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In today's modern world and time, will there still be a place for mysterious cryptids and unknown powers of the spirit world? Or will they all be part of a rich and mythical folklore?
In the book, Trail of the Sasquatch, a Shaman's Journey, author Donald B. Young Jr. shares his hair-raising adventures within nature's wild, realms of the spirit world and cryptid research done in a complete and detailed memoir.
The book shows many photographs of his encounters with mysterious creatures,and features Mr. Young's more famous documentations like Big Phil, Blinky, first ever thermal recording of a possible Sasquatch, and the shocking Baby Bigfoot thermal.
Trail of Sasquatch is both an adventure story and an autobiography of a man who was tutored by an elder Iroquois shaman at a young age. His knowledge of cultural techniques of healing, Native ceremonies, spiritual rituals, and first hand encounters with spirits and cryptids sculpted his beliefs for alifelong desire to share importantcryptozoological knowledge and supernatural experiences with the world.
Although it seems difficult for ancient spiritual wisdom to conform to the present time, Mr. Young hopes that this book will open the readers' hearts and minds to all the possibilities in this world and the world of the unknown.
This book earned praises among Amazon reviewers with an average rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars. One reviewer states that, "Donald is a natural writer. He just sort of casually pulls you in until you find yourself not able to put his story down. "Another reviewer compliments his honesty, "I believe Mr. Young is telling his story as honestly as he can. Mr. Young seems kind of trapped between the modern world and the world of his teacher a Native American shaman."
It received a starred review which is awarded to books of Excellent Merit. Hollywood Book Review Lauds, "Trail of the Sasquatch, a shaman's journey is enhanced by the many photographs found at the end of the text. Mr. Young is also a talented artist, as evidenced by his drawing which graces the book's title page. Readers who come to Trail of the Sasquatch with a knowledge of and belief in this world will find a wealth of useful information. Those who may be more skeptical will soon find themselves drawn in by Mr. Young's authentic voice and riveting attention to detail."
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee State men's basketball team couldn't overcome a 23-point first half deficit and fell to Austin Peay, 75-65, on Thursday night in the Gentry Center.
M.J. Rhett led the Tigers in points and rebounds, recording 20 and 10, respectively. The performance was the redshirt junior's 11th double-double of the campaign.
Patrick Miller (17), Kennedy Eubanks (13) and Jay Harris (11) also crossed the 10-point plateau for Tennessee State (3-22, 2-9 OVC). Eubanks also had 10 rebounds while Harris added eight.
TSU beat Austin Peay (10-13, 4-5 OVC) on the glass, 39 to 33, but the Governors blocked seven Tiger shot attempts.
Austin Peay started the game red-hot, nailing 10 of its first 11 baskets (91 percent), including a 2-for-2 line from behind the three-point arc.
The strong shooting allowed the Governors to jump out to a 26-6 lead with nine minutes left in the first half.
The Tigers later trailed 30-7, but showed some signs of life by scoring eight straight points to cut the lead to 15. Rhett put the punctuation mark on the run with a strong two-handed dunk that was set up by a nice assist from Miller.
APSU closed out the first period with a three-pointer with one-second left and held a 42-24 lead at the break.
Rhett and Miller combined for 21 of TSU's 24 first half points.
The Tigers cut the Governor lead down to seven at 57-50 with a 7-0 run. Eubanks started the rally with a corner three and ended it with a pair of freebies with 6:25 to go.
A Harris three-pointer at the 3:35 mark got Tennessee State within six, but APSU responded with five-straight down the stretch, letting the Governors walk away with the double-digit victory.
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Pioneers Inc. of Hopkinsville, KY
Summer wouldn't be complete without barbecue, and I love the barbecue made by Pioneers, Inc. in Hopkinsville. Keely drives by their billboard on North Main Street as she goes to work, so she keeps me updated on their barbecue schedule -- always on Friday, but not every Friday.
Pioneers Inc. is a busy volunteer group, and barbecue is one of their fund-raising activities. The Pioneers are locally famous for delicious, homestyle food. If you ever have the good fortune to be invited to an event that they cater, you would be a fool to refuse the invitation.
The line for barbecue at the Pioneers' Smith Pavilion is always an interesting cross-section of the local population. A volunteer behind the window at left takes orders and payments. Then the customers wait a few minutes for their orders to be handed to them through the window at right. It's not a fast process, but the line does move, and the wait is absolutely worthwhile.
The menu has a variety of sandwiches, sides, and meats for carry-out or eat-in (at the picnic tables.) I usually get a pound or two of the barbecued pork to take home. Keely and Taurus like to keep some Pioneers barbecue sauce on hand.
At work, earlier in the day that I took these pictures, an elderly lady told me that she was expecting overnight guests. She described all the work she had done to get her house ready, and I asked her if she was doing a lot of cooking, too. "No," she said. "I've already made potato salad, and I'm going to buy a pound of barbecue."
"Are you going to get some Pioneers?" I asked her. "Oh, I wish I could! That would be so nice!" she said. "Are they cooking this weekend?" I assured her that they were, and she thanked me profusely. She even came by a few days later to thank me again. "Thank the Pioneers, not me," I told her. That's the sort of respect that Pioneers' barbecue gets around here.
Pioneers Inc., a civic group of Christian black men, was organized in 1952. The income from their projects goes to college scholarships, Christmas gifts and food baskets for needy families, and other community projects and needs. I think of their barbecue as one more nice thing that they do for the community.


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1965 Sunbeam Tiger Mk1 - Tiger Tales
This Sunbeam Roadster Yields A Splendid Combination Of British Sports-Car Handling And Ford V-8 Power
Sunbeam promoted the new Tiger as the fastest car in the world priced under $3,700. It was a way to go fast and handle well for a lot less than a Cobra or Corvette. Tigers United tells us The Roots Group dates back to 1859 when a young British man, Alderman John Marston, just 23, founded what would later be known as Sunbeam. In the beginning, Marston's effort was more about tin-plating than manufacturing. He was a dedicated cyclist, which made it logical for him to break into the manufacture of bicycles. He called his operation the Sunbeamland Cycle Factory, founded in 1877.
As you might imagine, Sunbeam bicycles were upscale pieces-expensive and high quality. Marston started building automobiles in 1899, but not as mass production pieces. He built cars for the fortunate few who could afford them. Maxwell Maberly-Smith designed those first Sunbeam automobiles, according to Tigers United. Ironically, Sunbeam misspelled Maberly-Smith's name when it named the Sunbeam-Mabley automobile.
As with most automobile coachbuilders at the time, there were a lot of changes in the years to follow. By 1911, Sunbeam was producing approximately 630 units a year. By 1925, Sunbeam was an active participant at Le Mans. In decades to follow, Sunbeam would build airships and airplanes as well as automobiles.
Sunbeam Tigers aren't well understood because they don't possess the same following and pedigree as their Cobra counterparts. But don't underestimate these Ford-powered British sports cars. They possess the power of a Cobra and handle like they're on rails. Their history and performance is every bit as unique as the legendary two-seaters Carroll Shelby built an ocean and a continent away. In fact, there's a whole lot of Shelby DNA in these finned Sunbeams because it was Shelby who prototyped the first one.
