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Ubaldo's goal: To win championship for Baltimore
The Orioles officially introduced one of the biggest free-agent signings in their history on Thursday morning, as right-hander Ubaldo Jimenez met with the media in Sarasota, Fla., after signing a four-year, $50 million contract.
"I'm really excited to be here," Jimenez said. "The only thing I can do to pay them back is to go out there every five days and give the best of me and give the team the opportunity to win. I'm very excited. We're all here for one reason, and that's winning a championship for the city of Baltimore."
Jimenez, 30, comes to Baltimore after 2 1/2 seasons in Cleveland. He was 13-9 with a 3.30 ERA in 32 starts in 2013, and was especially impressive in the second half. Jimenez posted a 1.82 ERA after the All-Star break, while striking out 10.7 hitters per nine innings, and was 4-0 with a 1.09 ERA in six September outings as the Indians battled in the American League Wild Card race.
Overall, Jimenez is 82-75 with a 3.92 ERA in eight seasons with the Indians and Rockies.
"Ubaldo is a proven, reliable, dependable starting pitcher," executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette said. "He's shown leadership on the staffs he's been on in Colorado and Cleveland. When he's on his game, he's one of the top pitchers in baseball."
As Duquette mentioned, Jimenez will bring innings and stability to Baltimore's rotation, as he has made 30-plus starts in each of the past six seasons.
Jimenez's performance, however, has been inconsistent. He followed his impressive 2010 campaign (19-8, 2.88 ERA) with a disappointing 4.68 ERA in '11, when he was dealt from Colorado to Cleveland, and posted a 5.40 ERA while losing 17 times in '12.
Jimenez improved last season, thanks mostly, he said, to being fully healthy after an ankle injury altered his mechanics. Jimenez said he's confident he can build off 2013's second-half numbers.
"Those two years were a nightmare, but they're in the past," Jimenez said. "As a player, that's something I want to put out of my mind, just forget about what happened. I look forward to the future.
"I had a great second half last year. … I have a lot of confidence to go out there knowing that I'm healthy and I'm going to be able to compete every five days."


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G+D Data Intelligence®: A Transparent View of Banknotes
Banknotes can be produced more efficiently if the rate of printing faults is reduced. Single note inspection alone is not enough, but with smart analysis software, printing plants can use their data to limit the number of faults in the process and resolve any faults early – or at least to learn from issues and achieve a fact-based continuous improvement process.
Ten million print sheets with 54 banknotes each – as with the second series of 10 Euro notes – means 540 million potential sources of faults which have to be detected in single note inspection. After cutting, at least 100 relevant properties are checked for each banknote. Not only does this require outstanding technical capabilities, it also drives up the volume of data generated.
Previously, it was virtually impossible to use quality control data as feedback in the printing and substrate production processes. Single note inspection systems are simply not able to record banknote metadata, such as input unit or sheet position. Moreover, it's impossible to aggregate the results of multiple banknote processing systems ( BPS® ) or print batches. That's why data visualization tools like G+D Currency Technology's " BPS® Eco-Analyzer" offer "snapshots" – for example, statistics for each 50,000 banknotes, or the development of individual data spots over time.
"It's much more interesting when you analyze all the data from a print job," says Dr. Marcus Schmeißer, Senior Product Manager at G+D Currency Technology. With the G+D Data Intelligence® Solutions "SeriTrack LUNA", all the data from multiple BPS® X9 systems can be merged and evaluated for banknote quality analysis.
Banknote Production: Reduce Costs and the Reject Rate
BPS® X9 and SeriTrack LUNA
All printing plants want to reduce costs and keep the reject rate as low as possible. The combination of efficient hardware and advanced software helps optimize the cost efficiency of their process. Data from BPS® X9 single note inspection systems can be merged in SeriTrack LUNA, a banknote quality analysis software. To take one example, the tool uses a banknote's serial number to calculate its position on the print sheet and which print unit it belongs to. This allows the printing plant to identify steps in the process that did not run smoothly, and reasons why the banknote was finally classified as waste.
Whether it's a weak printed image, too much or too little pigment, scuff, register problems, or flaws in the substrate – it's too late to fix notes that have already been printed. "A small print batch allows you to learn lessons for the next job," says Dirk Fischer, Finishing/Printing Plant Systems Expert at G+D Currency Technology. "But with a big print job, you can still take action before the job's complete." Traceability, which is already a major concern in the pharmaceutical industry, is another issue. Demand for traceability is also on the rise in banknote printing, says Fischer: "More and more clients want the whole chain to be perfectly traceable, from the paper roll to the individual note."
From raw data to comprehensive analyses
In a BPS® X9, each banknote must travel around two meters to reach the reject gate, where its fate is decided: stack or shred. A highly complex sensor system uses infrared, UV, magnetism or ultrasound to inspect the banknotes and delivers raw data, which is processed by computers and compared with threshold values. "It takes 22 milliseconds to decide whether this banknote meets all the requirements," says G+D manager Dr. Schmeißer. A BPS® X9 can check 44 banknotes per second.
Real-time evaluation takes place within the system itself. However, measurement results are stored in a data base. From there they can be sent to the SeriTrack LUNA tool, which is located in the G+D Currency Technology data center. In a normal print job, this amounts to between 40 and 200 million data sets. These are assigned to the appropriate production unit and combined into incidences, explains G+D expert Fischer: "For example, the analytics engine might detect in one print sheet that the pigment is repeatedly smeared in the area of the blue European flag. With this information, the person responsible for printing can then prioritize and specifically search for causes and/or solutions for faults."
