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Many Alabamians assume that with the adoption of switchgrass and other forms of cellulosic ethanol crops the state will return to a golden age of farming reminiscent of the Waltons.
That's not necessarily true, according to two Auburn University experts.
Granted, both have little doubt the widespread use of these cellulosic crops, whenever this occurs, will translate into a huge boon for the state's economy, but not in the way most people imagine.
"I don't know what the switchgrass sector is going to look like, but I suspect it's not going to look like Grandma and Grandpa Walton on the mountain," says Robert Goodman, an Alabama Cooperative Extension System economist and Auburn University associate professor of agricultural economics. "I think it's going to look more like sugarcane farming in Brazil."
By that, Goodman means large-scale, corporate-style farming rather than one patterned after family farming.
"It's likely going to be more profitable to grow these types of crops on a vast scale — on 50,000-acre farms with huge machines and very investment intensive operations — nothing like we have now."
Sharing this view is Joseph Molnar, Auburn University professor of rural sociology, who stresses that conversion of biomass ethanol is, by nature, "an industrial and not a backyard process." Molnar also believes switchgrass initially may be outdone by another lucrative source of cellulose — wood — which Alabama possesses in abundance.
"We already have an existing system for refining and distributing gasoline, and, undoubtedly, corn ethanol and wood-based ethanol will evolve alongside that," Molnar says, adding that the regions best suited to capitalize on this asset are west and southwest Alabama, where petroleum refineries already are located.
"These would be natural places to put wood alcohol production facilities because the distribution and technical know-how already are in place," Molnar says. In fact, the ethanol not only could be blended with gas but distributed through existing pipelines, he adds.
One thing is certain, Molnar says. Until a cost-efficient means is developed to convert cellulosic materials such as wood and switchgrass into ethanol, Alabama, along with most states in the Southeast will remain "on the outside looking in" — at least, in terms of profiting from the spike in corn-based ethanol use.
"We can grow some corn and open some processing plant capacity, but this sort of production is going to occur primarily in the Midwest, with the good soils and high yields."
A number of bioenergy experts have pointed to Alabama as an ideal location for growing a new generation of cellulosic-derived ethanol crops — and they're right, Molnar says.
"We've got a year-round growing season, which means we could be growing and harvesting these sorts of products — wood and switchgrass, for example — practically all the time."
For now, at least, Molnar says all of this depends on whether science can develop the technology to enable industry to capitalize on these sources.
"The future really is in the hands of chemical engineers," he says. "If they can find a way to reduce the cost of producing cellulosic ethanol and make it closer to corn-derived ethanol, then Alabama is going to look pretty good.
"Alabama — and the Southeast — could be pretty big players in all of this."
The Bush administration has vowed to spend billions of dollars to bridge this technological gap. In fact, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns recently announced plans to propose $1.6 billion in new funding for renewable energy, with a focus on cellulosic energy research and production as part of the administration's 2007 farm bill proposals.


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The long-planned adaptation of Bill Bryson's 1998 memoir has begun production with director Ken Kwapis ("He's Just Not That Into You") at the helm, the film's backers, Wildwood Enterprises and Route one Films, announced Monday.
The film stars Robert Redford as an aging travel writer who decides to hike the 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail with an estranged high-school friend (played by Nick Nolte), bickering and making wry observations about their lives and the world around them in the process.
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The Clippers called off today's scheduled practice and this afternoon will fly to Memphis, where they begin a three-game trip Monday against the Grizzlies. A team spokesman said there would be no update on Paul's condition until this afternoon at the earliest.
The Clippers shot only six free throws Saturday and made all six. The Magic were 15 of 19. Paul, the only Clippers starter to shoot a free throw, wasn't pleased about the disparity and brought it up unprompted during his postgame news conference.
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Another fixture passes for Liverpool, and Brendan Rodgers' side now face a desperate uphill battle to advance in the final cup competition in which they remain.
The Reds' lengthy trip to take on Zenit St Petersburg on Thursday evening saw another two goals conceded, and yet another achievable result dragged away from them by a cyclone of poor defending and profligate finishing. To anyone who was watching on Monday evening – let alone on countless other dates since August – it was a familiar sight.
While the defence will rightly come in for a share of criticism for failing yet again to shut the opposition out away from home, perhaps the more worrying facet of Liverpool's performance on Thursday was the lack of responsibility and productivity on display from two-thirds of their attack.
Luis Suarez, as is his wont, found himself wriggling through on goal on a number of occasions – especially during the first half – but the Uruguayan failed to put away at least three presentable chances. Instead, Suarez used the evening to revert to his older, more wasteful self as opposed to continuing this season's newfound ruthless streak.
But alas, with 20 goals to his name already this term, Suarez can be forgiven for a reckless showing such as tonight's, and to his credit the striker never once shirked responsibility, always looking for the ball and always looking a threat.
Looked uneasy in possession and often passed to team-mates who were being tightly marked in the first half. The midfielder perked up slightly after the break and his incisive run led to another missed chance for Suarez.
Hardly got a touch in the first 45 minutes and was camped in his own half in order to deal with the overlapping runs of Anyukov. Showed good composure inside Zenit's box to square a pass to Suarez, who spurned a golden chance to put Liverpool ahead.
Sterling, of course, can quite rightly point to mitigating circumstances that supercede a mere bad spell of recent form. The winger is only three months into his 19th year, and has featured in a staggering 32 games so far this season. That his early tenacity and vitality has been replaced by a creeping leaden-footedness is completely forgivable, and surely a more sparing rationing of his appearances by Rodgers' will have a welcome effect on his form, both short- and long-term – something that looks more likely with the arrivals of Daniel Sturridge and Coutinho. There can be little doubt that the Jamaican-born winger has huge potential, and he should not be expected to fulfil it at only 18.
Downing, however, has no such excuse – but before the criticism must come the caveats. Despite a nightmarish debut season, the Teesider has proved himself a useful squad member of late, his positional discipline vital in stretching the pitch to its utmost width, and his functional wingplay can be practical if far from exhilarating. He may well be a handy squad player.
However, a first-rate winger must offer more than discipline and functionality. A tangible output is crucial, and – while the subject has been breached many a time over the past 18 months – Downing's goals and assists tallies are desperately short of the required standard.
Although Downing – along with Jordan Henderson and Charlie Adam – was signed under the Kenny Dalglish/Damien Comolli regime based on his 'chance creation' rate for his previous employer, the outcomes have shown up the fallibility of such number crunching, as the opportunities laid on by the players since at Liverpool on have been few and far between. The Liverpool shirt is a heavy one, and cold hard data cannot signify the sort of mental shortcomings that Downing has shown since he joined the club.
Henderson himself has been used as a wide attacker in recent weeks, notably on the left flank away to Arsenal, but his value lies in energy and short-range distribution as opposed to raw creativity. Meanwhile, Coutinho cannot be expected to make a large impact this campaign, while Fabio Borini is a player in the wide-forward mould – a man to seek out the archetypal 'poacher's chance', but not to unpick the defensive lock.
The fact remains that Luiz Suarez's so-called supporting cast continue to offer him insufficient support.
Of course, in Suarez Liverpool are blessed with a forward who can create his own chances, but that gift should represent a luxury rather than a necessity.
