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Laughton changes mind, resigns as state repBy SIMON RIOS
Union Leader Correspondent
November 29. 2012 11:05PM
NASHUA - The state's first openly transgender person elected to the legislature signed her letter of resignation Thursday, culminating a week-long controversy that stemmed from her past felonies.
Being elected, "was the most amazing feeling in the world because it was my lifelong dream to become a state rep and to serve the citizens of my district," said Stacie Marie Laughton, D-Nashua, on a local TV station Thursday afternoon.
Laughton, 28, was elected to represent Hillsborough County District 31 in the November elections. She went back and forth on whether she would resign since details of her criminal background were revealed over the weekend.
Still living as Barry Charles Laughton Jr. at the time, Laughton was tried on three charges related the credit card fraud in Laconia. Laughton scored a plea bargain deal with prosecutors and served 4� months at the Belknap County Jail.
Laughton also received a 10-year suspended sentence, raising questions as to whether she should have been eligible to run.
The state Attorney General has yet to rule on the reading of the law, which states that convicted felons can't run or hold office from the time of sentencing until "final discharge." The meaning of the term "final discharge" remains a mystery.
Laughton had said she would wait for the AG's ruling before making a decision. But pressure from fellow Democrats, and Laughton's belief that the controversy would not allow her to have an effective term, led her to Thursday's decision.
"If it's found that I am legally eligible to serve, I don't believe that over the next two years I could get anything done (in the House)," she said.
Laughton, who claims to be the only transgender to be elected to any state legislature in the country, maintains that it was legal for her to run.
"Never once since I ran last year for selectman, never once this year when I ran for state rep did I know that I possibly could be breaking the law. My understanding was that I had satisfactorily completed the obligations to the correctional system."
Laughton appeared on Gidge World, the Access Nashua talk show of State Rep. Ken Gidge, D-Nashua. On air Thursday, she signed her letter of resignation, which Gidge said he would deliver to the Secretary of State.
Asked if she should have done anything differently during her campaign, Laughton said she may have been more open about her background with some supporters.
In spite of the controversy, which had leading Republicans calling for Laughton's resignation and Democrats pressuring her for a decision, Laughton said she held up to the emotional test surprisingly well.
"Years ago when (my legal troubles) took place, I think it was harder for me then, and I knew that this could possibly take on the life that it's taken on," she said. "So I mentally was preparing for it."
Laughton is also a Ward 4 selectman, a position charged with overseeing elections in Nashua. She intends to keep that position if she is legally able to do so, meaning she could be an official at the special election to fill her seat.
Laughton said though she was placed in protective custody at first, she served her sentence in the men's prison. "It still didn't play any major role. The inmates just looked at me as another inmate," she said.
Though she will not be sworn in as a legislator, Laughton said she remains the first openly transgender state legislator in U.S. history.
"Whether or not I took the seat . I still was the first to receive enough votes to win the election, and with that, regardless of what happens from here forth, I will always have this distinct honor of being the historic first," she said.
Laughton lives on disability and spends most of her days volunteering. She said that the voters have not seen the last of her.


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There's a burger joint in Atlanta, Georgia known as Vortex. It serves things that will kill you dead. The "Triple Coronary Bypass burger in particular is a gargantuan monument to all things unhealthy. Two half-pound sirloin patties sandwiched between three grilled cheese sandwiches instead of buns, then topped off with mayo, eight slices of cheese, ten slices of bacon, and a few fried eggs for good measure. It is bad for you. The Expendables 2 could rightly be described the exact same way. Sylvester Stallone and Vortex's paeans to junk are both overloaded with cheese, meat, and greasiness. They also both happen to be delicious.
The Expendables 2's secret sauce is that it knows full well that it's bad for you, and revels in it. In 2010's The Expendables, Sylvester Stallone's action movie dream team suffered from a script that took itself entirely too seriously. Double crosses, drug cartels, Dolph Lundgren turning from good, to bad, then back to good — all the ingredients were there but rather than maintain a spirit of Kraft-made goodness, Stallone bogged the picture down with unearned, bizarre sentimentality. Why is there a teary-eyed soliloquy about war from a dreadlocked Mickey Rourke here? Why show me Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger only to take them away? What the hell kind of GI Joe play set is this?
Considering that The Expendables grossed $274 million worldwide, Stallone and company were under no obligation to fix the formula, but fix it they did. The Expendables 2 is 103 minutes of choreographed violence as comedy and juvenile wish-fulfilment (provided the juvenile wish was made by a 10-year-old in 1990).
Barney Ross' (Stallone) crew from the first movie is back and much better utilized this time out. Terry Crews' Hale Caesar and Randy Couture's Toll Road see their screen time expanded with more enjoyably groan-inducing one-liners; Jason Statham's Lee Christmas receives less focus while still getting some solid knife fights in; Jet Li's Yin Yang is only on board for the opening assault on a Nepalese militia camp, but that's plenty of time for the 49-year-old wushu artist to hit plenty of nameless soldiers with frying pans.
Speaking of, that attack cements The Expendables 2 as the best GI Joe movie yet made. The absurdly named characters pilot custom-made vehicles with names like "Bad Attitude" and "Knock Knock" that describe what they do. I half expected Destro to pop out, but played by Joss Ackland for maximum '80s villain effect.
Lundgren's Gunner Jensen especially shines, embodying the tonal shift from the first movie to now. Where he was a vicious murderer the first time out, now he's a doofy vicious murder who snores and is, like the real Lundgren, a Fullbright scholar with a background in chemical engineering. One second he's copying down Albert Einstein's Unified Theory on a napkin, the next he's blowing his nose into it. Then he's shooting 50 people.
Rourke is the only one who's out, replaced by Chinese star Yu Nan's Maggie, and Liam Hemsworth's (The Hunger Games, The Last Song) Billy the Kidd. Maggie sets The Expendables 2 easy to digest revenge plot in motion. CIA spook Church (Bruce Willis) sends the Expendables to Albania with Maggie in tow to retrieve the super secret contents of a crashed airplane. The mission goes awry when the evil, Satan-worshipping cartel, the Sangs, show up. Leader Jean-Claude Van Damme's Vilain—yes, that's right, the Muscles from Brussels plays a bud guy named Vilain—shows up, steals the goods, and death ensues.
It's a decisive moment. The Expendables hold a brief funeral for a fallen friend and vow revenge, pursuing the Sangs into the former-Soviet countryside for some of the ol' ultra violence. Stallone's unintentionally hilarious eulogy—"Why is it the ones that deserve to die that go on living?" Ugh.—threatens to plunge back into the first movie's weird melancholy. Up to that point, it's been scenes like having Jet Li jump out of a plain before Statham says, "That's real Chinese take out!" Stallone and Richard Wenk's script sticks the landing though, doubling down on schtick and saving some melodrama for big showdowns.
Director Simon West (The Mechanic, Con Air), who takes over directing duties from Stallone, does a yeoman's job as well, setting up action scenes that are grotesquely violent while remaining intelligible. Expendables 2 rightly calls back to an era of action filmmaking where scenes weren't diced into millisecond bits of shaky cam footage, and the flow of set piece after set piece isn't exhausting as a result.
Like all decadent meals though, you start to feel a little sick by the end. The last 20 minutes of the movie is, to put it mildly, overindulgent with Schwarzenegger, Willis, and Chuck Norris joining the Expendables for an Albanian airport shootout. The burger would be bad enough for you with just buns, but the Triple Bypass needs those grilled cheese sandwiches to make it extra special. Expendables 2's equivalent is Schwarzenegger and Willis driving a doorless smartcar through an airport quoting Terminator and Die Hard lines at one another.
That's fine though. Nothing wrong with a little overindulgence. The Expendables 2 is gluttonous, yes, but that's the point. Few movies are as honest about their hedonism, and in that regard alone, Stallone's follow up is a success.


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Internship and Residency in Pediatrics: University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1967-1969
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Research Fellowship: Institute for Child Health, London, England, 1970
Fellowship in Pediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases: University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, 1970-1972
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Pediatric Infectious Diseases, American Board of Pediatrics
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- Associate Professor of Immunology and Medical Microbiology, 1976-1979
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Drones or No Drones? The Debate Drones On (News Analysis)
Late last year, when word leaked that police in Alameda County and Berkeley were preparing to jump on the post-911 bandwagon by acquiring unmanned, aerial surveillance drones, it was the kind of news that makes a pacifist go ballistic. So, on December 18, 2012, squadrons of anti-drone activists homed in on a City Council meeting to demand that the city -- home of the country's first "Nuclear-Free Zone" -- declare itself a "No Drone Zone."