Analytics as a Service for Printing Plants
To begin with, G+D Currency Technology used SeriTrack LUNA exclusively in-house, to optimize its own printing processes. "Now we also offer this tool to other printing plants from our data center, in the form of Software as a Service (SaaS)," reports Manager Dr. Schmeißer. Special consulting services help clients to eliminate printing errors and, at the first stage, to learn how to operate the application. "We are currently working on also developing the software as an on-premise installation for client data centers."
More and more clients want the whole chain to be perfectly traceable, from the paper roll to the individual note.«
G+D Data Intelligence® allows a Transparent View of Banknotes
In future, data analysis won't just be limited to optimizing print processes, but will extend to the full banknote lifecycle. "By combining results from the printing plant and from circulation, we can find out more about the behavior of banknotes and optimize them further," says finishing expert Fischer. Ultimately, the notes can be identified by their serial number and their data sent to analytics software.
As well as horizontal integration within a printing plant, vertical integration between the paper mill, printing plant, and central bank means a further step towards Industry 4.0 – and ultimately towards data transparency that allows comprehensive improvement of efficiency. For example, if the printing plant makes the aggregated quality results of the banknotes supplied available to the central bank, then incoming product inspection can be made considerably simpler. Additionally, if the central bank also receives the actual single note inspection data, it is possible to identify changes to machine-readable properties of banknotes in circulation, or increases in contamination. This information allows the cash cycle to be further optimized, since logistics concepts can be customized, or optimal security features for future series of durable banknotes can be extrapolated on this basis. In this way, G+D Data Intelligence®, and the decisions taken on this basis, support one of the strongest pillars of the entire cash cycle: mutual trust between stakeholders.
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These year the second year of the Fetal Echo Course was organized in a beautiful scenery of the Montgomery Bell State Park, TN. Here are some pictures that we took during the course.
Philippe Jeanty - just before the beginning of the presentations; Everything is ready, we can start!
Philippe"s advices to Juliana before her presentations.
Presenter Pam and Franti.
Jill took care about everything regarding the course (with Franti on the picture).
185 participants, including sonographers and physicians from different countries, were exposed to interactive presentations.
The first evening a BBQ was held at Philippe Jeanty"s farm.
A glass of wine always evokes lots of important discussions :-)
Refilling of the glucose levels after hours of concentration always come in handy.
Canoe trip after the course at the Harpeth River
This "kindergarten scene" could be seen during the canoe trip with dissections of the pig hearts at the Harpeth River :-).
People liked to transform their ultrasonographic imaginations of the heart to the real anatomy presented at pig harts.
Hum, we can"t see any anomaly at those pig hearts :(.... (they are thawing in the river)
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The Argentine striker picked up a nasty knee injury early in the club's 2-0 win over Cluj on Thursday and looks set to miss the rest of the season
Inter forward Diego Milito has expressed his gratitude for the support he has received in the aftermath of the season-ending injury he sustained in the Italian side's 2-0 win over Cluj.
Nerazzurri head coach Andrea Stramaccioni was the first to extend his well wishes towards the striker after Thursday's Europa League last 32 first leg, in which the Argentine was stretchered off after awkwardly twisting his knee seven minutes in.
Milito released a statement on Friday in which he thanked fellow Serie A clubs for their support, and stressed he will attempt to use the commiseration to motivate him back to full fitness.
He said to Inter's official website: "I would like to thank all of the people who sent me messages of affection last night.
"I'd like to thank president [Massimo] Moratti, my team-mates and everyone else at Inter.
"And thank you to Genoa, Milan and Fiorentina for your kind words.
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The drive is designed similarly to its predecessor--it stands up vertically--and can topple easily. It's also rather expensive, costing more than twice the current price of the previous generation, at $250. Expect the street price to soon go down, however.
If you're looking for a top-capacity external drive that works with both Windows and OS X (without having to be reformatted) and that you can use as a docking station for SATA internal drives, the Seagate 4TB GoFlex Desk is a good investment. If you can live with 1TB less storage space, it would be a better deal to get the previous version of the drive and a USB 3.0 adapter.
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Other than the new look that has less rounded corners and the 4TB internal drive on the inside, the 4TB GoFlex Desk is very much the same as the FreeAgent GoFlex Desk. The drive comes in two parts: the hard drive and the adapter. The hard drive is basically just the internal hard drive housed in a plastic chassis. At the bottom, the drive's housing has a small opening to reveal the internal hard drive's standard SATA female connector. The adapter part has a male SATA connector, and these two parts can be snapped into each other to form the GoFlex external hard drive.
The 4TB GoFlex Desk comes with a USB 3.0 adapter and a standard Mini-USB 3.0 cable. It works with both USB 3.0 and previous USB standards. If you want to use it with other connection types, such as eSATA or FireWire, you can purchase additional adapters, which cost around $30 each. The drive part of the 4TB GoFlex Desk also works with the adapter from other GoFlex Desk drives.
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But I'll put forward, for the opposing viewpoint, that the specific organizational purpose of the NAACP, The Congressional Black Caucus, The National Organization of Women (sexism), almost all Affirmative Action Policies, La Raza and more are all specificly and directly textbook examples of racism in their very purpose, to promote benfits for one racial or ethnic group, or one gender, over the others in policy.
