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July 28, 1925. Washington, D.C. "Undelivered mail of World War soldiers (crucifix in bottle)." National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.
"Woman in automobile circa 1915." From of a series of pictures showing National Photo owner Herbert E. French and friends on motor excursions in the D.C. area. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
July 18, 1925. Laurel, Maryland. "R.J. O'Connor, inter-city championship bicycle races, Laurel Speedway." National Photo Co. glass negative. View full size.
Washington, D.C., or vicinity, 1906. "Boys school baseball '06." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative, Library of Congress. View full size.
February 5, 1865. "Abraham Lincoln, seated, holding spectacles and a pencil." Glass transparency; photograph by Alexander Gardner. View full size.
April 3, 1917. Oklahoma City. "Workshop of Sanitary Ice Cream Cone Co., 116 S. Dewey Street. Boys packing cones are John Myers, 14 years old, and a boy 12 years old who is working steady now. Boss said: 'He said he wasn't going to school so I took him.' " Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1908. "Mrs. F.S. Bliven in auto." Husband Frank, who worked for Cook & Stoddard, the local Franklin automobile agency, made the newspapers for driving 35 miles with a broken steering knuckle. View full size.
October 1935. "Advertisements for popular malaria cure. Natchez, Mississippi." Photo by Ben Shahn for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.


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Malaria kills between one million and three million people in sub-Saharan Africa every year, most of them children. Disease outbreaks, which also include meningitis and dengue, have only recently been linked to variations in rainfall: more rain or drought can bring harsher epidemics. Using this understanding, scientists at Columbia University's International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) several years ago piloted an early-warning system to forecast where the most devastating outbreaks will likely occur. Already the system has helped reduce cases of malaria in countries such as Botswana, Colombia and Senegal.
Now the IRI has received $900,000 from Google.org to map emerging diseases in East Africa, focusing first on Ethiopia where almost two thirds of the population lives in epidemic-prone regions. By tracking where outbreaks frequently recur and overlaying predictions about rainfall patterns for the upcoming season, scientists can determine where the worst epidemics may be and give local people sufficient time to distribute antimosquito bed nets, initiate spray campaigns, and provide drugs and vaccines.
Predicting weather patterns will never be 100 percent accurate, says Stephen Zebiak, director of IRI. Mapping hotspots, however, can help reduce the spread of these killers and save countless lives.
Note: This article was originally printed with the title, "Forecasting Malaria".

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Hierarchical data is hardly a new phenomenon in the database world. Tables can contain data that defines a parent-child relationship, such as that between managers and employees in the Employees table. Hierarchical data within a table is defined by a primary key-foreign key relationship. In the Employees table, for example, the table's primary key, Employee_Id, has a foreign key relationship with the Reporting_Manager_Id column, creating a parent-child relationship between one employee and another employee, a manager. The hierarchy is from the top-most manager, such as the company president or CEO, to the lowest ranking employees— those who have no reports. Hierarchical relationships are also common between tables, as with the Orders (parent) and Order Details (child) tables.
Although hierarchical data isn't new, reporting on such data has always been a challenge because developers usually have to create a self-join of the data in a parentchild relationship to output the information in hierarchical form. However, thanks to Visual Studio (VS) 2005's new built-in support for Crystal Reports, reporting on hierarchical data has never been easier. To illustrate the new reporting capabilities, let's develop a report against hierarchical data within a table by using Crystal Reports, which has been part of VS 2005 since the first release of the .NET integrated development environment (IDE). In five easy steps, you'll create a Windows Application project to host the report, add the Crystal Report Viewer control to display the report, connect to Microsoft's sample SQL Server 2005 AdventureWorks database and create a DataSet data source, add a report to the Windows Application project, and include the C# code for the form. To work through the example, you need a basic understanding of VS 2005 and Crystal Reports. You should also be familiar with C#, T-SQL, and ADO .NET. Let's get started.
Step 1: Create a Project
If VS 2005 isn't already started, you can launch the IDE by clicking Start, All Programs, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and then clicking the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 icon. Now, follow these steps to create a Windows Application Project, which gives you the Windows Forms client that will host the report:
- Click File, New, Project (or press Ctrl+Shift+N).
- From the resulting New Project dialog box, select the Visual C# node under Project types, then select the Windows project type.
- In the Templates pane, select Windows Application.
- Provide a name and storage location for the application. I called the sample project HierarchicalReport, and saved it to C:\articles. You can store the application files anywhere you'd like.
- Click OK, and VS 2005 will create a new project, adding Form1 to it as the default.
Next, set Form1's Text and Size properties, as Table 1 shows. To access these properties, select inside the Form1 design surface, then find the properties inside the properties window, typically located in the lower right corner of the IDE. (If you don't see the properties window, use the View menu or press F4 to make it visible inside the IDE.)
Step 2: Add the CrystalReportViewer Control
You need to use the CrystalReportViewer (CRV) control to display the report to users. CRV not only previews the output for users, it also lets them generate the report in various popular formats, including PDF, Microsoft Excel, and so on. Users can also print a hard copy of the report while viewing the output.
To add CRV to Form1, first make sure Form1 is open in the designer. Select ToolBox, CrystalReports, then drag and drop CrystalReportViewer on Form1. (If the Toolbox isn't visible, press Ctrl+Alt+X.) This process creates a new instance of CRV named Crystal- ReportViewer1 by default; you can rename it if you want. Your project should now look like the sample in Figure 1.
Step 3: Add a DataSet
You can get data to a CRV in several different ways, including directly connecting to a DataTable or executing a stored procedure. In this example, I use a DataSet with a DataTable to demonstrate how to use DataSets with Crystal Reports. To add a DataSet to the project, select Add, New Item, DataSet from Solution Explorer. Change the name of the DataSet from DataSet1 to dsEmployee, then click Add. If the wizard asks you to create a TableAdapter, cancel the TableAdapter Configuration Wizard; you'll add a DataTable by using the DataSet Designer instead.
You're now ready to add a Data- Table to your newly created DataSet. A DataTable, which is essential to loading the report data, gathers the data from your data source and stores it for use in your report. You'll use the information from the DataSet and DataTable while designing the report. To add a DataTable to the dsEmployee DataSet, double-click dsEmployee from Solution Explorer to open the DataSet in the designer view. Right-click the designer surface, then select Add, DataTable. Click the header and change the Data- Table name to dtEmployee.
To add columns to the dtEmployee DataTable, rightclick dtEmployee and select Add, Column. When you add a column, the default data type is a string. But you can change a column's data type from the properties window after you insert the column. For this example, add the following columns and data types to the DataTable: EmployeeName (String), ManagerID (Int32), EmployeeID (Int32).
Step 4: Add a Report
So far, you've created the Windows Application project, added a CRV control to the form, and added a DataSet to the project. Now, it's time to add a report. First, select Add, New Item, Crystal Report from Solution Explorer. In the Add dialog box, change the report's name from CrystalReport1.rpt to rptHierarchical.rpt, and then click Add. From the resulting Crystal Reports Gallery, select the As a Blank Report option, then click OK.
By default, rptHierarchical.rpt is open in designer mode with default settings. This example uses only the Page Header, Details, and Page Footer sections, so you can reduce the height of the Report Header and Report Footer sections. Your report designer should look similar to the one in Figure 2.
Adding a report to a project is easy. The challenge is defining the report layout. Drawing a prototype of your report on paper before starting the design process is a good idea. Typically, you design reports with a specific page size and layout in mind. The sample report is letter size and in portrait-mode layout. You can explore various properties attached to the report layout by right-clicking anywhere on the open designer surface (gray area) and selecting Report and Design Properties.
Whether this is your first report or you're a reporting junkie, you need to understand the basic building blocks of report writing—the header, detail, and footer. Figure 3 shows the sample report in runtime mode. It features the report name and date in the header section, employee information in the details section, and page number in the footer. Let's look at each of these sections.Continued on Page 2.
Header section. For this report, the header consists of five text objects, two line objects, and one special field. You drag and drop the text (e.g., Hierarchical Employee List) and line objects from the Toolbox window's Crystal Reports section designer surface. Then, from the Field Explorer, which opens automatically when you open the report in the designer, you drag and drop the Print Date special field to the report. I changed the colors and fonts after placing the report objects on the designer surface. Your header should look similar to the one in Figure 4.
Footer section. The footer contains only one special field and one line object, as Figure 4 shows. From the Field Explorer window's Special Fields section, just drag and drop the Page N of M special field onto the designer surface.
Details section. The Details section of the report contains the hierarchical employee list data. You use the DataSet that you added to the project earlier in the article as the source of data for the report. To add a DataSet as the data source for a report, just follow these steps:
- Right-click any open area on the Report Designer, then from the context menu, select Database, Database Expert.
- From the resulting Database Expert dialog box, click Project Data and expand the ADO.NET DataSets node.
- Select the dtEmployee DataTable from the DataSet, click the greater than (>) button to move the Data-Table to the Selected Tables section, and click OK.
Selecting the data source adds the columns from the DataTable into the Field Explorer window. After the fields are in the window, you can simply drag and drop them into the report designer. For this report, you drag EmployeeName into the designer's Details section. As you drag and drop the fields inside the Details section, you'll see that the field/column title is added to the report designer's Page Header. Because you already designed the Page Header, just delete these field headers.
Although the report design looks complete, you still need to add the report's hierarchical functionality. As you can see in Figure 3, all employee names should form a hierarchy based on their ManagerID association. To create a hierarchy, you need to create a grouping on EmployeeID. To add a group to a report, right-click in any open space on the designer, and from the context menu, select Insert, Group. From the resulting Hierarchical Group Options dialog box, select EmployeeID, which creates a group with its own header and footer. Delete the Group Header's default contents and adjust the height of the Group Header and Group Footer to hide them, as you did with the Report Header and Report Footer sections earlier.
After you define the EmployeeID group, you can define the hierarchical relationship by using ManagerID. Right-click in the report designer surface, then from the context menu, select Report, Hierarchical Grouping Options. From the Hierarchical Group Options dialog box, which Figure 5 shows, select the Sort Data Hierarchically check box, select ManagerID from the Parent ID Field list box, and click OK.
Step 5: Add the C# Interface Code
The last step is to add the C# code behind Form1.cs. Web Listing 1 shows the simple code to generate the report. The code starts by establishing the connection to the SQL Server database using integrated security. You can change the connection string if you're using SQL Server user ID and password credentials.
The code then uses SQLCommand to create the SQL SELECT statement that populates the DataSet with data. The SQL statement combines FirstName and LastName from the Person.Contact table, then selects the employee title from the HumanResources.Employee table. I use an inner join to join the data from these two tables, using ContactID as the key.
Next, the code calls the ExecuteReader() method, which uses a data reader to collect the data. Note that with ADO.NET 2.0, you can directly load the data from the data reader to the DataSet by calling the Load() method, as I did here. The code then sets the DataSet as the source for the report and assigns the report to the CrystalReport-Viewer control.
Build and Run the Example
You can now build the reporting project by clicking the small green Play button on the main toolbox or pressing F5. Either option will build the application and start it running in debug mode. (If you get a compile error, check for invalid characters.)
As you've seen, with some simple C# code and the built-in Crystal Reports features in VS, you can easily present hierarchical data in your reports. The key is using Crystal Reports' Hierarchical Group Option in report designer and specifying the key to create the hierarchy. In this case, it was the ManagerID-EmployeeID primary key-foreign key relationship. Without Crystal Reports, you first would have had to create a self-join query to retrieve the data, followed by padding spaces from the left to mimic the indented output of hierarchical data.


