You will drop it and slice your skull in half."
"Oh good," I think, "A death hobby… just what I always wanted."
After a very long diatribe of the different types of glass we should NEVER use because they are expensive and hard to cut and we have NO idea what we are doing, Glass Guy starts demonstrating the technique for creating a work of art in stained glass. Creating stained glass art turns out to be a little less dignified than I had imagined. It essentially amounts to breaking glass. Okay, the guy did explain he was influencing the glass, but really he was just breaking it.
In case you are interested in creating art, or in controlled vandalism, I will describe for you the steps in making a stained glass piece. First, you make a Mission Impossible style cut in the glass, like you are escaping enemy spies by slicing your way out of a plate glass window. However, the glass cutter doesn't look like it can actually cut anything. It is more of a glass scraper. Glass Guy demonstrates proper technique by running the tool across the surface of the glass, creating a sound much like fingernails screeching along a chalkboard. He says it is important to apply about 12 pounds of pressure, adding that you can practice on your bathroom scale. He looks busy with his little glass scraper, so I don't explain to him that I did NOT take this class so I could spend the day with my hands on a bathroom scale.
Then, something incredible happens. I am thinking for sure this panel of shards is about to go shattering everywhere. In fact, I have demonstrated my firm belief of that possibility by moving as far away from the glass wielding man as possible. I hold my breath as Glass Guy grasps the panel with his bare hands, pulls a bit… and snaps it cleanly in half. I'm amazed.
After describing how to not cut off your fingers while breaking shards of glass with your bare hands, Glass Guy proceeds to demonstrate several breaking and shattering techniques, including an impressive move with a tiny hammer that I was positive almost put out an eye.
After the demonstration, he begins the supply list. One of the main aspects of this list is a huge board with other boards nailed or attached to sides of it at right angles. He holds up the huge thing in both hands to demonstrate what the final product should look like. To anyone else, creating this board contraption might be within the realm of possibility, but not for me. I will not be going to the hardware store to obtain or cut wood. I don't care how simple YOU think that is, it is incredibly complicated for me. Look, I know there is wood at a place somewhere, so getting a slice of wood is not the issue. You see, there are other sections of wood CUSTOM CUT to the first slice of wood. So even if I can find one slice of wood, how do I get the other ones to be the right size? Supposing, by some miracle, I get that far… what are those things holding all that crap together? Screws? Nails? Forget it… I'm out.
After noticing my obvious distress about the board-thing, or perhaps, noticing how my obvious distress is holding up his ability to get his class through the supply list, Glass Guy tells me he will make me one personally. He tells me that I can bring him $11.50 and he will have a board-thing all ready for me. While $11.50 seems an odd price for a bunch of wood nailed together, I am all about throwing money at the problem and readily agree to this solution. I consider asking if I can pay extra to have him paint it for me, as it would be fun to have a nicer board-thing than everyone else in the class.
Glad to have the wooden contraption dilemma behind us, I listen as Glass Guy begins describing the inherent dangers of soldering irons. This one, he holds up an example, you can get for $95. I look at it, impressed. Surely for that price, this thing might not kill me. Then, he begins telling us how this particular model can get too hot and melt or it might just skip the melting and explode. I begin wondering how much it is going to cost me to not explode. He then tells us, that we don't have to run out and buy soldering irons. He says that we can simply bring the ones we have sitting around at home, along with any extra solder. Great… I thought we already established I don't have stuff like that lying around. I don't have plywood, and I definitely don't have solder. Although, I can't be too sure, because I haven't checked the back of the fridge lately… there could conceivably be solder.
At that point, something happens that I least expect… (things are always happening when I least expect them). My friend states to Glass Guy that SHE has 3 or 4 soldering irons and wants to know if she can bring them in. I am about to give her an incredulous stare and say, "Who ARE you???" Instead, I pull myself together and ask her if I could borrow one. If I am going to be holding a device that can kill me, at least I won't have spent $95 for it.
At long last, and with great anticipation (if by anticipation you mean dread) we finally get to cut something. I mean influence the glass. Fine, I mean break stuff. I am a little apprehensive about breaking panels of glass with my bare hands.
The fact that Glass Guy has dumped an industrial size box of Band-Aids on our table does NOT instill me with confidence. I'm halfway pissed off that he felt the need to put the crate of Band-Aids on OUR table, and halfway grateful that I won't have to bleed that far, so I decide not to give him a hard time about it.
Glass Guy hands out panels of clear, non-tempered** glass, and some glass cutters and we are on our way. I make a feeble scrape across the glass and look at it unconvincingly. I must be using way less than 12 pounds of pressure. Where is a bathroom scale when you need one? I press a little harder. This time, I am rewarded with a faint screeching sound.
Okay… step two… breaking glass with your bare hands. I take a moment to admire the unscarred nature of my hands, take a deep breath, and then… snap. The glass gives way easily, dividing neatly into two pieces precisely along my cut. I was expecting an inordinate struggle, but the glass was cooperating with me. I almost cry.
This sudden snap in the glass is the only thing that has felt like home to me in days. With glass, there is no uncertainty, no life altering realizations, no thinking in circles. With glass, there is only a score and a snap. I relish the solidity, the feeling of clarity, the very act of working towards something tangible… scoring and snapping puts my mind at ease. With single-minded purpose, I plan, and score, and snap. The surface area of the glass quickly shrinks. Glass Guy, looking a bit surprised, or maybe pleased, brings me more panels.
Maybe I'm not doomed after all, at least not today. I'll let you know for sure when I'm wielding the ancient soldering iron my friend remembered she had somewhere in a closet.
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**It is very important to ONLY use non-tempered glass. Otherwise, you will be driving down the highway and a huge storefront window will come loose from the truck ahead of you, fly up into the air, and explode over your head. Don't look at me, this came straight from Glass Guy. The world is a dangerous place.


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Ryan Lochte – Olympic Swimmer, Hunk of the Day [PICTURES, VIDEO]
Eat your heart out Michael Phelps. We're starting to like your pal Ryan Lochte better.
Speedo's fashion show and the Fatskin3 Racing System launch that took place in London a couple weeks ago re-opened our eyes to the world of cute-guy swimmers. Lochte, with his smoldering good looks, athletic body and tons of gold medals, clearly stood out from the rest of the US Olympic team.
Believe it or not, Lochte is also a model. He's appeared in spreads for GQ, V Man and the Wall Street Journal Magazine, as well as the cover of Men's Journal. See for yourself why so many publishers want Lochte's bod for their ads and spreads.