I'd be interested to hear your tales of the racism you saw personally at these rallies. My wife went to one in our area (I did not) and she didn't mention any racism or controversy.McCain Presidential rallies in '08
I think we may define racism differently. I'd also say this board, with it's 10 or so truly active regulars, is a poor place to guage larger societal reality.and this board. I can't remember the last time I've read a racist statement by a liberal poster, while Acepepe posts quite frequently.
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Wine and philanthropy join forces to raise money for at-risk children.
NAPLES – Nowhere else in the wine world do so few give so much with the speed and noise of the bidders at the Naples Winter Wine Fest.
They did it again last weekend raising more than $8.5 million in six hours for thousands of at-risk children within 20 miles of 500 donors under an inflated white tent on the lawn of the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort.
"That's a million and quarter an hour," figured Bob Edwards, a Naples money manager who chaired the 13th edition of the event with his wife, Terry.
The money went for exotic sports cars, luxury trips and safaris, and wine, exceptional wines. The most fabled labels were present: Mouton Rothschild, Antinori, Kistler, Harlan and Shafer, by the case and in bottlings of salmanazar and balthazar size (9 and 12 liters).
For those who watch the Naples bidding as a barometer of national economy and optimism, this year's total fell behind the $12.4 million last year yet was still of world-leading generosity. The total was well above the $5 million to $6 million that the Naples Children & Education Foundation gives each year to day care and after-school centers, pediatric clinics, migrant worker programs and other agencies across Collier County.
"You people were great,'' Edwards told the crowd after the final gleaming streamers flew Saturday afternoon. "I couldn't be more happy. I'm thrilled."
If bidding was restrained by a still-slow economy and unsettled politics, the money and the mood were not subdued by any measure of wine or philanthropy. "Some of you got some real bargains this year," Edwards cracked in a wrap-up Sunday. "I'm thrilled for you too. It keeps you coming back.''
Only in Naples could $20,000 be a "bargain" for a six-liter bottle of Dominio de Pingus and private tour of the cult winery in Ribera del Duero.
That was one of the cheapest lots of the day. Many zoomed from $20,000 to $240,000 in under 3 minutes, which is how some of the wealthiest families in America have raised more than $115 million in 13 years for their poorest neighbors.
They do it with star chefs, wine makers and sommeliers jetted in for three days and their own gusto. With short-rib sliders and chocolate ganache lollipops on the table and booming rock on the sound system, the joyful racket is unlike any event in Europe, said Laurent Ponsot, who owns a 150-year-old Domaine Ponsot in Burgundy.
"You have to keep in mind the good cause. Without it, it's just crazy. With the cause, it's gorgeous," Ponsot noted.
For Tim Mondavi, the feeling is much the same. He's very proud of Napa's annual June auction that his father, Robert Mondavi, helped to start decades ago. (Last year, the Napa event raised more than $7.6 million plus more online).
"I'm very proud of what Naples does too, to see how generous this community is," said Mondavi.
Aside from wine, there were also jewels, watches and trips to Tuscany, Bordeaux and Cambodia, Triple Crown races and the Emmys. But the top prices were won by cars.
In that race, Ferrari outpaced Maserati. A 2014 Quattroporte V8 fetched $340,000, only to be outpaced by Ferrari's F12 Berlinetta, which fetched $750,000.
Winning bidders were former Morgan Stanley President Bob Scott and wife Karen, longtime trustees of the festival. When the car arrives from the factory, the Scotts will get two days of practice at a test-driving track in Quebec.
The best buy of the day for pure wine may have been a 65-bottle vertical of Chateau Mouton Rothschild's Artist series starting in 1945, each label designed by different artists, including Picasso and Chagall.
For an added attraction, the lot included a 6-foot round table designed by Naples artisan Thomas Riley that displayed all the wine. Tim Fogerty, an IT executive from St. Louis who lives part of the year in Naples and a fan of both wine and furniture, won the bidding at $180,000. That was still less, according to auctioneer Humphrey Butler, than buying each bottle on the rare-wine market.
"This is our first time here," Fogerty said with a grin. "Obviously we're having a great time."


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A Daily Reflection of War... Thoughts from a Vietnam Vet
by Arthur James
I remember the horror of death. On a darkening evening, three soldiers encountered me on a jungle trail. Our meeting startled us. The soldiers braced to shoot me. Shaking, I wedged myself and my M-16 rifle against a tree. I shot two of them. The third person dropped to the Earth on that dusk eve, crawled into dense bushes, and thankfully fled away. "Oh God." I groaned deeply. "What have I done? Why am I here?"
War unites humanity to feel madness, horror, and insanity. There must exist an enclave of peace, meditation, solace, and a quiet place to step back from this insanity. To be able to find and touch the Self's reserve of tranquility of Being is a difficult spiritual struggle. The Word one searches for to be descriptive and speak, fails. Words are all we have to work with. Words lack the power and often we people feel diminished with hardly the capacity to communicate. I represent myself guilty of this fact.
Before I digressed into the second paragraph, I began to mention that portraits were found on the limp, lifeless, lacerated forms. In long moments immediately after their death, I began wondering about those rummaged pictures my fellow squad members found. I wondered about their mothers, fathers, children, and their extended families of friends. Being stricken with a truth I had always known: These Vietnamese were people, distinguished and unique individuals. They were fellow humans, not my enemy.
On that sleepless night as I camped in that jungle, horrible, alien
thoughts were coursing through my mind. I was sick and angry, hurt and
sad for the dead, their families, and for the American people who
agreed to send me to kill them. I was out of harmony with goodness,
with the universe, with sanity. Evil and corruption had grasped me.