Despite the unanimous public outcry against the idea of "drones in Berkeley," when it came time to act, the council was split -- with a majority clearly entranced by the promise of the city owning its own high-tech drone to handle "emergency situations." The council ordered a time-out for further study. They did, however, agree to send a letter to Alameda's Sheriff and Board of Supervisors asking that the county "delay any action on the purchase of a drone until the City of Berkeley has completed its evaluation of the issue."
(Note: It's not just the anti-war crowd that bridles at the idea of UAVs flying over public parks and backyard barbecues. The specter of homegrown drones has united Republicans, Democrats and Tea Partiers in 29 states that are currently working on new tri-partisan laws to rein in any potential use of drones in US cities. In February, Charlottesville, Virginia, became the first US city to enact a drone-free ordinance.)
An Anti-Drone Quorum at the Forum
As part of the evaluation process, Berkeley's Peace & Justice Commission hosted a "Town Hall Forum on Drones" on May 1. Joined by members of the Police Review Commission, the two city panels heard testimony from five expert witnesses and 30 members of the audience. The Town Forum did not hear from either the BPD or the BFD, however. Police and fire department officials turned down invitations to participate in the discussion.
The pros and cons raged for more than two hours. Only one of the five experts spoke in support of drones and only two members of the audience had anything good to say about the proposal to release unmanned spybots into the urban airspace.
The sole pro-drone voice belonged to Patrick Egan, a spokesperson for the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI). Eagan brought along a display table featuring a small drone and a series of aerial photos that he had snapped. Eagan promised to provide the board with copies of an AUVSI book called "First To Deploy -- Unmanned Aircraft For SAR & Law Enforcement." ["SAR" refers to Search and Rescue.] However, instead of a report linking drones and cops, AUVSI provided a 38-page study on "The Economic Impact" of UAVs. The only part that was relevant to California was on page 24 where three charts predicted drone deployment would create several thousand new jobs, $1.8 billion in "total economic impact," and more than $10 billion in added state tax revenues by 2015.
A Chorus of Criticism
The remaining speakers (from the ACLU, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, CopWatch and the Electronic Frontier Foundation) chose to ignore the promise of economic gain and focused, instead, on the social and constitutional negatives.
ACLU staff attorney Linda Lye began by noting the many ways drones raise serious Fourth Amendment privacy concerns. Lye also argued that deploying drones would likely violate the State Constitution's Article I, Section 1, which grants privacy protection for personal information. Lye listed four reasons to oppose drones: (1) They make surveillance "cheap", (2) they are "less obvious" to people being spied on, (3) they come with night-vision and infra-red capabilities that can "see through walls" to spy on the people inside and (4) they would be used in the SF Bay Area, which is one of the Federal government's "fusion centers" – a major hub for collecting and analyzing intercepted communications and intelligence data.
The Alameda Sheriff would be one of the first state police agencies to acquire a drone. (Sacramento reportedly acquired a drone in 2007.) The Sheriff's latest budget is for a whopping $20 million and the ACLU has requested an explanation of what the money will be spent on. Lye said she was still "awaiting a response."
Current law guarantees citizens only a "reasonable expectation of privacy." But what is "reasonable" these days? "It could take years to resolve this in court," Lye noted, "but technology evolves much faster than constitutional law. So we need to act now."
If drones were to be allowed, Lye advised, they should only be used upon the issuance of a warrant based on probable cause -- and there should be no sharing of gathered information between departments.
The Rise of the Surveillance Society
Don't be tempted by promises of grants from the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, Lye cautioned, since these are essentially bribes intended to prime the pump for the corporations set to benefit from the expansion of the Surveillance Society. It might not be fiscally prudent to rush to purchase any new surveillance toys, Lye argued. As an example of an investment that went sour, she pointed to the recall of the TSA's controversial full-body scanners, which she characterized as "a $45 million mistake."
After enduring the crowd's enthusiastic applause during Lye's litany of criticisms, AUVSI's Eagan approached the microphone with an edge to his voice.
"So you don't have fixed wing aircraft in Berkeley? You don't have helicopters?" he chided, in a mistaken attempt to establish that the crowd accepted planes and choppers but had a unique bias against drones. Eagan seemed caught be surprise when someone in the audience shouted, "Police helicopters are banned in Berkeley!"
"Well, then," Eagan shot back, "I guess you [people of Berkeley] like privacy more than public safety!"
Eagen went on to argue that store and street surveillance cameras, along with telephone, computer and text spying "already exist" (so more is better?). He suggested that drones were great tools for "studying grass fires" and finding lost children. (The argument that hovering cameras can be used to "find a lost child" or "an elderly person with Alzheimer's" comes up so often, it's become something of a running joke.)
Commissioner George Lippman asked if the AUSVI received any money from companies that manufacture drones but the query failed to elicit a clear response.
Why the 'Drones to the Rescue' Argument Won't Fly
Nadia Kayyali, a Legal Fellow with the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, began her presentation by recalling how the Alameda and Berkeley cops (in cahoots with the UC Berkeley campus police) had been embarrassed by exposure of a secret plan to jointly purchase and share an armored personnel carrier. Kayyali called the new push for drones another "rushed implementation that is being fueled by money."
Kayyali quickly dismissed the "rescue drone" arguments. The battery-powered drones being considered for city purchase can't fly for more than 25 minutes at a time, they can only be flown during the day, they need to be controlled by two operators, they must be flown in "line-of-sight," they can't be operated more than 400 feet above the ground, they can't be flown on windy days and, if you tried to use one to monitor a grass fire or a burning building, it would probably start to melt.
Kayyali's conclusion? "Current drone technology is best suited for one thing: surveillance." Because drones can "hover very quietly outside of windows," Kayyali warned, the ability "to conduct covert surveillance with a small piece of equipment is unprecedented."
(The short battery life may not be a problem for future drones. Work now is underway to design metal tails that will allow drones to grab energy from city power lines and new ground-based laser systems may allow operators to recharge drones while they are still in flight.)
It's Raining Cats and Drones
Even in the best of conditions, drones would pose significant risks to public safety. "Drones are unproven in American civilian airspace" and the record of UAVs in combat situations is troubling Kayyali stated. "They are the least safe class of aircraft in operation." Customs and Border Protection has reported 52.7 drone accidents per 100,000 hours of flight time -- seven times the accident rate for all of civil aviation.
One of the latest cases of "drones behaving badly" occurred last September when the Sheriff of Montgomery County, Texas, showed up for a demonstration of his department's new $300,000 Shadowhawk drone. The UAV successfully soared into the air -- only to plummet back to earth. It crashed into the police department's prized Bear Cat armored tank, which had been parked nearby.
In combat zones, drones have experienced what the Pentagon likes to call "control uplink failures." These glitches have caused combat drones to "go rogue," requiring soldiers to chase after them and shoot them down.
Even with the best camera technology, drones lack the critical "see-and-avoid" ability of a human pilot. To date, the FAA has not been able to find any collision avoidance system that can guarantee a drone won't fly into a commercial aircraft. (This is not a theoretical risk. In August 2011, a Shadow UAV crashed into the wing of a C-130 in the skies over Afghanistan.)
Can Drones Be Weaponized?
Kayyali cited a "large and expanding toolkit [that] makes drones incredibly powerful tools of surveillance" including "high-definition cameras, infrared systems which can see through obstacles, radar, LIDAR, the ability to intercept cell phone communications, 'less lethal' weapons, and lethal weapons."
Kayyali noted that Alameda Sheriff Gregory J. Ahern went on record on February 14 warning that he would have no qualms about using drones to monitor public demonstrations. "I'm not going to tell you we wouldn't use [a drone] in the event that a crowd turned violent."
But drones clearly have the potential to escalate those situations in which the police "turn violent." As Kayyali explained: "Drones are currently being armed with tear gas and rubber bullets, with obvious implications for public activism."
Can the Police Be Trusted?
In addition to the question: Can drones be trusted? Andrea Prichett, testifying on behalf of Berkeley CopWatch, raised a related question: Can the Berkeley police be trusted? "The BPD doesn't comply with the public records act," Prichett charged and "unlike Oakland and San Francisco, the BPD doesn't post its policies on police tactics." If the BPD were to obtain a drone, could the department be trusted to respect civil rights? "If we can't even get them to come to this meeting, I'm not very hopeful," Prichett noted grimly.
Two members of the Peace and Justice Commission then mentioned cases where the BPD had refused to release photos or investigative information to the Commission. "If we can't get … one picture, how would we get photos from a drone?" a commissioner asked.