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The January acquisition of Sturridge was undoubtedly a shrewd one, and the England man has impressed hugely in his first few outings in red. Indeed, he does provide a certain degree of remedy to Rodgers' shortcomings in attack, having offered flair, pace and most importantly goals to the side so far. He was missed in Russia.
That said, though, if the blueprint – as seems the case – is to deploy Suarez as the second striker, behind the focal point of Sturridge, the applicants for the two wide berths remain the usual suspects: Downing, Borini, Sterling, Coutinho. Between those four, there is no shortage of promise, graft and willingness.
But again, these are intangibles. What the side needs is goals, assists; productivity. Not to mention confidence, arrogance even.
Rodgers looks to have used his January well, and has reinforced his frontline to an extent. Until he does so further, though, his star man may still be left with too much weight on his own shoulders, as far too little is guaranteed from his supporting cast.


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• Birth—September 3, 1963
• Where—Fareham, Hampshire, England, U.K.
• Raised—Elmira, Ontario, Canada
• Education—B.A., University of Toronto
• Currently—New York, New York, USA
Malcolm T. Gladwell is an English-Canadian journalist, bestselling author, and speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has written five books, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference (2000), Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005), Outliers: The Story of Success (2008), What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (2009), and David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (2013). The first four books were on the New York Times Best Seller list.
Gladwell's books and articles often deal with the unexpected implications of research in the social sciences and make frequent and extended use of academic work, particularly in the areas of sociology, psychology, and social psychology. Gladwell was appointed to the Order of Canada 1n 2011.
Early life
Gladwell was born in Fareham, Hampshire, England. His mother is Joyce (Nation) Gladwell, a Jamaican-born psychotherapist. His father, Graham Gladwell, is a British mathematics professor. Gladwell has said that his mother is his role model as a writer. When he was six, his family moved to Elmira, Ontario, Canada.
Gladwell's father noted that Malcolm was an unusually single-minded and ambitious boy. When Malcolm was 11, his father allowed him to wander around the offices at his university, which stoked the boy's interest in reading and libraries. During his high school years, Gladwell was an outstanding middle-distance runner and won the 1,500 meter title at the 1978 Ontario High School 14-year-old championships in Kingston, Ontario. In the spring of 1982, Gladwell interned with the National Journalism Center in Washington, D.C. He graduated with a degree in history from the University of Toronto's Trinity College in 1984.
Gladwell's grades were not good enough for graduate school (as Gladwell puts it, "college was not an... intellectually fruitful time for me"), so he decided to go into advertising. After being rejected by every advertising agency he applied to, he accepted a journalism position at The American Spectator and moved to Indiana. He subsequently wrote for Insight on the News, a conservative magazine owned by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.
In 1987, Gladwell began covering business and science for the Washington Post, where he worked until 1996. In a personal elucidation of the 10,000 hour rule he popularized in Outliers, Gladwell notes, "I was a basket case at the beginning, and I felt like an expert at the end. It took 10 years—exactly that long."
When Gladwell started at The New Yorker in 1996 he wanted to "mine current academic research for insights, theories, direction, or inspiration." His first assignment was to write a piece about fashion. Instead of writing about high-class fashion, Gladwell opted to write a piece about a man who manufactured T-shirts, saying
...it was much more interesting to write a piece about someone who made a T-shirt for $8 than it was to write about a dress that costs $100,000. I mean, you or I could make a dress for $100,000, but to make a T-shirt for $8 – that's much tougher.
Gladwell gained popularity with two New Yorker articles, both written in 1996: "The Tipping Point" and "The Coolhunt." These two pieces would become the basis for Gladwell's first book, The Tipping Point, for which he received a $1 million advance. He continues to write for The New Yorker and also serves as a contributing editor for Grantland, a sports journalism website founded by ESPN's Bill Simmons.
When asked for the process behind his writing, Gladwell has said...
I have two parallel things I'm interested in. One is I'm interested in collecting interesting stories, and the other is I'm interested in collecting interesting research. What I'm looking for is cases where they overlap.
The title for his first book, The Tipping Point (2000), came from the phrase "tipping point"—the moment in an disease epidemic when the virus reaches critical mass and begins to spread at a much higher rate.
Gladwell published Blink (2005), a book explaining how the human subconscious interprets events or cues and how past experiences can lead people to make informed decisions very rapidly.
Gladwell's third book, Outliers (2008) examines the way a person's environment, in conjunction with personal drive and motivation, affects his or her possibility and opportunity for success.
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (2009) bundles together Gladwell's favorite articles from The New Yorker since he joined the magazine as a staff writer in 1996. The stories share a common idea, namely, the world as seen through the eyes of others, even if that other happens to be a dog.
David and Goliath (2013) explores the struggle of underdogs versus favorites. The book is partially inspired by a 2009 article Gladwell wrote for The New Yorker, "How David Beats Goliath."
The Tipping Point and Blink became international bestsellers, each selling over two million copies in the US.
David Leonhardt wrote in the New York Times Book Review: "In the vast world of nonfiction writing, Malcolm Gladwell is as close to a singular talent as exists today" and that Outliers "leaves you mulling over its inventive theories for days afterward." Ian Sample of The Guardian (UK) also wrote of Outliers that when brought together, "the pieces form a dazzling record of Gladwell's art. There is depth to his research and clarity in his arguments, but it is the breadth of subjects he applies himself to that is truly impressive."
Criticism of Gladwell tends to focus on the fact that he is a journalist and not a scientist, and as a result his work is prone to oversimplification. The New Republic called the final chapter of Outliers, "impervious to all forms of critical thinking" and said that Gladwell believes "a perfect anecdote proves a fatuous rule."
Gladwell has also been criticized for his emphasis on anecdotal evidence over research to support his conclusions. Steven Pinker, even while praising Gladwell's attractive writing style and content, sums up Gladwell as "a minor genius who unwittingly demonstrates the hazards of statistical reasoning." Pinker accuses him of using "cherry-picked anecdotes, post-hoc sophistry and false dichotomies" in Outliers.
Despite these criticisms Gladwell commands hefty speaking fees: $80,000 for one speech, according to a 2008 New York magazine article although some speeches he makes for free. (Adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved 10/02/2013.)
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William Kristol has a good summary about Obama's inertia in the face of world chaos. I disagree, however, with the language I've emphasized:
In late 1979, with the seizure of American hostages by Iran and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Jimmy Carter was mugged by reality. Carter then tried, however haplessly, to change direction. But Barack Obama is no Jimmy Carter. Will Obama increase defense spending, as Carter did? Is he likely to launch a military excursion, as Carter did, over the objection—and then resignation—of his dovish secretary of state?
Carter, whatever his problems, was more hawkish than most in his party. In this he followed in the footsteps of every other Democratic president in the past century. Until Barack Obama.
It's been a bit bewildering, even disorienting, to watch Obama get mugged by reality and refuse to press charges.
Obama hasn't been mugged by reality. This is what Obama wanted. That's why the comparisons with Carter don't actually work — and it's not just that Carter only had a four-year term, rather than an eight year term.
When Carter embarked upon his foreign policy, his imagined result was that America would still be a world leader, but one that would lead through Gandhi-esque peace, rather than through arms. When peace didn't work, Carter pivoted in an effort to return America to leadership through economic and military strength. When he was voted out of office, Reagan did that job and did it well. Carter was a dreadful president and I seriously dislike him for his increasingly overt antisemitism, but he was still a patriot.
