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Alfred Knighton (Tony) Stanley was born July 15, 1937 in Dudley, N.C. He was the youngest of five children of the Rev. Joseph Taylor Stanley and Kathryn Turrentine Stanley. It was in tiny Dudley at First Congregational Church and in the loving arms of his older sister, Joye, that he first experienced God's presence. It was in the loving arms of Joye's son, Victor McLean, that he entered into God's eternal presence on Sept. 21, 2013 in Atlanta.
Tony attended public schools in Greensboro, N.C. and later, Talladega College in Alabama. There he joined the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Among those the fraternity hosted was civil rights icon Andrew J. Young Jr., a family friend, who years later would be his father-in-law as a result of his marriage to Young's daughter, Andrea. Tony Stanley graduated from Talladega in 1959 and went on to earn a master's degree from Yale Divinity School in 1962.
Rev. Stanley returned to Greensboro and joined the staffs at North Carolina A&T State University and Bennett College. He emerged as a principal strategist in the all important sit-in campaign there against Jim Crow laws. The Bennett students were especially active, particularly Beatrice Perry, who Rev. Stanley recalled "never saw a protest she didn't like." She later became his wife. It was also in Greensboro that he brought into the movement, and later Christian ministry, a heralded student athlete at A&T, Jesse Jackson, whose life he forever changed.
He left Greensboro in 1966 to become an associate pastor of Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in Detroit. Two years later, he was called to lead Peoples Congregational United Church of Christ in Washington, D.C., in the shadow of its longest serving pastor, the Rev. Arthur Fletcher Elmes, and at a time when the city was on the brink of race riots.
During his 38 years as senior minister at People, Rev. Stanley displayed an intellect and a compassion that could open doors and bridge differenced. His was a progressive ministry for the masses rather than for the few, the friends, the more faithful, the more fortunate. He had an undying love for and an interest in children, including his own three. "Taylor is my joy, Kathie is my heart and Nathaniel is my rock," he was fond of saying.
Peoples Church became home to a day care center, a community credit union and D.C.'s largest Boy Scout and Girl Scout programs. It expanded a scholarship program that still recognizes church and community graduates from pre-school to Ph.D. Classic Negro spirituals, urban gospel and jazz became common musical fare, along with sermons of national leaders and his own, in which he characteristically blended biblical teachings with folk wisdom and current events in a manner that nurtured Christian souls. The church membership grew threefold, and Peoples built a new sanctuary that he described as "an African hut of cathedral proportions."
The Rev. Dr. Stanley, who received a doctorate degree from Howard University in 1974, extended his service and leadership beyond the church's Petworth neighborhood. He accepted the many calls to public service in the District and to continuing community concerns, and was a regional and national leader in the United Church of Christ.
He retired from Peoples Church in 2006 and preached his last sermon in September, 2012. He had served for two years as an assistant minister of church development at St. Albans Congregational United Church of Christ in Queens, N.Y. Back in Atlanta, his ministry continued through Facebook and weekly handwritten notes to family and friends.
The Rev. Dr. A. Knighton Stanley was preceded in death by his parents and three siblings, Joseph Taylor Stanley Jr., Joye Stanley McLean-Bridges and Thomas W. Stanley. He leaves many to cherish precious memories, including three children, Nathaniel T. Stanley (Washington, D.C.); Kathryn V. Stanley (East Point, Ga.) and Taylor M. Stanley (Washington, D.C.), a sister, Ollie Mae Stanley (Bradenton, Fla.); nephews, Victor McLean, Thomas, John and William Stanley; a niece, Rev. Natalie V. McLean; sisters-in-law, Joan Stanley, Paula Young Shelton (Hillary) and Lisa Young Alston (Douglas); a brother-in-law, Andrew "Bo" Young III (Angelica); a special daughter, Yeme Mengistu-Gunn (Chris); godchildren, Sushama Austin-Connor (Rob), Julian Austin, Leah Austin and Ariana Austin; "soul children" Hope Tribble and Rev. George Walker, special grandchildren, Blaine Gunn and Clark, Jason and Andrew Washington; a host of sons and daughters in ministry, and countless others.


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Gartree Prison information
Prison visits are temporarily suspended following instructions for people to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives. We will update here as soon as this changes. You can also follow @HMPPS on Twitter and read a rolling update page.
There are a number of other ways to contact someone in prison if you are unable to visit them. You can:
- leave a voice message using the Prison Voicemail Service
- send them an email using the email a prisoner service
- write to them
You can also contact the Prisoners' Families Helpline on 0808 808 2003.
Gartree opened in 1965 as a category C training prison but quickly changed its role and came within the high security system, reverting to a category B prison in 1992.
Since then the population of indeterminate sentenced prisoners has been growing and in 1997 its role changed to that of a main lifer centre.
Gallow Field Road
Market Harborough
Tel: 01858 426 600
Fax: 01858 426 601
Governor: Babafemi Dada
Accommodation: Double cells on induction unit where prisoners will spend the first few weeks of their stay at Gartree before moving to a single cell.
Operational capacity: 707 as of 18th June 2012
Reception criteria: Indeterminate sentence prisoners. Those serving IPP sentences will be considered on an individual basis.
Offending Behaviour Work
All of the programmes and services offered at HMP Gartree are designed to target specific areas of Risk in order to help prisoners look at adapting their behaviour in order to lower their risk. These are part of Gartree's Local Policy in Reducing Re-offending (Pathway 7 Attitudes, Thinking & Behaviour). The programmes and services that form the suite of interventions at Gartree are as follows:
- Gartree Therapeutic Community (GTC)
- TC for those with Learning Disabilities (TC+)
- Thinking Skills Programme (TSP)
- Healthy Relationships Programme (HRP)
- Violence Reduction Programme (VRP)
- Psychologically Informed Planned Environment (PIPE)
Gartree Therapeutic Community
The GTC provides an open living-learning environment for community members. They are empowered to make their own decisions, although they can expect to be questioned by the whole community on any matter e.g. a decision not to go to work or a decision to change the daily timetable.
It also provides a long term, residential, offending behaviour intervention for community members who have a range of offending behaviour risk areas and longstanding emotional and relationship difficulties.
The GTC is a 23 bedded unit with a group-based setting where community members can undertake therapy.
TC+ (Therapeutic Community for those with Learning Disabilities)
'TC+' works in a similar way as mainstream Therapeutic Communities in prisons. The approach however is changed to support prisoners with Learning Disability (LD), and/ or an IQ of under 80, in accessing therapy.
TC+ encourages community members to address offence related risk and associated personality and psychological problems. They deliver a core treatment model suitable for sentenced prisoners with a wide range of offending needs.
TSP (Thinking Skills Programme)
TSP aims to reduce the risk of re-offending. It does this by helping participants to develop thinking skills to manage their own Personal Risk Factors (the things in life that increase the risk of offending), develop Protective Factors (things that lead away from or stop offending) and help to achieve Pro-Social Goals (still getting what participants want in life without offending to get it).
RESOLVE is a moderate intensity cognitive-behavioural intervention that aims to reduce violence in medium to high risk adult male offenders. RESOLVE is suitable for offenders with a history of reactive (emotionally driven) or instrumental (planned) violence.