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"I wanna be back to Apanemo!"
Lookig for a reasonably-priced hotel in Santorini? Well then look no further! First of all, Apanemo's price/value ratio is unbeatable. Secondly, the location is lovely, with a birds view of the caldera and surrounding fields. Third, Spiros` hospitality and service are among the best I have found. 's " —Stayed July 2011, traveled as a couple, Jose A Maidenhead, United Kingdom
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Amazing hotel with the best views over the ocean. The owner personally picked up us at the airport, so our first impression couldn't be better. The hotel is in a very quiet area, perfect for a relaxing holiday. Nice super clean rooms, not too big, not too small and well furnished, private balcony, but seriously the best are the views! The swimming pool is amazing with a very clear water. We stayed for 1 week and didn't want to leave.
We had the vacation of our lives. We will for sure be back next year. Thanks all the staff for making our stay unforgettable! " —Stayed August 2011, traveled as a couple, Bruges, Belgium
"Amazing scenery, nice place, decent location"
Unfortunately the hotel wasn't able to pick us up at the port when we arrived, and the taxi ride wasnt particularly cheap. From then on, it was great. The hotel site is spectacular, with gorgeous views. We had a great room, with privacy, our own lovely balcony, and a fantastic view. The owner recommended a nice restaurant nearby, where we had a lovely dinner with friendly service while we watched the world-famous Santorini sunset. It wasn't close to Fira or Oia, but there's a bus service fairly close by that quickly and cheaply gets you to either city to explore and wander. The only drawback to that mode of transport is that the walk back to the hotel from the bus would be a bit tricky in dark, as it's a windy steep path and not marked, so we felt like we had to get back before dark (although we could have taken a taxi).
The breakfast at the hotel was quite nice, and even though it was fullly booked while we were there (with a large group from Germany) I didn't feel lost in the shuffle or ignored at all. Happily they were able to take us to the airport when it was time to leave, and we enjoyed our stay. I would definitely recommend this hotel for an inexpensive way to see Santorini, and if/ when Akrotiri opens, it will be a fantastic spot! " —Stayed May 2011, traveled as a couple, Waterloo, Canada


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Date: Mar 25 2015
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The bionic phone and cellular upgrades
A rumor is allegedly circulating in the scientific community that we are on the brink of a long awaited event in the evolution of human physiology. Possibly, in the next generation, humans will grow an extra appendage designed to accommodate the bionic phone.
In as few as three generations, the bionic phone will be standard equipment on most newborns in urban areas. That is how dependent we are on this seemingly convenient bit of technology. I did not make this up. It was on the Internet under the heading of "What will they think of next" on a sci-fi Web site.
I came to discover this little known bit of information while I was searching for guidance on how to buy a cell phone.
Yes, it's that time again. Two years have gone by in a flash and my cell phone contract is up. I knew this because I started receiving upwards of 2,000 e-mails a day from various cell phone providers trying to entice me to get the latest and greatest technology the world has ever experienced.
Apparently, all of them have access to it. They just call it by different names. And all of them claim exclusivity to whatever the latest technology is.
I wouldn't know because I have yet to learn the earliest technology. Just last week I figured out how to access e-mail on my cell phone that I've had for two years. Now I have to turn this phone in and get acquainted with a new model that I know nothing about.
The manual for my Blackberry is printed with a smaller font than most Bibles and is about twice as long. I read it as often as possible. Now that I am on Page 10 and starting to feel comfortable, they want me to upgrade to who knows what.
My first thoughts were: "I don't need this kind of shabby treatment. I'm going to look elsewhere." Bad mistake.
There are Web sites on the Internet that are designed specifi cally to help anyone in need of a cell phone. Unfortunately, not one of the sites says that you need a graduate degree in communications and interstellar electronics to understand what they are attempting to tell you.
For instance, wireless carriers in the USA operate over two different networks: Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM). Huh? Apparently, this is significant. You can't take a CDMA phone and use it on GSM or vice versa.
What this means to us neophytes in the world of higher technology is that if you are in Kahoolawe, you might have diffi culty connecting to someone floating down the Zambezi River. This is causing me serious concern.
If the aforementioned is true, we should all have two phones— one for each system. I cannot imagine being out of touch because I bought a phone that uses the wrong network.
After you pick a network, you need a provider. There is a graph on the Internet that will tell you the areas where each provider is strong or weak. The downside is that a provider that offers a strong signal in New England might have weak data transfer in the same area.
If you manage to clear the maze of networks and providers, you must now pick a plan. Plans are tailor made for the individual with closer tolerances to an exact fit than for pistons in an Indy carracing machine. They will ask you questions about your lifestyle that you wouldn't discuss with your priest or attorney.
Do you use the phone primarily for business or pleasure? How much do you text? Do you want to communicate with your home computer, send or receive photos or video, watch movies, stream TV, make international calls, video conference, and the list goes on ad nauseam.
Now comes the toughest part. I know, how could there be a tougher part, you ask? After you address all of these issues—you still have to pick a phone.
There are as many configurations of cell phones as there are questions about which one is best.
According to my calculations, to be completely covered for CDMA and GSM, strong signal and data in all areas, and the right configuration of cell phone to fit your lifestyle—you need at least eight different cell phones.
Without doubt, cell phones are a major part of why we live in a system we can't understand.


