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D.R.E.A.M. "Silent Fight" Hoodie (Black)
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- 6.2 oz
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- Kanj Translates to Silent Fight.
- Red Wrist Print on Sleeve
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Why are Dinnington Labour candidates so frightened of debate?
They have their own Facebook site, Labour for Dinnington, the part where you can message them is blocked. So you comment on one of the photographs on the site, within a few minutes they are taken down, any discussion is obviously discouraged.
This proves how bankrupt of ideas these misfits are, why put your self forward if you are not prepared to have a dialogue with the voters?
The only people who are allowed to make any kind of comment are the Labour sycophants.
Labour is a party running scared.
There have been many Dinnington voters asking legitimate questions but to no avail.
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Lady Flames Head Softball Coach Paul Wetmore (center with trophy) celebrates with his team following Liberty's 2011 Big South Softball Championship.
Following a coaching career that spanned two decades and included five Big South titles, Liberty Head Softball Coach Paul Wetmore announced earlier today that he will retire from coaching following the conclusion of the 2013 season.
The athletics department will begin a national search for the program's fifth head coach immediately.
"We are deeply grateful for the time and effort Paul has given the Lady Flames softball program and to Liberty University," said Director of Athletics Jeff Barber. "Not only has he led our program on the field with unprecedented success, he has also led our program and its players with integrity both in the classroom and the community."
"We will always have deep appreciation for what he and his teams have accomplished and we wish both Paul and Cindie (wife) the very best in the days ahead."
Wetmore has been Liberty's only head softball coach at the Division I level, helping reinstate the program when he was hired as Lady Flames' skipper in 1994.
During the last 20 seasons, Wetmore has become the winningest coach in athletics department history, as he will enter the 2013 Big South Softball Championship with 546 career victories.
Wetmore has led the Lady Flames to a pair of Big South Softball Championships and NCAA Regional appearances (2002 and 2011) and Big South regular season titles in 1999, 2000 and 2007.
Wetmore is a three-time Big South Coach of the Year (1996, 1999 and 2000) and he has been named the VaSID State Coach of the Year four times (1996, 1997, 1998 and 2006).
Wetmore has coached the best players in the programs history, spotlighted by the program's only two All-Americans (Jessica Moore in 2007 and Kelly Strickland in 2011). He also coached five Big South Players of the Year, six VaSID State Players of the Year, seven NFCA all-region honorees, 59 Big South all-conference selections (27 first-team, 32 second-team).
Wetmore is the third winningest coach in Big South history and has posted a 149-147 regular season conference record in 20 seasons of league play. He has guided the Lady Flames to six Big South Softball Championship title games (1998, 2000, 2002, 2008, 2009 and 2011), the third most appearances in Big South history.
Under Wetmore's direction, the Lady Flames have posted nine 30-win seasons (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2011).
The Lady Flames continually played some of the top teams in the country under Wetmore's leadership. Liberty recorded six wins over Top 25 teams during Wetmore's two decades of coaching, including wins over No. 6 Michigan and No. 10 Baylor in 2007 and a doubleheader sweep over No. 24 Virginia Tech in 2006.
Prior to his days with the Lady Flames softball program, Wetmore logged over 30 years as both a player and coach at all levels of the softball and baseball ranks. He was a four-year letterman at Valley Regional High School in Deep River, Conn., before receiving an invitation to try out with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Wetmore has been affiliated with Liberty University for over 25 years. He served as the university's Director of Printing Services for 16 years, including several years while he was also head softball coach.
Later this week, Wetmore will guide the Lady Flames during his 20th Big South Softball Championship event. No. 6 seed Liberty is slated to open up championship play against No. 3 seed Longwood on Thursday.
The Lady Flames and the Lancers will meet in the final game of Day 1 of the 2013 Big South Softball Championship at Terry Field in Rock Hill, S.C.
Following the conclusion of the 2013 season, Wetmore will remain with the program until June 30 to help with the transition to the Lady Flames next head coach.
Wetmore by the Numbers (Head Coach: 1994-2013) Record at Liberty: 546-615-1; 149-147 Big South (20th Year) Career Record: Same (Program record-holder for career coaching victories) - posted 500th career victory, April 21, 2011 vs. Norfolk State NCAA Tournament Appearances: 2002, 2011 Big South Tournament Championships: 2002, 2011 Big South Regular-Season Championships: 1999, 2000, 2007 Big South Tournament Finals Appearances: 1998, 2000, 2002, 2008, 2009, 2011 30-Win Seasons: 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011 Big South Coach of the Year: 1996, 1999, 2000 VaSID State Coach of the Year: 1996, 1997, 1998, 2006 Number of Players Coached: 157 players Player Honors Earned: • 2 - Easton Fastpitch All-American (Jessica Moore, 2007; Kelly Strickland, 2011) • 7 - NFCA All-Region mentions • 6 - CoSIDA Academic All-District III mentions • 39 - VaSID All-State team members (30 first-team, 9 second-team) • 6 - VaSID All-State Players of the Year • 5 - Big South Players of the Year (Meredith Hollyfield '00; Amanda Maska '04; Jessica Moore '05, '07; Kelly Strickland '11) • 1 - Big South Pitcher of the Year (Tiffani Smith '11) • 3 - Big South Tournament MVP honors (Katie Phillips '98, Ali Thompson '02, Smith '11) • 3 - Big South Rookie/Freshmen of the Year • 59 - All-conference members (27 first team, 32 second team) • 29 - Big South All-Tournament team members


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Nigerian President, Umaru Yar'Adua, who was illegally "elected" President has reportedly condemned Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe for "disregarding the rule of law."
If Yar'Adua was not a head of state, the news would sound comical. Yar'Adua knows he came into office in one of the most farcical and fraudulent elections even by African standards where traditionally entrenched leadership do not want to yield power. His predecessor, Olusegun Obasanjo wanted Yar'Adua to succeed him. His "election" was a mere formality. Put another way, Yar'Adua's business cards and his inauguration speech were prepared before the voting.
Yet Yar'Adua sets a Guinness World Record for hypocrisy. He was speaking Sunday at something called the "Germany-European Partnership with Africa" in Wiesbaden, Germany when he criticized Mugabe.
Of course, he is trying to ingratiate himself with Europeans and the United States to deflect from his embarrassing "election." By most accounts, the Nigerian election was flawed. Western countries have note pressured Yar'Adua because the country is already a powder keg—oil prices are nearing $100 per barrel. More instability would push world prices to $150 or $200.
The West has made a Faustian pact with the Devil. This does not give Yar'Adua license to abuse Mugabe. Zimbabwe's economy has been destroyed by Western sanctions because Mugabe's government does not see eye-to-eye with the British. The big falling out happened when Mugabe's government seized the land from the super-wealthy white minority elite and redistributed the land to Africans. The land had been stolen from their forefathers.