HRP (Healthy Relationships Programme)The aim of the HRP is to help participants examine their experiences of feeling powerful and powerless in different settings and enable them to take personal responsibility for issues of violence.
There are two versions of HRP; the High Intensity is 68 sessions and the Moderate Intensity is 28 sessions long. Sessions last approximately two and a half hours. There are 1:1 sessions and out of group work included as part of the Programme.
VRP (Violence Reduction Programme)
The Violence Reduction Programme is the alternative violence programme that will replace CSCP at HMP Gartree in late 2013.
VRP targets high risk violent offenders and has similar programme aims to CSCP. The primary aims are to decrease the frequency and intensity of violent behaviour, decrease or eliminate antisocial beliefs and attitudes that support violence and aggression and to teach interpersonal and cognitive skills that are effective in reducing further violent crimes.
PIPE (Psychologically Informed Planned Environment)
The PIPE Unit aims to provide prisoners with progression support following a period of high intensity treatment or offending behaviour programmes in custody (e.g. DSPD, Therapeutic Communities, CSCP, and HRP). Prisoners who come onto the PIPE will be expected to have successfully completed such programmes and be motivated to applying what they have learnt in the PIPE environment.
Learning and Skills
HMP Gartree has a range of Workshops that operate within the establishment that are geared to promoting Employment Skills for prisoners to be able to use at subsequent prisons they may be sent to and ultimately for use when they are released. Workshops provided range from traditional craft and practical trades training (including Textile manufacturing for both internal and external clients, recycling and woodworking, Plastic Injection Moulding and Production Laundry) to advanced training in Information Technology in our PICTA (Prison Information Technology Academy) workshop which offers CISCO accredited training.
HMP Gartree also runs the Story Book Dads programme and provides a bespoke recording service for local and regional Talking Newspapers. In our Studio prisoners are able to develop skills in web design and desk top publishing for internal and external customers. This also includes our own internal Prisoner Newspaper.
We have substantial grounds which offer our prisoners the chance to develop their horticultural skills and to contribute to the local community by engagement with local Britain in Bloom events in Market Harborough.
Education, provided by Milton Keynes College, is a cornerstone of our work and is promoted as an essential activity for new prisoners to the establishment. We set high standards and will want to see those in our charge developing skill and ability up to Level 2 in Literacy, Numeracy and Information Technology, all of which are critically important both to employers and in allowing learners to achieve their full potential.
HMP Gartree prides itself in having an outward-looking approach towards engaging with a diverse range of public sector, private sector and third sector organisations all of which contribute to developing employment skills and increasing the self esteem of prisoners within the establishment. We have contracts with commercial organisations to deliver qualifications in our Production Workshops, on our Residential Wings and across a wide range of employment within the prison. We engage with numerous local and regional Further Education Colleges to underpin our work and provide activity that stretches and develops a wide range of skills; Leicester College provides qualifications in our Production Kitchen and Gymnasium. We work with local Third Sector organisations including the Harborough Transition Group (running a Community Garden), U3A, Workers Education Association and Probus Leicestershire. HMP Gartree is an active member of the Welland Valley Rotary Club.
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On this site you will find true stories surronding the Saginaw Gears. Written by Wes Oleszewski, who is the son of "Walt" who was the Gears Zamboni driver through the entire existance of the IHL team from 1972 to 1983. These are the little events that were witnessed from Zamboni Alley at the Saginaw Civic Center, (now called the Dow Center) plus a whole lot more!
After many years of having this site on the back-burner, I finally got it up and working. I have a lot of stuff to add, so check back often.
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a "stats." site. If you are looking for hockey stats. you've come to the wrong place. Rather these are fun and amusing tales told with painful honesty by someone who witnessed the events. It is intended as a time machine to take you back to some fun times in minor league hockey of the 1970s. Much of what is seen here comes from my personal journals recalling individual events. Thus if you get Wren Blair's book "The Bird" and discover that his dates of events are one year off... it is because they ARE one year off. Apparently his ghost writer was a bit lax in his Gears research.
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Chris Killip's Pirelli Work
For the romanticism of Isle of Man, In Flagrante is devoid of the romantic. Killip shows us the effects of people ignored by government. Where in Isle of Man, his characters inhabit an almost idyllic 19th century farm life, the characters in In Flagrante are hardened and unemployed. This is Thatcher's England of over four million jobless. Killip is relentless in showing us people passing time and all the while, you feel the tension of their plight.
Where appropriately there isn't a single picture of someone "at work" in In Flagrante, Chris Killip's new book Pirelli Work is all work. If Pirelli Work is to serve as a continuation of where In Flagrante left off, the economic situation has changed for our cast of characters. They have gone off the dole and are now gainfully employed.
Originally commissioned in 1989 by the Pirelli Tire Company (UK) to produce a series of photographs of their workforce, Killip spent approximately six months photographing freely in the factory. Working with an assistant and artificial lighting, Killip photographed the workers unposed among their machines. Unlike the Isle of Man images of work, these are photographs are far from romantic. The work is hard and dirty but to the workers it is necessary and it is dignified.
The factory floor in which they work is a dark and chaotic mash of dangerous looking machinery but the heads and hands that appear amongst the moving parts are the masters. One doesn't feel vulnerable when looking at these images like those of Lee Friedlander's factory photographs. In Friedlander's pictures, the machines cause injury and fear during their operation. Here the workers operate them with confidence and power.
There is an oppressive tone to the book though, the dark surroundings of the factory floor weigh heavily on the images. It seems that if it weren't for Killip's artificial light, these workers would be toiling in pitch darkness. I found myself wishing for a worker to take a smoke break so we could experience sunlight even for a brief moment. Instead, we continue on working. It is a factory run 24 hours a day after all.
The male workforce (there is only one woman present) does not seem temporary or transitional. One could imagine that these men will continue to make tires in this same factory until retirement. Perhaps what gives me this sense is that there is only one image of a man who seems to be under thirty, the rest are older. They are of the age where they remember the mass unemployment of the eighties and they know the importance of continually working and getting a paycheck.
The last image in the series is of an office meeting (Plant managers? Company owners?) taken through the office's windows. Essentially it is shot the way the workers on the floor would see the managerial staff. Separate from their world. The difference is, the men in the meeting don't seem to be doing anything. They actually look a bit foolish in their aquarium. That is something that can't be said of those on the plant floor. Perhaps I'm reading a political statement where one isn't meant but with the anger that streamed from In Flagrante, I can't imagine that all is well here.
At the end of the book is an essay by Clive Dilnot in which he writes about Killip's approach to to the project, work itself, the politics of photography and photographing work. He really seems to cover the bases in this essay but I find it a very difficult read. I've read it three or four times over and have trouble at points bending my mind around his words. Perhaps it is a matter of writing style or most probably my education, regardless, for me it is the photographs that are important and they speak for themselves.