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Dow breaks 17,000 following strong US job gains
July 3, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow Jones industrial average is trading above 17,000 for the first time after the U.S. government reported a big gain in hiring last month.
The government said early Thursday that employers added 288,000 workers in June, far more than economists were expecting.
The Dow was up 79 points, or 0.5 percent, to 17,055 as of noon Eastern time.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose seven points, or 0.4 percent, to 1,981. The Nasdaq composite gained 20 points, or 0.5 percent, to 4,478.
PetSmart jumped 13 percent, the most in the S&P 500 index, after the activist investor Jana Partners disclosed a 9.9 percent stake in the company.
Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.65 percent.


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Having a mystery speaker at the Republican National Convention was a nice touch for the delegates and for committed Republicans planning to view the convention at home, and many of us had fun guessing who that speaker would be. But surely the bigger priority for the Party was to maximize the television audience for Thursday night. Listing Clint Eastwood as a scheduled speaker would have served this objective better than the mystery speaker approach.
So why didn't the Republicans announce that Eastwood was to speak?
Maybe they weren't confident he would show up, and had a back-up in place. Maybe they were still negotiating the terms of his appearance, such as their ability to review his content in advance (if so, Eastwood seems to have out-negotiated them). Maybe they were negotiating with someone else and Eastwood was the back-up, although this strikes me as unlikely.
I can only speculate. Maybe some of our readers can do better.


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Census: Poverty problem lingers for state's children
Despite the continuing economic recovery, child poverty in Connecticut was no less of a problem last year than it had been a year earlier, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Since 2008, the number of children in the state living in poverty has risen 17 percent, Census information showed. More than one in seven children statewide, a total of 117,000, are now living in families whose incomes fall below the federal poverty level, a rate unchanged from one year ago.
"These numbers bode poorly not only for the children living in need, but also for the long-term economic health of our state," said Ellen Shemitz, executive director of Connecticut Voices for Children, an advocacy group for families. "To bend the curve in child poverty, we need to make strategic investments in programs and services that work."
The state's adult poverty rate also has been on the rise. While only 9.3 percent of adults fell under the federal poverty mark five years ago, the rate has risen to 10.7 percent in the latest numbers. That's a total of 372,000 adults.
Minority households are the hardest hit. Census figures show that about 25 percent of Hispanics and African-Americans are living in poverty in the state, compared with a rate of only 5.8 percent for white residents.
Connecticut's cities also have been at the fulcrum of the state's poverty problems. Though no statistics for local cities were available, child poverty rates in Bridgeport, Waterbury and New Haven were listed at or close to 40 percent, and Hartford recorded more than half its young population below the national poverty level.
Voices for Children pointed out that the state legislature in 2004 had set a goal of reducing child poverty by half within a decade. Instead, with only a year left to reach the goal of a 5 percent child-poverty rate, the state finds itself facing escalating problems, with 14.8 percent of children currently living in impoverished households.
The child-poverty rate in Connecticut, however, is still well under the national benchmark of 22.6 percent.
"Despite the belief that the economy is recovering, it's troubling to learn that poverty levels did not improve in Connecticut between 2011 and 2012," Mary Pat Healy, executive director of the Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition, said in a statement.
Declining household income has been part of the poverty story. Between 2008 and last year, median income in the state has declined by nearly $6,000, according to the latest Census.
Voices for Children, based in New Haven, said the state's relatively new Earned Income Tax Credit, which rewards low income working families, should help residents in need. The organization also suggested continued investments in early childhood education.
"These poverty estimates are a stark reminder that too many individuals and families are at or near the poverty level and need our help now more than ever," said Edith Pollock Karsky, executive director of the Connecticut Association for Community Action, in a statement.
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Men Are Instantly More Attractive to Women When They Wear a Plain White T-Shirt
Time to invest in some simple white t-shirts, guys.
That's right, the simplest piece of clothing you own is also the one that makes you the best looking.
A study out of England found when men wear a plain white t-shirt, women instantly rate them 12% more attractive than when they're wearing anything else.
And the more out-of-shape you are, the better the results. If you're in good shape already, the white t-shirt will only help a little, but if you're not, the white t-shirt is going to work like magic!
Apparently a plain white t-shirt makes men look like they have broader shoulders and smaller waists.
The study also found the least attractive thing you can wear is something that draws attention to your stomach - even if you're in good shape.
When men wore a t-shirt with a capital letter "T" on it, women found them attractive. But when that "T" was flipped upside-down - so the long part was across the stomach and not the chest - women found the guys much less attractive.
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The Ravens entered their third season in Baltimore with a new stadium and the hope of contending for a playoff spot. They finished the season not knowing which direction the franchise was headed.
Head coach Ted Marchibroda returned for his third season and was joined by first round draft pick Duane Starks (cornerback) and free-agent signee Rod Woodson (safety). The Ravens hoped the two defensive backs could help stabilize the erratic play in the secondary.
The team also acquired offensive help, trading for quarterback Jim Harbaugh and running back Errict Rhett. Harbaugh replaced the mistake-prone Vinny Testaverde, who signed as a free agent with the New York Jets while Rhett would be the team's workhorse out of the backfield.
The Ravens split their first four games of the season, losing to Pittsburgh 20-13 in the season opener before winning at the Jets. After a loss at Jacksonville, the Ravens bounced back to beat Cincinnati, 31-24.
The season then took a turn for the worse as the Ravens lost four straight games, putting their hopes of contending for the playoffs in serious jeopardy.
A home victory over the Raiders put the Ravens back on track as the team won three of its next four games.
Inconsistent play on both sides of the ball led to three consecutive losses that eliminated the Ravens from playoff contention, beginning with a 16-14 loss at Tennessee. The loss to Tennessee was the turning point as the Ravens had a chance to pull out a victory but were stopped on a fourth and one late in the game.
The Ravens struggled to play with any emotion in a 24-3 loss to the Chicago Bears in the second to last game of the season. Many felt it would take a disciplinarian-type of coach to command the respect of the young players for the franchise to move forward.
The Ravens finished the season 6-10 after a 19-10 home win over the Detroit Lions. Harbaugh and Rhett were both major disappointments. The quarterback struggled all season long with injuries to his throwing hand and elbow and was eventually replaced by Eric Zeier, who fared no better. Rhett carried the ball just 20 times after the first two games of the season. One bright spot was the emergence of Priest Holmes, who took over for Rhett and rushed for over 1,000 yards.
The offense was a huge disappointment, finishing 26th overall and dead last in first downs. In the previous two seasons the defense was horrible but the offense put points on the board to keep the Ravens in the game, only to make a mistake at a critical time. Now the Ravens were stuck with a defense that was still terrible and an offense that couldn't score.
The franchise's third straight losing season was too much. Marchibroda's contract was not renewed and a new regime was just around the corner.
Season Highlights
- RB Priest Holmes rushed for 227 yards in a 20-13 win at the Cincinnati Bengals.
- DE Michael McCrary recorded 14.5 sacks.
- S Rod Woodson intercepted six passes, two for touchdowns.
- Holmes had a team-leading 43 receptions.
- LB Peter Boulware, WR/RS Jermaine Lewis, LB Ray Lewis, McCrary, OT Jonathan Ogden and S Bennie Thompson were all selected to the Pro Bowl.
- The Ravens beat the Indianapolis Colts, 38-31, in their first visit to Baltimore since they left town in 1983.
- The Ravens and Minnesota Vikings set an NFL record with three kickoff returns for touchdowns, all in the first quarter.
- Jermaine Lewis returned two punts for touchdowns while Corey Harris returned one kickoff for a touchdown.
The Year in the NFL
- The Indianapolis Colts selected Tennessee Volunteers quarterback Peyton Manning with the first overall pick in the draft.
- Denver Broncos running back Terrell Davis rushed for over 2,000 yards.
- Colts running back Marshall Faulk led the NFL with 2,227 total yards.
- Broncos kicker Jason Elam set an NFL record with a 63-yard field goal.
- New England Patriots cornerback Ty Law led the league with nine interceptions.
- Green Bay Packers defensive end Reggie White averaged one sack per game.
- Vikings kicker Gary Anderson was a perfect 35 for 35 on field goal attempts.
- The Broncos won their second consecutive Super Bowl, defeating the upstart Atlanta Falcons.
- Packers quarterback Brett Favre led the NFC in both passing yards and interceptions.
- The Vikings finished the regular season 15-1, the best record in the NFL.
The Year in the World
- President Bill Clinton made history when he was the first sitting president to testify before a grand jury following the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
- Hurricane Mitch hit the Caribbean and Central America, leaving an estimated 10,000 people dead.
- Singer and actor Frank Sinatra died of a heart attack at age 82.
- John Glenn returned to space 36 years after he orbited the earth.
- Researchers successfully grew human stem cells from embryonic tissue in a laboratory.
- California Congressman and former entertainer Sonny Bono died in a ski accident. He was 63.
- Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken sat out a game for the first time since May 29, 1982, leaving his consecutive games record at 2,632.
- Legendary Chicago Cubs announcer Harry Caray died at age 77.
- St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire breaks Roger Maris' record of 61 home runs in a season by belting 70.