To suggest that the economy collapsed because Africans in Zimbabwe are not capable of farming is ludicrous. It would imply that Africans, including Nigerians, are incapable of running their economies. Is this really what Yar'Adua believes?
The economy has been ruined due to the Western economic sabotage; no African country could withstand such an onslaught. The more Mugabe's government is backed into a corner, the more undemocratic the nation's political environment has become. The country has been cut off from access to International capital, finance, commerce and trade. That's why commercial agriculture collapsed. The twin Mafia of The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund has put Zimbabwe on their Hit List.
Tourism, once a major source of convertible currency, has been destroyed as Western countries discourage their nationals from going to Zimbabwe. The corporate media, where articles are written and edited by Europeans, have rabidly demonized Mugabe. Zambia's elder statesman, Kenneth Kaunda recently called on the West to seriously talk with Mugabe's government and to stop demonization.
It is not about "democracy" or "the rule of law." How do we account for the fact that during the entire period of Ian Smith's entire apartheid regime in what was then Rhodesia, the Western countries never imposed economic sanctions? The argument was that sanctions would "harm" Black Africans the most. What has now happened to that argument? Is it a coincidence that Smith's was a minority white regime? Of course not—It's all about kith-and-kin.
If the West cared about "democracy" in Africa how do we account for the silence over Meles Zenawi? He is an enemy of democracy in Ethiopia. Witness his violent abuse of the political opposition and on-going genocide against the people in eastern Ethiopia.
How do we account for Yoweri Museveni, Uganda's dictator? He removed presidential term limits from the East African country's constitution in 2005; he stole elections last year, much like Yar'Adua did in Nigeria; he invaded the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and as a result four million Congolese have died; the International Criminal Court, which is now trying Charles Taylor, is investigating alleged crimes against humanity by Uganda's army in the Congo as a result of Uganda's occupation of DRC between 1998-2005; the International Court of Justice already ruled in 2005 in DRC's favor and ordered $10 billion in compensation; and, there is an on-going genocide of Uganda's Acholi people, almost two million of whom have been confined in concentration camps in the north for almost 20 years with 1,000 excess deaths per week according to the WHO.
How does the West react to all this? Meles has been annointed as a U.S. ally in the "war against terror" as has Museveni, who was a recently a visitor to the White House with George Bush. On November 23, the Ugandan gets to host the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Uganda. There was no on-going genocide in Zimbabwe when it was suspended from the "Commonwealth."
Does President Yar'Adua need any more examples? Thank the African creator for Thabo Mbeki who is a thoroughbred African and has rejected machinations against Zimbabwe. If more African countries stood by each other like the Europeans band together, the continent would be in a far better place today.
Yar'Adua; heal thyself!
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Description: Well, I have done a lesson on the American flag as well as five other things. I wanted to start the day by submitting another flag tutorial but this time it will be on "how to draw the Canadian flag step by step". I chose the flag from Canada to do because some of the DragoArt members are from Canada and because one of my best friends is from that country as well. I don't know too much about the Canadian flag so I had to do some research to find out when the birth of the flag took place. Here is what I found out; It all started when the Canadian Privy Council started a research for a new design for a national flag back in 1925. Unfortunately the work the Council started in 1925 was never completed and was picked up again twenty one years later. The committee was approached with more than two thousand six hundred flag designs in 1946, and again Canada never voted on what flag design they wanted and the concept was forgotten about until Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson wished that the government adopt a distinctive national flag during the beginning year of 1964. After a few months, in October of 1964 to be exact, the committee looked through hundreds of designs and chose only three to choose from. The choices where; a red ensign with the Fleur-de-lis and the Union Jack, another design was the incorporation of three red colored maple leaves, and then finally the last design to choose from was of one red maple leaf on a white square with red blocks on each side. Initially the flag with the three maple leaves was favored, but after a long review and different opinions arose, the Canadian flag was to be created with a single red maple leaf on a white field with red borders on each side. The red and white colors of Canada was appointed to the country by King George V in 1921. The national flag of Canada came to be and three men were credited with the creation, design, and concept. Lester B. Pearson, John Matheson, and Dr. George Stanley. Now That is what I have learned about the Canadian flag and I will leave you guys to learn "how to draw a Canadian flag" step by step. When you start this lesson remember that when teaching yourself "how to draw the Canada flag", you will need to draw the rectangle box on your sheet of paper or you can just use your sheet of paper as the rectangle box and just fill it with a red maple leaf and red borders. I have to go but I will be back. See you guys in a bit okay, peace out!


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0 Cavo – Bright Nights, Dark Days (2009)
I first heard about the St. Louis, Missouri band Cavo, when they were announced as one of the second stage acts for Cruefest 2. I was relatively unimpressed by their music on myspace. I did see part of their set during Cruefest 2, and I must admit that I thought the song "Champagne" was kind of cool. This led to me checking out their debut CD, Bright Nights, Dark Days, to see if there was more quality rock worth checking out.
After my first spin of this CD, my first reaction is Cavo is not a hard rock band at all. I thought they might be a hard rock act after getting the Cruefest 2 gig. They are more of alternative rock group with a pop/rock slant. The majority of the songs on this CD could have crossover appeal, meaning the songs could turn up on different radio formats. I am just not sure how much this CD will appeal to hard rock fans.
"Champagne" is the lead off single, and unless you haven't listened to rock radio lately, you have probably heard this song quite a few times. It is a good tune, and is a #1 hit for Cavo.
"Crash" has been released as the second single and is a pretty catchy tune that is in the vein of Daughtry.
"Let It Go" was originally featured on the Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen soundtrack. It is a more mellow number and a bit too safe in my opinion. I didn't care for this tune very much.
"Blame" is another tune that screams hit for Cavo. It is a mid tempo number, and one of the harder moments on Bright Nights, Dark Days.
Overall, Cavo has crafted a solid pop/rock album that will likely appeal to fans of bands like Saving Abel, Nickelback, and Daughtry. I wish it had a few more harder tunes for a fan like me, but I can't deny that there are some quality tunes for mainstream rock fans to enjoy. The band will likely have a few hits on their hands before it is all said and done.
Check them out on myspace, where you can check out three of Cavo's songs. If you like what you hear, you can purchase the CD at this link.