Obama is not a patriot. America's total retreat is what he wanted. That is, he was never seeking world domination through peaceful means. Instead, his stated goal was to cut America down to size and make her just one nation among many. The world cheered him in that goal. Now the world is being reminded of the dictum to "be careful what you wish for because you might get it."
Obama, however, is not weeping over his wishes being granted. He got exactly what he wished for and is undoubtedly pleased with the results. Insulated by his praetorian White House guard and sycophantic media, he doesn't worry about the downsides of his execrable foreign policies. All he cares about is the fact that he succeeded in weakening (perhaps permanently) a nation he's always viewed as an overbearing, racist, capitalist bully.


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Associated Press - August 27, 2007 12:03 PM ET
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Vowing to redeem himself, Michael Vick has apologized for his actions after formally pleading guilty to a federal dogfighting charge.
Speaking at a Richmond, Virginia, hotel, Vick softly and solemnly apologized to the NFL, the Atlanta Falcons and his teammates.
Vick, who has been suspended indefinitely by the NFL without pay, said he "made a mistake in using bad judgment and making bad decisions." He also called dogfighting a "terrible thing."
In court today, the judge in the case emphasized to Vick he is not bound by sentencing guidelines or the recommendations of prosecutors. The judge can impose the maximum sentence of up to five years in prison, while prosecutors have proposed a 12- to 18-month prison term.
A sentencing date has been set for December 10th.
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NASHUA — A series of drug raids resulted in Nashua police arresting three people Thursday on various drug charges.
Members of the Nashua Police Department's Narcotics Intelligence Division, Problem Oriented Policing Unit, and Traffic Unit took part in this Operation Granite Shield activity.
Caitlin Taylor, 28, of 507 Broad St. Apt, 9, Nashua, was charged with two counts of felony sale of crack cocaine and a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest. Taylor was held on $50,000 bail and was arraigned Friday.
Christopher Chandonnais, 25, of 42 Trafford St., Manchester, was charged with felony possession of cocaine and of oxycodone with the intent to distribute oxycodone. Chandonnais had $11,138 in cash upon his arrest.
He was held on $150,000 bail and arraigned Friday.
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THE BULLETIN of the Rubber Growers Association (Incorporated)
Vol. 20. NOVEMBER, 1938. No. 11.
A meeting of the Council was held on Monday, 7th November,
National Emergency.
A letter from the Prime Minister, being a reply to a letter sent to
him transmitting the Resolution passed at the last Council meeting,
was submitted.
Malaya Committee.
Labour. Particulars of recent discussions in Malaya and of
documents recently received from Malaya relating to labour matters
were submitted.
Rubber Regulation. It was reported that with a view to clarifying
a number of questions, a delegation representing the Proprietors
Section of the U.P.A.M. had had a meeting with the Controller of
Rubber, Malaya.
Rubber Gifts Eund Committee.
The Council approved the usual distribution of rubber gifts to
hospitals, etc., at Christmas.
Provident Fund Committee.
The appointment of Mr. R. Battiscombe and Mr. L. O. Tasker, as
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AHL Game Night 2/24: Bruins at Falcons
Total third period implosion.
Karri Ramo allowed 4 goals on 19 shots before giving way to Jonathan Boutin who fared even worse allowing 2 goals on 5 shots. Justin Keller and Norm Milley had Springfield's goals with assists belonging to Marek Kvapil, Jay Rosehill and Daniel Corso. Unfortunately, after hanging around for the first 40 minutes of the game, Springfield self destructed and allowed 4 goals in the final frame. The Falcons also had an opportunity to take a 2-0 lead early in the game on a David Spina penalty shot, but Spina failed to score and a Bruins goal in the final minutes of the first evened the game up.
Positives: with Kyle Wanvig up in Tampa on recall, Kvapil was moved back up to the second line with Keller and Spina and the three responded. Kvapil had the assist and 2 shots on goal, Spina had 4 shots and Keller had a team high 5 shots on goal. Hopefully the youngsters can keep it up. Remember, a couple of years ago Paul Ranger and Evgeny Artyukhin really came on at the end of the year (especially Ranger in the last dozen games) and it catapulted them into the NHL early the next year. Even though Springfield's playoff chances are slim and none, these young players still have a lot of developmental time left to capitalize on and once the college and junior team seasons start to end there will be an opportunity for the Lightning to identify some players to sign to ATO contracts with a view toward shaping next year's roster. There's still a lot to play for here.
First Period
SPR Keller, (10) (Kvapil, Rosehill), 2:10
PRO Rosa, (2) (Karsums, Lashoff), 19:21
Second Period
PRO Trevelyan, (19) (Hoggan, Zinger), 6:16
Third Period
PRO Trevelyan, (20) (Walter), 2:23
PRO Rosa, (3) (Talbot, Zinger), 7:07
SPR Milley, (19) (Corso), 7:30
PRO Karsums, (13) (Glenn, Lashoff), 14:32 (PP)
PRO Curry, (4) (Pelletier), 15:12 (PP)
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Wheelchair User Proficiency Through Virtual Simulation
This is Project VI of the Ohio State University's Rehabilitation Engineering Center for the Quantification of Physical Performance. This research is conducted at OSC in Columbus, Ohio. Investigators include:
- Sheldon Simon, M.D., Director, Rehabilitation and Engineering Research Center, The Ohio State University Medical Center
- Wayne E. Carlson, Ph.D., Director, The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, The Ohio State University
- Don Stredney, Senior Research Scientist, OSC
- Dennis Sessanna, Software Engineer - Virtual Systems, OSC
- Rebecca Jackson, M.D., Physical Medicine/Rehabilitation, The Ohio State University Medical Center
- Rosiland Batley, M.D., Clinical/Physical Medicine/Rehabilitation, Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio
We have developed a virtual-structure prototyping system that allows navigation by a person using a power wheelchair. The system is a tool for three groups of people:
- for architects and designers, it provides structure previsualization and analysis that can both improve the handicapped accessibility of building designs and test a structure for the compliance with the Americans with Disablities Act of 1990, which requires handicapped accessibility for (almost) all public structures; for wheelchair users, it provides more appropriate device fitting and training with wheelchair control systems; and
- for health care professionals, it provides a system for assessing user performance and for determining the best power chair control mechanism for a particular patient.
The system consists of an instrumented, joystick-driven power wheelchair connected to a high-performance graphics workstation (Silicon Graphics CRIMSON VGXT); it simulates the actual speed and maneuverability of the particular wheelchair within a virtual structure. The display generates realistic interiors containing multiple light sources and surface textures and is viewed in stereo through lightweight polarized glasses. The system maintains a hierarchical data structure that detects collisions between the virtual wheelchair and the environment.
Figure 1: 10 vectors used to calculate chair collisions.