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The Dallas Cowboys game at Cowboys Stadium Sunday against the Cleveland Browns was a tale of two halves. Dallas was outscored 13-0 in the first half, and the team was booed by their fans most of the half. The offensive line could be described as offensive to the fans, as they could do nothing to thwart the rush of the Browns defense.
The Pokes came back with a fury in the second half, and took a 17-13 lead. Just when it appeared Dallas would win the game, they failed to pick up a first down and had to punt the ball away. After a long return, Cleveland scored and took a 20-17 lead. At that point, most Cowboys fans though what could have been a big win would turn into another blown opportunity. Fortunately, the 'Boys did just enough to get a game-tying field goal with two seconds left in regulation, and the score was tied 20-20, and overtime ensued.
Under new rules this year, BOTH teams get a possession of the ball UNLESS the team winning the coin toss scores a TD. Although both teams did manage a good-looking drive on their first possession, NEITHER was able to scratch the scoreboard.
Dallas then got the ball back and drove down the field, kicking the game-winning field goal with less than two minutes left in the OT period. The 23-20 win evens the Cowboys record at 5-5 with six games left in the regular season, and more importantly, keeps Dallas in the thick of the NFC East race, just one game behind the 6-4 New York Giants.
The Cowboys have little time to celebrate. They host the Washington Redskins Thursday afternoon in the annual Thanksgiving Day game. Washington comes into the fray on a high after a 31-6 win at home Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles. Robert Griffin, III had a perfect passer rating in the win, which moves the 'Skins to 4-6 on the year.
IF Dallas wants to remain in the playoff hunt, they definitely need to find a way to claw out another win. They play only one team with a winning record the last six games and four of those games are at Cowboys Stadium. The opportunity is there for them IF they can take advantage. Unfortunately, they have been in this position twice already this season and have failed to take advantage. Cowboy's fans will just have to hope the third time is the charm.


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Stocks end sharply lower after so-so economic news
U.S. stocks are closing sharply lower as lackluster news about the economy and declines in airline stocks weigh on the market.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell by more than 100 points for the second straight day on Thursday. It ended down 109 points, or 0.7 percent, to 16,734. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 13 points, also 0.7 percent, to 1,930. The Nasdaq dropped 34 points, or 0.8 percent, to 4,297.
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Barn swallow behaviour shift may be evolutionary
Most of our understanding about evolutionary changes and the formation of new animal species is based on the historical record. But a relatively new population of barn swallows in Argentina may help scientists see those changes firsthand.
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David Winkler, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and his collaborators say a new population of barn swallows near Buenos Aires, established only about 30 years ago, has adapted both its migration cycle and its breeding cycle in a dramatically short time.
The birds in this population have shortened their migrations by more than a third, traveling only to the equator for winter, then back down to Argentina to breed. The birds were tracked using software developed at Cornell.
"This population of barn swallows has dramatically changed its annual migration and its annual cycle, both recently. It raises questions about what mechanisms are behind changes in these characteristics," Winkler said. "Most biologists are conditioned to think that changes this extreme must be a result of some drastic change that necessitates adaptation, via natural selection over many generations, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. And when a change like this occurs so rapidly, we have to ask, how much of this could be changed by individuals in a single lifetime?"
Winkler and his colleagues have found evidence that some northern-born swallows are still migrating south and joining the new population to breed in Argentina, rather than returning north.
"There are certainly ecological differences between the northern and Argentine breeding grounds, which could select for genetic differences in the birds," Winkler said. "But immigrants from North America likely continue to bring in northern genes, slowing any sort of genetic selection on the Argentine population."
Nevertheless, the researchers speculate that the Argentine population could be a step toward a new subspecies of barn swallow. The mechanisms that are driving these barn swallows' migration behaviors and life cycle timing may be similar to those that drove skuas and terns in the past: Both are seabirds with far-northern and far-southern sister-species pairs.
"Rather than interpret this new swallow population as a mere oddity, this colonization may be the initial phase of an evolutionary process," Winkler said.
Likely the biggest factor that's made Argentina more inviting for barn swallows is the expansion of human infrastructure over the past 50 years, he said. Barn swallows make their nests under bridges, building eaves and, yes, in barns.
"Barn swallows have adapted to people for many, many hundreds of years," Winkler said. "Well over 99 percent of the nests of barn swallows are in some kind of human-made structure."
Winkler and his colleagues studied the swallows' migration by capturing individual birds and outfitting them with solar-geolocation loggers. They looped flexible polymer string around each bird's legs and up around its back, where a knot fastened with a dab of superglue kept the trackers in place.
The findings were published in Current Biology.
Author: Krisy Gashler | Source: Cornell University [March 17, 2017]
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Write a function called blackAndWhite that has as input argument the file name of an image file (example: bluefish.gif), then transforms the image in black and white and displays it. In order to create a black and white image, do:
1. Prepare the image file: (i.e open the image file and convert it into RGB representation)
2. Display the initial image
3. Loop over each pixel in the image (hint: you'll need a nested for loop) and compute the average of r, g, b. Next, update the pixel value with average.
4. Save the new image in a file called: filename_BW_mod.gif
5. Display the black and white image on screen
#below is what I have so far in my code. I think I generally understand steps 1,2,4 and 5 but not really #3
def blackandwhite(filename) myImage = Image.open(filename) myImage = myImage.convert('RGB') myImage.show() # in here I am trying to figure out the nested loop and how to start it newfilename = filename[:-4] newfilename = newfilename + "_BW_mod.gif" myImage.save(newfilename) myImage.show(newfilename)
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Highland Beach feels effects of neighboring Rocky Pt.
As Ed McDonough recalls, Highland Beach has always been a "sleepy little hamlet," but that has been changing ever since the city opened the Rocky Point shoreline, and it promises to even change more, whatever happens to the remaining 82 acres of the former Rocky Point Amusement park.
McDonough and his wife Kay have a house on Surf Avenue. It's the equivalent of a city block from the water, but, because it is built on the side of a hill, it offers glimpses of the Mount Hope Bridge, Prudence Island and the open bay down to the Jamestown Bridge. Many of the homes in Highland Beach share the view, whether looking south to Newport, east to Colt State Park in Bristol or north to Conimicut Light and the distant Providence skyline.
There's much more to Highland Beach than its proximity to Narragansett Bay. It's a tight-knit community, partially because some families like the McDonoughs have lived there for generations and in part because of the geography. Roads are narrow. Lots are small. Houses are relatively close to one another and, in effect, Highland Beach is a dead end, an enclave with only two roads in and out.
The roots of change go back to 1995, when Rocky Point Amusement Park filed for bankruptcy. After efforts to revive the park failed and the property was auctioned, it looked like the park would be developed for housing. Luxury homebuilders Toll Brothers had a lock on the property, but the collapse of the housing market doomed their plans for 399 units of condominiums and town houses. The plans of two local developers for a scaled down development also fell victim to the recession.
In the meanwhile, the Small Business Administration, court appointed receiver for the park, closed Rocky Beach, where the park had once leased land and later it reached agreement to sell 41 acres of shoreline to the city for $4.4 million, using a combination of city, state and federal funds.
It was with the opening of that to the public that Highland Beach started to see change. While the entrance to Rocky Point is from what was the amusement park's main gate off Rocky Point Avenue, access can also be gained at the northerly end of the park trail in Highland Beach. There is no parking lot at that end of the park and access takes knowledge of Highland Beach's warren of roads.
"It used to be just us around here," says Margaret Laorenza of Ogden Street.
Like her neighbors, Laorenza has seen an increase in cars parking in the neighborhood, frequently restricting traffic to a single lane and raising the prospect that emergency vehicles couldn't access the area. She also reports motorists racing through the neighborhood, thefts, trash dropped in people's yards and fishermen selling their catch from the back of their vehicles.
The Highland Beach access to the park is closer to one of the park's prettier and more secluded beaches, as well as the point, a popular spot for fishermen, for which the park was named. McDonough reports watching people park in the neighborhood to walk into the park with the makings for a party, including a bouquet of balloons.
"We want people to enjoy the park. But it's [Highland Beach] not meant to be a parking lot," said Laorenza.
Although the park is open from dawn to dusk, Laorenza reports there are also occasional nighttime beach parties. She says "the sparks started to fly" when the city, in response to complaints of people urinating and defecating in the park, installed a porta-john near the Highland Beach gate. The city quickly relocated the porta-john.
The incident was a rally point and, when the Department of Public Works talked of constructing a 15-by-15-foot concrete block shed to house maintenance equipment near the entrance, neighbors protested. Those closest to the park thought it would obstruct views and could be the start of a much larger development of municipal buildings.
David Picozzi, DPW acting director, reasoned the shed and its contents would be less subject to vandalism and break-ins at the Highland Beach end of the park than at the parking lot at the southerly end, which is remote and out of view from area residences.
On Thursday, the mayor's chief of staff Mark Carruolo said plans for construction of the shed are on hold.
Playing out at another level is what will become of the remaining 82 acres still under control of the SBA. The Department of Environmental Management has a recent appraisal of that land and is in talks with the SBA for state acquisition of the property using $10 million from a bond referendum approved by voters two years ago.
Assuming an agreement can be reached that is satisfactory to the Federal District Court and the state acquires the remainder of the park, a second entrance to the park could be either from the former Rocky Beach access on Palmer Avenue, or what was the park's exit road. This would obviate Highland Beach as the closest access to the point and give the city multiple locations for the maintenance shed.
But that could take years and, in the meantime, Highland Beach residents would like some relief.
Councilman John DelGiudice has proposed a "local parking only" ordinance to deal with the situation. Another alternative has been a total ban on parking, but that would be problematic for the neighborhood.
Laorenza would like to see signage informing outsiders that park parking is available at the lot off Rocky Point Avenue and for police to more actively patrol the area.
"The word [that the park can be accessed from Highland Beach] is traveling throughout the state and beyond," said Laorenza.
McDonough agrees the word is out.
"Once they find it, they tell their neighbors and their friends," he said.
Col. Stephen McCartney, chief of police, said a parking ban for other than local residents would require further study by the city fathers.
"You can't just say you can't go there … this is a public area," he said.
He said the department would step up patrols in response to reasonable requests. As for fishermen selling quahogs and fish from their vehicles, he said those are already violations and the department would act accordingly.
As the future of Rocky Point comes into focus, McCartney agreed that city responses taken today need to keep in mind the bigger picture of what the park could become tomorrow.