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"The best in the world at accompanying silent films." — Roger Ebert
About Alloy Orchestra
Alloy Orchestra is a three-man musical ensemble that writes and performs live accompaniment to classic silent films. Working with an outrageous assemblage of peculiar objects, they thrash and grind soulful music from unlikely sources. Performing at prestigious film festivals and cultural centers in the U.S. and
abroad (Telluride Film Festival, the Louvre, Lincoln Center, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the National Gallery of Art and others), Alloy Orchestra has helped revive some of the great masterpieces of the silent era.
This was the film that launched Josef von Sternberg's career. Ben Hecht, who wrote the screenplay, won the first ever Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story (among his uncredited collaborators were Howard Hawks and von Sternberg). "Bull" Weed (George Bancroft) is the high-living kingpin of
Prohibition Chicago. When a rival gangster (Fred Kohler) puts the moves on Weed's girl (Evelyn Brent), the criminal code demands retaliation. A favorite of audiences and critics alike, UNDERWORLD is credited as the first gangster film, and the model for the popular genre.
DIR Josef von Sternberg; SCR Ben Hecht, Robert N. Lee, Charles Furthman, George Marion, Jr. US, 1927, b&w, 80 min. Silent with live accompaniment. NOT RATED
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Sat, Oct 20, 8:00Also part of the Noir City DC: The 2012 Film Noir Festival.
This film won lead actor Emil Jannings (THE LAST LAUGH, FAUST, THE BLUE ANGEL), the first-ever Best Actor award at the inaugural 1929 Academy Awards. A general in Czarist Russia, Jannings is disgraced after falling in love with a beautiful Bolshevik (Evelyn Brent) and imprisoning her paramour (William Powell of THE THIN MAN fame). A decade later and a world away, the general is now living in exile in Los Angeles, a broken man. There he finds work as a film extra in the burgeoning film colony, where he is "discovered" — in a dual sense of the word — by his old enemy William Powell, now a filmmaker.
DIR Josef von Sternberg; SCR John F. Goodrich, story by Lajos Biró and von Sternberg, titles by Herman Mankiewicz; PROD Jesse L. Lasky, Adolph Zukor. US, 1928, b&w, 88 min. Silent with live accompaniment. NOT RATED
Tickets $20/$18 AFI Members (2-star level & up)
Sun, Oct 21, 8:00
Featuring Alloy Orchestra's newest score, hot off its world premiere performance at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival! An avant-garde, expressionistic take on the Gogol source material, directed by visionary filmmaker Grigori Kozintsev (whose landmark Shakespeare adaptations HAMLET [1964] and KING LEAR [1971] were recently shown at AFI Silver). Andrei Kostrichkin gives a brilliant performance as the put-upon clerk whose worldly ambitions find single-minded focus in a new overcoat, only to discover that clothes both make — and unmake — the man.
DIR Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg; SCR Yuri Tynyanov, after the stories "The Overcoat" and "Nevsky Prospekt" by Nikolai Gogol. USSR, 1926, b&w, 84 min. Silent with live accompaniment. NOT RATED
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Special: See THE OVERCOAT (7:00) and MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (9:30) as a double feature and save! Two tickets for $25 (box office sales only; transaction must be completed as a single purchase).
Dziga Vertov's groundbreaking experimental documentary about Soviet life is also a treatise on filmmaking. Amazingly filmed and astonishingly edited, MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA remains fresh and exciting today. Banned in the Soviet Union, it has since become one of the most celebrated and influential films of all time. Often cited as Alloy Orchestra's best score.
DIR/SCR/PROD Dziga Vertov. USSR, 1929, b&w, 68 min. Silent with live accompaniment. NOT RATED
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OMERON necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 153 diseños de 35 diseñadores freelance.
My company name is OMERON.
It's a kind of holding / intermediating in different sort of activities, but Online Marketing is our main business. Another topic -next to preference marketing- is the experience economy. Not dull information. Surely to the point but giving it a flavor of experience for the users.
E.g. we are building an internet portal for different sorts of retailers in fresh food products throughout the country. We try to have a visual based user interface.
Business to business. Creating communication solutions for businesses, retailers. Online marketing, Direct Marketing.
We would like to give the OMERON logo on the one hand a kind of mythological impression, like the Homerus of Odyssey and on the other hand a modern (online) marketing appeal.
(Not a capital O and standard meron).
I like blue letters, with the darker parts more as Prussian-blue and the lighter parts to turquoise.
Shadows are never black-like. The borders – or whatever idea you might have- are more a yellow / gold-like.
Don't know if this could help you:
I like the symbol / shape of a diabolo; like this >< kind of prism, which as 2 oposite funnels capture colored rays and on the other side of OMERON the oposite funnel, emitting the colored rays again.
It encompasses convergent and divergent streams of communications and an intermediary (OMERON) in between. Our business is mainly focused on online marketing but also direct mail/printed matter.
please don't take the symbol >< to literaly, it is more to express, a kind of funnel to gather information (convergent), being intermediair OMERON and distributing the info to a mass again (divergent). A great example is; when we see a bundle of colored rays converging into a prisma it becomes a white ray, putting a prisma on the other side it breaks it open into a spectrum of color rays again. >OMERON< perhaps.
Communication, while respecting and anticipating on consumer preferences, is one of our topics.
please don't forget the blue/gold effect.
My mont blanc is lapiz lazulli with gold.
I adore this combination. Something which is a kind of a trademark of me.
Please have a look at the color combination of attached file.
The OMERON logo has to be a business logo. Surely with a creative element.
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This series consists of weekly discussion sessions on foundations of quantum Theory and quantum information theory. The sessions start with an informal exposition of an interesting topic, research result or important question in the field. Everyone is strongly encouraged to participate with questions and comments.
I will discuss two
generalizations of Kochen-Specker (KS) sets: projective KS sets and generalized
KS sets. We will see that projective KS sets can be used to characterize all
graphs for which the chromatic number is strictly larger than the quantum
chromatic number. Here, the quantum chromatic number is defined via a nonlocal
game based on graph coloring. We will further show that from any graph with
separation between these two quantities, one can construct a classical channel
We discuss the extension of the smooth entropy formalism to arbitrary physical systems with no bound on the number of degrees of freedom, comparing them with already existing notions of entropy for infinite-dimensional systems.
When two independent analog signals, $X$ and $Y$ are added together giving $Z=X+Y$, the entropy of $Z$, $H(Z)$, is not a simple function of the entropies $H(X)$ and $H(Y)$, but rather depends on the details of $X$ and $Y$'s distributions. Nevertheless, the entropy power inequality (EPI), which states that $e^{2H(Z)} \geq e^{2H(X)} + e^{2H(Y)}$, gives a very tight restriction on the entropy of $Z$.
Joint work with Earl Campbell (FU-Berlin) and Hussain Anwar (UCL) Magic state distillation is a key component of some high-threshold schemes for fault-tolerant quantum computation [1], [2]. Proposed by Bravyi and Kitaev [3] (and implicitly by Knill [4]), and improved by Reichardt [4], Magic State Distillation is a method to broaden the vocabulary of a fault-tolerant computational model, from a limited set of gates (e.g.