Rating: Out of 10
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Track Listing:
1. Champagne
2. Crash
3. Let It Go
4. Cry Wolf
5. Ghost
6. Blame
7. My Little Secret
8. Beautiful
9. We All Fall Down
10. Over Again
11. Useless
Cavo is:
Casey Walker – Vocals
Chris Hobbs – Guitars
Brian Smith – Bass
Chad LaRoy – Drums


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On a typically balmy summer day in late July 1999, the family and friends of Alex McIntire gathered at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Coconut Grove to bid him farewell. McIntire's body had been found days earlier inside his 1993 Mercury Villager minivan, submerged in seventeen feet of water in a remote Southwest Miami-Dade canal. No one had seen or heard from him in nearly three months. When police divers retrieved the body, they discovered his torso chained and padlocked to the seat; his right foot was chained and padlocked to the accelerator. The medical examiner ruled his death a suicide.
The church was filled. It was, by all accounts, a moving service. McIntire, who would have turned 54 years old a month later, was a well-known and well-liked administrator at the University of Miami. He volunteered at St. Stephen's, where he served as a member of the vestry. For nearly two decades, he was active in the Miami chapter of Mensa, the so-called genius society. And he was a popular figure among a large group of writers, academicians, and other cognoscenti who frequent a respected conference Website known as the Well.
Indeed friends came from as far away as California for the funeral. One of those friends -- San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll, speaking to a national audience a few days later as a guest commentator on National Public Radio's Morning Edition -- paid tribute to McIntire as a scholar, a loving father, a man who constantly sought to take comfort in faith. Months later acclaimed novelist Russell Banks dedicated his new book of short stories to the memory of Alex McIntire.
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But few people at that wrenching service -- if any at all -- knew the burning secret that appears to have prompted McIntire to take his own life. He left no suicide note. He said goodbye to no one, leaving his wife and daughter in shock and his colleagues and friends across the nation at a complete loss for understanding. That secret, which dates back more than 25 years, is a haunting, disturbing tale that first began to unravel when a woman named Lisa Hamilton revealed to her mother that she had been sexually abused as a child. The abuse, she said, went on for years and years and had been committed by her stepfather, Alex McIntire.
Hamilton is now 32 years old and lives in Lexington, Kentucky. She claims that on an almost nightly basis, McIntire crept into her room and assaulted her while others in the house slept. The abuse occurred from the time she was six until she was fourteen, when McIntire divorced her mother. Because Hamilton kept silent for more than a decade, no physical evidence exists linking McIntire to the assaults. And there are no corroborating witnesses. Thus her charges remain unproven allegations.
While no one can be certain what impelled McIntire to bind himself inside his van before plunging it into a canal, this much is known: On the day he disappeared and presumably ended his life, he was expected to meet with detectives from the Miami-Dade Police Department's Sexual Crimes Bureau to answer the allegations brought forth by Lisa Hamilton.
If Alex McIntire could lay claim to a unique distinction, it was the result of a genetic stroke of luck that blessed him with the IQ of a genius. In 1985 the Miami Herald's now-defunct Sunday magazine, Tropic, published a flattering profile of McIntire, dubbing him the smartest man in Miami. It was a fitting appellation. Since the early Seventies, he had been a member of Mensa, the organization with but one entrance requirement: a score on a standardized IQ (intelligence quotient) test higher than 98 percent of the general population.
Within Mensa's Miami chapter, McIntire was widely regarded as the brightest of the bunch. With good reason. Beyond Mensa is an organization called Intertel, which requires for admission an IQ test score above the 99th percentile. McIntire was a member. And beyond Intertel lies the Triple Nine Society. In order to join, one must score higher than 99.9 percent of the population. McIntire was a member of that, too. But there is a higher level still. Those who qualify as triple-niners can take a verbal-acuity test for membership in ISPE, the International Society of Philosophical Enquiry. The test separates the living robots from those able to engage in intelligent, meaningful conversation. In the entire world today, there are just 631 members of the ISPE. McIntire was among them.
For years he served as president of Mensa's Miami chapter. He often attended the group's monthly dinner meetings and other social functions at which members gathered to socialize, exchange ideas, and discuss everything from college football to astrophysics. Seth Lefkow, now 72 years old, has been a member for years. A few months after McIntire's death, Lefkow recounted for New Times a story he says at once illustrated McIntire's breadth of knowledge, social grace, and sensitivity. About five years ago, a group of 40 or so Mensa members met for an informal dinner at Tien Kue Inn, a Chinese restaurant on Coral Way in Miami. In walked a couple, new to the group. After ten or fifteen seconds of awkward silence (Mensa members are known for their intelligence, not their savoir-faire), McIntire stood up and, recognizing the man's Indian features, welcomed him in Urdu, a language in which McIntire happened to be fluent. It was such a gracious touch, recalled Lefkow, adding that he never had admired anybody more than McIntire: The most intelligent human being I've ever met.
Piecing together the life of Miami's smartest resident is no simple task. Few friends or family members agreed to be interviewed for this article. Those who did described McIntire as a deeply religious and fiercely private man who rarely talked about his past. Some of that past, however, is well-known.
He grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina, and remained in the state to attend college at UNC Chapel Hill, from which he graduated in 1967. Twenty years later a syndicated newspaper article described a reunion of campus intellectuals and civil-rights activists. McIntire was among those quoted. We were people who chose not to fit in with Bass Weejuns and madras shirts and fraternities and football games, he said. In high school we were very bright but didn't fit in because we were interested in things like music and foreign films. We got to Chapel Hill and, by golly, there were 300 or 400 people who really thought those things were okay.
One of those people was novelist Russell Banks. The award-winning author of Continental Drift, The Sweet Hereafter, Cloudsplitter, and other books, met McIntire in college. They stayed close friends until McIntire's death. Banks recalls being attracted to McIntire's social and intellectual maturity. He always seemed a few years beyond the rest of us, the author says from his home in upstate New York. He was a tremendous presence. Banks dedicated his book The Angel on the Roof to McIntire, because it was in those early days of late-night discourse and intellectual banter that he began writing. But Banks says there also was an enigmatic side to McIntire. He was very private person in some ways, he remembers. Despite his openness I always knew there was a deep well of darkness inside.
Following college McIntire pursued graduate work in international studies at a string of universities. As many Mensa members will attest, a high IQ is no ticket to professional success. The eclectic intellectual pursuits, the endless thirst for knowledge, the tangential forays into arcane disciplines for curiosity's sake can inhibit the hyperintelligent from charting a career path and following it to the top. McIntire may be a good example. Though he eventually earned a Ph.D. from the University of Miami, until he was nearly 40 years old he earned his living as a schoolteacher. His résumé includes posts in Montana, North Carolina, Pakistan, Ecuador, and Miami, teaching social studies at both the elementary and high school levels and occasionally coaching after-school athletic teams. It was during one of those teaching stints that he met Linda Hamilton.
In 1971 Hamilton, then 25 years old, worked at the chamber of commerce in Billings, Montana. She was a recently divorced mother of two: Lisa, age three, and Jack, one. McIntire had been teaching part-time and taking classes at Montana State University in Billings when he called the chamber one day to inquire about volunteering as a hotline operator at a crisis center. Hamilton answered the phone, and from that call a romance blossomed.