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Brian Swan has a new post to his MSDN blog today that looks at working with the SQL Server Reporting Services SDK and PHP to automatically create some reports based on the date in your database.
In this post I'll dive into the SSRS SDK for PHP that was recently released by the Interoperability team here at Microsoft. [...] The documentation in the SDK is complete with explanations for the classes that make up the SDK, code examples, and a "hello world" example. However, in this post, I'll build a simple web page (code attached to this post) that renders the Sales report that I created last week.
He starts off with an overview of how all of the technology will fit together and some of the things you'll need to have before you can get started - a user with the right permissions and a connection to the server. The "SSRSReport" class in the SDK gives you quick access to load a report based on a named location. You can then use methods like "RenderAsHTML" to output it as HTML or one of other methods (like CSV, text, PDF, etc).


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Life Time Fitness, Chanhassen, MN, is expected to file answers to lawsuits filed by the families of three girls who allegedly were sexually assaulted in a Memphis-area club by a former employee.
The alleged assaults took place last summer in the child care center at a Life Time club in Collierville, TN. Anthony Webster, a former Life Time employee in the child care center, was arrested on July 14, 2011, and was arrested again the following month on additional charges of aggravated sexual battery. Webster was immediately suspended upon an investigation and was fired after his first arrest. The ages of the alleged victims were 6, 8 and 9.
In June, three lawsuits were filed in the Circuit Court of Tennessee, according to the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Each of the lawsuits seeks $1 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages from Webster, Life Time Fitness and various corporations and entities associated with the company, the newspaper reported. Life Time has until Aug. 1 to file its answers.
Karen Jayne Greenwood, senior public relations manager for Life Time Fitness, could not comment on the specifics of the case, citing pending litigation. However, Greenwood did say that the company plans to "vigorously defend" itself.
"As to the allegations, we find them to be startling and, as you should expect, the matter has been taken very seriously among the leadership at both our Collierville club and corporate offices," Greenwood wrote in an email. "Upon being alerted to these allegations, we immediately focused on supporting the Collierville authorities with their investigation. At the same time, we remain confident in our long-held commitment and track record of providing members with safe, fun, family-oriented experiences and environments, not the least of which involves our child centers and kids activities, programs and services."
As of last week, there were no new developments related to the lawsuits, according to Greenwood. An attorney representing one of the girls could not be reached for comment.


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"As a youth, Carl Hart didn't realize the value of school; he studied just enough to stay on the basketball team. At the same time, he was immersed in street life. Today, he is a cutting-edge neuroscientist—Columbia University's first tenured African-American professor in the sciences—whose landmark, controversial research is redefining our understanding of addiction.
"In this provocative and eye-opening memoir, he recalls his journey of self-discovery and weaves his past and present. Hart goes beyond the hype of the antidrug movement as he examines the relationship among drugs, pleasure, choice and motivation, both in the brain and in society. His findings shed new light on common ideas about race, poverty and drugs, and explain why current policies are failing."
-- Excerpted from book jacket, photo credit EILEEN BARROSO
Judging by Dr. Carl Hart's background, it's a little surprising he ever made it out of the 'hood, let alone became one of the nation's leading neuroscientists. After all, he grew up in a rough area of Miami, Fla., where, as a teenager, he roamed the streets as a gun-toting drug dealer.
Only after entering the military did he come to appreciate the value of an education, and eventually earn his BS, MS and PhD degrees. Today, he teaches at Columbia University where his work in pharmacology has uncovered some rather startling statistics, such as "85 percent of drug users aren't addicted," the War on Drugs has "had no effect on daily use of marijuana, heroin or any type of cocaine," and "around half of all people with drug addictions are employed full-time and many never commit crimes..."
The upshot of over 20 years of research in the field of neuro- psychopharmacology has led to the controversial conclusion that drug policy rather than drugs is the main problem. And he discusses the data underpinning his reasoning in High Price, an incendiary opus. The eye-opening book is as much a revealing memoir as a thought-provoking clarion call for an overhaul of the drug laws, given the disproportionate toll they take on minorities and the poor.
Although the author stops short of advocating illegal drug use, he does point out that the "Just say no!" campaign has never been effective. Furthermore, his concern is that educators lose the respect of students when they rely on such a simplistic approach to the problem.
Besides the groundbreaking discussion of narcotics, Dr. Hart devotes considerable ink to personal anecdotes, like the one about discovering while teaching at Columbia that he had fathered a son at the age of 15; another related the humiliation he suffered when profiled and detained as a possible perpetrator by police despite the laminated photo ID hanging around his neck proving he belonged on campus.
A seminal contribution to the conversation about the intersection of the legal system and drug addiction from a bodacious brother with both street credibility and academic credentials.