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Mindlessly plugging numbers into tax software or an online tax site might seem like a quick-and-easy way to get your taxes done. But some days that approach can lead to a disaster. Just ask someone who has been audited or an accountant who later spotted costly mistakes.
Mindlessly plugging numbers into tax software or an online tax site might seem like a quick-and-easy way to get your taxes done. But some days that approach can lead to a disaster. Just ask someone who has been audited or an accountant who later spotted costly mistakes.
One accountant tells the story of a well-to-do taxpayer who was referred to his office on another issue.
James Jenkins, president of Jenkins in Southfield, Mich., reviewed the man's previous returns and had to ask why someone making more than a half-million dollars a year was so short on cash that he felt compelled to tap into his IRA. Why did he take all that money out of the retirement account and create a bigger tax bill?
The man said he didn't withdraw money. He simply rolled a large amount of money over from one IRA into another.
The man, who prepared his own return using tax software, ended up paying thousands of tax dollars on what was a non-taxable IRA rollover. Fortunately, that mix-up was later corrected by amending the returns — once the accountant spotted the problem.
It's tempting to be a tax-time do-it-yourselfer — particularly when it can cost $300 or more for many people to get their taxes prepared by someone else. About 30 percent of tax returns that were electronically filed nationwide through last June were self-prepared, according to the Internal Revenue Service. And the IRS says electronic filing can prevent mistakes, too, so it's typically better than filing a paper return.
But big blunders are out there. Here are a few:
Bad typing. "One of the biggest mistakes I see is incorrectly inputting data by transposing numbers, omitting digits, or just making typing mistakes," said Barbara Weltman, author of "J.K. Lasser's 1,001 Deductions and Tax Breaks 2013."
If the Form 1099 reports that you received $946 of interest but you enter $649, she said, the IRS computer could pick up the mistake and trigger a notice. It's unlikely your entire return would be audited but it could create headaches.
Weltman said one way to avoid this is to use automatic data transfer, which is available from many large employers for W-2s and from most brokerage firms for 1099s.
Banking on tax software to save you. Someone who pays a tax preparer or accountant is going to have another pair of eyes reviewing receipts and the return, said Mark Luscombe, principal analyst for CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business.
"You have to have documentation to support anything you put on your return in case you're audited," Luscombe said.
It's not smart to report that expenses and deductions were exactly the same year after year.
Jenkins said CPAs jokingly call TurboTax "TroubleTax." Many people with simple, plain vanilla returns, he said, can successfully use tax software. But "if you get into an area you don't understand, it could be big trouble," Jenkins said.
Discarding or losing a 1099. George W. Smith IV, a certified public accountant and partner at George W. Smith in Southfield, said problems can arise when people receive IRS form 1099-R for direct rollover distributions from their employers' plan to their IRA or from one IRA to another.
"They don't tell us about the rollover or give us a copy of the 1099-R because it's a non-taxable event," Smith said.
"True. But you still have to report it on your 1040 as such or the IRS will assume it's fully taxable and subject to the 10 percent early withdrawal penalty if you're under age 59 1/2."
Pay careful attention to lines 15a and 16a of the 1040, which show total IRA or pension distributions for the year. Here you'd note what portion is taxable. You'd need to put in a zero on Lines 15b and 16b if the rollover is non-taxable.
Luscombe noted that if a taxpayer takes an IRA distribution and rolls it into another IRA within 60 days, the distributed amount reported on Form 1099-R would be non-taxable and the taxpayer would write "rollover" in the margin next to line 15. He said the taxpayer would not need to attach other documentation to the return but should keep the paperwork in the event of an audit.
Smith said he typically clears up several notes on this event each year.
"You have a $500,000 rollover, and the IRS assessment is huge," Smith said.
Joseph DeGennaro, tax director for Doeren Mayhew in Troy, Mich., said taxpayers can create headaches if they fail to include a Form 1099 for interest income, dividend income, sales of stocks and non-employee compensation.
"The IRS gets copies of these reports and matches them to the taxpayer's tax returns," DeGennaro noted.
Getting flip with numbers. Ever been tempted to fool around with tax software to try to create a bigger refund? Tax experts say they've seen clients who have run into trouble after inflating home office deductions; using too many round numbers, as opposed to actual numbers, for deductions; claiming too many losses if they file a self-employed Schedule C.
Schedule C is more likely to trigger an audit than a regular individual return. And some tax experts say that's especially true if the taxpayer is claiming losses on that business for three years in a row during a five-year time frame. The IRS could view all those losses for that business as a "hobby loss."
Selecting direct deposit of your tax refund and then typing in or giving your accountant the wrong bank account information. It happens. It can be very time-consuming to get that money back.
Never sign a blank return. Avoid working with any preparers who want you to sign that return before it's completed.
Women who marry and take their husband's surname want to make sure they changed their name with the Social Security Administration before filing their taxes. The return could get bounced because the new last name won't match Social Security records. If you've recently divorced and changed your name again, you may also need to notify the SSA of the name change. A mismatch between the name shown on the return and Social Security records can cause problems in processing the return and may even delay a refund. See Form SS-5 at http://www.socialsecurity.gov.
Watch out with older children. The college student might file a tax return before the parent and claim to be his or her own "dependent." But when the parent goes to e-file — with that child listed as the dependent — the IRS would reject the tax return, experts said. Talk with your college student before filing.
Or in a divorce situation, each parent might try to claim the same child as a dependent. The second parent to e-file would be rejected.
Susan Tompor is the personal finance columnist for the Detroit Free Press. She can be reached at stomporfreepress.com.