Sunbeam introduced the four-cylinder, two-seat Alpine in 1959. The Alpine was a fun-to-drive, open-air roadster with a 1.5L OHV four-cylinder engine. It offered outstanding handling and stability. What the Alpine lacked was power-much like the Cobra-derived AC Ace. It needed V-8 power. The Roots Group, parent company of Sunbeam at the time, had a progressive thinker in Ian Garrad, West Coast manager in Los Angeles. Garrad couldn't help but notice all the attention Carroll Shelby's Cobra was getting. He arranged a meeting with Shelby, who ultimately built the first Tiger prototype. Once Roots engineers spent time with the Tiger in England, the car was an easy sell to management. The decision was made to build the Tiger.
What made the Tiger a different animal than its British counterparts was V-8 power-making it competitive with the Corvette, Cobra, and {{{Jaguar}}}, and leaving other four-cylinder British sports cars in the dust. What's more, the darned thing was affordable at well under $3,500 suggested retail. It was a smoking deal for anyone who wanted an affordable answer to the 289 Cobra, which MSRP'd $5,995-almost twice the price.
If Sunbeam engineers had driven George Meinhardt's '65 Tiger, they might easily have been overwhelmed by the experience. George grabbed his Tiger by the tail and shook it into the screaming Orange Flame Pearl Coat restomod before you. This is a textbook example of what restomod should be in any classic Ford-tasteful, with a clear direction of what the car is supposed to do. This is road-race restomod-sharp, good looking, and ready for street, strip, or show.
George has been able to trace this car's bloodline back to our good friend, Joyce Yates, of Nashville, Indiana. Joyce has been an integral part of Indiana SAAC for more years than we can remember. Her late husband, Steve, pioneered the Indiana SAAC Spring Fling-a solid institution for more than two decades. Joyce bought this car in 1982 from Mark Davis of Houston. Prior to Davis, not much is known about this car's past. When George bought this car from Joyce, it had been stored for a long time and didn't run. It had obviously been raced hard, yet survived the drive. Clad in its original British Racing Green, it was ready for a full-scale restoration. George did this car justice with exceptional craftsmanship.
That's PPG's Orange Flame Pearl Coat basecoat/clearcoat, which demonstrates incredible depth right down to the steel. You've got to hand it to Ron Schoch of Bright, Indiana, who worked the body and laid down this tangerine finish. We're hot for those Mille Miglia 15x7-inch wheels wrapped in Kumho radials; they're a nice fit and look terrific. What's more, they hold the road with excellent adhesion for the kind of driving George does. When Ron built this car, he opted for Wilwood four-piston disc brakes for exceptional braking along with civilized street manners.
You might be thinking there's a custom 9-inch Ford underneath, but you'd be mistaken. George's Tiger has a Dana 44 with 3.31 cogs-just right for the British chassis and Tremec World Class T5 five-speed transmission.
George didn't cut corners beneath the forward-opening bonnet. That's Ford's 289ci small-block V-8 between the fenders of yet another British two-seater turned American musclecar. It's important to understand this is an early Tiger-No. 180-built in June 1964. Original equipment included Ford's 260ci small-block with a five-bolt bellhousing, which was replaced the first time the car was restored. When George brought this car home, the 289 barely ran after sitting for 19 years. He turned his 289 over to Jerry Pflum of Cincinnati for a complete rebuild, sticking with tried and proven modifications, as well as upgrades that made more power and improved reliability.
Because we're nostalgic old cronies at Mustang & Fords, we like the old Edelbrock F4B high-rise, dual-plane intake manifold topped with a Demon carburetor. In the old days, it wouldn't have been a Demon but a 600- to 650-cfm Holley 1850-mainstream in 1964. Because George wanted solid reliability, he went with an MSD billet distributor and 7AL box to light the mix. In the valley is a custom-grind, flat-tappet hydraulic Comp Cams bumpstick-which delivers a compromise of driveability and all-out performance. That means rough idle with blazing performance at high rpm. Translated: Ford power that's great fun to drive. George added L.A.T. (Los Angeles Tigers) options such as Cobra-style valve covers, an oil pan, headers, and traction bars. An alternator charging system has also made a difference in reliability.
Rich rosewood and saddle leather can be found door-to-door. Grab the LeCarra steering wheel and five-speed shifter, then get after it. This is a car born for Los Angeles freeways and desert byways, where the Tiger was born to begin with. But never sell George's Cincinnati home short-it sports its own brand of weather cycles and challenging roadways. And come spring, there's no better place to go cruising and apex-cutting.
What also keeps George smiling is his good friend, Ron. Their enduring friendship dates back to high school long ago. Ironically, Ron was studying autobody at Diamond Oaks Trade School in Cincinnati at the time. A string of vehicles would follow, including Volkswagen Beetles, Ford conversion vans, Chevy Blazers, and more. This Tiger happened because Ron was tired of Volkswagens and wanted to build something different. That's when George showed up with a Tiger. George sums it up best, "Ron is a great friend and craftsman, and the Tiger is simply a result of both."
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'65 Sunbeam Tiger Mk1
Owner: George Meinhardt,
Cincinnati, OH
|Sunbeam Tiger Production Facts
|No. Produced
|Dates Produced
|Le Mans
|4/65 to 8/65
|South African Tigers
|8/7/65 to 2/9/66
|MkII Prototypes
|12/66 to 6/27/67
|Information courtesy of Tigers United at www.tigersunited.com
|NOTE: Sunbeam was acquired by Chrysler Corporation in 1967, which is when Alpine and Tiger production ended.


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Hello, humans of the internet! *waves* Happy Monday, I hope your week is going wonderfully so far!
Today's post will be a random assortment of photos taken over the course of the summer, all of which I just haven't gotten around to sharing until now. I hope you enjoy them! 🙂
Here's Ember, watching the sunset and thinking about whatever cats think about.
STARS! ❤ We've had a lot of cloudy nights this summer, so when we finally had a clear night, I ran outside with my camera to capture the gorgeousness. Can you see the shooting star in this one? (If you can only see a few stars in this picture, try turning up the brightness of your screen.) 😀
I used a flashlight to light up the foreground of this photo, and it actually worked pretty well! I would love to try this method again on a night when the entire mosquito population isn't trying to eat me. *nod*
Random pretty sunset from a recent road trip. 🙂
More farmland, from a different road trip – there was a storm in the distance and the light was so strange. 0_0
Let's ignore the fact that Independence Day was over a month ago. 😀 To celebrate, we sat in camp chairs on a random dirt road while a storm blew in, watching fireworks and eating popsicles while my mom played patriotic music from her phone that could barely be heard over the wind. A bit different, but a great memory. 🙂
Hopefully you don't mind black-and-white photos, because I just realized that the rest of this post is colorless. XD What can I say, I love editing that way!