In 1995, collateral funding was obtained through the United States Air Force SBIR program. In collaboration with Immersion Human Interface Corporation of San Jose, California, the project, Commercially Viable Force Feedback Controller for Individuals with Neuromotor Disabilities, investigates the use and efficacy of force feedback technologies for assisting disabled individuals in controlling a power chair in a virtual environment. Two primary modes of operation were supported for the joystick: passive and active. In passive mode, the joystick will discourage the driver from going toward obstacles by making it harder to push the joystick in those directions. For example, if the user is moving down a narrow hallway, the joystick will allow travel only forward or backward and will restrict the driver from steering close to a wall. Active mode allows the joystick to exert a force that will guide the user toward a less congested area. Thus, as a user drives toward an obstacle, the joystick will provide a moderate force to actually guide the users's hand to move the joystick and steer the chair away from the obstruction. We see this research providing assistive technologies to individuals with specific disabilities such as spastic hand movements and dim vision.
Figure 2. Plan view of virtual environment and steering tasks.
Pilot trials were run at OSC. Subjects included individuals with disabilities of varying severity and individuals from the non-disabled population. Simple steering tasks were performed and evaluated. Individuals were asked to navigate through a simple environment using a joystick controller. The hypothesis is that force feedback technologies can provide significant improvements in user performance.
To date, we have developed a robust system that provides previsualization of architectural data sets and assists in assessment for ADA compliance. In addition, the system provides an immersive environment for users to train themselves in the use of a power chair, therefore limiting the application of unsuitable technology that may never be fully, or even partially utilized. Current efforts include the completion of a communications protocol to allow a health care provider, working on a remote machine, to place moving objects into the path of the user. Currently, the system tracks and records specific tasks, performance time, and number and exact location of collisions, e.g., front -right, back-left. Recording collision positions is useful in assessing cognitive disorders such as side neglect. Additional tracks will include reaction times, and location of the object upon initial reaction in relation to the user's field of view.
This research is supported by a grant from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. We would like to acknowledge Invacare Inc. for the Action(TM) power wheelchair, Silicon Graphics for technical assistance and numerous equipment loans, and Autodessys, Inc. for the donation of Form ZTM to incorporate the architectural data sets. Additional funding comes form the United States Air Force, Award #F41624-95-C-6019, and Immersion Human Interface Corporation, San Jose, California.
In addition, we wish to thank all the individuals from The Ohio State University Rehabilitation and Engineering Center, the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, the Department of Orthopedics at Children's Hopital, Columbus, and OSC.
Further Reading
Assessing User Proficiency Through Virtual Simulations. Stredney D, Yagel R, Carlson W, Moeller T, Shih PW, and M Fontana,
to be presented at RESNA '97 on June 24, 1997, Pittsburgh, PA.
The Determination of Environmental Accessibility and ADA Compliance Through Virtual Wheelchair Simulation
Stredney D, Carlson W, Swan JE, and Blostein B., Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, Vol. 4, No. 3, Summer 1995, pgs. 297-305.
The Application of Virtual Wheelchair Simulation to the Determination of Environmental Accessibility and Standards Compliance in Architectural Design
Carlson W, Swan E, Stredney D, Blostein B, Proceedings of the Symposium on Computers & Innovative Architectural Design, The 7th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics & Cybernetics, Baden-Baden, Germany, August 18, 1994
The Determination of Wheelchair User Proficiency and Environmental Accessibility Through Virtual Simulation
Swan E, Stredney D, Carlson W, Virtual Reality and Persons with Disabilities, Presented June 8-10, 1994, California State University, Northridge Center on Disabilities


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WORCESTER � Joseph Mayotte took the witness stand Monday in Worcester Superior Court and denied sexual assault allegations against him.
"Never," Mr. Mayotte answered when asked by his lawyer, Christopher P. LoConto, if he had ever sexually abused the 17-year-old girl who testified last week that he had.
Mr. Mayotte, 50, and his 49-year-old wife, Linda Mayotte, are on trial on charges that include child rape, child rape aggravated by age difference, indecent assault and battery on a child, indecent assault and battery and assault with intent to rape. The charges involve two alleged victims who were once in the Mayottes' care in their home at 67 Laura Lane, Northbridge.
The 17-year-old testified that Mr. Mayotte sexually abused her over a span of nearly five years beginning in 2004, when she was 8 years old.
Mrs. Mayotte allegedly initiated a sexual relationship with a teenage boy that he said began when he was 13 and ended in 2007, when she became pregnant with his child. She told police she was raped by the boy.
Mr. Mayotte recalled a conversation he had with his wife in June 2009, after the state Department of Children and Families had removed the two youths and Mrs. Mayotte's baby from the home.
"She started to tell me that the baby might not be mine," he testified. He said Mrs. Mayotte proceeded to tell him that the teenage boy in the couple's care had been raping her when he was not home.
"It was very upsetting to hear that," Mr. Mayotte told the jury. He said he did not consider leaving home at that time, "because I loved my wife and I believed her."
Over the course of the next 10 days, he said, his wife attempted suicide three times, twice by slitting her wrists and once by ingesting pills. Mr. Mayotte said his wife told him she "couldn't handle" having been raped by the teen.
Under cross-examination by Assistant District Attorney Cheryl R. Riddle. Mr. Mayotte said he did not report his wife's rape allegations to police.
Mrs. Mayotte was called to the witness stand Monday afternoon by her lawyer, Laurel A. Singer, and was asked a series of questions about the teenage boy who accused her of sexually abusing him.
Mrs. Mayotte said the boy had difficulty in school and was home-schooled by her for a period of time. She also told the jury the teen had behavioral problems,
She said he would often have "angry outbursts" when she tried to discipline him and that he punched holes in his bedroom wall on more than one occasion. At other times, she said, he threw objects at her or yelled at her.
Mrs. Mayotte testified that she was "scared" by his behavior took the boy to counseling.
When asked by Ms. Singer if she ever forced the boy to have sex with her, Mrs. Mayotte answered, "No."
She also testified that a couple of months before he reported to police that he had been sexually abused by her, the teen said he wanted to move out of the Mayottes' house and live with his girlfriend.
Ms. Singer was scheduled to resume her direct examination of Mrs. Mayotte Tuesday morning.
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But then, looking at it again, why do we need a feminine color? To tie someone's appearance to their character traits (also socially constructed--for example, vulnerability)? To separate genders--to maintain inequality, keeping one group instantly identifiable from the other?
Is the construction of gender (in Western culture) part of a system to keep one sex subordinate to the other?
Am I crazy, or onto something? Or is this old news, and this is merely the first time I happened to think of it?
------------------Sapphire CatThe world needs me, to know not everyone is the same.Artist, poet, programmer, dreamer, and crossdressing bondage kitty
quote:Originally posted by sapphirecat:Why is it that pink is feminine? Any pastel, including blue, could just as easily be socially feminized.
I've actually read somewhere that a few hundred years ago it was the other way around - pink was a color for boys because it was a light red, and red was too fiery and powerful for girls to wear. go figure! you can politicize things every which way. (there's a really funny article by gloria steinem about what would happen if men menstruated, and it's all about how men would still rule the world because they'd say that obviously, women were too weak to rule because they didn't bleed every month, etc, etc)
quote:But then, looking at it again, why do we need a feminine color? To tie someone's appearance to their character traits (also socially constructed--for example, vulnerability)? To separate genders--to maintain inequality, keeping one group instantly identifiable from the other?Is the construction of gender (in Western culture) part of a system to keep one sex subordinate to the other?
actually, I think you're on to something in academia there's a branch of feminism called marxist or materialist feminism. it draws on marxist political philosophy and applies it to gender and feminism. thus, any system that divides people into disparate groups -- a class system -- creates a power imbalance. and in marxist feminist theory, gender is a class system, and women are the 'have nots.'
at least i think that's how it goes. it's a really interesting way to think about gender.