Then it was the audience's turn.
Public Testimony Favors a 'No Drone Zone'
For the next hour, drones were critiqued and ridiculed by a host of speakers from a range of organizations including The World Can't Wait, Iraq Vets Against War, Environmentalists Against War, and the Nevada Desert Experience.
A member of CopWatch spoke of the psychological stress of living under drones, citing "the intimidation factor of constant surveillance." In addition to the noise of hovering drones, sound-equipped UAVs would allow police "overseers" to bark orders and threats from the sky.
Referring to repeated problems with microphones and one speaker's attempt to screen a PowerPoint presentation, lawyer and political activist Ann Fagin Ginger (founder of Berkeley's Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute), pointedly observed: "If we can't get our mikes and computers to work, what makes us think drones will work?"
A member of the Asian Law Caucus noted that many of the police drones are built by the same companies that build drones the Pentagon uses to commit "targeted assassinations." Case in point: the 13.2-pound Stalker (yes, that's what they chose to name it) is built by the military arms giant Lockheed-Martin.
One dubious speaker ridiculed the idea of "search and rescue" drones. "Drones aren't like helicopters," she pointed out. "They don't have onboard stretchers or ropes or doctors."
"As a civil libertarian, I'm opposed to drones," one speaker added. "But as a journalist, I can't wait to get my own drone so I can spy on city politicians and monitor and record police operations in Berkeley."
One speaker held up a copy of the March 2013 National Geographic and read some choice excerpts:
Even when controlled by skilled, well-intentioned operators, drones can pose a hazard -- that's what the FAA is concerned about. The safety record of military drones is not reassuring. Since 2001, according to the Air Force, its three main UAVs -- the Predator, Global Hawk, and Reaper -- have been involved in at least 120 "mishaps," 76 of which destroyed the drone. The statistics don't include drones operated by the other branches of the military or the CIA. Nor do they include drone attacks that accidentally killed civilians or US or allied troops….
GPS is vulnerable…. Its signals can be blocked by buildings or deliberately jammed. In December 2011, when a CIA drone crashed in Iran, authorities there claimed they had diverted it by hacking its GPS….
[Dave] Raquet [a lab technician] demonstrates … with a square drone powered by rotors at each corner. On the first try the drone, buzzing like a nest of enraged hornets, flips over. On the second it crashes into a wall. "This demonstrates the need for trust," Raquet says with a strained smile.
A Pandora's Box Filled with Drones
It wasn't until well into the final hour of the debate that the two camps were able to find some common ground. Speaking from the audience, AUSVI's Chet Hartridge (seeming to sense the overwhelming consensus) conceded: "I believe in the Forth Amendment. I don't want to be photographed in the nude in my backyard either."
After listening to the evening's testimony (which clearly favored declaring Berkeley a "No Drone Zone"), Drone Subcommittee Chair Bob Meola announced that he had been convinced the Commission should return to its original demand for an outright ban on drones within the city boundaries. (Hobbyists still would be allowed to fly small drones over non-residential recreational areas.)
Another commissioner asked what would happen if the County bought a drone and tried to fly it through Berkeley's airspace. The answer came from a woman in the audience: "Shoot it down!" she hollered. This prompted another Commissioner to surmise that, if drones were ever flown over Oakland, "they would be used for target practice!"
These comments brought some welcome mirth to the high-stakes battle to keep the city's skies drone-free. As one participant noted: "If we can't stop drones in Berkeley, where can you stop this technology?"
But the unique -- and looming -- threat of drones is not a laughing matter.
Returning to that National Geographic story, here are some additional passages the speaker did not have time to read into the record:
What, one might ask, will prevent terrorists and criminals from getting their hands on some kind of lethal drone? Although American officials rarely discuss the threat in public, they take it seriously. The militant Islamic group Hezbollah, based in Lebanon, says it has obtained drones from Iran.
Last November, a federal court sentenced a Massachusetts man to 17 years in prison for plotting to attack Washington, D.C., with drones loaded with C-4 explosives….
The answer to the threat of drone attacks, some engineers say, is more drones. "The new field is counter-UAVs…." [designed to] enable one UAV to spot and destroy another, either by ramming it or shooting it down.
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Arsenal have confirmed the £8 million signing of Malaga left-back Nacho Monreal but have admitted defeat in their pursuit of David Villa.
The defender passed a medical at the club's London Colney training base on Thursday night after jetting into the capital and has agreed to sign a £60,000-a-week, four-and-a-half-year contract.
The deal was announced just before the Premier League's 23.00GMT registration deadline.
The Londoners had centred their deadline-day sights firmly on Spain as Arsene Wenger made a late bid to shore up his leaky defence and add greater firepower to his attack.
|Arsenal are 5/4 with William Hill to finish in the Premier League top four
As revealed by Goal.com on Thursday, Arsenal tabled a formal bid of between £10m and £11m for Villa but Barcelona held firm despite Spain's record goalscorer wanting to make the switch to the Emirates Stadium.
The Premier League club also held talks in the final hours of the window to sign Amorebieta, 27, with a fee of between £4m and £6m being discussed.
But the Venezuela international rejected the approach and decided to stay at Bilbao at least until the summer.
That rendered Monreal, who has won nine caps for Spain, Arsenal's only signing of the January window despite Wenger having around £50m available to spend.
Goal.com revealed on Thursday morning that Arsene Wenger was planning at least one late swoop in a bid to shore up his leaky defence.
He emerged as Wenger's specialist left-back target to provide competition for Kieran Gibbs, who suffered a thigh injury against Liverpool on Wednesday night.
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — It can be a recipe for disaster: renting a vacation house with friends without talking about meal planning.
There are obvious topics, like allergies, budgeting, finicky kids and division of labor.
And then there are those unappetizing issues, like what to do if one participant is a reluctant — or rotten — cook.
"I don't do anything domestically ever," said David Lando, a financial adviser in Washington, D.C.
So when his large family gathers for their annual vacation at a house in upstate New York, everyone picks a night to cook — except Lando.
When it's his turn, he gets takeout.
"The last couple of years the grocery store near our place has run a special on (prepared) lobster," he said. "It works out so well that it's hard to argue about it."
Not every group trip goes so smoothly, however.
Alyson Stoakley, of suburban Richmond, Va., used to be an event planner, so when she and her husband went to Wintergreen Resort with four other couples, she took charge of divvy up the cooking and cleaning for the weekend.
She asked for volunteers for appetizers, dinners and breakfasts. (Lunches were eaten out.) The problems began immediately.
There were too many volunteers for the dinners, and two of them were complete opposites: One was known for quick and easy comfort food, the other for making fabulous health-conscious meals from scratch.
Stoakley made the assignments in the order people responded, and so ended up dining on Stouffer's lasagna, Texas toast and romaine lettuce from a bag.
And the gourmet cook? She made Saturday's breakfast, cooking two egg casseroles, one with sausage and one with vegetables.
As it turned out, that plentiful meal not only gave people a choice, but the leftovers saved them on Sunday when that meal's chef realized she had only bagels, having forgotten the eggs and left the bacon unrefrigerated in her shopping bag all weekend.
Despite the gastronomic goofs, by taking it all in stride, "We really had a good weekend," Stoakley said. "It didn't ruin the friendships and we all made it through."
To help things go smoothly, consider these tips:
—Pick one person as the coordinator who can find out what staples the vacation rental provides, compile shopping lists, collect money or make dinner reservations. Consider rewarding the coordinator with a pass on cooking or cleaning.
—Plan how duties will be shared. Is a person responsible for an entire day's meals, a single meal, or just part of a meal? Decide who will clean up.
—Discuss allergies and dietary restrictions. A peanut allergy, for example, might also mean no peanut oil, which can be found in a variety of foods from pesto to chocolate. Depending on your crowd, chefs may be perfectly willing to accommodate vegetarians, vegans, paleos and others — or they may find it a great imposition. Either way, best to hash it out in advance.
—If you, or yours, are picky eaters, bring your own food and make sure others know it's not up for grabs.
—Figure out how to manage shopping and expenses. Will it be done jointly or is each individual responsible for his or her own ingredients?
"You have to be laid back and go with the flow," Stoakley said. "It's just for a short period of time. It's not forever."
Then again, if coordinating cooking seems daunting, a private chef might be the answer.
That's what Maureen Bee of Fort Collins enjoyed when she and her family vacationed in Acapulco, Mexico with five other families.
"They cooked all of our meals, did all of our grocery shopping, got all of our booze. Everything," she said.
There were snacks during the day, bartenders at night, a team of cooks in the kitchen and even servers.
"It was like having a restaurant in our villa," she said.