Ezra. ❤ I really need to practice my portrait photography, but I'm pretty happy with how I was able to capture his real smile in these photos – he tends to have a very strange fake smile whenever a camera is pointed at him. XD
He allowed me to take photos of him under the condition that his raccoon got a photo too. 😀
Continuing my obsession with trying to capture Ezra's adorableness, here he is practicing his reading with my mom. 🙂
Hehe, here's something different. XD We went to a Smalltown Poets concert a few weeks back, and it was a very fun opportunity to practice low-light photography. 😀
Does anyone else think that shoes are a very underrated photography subject?
We shall end with two random things – here's one of our many cats, Ninja.
Finally, here's Maudey saying hello to fill your daily cuteness meter. You're welcome. 😀
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Part Two: Atlantic Restaurant – Melbourne, Australia
Part ONE of my Australia adventure here.
This year, the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival (MFWF) will celebrate all things water. As noted on the official website, "In 2014 we honour water; soaking, dousing, steaming and fishing our way through a veritable ocean of information from sous vide to sustainability, from the Amazon to the Arctic."
If you missed my last post, in September I was invited by Tourism Australia to preview some of the festival restaurants, in and around Melbourne. MFWF programs begin on February 28th and run through March 16th. Click here for details.
My first night in Melbourne I attended a dinner at Chef Donovan Cooke's Atlantic Restaurant, an "ocean to plate" concept that fits in perfectly with the upcoming festival's water theme. After an early-morning arrival from Los Angeles, plus an afternoon exploring Sichuan food (aka getting lost) in Chinatown… I was ready for an elegant, fine-dining experience.
Yorkshire-born Donovan Cooke has quite a distinguished culinary pedigree, honing his skills under the likes of Marco Pierre White and Michel Roux.
From the Atlantic website:
"He has worked at The Savoy Hotel and the Waterside Inn in London and La Cote St Jacques in Roigny, France. Donovan was Head Chef at the age of 23 at Harvey's. Donovan came to Melbourne in 1996 where he was co-creator of the influential Est Est Est in 1997. Luxe was next was awarded The Age Good Food Guide three hats in its first year. Ondine followed and it was awarded Best New Restaurant in 2002. From 2004, Donovan was chef de cuisine at Derby Restaurant and Bar at the Hong Kong Jockey Club. In 2005, he was recognized as Honorary Commander, La Commanderie des Cordon bleus de France for outstanding culinary achievements."
In 2010, Donovan returned to Melbourne to become Executive Chef and partner of The Atlantic. The restaurant theme is inspired by the "hustle and bustle of the fish markets of years gone by, in New York and Chicago." It's a beautiful, waterfront location, set on the banks of the Yarra River.
Melbourne Food & Wine describes Donovan as "Intense, earnest and knowledgeable, Donovan Cooke has a reputation for his uncompromising approach to impeccable seafood and the best way to handle it. His Michelin pedigree is undeniable; his skill and technique, faultless."
And yes, he's also been on MasterChef Australia!
For this MFWF preview dinner, Chef Scott Pickett (Estelle Bar & Kitchen) was also manning the stoves along with Donovan Cooke. Pickett also has an impressive cooking background, winning Two Chef Hats in the Age Good Food Guide.
Photos – Dinner at The Atlantic Restaurant (9/8/13)
The Atlantic on the banks of the Yarra River.
"Ocean to Plate". Seafood on display, like a fish market!
Cocktails before dinner at the The Den, downstairs from the restaurant. (This photo from Atlantic website)
Wagyu Bresaola, Quail yolk, Heritage Cauliflower by Chef Scott Pickett. You can't see the quail egg in this photo, but this was such a gorgeous dish. The crunchy chips added a great texture.
Truffled "Chicken Wings", Hand-Rolled Macaroni, Broccoli Crumbs by Chef Scott Pickett. Pure comfort food. De-boned wings made into sausages. More please.
Olive Oil Confit Ora King Salmon, Spring Vegetables, Diamond Clams, Artichoke Essence, Confit Tomatoes, Soft Herb Emulsion by Chef Donovan Cooke. PERFECTION. He has spent TWO DECADES refining this salmon dish. A fact that's even posted on his twitter profile.
I had the absolute pleasure of dining (and drinking) next to Coldstream Hills Winemaker, Andrew Fleming. He explained each pairing and made the evening so much fun!
Wine: Coldstream Hills Chardonnay Notes of grapefruit and stone fruit and a creamy mouthfeel.
Wine: Seppelt Chalambar Shiraz Black fruits with subtle hints of pepper.
Kitchen Tour (Chef Donovan Cooke at right)
Chef Donovan Cooke (and his tasting spoons)
Mixed Berry Cheesecake Trifle: Raspberry cheesecake foam, cream cheese ice cream, vanilla cookies, strawberry jelly, berry marmalade by Pastry Chef Rhiannon Voros. Such a shame I only had room for one bite.
More sweets! Nougat, Valrhona White Chocolate, Pistachio Nuts, Cranberries by Pastry Chef Rhiannon Voros. Loved the pistachio.
Scott Pickett (left) and Donovan Cooke. Bad Ass Chefs.
Note: Donovan Cooke will be appearing at the MFWF 2014 Langham Melbourne MasterClass. Info and Tickets
The Atlantic Restaurant
Crown Entertainment Complex
8 Whiteman Street
Southbank VIC 3006
Tel: +61 3 9698 8888
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Scott Pickett's Estelle Bar and Kitchen
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Many thanks to Melbourne Food and Wine, Tourism Australia, Tourism Victoria
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Jerome Robbins was a great admirer of the Russian stars Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov, who each famously defected and made new careers in America. Other Dances, a pas de deux created in 1976 for a New York Public Library for the Performing Arts benefit, was specifically crafted to display their legendary technique and artistry. Robbins chose four mazurkas and one waltz by Chopin, the composer whose piano music had inspired him for Dances at a Gathering. Although Chopin did not invent the mazurka, a stylized Polish dance in triple meter, his compositions brought them to the public attention and raised them to a new level of sophistication. Other Dances, through its simplicity and virtuosity, pays homage to both Chopin's Romanticism and the fluidity of classical ballet technique.


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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is the subject of Deborah Soloman's latest column in The New York Times magazine. Two weeks ago Solomon published that lackluster interview with NAACP's Benjamin Jealous, this week she makes up for it with some interesting questions on the color-coded terror alert system, the right-wing extremism report Napolitano was forced to walk back ... oh and those persistent lesbian rumors.
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In 2002, during your gubernatorial campaign, you publicly denied rumors that you were a lesbian.
I just happen not to be married.
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My daughter was born in the wintery months and I felt like I had completely missed winter that year. When I was finally recovered, I went outside with my daughter and realized it was Spring...haha So I knew for her very first birthday I wanted it to be a Winter Wonderland of Colourful Fun! I added the Pom Poms to the theme as she was CRAZY for pom poms at that time and of course I needed a sweet little character non other than a penguin =)
All the decorations were handmade or already in my bin of Christmas goodness.