He flattered me, Hamilton recounts, speaking from her home in Huntington, West Virginia, where she works as a mathematics instructor at Marshall University. He said I was the smartest person he'd talked to in a long time. They spoke a number of times by phone over the next few weeks. What attracted her? His intelligence, she says. He was obviously very bright. When they finally met face to face, she understood his courtship-by-phone tactics: McIntire was morbidly obese.
At his heaviest, Hamilton says, McIntire weighed just over 500 pounds. That kind of girth, wrapped around his hulking six-foot two-inch frame, made for an imposing figure. His weight fluctuated greatly. She once recalls him dropping to under 300 pounds after fasting for 45 days. He gained much of it back, though Hamilton didn't mind; she knew what lay beneath the physical appearance. Within a year they married. (Hamilton believes he had been married once before.) He was such a remarkable person, she continues. He could go to a different cocktail party every night for four years and be able to talk to anyone in any field and speak about the latest developments. He was bright enough to convince anyone of anything.
Shortly after marrying, the couple, along with Hamilton's two children, moved to Durham, North Carolina, where McIntire began taking graduate courses at Duke University; he also taught at an elementary school. Hamilton took a job teaching at a preschool. But within two years, the family was on the move again. According to Hamilton McIntire believed he could not complete a master's thesis in international studies from the confines of Duke's library. He had to live abroad. Soon he found the opportunity: The Lahore American School in Pakistan offered him and his wife teaching jobs.
In 1974 Hamilton flew to Pakistan with daughter Lisa to rent a house and enroll her children in school. McIntire arrived a few weeks later with Linda's son Jack. Lisa was six years old and Jack had recently turned four. Because they were so young when their mother met McIntire, both children grew up thinking he was their biological father. And there is no evidence to suggest he was anything but a kind and loving parent in those early years. But all that changed shortly after the family arrived in Pakistan -- at least in the eyes of his stepdaughter.
Lisa Hamilton agreed to talk with New Times after being contacted at her home in Lexington, Kentucky, where she works at a print shop. In the 26 years since these events occurred, she has discussed them with only a limited number of people: two police officers, an attorney, a therapist, a boyfriend, her husband, and her brother and mother. She speaks in hushed staccato phrases, never mentioning McIntire by name, instead using a pointed he or him or a selected epithet.
Here is her account: Early one morning in Pakistan, while her mother slept, Lisa was awakened in her bed by McIntire. Without staying a word, he positioned her on her back, lifted up her nightgown, and began to caress her genitals. Then he performed cunnilingus. Throughout the episode he repeatedly told her he loved her and asked if it felt good. She said nothing. After perhaps 30 minutes he left, riding into the city on his bicycle. I knew what was going on, Lisa says today. I knew what he was trying to do. I knew it was wrong.
And so began what Lisa Hamilton claims was a nightmarish cycle of abuse that lasted more than seven years. Typically, she charges, McIntire would come into her room in the late evening after her mother had fallen asleep. The visits, as Lisa calls them, lasted up to an hour. During some extended periods, they occurred almost nightly. On occasion they took place during the day while the two were alone in the house. She says McIntire frequently instructed her not to tell anyone. Once, while still in Pakistan, Lisa's mother left for a few days on business. This was like his holiday, Lisa remembers, her voice wavering. She was about eight years old. McIntire brought her into his bedroom and removed her clothes. He fondled her. He removed his penis from his pants and placed her hand on it.
Lisa learned to detach herself during the assaults. It was her only defense. I froze, she says. It was like a blackness. I went away from my body. In fact every time I talk about it, I feel the same way as I did then -- everything seems like it exists in just two dimensions. Flat. I could feel it but it wasn't mine. I just didn't feel anything. I could turn it off, like a switch.
As the abuse continued, Lisa developed a theory for why it was happening: As a child you think it's your own fault. If I wasn't a bad person, he wouldn't be doing this to me. So it was my responsibility to put up with it, not to complain. She worried that telling her mother would split apart the family. As much as she wanted the assaults to stop, she also wanted her family to stay together. A 1992 e-mail message to her mother explained:
All I wanted was for nobody to find out, for him to stop doing it around Jack, and for you not to lose your marriage. I don't know why it was such a great thing to try to save, but I was afraid if you found out, you'd blow up at each other and you'd hate me for wrecking it.
After four years in Pakistan, Alex McIntire and Linda Hamilton (both mother and daughter use the last name of Linda's maternal grandfather) accepted job offers from an English-language school in Quito, Ecuador. In 1978 they moved there with Lisa and Jack. McIntire, Lisa says, continued his visits. Her only respite came during a two- or three-month period when McIntire moved out of the house. (Linda says he was having an affair and briefly lived with the woman and her children.) Lisa claims the visits continued when the family moved to Miami in 1979. Three years later McIntire and Linda separated; subsequently he filed for divorce. Linda says she had been willing to patch up the relationship, but McIntire wasn't interested. He said I wasn't enough woman for him, recalls Linda.
During the separation McIntire demanded visitations with Lisa. Once or twice a week Linda dropped her daughter at McIntire's parents' home in South Miami-Dade, where he was living. Lisa says he abused her there, too, each time she arrived. Only after the divorce was finalized, in August 1983, did the assaults come to an end. Lisa was fourteen. She never saw McIntire again.
When Lisa Hamilton heard the news that Alex McIntire had killed himself, she broke down in tears, screaming in anger. This development did not follow the script she had played in her mind so many times. No resolution came with his death. I wanted to confront him, but now I can't, she says slowly, carefully choosing each word. I don't get to destroy him, to see his life crumble away. I don't have control over it now. I don't get the release, the sentence, the execution, the ruining of his life. I don't fulfill the dream of castrating him. And now I don't get the rest that I need in my life.
Telling her story, she now believes, may precipitate a resolution. It is part of her healing. She also believes a public airing will help illuminate the devastating effects of sexual abuse on a young child. No one besides other victims, she says, can comprehend the numbing pain she has endured for so many years. Although she is married now, she has had difficulty with relationships. What is trust? What is love? she asks.
Maintaining self-esteem is an enduring struggle. At times in her life she has felt compelled to appear unattractive and socially inept. A childhood victim of sexual abuse, growing up, is faced with living through the present with the frames of childhood obscuring everything that should be new, in intimacy, in relationships, in any socialization, she explains. My childhood was stolen. I'm only now beginning to live my life. He may be dead, but for me the story isn't even close to being over.