Of course one of the few things that the Soviet Union got right was equality for women. I was listening to this rather touching account of an Afghan woman under the Soviet rule where she was a crane operator, a standard worker. Then under the Taliban she could hardly even leave her own house let alone have a normal job.
------------------'An Anarchist is a Liberal with a bomb' Trotsky
As for the colour pink, what interests me is that it's OK for women to wear the traditionally male (at least in Western society) colour blue, but a man in a pink shirt raises a few eyebrows. I suppose that's a whole different issue really, how it's OK for women to adopt masculine characteristics, but not vice versa.
When mothers dress their baby daughters in pink frilly things, I don't think they're really out to mantain inequality and make social statements about vulnerability, I think they just wat to make it clear that their baby is female. Personally, I would say that's unecessary, but I can understand why people would do it.
The book used in my ethics class went into the origins of "femininity" in some detail when it discussed the "ethics of care" and the difference between that and traditional "masculine" concepts of justice. The major question was a kind of chicken-and-egg problem: does femininity arise from some innate difference between men and women, or does society create definitions that men and women submit to?
If society casts pink as feminine, will wearing pink be perceived by those willing to take advantage of others as an acceptance of the rest of society's description of femininity, and an implicit invitation to actually take advantage of them?
Hmmm. To answer my own questions from my point of view:
There's some difference between the general tendencies of men and women, which were codeified into stereotypes--the idea of gender and gender roles, such as "women are sentimental". Submitting to the stereotype makes it much easier to exist in society, because the stereotype makes others "understand" without the need to spend time learning. Submission is also rewarded by reducing the need to repeat certain information to everyone. Lesbians who don't look like lesbians must repeatedly explain that they are lesbian.
Furthermore, the more people that submit to the stereotype, the harder it becomes to avoid submitting to it themselves: there are fewer people visible who would obviously support them. So it seems that once a stereotype is created, it reinforces itself.
In answer to the other question, experience says that those who take advantage of people don't really care what their victims wear; "she was asking for it" is more of a rationalization. After all, blame is better given than received.
Yeah, you're right. Typically, it's just that guys aren't "supposed to" like pink, but that's just trying to be macho. Who really knows why boys are associated with blue and girls pink? That's just how things are.
To me, it's old news. Whenever a baby is born, the parents are bombarded with blue onesies, bibs, toys, anything blue or any other "masculine" color. It's just the way things always have been, and it'll probably never change.
------------------The present is the past of the future
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------------------"Everybody thinks i'm such a horrible person, but i have the heart of a little boy. In a jar. On my desk." -Stephen King
*note* Hawksley Workman has been noted to wear pink shirts at a few of his concerts, and at the gay pride parade, but he's not gay. I think that's really good that someone, especially someone with minimal fame, is, accidently or purposly, changing views, at least for me.
------------------'My advice is to get them off right after your shoes and before your trousers...that's the sock gap. Miss it and suddenly you're a naked man in socks. No self-respecting woman will let a naked man in socks do the squelchy with her'-Jeff Murdock(Coupling, BBCC)
------------------"No self-respecting woman will let a naked man in socks do the squelchy with her'-Jeff Murdock(Coupling, BBCC)
You speak for me. I can't stand pink, even as just a color. Not only the whole "girly color" thing, but I also have a huge aversion to what I call the happy colors: yellow, red, orange, pink, and any pastels, though I like deep orange. They just get to me somehow. *shrug* It's kind of stupid, though, I think, to say "this is a guy's color and that's a girl's." Rather pointless.
------------------I don't want eternity. But Arashii is mine.
"I never said I was a boy." - Tenoh Haruka, episode 92, Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon
quote:A woman's magazine in 1918informed mothers, "There has been a great diversity of opinion on the subject, but the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger color is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is pertier for the girl.
If you look through that site, too, which is all about boys' clothes through time, you can see a lot of changes in what's "acceptable" fashion for boys -- including some boys in pink dresses.
I realize we were talking about the color and not just about boys and girls' clothing, but it's interesting for me to see that the pink/blue connotation hasn't always been the way we think it has been in some areas.
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------------------- you think you're the only one who's sexually frustrated? - well come on baby , i'm ready!
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pink u can be my flamingopink is a new kind of lingoetc.etc.etc.........
------------------Color is for crayons, not for people.
I wear pink all the time, because i cate conventiality, i hate sexism, racism, everything like that as well. I'm called Gay a lot, i wonder why this is?.....because i wear one colour...weird aint it
Ultimately, I think pink and blue were decided by cultural appointment.
And in my totally random way, going back to Confused Boy's comment in January... it's not necessarily pink and weak are associated, but that pink and femininity are associated. "Pink = Feminine" is part of a system of generalizations and stereotypes that dictate gender expression based on one's physical sex.
------------------Sapphire CatLooks won't tell who's living inside.Artist, poet, programmer, dreamer, and crossdressing bondage kitty
------------------When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities. -Matt Groening, Life In Hell"Pope John Paul today confirmed his opposition to gay marriages. Said that they are unnatiral. Gay marriages are unnatural. Then he put on a pointy hat, his dress, and returned to never having sex at all." -- Bill Maher, Politically Incorrect
My brother is very feminine in appearance, and I am often mistaken for a boy. When he was a baby, he was still mistaken for female most of the time: People would come up and tell my mom "Oh what a beautiful little girl!" and to me "You must big such a proud big brother!"
------------------Everyone Dies- But not everybody truely lives
he decided that the red was too bright to be a boy's fleece... (hello!?!?! red is SUPPOSED to be bright... or else is called faided...) he said, "bright colors are what girls wear." so i replyed, "i know plenty of guys that wear bright colors: red, orange, yellow..." he just mumbled something and walked away... prob something about me talking back, but whatever.
he annoys me to no end with that! he's completely homophobic... my brother is practically forbidden from anything that is the slightest bit feminine. i have sheets with cartoon characters on them; i dont want to use them because i'm 16... i used them when i was around 8. my father refused to put them on my brother's bed becasue the little mermaid was on one of them.
i thought to myself, "yes... because his bed sheets will determine his sexual preference..." but if i said anything he'll give me a loooong speech about talking back, going against what he says, that people who are gay are this or that, blah blah blah... grrrr it annoys me so much!
------------------dont worrie b happie... its like a law! =)
hunt for clothes NOT for animals. =)
A thought on why it's considered feminine - many floral depictions are pink, so it got associated with femininity? Though that may be a chicken-and-the-egg problem - if the world had worked out differently, we might have had blue floral patterns on girls' bedrooms.


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Charles Arlinghaus: Expanding dental care by reducing regulationsBY CHARLES ARLINGHAUS
November 05. 2013 4:26PM
There are some dental services that the government will allow only dentists to do that could be performed efficiently and less expensively by less advanced dental professionals. While virtually everyone in dentistry agrees with that assessment, they disagree quite a bit over which services should be restricted and which opened to more providers. They also disagree on whether the more open market should be limited to certain counties, and whether the protection of current business models is a good excuse for government restrictions.