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What do you do if you manage to hack Grammy award-winning and controversial dresser Lady Gaga's Twitter and Facebook accounts? Go phishing and pretend you're giving away iPads to her millions of "little monsters." That's what hackers tried to do yesterday, before the the hacking ended.
The BBC reports that the 25-year-old pop and fashion star's social networks were indeed hacked. The hackers attempted to swoop up personal data for phishing attacks in return for "free iPad 2s."
Why would hackers want to target Lady Gaga and her strange meat suit-wearing ways? She has a legion of followers. Over 17 million followers on Twitter and over 45 million Facebook fans. If you go after someone with her influence outreach, somebody's bound to be stupid enough to bite.
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The hackers reportedly posted "So for the next 72 hours we will be hosting a massive giveaway to all the Mother Monster fans. Sign up and receive your special Lady Gaga edition iPad in time for the Holidays! For contest rules and registration visit the link below" to her Facebook fan page.
The BBC writes that early Web statistics show at least 100,000 of her fans followed the link and could have jeopardized their personal information.
The hackings are over for now as Lady Gaga wrote herself, "Phew. The hacking is over!" but it's an eye opener for everybody. Her management declined to comment on the hacking situation.
The moral of the story is: don't believe something if it's too good to be true, especially if it's on the Internet — on Twitter or Facebook.
In this case, Lady Gaga giving out free iPad 2s to each of her fans who signed up on the malicious website was a dead giveaway that something wasn't legit. Gaga's got a huge following, but she's no Oprah, when it comes to giveaways.
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Qualcomm's Toq Smartwatch to Arrive Dec. 2
Qualcomm's (NASDAQ:QCOM) first smartwatch will be available starting Dec. 2 for $349.99, the device maker announced on Monday.
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CEO Paul Jacobs in a statement said the Toq watch "showcases key Qualcomm innovations," including its low-power Mirasol display and WiPower LE wireless charging that he says will "define the emerging wearable category."
It's the latest intelligent wristwatch to hit the market, following Samsung's Galaxy Gear and Sony's (NYSE:SNE) SmartWatch.
Like other devices of its kind, Toq will receive notifications and content from third-party smartphones using Bluetooth technology. It will be compatible with Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android and feature Qualcomm-backed MEMS technology.
The watch will come loaded with weather and stock apps, including AccuWeather and E*Trade (NASDAQ:ETFC). But San Diego, Calif.-based Qualcomm said it will add additional features and functionality with future system upgrades.


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John Medina's Brain Rules is one of my favorite books because of its importance for a superteacher. I use these concepts in my classroom. The rest of the Brain Rules title is 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School. Medina's book covers these twelve rules, and the video below is about his twelfth rule is on curiosity and exploration:
Medina references education as it relates to curiosity and exploration. When it comes to transferring information between people, whether you are teaching or presenting, we must realize our goal is brain development. In order to develop the brains of our audience members, we must understand how the brain works.
Education is meant to be exploration… the satiation of curiosity. Why, then, are classrooms and lectures so boring?! My students and I talked about that today, on the first day of Professional Communication and Presentation. One student named Luis suggested that boring lectures are directed by people who don't care about the audience they're directing. I think that is true, but I also think that boring lecturer could transform into a superteacher if he or she is committed to understanding how the brain works so as to better transfer knowledge to his or her audience.
Superteachers: Has Brain Rules influenced the way you teach your students? What is your favorite rule from Medina's book?


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An English major with a minor in creative writing, Elise Keller '10 knew there were a lot of publishing companies in the Boston area. So she packed her bags and left Maryland.
In the job search, Elise quickly learned that she needed more experience and accepted an internship with Hackett Publishing, a small Cambridge publisher of philosophical books. Six months later she landed her first full-time job as a production assistant for Bedford/St.Martin's, a division of Macmillan.
"Bedford/St.Martin's is a bigger company but it feels like a family," observes Elise. "They're one of the leading publishers of college textbooks specializing in the humanities. I work in their Back Bay office in the production department with about 20 other people. There are a total of 120 employees sharing two floors. "
Supporting production editors, Elise revises composites, cold proofs files, and administers freelance files. "I've started working with a production editor on a first edition and I'm learning the whole process. I just received my first credit on the copyright page of a textbook. Eventually I would like to become a production editor and work on my own book," she says.
Elise discovered an old friend on the job. "We publish the best-selling textbook, A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker, which was the first book I bought freshman year. I used it for three years, working in the Writing Center. We also produce e-books, online tools and references for students and instructors."
Elise came to Washington College intent on becoming a writer. She began her novel in a Senior Seminar in Writing and completed the first draft that year. She is now editing and re-working her book.
"I have always wanted to be a writer, ever since I could remember," says Elise. "My goal has always been to get my book published. I got my start in the English department at Washington College and I still correspond with Katherine Wagner, who was my creative writing professor and advisor."
Her other writing project is a collection of essays she started junior year in American Environmental Writing with Professor Meehan. "I hope to expand each piece and then maybe turn it into a series. I want to go to grad school, too, and pursue an MFA in creative writing."
On campus, Elise kept busy with Writers' Theatre, Rose O'Neill Literary House, and writing for the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Lab. As a junior she spent her fall semester in London through the College's Joint Program with the University of Delaware.
"I'd like to live in England again, but right now I'm working on my craft – and mastering my voice."
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My job as a Production Assistant at Bedford/St. Martin's has been going really well. I have learned a lot and really enjoy the production side of publishing. It's a lot different than what I thought it would be and I get to see how the manuscript is developed all of the way through. I do a lot of proofreading, which is fun. Even though it's a bigger company it really has a smaller, family feel. I have joined a writer's group which meets in Cambridge and am still writing. I don't think that I'll ever be able to stop.