At the end of the trip, the group calculated in the gratuity and split the bill.
To find a private cook, check with your rental company or call caterers at your destination. Many chefs also maintain websites.
Prices vary with the menu and location, but a full service dinner prepared by a caterer hired through CaboVillas.com would start at $35 per person. Breakfasts begin at $15 and lunch $25, said Julie Byrd, spokeswoman for company, which handles rentals in Mexico's Baja Peninsula.
Still, for Lando, who is so averse to cooking that he eats out as a matter of course, it's a real pleasure to savor the home-cooked meals that come with his summer getaway. And the icing on the cake?
"The real treat is being able to have dinner with my whole family," he said.


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Maria Sharapova's Australian Open hopes have suffered a huge setback after a collarbone injury forced her out of the Brisbane International.
Sharapova, who is the reigning Roland Garros champion and a 2008 winner of the Australian Open, is still expected to feature in two weeks' time but her preparations will be far from ideal.
The Russian has been attempting to regain fitness in time for the Brisbane event, which acts as a useful warm-up ahead of the year's first grand slam in Melbourne. However, her withdrawal was confirmed on Tuesday.
"I don't want to jeopardise what I've gained in the off-season so far," Sharapova said.
Brisbane tournament director Cameron Pearson added: "We feel for Maria because we saw first-hand how badly she wanted to play for the people of Brisbane.
"She has been fantastic since she got here and worked hard in the gym, on court and in the medical room to do everything she could to get herself right. Unfortunately she didn't make it.
"We hope that she can recover sufficiently from the injury to take the court for the Australian Open and wish her all the best for the summer."
All is not lost for the world No. 2, however. Last season Sharapova also missed the Brisbane International yet still managed to reach the Australian Open final, eventually losing to Victoria Azarenka.


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Financials: Mar. Bonds are currently 26 higher at 143'29 and the 10 Yr. Note 11.5 higher at 131'26.5. Yesterday the market broke to the 142'17 level, close to our stated support of 142'08, before rallying as the dollar strengthened and metals and equities crashed in the face of hedge fund liquidation and margin call selling. The bonds once again became a safety net in what the industry now likes to call a "risk-off" trade. If you were more aggressive than I and bought the break, take the money. Yesterday's release of the minutes from the latest FOMC meeting showed that several Fed officials are now willing to have at the least a conversation about the continuation or altering of Fed policy regarding quantitative easing and the continued purchasing of $85B worth of 6-30 yr. Bonds, Notes and Mortgage Backed Securities on a monthly basis. My bias remains long-term negative and I will now be looking to the short side of the market above the 144'06 level on JUNE Bonds.
Grains: Mar. Corn is currently 2'0 lower at 698'4, Mar. beans 1'6 higher at 1484'4, Mar. Wheat 3'4 lower at 735'0 and Dec. Wheat 5'5 lower at 763'0. We remain long out-of-the-money call spreads in Dec. Wheat. I will be a buyer in Mar. Corn below the 685'0 level and/or a buyer in July Corn in the mid 650's if the market allows.
Cattle: Apr. LC are currently 52 higher at 128.75 and Mar. FC 67 higher at 141.40. If you went long Apr. LC at 127.50 (yesterday's low 127.37) either take profits or use a protective sell stop at 127.95.
Silver: Mar. Silver is currently $0.02 lower at $28.60 and Apr. Gold is $8.00 lower at $1,570.00. We will continue to hold a small long position in Silver. I also suggest rolling current Mar. Silver positions into the May contract. Gold has broken through to the downside below the $1,580.00 support and tested the next level of support at $1,560.00 with an overnight low of $1,554.00. I now feel that Gold can be traded from the long side on breaks with a protective sell stop just below the $1,550.00 level.
S&Ps: Mar. S&Ps are currently 2.50 lower at 1504.50. My bias remains negative. For those of you keeping track, I liquidated my short futures/short put position yesterday for a loss. Now to deal with the present. Yesterday the market made a technical "key reversal" (a new contract high and a close below the previous day's low). This is a classic sell signal. I am a seller on rallies with a protective buy stop above the contract high of 1530.00. For the moment near term support is 1503.00 and resistance 1515.25 (Tuesday's low of the day).
Currencies: As of this writing the Mar. Euro is currently 86 lower at 1.3200, the Swiss 34 lower at 1.0743, the Yen 74 higher at 1.0743 and the Pound 11 higher at 1.5253. If you remain short the Euro either take profits or lower your protective buy stop from 1.3450 to the 1.3280 level.


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Charles Tyrwhitt, men's shirts specialists, have created this amazing infographic timeline to showcase some of the most iconic looks from the past year. The timeline draws focuses on events such as film releases, television shows and key cultural happenings, to show just how they have influenced the way UK men have dressed over the past 12 months. Important style landmarks …
Neckerchiefs: turning up everywhere
We've posted about kerchiefs before, but now a definite trend seems to be developing. Along the way they've become 'officially' known as Neckerchiefs, just in case you were in any doubt as to their use.
'Most stylish show on TV' returns: Mad Men on BBC Four
Mad Men come out for Bloomingdale's men's floor reopening
Click image to enlarge. From left: Byan Batt, Aaron Staton, Michael Gladis, Vincent Kartheiser, Rich Sommer.
It was bound to be a smart affair when Bloomingdale's reopened their men's floor in New York yesterday, and who better to have as party guests than the Mad Men themselves?
The last Mad Men style feature – hopefully
Mad Men has gone from a show known for substance to one known solely for its style. It's a rare occasion when a show gets anointed like this and some writers got a little excited about it, even calling it the men's Sex and the City (A ridiculous statement – everyone knows the man's SATC is Entourage).
Mad Men get the Playboy treatment
Cast member of hit TV series "Mad Men" get the Playboy treatment in this photoshoot. Check out some highlights, such as the Phineas Cole suit Michael Gladis is wearing after the jump and check the full shoot here with details of all the outfits worn.
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Reading through The Independent Online last night, I came across this article by Alice-Azania Jarvis on the art of dressing for work. As she states, "the thing about getting dressed for work – the thing that makes it so very difficult – is that work is definitely not about clothes. On the contrary: in the world of earnest employment, such frivolities are almost frowned upon."
The Apprentice anti-style award
Newspapers and Magazines (including me) have all fallen in love with Mad Men's sense of style. While no one (bar the BNP) wants any other values in the show to return, the fashion sense displayed by the men in that show is constantly returned to. And from watching the Apprentice, it's clear to see why.
Top Five: Euroflash- Masculinity or Insecurity?
With guidebook and ability to say thank-you in tow, I was an innocent tourist. At least that was until I saw him from across the road. The letters emblazoned on his back in plush gold velvet shone with insecurity- "Vagina Lover." Welcome to testosterone Euroflash-style.
Style Icons: Mad Men
If you work in an office dominated by a smart casual dress code, you may find yourself actually wanting to wear a suit from time to time. For these people, Mad Men has become compulsive viewing. Not just because it's a great show, but it harks back to a time when men actually wore all three pieces of their suit to work. Today's average rucksack carrying, shirt and no tie wearing office worker could do with taking a few style tips from Don Draper (pictured left).


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After going through all of this sort of speculation, including the methodology of choosing, over a period of years for what became season 11, I'm not getting into it this time around.As I indicated early on in the TAR 18 speculation thread, what we get this time is going to be based on whatever "pattern" or method of selection the cast that TPRB decide to use. And either it will be cast in a better manner this time around or it won't. I'm not going to spend any of my energy speculating with zero information, which is all we have it terms of specifics. Trying to read the tea leaves isn't productive for me.Last time around, the route and the tasks made up for some of the casting choices in season 11. I'm just going to sit back and wait and see what comes of it. No stress, no worries!
He proposed to his girlfriend then left a few days later for The Amazing Race last year.
That idea was brought up in the run up to season 11, but that didn't happen. All we've seen is the one switchback.It would be fun to re-create single legs from each season with the same tasks in the same locations, even if this mean those came from before season 12, and have the teams all come from after season 11. Then we'd see which returning teams had ever really studied the past of the show and drawn the lessons they should have from those earlier seasons.But truthfully, I don't expect to see that.
I hope Flight Time and Big Easy are in the race. They are true All Star racers, and entertaining to watch. To me there were a few teams I actually liked, and I pretty much stuck around just to watch them race. I think all in all I liked like 2 teams including them, the other being Zev and Justin.So yeah hoping Flight Time and Big Easy are back. It wouldn't be an all star race without them.