Evil had temporarily occupied me, engulfed me, and dwelt in my body. I
perceived its power to ruin. I experienced it. All my being shuddered.
I would never be the same. I hated my part in the killing.
Why did I get into the fighting? When I landed in the country in July 1969, I noticed the beauty of the land with its dense vegetation. People were wirey but delicate. I was attracted to their rural self sufficiency and sustainable way of life. I distinctly remember sensing they had something to teach me and the United States.
Recruited soldiers are often only vaguely aware of the American peace movement's contention that war is morally wrong. Instincts inform the psyche that a country, alien in culture to America, should not be attacked. Soldiers agree, admitedly or denied, that poor and undeveloped nation should not be displaced or obliterated.
But the peace movement can seem too angry and 'far away.' In my case the draft was the law. My grandfather and uncle had graduated from West Point. I had grown up full of World War II--everybody pulling together when our country needed 'defenders of democracy.' Unfortunately, youthful soldiers lack discretion, they are overly idealistic, not wishing to be wary, but wanting to trust their government. A soldier does not want to believe their nation is lying when they are told they are needed in defense of democracy in the world.
So I landed in Southeast Asia in the middle of a monsoon night, with an uninformed conscience, and a hope I would never have to take a life. I was in disagreement with American policy, yet blindly in allegiance.
There is a strange bond and brotherhood camaraderie among veterans because we encountered and faced death together. We had our own language, which we understood more in the gut than in the head. We used the expression "it don't mean nothin'" to gloss over many unspeakable events. You said "it don't mean nothin'" after squirting bug repellent on a leech that was attached to your body in an effort to remove the leech. You said "it don't mean nothin'" when the monsoon rains drenched and chilled your body but cleansed your foul smelling fatigues. You repeated "it don't mean nothin'" when a likable soldier nicknamed Cranky lost both of his legs and months later died.
But most of us while still in 'Nam could not find justification for intervention into that foreign land. There were only a rare few who were deranged psychopaths given to accept a licence to kill. Those with unsuppressed killing instincts were frightening, deformed creatures, and every person looked forward to the day we could flee home to America, which we referred to as "the world." Once back home in "the world" American mainstream media and movies began to portray former soldiers as maniacs, pariahs, snipers, vets seething with hatred, or as disordered persons to be shunned.
Some allege they were called "baby killers" by the folk on whose behalf they thought they were supposedly protecting. Veterans became the most obvious scapegoat (demonized) and symbol of a war America was losing. Veterans sensed distinctly, for various reasons, America had a need to ostracize veterans and forget (denial) their mutual complicity in wars' carnage.
With two months of advanced infantry training, my government tried to train me to become an efficient killer. After seven months in guerrilla warfare; I faintly remember Army personnel spending a few minutes trying to debrief me as I lay on a medic cot advising me to tell no one of my military mission. (I had been wounded on February 10, 1970 in Cambodia and Americans were not to be officially fighting there at that time.)
FOR THOSE who have visited the Vietnam the Vietnam Veterans memorial in Washington, D.C., trying to sort things out, the complexity remains. Many diverse egos and factions continue to pundit their war theories. Perhaps each person that is now advocating bloodshed in the Middle East would look to search for someones name on the black marble Wall and see your own face reflect back toward you?
A friend explains to me with a twisted and pinched countenance that visiting war memorials may cause weeping. I understand avoidance of painful sensibilities is an hypnotic method of pretending war can't happen. Numbness is a defence mechanism of defence which many people utilize.
The wounds of war never go away. And just as the over 58,000 names which are etched in the Vietnam Memorial Wall cannot be erased. This government cannot gloss over the death toll of millions of Southeast Asians and estimated 650,000 which is mounting in the Middle East and elsewhere. Let's not sanction the proxy killing of this government manufactured "War on Terror." What indescribable misery this unsustainable "global economy" imposes upon an innocent world in the false name of freedom and democracy! The government never admits their premeditated crimes. Government, aligned with greedy corporate financiers, never apologize.
FOR THOSE who have the courage to admit that war is not noble in any sense, a humble strength and moral authority is freely given, commissions one, so to speak, to help prevent future wars and unnecessary suffering. The present war-hate is total absurdity. If we fail to cultivate honest virtues and refuse to teach future generations to not hate, rather choosing to continue the repetition of wars, then it still "don't mean nothin.'"
*The author was drafted into The First Air Calvary and assigned to a combat infantry unit in Vietnam from July 1969 until he was wounded in 1970. In opposition to the arms shipments and illegal drug sales to finance the Contra war during Reagan/Bush Sr.'s presidency, he returned a statement to the government with: a Silver Star, a Combat Infantry Badge, a Air Medal, and kept a souvenir Purple Heart. He manages a small organic farm with help from his community in rural western Maryland.


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Radcliffe, Watson, and Wright Video Appearance Round Up
Dec 03, 2008
As TLC has reported in previous weeks, a number of the Harry Potter actors have been making the rounds on various TV shows and award ceremonies. Here now is a brief round-up of their latest appearances. Firstly, actor Dan Radcliffe (Harry Potter) appeared earlier in the week on the Bravo channel's acclaimed program, Inside the Actors Studio. The first video of Mr. Radcliffe's interview on the program is now online in our Video Galleries.
Next, actress Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) appeared on the BBC children's program "Blue Peter" this morning in the UK. During the five-minute interview, Miss Watson discusses her latest film, The Tale of Despereaux, and helps make a snowman Christmas card. The video of this interview can be viewed via this link.
