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Two of my favorite and two of the most practical knots in fishing are the Palomar and the Uni-knots. I’ve never lost a fish to a properly tied Palomar or Uni-knot. In fact, I have seen snap swivels and hooks straighten before the Palomar knot failed. Plus the Palomar is one of the easiest knots to tie, and with a little practice you can tie it in complete darkness. If you can make an overhand loop in some fishing line, you can tie this knot!! The key to the knots strength (my opinion) is the fact that you double the line before tying the knot. That means that even if the knot is only 90% as strong as your main line, the line will break before the knot will.
The Uni-knot is an exceptional knot because it is so versatile; it can be used to attach terminal tackle, but more importantly, it can be used to join two lines together. Although I have used the Uni-know to attach swivels and lures directly to the line, I use this knot almost exclusively for joining lines together. This is a great for adding a heavier leader to the main line. When fishing Pedasi we usually attach a 50 or 60# leader to our 25 or 30 # main line. We will also use the Uni-knot to add backing to some of our smaller reels. When using 20# tackle it’s imperative to have sufficient line capacity to allow for the long runs Tuna and Wahoo are known for. To accomplish this on smaller framed reels, we add 100 to 200 yards of braid backing to the main line. However, you can do the opposite as well. When using braid as the main line for its sensitivity, low stretch and thin diameter, its imperative that you add a “top shot” of mono line to add a little stretch to prevent pulled hooks.
STEP 1 – Double about 1/4″ of line and pass through the loop through the eye of the hook.
STEP 2 – Let hook hang loose and tie overhand knot in doubled line. Avoid twisting the lines and don’t tighten knot.
STEP 3 – Pull loop of line far enough to pass it over hook, swivel or lure. Make sure loop passes completely over this attachment.
STEP 4 – Pull both tag end and standing line to tighten. Clip about 1/8″.
STEP 1 – Overlap ends of two lines of about the same diameter for about 6″.
Take one end, and form the Uni-Knot circle, crossing the two lines about midway of the overlapped distance.
STEP 2 – Tie the Uni-Knot, making six turns around the two lines (leaving the loop free).
STEP 3 – Pull the tag end to form a snug knot tight around the line.
STEP 4 – Use the loose end of the overlapped line to tie another Unit-Knot as shown above and pull snug.
STEP 5 – Pull the two standing lines in opposite directions to slide the knots together. Pull as tightly as possible and snip ends close to nearest coil.
STEP 1 – Run at least six inches of line through the eye of the hook, swivel, or lure, and fold to make two parallel lines. Bring the tag end of the line back in a circle toward the hook or lure.
STEP 2 – Make six turns with the tag end around the double line and through the circle. Hold the double line at the point where it passes through the eye, and pull the tag end to snug up the turns.
STEP 3 – Hold the double line at the point where it passes through the eye, and pull the tag end to snug up the turns.
STEP 4 – To create a snug knot: Pull the standing line to slide the knot up against the eye. Then continue pulling until the knot is tight. Trim the tag end flush with the closest coil on the knot.
STEP 1 – Overlap about 12 inches of the ends of two lines. Form a Uni-Knot circle with the tag end of line “A.”
STEP 2 – Wrap line “A” five times to form a Uni-Knot around line “B.”
STEP 3 – Snug the knot by gently pulling on both ends of line “A” with enough tension to close the wraps, but not so tight that it actually grips line “B.”
STEP 4 – Form a new Uni-Knot circle with the tag end of line “B” and wrap line “B” five times to form a Uni-Knot around line “A.” (Use only four turns for 60-, 80-, or 100-pound-test monofilament.)
STEP 5 – Gently pull line “B” with one hand and line “A” with the other to slide the two Uni-Knots together until they jam–then pull tight. Then tighten the wraps around the standing lines by firmly pulling the tag ends of each Uni-Knot. Snip the tag ends.
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New Limited Edition Roses Mini Pink Candle. An armful of tender, changing roses that lightly evoke the world's most universally loved flowers.
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Starting a motor unit for your department
Editor's Note: The following article first appeared on the Syverson Says blog, presented by Setcom, and is reprinted by permission of Jon Syverson. Prior to entering the private sector, Jon served as a police motorcycle officer with the East Troy Police Department and has also served as Editor-in-Chief of the nationally-recognized law enforcement magazine “THE MOUNTED OFFICER.” Jon is also a member of the Advisory Board for Concerns of Police Survivors. We want to thank Jon and his team at Setcom for the excellent work they do to support law enforcement, and we look forward to bringing to our members more articles from Jon Syverson ...down the road.
By Jon Syverson
Step One So, you’re thinking about starting a motor unit within your agency. Maybe the department had motorcycles in the past (around 1963) and given the price of gasoline today has a renewed interest in motors. What a great concept: fuel economy. There’s also the very real likelihood that several of your officers may already ride, a natural contributing factor, but don’t take it for granted that those officers will be your most effective and productive motor officers. There may also be a real need for an aggressive traffic enforcement program in your jurisdiction. After all, traffic congestion continues to grow and is a real problem in most areas. A solid traffic enforcement program, which essentially works to address lesser offenses, actively contributes to the control all manner of potential criminal offenses or activities.