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Amarillo, TX – Fr. Frank Pavone today praised the South Carolina House Judiciary Committee's endorsement of a measure to require a doctor to review with a woman an ultrasound image of her baby prior to an abortion.
"So many women who suffer the pain of an abortion say, 'If I had only known,'" said Fr. Pavone, who is National Pastoral Director of Rachel's Vineyard, the world's largest ministry of healing after abortion. "This bill protects both babies and their mothers, and should be passed."
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.


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To Memphis City Council member Shea Flinn, the only uncertainty about the proposed citywide half-cent sales tax hike on the Nov. 21 ballot is the outcome of the vote.
To former Shelby County Schools board member Rev. Kenneth Whalum, nothing in the ballot question comes close to assuring the money will cover prekindergarten expansion costs the tax is supposed to guarantee.
"It guarantees everyone who is not currently already receiving (prekindergarten)," Flinn said on the WKNO-TV program "Behind the Headlines." "The only limit to this is going to be the amount of money collected. … We didn't want to get into a wheel tax situation."
Whalum said that is precisely where the minds of voters will go – the county tax sold in the 1980s as funding for school construction and expansion that also went to road projects and that remains on license tag renewal forms to this day.
Whalum's first point made against the sales tax hike was a familiar one – the $57 million the city of Memphis owes Shelby County Schools from a Chancery Court decision.
"The average voter in Memphis is going to say, 'Didn't the court order you to pay $57 million for my children? And you didn't pay it,'" he said. "So the average voter is going to say, 'Well, you already have $57 million. Why don't you just use the $57 million to provide pre-K?' I'd be willing to go with that. It's a matter of common sense."
The program, hosted by Eric Barnes, publisher of The Daily News, can be seen on The Daily News Video page, video.memphisdailynews.com.
Flinn said the $57 million is tied up in a city of Memphis counterclaim that Whalum continues to dispute exists. But even without that ongoing dispute, Flinn argued the prekindergarten expansion made possible by the sales tax hike isn't a school system program. It, as well as the revenue from the sales tax hike, would be administered by an early childhood or prekindergarten commission.
Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. recently appointed the members to the commission, and those nominees are awaiting approval by the city council.
"The reality is it has to have a dedicated revenue stream. It can't be one-time money," Flinn said. "The only way to pay for it is through this tax increase."
Whalum said he could support the sales tax hike if all $47 million of the estimated revenue generated by the half-percent increase went to a prekindergarten expansion.
The text of the question on the ballot in Memphis on the Nov. 21 election day reads that the revenue from the tax hike is held by the commission "until appropriated, and then shall only be used to fund a prekindergarten program to be governed by the Pre-K Commission, with all excess funds paid to city government by June 30 of each year to be used by city government solely to reduce the ad valorem property tax rate."
"The reality was when we started, this $23 million would have covered everyone," Flinn said of the cost of a prekindergarten expansion. "It has since gone up. … We fully expect the pre-K commission to expand the program. It will use that money up very quickly. But we had to tell the public where the overage is going to go."
Flinn said it is unlikely the City Council would move to lower the city property tax rate with the overage from the first year of collection of the sales tax hike.
Whalum said the sales tax is regressive and affects the "poorest of the poor to pay more in sales taxes to finally come around and decrease property taxes, which poor people don't pay."
Flinn said because the poor often rent, they not only pay property taxes passed through on their monthly rent, they pay that pass-through at a higher rate because of the higher percentage of the property tax on commercial properties.
Dr. Hank Herrod of the Urban Child Institute estimates 8,000 to 9,000 children who don't currently have access to prekindergarten could be eligible with the expansion. He said the debate on how to fund such an expansion, apart from agreement on the need for the service, is spotlighting the broader issue.
"Ten or 15 years ago, we didn't talk about (kindergarten). We talked about elementary school and high school. (Kindergarten) is in place now," he said. "If we can get pre-K in place … we need to start doing some things that support those families from an educational enrichment perspective who don't have the means internally to help their kids. That's where you are going to get the biggest bang for your buck."
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Ryan White @ AIDS 2012: Focus on Black MSM
From this massive meeting on Day One—300+ speakers, hundreds of posters, running 7AM to after 8PM—one of the "big stories" from AIDS2012 was new data dissecting factors tied to high levels of HIV infection among black MSM. While 61% of new HIV infections in the U.S. are MSM, black MSM (a very small proportion of the total population) comprise a shocking total of 37% of MSM infections. A series of presentations from Health Disparities and the U.S. MSM HIV Epidemic (MOAC01) provided a mix of rich data to examine factors at play.
Some Observations:
- Behavioral factors tied to HIV transmission are not notably different for black versus white MSM, but black MSM are far more likely to encounter a partner with a viral load >500 copies/ml during unprotected anal intercourse. (MOAC0101)
- Black MSM are less likely to be virally suppressed than white MSM (see graphic). (MOAC0102)
- Poverty and other social factors are associated within undiagnosed HIV infections among black MSM. (MOAC0105)
For HRSA and the Ryan White program, these findings are not surprising and reflect work long underway, like the HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau initiative to engage more individuals into care and the SPNS initiative to engage young MSM of color into care. Nonetheless, more is to be done in outreach, HIV testing, engaging people in HIV care. And in planning where to target resources. One potential TA tool shared at this session, in the talk Equal Behaviors, Unequal Risks (MOAC0101), is a methodology to measure the presence of detectable viral load in a given community. Stay tuned to see if that's something to add to Ryan White planning in determining where to target resources.


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Quote suegerry: When Adrian first was told Collen was missing he seemed quite indifferent to the fact. When the DA and another officer visited him at his home he very sarcastically told them he had no knowledge of her missing and to leave he had work to do. Even when he was asked if he had seen Collen by JT and Lilly at the coffee shop he just look at them with a "who cares" look. He said he had not seen her since she had left his home the night before.
It took for JT to break into his apt. for him to react to any interests.
JT was the one who (unlike we saw in the spoilers) saved Colleen and Kevin's lives.
Alone the prof would not have had the knowledge of what to do.
To beleive This post has been edited for a spoiler.
JT has every right to be at Colleen's bedside and he is very sincere about his feelings for her.
Adrian didn't know the danger Coleen was in because of the stolen art. JT did becuase he was kidnapped once before, and is involved. I'm sure had Adrian known the whole story he would of been more responsive.