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As cool weather settles into Oregon and fog hangs on the banks for the Columbia River Gorge, the Eagle Creek Trail illuminates in the fiery tones of fall. Following its colorful path – especially against the evergreen backdrop and contrasting grey sky – I savored and soaked in the mists of the new hiking season.
This recreation area featuring several routes of various lengths is a popular hiking spot for locals all summer long. However, once the crowds hunker down inside for Oregon's rainy season, the true beauty of this trail unwraps.
With springs of water showering down, the trail follows the rugged cliff banks of Eagle Creek past several beautiful waterfalls. Perfect for all ages and abilities (unless you're afraid of heights), this trail remains relatively flat as it weaves along the cascading river.
The first few miles of the trail lead hikers past Metlako Falls, Punchbowl Falls and Loowit Falls to High Bridge. Crossing the deep cut Gorge, the bridge serves up views of the sheer, carving power of water.
With leaves of crimson and yellow lining the path through the lush rainforest, six miles into the hike, the trail reaches Tunnel Falls. About midway up the span of the waterfall, a passageway is carved behind the tumbling water. Created in 1910, the tunnel transports hikers along the amphitheater of cliffs for more spectacular view of this amazing water.
To complete the hike to Tunnel Falls (with time for photography stops) give yourself at least 2.5-3 hours each way. If you do go in the fall or winter, be prepared with a good rain coat and backpack cover because even if it is not raining from the sky, the cliffs spray down plenty of water to get you equally as wet.
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Follow I-84 for 45 minutes east from Portland to exit #41. At the bottom of the ramp turn right on Eagle Creek Lane. Go about 1/2 mile to the end of the road to park at the trail head.
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Sharing Music & Videos: Your Responsibilities with Respect to Copyright Law
Many members of the Middlebury community have questions about the sharing of music and movies in digital format over the Internet. These policies and procedures describe how Middlebury College handles alleged copyright violations concerning file sharing. You should understand the risks of certain types file sharing given potential legal action.
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RENO, NV - Troopers arrested a Reno teenager for DUI Monday morning after he rolled his car on US 395.
It happened around 6:20 am, troopers from the Nevada Highway Patrol were dispatched to a crash involving a vehicle that rolled over on US 395 near the Parr Blvd interchange in Reno. When troopers arrived on scene they learned a 15-year-old male from Reno had been driving the red 2005 Ford Focus southbound on the highway just south of the Parr Blvd on ramp area when he allowed his car to drift off the right roadway edge. The car struck a drainage culvert prior to rolling over several times before coming to rest on its wheels approximately 40 feet west of the highway.
No lanes were blocked or temporarily closed as a result of the crash.
The teenager displayed several signs of intoxication at the scene and failed a preliminary breath test before being transported to Renown Regional Medical Center by REMSA personnel.
Troopers met with the boy's mother at the hospital to brief her about the details of the crash. The teenager was treated and released for minor scrapes and abrasions and was placed under arrest. He was taken to the Jan Evans Juvenile Justice Center in Reno and booked for DUI-first offense; minor in consumption of alcohol; failure to maintain a travel lane; no valid driver's license; and no proof of insurance.
The teen was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash which greatly aided in the reduction of injuries, or worse, had he been thrown or ejected from the vehicle during the event.
Due to the fact he is facing criminal charges and under the age of 18, the Department of Public Safety-Media Policy prohibits the release of his name.


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The Eliminators are a group of sentient robots created by The Darkness. They made their first appearance in Wishology.
These robot minions are sent by the Darkness to hunt down whatever it desires. They sometimes exhibit some signs of humanity, a few even taking more interest in having fun than completing their orders, but are otherwise mindless drones. They chase after Timmy Turner and managed to capture most of his friends and family, but are otherwise easily dispatched on several occasions by Poof or Timmy when he had access to ancient magic.
They are silver/gray colored robots with spiked shoulders. Their helmets vaguely resemble the same one worn by Dark Laser. They are able to create some sort of portal to the inside of the Darkness with their mouths, and they are able to disguise themselves as other people or objects, thanks to the fake-i-fiers stolen from the Yugopotamians, but later, they are able to use disguises without the fake-i-fier. Their dialog mostly consists of saying "Eliminate Timmy Turner!". At the end of the trilogy, an Eliminator said "Must hug Timmy Turner!" since the Darkness was no longer evil and sent "Hugginators" instead of Eliminators.
When the Darkness first appeared on the super hero planet of Wonder World, the citizens were frightened by its appearance and so they attacked it with the planet's main weapon the "Thunder Rockets", but instead of harming it The Darkness absorbed the rockets and recycled them into the Eliminators who, from then on, would act as The Darkness' guardians and servants. At the end of the trilogy when the Darkness reformed itself, it sent out a "Hugginator" who hugged Timmy and returned all the people whom they kidnapped. It was then seen with a huge smile.
- It appears that the eliminators are powered by nuclear energy, as an eliminator requests uranium at a restaurant, and is thus angered when the waitress denied his order.
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The architects Patrik Pedó and Juri Pobitzer have been working together since their architecture study at the University of Innsbruck. In 2003 they founded their studion monovolume in Bozen / Italy.
This year they finished a hydroelectric power station, located near Winnebach brook in Dörfl (BZ) – a polygonal monolith whose design lives up to the studio's name.
Her is what the architects say:
"The station is conceived as an artificial rock quarried out of the slope. This sensation is underlined by a very reduced use of materials (concrete, glass and steel) in their rougher form, as well as by the "veins" which cross the volume. These "veins" consist of light bands of layered glass and run around the building. At some specific points of those light bands a normal single glass delivers insight to the power station's bowels."
"The main building material is watertight concrete, which was pigmented with white mortar and aftertreated with hydraulic jet in order to acheive a raw appearance.
The building has two storeys — a ground floor and a basement. The basement shelters the generating set, the distributing unit and the wire room, control tank as well as a storage room. The generating set room extends to the whole building height and is accessible by ground floor. The ground floor itself contains the space for the utility companies and the control room of the power station."


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Maui Community College automotive technology professor recognized for outstanding service to vocational educationUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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The Kunimoto award recognizes a faculty member or student from one of the UH community colleges for their achievement and contribution to vocational and technical education. The award was established by Tadashi and Elizabeth Nakaeda Kunimoto to honor their parents' role in the development of the food industry in Hawaiʻi.
Hussey is honored for his commitment to garnering community support for the automotive technology program at Maui CC. As the automotive technology program coordinator at Maui CC, he initiated outreach efforts to both private and public schools in Maui County that allowed students interested in the automotive field access to his program. He has also created relationships with community auto dealerships, businesses and other automotive-related companies to establish a network of support for the program.
To better prepare his students in their chosen field, Hussey reworked his curriculum to meet the requirements for certification from the National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation (NATEF).
Hussey serves on the advisory committee for the Maui CC Cooperative Education Program and for the Consumer Affairs of Automotive Complaints where he gives advice on automotive procedures for repairs and costs of repairs.
Hussey will be recognized for his contributions to the university along with other UH award recipients at a system-wide ceremony in September.