POM POMS - We made large, medium and small pom poms in a variety of colours and mini white ones hung by fishing wire from the entrance of our home all the way down our hallway as snowing pom poms. I decorated Christmas that year to go with her theme and made glittered garland strands of pom pom balls and hung them in all our windows and even decorated our tree with them. I also filled clear ornaments with sweet mini pom poms to hang on the tree.
PRINTABLES - I designed all of the printables; it was my very first take at using Illustrator and immediately fell in love! Of course a winter wonderland of fun had to go along with the "Winter Wonderland" song, so I knew I wanted stations around the house to coordinate with the quotes from the cheerful song.
YARN - Staying within the Pom Pom theme, we covered a piece of cardboard with kraft paper. Pushed in thumbtacks to spell out ONE and wrapped some yarn around the tacks....fineeto! A sign that was made with what was laying around the house =)
I made the Cupcakes and Peppermint Bark because 1. Cupcakes are my weakness and 2. Peppermint Bark is requested annually by my hubba bubba! My mom made the cookies by creating and molding her own cookie cutter to match my penguin design. I wanted the cake to look like a hill of snow with sprinkles of glittery candy...so my amazing momma whipped up a cake, slopped on some white icing and topped it off with candies...YES!!
Of course this has to be themed! Melted Snowman Water by using a black hat, coal & carrot, Comforting Coffee, Peppermint Hot Chocolate with Brrr Marshmallows and Blue Glacier Koolaid Juice. I tell you....I had to refill that Peppermint Hot Chocolate & Blue Koolaid about 5 times...the kiddies went nutso over it!
More coordinating themed homemade munchies. "Plow in Cheese" dip, "Muddy Snowballs," "Snow Capped Asparagus Trees," "Chourice by the Fire," Arctic Tuna," "Turkey Brrrd," "Avalance Ham," and Butternut Squash Soup Shots. Message me if you want any recipes...I'm telling you, every time I make these delectables...they are DEVOURED!
I bought little jars from the dollar store and filled them with a cup of hot chocolate mix and mini marshmallows so guests could get cozy with a cup of warm goodness =)
Guests were still lingering late into the evening that we ended up hosting an unexpected sit down dinner....love these days with great company!
Decor & Printables - Wakawoo Events
Cake & Cookies - My talented momma!
Sweets, Drinks & Food - Moi
Fun - All our guests!!
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Heidi M wrote:
You and your mom did a great job!!! I love the decor..and those penguin cookies??? SO cute!!
Wakawoo E wrote:
Thank you Heidi!! This party was so much fun to throw!! Her cookies were adorable...and dee-lish!! I'll pass on the compliment to her, she'll be ecstatic =) smiles
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Building knowledge management (KM) infrastructure involves reuse and refocus of several existing infrastructure components, and awareness around future visions and conditions of infrastructure. We present a community perspective using a staircase metaphor for conceptualizing government supported KM infrastructure and services. Additionally we illustrate a model for government's role in providing and leveraging infrastructure components from all tiers of government. With examples, we build a case for adding diffusion of innovation characteristics, and features from innovation networks analysis in KM infrastructure. Observability and trialability are important to knowledge acquisition, while compatibility are central to knowledge application, packaging, and creation. Ease of use, and perceived usefulness affects knowledge use in all its forms.
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The conventional wisdom is that, with Prop 30, Gov. Jerry Brown has put his governorship at risk. He's devoted so much time, attention and fundraising to the measure that many commentators say that, if Prop 30 loses, he's finished.
After watching the two-year-long odyssey to Prop 30, I now think the opposite is true. The bigger danger to Brown politically is if Prop 30 wins.
How's that? Because with the victory of Prop 30, Brown would fully own politically whatever happens next with the budget and schools. And since Prop 30 won't solve the budget or schools (the state's deficiencies in this area are too big and ingrained to be resolved by the small temporary tax increases of 30), Brown would be doubly responsible for the new budget cuts, including to the schools and higher education.
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If Prop 30 wins, many of those who backed it will inevitably feel that they were victims of a bait and switch. They will come to realize that Brown asked them to throw money into a budget that can't be balanced, since the budget is a ratchet that constantly boosts the deficit by ratcheting up spending and ratcheting down revenues.
And all the ire of these Prop 30 backers would be directed at Brown, who has badly oversold his measure.
That's why Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom was actually being constructive when he criticized Brown on the radio for promising there won't be future tuition hikes for California's university students. There certainly will be such hikes – even if Prop 30 passes.
Essentially, if Prop 30 were to win, Brown would never escape the broken budget system.
Compared to that prospect, a defeat for Prop 30, while causing some harm to Brown politically, would offer opportunity. Brown also has an obvious out with Prop 30 -- he can tell voters that he gave them a choice, and they chose to enact big cuts.
He may even be able to avoid the political and actual real pain of those trigger cuts by letting lawmakers and others push through a reversal of the triggers (perhaps even over his veto). He can also cast blame for his defeat on Molly Munger and the secretive Arizona donors who were his rivals in the Prop 30 fight.
The defeat of Prop 30 also would provide freedom. Brown would then be open to move off the broken approach of fixing the budget with temporary taxes (and new constitutional budget obligations), and instead launch an effort to redesign the budget system itself.
He has dismissed the idea of broader reform as he sold the taxes that became Prop 30. But with Prop 30 dead, he could turn the page to the sort of reform that is the only real way out of the mess.
This would require a pivot, but Brown has a decent record of pivots in his career. But the defeat of Prop 30 would leave him the option – while victory for Prop 30 would keep him trapped within a failed strategy.


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So many people ask each other: "how do we keep our children content during tough travel delays?"
We happened to be traveling this weekend and of course, as luck would have it, a major storm was due to hit north east area on Sunday. We were hearing about it for a few days, but didn't realize what kind of commotion it would create for all major airlines. On Saturday, we decided to "explore" our options. We already had one flight taking us back to NY on Sunday. However, the flight was not until late afternoon and the panic was setting in. Every station was broadcasting drama: travel disruptions, massive delays, cancellations, prepare for an extended time at the airports. The television was not calming anybody down and we could feel anxiety all around us. Since we travel often, we did what we usually do – we booked 4 other flights on different airlines at different times to make sure we can actually get home. For those of you who are not familiar with this approach, you actually don't have to spend a lot of money doing this. Most of these tickets you can use at a later date. Even if you didn't end up flying on that airline, or if the flight was canceled – you get full credit or refund.
Our first flight didn't pan out, so we tried our luck with the next one. Since we didn't have any children with us, we arrived at the airport at 11:30am for a noon flight departure, which was already 1 hour delayed from its 11am scheduled departure time. We weren't rushing because we were anticipating further delays. We got though security pretty quickly because there weren't a lot of flights taking off and nobody seemed to be in a rush. But don't be mislead – there were an insane amount of people at the airport, all victims of massive delays and cancellations.