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The Lakers are supposed to use this next five-game stretch against playoff teams to determine their playoff mettle.
They needed only this game against the Clippers to determine what we've already known:
You can't make old young.
The Lakers mounted a furious comeback after falling behind early, but they couldn't contain the young, fast, confident Clippers.
Chris Paul made the dagger shots and free throws down the stretch, and the Clippers made good on making the Lakers look as old and slow as they are as the Clippers edged the Lakers, 107-102 Friday at Staples Center.
Bryant scored 38 points, and you know what happens when he scores 30-plu points. The Lakers usually lose. Paul had 30 points, 13 assists, six rebounds and scored the final eight points for the Clippers, who have proven yet again that they're the better team in town.
With Pau Gasol benched most of the fourth quarter, until Dwight Howard fouled out and there was no choice but to put the ineffective Gasol back in late in the game. Gasol finished with two points and four rebounds.
During one stretch, all Lakers on the bench were standing except for him.
Lakers coach Mike D'antoni tinkered with the lineup again, but this was a good change, putting Metta World Peace back in the starting lineup. Still, it didn't matter.
There's no young gun on the bench who can add wheels to run D'Antoni's offense effectivley. And no team makes this look worse than the Clippers, who are confident, young and fast.
"Lob City" was grooving early, and the Lakers Steve Nash and Pau Gasol and Co. were doing a lot of watching while the Clippers were dunking.
Chris Paul and Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan were working those passes and dunks, and the Lakers fell behind by 18 in the first half.
The Lakers' problems are so evident, on plays like the second half. Steve Nash made a bad pass that Blake Griffin got, and ran down the other end and dunked. World Peace, playing with four fouls, gave a half-hearted chase because no one could get to Griffin anyway.
These Lakers are slow and old, and the Clippers make that more evident than any other team.
The Clippers were even without Jamal Crawford (foot), their sixth man who has been brilliant this season.
The Lakers will play Houston and San Antonio and Denver during this tough upcoming stretch. But this game against the Clippers was all they needed to know. Their too old and too slow.
Asked if he'd like to trade benches with the Clippers, who have one of the best in the league, D'Antoni said: "We have to because we have to sit on the other end."
The game was a Clippers home game, and at least D'Antoni found something to joke about other than his old team.
D'Antoni knows it and has poked fun at it, but it's true. Clippers point guard Chris Paul had 11 assists than the entire Lakers team in the first half.
D'Antoni has talked about not turning the ball over in transition, but it still happens.
"That's where weve been struggling, turnovers," D'Antoni said. "They're good turniving people over. We got to not turn ball over, get back and try to guard them halfcourt."
The Lakers and Clippers each had eight turnovers in the first half.
Early on, Dwight was being Dwight as he missed a pair of free throws, then responded with a hard foul on Griffin on the other end of the floor.
The Lakers have shown some flashes but nothing on a consistent level. And that's alarming. Everything was supposed to be better when Pau Gasol and Nash came back from injuries, but it's so not.
It's January, and there's not a lot of time for the Lakers to get back on track.
"I have confidence we'll get there," D'Antoni said. "We;re still struggling a bit as the Philadelphia thing reared its ugly head. I do see signs. We've turned the corner. It's better. We still have lapses of complacency we have to get over."
And to think, the Lakers passed over Phil Jackson for D'Antoni. Jackson got a ring, as he propsed to longtime girlfriend Jeanie Buss, the Lakers' executive vice president of business operations, over the holidays.
The Lakers' and their quest for a ring is a dream at this point.
The big news of the day for the Lakers was that Kobe Bryant joined Twitter. There should've been a Web site with a Mamba Twitter ticker to watch his followers click his page by the thousands. It was incredible.
Bryant signed up for an account in the morning, tweeting once: "The antisocial has become social #mambatweets" and followed no one.
Early in the afternoon, he had 75,000 followers after signing up a few hours before. By game time, he had 346,000.
And the Lakers still had the same old roster.


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Weather-related events of all magnitudes resulted in US$707
billion in insured and uninsured economic losses between 1985 and 1999 (Munich
Re, 2000). A longer term comparison of large catastrophic events over the past
50 years reveals that economic losses (adjusted for inflation) increased by
a factor of 10.3 (Figure 8-1). Over this same period,
population grew by a factor of 2.4.
One of the vexing dilemmas in analyzing such historical data is disentangling
causal factors related to human-induced climatic change, natural variability,
and those having to do with human activity that could accelerate or dampen measured
impacts. Numerous human factors are in operation that contribute to the upward
trends in real economic losses, including population growth, rising standard
of living, urbanization and industrialization in high-risk regions, vulnerability
of modern societies and technologies, environmental degradation, penetration
of insurance, and changing societal attitudes toward compensation (the latter
two factors may lead to an increase in losses reported). Data on the numbers
of events also show an increase in many cases. The number of disasters (defined
as annual requests from states for federal disaster declarations) has roughly
doubled in the United States since the early 1980s (Anderson, 2000). It is relevant
to note here that such requests involve considerations of significant social
effects (Kunkel et al., 1999); as a consequence, it is an indirect and
subjective proxy for the frequency of events.
Growth trends in non-climate-related losses have been relatively constant over
the past 3 decades. Losses from human-induced catastrophes have remained relatively
constant (Swiss Re, 1999a). Earthquake losses have increased, but more slowly
than weather-related losses (Bruce et al., 1999). The number of disasters
causing more than 1% GDP damage to affected countries has increased two to three
times as rapidly for weather-related disasters as for earthquakes in the period
1963-1992 (United Nations, 1994).
Insurers have pointed out that local environmental factors such as soil degradation,
loss of biodiversity, lack of drinkable water, pollution, deforestation, forest
degradation, and land-use changes can amplify the impacts of weather-related
catastrophes (Zeng and Kelly, 1997). As an illustration, the extent of flood
losses from Hurricane Mitch was attributed in part to deforestation in Central
Attempts to analyze the underlying causes of trends in natural disasters also
must allow for the effects of human activities that offset growth factors (Kunkel
et al., 1999). A considerable leveling off or reduction in loss of life
during U.S. disasters is one indicator that mitigation has been effective (Easterling
et al., 2000a). Loss-reduction effortstypically unaccounted for
in analyses we have seeninclude considerable efforts to avert or reduce
natural disaster impacts (e.g., coastal protection structures along coastlines;
cloud seeding to deflect hailstorms; improved building codes; tightened land-use
zoning; enhanced fire-suppression capacity; improved weather forecasts and early-warning
systems; and improved disaster preparedness, response, and recovery). Within
the insurance arena, increasing deductibles (the initial tier of loss costs
paid for by the insured) and withdrawal of coverage from particularly high-risk
areas have reduced observed losses. The literature has not attempted to quantify
the contribution of these activities.
The relative contributions of human and climatic factors to the changing patterns
of losses varies, depending on place and type of event (see Table
8-1; also see Easterling et al., 2000a,b for a review). U.S. studies
have found that demography largely explains increases in losses for hurricanes,
wind, hail, and tornado events, whereas winter storm damage has mixed causation
(Pielke and Landsea, 1998; Changnon, 1999; Changnon and Changnon, 1999; Kunkel
et al., 1999). In addition, decadal-scale trends have been discerned
for tropical cyclones. There is good evidence that the intensity and frequency
of precipitation and flood-related extreme events in the United States is increasing
(Zeng and Kelly, 1997; Karl and Knight, 1998; Pielke and Downton, 2000). This
trend also has been found for precipitation in many other parts of the world
(see Chapter 3). In a study of hailstorms in France, Dessens
(1995) used insurance loss information as a proxy for storm occurrence and found
a statistically significant upward trend between 1946 and 1990.
In one global analysis, Munich Re (1999b) estimates that economic losses from
large natural disasters increased two-fold between the 1970s and 1990s, after
correcting for inflation, insurance penetration and pricing effects, and increases
in the material standard of living. A similar result was reported for UK buildings
in the SAR (Dlugolecki et al., 1996).
Based on the findings of TAR WGI, the information summarized in Table
8-1, and the analysis presented above, we conclude that some part of the
upward trend in the cost of weather-related disasters illustrated in Figure
8-1 is linked to socioeconomic factors (increased wealth, shifts of population
to the coasts, etc.) and some part is linked to climatic factors such as observed
changes in precipitation and drought events. There are regional differences
in the balance of these two causes.
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I bought this vette in 2005. I have always wanted one. It was fun working on it, finding different parts needed to improve performance and looks. I wanted it to look different from any other 82. The color looks orange in the daytime and red at nite. 2 good friends, ( Larry & Rodney), helped me to get it where it is today. I really enjoy driving it on cruises and I show it at cars shows. I have received many trophies including Best GM, Ladies Choice, Best 80's, and Best 80's Corvette along with the Top 50's ect. I like going to shows, hanging with the other guy's, seeing there cool cars and getting different ideas from other 82 vettes on how to improve mine. I love driving it.
1995 Chevrolet Camaro Z28...Dazzi has undergone a serious transformation since I bought her in December of 2005. Now this year there are some major plans in the works including LT Headers, True Dual Exhaust, and maybe a 396 stoker motor will be in the works.
5.7 liter 350 Crossfire Injection engine, 200+ HP, 4 Speed Automatic.
5.7L V8 350-cid 16-Valve OHV LT1 Engine
275HP @ 5000 rpm
325TQ @ 2400 rpm
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WALTHAM, Mass.- On a wet and rainy day at Gordon field, Brandeis' sophomore midfielder Kyle Feather (Pinebrook, N.J./ Montville Township) scored the game winning goal, his fifth of the year and tied for the team lead, in a 2-1 victory over the University of Chicago, propelling the Judges to their first University Athletic Association win. Brandeis improved to 8-3-1 (1-1-1 UAA) on the season while the Maroons fell to 5-5-2 (0-3 UAA).
This hotly contested UAA match between the Brandeis Judges and Chicago Maroons featured awful weather in the form of a constant downpour that resulted in a slick turf field and some sloppy play by both sides. By the end of the match Chicago had compiled 17 fouls and two yellow cards while Brandeis racked up 11 fouls and three yellow cards.
The Judges broke through first in the 4th minute as senior forward Steve Keuchkarian (Watertown, Mass./ Watertown) flicked the ball masterfully into the box for junior midfielder Sam Ocel (No. Attleboro, Mass./ No. Attleboro). Ocel timed his run onto the flick perfectly and, from about the penalty area, blasted a hard right-footed shot into the left corner of the net to give the Judges a 1-0 lead on his fourth goal of the season.
The Maroons responded in the 21st minute when rookie midfielder Nick Codispoti (Rockville Centre., N.Y./ Chaminade) slid a ball across the 18 past Brandeis' diving junior goalkeeper Blake Minchoff (Fiskdale, Mass./ Tantasqua Reg.) to the foot of senior midfielder Alan Pikna (Wauwatosa, Wis./ West) who finished with a touch into the empty net, knotting the match at one for his fourth goal of the year.
In the end it was the Judges' sophomore defender Ben Applefield (Avon, Conn./ Avon) who made a terrific run down the left side of the field resulting in a perfect cross to the feet of Feather. He rocketed a hard shot on the ground past Chicago's diving rookie goalkeeper Elek Lane (Eau Claire, Wis./ Memorial) for a 2-1 lead in the 57th minute that secured Brandeis their first UAA victory of the season.
Brandeis goalie Minchoff finished the match with four saves and one goal allowed while Chicago goalie Lane finished with three saves and two goals allowed. The Brandeis Judges will have another UAA Conference matchup versus Washington University on Sunday, October 16th at 11:00 am at Gordon Field. The Chicago Maroons also face another UAA contest at NYU on Sunday, October 16th at 11:00 am.