The Legislature is considering a bill to create a middle level of practice somewhere between the more advanced dentist and the less advanced dental hygienist. The exact scope of practice of a hygienist differs from state to state. New Hampshire's hygienists have more responsibilities than those in some others states, but they are not allowed to practice independently.
Generally speaking, in almost every state hygienists push for more independence and the ability to do more things. They are almost always opposed by dentists, who would quite naturally prefer that many things be limited strictly to those licensed as dentists. This is the natural economic interest of most health providers. You are generally opposed to others being allowed to encroach on your turf.
The proposal is more complicated than allowing hygienists to also fill cavities. Following an example in Minnesota, legislators would create a new category of provider halfway between the requirements for hygienists and those for dentists. Minnesota calls its mid-level job a dental therapist. In New Hampshire, the title would be hygienist-practitioner, but the job would be very different from a current hygienist.
The name is meant to evoke the now-accepted but formerly controversial term "nurse practitioner." At one time, many doctors opposed allowing nurse practitioners to prescribe medicine or do some of the less complicated things that had been limited to just licensed doctors.
But nurses won the battle to create a more advanced middle level of service. Today, most of us have been to see a nurse practitioner at one time or another. For most things, it's just like seeing a doctor. But for some more complicated things you probably want to see the M.D.
Advocates for the new dental category are focused on access to care and the supposed inadequacy of the network of dentists in New Hampshire. I think that is short-sighted. If the only reason to allow a mid-level of practice is because of shortages here or there, the government would have to get in the business of estimating dental business capacity, deciding on appropriate length of travel, and deciding on whether transportation subsidies are a good business decision.
The whole proposal could be mooted by deciding if the recently created public health hygienist effectively obviates the government's planning needs.
If, on the other hand, some procedures like filling basic cavities are perfectly appropriate to be performed by a professional with a middle level of training, there would be no need to limit the geographic practice area of that professional. The government effectively would be deciding whether a licensing monopoly for cavity work, for example, was justified.
What we know today is that everyone involved in dentistry agrees that there are services that we limit today to dentists that we don't need to. Even dentists have suggested expanding the number of things that other professionals can do. The disagreement is over where to draw the line. Quite naturally, given the potential impact on their business, dentists have a more limited view of what services should be opened to competition.
The dentist will want to agree to have today's hygienists do just a few more things than they do today, but not many and only in limited circumstances. This is essentially the newly established public health hygienist. They are also generally opposed to hygienists or other professionals working independently.
For policymakers, barriers on the provision of service should be avoided whenever possible. If a service can be provided safely, but less expensively with a somewhat less advanced credential, that barrier to care should be eliminated. That the more expensive option has unused capacity is not a reason to avoid less expensive care.
The only good excuse for erecting licensing barriers is safety. But today we all agree that many more advanced services could be safely provided by a mid-level professional. The Legislature can and should create a new mid-level practice and should limit its scope only through safety concerns not by geography or practice protection.
Charles M. Arlinghaus is president of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, a free-market think tank in Concord.


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"Static" feeling when spirit present?
Posted 13 February 2009 - 11:34 AM
Does anyone else feel what I can only describe as "static" when a spirit is present? It's as if the air immediately around me changes, and I don't actually feel any buzzing or vibration or tingling, and I can't *hear* anything, but that's the closest thing I can think of to describe it.
Does that make sense to anyone?
Posted 13 February 2009 - 11:38 AM
What about you? How long does it last?
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Posted 13 February 2009 - 11:47 AM
For me, I feel vibrating more than anything, but the vibration feels like it comes from within me, not on my skin. I also get a 'whoosh-whoosh' sound or ringing in my ears. It has been a long time since I have had a confirmed contact with a spirit, though.
My guess it that either all of these things happen to us, be we are only sensitive to some of them, or that we just get different pysiological effects to the same thing, or (lol) different spirits have different effects. I have only encountered a few, so I am not an experienced medium that sees them all over the place.
Posted 13 February 2009 - 11:50 AM
I guess everyone senses things differently, but it's so hard to know what's real and what's just my brain making up stuff sometimes.
Posted 13 February 2009 - 11:54 AM
Have you had confirmed contact with a spirit when this happens, or do you just feel it and attribute it to a spirit?
The answer doesn't really tell anything, but could be the source of your doubting yourself.
Posted 13 February 2009 - 12:51 PM
It's one particular spirit only that this happens with, rather than it happening randomly.
But because I never heard anyone else describe the sensation of buzzing/charged air, I didn't know if that was something others had experienced.
Posted 13 February 2009 - 09:24 PM
Tonight I picked up my tarot cards for the first time in months. In the moment I took them out of their protective bag and into my hands my entire body tingled from head to foot. I then did a reading for my daughter and it was right on track. She's psychic as well but we can't read for ourselves.
I only feel queazy in my stomach if something bad or negative is around. I will also feel a heaviness in my chest when there is negative energy in a space but not necessarily a spirit.
Hope that helps.
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Posted 13 February 2009 - 11:29 PM
I have never experienced the sensations created by a spirit that is actually in the room, but I have read they can vary from tingling to cold chills to a heavy feeling in the air. Ringing in the ears sometimes occurs too. Not sure if that helped...
Posted 13 February 2009 - 11:36 PM
I get tingles on my fingertips Orphic, when I pick out the right crystal for me, or like I said above when I pick up my tarot cards and it is the right time to do a reading for someone.
Posted 14 February 2009 - 03:28 AM
I should ask my guide/guides if they are doing this weird sparkly ringing thing. I know I have no psychic abilities (I don't count making street lights turn off), so I'm not sure what to think. The sparkles are kind of trippy, though.
Posted 14 February 2009 - 08:32 AM
The realistic side of me says you should tell your doctor about those experiences. Ringing ears and sparklies in your vision could mean all kinds of health problems ranging from abnormal pressure on the brain, epilepsy, migraines, drug reactions, etc...
Get a doctor's opinion first, and then consider the paranormal.
Posted 14 February 2009 - 10:25 AM
I get occasional ringing in my ears for no reason...I don't think it's tinnitus since it's so infrequent, but when I do hear it, it sounds like one of those "this is just a test" television commercials with the minute-long beep. I also have what people seem to call a "migraine aura"...basically, once in a while I will see what look like sparkles in my field of vision. I don't know if any of this weirdness is due to spirit activity or not. I've had both these things happening for a while and if they haven't killed me yet, I imagine they are not harmful.
I should ask my guide/guides if they are doing this weird sparkly ringing thing. I know I have no psychic abilities (I don't count making street lights turn off), so I'm not sure what to think. The sparkles are kind of trippy, though.
Orphic, I have to agree with Retro--tell your doctor about this stuff. The sparkles in your field of vision could just be what they call "floaters" that are perfectly normal to get every so often, but you should get your eyes checked anyway, to make sure there's nothing funky happening with your retinas.
The ringing could be just due to your hearing the blood rushing through the vessels near your ears--a lot of people can hear that, even if they just hear it once in a while. But it's probably best to just get a checkup anyway.
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DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Fast-food chain Wendy's Co. is changing the way it treats chickens and pigs used in its food in an effort to be more humane.