In the summer of 1992, breaking years of silence, Lisa told her mother of the abuse. A few visits to a therapist, she says, helped her recognize the healing benefit of coming forward. She was 24 years old at the time and a recent graduate of the University of Kentucky. She and her mother were at a children's museum, accompanying Linda's young son from a later marriage. I suppose I just didn't want to believe it at first, Linda recalls. But then my reaction, like any parent's reaction, was: Where had I been? Why hadn't I noticed?' Over the next few months, Lisa and her mother exchanged a series of e-mail messages. In one of them, dated September 28, 1992, Lisa explains her reluctance to speak up earlier:
I always thought -- afterward -- it wasn't a big thing, that he didn't ever hurt me, that he didn't ever actually try genital penetration, that he didn't put me to shame in public. And then somebody told me I was abused as much as any other abuse case, and I've been confused ever since.
Later in the same message she tries to ease her mother's feelings of guilt:
No, I don't blame you for any of it; I can't. What would you do? He's a twisted motherfucker. He likes to play with children. I don't know if he knows how permanent the damage he does, had done, did, still does, is. Children are like clay. I want to stay away from them myself. I won't be held responsible for anything that forms an adult like this one.
A few months later, at her mother's urging, Lisa telephoned the Coral Gables Police Department to report her charges of abuse. (The last place the family lived together was in married-student housing at the University of Miami in Coral Gables.) After an initial interview, a Coral Gables police detective concluded that the statute of limitations had expired on any crime occurring in that city's jurisdiction. At issue was Lisa's age. By the time she moved to Coral Gables, she had turned twelve. Under Florida law children twelve years or older who are sexually assaulted must report the crime within three years of their sixteenth birthday. The statute of limitations would have expired when Lisa turned nineteen. But there is no statute of limitations if the child suffered abuse under the age of twelve. Such assaults -- provided they include some form of vaginal penetration, such as the oral and digital penetration reported by Lisa -- are considered life felonies, calling for a minimum mandatory sentence of 25 years in prison.
Because Lisa briefly lived in unincorporated Miami-Dade County prior to her twelfth birthday, a Coral Gables police detective referred the case to the Miami-Dade Police Department, where it was assigned to Det. Daniel Wendel of the Sexual Crimes Bureau. The investigation was short-lived. According to police reports, Wendel interviewed Lisa and her mother by telephone in May 1993. He also tried but failed to contact two other people who knew of the allegations: Lisa's brother Jack and a former high school boyfriend in whom Lisa once confided. That was the extent of Detective Wendel's investigation. He never presented his findings to the State Attorney's Office, and no charges were filed, although the case remained officially open.
Wendel retired in 1996. Miami-Dade Police Department officials say they do not know his whereabouts today, nor are they able to explain his reason for apparently abandoning the case. Both Lisa and Linda Hamilton say they assumed the investigation was moving forward, albeit slowly. In fact Lisa was planning to file a civil lawsuit against McIntire once he was arrested on criminal charges. In any event she was in no hurry. She was undergoing therapy at the time and did not relish the thought of reliving the abuse at a criminal trial.
E-mail correspondence between mother and daughter indicates they believed a Miami attorney named Elizabeth Richard was in contact with Detective Wendel, monitoring his investigation in preparation for filing the civil suit. But they were wrong. Richard, in a recent interview, describes herself as a family friend of the Hamiltons, not Lisa's attorney. And while she did call Wendel once, in 1993, she never followed up. Nevertheless she was equally frustrated by Wendel's inaction.
In October 1998, five and a half years after Lisa first contacted police, the case resurfaced following a review of inactive files. The so-called cold case was reassigned to Miami-Dade Police Det. Steven Signori. This time investigators vigorously pursued their leads. Signori contacted Lisa and documented that she was under twelve years old at the time she lived in unincorporated Miami-Dade. The statute of limitations therefore did not apply. He also obtained dozens of e-mails among Linda, Lisa, and Jack, dating back to 1992, in which the assaults were discussed openly. In his interview with Linda Hamilton, Signori learned that while still in Pakistan, Lisa had contracted Reiter's syndrome, a disorder whose symptoms include urinary tract inflammation that is often (but not exclusively) transmitted sexually. He also learned that Linda had to forbid McIntire from shaving Lisa's legs after he had made numerous requests to do so.
After his divorce from Linda Hamilton, McIntire remarried and had a child with his new wife. The family lived in a modest home on a quiet, tree-shaded street in unincorporated Miami-Dade, barely a mile from his office at the University of Miami.
He received his doctorate from the university in 1984 and began teaching as an adjunct professor of international studies. Soon he began a steady rise through the school's administrative ranks. While teaching he also served as associate director of UM's North-South Center, a research institute devoted to hemispheric affairs. Ambler Moss, former U.S. Ambassador to Panama and the center's long-time director, last year spoke to New Times about McIntire. Not surprisingly he recalled a man of extraordinary intelligence and insight. He also described McIntire as intensely compassionate. Of the people who cared most about other people, he would have to come out near the top of the list, Moss offered. He was a great, great person. One of the best in the university.
In his most recent post, McIntire served as assistant provost for academic development, a position he helped to create. Much of his time was spent advising students. He also was charged with developing undergraduate support services, such as counseling and academic mentoring.
By the early spring of last year, McIntire had neither seen nor heard from Lisa Hamilton in almost fifteen years. There is no indication in police records or elsewhere that he had any idea his former stepdaughter had contacted investigators with her allegations of sexual abuse. But those years of silence had come to an end. On April 17, 1999, with much of his investigation complete, Detective Signori knocked on the door of McIntire's Miami home. Records show he planned to reveal Lisa's allegations. (Signori declined to be interviewed for this story and referred all questions to police department spokesmen.)
It was a Saturday at about 11:30 a.m. McIntire's wife answered the door; her husband was not home. Signori left his business card along with instructions for McIntire to contact him the following Tuesday morning, when the detective returned to work. In his report Signori noted that he did not disclose the allegations to McIntire's wife.
At 8:15 a.m. the following Tuesday, McIntire, as he did most days, said goodbye to his wife and left on his short commute to work. He dressed in his customary fashion: slacks, button-down Oxford shirt, and necktie. At 8:30, presumably from his UM office, he telephoned Signori as instructed, dialing the number printed on the detective's card. This is what he heard: You have reached the Miami-Dade Police Department's Sexual Crimes Bureau.... If you know your party's extension, dial it now. He entered Signori's extension but the detective was not in. In a voice-mail message, McIntire promised to call again later that day, perhaps after visiting his mother, who had been hospitalized following a recent fall.
He never called back, and he was never heard from again.
According to police records, McIntire left his office an hour after phoning Signori, telling his secretary he was en route to a meeting. He never arrived. He missed a number of other meetings that day. He also failed to visit his mother at the hospital as he had promised her.