As we walked through the airport, we've noticed that almost half of all people at the airport were children. Parents were completely stressed out and didn't know what to do. Some parents were trying to get their children to participate in a conversation, but most kids looked tired and disinterested. Other parents were too focused on how to get on the next flight and were not paying much attention to their kids. The stress level at the airport was incredibly high and you could cut the tension with a knife. Older children were either eating junk food, jumping out of their skin, or driving their parents insane. Few were reading or using computers. Those were the kids that seemed very content. What was most interesting is that watching children or getting them to calm down was mom's job. Most mothers were focusing on their children while fathers were screaming on the phone or typing away on their computers. Every mother was struggling to keep their child calm and content, especially mothers with younger children. Some moms were glancing at other moms to see if they were doing something different, something that was working for them. It was mayhem.


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ROCK HILL, South Carolina – July 26, 2012 - 3D Systems Corporation (NYSE: DDD) announced today non-GAAP adjusted earnings of 27 cents per share for the second quarter of 2012 and GAAP earnings of 16 cents per share.
Revenue increased 52% to $83.6 million over the second quarter of 2011 on 20% organic growth. The company reported growth from all its revenue categories, led by a 112% increase in its printer units sold. Backlog increased 28% sequentially to $12.3 million at the end of the quarter on continued strong demand for its printers, materials and on-demand parts services.
For the second quarter, gross profit grew 71% on higher revenue and gross profit margin expansion of 570 basis points to 51.4% over the 2011 quarter, driven by significant on-demand parts services and printers gross profit margin improvement.
The company reported non-GAAP adjusted net income of $13.9 million for the second quarter, up 44% compared to the 2011 quarter, resulting in $0.27 earnings per share. The company reported GAAP net income of $8.3 million, resulting in $0.16 earnings per share.
The company reports non-GAAP measures that adjust net income and earnings per share by excluding the impact of amortization of intangibles, non-cash interest expense, non-recurring acquisition expenses, stock-based compensation and any release of the valuation allowance on deferred tax assets. A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results is provided in the accompanying schedule.
The company generated $21.4 million of cash from operations in the first six months of 2012, and ended the second quarter of 2012 with $158.5 million of available cash, after incurring a $11.8 million increase in its operating expenses primarily from acquisition and higher sales and marketing costs. The increase included $1.9 million of higher R&D expenditures in support of its expanded consumer and healthcare solutions portfolio.
"We are very pleased to report another record revenue quarter driven by doubling printer units and balanced organic and acquisitions growth," said Abe Reichental, 3D Systems' President and Chief Executive Officer. "We believe that our continued sequential gross profit margin expansion reflects solid execution and validates our business model and potential earnings power."
The table below summarizes the company's key 2012 non-GAAP financial results for the second quarter and first six months.
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Tie dye dress: Romwe || Banjara necklace: Vintage || Double buckle belt: ASOS || Gypsy Rocker Boots: Spell Designs
Today I show you a look with this oh so cute tie dyed dress I received from Romwe the other day - isn't it the perfect summer dress? The blue colored tie dye is very vibrant and a real eye-catcher! It's also very flowy and made of a very soft fabric, but even better are its bell sleeves. To be honest I don't own that many blue colored dresses and clothes in general, but this one is a great statement piece. Definitely a perfect festival dress, because it made you stand out from the crowd and its long sleeves protect you from a sunburn when the sun is beating down on you.
I also went for a statement necklace, my beloved vintage banjara necklace. It's almost 100 years old and originally from India. It definitely got a story! I love it so much, especially with dresses in summer. For the rest I chose some western inspired accessories like my double buckle belt or my favorite studded western boots.
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I'm working on a favicon which needs to have multiple sizes.
Right now, I have a PSD file for each size, e.g.,
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After I'm done drawing them, I export each size and combine them into the ICO file format.
What I'm wondering is whether Photoshop (CS5 in my case) will allow me to consolidate all of these files with different canvas sizes into one PSD.
I suspect that I can't do this directly, so I would appreciate any advice as to how to best manage files when implementing something like a favicon; i.e., something that doesn't necessarily downscale well automatically.


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This year, 40 days before my 40th birthday, I traveled to Senegal in West Africa with Malaria No More to learn about malaria- a preventable and treatable disease that kills a child every 45 seconds. That's crazy.
Most of malaria's victims are kids under the age of five in Africa. Reaching that fifth birthday is a major milestone and we can help make sure they do.
When I think about kids' birthday gifts, I usually think about bikes and Transformers and pogo sticks. But together, we can give a far more important gift: the gift of growing up.
I spent five days in Senegal to learn about malaria, experience the culture and meet with some amazing people who are fighting the disease on the ground. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be sharing their stories and my own-including some surprises!-as gifts to you for supporting this wonderful cause.
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Losing Health Care Debate in Court Would Benefit Democrats, Says Strategist
Democratic strategist James Carville was one of the architects of Bill Clinton's victory in 1992 and has played a key role in party politics for the last 20 years. Now Carville is saying if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns parts of Obamacare, the Democrats may well benefit in the November elections.
"I think that this will be the best thing that ever happened to the Democratic Party because health care costs are gonna escalate unbelievably," said Carville Tuesday on CNN's Situation Room. "I honestly believe this, this is not spin."
Carville was referring to the Obama administration's Affordable Care Act that came under scrutiny this week when Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments on the provision that mandates that individuals buy health care insurance.
"You know what the Democrats are going to say, and it is completely justified, 'We tried, we did something, go see a 5-4 Supreme Court majority.' Then the Republican Party will own the health care system for the foreseeable future."
Erik Erikson of RedState.com took issue with Carville's comments by saying if the Supreme Court overruled parts of the act that they would be speaking on behalf of millions who don't agree with the rigorous mandates.
"Both sides, not just the Democrat side, even if the laws were upheld or struck down, there is a 5-4 conservative majority, and historically you see Republicans picking justices who have a greater propensity to gravitate to the left than you see Democrat judges propensity to gravitate to the right," said Erikson in response to Carville. "This will be an undercurrent issue for both sides, though."
However, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) who chairs the Democratic National Committee, also took issue with Carville. "What would be great for Americans is if the justices uphold the Affordable Care Act, so that we can make sure the Republicans aren't allowed to drag us backward to the days where insurance companies are making the decisions for what's best in terms of your health care," she told CNN.
The Supreme Court will most likely decide the issue sometime this summer as lower courts have both upheld and struck down President Obama's prized health care plan.
Not only is the president's health care plan causing division of the two major parties, the GOP presidential candidates are also pointing fingers at one another over who would and would not repeal the plan if elected. In a press release sent out from the Santorum campaign on Tuesday, they asked, "How can we trust that Mitt Romney will repeal Obamacare?
"After implementing socialized medicine as Governor of Massachusetts, Romney advocated for implementing Romneycare nationwide, so why should we believe now that he will repeal Obamacare when he helped put it in place."
Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts has taken criticism for implementing his own health care plan, often referred to as "Romneycare."
In a recent Reason/Rupe poll, 50 percent of Americans had an unfavorable view of Obama's health care plan and 62 percent believed the individual mandate was unconstitutional.


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Hello Andrew, I'm a 5.0 in Pasadena. If you'd like to hit some on the weekend please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Hi Andrew! Just remembered this site! Wondering if you can hit ever? I am in LA, 5.5...thx!