We study the problem of reconstructing an unknown matrix M, of rank r and dimension d, using O(rd poly log d) Pauli measurements. This has applications to compressed sensing methods for quantum state tomography. We give a solution to this problem based on the restricted isometry property (RIP), which improves on previous results using dual certificates. In particular, we show that almost all sets of O(rd log^6 d) Pauli measurements satisfy the rank-r RIP.
Abstract The magic state model of quantum computation gives a recipe for universal quantum computation using perfect Clifford operations and repeat preparations of a noisy ancilla state. It is an open problem to determine which ancilla states enable universal quantum computation in this model. Here we show that for systems of odd dimension a necessary condition for a state to enable universal quantum computation is that it have negative representation in a particular quasi-probability representation which is a discrete analogue to the Wigner function.
I will first present a theorem based on the Decoupling Theorem of [1] which gives sufficient and necessary conditions for a quantum channel (CPTPM) being such that it yields the same output for almost all possible inputs. This theorem allows us to reproduce and generalize results oft [2,3], in which cornerstones of statistical physics are derived from first principles of quantum mechanics, in a very natural and easy way. Specifically, we express them in a way which allows to apply results about random 2-qubit interactions [4].
We provide a microscopic understanding of the nucleation of topological quantum liquids that arise due to interactions between non-Abelian anyons. With the pairwise anyon interactions typically showing RKKY-type oscillations in sign, but decaying exponentially with distance, we show that the character of the nucleated phase is fully determined by anyon interactions beyond nearest neighbor exchange. We investigate this issue in the context of Kitaev's honeycomb lattice model.
We construct a class of entangled supersymmetric states which is used as a non-local resource in the CHSH game. This class of super entangled states is more non-local then maximally entangled states if the supersymmetric degrees of freedom are accessible to measurement.
Consequently, we show that the winning probability for the CHSH game is greater than cos2(pi/8) corresponding to an expected value greater than Tsirelson's bound.


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The new Mitsubishi Evolution X is already a great performer, but what happens when you give it to a tuning company like HKS? No surprise, they've made it better. The HKS Evo makes 382 HP, about 97 HP more than the standard Evo. Even better, that figure comes at 6230 RPM, about 790 revs lower than the power peak from the factory. The grunt comes from an HKS engine pack that includes a new intake manifold, a tweaked engine control unit, and an uprated turbocharger.
But what an Evo is really about is the handling, so HKS also provides a chassis upgrade kit with new suspension parts. You can complement the low stance with 265/30R19 Advan tires mounted on 19" Advan Racing RZ alloy wheels. To give it the full treatment, the styling package has an aerodynamics-enhancing body kit, as well as carbon fiber mirror caps, hood scoop, side protectors and front apron. So all well and good, but let's be honest—if you could get your hands on a mint Evo VI TME, which would you really want?
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An Oregon man was arrested on felony drug charges after accidentally dialing 911 just before a drug deal, allowing police to track down his location using the phone's GPS signal. KGW's Kyle Iboshi reports.
Butt-dialing has led to many embarrassing situations, but police say that for one Oregon drug dealer, it could lead to jail.
Police in Molalla, a city near Portland, Ore., say they intercepted a phone call about a drug deal after one of the suspects sat on her phone and accidentally dialed 911.
Using the phone's GPS signal, officers were led to an alley just a block away from the police station.
The two suspects denied having a cell phone, but the officer on scene spoke loudly and the emergency dispatcher confirmed that she could hear him over the phone, a recording of the 911 call shows. The police said they found methamphetamine when searching one of the suspects.
"This, I will say, is a first, and got a chuckle around the department," Molalla police spokesperson Aaron Christopherson told NBC News.
"Everybody had a good laugh, things are normally not that easy," said Sgt. Chris Long. "Unfortunately, Molalla has a drug problem. Methamphetamine and heroin are on the rise."
Raleigh Reynolds, 25, was arrested on felony drug charges of possession and delivery. Dana Lucht, 25, was in possession of less than one ounce of marijuana and was summoned to appear in court, police said.


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This weekend the festivities include word games, photo contests and silly stuff with lots of prizes. Head on over and join the fun. Then stick around to make that board a fun place like it used to be!
Registration is simple. Just pick a board name and password and submit your application. Tell them Terri sent you!


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Dia de los Muertos came and went without much ado in this corner of downtown Toronto. Little Halloween ghosties demanding trick or treat are scarce in urban high rise buildings. Is this the best we can do to remember an ancient holiday (holy day)?
In Mexico, the first two days of November (a.k.a. All Saints Day and All Souls Day in similar religious calendars) are marked with many traditions to honour the deceased. Foremost among them is the customary trek to the local cemetery to tend family monuments which may need weeding and paint and colourful paper decorations, but especially new flowers be they fresh or artificial. The exercise is in the nature of a family (and community) picnic. Depending on the locale, celebratory masses are not unusual. Nor are candlelight vigils, processions, a love for song, and perhaps fireworks displays.
How slightly dull and ancestrally-disinterested we North Americans seem in comparison.
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Danny Tamberelli is one of the few child actors to successfully make the transition from pre-teen stardom to adjusted adult. In the '90s, Tamberelli starred on Nickelodeon's hit TV series, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, which dipicted two brothers, both named Pete, who found themselves in unpredictable situations. Tamberelli played "Little Pete," the rebellious younger brother who often insulted people and made brash decisions. The show and character were a hit, turning Tamberelli into a child celebrity who rubbed elbows with future A-listers in the making.
Tamberelli recently visited Amoeba Hollywood for some record digging. These days, in addition to hosting The Adventures of Danny & Mike podcast Tamberelli is also the bass player and singer in the band Jounce. In our latest "What's In My Bag?" episode, Tamberelli finds some great albums, including classic So Cal punk, soul and rock albums. First off, he digs up a copy of the Angry Samoans' The Unboxed Set. He follows that up with What Makes A Man Start Fires? by the Minutemen. Tamberelli was happy to find a rare vinyl pressing of Brian Eno & David Byrne's My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts to which he says, "I go into a lot of record stores and I ask them if they have this copy and I should have just come here all along."
Tamberelli also shares an awesome story about Iggy Pop teaching him to play "TV Eye" on the bass! Check out the full episode below. Enjoy!
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'Portable party!' The Coolest Cooler tops $9 million on Kickstarter
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Are coolers really all that hot?
More than 46,000 people think so. The Coolest Cooler has raised over $9.2 million dollars on Kickstarter — and it still has a week to go.
It's described as a "portable party" and includes features like a blender, waterproof bluetooth speaker, USB charger, cutting board and bottle opener.
It's the second highest grossing campaign ever, ranking just behind the Pebble (the smartwatch that raised a record $10 million in 2012).
"There's a point where products derive much more attention than any rational expectation would suggest," said Jason Greenberg, PhD and assistant professor at New York University's business school, "In a market where potato salad can raise $55,000, it's not that surprising."
What's more surprising is that this isn't Coolest's first time around the Kickstarter block.
Ryan Grepper of Portland, Ore., unsuccessfully tried to raise $125,000 for similar model of The Coolest In November 2013. He only raised about $100,000.
On Kickstarter, Grepper detailed the biggest changes this time around: Seasonality (July vs. November), more supporters and an improved design.