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The Nadeshiko Village (撫子の里, Nadeshiko no Sato) is located near the Land of Water. The families of this village are organised through matrilineality. Women from this village must venture outside to find men strong enough to defeat them, resulting in them being taken to the village to marry the kunoichi they defeated.
The village itself is positioned upon the lightly forested top of three massive and steep hills standing in a line, with two bridges spanning the gorges between them. The hills are situated within a lush forested valley in a mountainous region. In terms of construction the village seems to be similar to a stronghold or palace, with numerous walls, towers and brickwork being dominant features.
- The village's only women populace is similar to the fictional women of the amazon tribe, where a champion or when a female becomes of age, she finds a man she deems worthy and bears their child in the hopes of having a strong female heir.
- Nadeshiko refers to the entire concept of Yamato Nadeshiko.
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A finding aid is a descriptive guide to the content of a collection. The guide describes the origin, background, contents, and arrangement of a collection. It also includes a folder listing of the contents.
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After 53 years of service, the Arizona Historical Foundation will be closing its doors on June 8, 2012 in anticipation of transferring approximately 100 collections to the Library and Archives at Arizona Historical Society-Papago Park, 1300 N. College Ave. Tempe AZ, 85281 480-929-0202 ext. 174. Along with the collections, the AHF Centennial Legacy Projects and the AHF staff will move to the Arizona Historical Society.
The Personal and Political Papers of Senator Barry Goldwater, The Senator Paul Fannin Collection, The Stephen Shadegg Collection, and many other political, polling and related collections have been officially transferred to Arizona State University and will administered by the Archives and Special Collections Department, 480-965-4932.
The remaining collections have been transferred to geographically appropriate repositories including Northern Arizona University, Sharlot Hall Museum, University of Arizona, and the Arizona State Archvies.
To find out where the collections are now located see the lists on the Manuscript Collections, Photograph Collections pages.
Reference assistance will continue to be provided during this transition period. However, appointments are strongly encouraged.
It has been a privilege to serve as the stewards of the more than 300 collections at the Arizona Historical Foundation. On behalf of the AHF Board and Staff, we wish to acknowledge the thousands of researchers in the past fifty-two years who used these unique resources to further our understanding of Arizona's contributions to U.S. and World History.
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Joe Haklin, '73, a two-sport Academic All-American and member of the Wabash College Athletics Hall of Fame, has been named the first full-time athletics director in Marian College history. Haklin began his new job on October 3.
Haklin, who previously was the head basketball coach and physical education professor at Kalamazoo College, will be responsible for athletics fund raising and public relations efforts, further develop the college's wellness programs, and oversee team and individual intercollegiate sports.
"The hiring of Mr. Haklin is another step in strengthening the leadership as we continue to foster the 'whole person' education," said Marian College President Daniel J. Elsener. "Mr. Haklin's past physical education instruction and coaching experience in a variety of settings, paired with his Catholic faith, will help lead Marian's athletics programs in a way consistent with the college's mission and values."
One of Haklin's early goals will be to develop a business plan for the introduction of varsity football at Marian.
"During this new era of growth for Knights athletics, it is my goal to make Marian College even more attractive to student-athletes throughout the Indianapolis area," says Haklin.
Haklin was a four-year football letterman and three-year basketball letterman at Wabash, earning Academic All-America honors in both sports. He also earned varsity letters in baseball. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and later earned a master's degree from Wayne State University. He is a member of the Wabash College Athletics Hall of Fame.


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A transgender man whose divorce request was rejected by an Arizona judge is expected to comment for the first time Tuesday on the ruling that prevents him from ending his marriage.
Thomas Beatie was born a woman and later underwent a double-mastectomy and began hormone therapy to become a man. But he retained female reproductive organs and gave birth to three children.
Maricopa County Family Court Judge Douglas Gerlach ruled last week that he has no jurisdiction to approve the divorce because Arizona doesn't recognize same-sex marriages and there isn't enough evidence that Beatie was a man when he married Nancy Beatie in Hawaii.
The judge said the Beaties never provided records to fully explain what Thomas Beatie had done to become a man and noted Beatie halted hormone treatments so he could remain capable of getting pregnant.


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When you create a green home design, you are contributing to preserving our planet's natural resources. In addition, you are helping to eliminate greenhouse gases, which are the main cause of global warming. Besides improving the health of the planet, you can enjoy savings on your energy bills. This can be done by purchasing appliances that are energy efficient, selecting eco-friendly building materials and practicing energy saving measures.
Using recycled materials are the best way to achieve a green home design. Your builder, local home improvement store, or interior design websites have a wealth of information about instituting eco-friendly materials in every room of your house. For example, in the kitchen and bath, recycled counter tops made with paper stone are gaining in popularity over those made from granite.
The quickest road to a green home design is the use of energy efficient appliances, such as refrigerators, stoves, washers, dryers, televisions, air conditioners and small electrical items. Whenever purchasing small and large appliances, buy those with the Energy Star label. The seal of approval issued by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Department of Environmental Protection Agency means the appliance prevents global warming by reducing energy consumption.
A green home design extends to a home's contents. One major area is the furniture, such as sofas, chairs, bureaus, tables and desks. Rather than buy new furnishings when they are outdated or when you redesign a room, consider whether the piece can be repainted, refinished, restained, or dressed in a slipcover. For worn out furniture pieces, determine whether it can be reupholstered or recycled.
There are various kinds of flooring that go hand in hand with a green home design. Cork and bamboo are two effective green offerings that provide additional benefits than traditional hard wood flooring. They come in a variety of color and style options, perform well in high traffic areas and look great.
A green home design should include dimmer switches. They can be easily installed in new homes under construction, as well as in existing homes. This simple switch can minimize energy consumption, which is a good thing for our planet. It can also put extra money in your pocket since you're saving on energy use. That translates into a lower electric bill.
Complementing a green home design are other environmentally friendly measures that save our resources. They are the four Rs: recycling, reusing items in other ways instead of discarding them, restoring instead of buying new and reducing waste. Evaluate your home practices to see how you can enhance your go green pledge.
A green home design helps to preserve our natural resources and keeps our planet healthy. Going green doesn't cost anything extra, especially when you consider the cost savings in the long run. Lighting changes, for example, instantly pays for itself. When you replace standard incandescent light bulbs with energy efficient luminescent ones, you conserve energy and realize a significant savings on your electric bill.Tags: Home Design