Hey Andrew...I live in Los Feliz, and often play at Plummer, Pointsettia, and Riverside. I'm usually free weeknights. I also visit fam in Monterey Park/Alhambra on Sundays, so that could work also. Let me know if you'd like to hit soon.
Andrew: 4.0 visiting from Northern California and in the San Gabriel area for the next 2 days. Let me know if interested in hitting.
Perfect man me too. what time ? and where are you at? so we can meet in the middle or something
and andrew you wanna hit some time this week ?
andrew i just saw your friend request .. never really look there ..sorry .. anyhow i hurt my shoulder 3 mths ago and its still in healing stage but i can rally ... sounds like you live pretty far away from me but just thought i'd accept and say hello .. let me know if your ever head towards hollywood
Hey Andrew, thz for your reply. I can hit from 7-8am weekdays since I have to work at 9. Otherwise after 7pm weekdays or weekend are good too. Would really like to hit with you as you seem very skilled and I also need someone good to hit with. Thanks and have a good one!
Hey Andrew thanks for the message. I'm actually in NorCal right now but I'll definitely get back to you about tennis when I get back in about a week or so.
Thursday at 10 is fine, lets nail a location and do it.. cal tech sucks now as they ticket the tennis parking lot...so you have to park on california street, and somedays a few blocks away from the courts...there is a park on cordova street and michigan ave, 4 blocks north of cal tech, those are usually open and are nice, it also leaves pcc and cal tech as close bacvkups if we need it.. lemme know
Hey Andrew, I know you have a match tuesday, I do to actually, do you want to do a practice session monday, 90-120 min nadal hit out, save our legs for the tuesday matches.. but it would be beneficial to train on monday..possibly play a maych later in the week, thursday or so, although it may rain for 4 days starting wednesday...play that by ear
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Bodykits! If you need a way to instantly make your car look worse, a body kit is the answer. But wait. Here's a bodykit for the C6 Vette that doesn't totally blow. What the hell is happening?
This is a kit called the Supervette SV8.R, and it looks pretty spectacular. It's like a concept version of a C7, all angles and Ferrari-esque lines. If Vette designers were even more daring with the C7, we might have gotten something like this.
Of course, this isn't a $120 kit you get a Pep Boys. If you want to make your C6 into the SV8.R, you'll need to shell out $60,000. And that's $60,000 that could be put towards a C7. Of course, these are renderings right now. Hopefully the real deal also looks this good.
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Behind The Lens
Most filmmakers dream of being recognized for their work. John Singleton' dreams have come true. DaimlerChrysler has found him to be deserving of the fourth annual 'Behind the Lens' award; honoring achievement for his work as a writer, director and producer of feature films. Recipients of the award are chosen by an advisory panel of industry professionals. DaimlerChrysler will present $25,000 to the charity of Singleton' choice.
Here's my interview with Singleton (JS) and Frank Fountain (FF).
BSN: Why was John chosen for the award?
FF: The standards are quite high. We look for an honoree whose career expands for at least 15 years in film and television behind the lens. And John just made that. During that period the honoree must have worked and had a positive impact on the nature of the industry. And also that person must have provided access to African Americans and other minorities entering the field. We think that his contributions to the overall industry and the representation of African American life in a very realistic way, we believe that he was the absolute top candidate for consideration this year. We think he follows in the footsteps of earlier awardees like Reuben Cannon, Gordon Parks and Melvin Van Peebles. We think John was a natural for this award.
BSN: And John…your response?
JS: I'm really honored. The previous honorees are all idles of mine. I interned for Reuben Cannon when I was in college. Gordon and Melvin were the only two brothers that I could look to when I was a kid when I had the aspiration to direct. They are the only two people that I could point to that had done it successfully.
FF: John, if you recall, the two of us were the ones who presented the first award to Reuben Cannon in 2002.
JS: Reuben is a close friend of mine, an advisor. A confidant in many ways. It's just really good. I feel really honored. I've learned from people before me how to navigate this business. And if it wasn't for those people before me then I wouldn't be able to accomplish what I have.
BSN: John, in your 15 year career, have you seen a diversity of roles behind and in front the camera for African Americans? And are you happy with where we are right now?
JS: Yeah. In front of the camera I think that there is a huge difference from 15 years ago. I think that there are a lot of people working but the quality is not as up to par as possible. The actors that came before like Danny, Denzel and Morgan…all of these people came from the theatre and most of the black actors that are working right now they don't have theatrical experience. They have television experience or they have film experience but that's not to say that's not successful too but it says that they are privileged to a force career in working in television and film instead of doing theatre. But behind the scenes, I've got to say that, it is not a novelty to be black and a male or be black and a woman doing feature film or television work. Some of the hottest stuff done in film and television are done by people of color.
BSN: John, you are at a point now were you've begun to produce films. Were do you see yourself in the future of this business?
JS: Well, what I want to do is continue to do new films but also finance them. And, you know, Hustle & Flow was a great experience for me but not only as a filmmaker creatively but as a businessman too. I couldn't find anybody that would invest in my film projects and so I had to go and invest in them myself. It was a great experience.
BSN: What do you look for in a script that you may want to invest in?
JS: I look for something that…a movie has to have a reason to be made. It can't just have a good idea. Or a bunch of dialog and nothing compelling about it. And I look for real filmmakers. People who are cinafiles. They watch movies. A lot of people in our generation, they grew up on television. There's a difference between television and movies. There's a difference in trying to interpret something in television than you would a film. And the people that I've been involved with… I guess my only 2 protégé are Craig Brewer and Xelinda Yancy. They've been pretty successful in what they've tried to accomplish.
BSN: Do you become overwhelmed with what you do?
JS: No. I'm not overwhelmed. This is what I planned for. This is what I wanted in terms of my career. I just really want to press on. My worst fear when I did my first film 15 years ago was being…doing one film and not being able to recover and do anything else.
BSN: Are you recruiting currently? And is Craig Brewer in your camp or apart of your organization?
JS: Craig is a part of me. He's apart of my family.
BSN: Are you looking to build an organization of filmmakers under you? Is that how you are planning to do things?
JS: Yeah. There are filmmakers that know they deal with me they are going to learn from me. They are going to be able to have a career and learn something. And have a better chance at success than being with people who don't really understand film.
BSN: Frank, when you mentioned that John just made the cut, what was the determining factor?
FF: Age. We wanted someone with experience who had really demonstrated their craft in the industry. And of course John is the youngest film director in history to be nominated for an Academy Award. Given his age and our requirement of 15 years, he's been producing in the industry, in the business since…when he was 20 years old.
BSN: What was DaimlerChrysler looking for in starting this award?