Finally, Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley) was a presenter at the British Children's Academy Awards ceremony this past week in London, England, presenting the award for the CBBC Me and my Movie Award. Video of Miss Wright is available to watch right here.


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Nate Silver, the statistical genius who writes the New York Times' Five Thirty Eight blog, which nailed the 2012 presidential election results with amazing accuracy, has some bad news for 49er fans: he has predicted that San Francisco won't make it to the Super Bowl, HuffPo reports.
The good news: Sometimes, even a genius gets it wrong.
Silver, who's big on studying the stats on baseball and football — he got his stat start in sports — also predicted this week that the Seahawks would be in the Super Bowl with the Patriots.
And we all know what happened on that one — it was the Atlanta Falcons over the Seahawks Sunday.
OK, Silver wasn't such a genius there.
But for those of you who are vacumning up all things Niners this week, here's what Silver had to say about what the stats suggest on the team's outlook:
"San Francisco…played very well for much of the year. In terms of the balance overall between offensive and defensive play, Seattle had that best balance throughout the year and…in the second half, were blowing people out by 50 to 7 scores and so forth. ..So they had the best stats from the regular season."
Silver predicted the Patriots will end up in the Super Bowl, and will beat the Baltimore Ravens next Sunday.
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Chris Kyle, military's deadliest sniper, is killed on Texas gun range
By BARRY SHLACHTER
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Published: February 3, 2013
Chris Kyle
FORT WORTH, Texas — Chris Kyle, a former Navy SEAL and the U.S. military's most lethal sniper, was fatally shot Saturday along with another man on the gun range of Rough Creek Lodge, a posh resort just west of Glen Rose, Erath County Sheriff Tommy Bryant said.
A suspect was arrested about five hours later in Lancaster, southeast of Dallas, more than 70 miles from the scene, Bryant said.
The suspect, identified as Eddie Ray Routh, 25, was pursued to a house in Lancaster by officers, including a local SWAT team. Routh tried to flee in a vehicle but was stopped about 9 p.m. after spikes were laid across a road, Bryant said.
"The suspect has been caught and is in custody in Lancaster," he said. Erath County sheriff's investigators and Texas Rangers were securing a capital murder warrant, he said.
Witnesses told sheriff's investigators that the gunman opened fire on the two men around 3:30 p.m., then fled in a pickup belonging to one of the victims. The Sheriff's Department didn't get a call until around 6 p.m.
Rough Creek Lodge is 77 miles southwest of Fort Worth between Glen Rose and Hico.
The motive for the shootings remains unclear, Bryant said. "Not a clue, absolutely no idea."
WFAA/Channel 8 quoted unnamed sources as saying that Kyle, who lived in Midlothian, and a neighbor had taken Routh on an outing to help him deal with post-traumatic stress disorder. Routh turned on the men and shot them in the back, the report said.
The sheriff said he could not confirm how the victims were shot.
In January 2012, the Cleburne Times-Review reported that Routh, of Lancaster, was arrested in Johnson County on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Public records show that Routh previously lived in Camp LeJeune, N.C., a major Marine base.
Kyle, 38, who is survived by a wife and two children, was the author of American Sniper, a 2012 autobiography.
A 1992 graduate of Midlothian High School, he attended Tarleton State University. He tried to join the Navy in 1996 but was rejected after a physical exam revealed pins in his arm from a rodeo injury.
Three years later, Kyle was working on a ranch in Colorado when a Navy recruiter called. He was trained as a sniper and served 10 years.
He never disclosed exactly how many enemy combatants he shot, but the Pentagon certified more than 150 of his kills during four tours in Iraq. Some news reports credited him with up to 255. His confirmed kills exceeded the exploits of legendary Marine Carlos Hathcock, whom Kyle called "the best sniper in the world." Hathcock had 93 confirmed kills in Vietnam.
In all, Kyle was awarded two Silver Stars, five Bronze Stars with Valor, and two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals.
"I don't care about the medals," Kyle told the Star-Telegram in a 2012 interview. "I didn't do it for the money or the awards. I did it because I felt like it was something that needed to be done and it was honorable. I loved the guys."
A member of SEAL Team 3, Kyle picked off his targets from rooftops or windows of abandoned buildings during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which toppled Saddam Hussein. Primarily serving as a sniper and wounded twice, he provided "overwatch" protection for Marines and other U.S. troops and earned a reputation for his proficiency.
Most shots ranged from 200 to 1,200 yards. His longest and most remarkable kill — from 1.2 miles away — took out an insurgent aiming a rocket launcher at an approaching Army convoy.
During the second battle of Fallujah, Kyle said, he killed about 40 insurgents. He shot several through an apartment window while lying atop an overturned baby crib.
From a second-story perch in Ramadi, Kyle spotted two men approaching on a motor scooter. As it slowed, the rider in back dropped a backpack into a pothole, setting an improvised explosive device.
As the scooter sped up, Kyle fired once from about 200 yards, taking aim at "center mass," the middle of the body.
"Like a laser," he said of his .300 Winchester Magnum. With the men still seated upright, the scooter wobbled, veered and crashed into a wall. "Bullet went through both of them," Kyle said.
"The taxpayer got good bang for his buck on that one," he wrote.
According to Army intelligence, he said, Iraqi insurgents nicknamed him al-Shaitan Ramad — "the Devil of Ramadi."
After the service, Kyle became president of Craft International, a Dallas firm that provided military and law enforcement sniper training as well as private security.