Quote from: RaDIaNt on November 10, 2010, 07:12:21 AMI hope Flight Time and Big Easy are in the race. They are true All Star racers, and entertaining to watch. To me there were a few teams I actually liked, and I pretty much stuck around just to watch them race. I think all in all I liked like 2 teams including them, the other being Zev and Justin.So yeah hoping Flight Time and Big Easy are back. It wouldn't be an all star race without them. No....just...no...
Sorry for my "sabbatical".If this rumor holds true my 11 teams would have to be (Season 12+)Kynt & Vyxsin -12Ronald & Christina -12Nick & Starr - 13Andrew & Dan - 13Margie & Luke - 14 - Could be a possibility due to luke's absence in the boardsKisha & Jen- 14Sam & Dan - 15Jet & Cord - 16Brent & Caite- 16Carol & Brandy -16Brook & Claire -17
Yes, please.
I don't know whatever it is georgiapeach is basing her speculation on (or the specifics), but I've been involved with TAR as a viewer from the beginning, and I think the circumstantial evidence supports her speculation.We've seen no evidence of an application period for TAR 18; at the time, the application period for TAR 11 was not the normal, and it became apparent soon thereafter that TAR 11 application period that something was afoot, especially from the Racer community. In addition, there are some programming factors that points towards the speculation as having some weight. These include: the impending 10th anniversary of TAR's filming its first season (February 2011), the fact that CBS had a 10th anniversary edition for Survivor, the unusual solicitation of ideas, feedback etc, from Jerry Bruckheimer *whose company rarely does thinks like this), the fact that Phil recently raised a discussion of a celebrity format at this particular time, and I'm sure I'm not remembering all of them at the moment. But there's an old expression -- "Where there's smoke, there's fire," and mein Gott, there's been a lot of smoke lately. So to me the circumstances plus the fact that we know from observation and experience that peorgiapeach has her sources and her means of getting information about the production side of the Race, I trust GP's judgment about what is going on. I'd just wish there was something concrete about TAR 18 to come out of CBS, Jerry Bruckheimer, or World Race Productions, to alleviate the anxiety level about the spring.
Well I hope they'll consider Amanda & Kris. They're engaged now.
Quote from: georgiapeach on November 11, 2010, 10:03:33 PMYes, please.Sorry didn't see that rule. Are we sticking to facts on here?
These lists people are putting out look surprisingly similar. It will be interesting to see how close we are to the real cast.Is anyone here familiar with that survey that Bruckheimer put out about favorite teams?
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Normally a voltage drop would mean too much current but 220k and 150k is plenty of resistance.Double-check the resistors with a multimeter to make sure they really are that value (I know you're sure they are, but that's the symptoms...)
Good morning Divinitus. First a question. Are there other items, circuits, instruments, etc. in your project that depend on the source (Vin) remaining stable and constant.
From what you have described so far, voltage isn't the issue. You are wanting to measure *time*, the measure of which can be mathematically massaged to give you the viscosity measure you are looking for. Is my understanding correct?
If so, you may want to investigate using OpAmps for the so called sensors rather than a voltage divider. This would transition you out of the *analog* world and take you into the *digital* world. Much easier to measure time.
It sounds like the impedance of the Vin is very very high if it is being dragged down by a load of 370K.You have connected the grounds together haven't you?
What is the source of "Vin"?
It sounds like the impedance of the Vin is very very high if it is being dragged down by a load of 370K.
Quote from: James C4S on Mar 28, 2013, 05:37 pmWhat is the source of "Vin"?Basically the connects to the machine with a 4 pin connector. All voltages are DC. 24v for the stand to operate on, 1 pin for the upper optic voltage, 1 pin for the lower optic voltage (both a max of 12v) and a ground. The stand itself operates on 24v from a power supply that is also powering other components. The supply isn't the issue as it was well oversized, it's the circuitry inside the stand and the voltage divider.
The supply isn't the issue as it was well oversized,
Any possible alternative to a voltage divider....
Quote from: Divinitous on Mar 28, 2013, 05:16 pmAny possible alternative to a voltage divider....In theory: 10 times more resistance in your divider should mean 10 times less voltage drop (more or less).You could try putting bigger resistors in there, eg. in the megaohm range. The Arduino ADC input has 100 megaohm resistance so there's still some margin to work with.


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As a national association whose mission is to strengthen the clergy in their preaching and teaching about abortion, we feel obliged in this election season, in which abortion continues to be a hotly debated issue, to echo the recent teaching of our bishops on the relationship between the Church's mission and public policy on this topic. The Church speaks, and will continue to speak, on the issue of abortion and clearly call for public policies that limit and eventually eradicate this practice. This message is not simply the result of religious beliefs, but of American ideals. As the United States bishops wrote in November of 1998, "As Americans, as Catholics and as pastors of our people, we write therefore today to call our fellow citizens back to our country's founding principles, and most especially to renew our national respect for the rights of those who are unborn, weak, disabled and terminally ill. Real freedom rests on the inviolability of every person as a child of God. The inherent value of human life, at every stage and in every circumstance, is not a sectarian issue any more than the Declaration of Independence is a sectarian creed" (Living the Gospel of Life, #6). Furthermore, we as Catholic priests refuse to be intimidated when, in carrying out our duty to proclaim the Gospel, we are charged with "meddling in politics." We do not endorse candidates or political parties. We do, however, challenge all in political life to reject the violence of abortion. Politics is not an arena which can absolve itself of responsibility to moral laws; nor can the Church absolve herself of the responsibility to teach those laws. A further concern arises when those holding or seeking elected office take a "pro-choice" position and also proclaim themselves to be Catholics. No law says you have to be Catholic. But if you publicly declare that you are, don't be surprised if someone criticizes inconsistencies between your public positions and the teachings of the Church. We repeat the words of the United States bishops: "We urge those Catholic officials who choose to depart from Church teaching on the inviolability of human life in their public life to consider the consequences for their own spiritual well being, as well as the scandal they risk by leading others into serious sin. We call on them to reflect on the grave contradiction of assuming public roles and presenting themselves as credible Catholics when their actions on fundamental issues of human life are not in agreement with Church teaching. No public official, especially one claiming to be a faithful and serious Catholic, can responsibly advocate for or actively support direct attacks on innocent human life" (Living the Gospel of Life, #32). Priests for Life will continue to echo this teaching, particularly in the months ahead, and will continue to be a resource for the clergy to address the abortion issue with vigor, clarity, and confidence. Fr. Frank Pavone National Director Priests for Life
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In Lou Dobbs's heyday at CNN, when he commanded more than 800,000 viewers and a reported $6 million a year for "his fearless reporting and commentary," in the words of former CNN president Jonathan Klein, the host became notorious for his angry rants against "illegal aliens." But Dobbs reserved a special venom for the employers who hire them, railing against "the employer who is so shamelessly exploiting the illegal alien and so shamelessly flouting US law" and even proposing, on one April 2006 show, that "illegal employers who hire illegal aliens" should face felony charges.
Since he left CNN last November, after Latino groups mounted a protest campaign against his inflammatory rhetoric, Dobbs has continued to advocate an enforcement-first approach to immigration, emphasizing, as he did in a March 2010 interview on Univision, that "the illegal employer is the central issue in this entire mess!"
His scheduled October 9 address at the Virginia Tea Party Convention will mark his second major Tea Party address of the year, reviving questions about whether the former CNN host is gearing up for an electoral campaign. He recently told Fox's Sean Hannity that he has not ruled out a possible Senate or even presidential run in 2012.
But with his relentless diatribes against "illegals" and their employers, Dobbs is casting stones from a house—make that an estate—of glass. Based on a yearlong investigation, including interviews with five immigrants who worked without papers on his properties, The Nation and the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute have found that Dobbs has relied for years on undocumented labor for the upkeep of his multimillion-dollar estates and the horses he keeps for his 22-year-old daughter, Hillary, a champion show jumper.
Dobbs lives in a sprawling white mansion on his 300-acre estate in Sussex, New Jersey, where he and his family run a horse farm. In 2005 he acquired another house—a spacious multimillion-dollar winter holiday home in Eagle Isle, the most exclusive enclave of the Ibis Golf and Country Club, a gated community in West Palm Beach, Florida. It offers his daughter a place to stay during her competitions at the Wellington Winter Equestrian Festival, one of the most important events in the horse show world.
Dobbs's daughter keeps five European Warmbloods, a breed that often fetches close to $1 million apiece. In the official results of her competitions, her horses' owner is always listed as The Dobbs Group—a corporate entity for which few details are available on the public record. However, incorporation documents and other state records reveal it to be a New Jersey company of which Lou Dobbs is president. This same company also owns the copyright on Dobbs's books.