FF: We first introduced the Behind the Lens award in 2002 to recognize and celebrate the outstanding achievements of people of color who work behind the scenes in the entertainment industry. To deepen the companies presence among the ethnic diverse communities; particularly the African American community. We noticed that most of the…NAACP Image Awards and some of the other awards did not recognize and celebrate those accomplishments behind the lens. We saw that as a void and decided to put the spotlight on it and decided to create an award. And having done so in 2002 we had a great reception in the part of the industry and film community…so we have continued it. With each succeeding year it becomes even more prominent. And so, we're convinced that we're doing the right thing. It's another example of our commitment to rich into the community to expose our young people to the career path and opportunities that have not ordinarily considered in one way to highlight those opportunities is certainly reaching out and giving that award to someone who has this artistic talent.
BSN: Can you talk about the panel that determines the honoree?
FF: We have a great committee that works with us on selecting the honoree. That includes the honorary chair Reuben Cannon. And producer, writer, director Paul Hall. And the President of BET Entertainment Reginald Hudlin and Angela Ford here on our team. And I serve as a co-chair. And I think with the collective knowledge and wisdom of this group of the industry, certainly more so of the others than myself, I think that so far we've been doing very well on our honorees.
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It wouldn't be a Sub Pop event without some shenanigans going down, so leave it to the folks in Girl Trouble to provide the high jinx for the weekend.
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As you may know, the first Girl Trouble album, "Hit It or Quit It", was released on K/SubPop in 1988. In fact, this was the first full-length record SubPop ever released. The record matrix number was K/SP-20.
This month Sub Pop is hosting a huge, two-day concert of Sub Pop bands in Marymoor Park on July 12/13 to celebrate their 20 year anniversary. It's billed as the SP-20 event, one letter off from the old Hit It or Quit It matrix number. Coincidence? You be the judge. Of course, Girl Trouble awaited the invitation to join their old friends and label-mates on stage for this most festive occasion.
Unfortunately. the band now suspects that a mistake has been made. They have yet to be contacted by their old label! With only weeks to spare it was obvious there was some sort of unintentional oversight by Sub Pop.
Girl Trouble has never been a band to let a small detail like not being invited deter them from joining in on any celebration. That's why they have decided to bring some instruments and play the show anyway, somewhere in Marymoor Park, as close to the venue as they can legally get. This will be the first all-acoustic Girl Trouble show, playing selections from their Sub Pop album, Hit It or Quit It, in order.
Feel free to look for Girl Trouble somewhere in the park (possibly by some picnic tables or a tree) starting at noon, where they promise to entertain anybody who happens by. Unlike the $30 ticket price for the bands inside the Marymoor Park venue – there will be no charge for this one-day-only performance. Please join us on Saturday, July 12 for this special event. Don't forget your picnic lunch, blanket and sun screen. Complementary bag of chips to the first 40 K/SP-20 attendees.
Hope to see you there!


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Transport for London (TfL) is running a high-speed procurement of a freight journey planner for the Olympic Games, with a tender in the Official Journal of the European Union, marked as an accelerated procedure and deemed "time-critical".
The tender notice for a web-based system and interactive map application specifies just five months between the inception meeting at the end of September and the launch in February next year. TfL declined to disclose further information about the reason for its strict schedule or the system's projected cost, claiming the information is "commercially sensitive" as the tendering process is currently active.
The journey planner application should enable operators to plan efficient journeys during next year's Olympic Games and minimise disruption caused by road closures and restrictions. It should also make it possible to factor congestion levels into journey times, indicate the closest legal stopping point from the destination and take into account physical road restrictions, such as maximum height and weight.
A TfL spokeswoman told GGC: "The planner will provide a freight journey planner and interactive map and will help operators plan their journeys efficiently and in compliance with some of the traffic changes that will be necessary (regulatory, diversional and by vehicle size) to ensure successful delivery and minimal disruption during games-time."
When asked if the system would be used to deal with disruptions caused by the Olympic Route Network (ORN) and Paralympic Route Network (PRN), which will shuttle athletes around London, the spokeswoman said: "The vast majority of the ORN and PRN will be open to general traffic. To keep traffic moving along the ORN routes some temporary traffic changes will be necessary. These changes might include different signal timings, side road closures or the suspension of parking, loading and waiting bays.
"As stated in the tender document, the FJP will form an essential tool for operators to plan journeys efficiently and in compliance with the temporary traffic changes that may be necessary."
The tender comes just a few weeks before the first freight Olympic Working Group meeting is due to be held on 8 September.
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Christoper Jordan Dorner, the former LAPD officer suspected of killing three people and wounding two others, is still on the run. Local and federal law enforcement are conducting a massive manhunt for Dorner, who has been targeting cops as revenge for his firing from the force. Earlier this week he released a lengthy and rambling manifesto, and like everything else on this earth, it addressed Tim Tebow.
The killing spree actually started as a sports story, before anyone realized Dorner was involved. Monica Quan, an assistant coach for the Cal State-Fullerton women's basketball team, was shot dead in her car Saturday night, alongside her fiancé. Police initially had no motive and no suspects, but after Dorner later shot three cops and released his manifesto, the connection became clear. Quan was the daughter of an LAPD captain who defended Dorner at his termination hearing, and this was revenge for Dorner's belief that he wasn't adequately represented.
Dorner's manifesto, obtained by Gawker, contains two sports references. This first cites concussions suffered in his high school football days as a possible cause of Dorner's depression:
"If possible, I want my brain preserved for science/research to study the effects of severe depression on an individual's brain. Since 6/26/08 when I was relieved of duty and 1/2/09 when I was terminated I have been afflicted with severe depression. I've had two CT scans during my lifetime that are in my medical record at Kaiser Permanente. Both are from concussions resulting from playing football. The first one was in high school, 10/96. The second was in college and occurred in 10/99. Both were conducted at Kaiser Permanente hospitals in LA/Orange county. These two CT scans should give a good baseline for my brain activity before severe depression began in late 2008."
The second half of the manifesto offers advice to a random sampling of public figures, including Jeffrey Toobin, Ellen DeGeneres, and Christoph Waltz. There's also a paragraph for a certain free agent quarterback:
"Tebow, I really wanted to see you take charge of an offense again and the game. You are not a good QB by todays standards, but you are a great football player who knows how to lead a team and WIN. You will be 'Tebowing' when you reach your next team. I have faith in you. Get out of that circus they call the Jets and away from the reality TV star, Rex Ryan, and Mark Rapist Sanchez."
The search for Dorner has expanded statewide and into Nevada, and police warn people not to approach the armed and trained suspect, but to call 911 with any information.


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LONG BEACH – Police are searching for a black BMW that collided Monday morning with a motorcyclist who died Thursday.
The motorcyclist, James William Rodewald, 55, of Lakewood, had received what appeared to be non-life threatening injuries in the crash, but he late died, police said.
Rodewald was traveling north on Clark Avenue, near Stearns Street, and attempting to pass a black BMW sedan, also traveling north. But as Rodewald split lanes and tried to pass the car, his motorcycle collided with the car's left rear bumper and he was thrown from his bike onto the street, said Lisa Massacani, a spokeswoman with the Long Beach Police Department.
The BMW didn't stop and a witness attempted to follow the car, but it sped away north on Bellflower Boulevard from Willow Street. Two suspects, possibly men, were inside the car and are wanted for questioning, she said.