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Fireworks rocked the sky above Toyota Park prior to the match, and what followed on the field didn't lack in excitement either, as the San Jose Earthquakes defeated the Chicago Fire 2-1 in front of a sold-out crowd of 20,276 in Chicago's home opener Saturday night.
San Jose capitalized on a communication breakdown between Fire 'keeper Andrew
Dykstra and defender C.J. Brown to take the lead. Arturo Alvarez was the hero
for the Earthquakes, chipping an 18 yard shot over the heads of Brown and
Dykstra – who were still on the ground after colliding – to score.
Marco Pappa put the Fire level only three minutes after San Jose opened the
scoring, ripping a 25-yard shot into the right upper 90. Pappa was assisted on
the goal by Collins John, who laid off a Patrick Nyarko pass directly into the
path of Pappa, allowing the Guatemalan midfielder to shoot on the first touch.
The Fire almost scored again in the 73rd minute when Patrick Nyarko pulled Cannon out of net before squaring the ball to John at the top of the 18. John one-timed his shot towards goal, but San Jose came up with a miraculous goal line clearance to keep the game knotted up at 1.
Nine minutes later, the Earthquakes made the Fire pay for their near miss, when rookie defender Opara headed midfielder Bobby Convey's cross into the back of the net from 8 yards out.
The game had got off to a fast start and Chicago should have scored first in
the 11th minute, when midfielder Nyarko used pinpoint crossing accuracy to pick
out a wide-open John only three yards from goal. Inexplicably, John wasn't able
to redirect Nyarko's cross into the back of the net, wasting an opportunity to
give the Fire the early advantage.
John's gaffe almost came back to haunt the Fire in the 38th minute, when Earthquake midfielder Joey Gjertsen nearly put San Jose ahead. But Gjertsen couldn't capitalize on his one-on-one chance with Chicago goalie Andrew Dykstra, who ran well off his line before making a nice diving stop.
San Jose had a scary moment minutes after the start of the second half, when Opara nearly put the ball into his own net in the 48th minute. Opara was inaccurate with his back pass to keeper Joe Cannon but – fortunately for the Earthquakes – the ball rolled harmlessly wide of goal.
The Fire pushed up in numbers in the final minutes of the match, but were unable to find a second equalizer.