The upkeep of Dobbs's multiple properties creates no small demand for labor in two sectors where undocumented immigrants are known to be particularly prevalent. Jay Hickey, president of the American Horse Council, the horse industry's main lobby group, suggested in 2009 that more than half of the workers in his industry are likely undocumented. Likewise, studies have found that undocumented workers make up an estimated 28 percent of workers in landscaping. In both of these sectors, the use of contractors is commonplace, so it is not surprising that Dobbs has relied on third parties to supply the labor he needs. Vicky Moon, author of A Sunday Horse: Inside the Grand Prix Show-Jumping Circuit, explained that contracting out the care of one's horses "alleviates the time involved in coordinating the horses' care, transport, and management but it also removes the responsibility of hiring competent grooms, providing housing and meals, possibly paying Social Security taxes, health insurance and, most important, making extra sure they are legal."


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COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - South Carolina senior outfielder Graham Saiko is no longer a part of the baseball program, head coach Chad Holbrook announced Tuesday afternoon.
"Graham is a terrific young man that has done great things both on the field and in the classroom," said South Carolina head coach Chad Holbrook. "At this time, Graham and I have mutually agreed that it is in his best interest to focus his attention on obtaining his degree from the University of South Carolina. We certainly appreciate all Graham has given to our baseball program and we wish him well in his future endeavors."
Saiko started 56 games last year for the Gamecocks and hit .263 (52-for-198) with 38 runs scored, seven doubles, a pair of homers and 29 RBI. He also stole 12 bases and put together a .382 on-base percentage.
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Dr. Ray is Chair or University Hospitals System Infection Control Committee, University Hospitals Richmond Medical Center Infection Control Committee, and Co-Chair or University Hospitals Extended Care Campus Committee Her clinical interests include healthcare-associated infections and travel medicine. Her research interests include: healthcare epidemiology, prevention and treatment of healthcare-associated infections, outbreak investigation.


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Barry Manilow Finally Celebrates His Broadway Opening…At the Copa!
After bronchitis cancelled a week of shows, the Grammy winner returns to the stage.
To the shouts of "We love you, Barry!" music superstar Barry Manilow returned to the stage of the St. James Theatre on Tuesday, January 29 to finally celebrate his Broadway opening night – an event that was postponed for a week after a case of bronchitis kept the Grammy winner from singing. Following the evening's performance of Manilow on Broadway (which features his biggest hits like "Copacabana," "Mandy," and "Can't Smile Without You,") the singer headed – of course – to the Copacabana on West 47th Street to commemorate his Broadway return.
Manilow's previous Broadway credits include his Tony Award-winning Barry Manilow on Broadway and Barry Manilow at the Gershwin. He also contributed songs to Bette Midler's Clams on the Half Shell Revue and The Madwoman of Central Park West. In the West End, his music was featured in Barry Manilow's Copacabana - The Musical, which went on to tour the U.S., Australia, and Asia.
Manilow on Broadway runs through March 3. Check out the opening night action in the photo gallery below.


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From the Wires
Richmond Road Capital Corp. Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering
By: Marketwired .
Nov. 16, 2012 12:03 PM
CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/16/12 -- Richmond Road Capital Corp. ("Richmond Road" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE:RRD.P) is pleased to announce that it has successfully completed its initial public offering ("Offering") raising gross proceeds of $300,000 pursuant to a prospectus dated November 6, 2012. An aggregate of 3,000,000 Common shares in the capital of the Corporation (the "Shares") were subscribed for at a price of $0.10 per Share. The Corporation has received conditional listing approval from the TSX Venture Exchange (the "Exchange") for its Shares and expects that trading will commence on November 16, 2012 under the stock symbol RRD.P, but the Shares will be immediately halted pending receipt by the Exchange of satisfactory documentation.
Mackie Research Capital Corporation with its selling group (the "Agent") acted as the agent for the Offering. The Agent received a cash commission equal to 10% of the gross proceeds of the Offering and an option to purchase 300,000 Shares at a price of $0.10 per Share for a period of 24 months from the date of listing of the Shares on the Exchange. The Agent also received a corporate finance fee of $10,000.
Upon closing of the Offering, Richmond Road granted 600,000 incentive stock options to its directors and officers which are exercisable within ten years from the date of the grant at an exercise price of $0.10 per Share. As a result of the closing of its initial public offering, Richmond Road now has 6,000,000 Shares issued and outstanding (3,000,000 of which are subject to escrow restrictions).
About the Corporation
Richmond Road is a capital pool company ("CPC") within the meaning of the policies of the Exchange that has not commenced commercial operations and has no assets other than cash. The board of directors of Richmond Road consists of Michael Doyle, Robb McNaughton, Berkley Pennock and Michael Brown. The officers of the Corporation are Michael Doyle and Berkley Pennock. Except as specifically contemplated in the Exchange CPC policy, until the completion of its Qualifying Transaction, the Corporation will not carry on business, other than the identification and evaluation of companies, business or assets with a view to completing a proposed Qualifying Transaction.
Forward Looking Information
This news release contains statements about Richmond Road's expectations regarding the completion of the application for listing and the commencement of trading on the Exchange that are forward-looking in nature and, as a result, are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, such as final listing approval from the Exchange. Although Richmond Road believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable as Richmond Road assumes it will be able to fulfill the terms of the conditional listing approval granted by the Exchange, undue reliance should not be placed on them as actual results may differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include failure to fulfill conditions of listing and inability to obtain required regulatory approvals. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date hereof, and Richmond Road undertakes no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statements or information, except as required by law.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of any offer to buy the common shares in the United States. The common shares have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption for the registration requirements of such Act.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
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Space Saving Chic: Tiny Sinks in Tiny Kitchens
Tiny kitchens present a few challenges, especially when it comes to counter space. After all, it's hard to make dinner on a counter the size of a cutting board. One solution? Utilize a compact sink to make the most of your space.
Rather than looking kid-sized, small sinks are a smart solution that are a natural fit in small kitchens. If your space is truly minuscule, a wet bar sink may also be a viable option.
- A stainless sink provides a bit more working room in this colorful kitchen from Dwell.
- The Little Paris Kitchen's Rachel Khoo has a small farmhouse sink that pairs beautifully with her tiled walls. Via Griottes.
- A diminutive sink sits directly beneath the window in this cheerful kitchen. Via Apartment Therapy
- Katie's Tiny Kitchen features a small sink placed smartly next to a row of drawers and beneath a window.
- A small sink by a chalkboard wall and bench seating creates a bohemian vibe in an apartment in Berlin. Ikea Family Live via PassionDecor.
- Diana's Exposed Brick Bonus includes a pretty kitchen with a small stainless sink.
- Sleek cabinets and tiled walls look modern in a kitchen with a small sink. Alvhem Mäkleri & Interiör Via Desire to Inspire.
- This kitchen looks surprisingly airy, thanks in part to a stainless, undermount sink. Via Apartment Therapy.
- Jack's Micro kitchen features an equally micro sink.
- A minimalist stone kitchen with a small sink from Marie Claire Maison.
(Images: 1. Skona Hem via Apartment Therapy 2. Griottes 3. Marie Claire Maison via Apartment Therapy 4. Tiny House Blog via Apartment Therapy 5. Ikea Family Live via PassionDecor 6. Apartment Therapy 7. Alvhem Mäkleri & Interiör Via Desire to Inspire 8. Gut Gut for Dwell 9. Apartment Therapy 10. Marie Claire Maison)


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Hi all!
As a long time lurker, but first poster, i have read as much as i can about maximizing my connection speed, and utilized 8 different ADSL modems of different brands, but at 5.4Km's from the exchange I realise I'm a borderline distance from feasible ADSL anyway.
RBI on chorus map totally ignores my small coastal village,
and the exchange [Glenbrook] is listed as BUBA, which only lets me synch on g.dmt @ 1024/480 on a 6/13SNR synch, though the snr climbs to 7.5-8 over very little time [cant synch better with 5SNR or at all with lower].