The BMW likely has damage to that left rear bumper, Massacani said.
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7.2.3 Precipitation
Precipitation drives the continental hydrology, and influences the salinity of the ocean. The distribution of the precipitation in space and time, is therefore of key importance. The amount of precipitation also constitutes a measure of the latent heat release within the atmosphere. The long-term global mean precipitation of 984 mm/yr implies a vertically integrated mean heating rate of 78 Wm-2 (Arkin and Xie, 1994; Kiehl and Trenberth, 1997). The local precipitation rate on horizontal spatial scales of 1 to 10 km are 10 to 1,000 times the global number so that the associated heating rates often dominate all other effects and strongly influence local and global circulations. Precipitation also acts to remove and transport aerosols and soluble gases both within and below clouds, and thus strongly affects the chemical composition and aerosol distribution. The suspended and precipitating condensates provide sites for aqueous and surface chemical reactions.
The highly variable rain rates and enormous spatial variability makes determination of mean precipitation difficult, let alone how it will change as the climate changes. For instance, a detailed examination of spatial structure of daily precipitation amounts by Osborn and Hulme (1997) shows that in Europe the average separation distance between climate stations where the correlation falls to 0.5 is about 150 km in summer and 200 km in winter. This complexity makes it difficult to model precipitation reliably, as many of the processes of importance cannot be resolved by the model grid (typically 200 km) and so sub-grid scale processes have to be parametrized.
184.108.40.206 Precipitation processes
Precipitation is usually considered to be of stratiform or convective nature, or a mixture of the two. In stratiform precipitation the vertical velocity of air, usually forced by developing low pressure systems, monsoonal circulations, or underlying orography, is comparable to or smaller than the fall speed of snow and ice crystals. Stratiform precipitation dominates in the extra-tropics except over continents in summer, and there is substantial spatial coherency on scales up to and beyond about 100 km. In contrast, convective precipitation systems are associated with vigorous latent-heat-driven vertical circulations on horizontal scales of a few kilometres. Convection is responsible for most of the precipitation in the tropics and middle latitude continents in summer. In many cases, convective and stratiform precipitation interact or occur together, for instance as convective cells are embedded within areas of stratiform precipitation.
22.214.171.124 Precipitation modelling
There is increasing evidence that the use of one or more prognostic cloud water variables for the modelling of stratiform precipitation is fairly successful in simulating continental and sub-continental scale precipitation distributions, including orographic precipitation, provided the synoptic-scale circulation is properly accounted for. This is the case for numerical weather predictions in the short-term range of 1 to 2 days (Petroliagis et al., 1996), and regional climate models driven by observed lateral boundary conditions (e.g., Jones et al., 1995; Lüthi et al., 1996; Christensen et al., 1998; Giorgi et al., 1998). Cloud schemes that include an explicit cloud water variable and some parametrization of the ice phase (either by carrying an explicit cloud ice variable or by including a temperature-dependent formulation of microphysical conversion rates) appear able to credibly reproduce some of the major features of the observed intensity-frequency relations (Frei et al., 1998; Murphy, 1999).
In contrast, the simulation of convective precipitation, which is fully parametrized, is of substantially poorer quality over continental regions. In a recent intercomparison study that attempted to simulate dry and wet summers over the continental US, large inter-model and model-observation differences were found (Takle et al., 1999), although the larger-scale atmospheric circulation was prescribed. One specific difficulty is the strong diurnal cycle of convective precipitation over land, which is accompanied by the build-up of a well-mixed boundary layer in response to solar heating prior to the onset of convection. Recent studies (Yang and Slingo, 1998; Dai et al., 1999) find that moist convection schemes tend to initiate convection prematurely as compared with the real world, and instability does not build up adequately. Premature cloud formation prevents the correct solar heating from occurring, impacting the development of the well-mixed boundary layer and continental-scale convergence at the surface, which in turn affects the triggering of convection. Scale interactions between convection that is organised by somewhat larger scales also seem to underlie the difficulties all GCMs have in simulating the Madden-Julian Oscillation of intra-seasonal variations in the deep tropics (Slingo et al., 1996).
188.8.131.52 The temperature-moisture feedback and implications for precipitation and extremes
With increasing temperature, the surface energy budget tends to become increasingly dominated by evaporation, owing to the increase in the water holding capacity of the boundary layer. The increase of evaporation is not strictly inevitable (Pierrehumbert, 1999), but it occurs in all general circulation models, though with varying strength. Simulated evapotranspiration and net atmospheric moisture content is also found to increase (Del Genio et al., 1991; Trenberth, 1998), as is observed to be happening in many places (Hense et al., 1988; Gaffen et al., 1992; Ross and Elliot, 1996; Zhai and Eskridge, 1997). Globally there must be an increase in precipitation to balance the enhanced evaporation but the processes by which precipitation is altered locally are not well understood. Over land, enhanced evaporation can occur only to the extent that there is sufficient soil moisture in the unperturbed state. Naturally occurring droughts are likely to be exacerbated by enhanced potential evapotranspiration, which quickly robs soil of its moisture.
Because moisture convergence is likely to be proportionately enhanced as the moisture content increases, it should lead to similarly enhanced precipitation rates. Moreover, the latent heat released feeds back on the intensity of the storms. These factors suggest that, while global precipitation exhibits a small increase with modest surface warming, it becomes increasingly concentrated in intense events, as is observed to be happening in many parts of the world (Karl et al., 1995), including the USA (Karl and Knight, 1998), Japan (Iwashima and Yamamoto, 1993) and Australia (Suppiah and Hennessy, 1998), thus increasing risk of flooding. However, the overall changes in precipitation must equal evaporation changes, and this is smaller percentage-wise than the typical change in moisture content in most model simulations (e.g., Mitchell et al., 1987; Roads et al., 1996). Thus there are implications for the frequency of storms or other factors (duration, efficiency, etc.) that must come into play to restrict the total precipitation. One possibility is that individual storms could be more intense from the latent heat enhancement, but are fewer and farther between (Trenberth, 1998, 1999).
These aspects have been explored only to a limited extent in climate models. No studies deal with true intensity of rainfall, which requires hourly (or higher resolution) data, and the analysis is typically of daily rainfall amounts. Increases in rain intensity and dry periods are simulated along with a general decrease in the probability of moderate precipitation events (Whetton et al., 1993; Cubasch et al., 1995; Gregory and Mitchell, 1995; Mearns et al., 1995; Jones et al., 1997; Zwiers and Kharin, 1998; McGuffie et al., 1999). For a given precipitation intensity of 20 to 40 mm/day, the return periods become shorter by a factor of 2 to 5 (Hennessy et al., 1997). This effect increases with the strength of the event (Fowler and Hennessy, 1995; Frei et al., 1998). However, estimates of precipitation and surface long-wave radiation suggest that the sensitivity of the hydrological cycle in climate models to changes in SST may be systematically too weak (Soden, 2000). Accordingly, it is important that much more attention should be devoted to precipitation rates and frequency, and the physical processes which govern these quantities.
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