By evening McIntire's wife was worried. Police reports indicate that at 9:30 p.m., believing he might have been arrested, she contacted the Miami-Dade Police Department and asked for Det. Steven Signori. He was not in, but when a supervisor in the Sexual Crimes Bureau learned of McIntire's disappearance, he dispatched an officer to file a missing-persons report, waiving the normal 24-hour waiting period. McIntire's wife told the officer that her husband had seemed depressed and had been sleeping a lot. She commented on his obesity.
Four days later Signori contacted Lisa Hamilton at her home in Kentucky, informing her that McIntire had vanished. The detective expressed concern that he might try to locate her. It was a scary time, Lisa recalls. Every time the phone rang, I jumped.
Investigators had few clues to pursue. McIntire's bank accounts were untouched, his credit cards unused. No one had heard from him. With the police stumped, his wife hired a private detective. A group of Mensa friends drove between UM and the hospital where McIntire had planned to visit his mother, searching the roadway for possible leads. The FBI, which usually does not handle such cases, briefly investigated following a plea from what police described as an influential acquaintance of McIntire's family. Two journalist friends -- Jon Carroll of the San Francisco Chronicle and British author Andrew Brown, a contributor to the monthly New Statesman -- published personal essays reflecting on his baffling disappearance.
About three weeks after he'd last been seen, McIntire's boss, vice provost John Masterson, offered police a gloomy assessment. Dr. Masterson further informed this writer, a detective commented in a report, that Mr. McIntire was ... the most intelligent man he had even been associated with. He stated that if Mr. McIntire wanted to disappear, that he would never be found.
Despite that increasing possibility, Signori continued his investigation into Lisa Hamilton's allegations. By early July the detective believed he had gathered sufficient evidence to charge McIntire with sexual battery, should he ever be found. Lisa had recounted the alleged abuse in painstaking detail. Her mother, while unable to corroborate the assaults, found her daughter's account to be credible. And most important, Signori obtained school records showing that Lisa had lived in Miami-Dade County before turning twelve. On July 16 he met with Assistant State Attorney Laura Uriarte to outline the facts of the case. But after reviewing the evidence, Uriarte expressed doubts that she could obtain a conviction. For that reason, she said, the State Attorney's Office would not file charges.
In a recent interview, Uriarte said she only vaguely remembered the case and referred questions to Tammy Forrest, chief of the sexual battery/child abuse unit in the State Attorney's Office. Forrest had been unaware of the case, but at New Times's request she reviewed the police reports pertaining to Lisa Hamilton's allegations. After doing so Forrest supported Uriarte's decision. In a situation like this, she explained, a jury's finding boils down to whom they choose to believe. Because the assaults occurred so long ago, there is no physical evidence, she noted. It's his word against her word. Further, she said, defense attorneys surely would have pointed out that police reports reveal Lisa's plan to file a civil lawsuit asking for monetary damages. Juries get suspicious of that sort of thing, Forrest observed.
On July 17, 1999, one day after meeting with Uriarte, Signori closed his investigation. His final report concluded with this: Probable cause exists to arrest [McIntire] for sexual battery. Due to the fact that the State Attorney's Office will not file charges ... it is requested that this case be exceptionally cleared. (A case is exceptionally cleared when probable cause exists to arrest a suspect but circumstances prevent prosecution.) Later that day a form letter went out to Lisa from the Miami-Dade Police Department advising her of that decision.
The smartest man in Miami, it seemed, was clear of the law and free to reappear.
Just two days later, McIntire's body was found in his van, submerged in a canal next to a zucchini field in Southwest Miami-Dade. He had been missing one day short of three months.
The rural location was an ideal place to drop off the face of the Earth. The area is sparsely populated. The canal is deep enough to fully conceal a vehicle resting on the bottom. And from the spot where McIntire slipped his car down an embankment and into the slow-moving water, eight-foot-tall grass obscures the view from any vehicles randomly passing in the distance. He was found by a diver employed by a towing company searching the canal for automobiles to salvage. (Canals and flooded rock quarries in remote parts of the county often are used to dispose of stolen or unwanted vehicles.)
The van was upside down. McIntire was in the driver's seat, his seat belt attached. Later divers also found a large steel chain securing his body to the seat. A similar chain was wrapped around his foot and the accelerator. Both were fastened with key-operated padlocks, as if to prevent escape should he lose the nerve to die as water gushed through the open windows. His clothes, while badly deteriorated, appeared to match those he was wearing the day he disappeared. Dental records were used to establish positive identification. The medical examiner determined he died of drowning.
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Even with considerable media coverage of McIntire's disappearance and ultimately his death, Lisa's sexual-battery allegations were never reported publicly, though police hinted at them to a Miami Herald reporter. In explaining the suicide ruling, Miami-Dade Police Department spokesman Rudy Espinosa alluded to key information police were withholding. There are certain things we don't want the family to read about in the paper, the Herald quoted him as saying. As a result McIntire's friends freely speculated on his death: a car jacking staged as a suicide; despondence over his weight and health. UM's Ambler Moss theorized that he may have been depressed by the recent death of a close friend, Cuban scholar Enrique Baloyra.
Among those who eventually learned of the allegations, virtually all hoped never to see them in print. Jon Carroll, the San Francisco Chronicle columnist, responded via e-mail to a request for comment, passionately arguing that the story was not newsworthy. You are, of course, free to write what you want, he said. I can assure you that, down the line, you will feel small and sleazy for having done so. Henry Hamman, a Miami man who described himself as McIntire's closest friend, responded with equal vituperation: Unless you can come up with some damn good reason to write this story, you'd better stay away from it or you'll regret it the rest of your life. McIntire's widow declined to comment but did voice her objection to the story's publication, questioning the public benefit.
Needless to say Lisa Hamilton believes otherwise. She bristles at the suggestion her allegations should be concealed and that McIntire's reputation should remain unsullied. She calls this article the first solid beginning of the annihilation that this twisted fucker's character has needed for many decades. Her pain, she says, is only now beginning to subside: He transformed my life forever. There's no easy way for me to get over what he did. I think people finally ought to know what this man was really like, what he was capable of doing, and did, to a child as young and helpless as I was.
Staff writer Victor Cruz contributed to this report.


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Opinion: Obama Takes Putin at His Word
Editorial board member Matt Kaminski on Obama's assessment of the Russian strongman, and criticism of the President's strategy. Photo: Associated Press
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This is a refraction of an image of Einstein in the most perfect sphere ever made. The flaws on this quartz sphere are no bigger than forty atoms. It, and other spheres like it, have been sent to space to test out a couple of Einstein's ideas.
These near-perfect spheres are going to be sent to space to demonstrate the geodetic effect. They are going to be spun around until they're turning like little round gyroscopes. Anyone who has played with a gyroscope has noticed that it when the wheel is spun fast enough, the central pillar always points in the same direction. You can nudge the gyroscope to the left or right on the floor, but it will keep standing up straight instead of tipping.