The company's animal welfare council announced Friday that one of its chicken suppliers has started using a low-atmospheric pressure system that renders the chickens unconscious before the birds are handled by plant workers. The process is criticized by some animal welfare groups, but replaces the industry standard practice of stunning chickens with electricity.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (May 12, 2006) -- The ETSU women's tennis team made history Friday, playing in the team's first-ever NCAA Championship match. However, 12th-ranked Vanderbilt did not let the Lady Bucs bask too long in their postseason glory, defeating ETSU 4-0 and ending what was a record-setting 2005-06 season.
But the Lady Bucs did not go without leaving an impression, fighting throughout a match that which lasted nearly two and a half hours. Head coach Steve Brooks said he didn't know what to expect from his team in their first trip to the NCAAs, but he was pleasantly surprised with their competitiveness and fight.
"After the match Vanderbilt's coach came over and told me that in his 20 years this was the toughest first round match he has had," Brooks said. "I think that is a great compliment to the girls and it sums up the day. We played hard and really gave them a battle."
Since winning the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship back on April 14, the Lady Bucs struggled to overcome the four-week hiatus from play and some early jitters led to early deficits in both doubles and singles action. In the end, Vanderbilt took advantage by winning the doubles point thanks to Amanda Fish and Taka Bertrand's 8-2 win over ETSU's Masha Ilina (
The Commodores then took wins in three singles matches to put away the victory. Bertrand def. Batsula, 6-2, 6-4,
"It hurt us not playing before the NCAAs and having four weeks off, especially in doubles you could see it," Brooks said. "The wind was also an issue today. As a team, we were not as quick as you need to be and we lost a lot of opportunities because the ball was moving around so much."
Despite the loss, Brooks had something positive to say about the entire team.
"Masha really came out strong in singles and I think she gave them some trouble," he said. "Elena's match was a lot closer than it appears, Olya overcame a really slow start to play well, Sylvia played great in doubles,
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The Lady Bucs will certainly return a strong group next year. Despite the losses of Ziolkowska and Knight, the team returns players like Ilina, the A-Sun Player of the Year, and Byrne, the A-Sun Freshman of the Year, to go along with Batsula, Volobueva, and freshman Vita Moskaliova.
Keep up with ETSU women's tennis throughout the summer months and into the 2006-07 season by visiting ETSUBucs.com.
Vanderbilt 4, ETSU 0
No. 1 -Masha Ilina (ETSU) vs. Amanda Fish, 5-7, 3-4 (DNF)
No. 2 - Taka Bertrand (Vandy) def. Olya Batsula, 6-2, 6-4
No. 3 - Amanda Taylor (Vandy) def. Elena Volobueva, 6-1, 6-1
No. 4 - Sandie Knight (ETSU) vs. Courtney Ulery, 6-2, 3-5 (DNF)
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No. 6 - Maggie Yahner (Vandy) def. Sylwia Ziolkowska, 6-2, 6-3
Bertrand/Fish (Vandy) def. Ziolkowska/Ilina, 8-2
Taylor/Ferrell (Vandy) def. Batsula/Byrne, 8-5
Volobueva/Knight (ETSU) vs. Ulery/Sveke, 4-7 (DNF)


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A proposal to award $10.75 million to a Sunrise man who was permanently injured by a speeding cop 14 years ago could be fast-tracked to the governor's desk after a new agreement to eliminate all fees associated with the claim.
An internal squabble between the lawyer representing Eric Brody and his former employer is behind the sudden decision to scrap all fees.
"By declining all fees it will make sure that Eric doesn't have to pay $1 million to a bunch of rich lawyers that never did anything" on the case, said Lance Block, Brody's attorney. Block said his former employer, West Palm Beach law firm of Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley hired a lobbyist to try and collect part of the $10.75 million payment.
The role of lobbyists in the claims bill process has been decried by lawmakers, and threatened to kill the claims bill for Brody this year.
The House and the Senate both arrived at a $10.75 million payment for Eric Brody, but the two chambers have been miles apart on how much they would allow Brody's lobbyists and attorneys to collect in fees.
Brody has been wheelchair-bound since 1998, after a speeding Broward County Sheriff's deputy plowed into the car he was driving, causing severe brain injury. His family has been traveling to Tallahassee for the past four years, trying to collect a $30.9 million jury award. Each year, the Legislature has ended its session without passing a claims bill for Brody
Last year, the legislative session ended in chaos after disagreements between the House and Senate over how to pay the claim for Brody, and wrongly convicted Brevard County man named William Dillon.
This year, the House originally capped fees on claims bills at $400,000, while the Senate allowed for 25 percent of the total to go to the fees. A compromise from the House would change the language to exempt attorneys that worked on the original civil case from fee caps. That prompted Block to offer to scrap all fees, in effect blocking his former law firm from claiming costs it may have spent on the civil case.
"I want to get paid," Block said earlier this week when the Brody claims bill passed the House on a 107-7 vote. "But the most important thing is to take care of Eric."
Block, who has advocated for Brody for the last 14 years, is now opting to take a pro-bono stance as the multi-million-dollar payment comes closer to becoming reality.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fort Walton Beach, is backing an amendment to the claims bill that would eliminate all fees associated with the claim.
"The lobbyist and lawyers in the case they believe that the amount of fees and where the fees go to has been the basis for the bill bouncing back and forth between the House and the Senate," said Gaetz. "And they'd rather wave all their fees and cost to make sure Eric Brody is properly compensated."
Block, veteran lobbyist Brian Ballard and the Searcy law firm (where Block was a partner when he represented Brody in a jury trial), would receive no payment for their participation if the amendment is approved.
Block now works for his own firm. His move to scrap all fees on the Brody claim could leave his former law firm out in the dark.
"I'd rather save Eric the $1 million," said Block. " I can walk, I can talk, I can get up and work every day –- and Eric can't. I'd rather see him get the $1 million than it go to some West Palm Beach law firm that didn't do any work on the case."
The bill, a top priority of Senate President Mike Haridolopos, is set for a vote in the Florida House on Thursday or Friday.


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Malinda "Mindy" Lapan, age 42, of Clinton passed away unexpectedly at her home Saturday, May 10, 2014.
Malinda "Mindy" Lapan, age 42, of Clinton passed away unexpectedly at her home Saturday, May 10, 2014.
She was born Nov. 2, 1971, in Toledo, Ohio, the daughter of Clifford and Lana (Matney) Shively.
Mindy worked as a surgical technician at Flower Hospital in Toledo and as a substitute teacher. Mindy was very spiritual and was a grateful member of Alcoholics Anonymous. As a young girl, she was active in Girl Scouts, tap dance and gymnastics. She was a 1990 graduate of Bedford High School where she was active in student council and was a cheerleader for the school wrestling team.
Mindy is survived by her dad, Clifford Shively of Peoria, Ariz.; mom, Lana Shively of Temperance,; her fiancé, Brian Gilmore of Clinton; her children, Charlie and Bailey Lapan of Thompsonville, Mich., and Mark Rogers of Toledo, Ohio; and her sister, Tina Zink of Toledo, Ohio. Her maternal and paternal grandparents preceded her in death.