The deadliest sniper in U.S. military history was scheduled to speak Feb. 27 at Tarrant County College Northwest Campus in Fort Worth. The four-hour presentation, "Preparing a Warrior's Heart," was to cover having the "mindset" for survival, being prepared for a fight and "being OK in the aftermath."
Kyle wrote in American Sniper that he had zero remorse for his combat kills. Every person he shot, he said, was trying to harm Americans or Iraqis loyal to the new government.
As the son of a deacon, as a husband and as a protective father of two young children, Kyle wrote, "I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job."
Staff writer Susan McFarland contributed to this report, which includes material from the Star-Telegram archives.
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April 9, 2009
Chris Kyle is a hero,
I am not suprised he ended up murdered. He's a true Patriot, and Obamao knew it. Theres a whole lot of important Military men getting either knocked off, or shamed out by some scandal .
Not a very good sign of OUR Future. Seems to me Obamao is getting rid of those who would help Americans during their takeover. I dont think for one minute that Obamao will leave after 2 terms.
If it were raining hookers, I'd get hit by a fag.
i went ahead and filed a FOIA request for his file (if any) at the FBI... just out of curiosity. We will see what comes up...
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Interpreting the Sanger sequence data
A typical electropherogram from a single PCR product is shown below. Each peak represents a single nucleotide in the DNA sequence, and each nucleotide has a different colour; A is green, T is red, C is blue and G is black.
From Lee, S.H.; Vigliotti, J.S.; Vigliotti, V.S.; Jones, W.; Moorcroft, T.A.; Lantsman, K. DNA Sequencing Diagnosis of Off-Season Spirochetemia with Low Bacterial Density in Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia miyamotoi Infections. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2014, 15, 11364-11386.
The average PCR product contains 200 nucleotides of sequencing, and the maximum length that can be sequenced by the Sanger method is about 600 nucleotides. The amount of data generated by Sanger sequencing for each patient therefore varies depending on the size of the gene being sequenced. Sequencing of a relatively small gene such as HNF1A generates over 2500 nucleotides of sequencing data per patient, and since a mutation can occur at any of the nucleotides within the electropherogram, each nucleotide requires checking in turn for the presence of a mutation.
Sanger sequencing analysis is performed on a comparative basis, where the patient's electropherogram is compared against an electropherogram from a DNA sample without a mutation. Any observed differences between the two traces are recorded and analysed for their potential pathogenic effect on the protein.
Historically this was performed by a visual comparison of each nucleotide peak in the two traces, but this is time consuming, prone to error and cannot meet the workload and quality demands of today's modern, high throughput diagnostic laboratory.
Today, sequencing analysis is performed by software that can perform comparative analysis of tens of thousands of nucleotides within seconds. The software automatically detects mutations and provides a description of the mutation at the DNA and protein level with a high degree of accuracy and sensitivity.
Visual inspection: time consuming and error prone
Software analysis: fast and accurate Created by Mutation Surveyor v 4.0.6 SoftGenetics, State College PA USA 16803
What was the result of the Sanger sequencing analysis of Dan's HNF1A gene? The output from the sequencing analysis software can be seen in the picture above. It shows Dan's DNA sequence with a heterozygous missense mutation in exon 7 of the HNF1A gene. The mutation is the substitution of a C nucleotide with a T nucleotide on one copy of his HNF1A gene (indicated by the presence of a C and T peak at nucleotide position 1340 in Dan's DNA sequence). This results in a change in the amino acid (from proline to leucine) at amino acid number 447 in the HNF1A protein sequence.
HNF1A is a transcription factor. Its function is to control the expression of other genes in the beta cell of the pancreas that are involved in insulin production and secretion, including the insulin gene itself. Transcription factors work by binding to the promoters of genes and activating gene transcription (the process of making mRNA copies of the gene to be used for protein synthesis). The promoter is the switch that turns the gene on or off, and the transcription factor is the finger that operates that switch.
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Dan's mutation occurs within the transactivation domain of the HNF1A protein; the region of the protein responsible for flicking the switch. The mutant HNF1A protein is able to bind to the promoter, but cannot turn on gene expression. This results in defective expression of genes required for insulin production and secretion, which results in insulin deficiency and diabetes. This is a known pathogenic mutation and we can therefore be confident that the result confirms a diagnosis of HNF1A MODY in Dan.
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Open for just 30 afternoons each year, the Hall is not always easy to visit. So – by popular demand – it will be open to the public for five extra afternoons this year.
Because the Hall is relatively small, and general parking is limited, it has been decided to make the afternoons "by appointment only" and to lay on a guided tour. The tour will start from the main car park at 2:00am and will be taken by one of our highly knowledgeable guides. It will last in the region of an hour and a half and there will be time afterwards to walk around under your own steam. There will also be cake!
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Mossberg: Google Maps Returns Better than Ever
The new iPhone version of Google Maps isn't just better than Apple Maps, but also better, in most respects, on the iPhone than it is on Android phones. Walt Mossberg joins digits to discuss. Photo: Getty Images.