But you're nudging it on a flat floor. And although anything orbiting the Earth seems like it's orbiting on a flat plane, Einstein showed that the Earth's huge mass slightly warps spacetime. The gyroscope is actually moving across a curved surface, and so its central pillar — the central axis — will tip slightly as it travels across a warped plane. That's the geodetic effect. The purpose of sending these perfect, spinning spheres up into space is to see how their axis tips as they move around the curved spacetime. There's a video explaining the effect that you can watch here.
Via Physics Central.


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How Much Can You Trust a Restaurant? — The Gross Facts About Eating Out
We have all battled a little food poising at least once in our lives. That lunch date out with friends turn into an evening spent with the toilet. Never a pretty sight, is it? With getting sick from restaurant food so common place, why do we keep chancing it? I recently ate at one of my favorite little burger joints and ended up regretting it for days later. There is something about being sick to your stomach that can knock you out of normal, everyday life for a long time. The icky feeling added to the possibility that you may never be able to trust food again equals out to be a horrible experience.
But, I have gone out to eat again and been really risky with it. You know what I mean. That day that you are dying to have a burrito and then you see that little mom and pop taqueria you've never tried before. You have a little voice in the back of your head saying, "Don't do it. You know you can't trust this to be a good decision." Then you pull into the parking lot and scarf down that tortilla wrapped hazard anyway. Lets not pick on our local mom and pop's, though. Plenty of chain restaurants fall short of the healthy and happy eating experience. Just because they have the required signs in the bathroom for employees to wash their hands does not mean that they will.
I don't think there is much past experience that will keep us from living these dare devil ways. If that was the case, we would have been paying attention long ago to all of the warning signs.
Plenty of stories come out in the news, the paper, on the internet, and featured on television shows telling us about someone else's horror story with a bad sandwich, but we don't listen. Stories such as those told by David Seaman for Main Street news should be the turning point for all of us. He collected ten of the most disgusting restaurant tales. One described that, "Super China Buffet, which reportedly received six "critical violations" of the health code for a number of unappetizing reasons..." This restaurant in Erie, PA received these violations because of "pink" slime growing inside their ice machine.
What in the world causes pink slime? That sounds like the beginning to a movie about an alien attack. Another story from this countdown of the gag inducing yuck described a blood and gore scene. "A member of the kitchen staff had cut off a portion of his finger and, in the confusion that arose when people rushed to help the man, the finger ended up on a plate."
This sounds like something we might laugh at in a sitcom, but to start chowing down on a burger and find a finger! Will the horror never end?
Apparently not. There are plenty of shows that we are definitely not laughing at when it comes to the unveiling of what is really behind those kitchen doors. One famous show from this bunch is Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. He isn't just showing the world how to fix up a failing kitchen, he is telling a cautionary tale about the gunk and mold piling up where our food is being prepared. It is nice to have Ramsay come save the day when he makes these eateries clean up their act, but what about the places he isn't fixing up?
Some of these diners are right here in East Texas. KLTV runs regular broadcasts of their local Restaurant Reports. This is a spot on their news casting that lets all of us know what demerits or pats on the back our local joints are getting when the health inspectors show up. Sometimes, the results make you feel like throwing up before you have even eaten the food. It is a comforting sight to see when multiple restaurants get great ratings. When the results come ranking in at high levels of foul, we all cringe.
When you feel that gut feeling that this restaurant might house repulsive conditions and stomach-churning food, STEP AWAY. Go home. Cook a meal that only your hands have touched and that can give you that ease of security. Or, do your research. Find out our local diner's score from the health department. Check out that chain restaurant's standards on their corporate website.
I am sure you and I will soon find ourselves back on the bathroom floor making promises to God that we will never, ever eat like that again. It is bound to happen that another instance of frightful food will occur. Life is meant to be an adventure, but I don't know if getting that gas station sandwich is really that adventurous.
Let us know your worst dining gone bad experience.


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With all the corporate slathering that's come to define professional motorsports, it's hard to imagine a team really giving much thought to the paint and decals—known as the livery—that adorn its car. Typically, if the main sponsor's logo is silver and red, it pretty much dictates that the car will be silver and red. And unfortunately, some teams don't put much more thought it into than that. However, there are a few teams that push through the drudgery and come up with cool designs that fans will remember as much as the performance of the cars themselves. Sometimes the design marks a special occasion or cause, or a new owner, or is just new for newness' sake. It's because of these that we decided to look through all of our favorite race teams and compile this list of the most creative designs. From old Formula 1 teams to short-lived Dakar Rally cars, check out the 50 Greatest Race Liveries of All Time.
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UPDATE: Houston County burglary suspects identified | Crime
The Houston County Sheriff's Office identified the two people they believe are responsible for a string of burglaries.
Investigators arrested Jabrea Deanna Vason, 21, of Montezuma Thursday after a traffic stop on Macedonia Church Road in Pulaski County.
Eddie McTrail Allen, 32, of Americus, ran from the car on foot prompting a massive manhunt in the area of Macedonia Road and Hwy 26.
Vason was charged with six counts of burlary and Allen is wanted on the same charges, according to a Houston County Sheriff's Office news release.
Capt. John Holland says there have been 8 or 9 burglaries in the Perry area in the past six weeks.
Around 9:30 or 10 a.m. Thursday, a deputy spotted the silver Ford mustang associated with the burglaries.
The man and a woman were in car were identified as Allen and Vason.
After Allen ran, a helicopter went up to scan the woods. At one point in the day, there was a sighting of the man, but crews weren't able to find him on the ground.
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#Context Help - Hover over different sections of the ROBOTC interface for brief descriptions.
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Revision as of 21:06, 14 May 2012
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|ROBOTC for Mindstorms is an Integrated Development Environment. It has been developed to provide as much support as possible for the platforms it is compatible with. The ROBOTC interface will modify itself to accommodate the functionality found in your controller. ROBOTC extends the 'C' programming language with a number of built-in variables and functions to provide control over a robot's hardware devices, i.e. the motors and sensors.
|This is the part of the interface where the user can write code.
Code Templates / Function Library
|This portion of the interface allows user to see all the functions available in ROBOTC at their user level. Portions of code from the "Function Library" can be dragged into the Editor.
Main Menu / Toolbar
|This area allows you to perform basic tasks (saving, copy & pasting, undo, etc.), switch between multiple open programs using the tabbed interface, and access all of ROBOTC's additional functionality through the various menus.
Code Editor
Writing Code
|Writing Code is the primary focus of ROBOTC, being a C-Based development environment. The ROBOTC Code Editor provides some visual assistance while programming with the use of line numbers and color coding:
Normal Text is displayed as black text. Normal text is used for variable and function names that are user-defined and not recognized by the compiler as reserved words.