It's certainly worked — but are the millions any indication of how it'll fare post-crowdfunding?
They could be.
"We've seen more and more angels and investors using [Kickstarter] as a minor league in terms of [gauging] customer demands," said Greenberg.
According to PrivCo, a financial data provider on privately-held companies, U.S. cooler sales totaled $635 million in 2013.
Igloo Products Corp "dominates" the market, according to Matt Turlip, senior analyst at PrivCo. The company, which was acquired by VC firm J.H. Whitney & Co. earlier this year, owns 53% of the full-size cooler market.
"Maybe in a year or two, with $9 million in funding, The Coolest can hope to compete," said Turlip.
Those who pledged enough for the cooler ($165 or more) will have to wait until February 2015 to get the product (which will come in Margarita, Blue Moon and Coolest Orange).
But they will have saved a cool $130 — it'll retail for $299.


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White Pita Bread
Friday, August 19, 2016
I used to be scared of baking pita. I was worried it won't puff.
When I made my Bhatura, only one puffed up nicely. Very discouraging.
One day, I invited my brother over for dinner, and I asked him what did he want me to cook? He wanted Middle Eastern fare, served with Pita Bread. Aduuuiiii!!!! Where can I get Middle Eastern Style Pita that is thin and fluffy? I'm not in KL.
He asked me if I can make pita bread, I said no!
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MWC 15 Special
Through its Twitter account, O2 Germany today announced that the German carrier will also offer the GSM/UMTS version of Palm's latest webOS smartphones - the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus. This is not a surprise at all since Telefónica, O2 and Palm signed a long-term partnership deal and therefore - even if yet not announced - it can also expected that the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus will also come to Spain, Ireland and the UK. The GSM/UMTS smartphones, recently approved by the Global Certification Forum, are expected to be identical to the AT&T versions except that the European Palm smartphones support different bands.
The major difference between the non-Plus and Plus versions is the memory where Plus versions feature more memory but also a slightly different design.
According to O2 Germany, the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus will be available in Germany from April 28 but O2 Germany will also continue to offer and maintain the Palm Pre. Prices weren't announced today.
UPDATE: On its German website, Palm has also announced that the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus are coming to Vodafone Germany as well. So it looks like the exclusivity for O2 Germany has ended with the launch of the two new Palm Plus webOS smartphones. There are yet no further announcements from Palm in terms of planned UK or Spain launches.
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Howard Hewett, Trevor Lawrence, Joseph Marks
Saxophonist Trevor Lawrence was joined by friends: Howard Hewett, 2 Official, Beth Payne, Masumi, Joseph Marks, Wah WahWatson in Los Angeles at the Historical Maverick's Flat
Legendary saxophonist and music producer, Trevor Lawrence celebrated over 45 years in the music industry at the historical Maverick's Flat. He was accompanied by Howard Hewett, Beth Payne (Sunday's Best) Masumi (Billboard charts top ten), 2 official, Michelle Gubbay and new artist Joseph Marks.
Trevor Lawrence was first on stage at the1969 monumental festival that changed music it was called "Woodstock". He has played with renowned artists like: Ringo Starr, Mick Jagger, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, B.B. King, Roberta Flack, John Lennon and produced artist like Sheryl Lee Ralph, The Pointer Sisters and Etta James. If you have heard the songs, "It?s Your Thing" by the Isley Brothers, "Superstition" and "Sir Duke"by Stevie Wonder, The "Trouble Man" Album by Marvin Gaye, "I?m So Excited" by the Pointer Sisters . . . then you have heard Trevor Lawrence (Tenor Sax) at work.
One of the many highlights of the evening was when guitarist, Wah Wah Watson a member of Motown's FunkBand, who has played for artists like; Janet Jackson, The Supremes, Gladys Knight, and those riveting guitar strings from the movie 'Shaft'. He paired on stage for a medley of hits with renown musicians Ralph Penland and Joel Scott. Joining with them to sing was new artist Joseph Marks and mega vocalist, Howard Hewett (Shalamar).
This concert was produced by 5MStar's CEO ,Janice McZeal who has worked to bring attention to" child slavery" and its horrific practices internationally. McZeal spoke passionately to the fully packed audience at Maverick's Flat,and her wish to end child slavery in Haiti and the U.S. "Child labor is work that harms children or keeps them from attending school. Around the world and in the U. S., growing gaps between rich and poor in recent decades have forced millions of young children out of school and into work. The International Labor Organization estimates that 215 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 currently work under conditions that are considered illegal, hazardous, or extremely exploitative. Underage children work at all sorts of jobs around the world, usually because they and their families are extremely poor. Large numbers of children work in commercial agriculture, fishing, manufacturing, mining, and domestic service. Some children work in illicit activities like the drug trade and prostitution or other traumatic activities such as serving as soldiers (Child Labor Public Education Project)".


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Day 1: Upon your arrival at Goa airport
Upon your arrival at Goa airport/ railway station, our tour representative assists you in smooth transfer to the hotel for a pre-booked stay.
Day 2: Goa
The 2nd day of your 3 days tour to Goa is dedicated to the exploration of North Goa beaches.
Day 3: Goa Trip
On the 3rd day of your Goa Trip, you will head straight towards South Goa. Colva is a popular beach in South Goa. The beach is home to shacks, resort complexes, tourist cottages, discos and eateries.
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Monday, June 6, 2011
Rafael Nadal and Richard Mille win the French Open 2011
Rafael Nadal, won his fifth French Open in six years on Sunday, and he did so in dominant fashion, beating Roger Federer in four sets, even though he was at set point down in the first.
The 25-year old has also retained his number one world ranking, and, of more current significance, it means that going into Wimbledon Nadal will still be the world No 1, having defended the position against the odds from the frantic assault of Novak Djokovic.
A win for Richard Mille
Another big winner on the court was Swiss watchmaker Richard Mille. He didn't wield a racquet but Nadal wears his Richard Mille 035 Rafa Nadal timepiece during all his matches.
The 035 Rafa Nadal is not your average sports watch. It costs over $85,000 and was custom built with input from Nadal. At just 4.3 grams it is extremely light, and has special shock absorbers to prevent damage to the delicate tourbillon movement.
But it's a cheapie compared to the US$525,000 Richard Mille 027 Nadal wore and had stolen from his locker on the one occasion when he decided not to wear it on court.
Scratch and match proof
Why it's black colour? It's all due to light-resistant spinels that are chemically inert, - in other words magnesium oxides and aluminium oxides with a particular structure. This improves both hardness and scratch resistance as well as its wear and corrosion properties.
This treatment applied to magnesium-aluminium is what is known as biocompatible and is used in aerospace, automotive and medical applications.
It's also unobtrusive and does not interfere with Nadal's game in any way. In fact the only thing that seemed to give Nadal any trouble at all during the four set match against Federer was a blister on his foot which required some attention in the first set.
The French is Nadal's first Open win wearing the Richard Mille 035 Rafa Nadal and this is exactly the kind of positive publicity Swiss watchmaker Richard Mille signed on for too.
Next stop is Wimbledon in a fortnight's time where there will be more opportunities to spot the 035 in action.