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Pyramid Mesh & Crystal Mixed Metal Bracelet is rated out of 5 by 1.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Tatee from Better than the picture! This product looks better in person than on the picture. Of course it's my opinion. When I ordered mine I thought it looked pretty however when I got it I feel better about my purchase. I also think the bracelet is shinier in person than on the picture.
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Here it is BlackBerry Nation... the Craziest CrackBerry.com Giveaway we have ever Dreamed up!
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The premise here is simple. You have until Midnight PST on Halloween night to tell us What You Would Do for a free BlackBerry Storm (or any other BlackBerry smartphone of your choosing). From there we'll go through all of the What Would You Dos submitted and contact the ten contestants who are willing to do the most to get their hands on a FREE BlackBerry Storm (no ideas that are potentially harmful or illegal will be selected though... while fighting a Bear would be cool, we'd rather see you keep your BlackBerry thumbs intact).
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Petrobras Sells $11 Billion in Bonds
Deal Is Largest Emerging-Market Debt Sale on Record, as Brazilian Oil Company Ramps Up to Expand
Brazilian oil company Petróleo Brasileiro SA sold $11 billion of bonds, the biggest emerging-market debt sale on record.
The bond issue was the second-biggest corporate-bond sale in the world this year, after the $17 billion Apple Inc. sold last month. The Apple sale was the largest corporate-bond deal in history.
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After about 15 years away, Japanese consumer electronics company Nakamichi (founded in 1948 by Etsuro Nakamichi) has re-entered the U.S. retail market with some new audio gear that aims to challenge competing brands like Beats by Dre, Monster, and Bose. Available now at Sears, K-Mart, and on Amazon, Nakamichi's new Bluetooth headphones and Shockwave desktop speaker are competitively priced at about $68 and $55, respectively. These are quality products that offer an excellent user experience at a very budget-friendly price.
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Yammer Support
What's Yammer?
Yammer is ECU's internal communication platform. It allows for conversion, questions and collaboration within a private ECU social network. Yammer has been described as Facebook + Twitter for the enterprise. Think in terms of using Yammer to ask the network participants questions, share what you are doing and share your ideas.
Yammer can be accessed using your ECU username and password and offers web access, desktop apps and mobile apps for reading, reviewing and posting. Click Here to login to start using Yammer.
Things to know about Yammer
Yammer is made up a network and many groups. The network is accessible and viewable by anyone with a working ECU email address. This includes all faculty, staff and students. Knowing this, we created a private group that only includes all faculty and staff. So, this is where the majority of the faculty and staff conversation should take place. We want to separate faculty and staff conversations from faculty,staff and student conversations. Once you have logged into Yammer look on the left-hand side of the page. In the GROUPS area you will see a " Faculty and Staff " group. Click inside this for faculty and staff group to participate in the conversation.
Learn about Yammer
Yammer Support Videos
- What's Yammer? – Learn some of the basics about Yammer.
- Posting / Updating Yammer – Learn how to update Yammer and how to reply posts.
- Following other Users – Learn how to follow other users on Yammer.
- Using Yammer in the Classroom – Learn about how you can take advantage of Yammer to facilitate course conversation.
- Creating a Yammer Group – Learn how to create and manage a Yammer group.
- Joining a Group – Learn how to search and browse the Groups area. (coming soon / 7/26/11)
- Building your Yammer Profile – Building and managing your Yammer profile.
- Following key terms " Topics" – Learn how to follow key terms of interest.
- Sending Private Messages – Learn how to send and receive private messages.
- Your Yammer Feeds – Learn about the difference between "My Feed" and " Company Feed ".
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Blackbuck reintroduced to the wild in Nepal
The blackbuck (Antilope cervicarpa), also locally known as "Krishnasar", is found in the wild in Nepal in only one place – Khairapur, Bardia. Nineteen blackbucks were first recorded there in 1975. To ensure the survival of this population in 2009 the Government of Nepal declared an area of 172 hectares as the Krishnasar Conservation Area. Today conservation efforts have helped the blackbuck population to increase to 293. Yet, this only surviving wild population is at great risk due to habitat fragmentation; disease from livestock - as their habitat area is interspersed with human settlements and farmland; and inbreeding as this isolated population grew from only a few individuals.
As one of the chief objectives of the Hariyo Ban Program is to reduce threats to biodiversity in Nepal, it helped to support the translocation of blackbuck to Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve where there is a larger area and better habitat for the species. In the first phase of the translocation, a total of 22 animals (6 male and 16 female) were taken from the Nepalgunj mini zoo to Hirapur Phanta in Shuklaphanta Wildlife Reserve. They are now in a predator-proof fenced area of 7.5 hectares in Hirapur Phanta to enhance their survival before adapting to the wild habitat. The Hariyo Ban Program also supported DNPWC in a second phase translocation, where six blackbucks from the Central Zoo were moved to Hirapur. Blackbucks were recorded in Hirapur area in the 1960s and the area has suitable habitat with well managed short grass.
"The relocated blackbucks have adapted well to the environment and their health looks good. We need to expand the fenced area in the near future for better survival of these blackbucks," says Ganga Jang Thapa, NTNC.
There is a future plan to translocate more blackbucks from Khairapur, Bardia after the relocated Hirapur Phanta area is expanded, so as to increase the genetic diversity of the new population. Longer term plans also involve engaging the local communities in conservation and promoting the site as an eco-tourism.
By NTNC for the Hariyo Ban Program
Disclaimer: The Hariyo Ban Program is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents of this article are the responsibility of WWF and NTNC and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.