Comments are displayed as green text . Comment are any bits of text in a program prefaced with a "//" or a "/*". This "commented text" is not considered code and is ignored when the compiler is generating byte-code to send to the robot controller.
Reserved Words/Pre-Defined Functions (int, motor) are displayed as bold blue text and italicized blue text.
Constants and Parameters (127, port1) are displayed as red text.
Syntax and Operands (+, -, *, {, <, [, etc.) are displayed as light red text.
Error Display
Status Bar
|The Status Bar gives you information about the ROBOTC editor and the current program.


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|Bullet Francisco
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Messaging Starts here. -- Bullet Francisco My Talk[[Special:Contributions/Bullet Francisco|Special:Editcount/Bullet Francisco Edits ]]Email Me 21:50, June 22, 2012 (UTC)
Hello Bullet! It's me Charizard3, but I changed my username to BlueFlamez. So anyways what's up? I haven't talked with you for along time. Last time I checked you were an admin. How come you are not anymore? You were really nice so I am confused... By The Way, Do you remember me? With Flames so hot they're blue 20:41, June 23, 2012 (UTC)
Aw, I hope you get them back soon! ;) Oh I am on chat if you want to chat..With Flames so hot they're blue 20:57, June 23, 2012 (UTC)
Okay With Flames so hot they're blue 21:01, June 23, 2012 (UTC)
Wait, did you say what I did was unnecessary and dumb? Cause I don't know what I did lol. Or was that targeted to charizarD?
This is my Return!
Hey Bullet did Jake tell you that i'm rewriting my E-204 Fanfics? Well i'm returning here now, however i don't know if i will ever return to SNN. Anyway do you think we will chat again like we did last summer? Maybe then i can tell you more about it! WaterKirby1994 (talk) 15:28, July 3, 2012 (UTC)
Bullet i haven't been feeling well lately. Within the next few days i'm going to try to talk to Gen. Anyway do you want to talk about fanfics? WaterKirby1994 (talk) 23:45, August 11, 2012 (UTC)
Re:I'm Bac
Sorry for such a late reply. Welcome back, I personally missed seeing your name in the recent changes. Would you like your rights returned? Crimsnnavy C S 15:27, August 4, 2012 (UTC)
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Notifying you about a page Most powerful pokemon created by a contributor with an ip address of 220.127.116.11. Page is about contributors own opinion and has created a page for it instead of using a talk page or forum.
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I see that you have become a Wikia Star, meaning you still edit on Wikia. I was wondering if you could come back here to edit; we need people like you. Energy X 09:42, September 6, 2013 (UTC)
Hi! I am starting my own wiki and I'd like to know how you made that Mewtwo template, like a box with text, how do you do that? Thanks


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The new paper by Perimeter Faculty member Freddy Cachazo et al. outlines a new and much more user-friendly system for calculating scattering amplitudes. Scattering amplitudes – which predict what happens when two or more particles interact – are perhaps the most fundamental calculation in particle physics. Unfortunately, calculating them has, until now, been extremely difficult.
The standard way of doing these calculations was with Feynman diagrams, and modelling even simple collisions of a few particles can involve thousands of diagrams each introducing many terms into the calculation. As collisions become more complex, the Feynman diagram technique becomes too unwieldy to use.
The new calculation method outlined in "Scattering Amplitudes and the Positive Grassmannian" makes calculating scattering amplitudes far easier. It accomplishes this by bringing the entire calculation "on-shell."
In modern physics parlance, particles are said to be "on the mass shell," or simply "on-shell," if their behaviour satisfies the relationship between energy and momentum given by Einstein in his theory of special relativity. Virtual particles are those that don't satisfy this relationship, and are said to be "off-shell." This relationship is:
Graph that out and you get a parabolic surface for massive particles, and a cone for massless particles, like photons. This is known as the mass shell. The momentum of a real particle can be represented by a vector lying along the shells' surface. The point is that real particles have momentum vectors that are on the shell – not inside it, but on it.
It's the stuff of high school physics that when two particles (or any other objects) collide, their total momentum has to be preserved. To calculate the momentum in the final state, the momentum vectors from the initial state should be added together. And here's the catch: pretend that two massless on-shell particles interact and produce a third particle. The momentum vector of the final particle won't lie along the surface of the cones.
That's where Feynman's virtual particles come in – they are bookkeeper's tools, used to keep track of the total momentum of the system. They aren't physical – they're just representations of an intermediate step that must occur in the calculation. In the diagram below, they're the wavy line. Think of the momentum shell being 'rolled flat' into a plane. The Feynman diagram below could be read as two physical particles coming in and producing an off-shell particle or virtual particle (wavy line), which in turn produces two physical particles. But nothing is 'moving' along the wavy line.
The new approach from Cachazo et al is different. In the Feynman-like sketch below, two real on-shell particles come in. Each one produces two more on-shell particles – but these particles have complex momentum, meaning that the number representing their momentum comprises both real and imaginary numbers. They are drawn here going out of the plane because we are thinking of the plane as being a real space, not a complex space. Below, we see two on-shell particles coming in and producing two complex on-shell particles each, which then merge and produce two more on-shell particles with real momentum.
This gives the same result as Feynman diagrams, but they make the calculation far simpler. The on-shell calculations are represented by on-shell diagrams, which look like this:
Lines that are not connected to the black and white vertices at each end represent particles with real momenta. The internal lines, with vertices at each end, have complex momenta. Just as in Feynman diagrams, there are rules that govern how the black and white vertices are paired and arranged, and using these rules both structures and guides the calculation.
The external particles must still be real; the internal particles – which in Feynman's approach were off-shell – are now on-shell, but with complex momenta.
In other words, what Cachazo et al. have done is represent mass shell more generally, in a complex space. When you add the complex vectors, the resultant vectors will stay on-shell.
"People have always said that quantum mechanics has to do with off-shell particles running in loops," says Cachazo. "You're allowed to be a little bit off-shell if it's for a small amount of time, because of the uncertainty principle. What we have shown, in several theories, is that all of quantum mechanics can be reformulated purely on-shell. There is no need to go off-shell anywhere."
Why is that better? For a start, it makes calculations far easier. But Cachazo stresses the broader implications: "The advantage of doing things on-shell is that you don't have to introduce the redundancies that were needed when you work with off-shell physics. The reason Feynman diagrams are complicated to use is that they were designed to make locality manifest, introducing redundancies as the price. Get rid of the off-shell particles and the calculations become strikingly simple. The price to pay is manifest locality. This price is, in fact, not too high as general principles imply that locality is not a property of nature when quantum gravity shows its head – but this is part of another fascinating story."