ItemDescriptionProduct NameSmartAX MT882Physical Address00:1b:9e:f1:2e:0eSoftware ReleaseV100R002B021 VODAFONEFirmware Release220.127.116.11Batch NumberRTC20P0.021.37998Release Date2009/09/24ADSLDescriptionADSL StateShow TimeData PathInterleavedOperation ModeG.dmtMax. Bandwidth Down/Up(kbps)1152 / 664Bandwidth Down/Up(kbps)1024 / 480SNR Margin Down/Up(dB)7.0 / 13.0Attenuation Down/Up(dB)63.5 / 31.5Power Down/Up(dBm)13.0 / 12.0CRC Down/Up0/ 0FEC Down/Up45/ 0HEC Down/Up0/ 0System Up Time0:33:33DSL Up Time0:24:16
I'm currently using my old MT882 as it doesn't require a telnet session to resynch at top speed when occasionally the power fails (or my 4 year old gets into the wires again!) or i decide to reconfigure something ;)
Most routers, including the Netgear DG632, VF Echolife "home complete", Dynalink 1320, DLink 502T and Thompson 582 v6 et al. all synch on a more conservative 12Db @ 740/400kbps :(
so I'm SOL for RBI or even cabinetisation... does anyone know if it's possible to get a DSL repeater installed (at my expense) which would at lest give me a chance at 2Mbs [by my understanding] as there IS a cabinet only 1Km away, which could both house the repeater and also be within the normal range of ADSL?
TL:DR can a repeater be user-initiated, or is there anything else I could do to improve my link to the world (save moving)
P.S. house is newly Cat5e Ethernet wired from telecom box, one cordless phone is only wired though a double-filtered (though standard) phone jack, and ADSL2 was "disallowed as the line won't support this" though the 6Db SNR is plenty stable for my needs. I'm on Vodafone's 'mega' pack which is fs/fs and regularly use 75Gb+/month - just want not to have to buffer for 10 minutes before actually watching a clip :(
P.P.S. I _think_ I'v covered all the relevant details, but feel free to chip in any comments or questions if more needed?


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| On the Notion of Visibility of Torsors
Agashe, Amod
Let $J$ be an abelian variety and $A$ be an abelian subvariety of $J$, both defined over $\mathbf{Q}$. Let $x$ be an element of $H^1(\mathbf{Q},A)$. Then there are at least two definitions of $x$ being visible in $J$: one asks that the torsor corresponding to $x$ be isomorphic over $\mathbf{Q}$ to a subvariety of $J$, and the other asks that $x$ be in the kernel of the natural map $H^1(\mathbf{Q},A) \to H^1(\mathbf{Q},J)$. In this article, we clarify the relation between the two definitions.
| Cesàro Operators on the Hardy Spaces of the Half-Plane
Arvanitidis, Athanasios G.; Siskakis, Aristomenis G.
In this article we study the Cesàro operator $$ \mathcal{C}(f)(z)=\frac{1}{z}\int_{0}^{z}f(\zeta)\,d\zeta, $$ and its companion operator $\mathcal{T}$ on Hardy spaces of the upper half plane. We identify $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{T}$ as resolvents for appropriate semigroups of composition operators and we find the norm and the spectrum in each case. The relation of $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{T}$ with the corresponding Ces\`{a}ro operators on Lebesgue spaces $L^p(\mathbb R)$ of the boundary line is also discussed.
| Versions of Schwarz's Lemma for Condenser Capacity and Inner Radius
Betsakos, Dimitrios; Pouliasis, Stamatis
We prove variants of Schwarz's lemma involving monotonicity properties of condenser capacity and inner radius. Also, we examine when a similar monotonicity property holds for the hyperbolic metric.
| Sign Changes of the Liouville Function on Quadratics
Borwein, Peter; Choi, Stephen K. K.; Ganguli, Himadri
Let $\lambda (n)$ denote the Liouville function. Complementary to the prime number theorem, Chowla conjectured that \begin{equation*} \label{a.1} \sum_{n\le x} \lambda (f(n)) =o(x)\tag{$*$} \end{equation*} for any polynomial $f(x)$ with integer coefficients which is not of form $bg(x)^2$.
| The Smallest Pisot Element in the Field of Formal Power Series Over a Finite Field
Chandoul, A.; Jellali, M.; Mkaouar, M.
Dufresnoy and Pisot characterized the smallest Pisot number of degree $n \geq 3$ by giving explicitly its minimal polynomial. In this paper, we translate Dufresnoy and Pisot's result to the Laurent series case.
| Embedding Distributions of Generalized Fan Graphs
Chen, Yichao; Mansour, Toufik; Zou, Qian
Total embedding distributions have been known for a few classes of graphs. Chen, Gross, and Rieper computed it for necklaces, close-end ladders and cobblestone paths. Kwak and Shim computed it for bouquets of circles and dipoles. In this paper, a splitting theorem is generalized and the embedding distributions of generalized fan graphs are obtained.
| On Super Weakly Compact Convex Sets and Representation of the Dual of the Normed Semigroup They Generate
Cheng, Lixin; Luo, Zhenghua; Zhou, Yu
In this note, we first give a characterization of super weakly compact convex sets of a Banach space $X$: a closed bounded convex set $K\subset X$ is super weakly compact if and only if there exists a $w^*$ lower semicontinuous seminorm $p$ with $p\geq\sigma_K\equiv\sup_{x\in K}\langle\,\cdot\,,x\rangle$ such that $p^2$ is uniformly Fréchet differentiable on each bounded set of $X^*$. Then we present a representation theorem for the dual of the semigroup $\textrm{swcc}(X)$ consisting of all the nonempty super weakly compact convex sets of the space $X$.
| Transcendental Solutions of a Class of Minimal Functional Equations
Coons, Michael
We prove a result concerning power series $f(z)\in\mathbb{C}[\mkern-3mu[z]\mkern-3mu]$ satisfying a functional equation of the form $$ f(z^d)=\sum_{k=1}^n \frac{A_k(z)}{B_k(z)}f(z)^k, $$ where $A_k(z),B_k(z)\in \mathbb{C}[z]$. In particular, we show that if $f(z)$ satisfies a minimal functional equation of the above form with $n\geqslant 2$, then $f(z)$ is necessarily transcendental. Towards a more complete classification, the case $n=1$ is also considered.
| Quasisymmetrically Minimal Moran Sets
Dai, Mei-Feng
M. Hu and S. Wen considered quasisymmetrically minimal uniform Cantor sets of Hausdorff dimension $1$, where at the $k$-th set one removes from each interval $I$ a certain number $n_{k}$ of open subintervals of length $c_{k}|I|$, leaving $(n_{k}+1)$ closed subintervals of equal length. Quasisymmetrically Moran sets of Hausdorff dimension $1$ considered in the paper are more general than uniform Cantor sets in that neither the open subintervals nor the closed subintervals are required to be of equal length.
| Real Hypersurfaces in Complex Projective Space Whose Structure Jacobi Operator is Lie $\mathbb{D}$-parallel
Pérez, Juan de Dios; Suh, Young Jin
We prove the non-existence of real hypersurfaces in complex projective space whose structure Jacobi operator is Lie $\mathbb{D}$-parallel and satisfies a further condition.
| A Note on Conjectures of F. Galvin and R. Rado
Dorais, François G.
In 1968, Galvin conjectured that an uncountable poset $P$ is the union of countably many chains if and only if this is true for every subposet $Q \subseteq P$ with size $\aleph_1$. In 1981, Rado formulated a similar conjecture that an uncountable interval graph $G$ is countably chromatic if and only if this is true for every induced subgraph $H \subseteq G$ with size $\aleph_1$. Todorčević has shown that Rado's Conjecture is consistent relative to the existence of a supercompact cardinal, while the consistency of Galvin's Conjecture remains open. In this paper, we survey and collect a variety of results related to these two conjectures. We also show that the extension of Rado's conjecture to the class of all chordal graphs is relatively consistent with the existence of a supercompact cardinal.
| Restricting Fourier Transforms of Measures to Curves in $\mathbb R^2$
Erdoğan, M. Burak; Oberlin, Daniel M.