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Nielsen launches mobile app sentiment analysis
via www.btobonline.com New York—Media measurement company Nielsen has augmented its Brand Effect sentiment analysis tool to also measure customer engagement with mobile app advertising. Nielsen's Mobile Brand Effect for apps measures customer sentiment using such metrics as awareness, attitude, favorability and purchase intent. The new mobile apps measurement augments existing Brand Effect metrics for TVs and computers. Mobile Brand Effect measures customer engagement on mobile devices powered by Apple Inc.'s iOS operating system as well as devices running Google Inc.'s Android OS and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows.


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You Never Knew These Places Were Haunted
As temperatures drop across the country, scores of folks looking for fall fun may take a road trip to scary places like Sleepy Hollow, New York, or Salem, Massachusetts, but what if you serendipitously stumbled upon a surprisingly spooky place?
While we love to indulge in tame trips to the pumpkin patch, make spirited stops at Halloween haunted houses, or take impromptu road trips to the most haunted cities in North America in the run-up to Halloween, we were surprised to find that some of the most popular tourist attractions around the world are haunted.
While a ghost story or two may enhance the tour at these attractions, do you dare test your luck and wits at these original haunted haunts? Beware: You might see more than you bargained for! From haunted hotels to castles to theaters, we have found 15 places that we bet you never knew were haunted.Shutterstock
Palace of Versailles (Versailles, France)
France's opulent royal residence from 1682 to 1789, the palatial Palace of Versailles was the supposed setting for a ghost sighting in 1901. During a visit to the Petit Trianon, a garden hideaway on the palace grounds, two academics, Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain, claimed to have seen several people dressed in 18th century clothing, including gardeners and Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France before the French Revolution. While it remains unclear if their tale is true, the sighting was chronicled in the bestseller "The Trianon Adventure" in 1911.Alvydas Kucas/Shutterstock.com
St. Augustine Lighthouse (St. Augustine, Florida)
The nation's oldest port is also the site of supposed paranormal activity. It is said footsteps can be heard and shadowy figures can be seen along the 219 steps it takes to get to the top of the still-working St. Augustine Lighthouse. During the lighthouse's construction in the 19th century, two of the foreman's children along with another child died when the supply cart the children were playing in hit a gate and two of the children drowned. It is said the ghosts are the children. Others believe the ghost is that of a lighthouse keeper who died when the scaffolding he was standing on failed while he was painting the tower. The lighthouse has been featured on Syfy's "Ghost Hunters" show, and nighttime ghost hunting tours are offered Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights. Hunters can rent electromagnetic field meters, which ghost hunters believe can measure the presence of spirits.Shutterstock
Screaming Tunnel (Niagara Falls, Ontario)
Tucked in the northwest corner of the city off Warner Road, the 125-foot tunnel under the Canadian National Railways track is said to be haunted. The tunnel was built so that water from nearby farmland could drain underneath the train tracks. Farmers could also conveniently pass under the tracks with their animals and equipment. The name for the tunnel comes from variations of a legend about a girl whose screams can be heard within the tunnel - some say she was escaping a fire, others believe she was the daughter of quarreling parents going through divorce, and others say she was attacked and murdered in the tunnel. Still others believe the screams are the spirit of a woman who, after fights with her husband, would flee to the tunnel to let out screams of frustration. No matter which version is true (if any), visitors are supposed to walk halfway through the tunnel at night, without any flashlights, and light one single, wooden match, which will mysteriously self-extinguish before the screams of a girl can be heard.Shutterstock
The Omni Parker House (Boston, Massachusetts)
For more than 160 years, The Omni Parker House has seen many guests come and go, but it seems some never leave. Some guests who have stayed in room 303 have reported awakening in the night to the smell of cigar smoke and brandy, two things a man who died in the room would partake in. The room is now a closet, but guests still report seeing things like apparitions and an elevator that often travels on its own to the third floor.Felix Mizioznikov/Shutterstock.com
New Amsterdam Theatre (New York, New York)
Theatergoers who come to see the musical "Aladdin" may also see an unlikely cast member at New Amsterdam Theatre, the famed Broadway theatre in Times Square. Olive Thomas, a former Ziegfeld girl, is believed to roam the theater and subject the staff and guests there to her antics. The chorus girl died by suicide in 1920 and is said to come up behind ushers and security guards. Thomas is so active that when theater staff arrive each day, they blow kisses or wave at framed photos of the starlet that have been placed at all the entrances to the theater. Theatergoers can also do the same at the entrance on West 42nd Street - Thomas is the last photo on the right.Beyond My Ken/Wikimedia Commons
Alcatraz (San Francisco, California)
The ghost of gangster Al Capone is said to be ever-present at the former maximum-security prison in the San Francisco Bay. Visitors to Alcatraz say they have heard a banjo playing in the prison's shower room, a pastime Capone was said to have done in this space during his living years incarcerated here.Shutterstock
Gettysburg Battlefield (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
The hallowed ground at Gettysburg is believed by many to be haunted. The bloody battleground where Confederate and Union armies fought during the Battle of Gettysburg and where scores died in 1863 is where many say they have seen spirits of soldiers, heard the cries of the wounded, and even seen the ghost of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.Shutterstock
Forbidden City (Beijing, China)
The UNESCO World Heritage site that was the imperial palace from the Ming to the Qing dynasties is said to be haunted by the ghosts of concubines. Emperor Yongle ordered nearly 3,000 women in his harem within the Forbidden City to be killed in 1421, and, since then, some have reported seeing a woman running within the city walls. Others have reported hearing screams or crying after the sun goes down.Shutterstock
Edinburgh Castle (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Deep in the hidden tunnels that run underneath the historic Edinburgh Castle is said to be the ghost of a bagpiper, who went into the tunnels to explore them but never returned. Legend has it the piper was playing the bagpipes while walking through the tunnels when the music suddenly stopped. Rescue crews rushed in but never found him. Folks say they can hear the piper's music in the castle or on the streets above the tunnels.DiegoMariottini/Shutterstock.com
Tower of London (London, England)
The Tower of London, the historic castle on the River Thames, is filled with history, intrigue, and ghosts. Among the spirits that roam the Tower of London are those of King Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn, who was executed on Tower Green; a cousin of Queen Elizabeth I, Arbella Stuart, who starved while under arrest in the Tower; and a bear, who Yeoman Warders say comes out to scare visitors.Shutterstock
Xunantunich (San Jose Succotz, Belize)
The Mayan ruins of Xunantunich, which means "Stone Woman," is comprised of several temples, including El Castillo, the second tallest building in Belize. The name of the ruins comes from the belief among many that a female ghost haunts the site.
Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel (Calgary, Alberta)
There are a couple of ghosts who bunk at the luxury mountain resort that is located within Banff National Park. One is the Ghost Bride, who fell to her death on her wedding day in the 1930s on one of the Fairmont Banff Springs' marble staircases. Guests and employees have reported seeing a veiled woman on the stairs or a woman dancing in the ballroom. The story is so legendary that the Royal Canadian Mint and Canada Post made a coin and stamp in her honor in 2014.Shutterstock
Grand Central Terminal (New York, New York)
The iconic train station is believed by many to be haunted by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's dog Fala, who frequently accompanied Roosevelt on train trips to the city. The two rode in an armored train on a private track below Grand Central Terminal to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where Roosevelt often stayed.Shutterstock
Pirates of the Caribbean Ride, Walt Disney World (Orlando, Florida)
Some Disney cast members have claimed that a ghost named George haunts the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Walt Disney World. The story goes that a welder named George died while working on the ride and that he often stops the ride whenever folks question his existence. It is rumored cast members greet George each day to keep his antics at bay.David Roark/Walt Disney World News
The White House (Washington, D.C.)
U.S. presidents have long reported paranormal activities at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Abraham Lincoln reported seeing his son Willie, who died at age 11 in the White House. First Lady Grace Coolidge said she saw Lincoln, and others have claimed to see first ladies Abigail Adams (with arms outstretched, presumably doing the laundry) and Dolly Madison (tending to the garden). Even world leaders who have stayed at the White House, like Winston Churchill, have reported frights in the night. Guess no one told them they would be sleeping in a place that offers a stay as hauntingly memorable as those available at these haunted hotels.Shutterstock


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Laredo — Woman Injured in Auto-Pedestrian Accident on McPherson Road
Posted on Thursday, March 19th, 2020 at 9:06 pm by Williams Hart
A woman was injured in an auto-pedestrian accident that occurred in Laredo, Texas on Wednesday, March 18, 2020.
According to initial reports, the 48-year-old woman was on McPherson Road, near Gale Street, when she was struck by a Ford F-150 pickup truck. When first responders arrived, they found the woman under the truck.
She was then transported to Laredo Medical Center.
The crash still remains under investigation.
It is unfortunate to hear of what happened to the unidentified woman. Alas, there are countless other victims who suffered the same fate. Car accidents are a problem in this day and age, and yet, they still continue to happen on a regular basis. In statistics provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), car accidents occur almost every minute of every day, and every 16 minutes, someone dies from a car accident. This can be translated to be about 6 million car accidents every year and about 37,000 people dying from them.
Car accidents are reported to be deadly for pedestrians particularly. The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) estimates that the number of pedestrian deaths in the U.S. is 6,000 in 2017. This is a 27% increase from 2007 to 2016, and it is said that the number in 2017 is a 25-year high.
Additionally, there are five states that had the most number of pedestrian fatalities in 2017, and these are California, Florida, New York, Arizona, and Texas. These states accounted for about 43% of pedestrian fatalities during the first half of 2017 despite the fact that they are home to only 30% of the U.S. population. The GHSA also claims that children and the elderly are the most vulnerable to this kind of accident.
Car accidents, especially the auto-pedestrian ones, are quite difficult for the victims and their respective families. Thankfully, there are lawyers that specialize in car accidents/auto-pedestrian accidents, so if you are a victim of this kind of accident, or you know someone who is, or you lost a loved one because of this, then please never hesitate to ask for help from these lawyers. They will help you in protecting your rights and in getting you the justice that you deserve.
If someone you love was seriously hurt or killed in an accident, you may be unsure of where to turn. The attorneys of Williams Hart have experience helping people through the aftermath of catastrophic accidents, and we can help you too. Contact our law firm at (713) 352-7071 to speak with an experienced lawyer today.
Note: We report on the types of accidents and injuries our law firm has experience handling. Our hearts go out to victims of the accidents described on this blog, and we hope that future accidents, injuries, and deaths can be prevented. These posts are gathered from recent stories in the news. As new developments occur, these stories are often updated. If information contained within this article is false or outdated, please contact us so we can include the new information or make a correction.
Disclaimer: Williams Hart hopes that by showing how often catastrophic accidents occur, we can begin a conversation about how to reduce or prevent them. We sincerely hope that the articles on our blog arm readers with the information needed to avoid being involved in such accidents. Content on this blog should not be construed as legal advice.


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Why can't the U.S. basketball team seem to win in international competition anymore? Leave it to Mark Cuban to unravel this mystery. It may shock you to learn that Cuban lays the blame directly on those damn pyramid-shaped lanes. Oh, and the international ball. And the way the referees are dressed. Here he is in Blog Maverick, a post which he repeated from an interview a day earlier with CBS Sportsline's Mike Freeman.
I would be willing to bet that if you brought back all the same teams in the final eight and played under NBA rules, with an NBA ball on an NBA-sized court, we would torch them. The different rules require different skill sets. It's that simple. If one set of rules isn't natural to you, you will struggle to adapt.
Cuban's arguable frustration about the rules aside, the real fun here is reading the preamble by Freeman, who wrote of Cuban:
You are about to read some of the smartest analysis from any NBA player, coach or official about why it seems the Americans, when it comes to international basketball play, couldn't beat a foreign team composed of three French Poodles and two third-graders if their lives depended on it.
That makes so much sense my head hurts. ... As usual, Cuban makes too much sense.
It's all topped off by a commenter on Cuban's own blog, who sums it up nicely:
This journalist is brown-nosing Cuban so hard, he'll have to have his nostrils surgically separated from Mark's posterior.
More On USA Basketball [Blog Maverick]
A New Game Plan For Team USA [ESPN]


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How would you prove that every graph $G$ is an induced subgraph of the $r$-regular graph, where $r\geq \Delta(G)?$
I can picture the answer for when $G$ itself can be turned into a $\Delta$-regular graph: make a union of $G$ with a copy of itself and then connect the vertices across the two vertex sets $U$ (from $G$) and $W$ (from the copy of $G$) such that $u_i$ and $w_j$ are connected if and only if $v_i$ and $v_j$ would be connected in the original graph in order to turn it (the original graph) into a $\Delta$-regular graph.
However, I cannot figure out how to do it in the general case where, for instance, the order of $G$ may be even or odd (and, thus, may not be made into an $r$-regular graph if r is odd as well) or for when $r>\Delta$. (I am also having trouble with the just language of graph theory and how to write proofs for it if you couldn't tell.)


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This incredible example of post-apocalyptic engineering and badassity was spotted entering Calgary, Canada... but I would've pegged the pilot as a Real American Hero any day. Everything about this setup is freakin' sweet as exclaimed in a Peter Griffin voice.
The guy driving (riding?) this thing probably doesn't know where he's going, but he sure knows where he's been. Bet he's hanging on the promises in songs of yesterday, but you know what? He's made up his mind. He ain't wasting no more time. And godamn it, he's going camping on his own again because his significant other still won't be seen on his maniacal contraption. (Probably).
Motorcycle camping, for many of us, is about overland travel with the bare-minimum of gear and complications. Obviously Mad Max here is not "many of us" and for that I am both confused and in awe of his loadout.
Here's a full-size photo for you to make your wallpaper and/or photoshop a 75% opaque American flag over.
Hat tip to David Rogers for spotting this and snapping an excellent photo!


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SOUTHERN RHONE VALLEY: Wines have been produced in the region since pre Roman times, and those from the right bank were the favorite wines of the Papal community in Avignon at the time of the schism. The southern sub-region produces an array of red, white and rose wines, often blends of several grapes such as in the Chateauneuf-du-Pape appellation.