Visitation for Mindy will be from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 15, 2014, at the Clinton Chapel of Handler Funeral Homes, 302 N. Jackson St., Clinton. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, May 16, at the United Church of Christ, 300 Tecumseh Road, Clinton, with the Rev. Diane White officiating. Mindy will lie in state from 10 a.m. until the time of services. Interment will follow at Riverside Cemetery, Clinton.
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Models need to be compiled before they can be used in a game. There are three components of a compile:
Assuming that your source files have exported OK from your favorite 3D modeling software, the only step you need to take before compiling is choosing the current VPROJECT . This defines where studiomdl will write out the compiled model. You can configure the value:
Editing a QC file becomes much easier when you use an advanced text editor with support for syntax highlighting . There are two editors with QC highlighting rules at the moment:
A QC file is simply a text file with the extension
. You can create it anywhere and name it anything, but it's best to be organised and store it with your SMDs in a folder with the same name as the destination model file.
Inside it should be a list of commands that tell studiomdl about the location of the model's various SMDs, where the compiled files should be written to (relative to VPROJECT), how to process animations, and potentially much, much more. You will find all known commands listed at Category:QC Commands .
File locations
When a source file is referenced in your QC, the compiler will look for it in the same folder. You should therefore place all your source files for a given model in the same folder. There are, however, commands to tell the compiler that you want to give it a file that is not in the same folder as the QC!
Here is a very simple QC file for a solid model without any animation or special properties (click on each command for details):
You should be able to use this as a template to compile your own model, so swap in your own SMDs (of DMXes, or FBXes) and see what happens.
The easiest way to compile a model is with the built-in launch features of advanced text editors.
If you can't (or don't want to) use an advanced text editor, you will be compiling QCs by dragging them onto studiomdl in Windows. You can find the executable file in
The process will be easier if you create a .cmd file somewhere more accessible to automate it. This is simply a renamed .txt file containing something like this:
Drop your QC file onto the CMD as you would studiomdl itself; it's essentially a shortcut to the executable.
Neutrophils leave the marrow storage compartment and enter the blood without reentry into the marrow. In the blood, two compartments are also present, the marginal compartment and the circulating compartment. Some neutrophils do not circulate freely (marginal compartment), but are adherent to the vascular surface, and these constitute approximately half of the total neutrophils in the blood compartment.
Neutrophils leave the blood pool in a random manner after 6-8 hours and enter the tissues, where they are destined for cellular action or death. Thus, if the process producing neutropenia is unknown, measurements of the blood neutrophil number, ANC, must often be supplemented by bone marrow examination to determine whether adequate production of neutrophils or increased destruction of neutrophils exists.
Sites and mechanisms that cause neutropenia can be restricted to any of the three compartments or their subcomponents: bone marrow (mitotic or mature storage pools); blood (circulating and marginal pools); or tissues (sequestration). For example, benign congenital neutropenias are associated with a decrease in only the pool of circulating neutrophils; affected individuals have entirely normal marrow pools, marginal blood pools, and tissue neutrophils.
Neutropenia can be caused by any of the following, alone or in combination:
Insufficient or injured bone marrow stem cells
Shifts in neutrophils from the circulating pool to the marginal blood or tissue pools
Increased destruction in the circulation
Intravascular stimulation of neutrophils by plasma-activated complement 5 (C5a) and endotoxin may cause increased margination along the vascular endothelium, decreasing the number of circulating neutrophils. Pseudoneutropenia refers to neutropenia caused by such increased margination. [, , , , ]
Disorders of the pluripotent myeloid stem cells and committed myeloid progenitor cells, which cause decreased neutrophil production, include some congenital forms of neutropenia, aplastic anemia , acute leukemia, and myelodysplastic syndromes . Other examples include bone marrow tumor infiltration, radiation, infection (especially viral), and bone marrow fibrosis. Cancer chemotherapy, other drugs, and toxins may damage hematopoietic precursors by directly affecting bone marrow.
The clinical sequelae of neutropenia usually manifests as infections, most commonly of the mucous membranes. Skin is the second most common infection site, manifesting as ulcers, abscesses, rashes, and delays in wound healing. The genitalia and perirectum are also affected. However, the usual clinical signs of infection, including local warmth and swelling, may be absent, as these require the presence of significant numbers of neutrophils. Fever, however, is often present, and its presence requires urgent attention in the setting of severe neutropenia.
Playback Technology refers to the specific browser or plugin technology used to play the video or audio. When using HTML5, the playback technology is the video or audio element. When using Flash, the playback technology is the specific Flash player used, e.g. Flowplayer, YouTube Player, video-js.swf, etc. (not just "Flash"). This could also include Silverlight, Quicktime, or any other plugin that will play back video in the browser, as long as there is an API wrapper written for it.
Essentially we're using HTML5 and plugins only as video decoders, and using HTML and JavaScript to create a consistent API and skinning experience across all of them.
We'll write a more complete guide on writing a wrapper soon, but for now the best resource is the Video.js source where you can see how both the HTML5 and video-js.swf API wrappers were created.
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When adding additional Tech to a video player, make sure to add the supported tech to the video object.
By default Video.js performs "Tech-first" ordering when it searches for a source/tech combination to play videos. This means that if you have two sources and two techs, video.js will try to play each video with the first tech in the
option property before moving on to try the next playback technology.
Tech-first ordering can present a problem if you have a
that supports both
techs such as videojs-contrib-hls.
For example, given the following video element:
There is a good chance that the mp4 source will be selected on platforms that do not have media source extensions. Video.js will try all sources against the first playback technology, in this case
, and select the first source that can play - in this case MP4.
In "Tech-first" mode, the tests run something like this: Can video.m3u8 play with Html5? No... Can video.mp4 play with Html5? Yes! Use the second source.
Video.js now provides another method of selecting the source - "Source-first" ordering. In this mode, Video.js tries the first source against every tech in
before moving onto the next source.
With a player setup as follows:
The Flash-based HLS support will be tried before falling back to the MP4 source.
In "Source-first" mode, the tests run something like this: Can video.m3u8 play with Html5? No... Can video.m3u8 play with Flash? Yes! Use the first source.
The Flash playback tech is a part of the default
. You may notice undesirable playback behavior in browsers that are subject to using this playback tech, in particular when scrubbing and seeking within a video. This behavior is a result of Flash's progressive video playback.
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Fairly simple, self administered tool, needs relatively less time.
Improvement Triggers provides a collection of questions which can be used to help you look at your work a bit differently. Inspired by the tool 'SCAMPER' (Eberle B. 1997), these questions are designed to provoke you into new ways of thinking, and are structured in a way that lets you approach either your existing offering or a potential new solution you are developing from a number of directions. This is a great way to make your work stronger, working especially well in areas where lots of competing solutions are already available.
The questions in this tool assume that anything new is a modification of something that already exists. This might not always be strictly true, but approaching your work from this perspective can very be useful when you're trying to articulate how what you're doing is different from anyone else (or how it builds on what's gone before).
Each of the questions on the worksheet should give a slightly different perspective on your work. Note your answers in the space provided, but try to keep it brief – the idea is to end up with something that will give you a concise overview of how your work is different, and how you could potentially improve it.
The questions on this worksheet are just examples to trigger your thinking. Many other questions may be relevant as well. The key is to use the seven categories of questions to provoke your thoughts on potential improvements.
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