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It's no secret that smart controllers are the future of irrigation. Increasingly, that future is now. Smart water, smart irrigation—whatever it's being called at the moment—is being mandated by more and more governmental entities, especially as changing weather patterns seem to indicate that water is becoming a scarce commodity.
Budget-conscious homeowners, landscape managers, and homeowner's associations (HOAs) might not see the immediate need for retrofits. But even if they feel that their old systems work "just fine," they'll eventually come around.
They have to. Fines and penalties for excessive water usage, and sharp upticks in water rates combined with increasing regulatory pressure will sooner or later make them smart controller customers.
More and more landscape managers are getting "the shove from above" about lowering irrigation bills. WaterLogic is a Houston, Texas-based water management company of licensed irrigators whose sole mission is to help companies cut their water usage.
"A lot of companies have these green initiatives now," said John O'Donnell, vice president of technology. "That greases the skids on the sled, so to speak, so they're willing to look at outside-the-box thinking."
Add-on devices are that think-outside-the-box solution. They are the lower-cost bridge between old and new, giving conventional controllers an IQ boost without the capital outlay that a start-from-scratch smart control system would require. Not that many years ago, you either had a conventional controller or a smart controller. It is only with new technology and innovation that this niche has developed and grown, and it hasn't stopped yet.
We should probably start by defining what "smart" means. A "smart" controller doesn't just open valves according to a timer. It takes information from sensing devices or weather stations, either directly or via the Internet, and schedules when to irrigate accordingly; some use evapotranspiration (ET).
But what if you've got a large commercial site with a variety of controllers made by different manufacturers? How are you going to retrofit that? "Oftentimes, when you're talking about a particular site, the irrigation system may have evolved over a period of years, with a mix of different host controllers," said Pat McCormick, CEO of ETwater in Novato, California. Fortunately, there are a number of add-on products that will work with any existing controller of any brand.
ETwater's Hermit Crab is one of those products. It is easy to install and works equally as well for residential and commercial installations, and it's compatible with 50 different "host" controllers.
Irrigation controllers aren't standardized like computers are. There's no such thing as a USB-type "universal" port that all manufacturers use.
By putting all the protocols for the different "host" controllers into Hermit Crab's microprocessor, the problem is solved. You can now connect to an existing controller through the remote access port using one of the six different supplied cables. These cables work with 50 different controllers.
The Hermit Crab uses the existing host controller's electronics and power, and the units are portable. If you want to relocate the device to another site, you simply remove it, restore the host controller back to its original schedule, move the unit to its new site and plug it in.
Another add-on solution, Smart Works, for Rain Bird's ESP-MC and ESP-SAT, takes these conventional controllers and converts them into smart controllers. When installed, it also adds flow monitoring capability to the system.
Both Hermit Crab and SmartWorks get their local weather information from WeatherBug, an Internet weather service. From that, they calculate ET. They both use the same software platform, ETwater Manager, accessible from any Internet-connected device. (The WeatherBug subscription is free, but there is a $199 per-year fee for access to ETwater Manager.) Through this, clients can access one dashboard and see what's happening at a glance, across all of their sites. Manager now incorporates rainfall forecast data into its scheduling engine, allowing for automated suspension of irrigation before it rains.
Chris Husband, co-owner of Liquid Technologies, LLC in Phoenix, Arizona, is an irrigation contractor and consultant who concentrates on commercial renovation work. He describes himself as a "power user" of both Hermit Crab and SmartWorks replacement panels, because "the cost is right, and they're user friendly. I can charge a couple of hundred bucks for an installation and spend less than twenty minutes actually doing it."
Husband says he has been able to cut his clients' water usage an average of thirty-five percent. Even more impressive to the client is the amount of money they have saved. "We just did a job in Scottsdale for a large commercial client, where we achieved forty-five to fifty percent water savings.
That translated to a savings of $40,000 for him in the first four months."
"We started [doing] smart control about ten years ago," said Steve Moore, CEO of Irrisoft in Logan, Utah. "Our very first product was an add-on device that eventually evolved into the Rain Bird ET Manager (which Irrisoft still manufactures for Rain Bird).
Irrisoft's Controller Link can also be added to any conventional controller. It gets local weather information from the nearest Weather Reach tower. It's accessible via any web-enabled device, such as a smartphone. The company claims they've made the web interface "smarter, more interactive and more intuitive," with at-a-glance water usage information. It also claims that the unit has "documented water savings up to 70 percent."
Water Logic's O'Donnell is seeing about 40 percent water savings from the 1,000 or so Controller Link units he's placed on large commercial sites. He especially likes the web interface. "You can bring it up online and see exactly what it has or has not done. Even better, it can email you so that you know immediately if there is an issue, like it hasn't gotten the weather signal, or it's shut down for another reason, maybe a freeze. That can be handy when you've got a client that's calling you wanting to know what's going on with his irrigation system."
Moore feels that "what Irrisoft is doing with rain is what sets us apart." Controller Link uses ET data combined with rainfall. "Rainfall is actually the more important (weather) measurement," said Moore. He points out that, as you start moving east, or into the northwest, you get more annual rainfall. That is why Irrisoft decided to have Controller Link use total rainfall to manage irrigation, rather than a simple "rain-its-off, no rain-its on" kind of system.
Controller Link can receive rainfall information in three ways. One: from a remote weather station, a Weather Reach tower. Two: from Irrisoft's own version of the "tipping bucket" rain sensor, or three: Irrisoft's more elaborate "rain station."
Irritrol, a division of The Toro Company, located in Riverside, California, has an add-on called Climate Logic. This can be attached to Irritrol's Rain Dial-R, Total Control-R and KwikDial controllers. It is compatible with the newest generation of MC-E commercial controllers (the MC-E Blue series).
It also works with several Toro controllers, the TMC-212, TMC-424 and the Custom Command Series. With Climate Logic installed, these controllers become SWAT- and EPA WaterSensecertified.
Included with every Climate Logic unit is a weather sensor that communicates wirelessly with it. This reads the temperature, sunlight and rainfall. That data is combined with information from an included smart digital (SD) card containing 40 years of historical weather information, including average humidity and wind readings.
You plug in the SD card and enter the zip code. From this, Climate Logic calculates a "water budget" and irrigates accordingly. In case of battery failure in the sensor, Climate Logic will revert to 100 percent historical.
Michael N. Hofman is executive vice president of Janet Moyer Landscaping in San Francisco, California. He's a California Landscape Contractors Association certified water manager, an Irrigation Association (IA) certified landscape irrigation auditor and IA certified irrigation contractor.
His company services residential clients, and he has installed 44 Climate Logic units in the past year. He likes them for several reasons; among them is the rain sensor. "It allows the units to respond immediately to rain events," he says. He feels that the units are easier for clients to understand. In addition, Hofman says that his clients are saving water, too. "Most of our clients who are using Climate Logic have seen a twenty percent savings."
You plug the unit into the existing controller's remote port. Since this makes the remote port no longer available, a separate remote can be purchased. This is the only way to control the unit remotely, since it is not smart phone-accessible. Hofman's company has programmed all of its clients' Climate Logic units with the same remote codes, making it very easy to check valves for maintenance using these remotes.
What if you had a conventional controller that could eventually turn into a smart controller? This was the idea behind Toro's new Evolution units, unveiled recently. The Evolution series begin as conventional residential irrigation controllers that, with the installation of additional modules, can "evolve" into smart controllers as the user wishes. If smart features aren't desired, the basic unit can be used as just that—a basic, conventional con- troller. If smart features are desired, such as adding a soil/moisture sensor, an additional receiver for that sensor isn't necessary. It's already built into the unit.
Hunter Industries in San Marcos, California, has a whole series of add- on devices that smarten up conventional controllers. With the exception of the Mini-Clik and the Flow-Clik, most of them only work with Hunter controllers. Their names describe pretty much what they do. Rain-Clik, Wireless Rain-Clik and Mini-Clik are rain shutoff devices. Rain-Clik and Wireless Rain-Clik have a "Quick Response" feature that tells a controller to shut off immediately when rain starts.
Mini-Clik is a less expensive version of Rain-Clik. It shuts off irrigation when it detects that a pre-set level of rain has fallen. It can be installed on any automatic irrigation system.
Freeze-Clik automatically stops the flow of water when outdoor temperatures drop to near freezing. Wind-Clik shuts off systems during periods of high wind and automatically resets the system when conditions are more favorable. Both work with Hunter controllers.
Flow-Clik can be programmed to shut down irrigation if it detects a flow rate higher than the programmed limit. It works with all Hunter and most non-Hunter controllers. A more sophisticated flow control device from Hunter is Flow-Sync. It meters, and provides automatic reaction to high or low flow conditions. It is used with Hunter's ACC and I-Core controllers.
Rain Bird has a number of add-on products, including ET Manager and ET Manager Cartridge. "ET Manager can be used with any company's controllers," said Sean Azad, product manager for Azusa, Californiabased Rain Bird.
It converts them from conventional to weather-and water-smart controllers.
The company claims that ET Manager helps to maintain the optimum moisture balance in your soil, allowing your controller to water only when needed. The technology is based on the standardized ET equation, and includes data from solar radiation, temperature, wind and humidity it receives from the nearest Weather Reach transmitting tower. (Weather Reach is a system of weather stations across the country. Access to this system requires a separate annual fee.) An optional onsite rain gauge is also available.
ET Manager uses something called "management-allowed depletion," that allows the soil's moisture balance to reach a user-set moisture level. The company claims that this allows less frequent but deeper watering, increasing oxygen and promoting deeper root systems.
Azad uses the "toilet paper roll" analogy to explain the concept. "You change a toilet paper roll once it's empty, not when it's at the halfway point, right?" Management-allowed depletion means you water only when the plant materials' "roll" is empty, instead of restoring moisture daily.
ET Manager installs quickly. It can be used on both residential and large commercial applications. ET Manager Scheduler software is included at no extra charge.
The ET Manager Cartridge upgrades Rain Bird's ESP-LXD and ESP- LXME conventional controllers to ET/weather-based smart controllers. It also gets weather information from Weather Reach.
Soil moisture, rain, freeze and flow sensors
There are other devices, other than what are essentially second controllers piggybacked onto existing conventional controllers. "People don't think about soil sensors when it comes to add-on devices," said Peter Lackner, product manager for Toro Irrigation.
"But a Precision Soil Sensor, (PSS), when added to a conventional controller, makes it smart." And PSS units are compatible with any brand of controller.
The Precision Soil Sensors continuously measure moisture levels in the soil to determine when to allow controllers to water. Communication between sensor probes and receivers is completely wireless. No digging is required to install the sensors.
Weathermatic in Garland, Texas, makes the SLW5 Weather Station. This turns any Weathermatic-brand SmartLine conventional controller into an ET-based smart controller. The addition of a SmartLink aircard makes the controller accessible from any web-enabled device, including tablets and smartphones. "SmartLink is the single most successful product we've ever launched," said CEO Mike Mason. It includes email alerts and real-time reporting to track your water savings and the ability to quickly adjust irrigation to comply with water restrictions and avoid fines.
A T-type flow sensor works by sending a square-wave digital pulse signal. It will work with some other brands of controllers, in addition to Weathermatic.
In Wexford, Pennsylvania, Tucor, Inc., has a brand new add-on device for 2013 called Hybrid 3D. It allows you to add a flow meter and master valve to an irrigation system without running wires back to the controller, especially useful for existing sites where hardscapes can be in the way. Plus, Hybrid 3D is compatible with any existing controller on the market.
Each 3D unit can operate one flow sensor, one master valve and up to 24 valves. Multiple 3D devices can be added to a controller. "Every irrigation controller that's smart should be connected to a flow meter," said Larry Sarver, Tucor president. Tucor also makes soil and moisture sensors for use with its controllers.
Converting conventional controllers over to smart control is easier than ever. There are a lot of different options available for both residential and commercial applications. Their relatively low cost and ease of installation make them very smart choices, for both you and your clients.