We establish estimates for restrictions to certain curves in $\mathbb R^2$ of the Fourier transforms of some fractal measures.
| Certain Properties of $K_0$-monoids Preserved by Tracial Approximation
Fan, Qingzhai
We show that the following $K_0$-monoid properties of $C^*$-algebras in the class $\Omega$ are inherited by simple unital $C^*$-algebras in the class $TA\Omega$: (1) weak comparability, (2) strictly unperforated, (3) strictly cancellative.
| Involutions and Anticommutativity in Group Rings
Goodaire, Edgar G.; Milies, César Polcino
Let $g\mapsto g^*$ denote an involution on a group $G$. For any (commutative, associative) ring $R$ (with $1$), $*$ extends linearly to an involution of the group ring $RG$. An element $\alpha\in RG$ is symmetric if $\alpha^*=\alpha$ and skew-symmetric if $\alpha^*=-\alpha$. The skew-symmetric elements are closed under the Lie bracket, $[\alpha,\beta]=\alpha\beta-\beta\alpha$. In this paper, we investigate when this set is also closed under the ring product in $RG$. The symmetric elements are closed under the Jordan product, $\alpha\circ\beta=\alpha\beta+\beta\alpha$. Here, we determine when this product is trivial. These two problems are analogues of problems about the skew-symmetric and symmetric elements in group rings that have received a lot of attention.
| The Sizes of Rearrangements of Cantor Sets
Hare, Kathryn E.; Mendivil, Franklin; Zuberman, Leandro
A linear Cantor set $C$ with zero Lebesgue measure is associated with the countable collection of the bounded complementary open intervals. A rearrangment of $C$ has the same lengths of its complementary intervals, but with different locations. We study the Hausdorff and packing $h$-measures and dimensional properties of the set of all rearrangments of some given $C$ for general dimension functions $h$. For each set of complementary lengths, we construct a Cantor set rearrangement which has the maximal Hausdorff and the minimal packing $h$-premeasure, up to a constant. We also show that if the packing measure of this Cantor set is positive, then there is a rearrangement which has infinite packing measure.
| Multiple Solutions for Nonlinear Periodic Problems
Kyritsi, Sophia Th.; Papageorgiou, Nikolaos S.
We consider a nonlinear periodic problem driven by a nonlinear nonhomogeneous differential operator and a Carathéodory reaction term $f(t,x)$ that exhibits a $(p-1)$-superlinear growth in $x \in \mathbb{R}$ near $\pm\infty$ and near zero. A special case of the differential operator is the scalar $p$-Laplacian. Using a combination of variational methods based on the critical point theory with Morse theory (critical groups), we show that the problem has three nontrivial solutions, two of which have constant sign (one positive, the other negative).
| Sharp Threshold of the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation with Trapped Dipolar Quantum Gases
Ma, Li; Wang, Jing
In this paper, we consider the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for the trapped dipolar quantum gases. We obtain the sharp criterion for the global existence and finite time blow up in the unstable regime by constructing a variational problem and the so-called invariant manifold of the evolution flow.
| Application of Measure of Noncompactness to Infinite Systems of Differential Equations
Mursaleen, M.
In this paper we determine the Hausdorff measure of noncompactness on the sequence space $n(\phi)$ of W. L. C. Sargent. Further we apply the technique of measures of noncompactness to the theory of infinite systems of differential equations in the Banach sequence spaces $n(\phi)$ and $m(\phi)$. Our aim is to present some existence results for infinite systems of differential equations formulated with the help of measures of noncompactness.
| Coessential Abelianization Morphisms in the Category of Groups
Oancea, D.
An epimorphism $\phi\colon G\to H$ of groups, where $G$ has rank $n$, is called coessential if every (ordered) generating $n$-tuple of $H$ can be lifted along $\phi$ to a generating $n$-tuple for $G$. We discuss this property in the context of the category of groups, and establish a criterion for such a group $G$ to have the property that its abelianization epimorphism $G\to G/[G,G]$, where $[G,G]$ is the commutator subgroup, is coessential. We give an example of a family of 2-generator groups whose abelianization epimorphism is not coessential. This family also provides counterexamples to the generalized Andrews--Curtis conjecture.
| A Factorization Theorem for Multiplier Algebras of Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces
Prunaru, Bebe
Let $(X,\mathcal B,\mu)$ be a $\sigma$-finite measure space and let $H\subset L^2(X,\mu)$ be a separable reproducing kernel Hilbert space on $X$. We show that the multiplier algebra of $H$ has property $(A_1(1))$.
| On Domination in Zero-Divisor Graphs
Rad, Nader Jafari; Jafari, Sayyed Heidar; Mojdeh, Doost Ali
We first determine the domination number for the zero-divisor graph of the product of two commutative rings with $1$. We then calculate the domination number for the zero-divisor graph of any commutative artinian ring. Finally, we extend some of the results to non-commutative rings in which an element is a left zero-divisor if and only if it is a right zero-divisor.
| Structure in Sets with Logarithmic Doubling
Sanders, T.
Suppose that $G$ is an abelian group, $A \subset G$ is finite with $|A+A| \leq K|A|$ and $\eta \in (0,1]$ is a parameter. Our main result is that there is a set $\mathcal{L}$ such that \begin{equation*} |A \cap \operatorname{Span}(\mathcal{L})| \geq K^{-O_\eta(1)}|A| \quad\text{and}\quad |\mathcal{L}| = O(K^\eta\log |A|). \end{equation*} We include an application of this result to a generalisation of the Roth--Meshulam theorem due to Liu and Spencer.
| Convergent Sequences in Discrete Groups
Thom, Andreas
We prove that a finitely generated group contains a sequence of non-trivial elements that converge to the identity in every compact homomorphic image if and only if the group is not virtually abelian. As a consequence of the methods used, we show that a finitely generated group satisfies Chu duality if and only if it is virtually abelian.
| Some Remarks on the Algebraic Sum of Ideals and Riesz Subspaces
Wnuk, Witold
Following ideas used by Drewnowski and Wilansky we prove that if $I$ is an infinite dimensional and infinite codimensional closed ideal in a complete metrizable locally solid Riesz space and $I$ does not contain any order copy of $\mathbb R^{\mathbb N}$ then there exists a closed, separable, discrete Riesz subspace $G$ such that the topology induced on $G$ is Lebesgue, $I \cap G = \{0\}$, and $I + G$ is not closed.
| Closed Left Ideal Decompositions of $U(G)$
Zelenyuk, Yevhen
Let $G$ be an infinite discrete group and let $\beta G$ be the Stone--Čech compactification of $G$. We take the points of $ėta G$ to be the ultrafilters on $G$, identifying the principal ultrafilters with the points of $G$. The set $U(G)$ of uniform ultrafilters on $G$ is a closed two-sided ideal of $\beta G$. For every $p\in U(G)$, define $I_p\subseteq\beta G$ by $I_p=\bigcap_{A\in p}\operatorname{cl} (GU(A))$, where $U(A)=\{p\in U(G):A\in p\}$. We show that if $|G|$ is a regular cardinal, then $\{I_p:p\in U(G)\}$ is the finest decomposition of $U(G)$ into closed left ideals of $\beta G$ such that the corresponding quotient space of $U(G)$ is Hausdorff.


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Saturday, May 2, 2015
Digestive Disorders
what is diverticulitis
Diverticulitis is inflammation/infection of diverticuli. These are small bulges or pockets which develop mainly on the large intestine. They become more common as people age and are usually asymptomatic. Only a small percentage of people with diverticuli will develop diverticulitis. Diverticulitis typically causes pain and tenderness in the lower abdomen and fever. It is treated with antibiotics.
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Director, Center for Digestive Motility Disorders
College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati


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Hi Everybody:
My firewall is Norton Internet Security (NIS). I connect via dial-up. For months, I've seen intrusion attacks from various IP addresses.
Starting May 2, I've increased the NIS log size to 2MB and has been saving these logs daily. My intent: Generate empirical statistics on intrusions/attacks, identify the preponderance of attacks by country-origin and the most persistent attackers' IP address (shall we say top 100?).
Anybody interested in a parallel effort? This may vary from country to country, from ISP to ISP and by the type of firewall used. But if the firewall maintains a log, then those interested may just save these logs into plain text format and later on identify the country-origin of the IP. For my case, I'll be using IP to Country.
What shall we accomplish? Broadly, simply generate awareness for all on the following:
a. Intrusions happen almost every second that one stays on-line;
b. Some users may just be unaware that even their own systems serve as bridges for these attacks;
c. Some countries may just happen to have less sense of IT security or some establishments/systems deliberately attack other systems as a prelude to future information warfare scenarios; and
d. Some IP addresses may just be worth avoiding (can we really deliberately do that?) while we are online.
In addition, it may just make us aware of related issues such as:
a. Firewalls do not always work when a malware/adware piggybacks itself into our download process (I plan to make a separate post regarding this experience);
b. Some IP addresses may just happen to be bogus when attacking (I base this on my observation that my system has varying IP addresses [within the ISP range?] whenever I go online).
I am aware that false statistics may just be generated but the time needed to just identify the country for each IP address is already enormous; so why waste time generating false data? For my case, I'll always be ready to upload the daily logs [in raw plain text format or PDF] to anyone who'd demand proof of the stats I've come up with. A few other rules may just be needed as well regarding redundancies, frequency and cases of **INVALID** IP addresses.
Relatedly, would anyone mind generating a small program that would use the IP to Country MS Excel Library as reference to a faster identification of the country origin of the IP addresses?