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I'm not only have they made a ... version of Google apps for the I phone again ... and it's had like ten million downloads in the first two days ... but they re designed it ... so that it's actually he slid her ... hand that version on their own Android phones and it's really a beautiful ... highly usable maps app ... night you explain why they did that which it is interesting that they would make a banner ad for a competing plan fall may have their own platform Android platform ... there may explain why ... well because goal old you know Apple makes its money from hardware ... but gold though is a service is an advertising company and they want to be honest many platforms as possible ... and although he and Rory ... is a bigger platform then I O s which is Apple's ... platform ... Apple has hundreds of millions of devices out there ... and I actually of purely on high income audience ... and who wants to be at wants to be on the Apple platform and now they are again ... and when they got kicked off ... they took the opportunity to really rethink ... there are apps which was very reliable but kind of complex with a lot of icons menus and ... charm slightly errors which I think average people didn't understand ... and so they cleaned it up they really simplified it ... and made it very easy to use menus have emphasized to things that tax plan that what one of them is the Amplats framework sale ... I'm sorry what was your son you said you send them to size two things above what the fuss my guess is on clustering of the map itself ... 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I've that they found can scroll horizontally on Apple Corps and see the different choices ... with these happen or swipe up you get this ... info sheet which still shows a little bit of the map ... and yet it has all the information you want ... the phone number the hours places open ... on the Street View for photographs interior photographs of their available ... in a case of restaurants that he reviews ... it's just everything is and isn't this info she ... can be and if there's more than one ... this is let's say that meets your search ... you can swipe through the info sheets all without ... going into menus are hitting extra bottoms ... so really is of very slick ... designs I'm all the thing is that as it was resorting to items already bad of an Apple Maps ... 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RALEIGH, N.C. - Joe Corvo had a goal and an assist and the Carolina Hurricanes won their third consecutive game, a 3-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday.
Jussi Jokinen scored the go-ahead goal, and Jeff Skinner had two assists for Carolina.
Jordan Staal also scored for the Hurricanes, and his brother Eric Staal extended his point streak to an NHL-leading 11 games with an assist on Corvo's goal, the first of three for the Hurricanes in the second period.
Nazem Kadri scored for Toronto, which had its four-game winning streak ended.
Dan Ellis made 22 saves for Carolina.
Ellis, Cam Ward's backup, has won three of his four starts this season. Ben Scrivens made 30 saves for Toronto.


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'The X Factor': Fox says show isn't dead yet
Fox entertainment chief Kevin Reilly declined to declare "The X Factor" dead, but the singing competition produced by Simon Cowell could be running on fumes.
Reilly appeared on Monday at the Television Critics Association winter press tour, where a journalist pointed out that a promotional clip reel put together by Fox did not include any traces of "The X Factor." Does that mean it's a goner?
"No decision has been made yet," said Reilly, who nevertheless admitted that the floundering reality series "underperformed" this season. Reilly also said that if "The X Factor" does return, it would most likely air for fewer hours and would not be "in the current format that we have."
Asked if it made sense to keep airing "The X Factor" in a crowded singing-competition environment when ratings for it and fellow Fox show, "American Idol," have both declined, Reilly admitted that the situation does put a strain on viewers, but cracked, "I wished 'The Voice' (on NBC) would go away first."
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Sun Media plans to appeal a federal court's dismissal of a bid to make the CBC disclose almost 300 records in a timely manner using federal Access to Information law. "I think any Crown corporation collecting $1 billion in taxpayer dollars every year must be accountable," said Glenn Garnett, vice-president editorial for Sun Media.
"We're disappointed but we're not going to stop now."
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Thursday, Google introduced the ability to add custom attributes to a business listing at the Local Business Center. It is of interest that the default custom attributes change by industry. The choices for additional detail fields change as well. For example with a service industry the first field is Price, in the restaurant business it is Ambiance and for a Physician it is License Information.
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Mario Lopez is about to be a proud papa — again!
The X Factor co-host and wife Courtney Mazza are expecting their second child, Lopez announced Tuesday on Extra.
Photos: Everybody's posing nude! Check out Rihanna and other stars who've bared all
"I am the happiest father in the world," said Lopez, 39. "We cannot wait to welcome Baby Lopez No. 2 into our lives."
The couple's 2-year-old daughter, Gia, also appeared on the program, holding a sign that read, "I'm going to be a big sister."
Lopez and Mazza, who wed in December, met in 2008 while co-starring in the Broadway revival of A Chorus Line. This is the first marriage for Mazza and the second for Lopez, whose 2004 marriage to Ali Landry was annulled weeks later.


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By Juliette Fairley
When a house is up for sale
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photos of the property can increase its perceived value by 13%
, according to a new study by VHT Studios. On a $250,000 home, 13% equates to a rise of $32,500.
Read: Can a Hot Realtor Get You More Bang for Your Buck?
A decade ago,
real estate sales
pounding a sign in the yard and securing an agent
to mail out postcards and place newspaper ads.
Today it requires a considerable amount of internet and image savoir faire
"If you haven't been in the real estate market for five or ten years, you may be surprised how much the home-buying experience has changed thanks to the Internet," said Brian Balduf, Chairman, VHT Studios, a firm that provides photography and digital marketing for homes and businesses.
The housing recovery is well under way prompting many to dream of pocketing a profit from selling their homes. Technology, however, has forever changed the way homes are sold post 2008.
Read: Is the Realtor Dead?
VHT's consumer survey reported that 80% of buyers find their homes online.
Read: 5 Questions to Ask Your Realtor Before Hiring
"Buyers use iPads and tablets to shop online and compare homes for sale," Balduf said. "They scan hundreds of listings, looking for properties that catch the eye."
To maximize the sales price of your home, consider the tips below:
- 1. Use a professional photographer. The cost of hiring a professional photographer could be well worth the investment. "Selling your home has become an online beauty contest," Balduf said. "Buyers are visually-oriented. So sellers need to provide the best possible pictures of their house on the Internet to grab buyers' attention and motivate them to set up a showing."