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Nancy Kerrigan will work for NBC during during the Sochi Olympics, 20 years after she was the story of the 1994 Games because of the rivalry with Tonya Harding that turned violent.
The network said Tuesday that the two-time figure skating medalist will contribute to figure skating coverage as an analyst. She will also make appearances on the "Today" show and "Access Hollywood." She will not be doing color commentary on the competitions.
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NBC is also planning a 45-minute report about the attack on Kerrigan before the Lillehammer Olympics by associates of Harding, one of the few times Kerrigan has spoken publicly about it. The network hasn't said when that will air yet.
The incident and its aftermath "was the beginning of reality television," said NBC correspondent Mary Carillo, who worked with Kerrigan on the special.
"It's not something you celebrate, being attacked," Kerrigan said. Kerrigan says she was initially reluctant to take part in the feature but trusted she would be treated fairly and wanted to give her perspective on the events.
Kerrigan had worked for "Entertainment Tonight" during the last two Winter Olympics. Since that show isn't affiliated with Olympics broadcast rights holder NBC, her access to events was limited.
NBC approached her about a broadcast role at the games last summer as the documentary was being completed, said Jim Bell, executive producer of NBC's coverage of the games.
The network also is having to make a quick pivot after Lindsey Vonn announced Tuesday that the aftermath of right knee surgery will prevent her from defending her Olympic downhill gold medal. NBC was expected to feature her as one of the marquee athletes of the game.
NBC would certainly welcome her presence, even if she can't compete. NBC Sports chief Mark Lazarus said the network wouldn't approach Vonn about becoming part of its broadcasting team, knowing her feelings about missing these Olympics are raw at this point, but wouldn't mind if she initiated talks.
"We would certainly welcome that discussion," he said.
NBC also said it would have a full team of news personnel on hand if non-sports stories intrude upon the games. The fear of violence from terrorism and anger among gays and lesbians about Russian policies toward them have been notable stories in the run-up to the Olympics, which start in a month.
NBC Olympics host Bob Costas said he's convinced these news stories have increased interest among Americans in watching the competition.
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Of course, when the company pays 100 percent your health insurance premium that may be enough. That perk is offered by 14 of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For — including software giant Microsoft. The company that gave the world Windows is also the first major corporation to offer a benefit for autism therapy.
Search engine Google — the #1 company to work for, according to Fortune – doesn't pay all employee health premiums, but it does offer the convenience of seeing a doctor on-site. Physical therapy, chiropractic services and a bowling alley are also available.
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We know for sure – Obama has failed.
Obama has failed in Egypt, Obama has failed in Syria, Obama has failed in Afghanistan, Obama has failed in Libya.
Obama has failed in Israel.
Obama has failed in America. Obama has delivered on absolutely not one thing. Obama gutted Medicare; Obama destroyed GM; Obama destroyed American health care, which was the finest system in the entire world, bar none. Physicians will soon flee Obama's "work force." Obama has failed on the southern border. Obama has failed on energy. I could continue; but counting Obama's failures has no end.
In spite of this massive, incalculable destruction, American voters, legal and illegal, should DOUBLE DOWN ON OBAMA at the polls in November; we are told.
If Obama has destroyed America and our system of government, as he promised to do, in only one term – how long will it take voters to realize everything is over? How long will it take voters to realize that the most brilliant and successful economy and civilization in the world has been utterly destroyed?
So far, Obama, the "ROCK STAR" of American politics, has had his way with with America. Obama has had free reign to exercise his diabolical platform of destruction in America and around the world. Record unemployment of Americans is the order of the day! Yet, we should DOUBLE DOWN on OBAMA?
Americans have the choice to end it.
Shall we DOUBLE DOWN ON OBAMA?
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While my cousins truck sits waiting for more parts I start it now in then & run it for a while to keep the battery up. All that was fine up in till today when I tried to start it up and ran the battery down. I went to take the battery out to charge it and the Neg. post was so hot it melted the quick disconnect knob on the neg. post. I have never had this ever happen to me ever and I am a little stumped right now. When I owned it it went through a number of wiring & ground problems and eventually all was fixed & was starting right up ok. I know I probably left out some details so ask me what ever you think I need to tell you to fill in what I have left out. His truck is a 68 C10 not with the original engine, trans, alt & dist for the year of truck but that's not anything new for today's builds. Thanks for any help, all would be appreciated. Marvin
Up Date. problem solved. I guess I forgot to tighten the - post quick disconnect knob OPS.
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I am Sorry this thread needs to be moved to the right spot: 67-72 Chevy/GMC Trucks Message Board. I'll ask Wes to move it tomorrow.
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