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Boreen Point is a relaxed village on the shores of lovely Lake Cootharaba. The largest lake of the Noosa River system, Cootharaba is the gateway to the upper Noosa River, the Noosa Everglades and the Great Sandy National Park. The village is about 20 kilometres by sealed road from Tewantin on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
A haven for sailing and boating enthusiasts, Boreen Point has holiday cottages, a general store, caravan parks and boat hire facilities. Boreen Point is the home of a sailing club, which stages major sailing and sailboarding events.
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Roses – A Valentine's Experience
By Liz Lant | Published: February 10, 2011
I love roses! I especially love the dark red velvet textured Black Magic roses. But give me roses of any size and colour and I will be happy. Hybrid tea roses, garden roses, sweetheart roses, spray roses - all in hues that represent most of the colour wheel. Roses are also loved by most of the female population of the world and are considered to be the most favoured of all flowers. Personally, I think any woman who says she doesn't like roses is only saying that because it's such a popular flower, and she doesn't want to be associated with the status quo. In my opinion, women are simply genetically predisposed to being attracted to roses.
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Rep. Diane Feinstein has gone a long way to draw the ire of military members and gun owners alike. Much of it has to do with her admitting to having a concealed carry permit and then going on a crusade for stricter gun control.
Enter, Defense Distributed, the 3D printing company which made headlines last year when it started 3D printing weapons components. They've had successes and failures, but today they've seemed to succeeded: they printed an AK magazine.
They also named it the "Feinstein AK Mag," after the aforementioned congresswoman.
The AK-47 is a particularly nasty weapon, so it's noteworthy this magazine held up.
Defense Distributed plans to put schematics out here for download.


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Are backups a waste of time?
Data protection is now much more specialized due to increased user expectations and new technology options. We need to rethink the way we approach risk and risk-related services.
Are backups a waste of time?
New business requirements may mean your backup process won't adequately protect company data.
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." --Charles Darwin
"The future ain't what it used to be." --Yogi Berra
At the risk of becoming overly philosophical, every once in a while it's important to take a step back from day-to-day activities and reflect on why we do the things we do. What real purpose is served? Are the original requirements still applicable or have new ones cropped up? Have new or better solutions evolved?
In storage management, there's no better candidate for this kind of scrutiny than backup. It seems that nearly everyone is evaluating new technology options, from virtual tape libraries to continuous data protection and agentless backup. While it makes sense to seek out these improvements, when a mass push to adopt new technologies occurs, I become concerned that insufficient attention and thought may be given to that most fundamental of questions: What problem are we really trying to solve?
Data protection has changed not only in terms of technology, but with regard to business needs and expectations. As a result, there are data protection functions and services that are routinely provided within IT in addition to traditional backup. Yet many of the efforts underway to improve traditional backup don't adequately take these other data protection elements into account.
For example, if we're currently replicating top-tier application data to a remote site and taking regular split-mirror or snapshot copies of data volumes, why do we continue to do nightly backups? What's the purpose of a nightly backup and, given a demonstrated requirement, how do we design the right solution to adequately address it?
Covering the right risks
We've all seen ads from insurance companies promising protection from an assortment of oddball circumstances for "just pennies a day." You can't beat the insurance industry for knowing the real odds and pricing its products accordingly. On the other hand, you don't buy insurance because it's cheap; you buy it to protect yourself against a given set of risks. If the right risks aren't addressed, then price is irrelevant.
Like other IT functions, data protection has become much more specialized. This is the direct result of an expanded awareness of the variety of risks, increased levels of user expectations and the growing range of technology options available to address specific problems. As a result, the way we approach risk and risk-related services also needs to evolve. We need to think about the likelihood and impact of various risks and the kinds of "coverage" we need.
Let's consider a subset of the various types of data loss and availability risks that require protection:
- Detectable file deletion or corruption. In this scenario, data is accidentally deleted or overwritten, and there's an almost immediate (let's say less than a day) realization that an error has occurred. There are lots of ways this can occur, and the data loss can be logical or physical.
- Latent (lingering) data deletion or corruption. This risk is rarely quantified, so there often aren't any policies to address it. It's when data is deleted or, more likely, logically corrupted in some way, but the loss can lay undiscovered for days, weeks or months.
- Storage device failure. This is a type of physical loss, usually of a significant quantity of data.
- Interdependency failure. This can be thought of as "effective" data loss due to lack of synchronization or data inconsistency across multiple application components. It's the "weakest link" effect. If one level of service is provided to a portion of an interdependent environment and a different level to another part, the overall protection level is only as good as the lesser of the two levels of service.
- Compound failure. Similar to interdependency failure, this is the risk of any combination of the above data loss scenarios happening concurrently.
- Site failure. Loss of a site, such as a data center, is usually considered a disaster and falls under the realm of disaster recovery (DR). It's yet another class of scenario that needs to be differentiated from more localized operational situations.
Where backup fits in a new data protection world
Not too long ago, the solution for addressing almost all of these issues would involve backup, either entirely or to some degree. But as we all know, recovery from backup takes time and is disruptive, so technologies were introduced to reduce the recovery time or eliminate downtime.
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The table "Typical protection methods" shows the types of protection usually applied in today's IT infrastructures to the kinds of data loss described above.
Consider a scenario in which a critical database is protected with RAID-10, has business continuance volumes (BCVs) created every four hours and retained for a day, and is remotely replicated to a hot site. What failure conditions would backup address in that case? Its primary value would seem to be protecting against latent undetected data loss where a corruption may be discovered days or weeks later when BCVs have long since been modified, serving as a kind of "failsafe."
Toward a layered data protection model
When we plan data protection services, it's generally agreed that the critical metrics are recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO). But given the various failure conditions described here, it's highly improbable that a given RTO or RPO target could be successfully met across all failure scenarios.
For example, consider the typical BCV/replication/backup protection combo and assume a four-hour RTO and RPO. There are scenarios, such as latent data corruption, where backup is the only protection available and the four-hour recovery metrics would be completely blown away. Is there any way to mitigate this?
The answer is "Maybe." For instance, it's not uncommon for a diligent, risk-averse database administrator to perform database dumps to disk, and have days or even weeks of additional copies stowed away. If these were available, the recovery time could be considerably closer to the RTO target vs. restoring from backup. In any case, RPO would likely be far exceeded.
When we plan for DR, we must take into account the types of risks and their probabilities. A similar approach should be considered when planning an overall data protection strategy. I'm suggesting that a layered services approach to data protection is needed in today's environments. Such an approach should identify the following for each layer:
- The risk to be mitigated
- The targeted level of protection to be provided based on probability and business impact
- The protection method required to address this need
Change is always difficult, but history is littered with examples of those who were unable to adapt. This approach may raise concerns about exposing weaknesses within IT's capabilities. If you fear such transparency, then there may be risks associated with this approach. For environments that believe they can recover instantaneously from any kind of data loss, the truth may be unpalatable. However, if an organization is sincere about addressing service-level objectives, this process can uncover holes in existing data protection strategies and ensure that when a major new technology direction is undertaken, it will be the right one.