- 2. Post a video of your home on YouTube. About 21% of buyers look for videos online. "Grabbing the attention of web-savvy buyers requires professional-quality photographs, publishing a video on YouTube.com and providing interactive floor plans," Balduf said.
- 3. Include floor plans in your listing. Interactive floor plans that show how rooms relate to each other are an increasingly popular marketing tool. "Some brokerages have begun making interactive floor plans standard," Balduf said. "The combination of floor plans and professionally-taken photos creates the ultimate shopping experience for buyers."
- 4. Clear out clutter. Your house will show better if it's clean and well-organized. Potential buyers are interested in buying a home not furnishings. "Take a minimalist approach and clear out personal items around the house, such as piles of paperwork, books, houseplants and photos," said Balduf.
- 5. Select an agent who knows how to create a perception that draws more buyers to a listing. "It's obvious from even a cursory glance at real estate listings that some agents overlook the importance of good quality photographs and videos but home buyers don't," Balduf said.
--Written by Juliette Fairley for MainStreet
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A mere 30 minutes north of our cozy home there is a little shop in a little strip mall in a fairly little town. In this shop they make and sell one of the best sandwiches in and around Seattle. You can be the proud owner of said sandwich for around $3.00.
It's Banh Mi. A crusty, chewy baguette with mayonnaise deep in the bread's crevices and sweet and salty pork with crispy meat edges that make you think meat candy might be a brilliant idea. Full sprigs of cilantro hug lightly pickled and julienned carrots and daikon. And if you happen to be driving while eating this particular sandwich and not closely paying attention to what you are eating you'll likely bite into a firey hot wedge of Jalapeno – not slice, wedge. You'll then proceed to become the entertainment for the car next to you as you frantically search for the water wincing and shrieking from the heat. Your husband will be embarrassed.
You might not have this shop (Seattle Deli) near your house. For that I am sorry, but it is for that very reason I share this recipe with you. And dare I say I like this version better?! I think I dare. Maybe it's because I can pay closer attention to the jalapeno consumption or it could just be that these are the best little meatballs I've ever had. It could also be that the homemade baguette I used for the rolls was the perfect texture to make this sandwich utterly delicious while not requiring a bib to eat it.
Of course making your own rolls is not necessary in making these sandwiches a great success. When choosing the bread select one with a thin, crispy exterior, an interior with the lightness of a cloud and the craters of the moon to soak up the Sriracha mayo and the juices that seep out from the meatballs.
Banh Mi with pork meatballs
adapted from epicurious.com
makes 4 sandwiches
Sriracha Mayo
2/3 cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons onion, finely chopped
1 tablespoon Sriracha
¼ teaspoon salt
Combine all ingredients in a small bowl. Can be made a couple days in advance if covered well and place in the fridge.
Pork Meatballs
1 pound ground pork
2 tablespoons basil, finely chopped
2 tablespoons cilantro stems, finely chopped
4 garlic cloves, minced
¼ cup onion, finely diced
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1 tablespoon sriracha
1 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon coarse kosher salt
Other sandwich components
cilantro sprigs
jalapeno, thinly sliced
julienned carrots and radish with a sprinkle of rice wine vinegar
In a large bowl mix all these ingredients together. If touching raw meat doesn't scare you use your hands – they are the best way to ensure all the ingredients are evenly mixed. A spoon is fine too.
Prepare a plastic wrap or parchment lined baking sheet. Form the pork mixture into tablespoon sized balls. You should make 12 meatballs, 3 for each sandwich.
Cover the meatballs with plastic wrap and chill. You can make the meatballs one day in advance. If cooking the same day chill the meatballs for at least 30 minutes.
When ready to cook the meatballs pre-heat your oven to 350*F.
In a large skillet drizzle in 2 tablespoons oil (canola, sesame, or olive). When the pan is very hot carefully add half of the meatballs. Cook for about a minute on each side. You want to see a nice, dark crust on the meatballs.
When completely seared place the meatballs on a parchment lined sheet tray and put in the oven. Continue to cook until the internal temperature reaches 160*. If the juices run light pink your meatballs are done. This should take about 10 minutes.
While the meatballs are cooking prepare your baguettes. Cut each in half and apply a generous amount of the Sriracha Mayo on each side. Add cilantro, thinly sliced jalapenos, julienned carrots, and radish.
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TORONTO - With vivid hues, striking patterns and razor-sharp tailoring, Caitlin Power offered a fresh, bold take on classic womenswear at Toronto's World MasterCard Fashion Week on Thursday.
The Calgary-born, Toronto-based designer cited a recent sojourn to the French Caribbean as inspiration for her spring-summer line, aiming to pack a punch with bright shades and prints channelling influence from the islands.
Indeed, Power demonstrated that outerwear, suits, blouses, pants and other polished separates designed for the office or after-hours don't need to be staid or steeped in basic shades like black, navy or grey.
There were plenty of deep reds, rich browns and lush greens in the range, and no shortage of details to add visual interest to the garments, like leather panelling on shorts, enlarged keyhole accents on blouses and plunging necklines on fitted suit jackets and dresses. Power added inventive flavour, texture and eye-catching embellishments with criss-cross designs, large-scale graphic print emblazoned on coats and skirts and subtle patterns dotted on shorts and blazers.
Despite the injection of stronger colours, teamings of traditional and more muted hues were also on display, such as black panelling and trims on a sleeveless blouse to the flash of tan fabric adorning the hem of a black dress.
A trio of models sporting fitted, chevron-patterned leather dresses closed out the presentation of cohesive looks.