Why Motorcycles? Motorcycles offer a unique advantage to squad cars. They can work in tight, confined spaces where you can’t place a squad, positioned for immediate response to traffic offenses. There are so many uses for motorcycles, ranging from red-light enforcement, basic traffic, dignitary escort, speeding, DUI enforcement, etc. Most importantly, on a motorcycle you’re definitely “close-to-the-customer,” and can easily converse and effectively communicate with the public. In short, motorcycles are also a positive public relations tool with the general public.
Planning Starting a motor unit is a great deal of work, please don’t think otherwise. There will be a great deal of effort involved in your start-up. Naturally, there’s budget and personnel considerations but also the development of a standard operating procedure (SOP) which other allied agencies may be able to provide. Your policy needs to address all operating practices of the unit, or the envisioned “mission.” Again, your neighboring agencies might be helpful to you as they may already have an SOP to use as a template; you should review and adjust it to your needs although it’s likely that they have already addressed most areas of concern.
Next Steps Based on my years of being involved on the ground floor with many agencies acting to start motor units, I believe the greatest challenge facing those agencies is the failure to plan. What’s that old saying, “Failing to plan is planning to fail.” It’s certainly true with regard to motor units. Some of the other related topics you’ll need to address include:
• Motorcycles (brand/model)
• Outfitting the motorcycles (emergency option equipment)
• Radio communications (including helmet communication systems)
• Did I mention budget and personnel? BTW, the most effective motor officers are your best performing patrol officers today
• Training of those officers. Do not start a motor unit without having your officers properly trained
• Riding apparel (Trust me, it’s a long list and a topic for another time)
• Duty tours and hours of operation
• Your idea here
Training Motor Officers must receive the proper training. Riding a fully-equipped police model motorcycle in an enforcement capacity is radically different from pleasure riding. There are many solid motor officer training programs available today. Some of the best basic and instructor programs are those conducted under the auspices of Northwestern University Center for Public Safety. Motor Officer training courses are also available at the Institute of Police Technology and Management in Jacksonville, FL which also conducts noteworthy motor officer training courses. In addition, there are many other agencies which conduct their own training and will often act to train your officers at little or no charge. Some of the best I’m aware of include the Milwaukee Police Department and the U.S. Park Police, Washington, D.C.. In the past both agencies have trained officers at no-charge.
Certainly there are many other “cooperative” departments offering competent instructors and effective training, and we offer a listing of such training throughout the states. Click here for training near you, and let us know of others to post.
Use Please keep in mind that motorcycles are best used during daylight hours and when it’s not raining. In short, it’s always a good idea to have a backup plan. That is, spare squads or the ability to revert to two-person squads is always a good idea.
Implementation Again, if you plan effectively and work to institute your program in a well-defined and managed fashion you’ll quickly have an effective and productive program, which will act to complement existing traffic enforcement. | <urn:uuid:2fd9e3e6-755f-4d4c-ac4e-f6e509e38be9> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.policeone.com/Motorcycle-Patrol/articles/1808019-Starting-a-motor-unit-for-your-department/ | 2016-05-29T15:36:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049281363.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002121-00224-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957908 | 1,082 | [
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Skip to comments.DoD Internal Website Celebrates Homosexuality
Posted on 01/09/2014 11:17:46 AM PST by Barry Cratus
From an internal DoD website, encouraging employees to celebrate one man sticking his d*** in another man's a**hole:
Democratic motto. More rear end, less rear guard.
I would say that they can blome... but then they would try.
A non-draft military should be based entirely on the ability to perform a mission. Anything that gets in the way of performing a mission should be analyzed. If a group of heterosexuals feel they can perform a task without Homo’s they should be allowed to form that group. Homo’s can do the same. People who don’t care can form a homogenized group. Add women to the mix and we can do the same. Generals can determine their legacy and how they want to use each group.
Al Qaeda are pi$$ing their pants I’m sure.
Where is that ?
Obama and staff have thrown gays on Army. Look at new GAY RIBBON.
Thankfully I completed my six years in ‘77...
True Diversity is man/woman marriage. Homosexuality is a sexist puerile life choice of segregation, which hates half of the human race and tries to normalize unnatural fixations and Vice in children.
It is evil and sexist at best. Celebrating such sick, warped use of the human body-—such dehumanizing, unnatural depravity—is really celebrating child abuse since it is learned behavior from childhood neglect/trauma.
There is no Reason/Justice in any Law which celebrates Vice.
Moberly’s “Psychogenesis”, a book on the formation of “gender” identity explains this fixation in immaturity from child trauma.
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Hot Links! Kim Kardashian, Music Sensation?
Plus: Celebrity death threats, Twitter wars, and more!
Ah, the versatility of the harem pant… (College Candy)
Be fashionable AND kind to animals this fall with these creature-friendly shoes. (Buzznet)
Why is Craig Ferguson getting death threats? (Newser)
Aprons: Not just for cooking. (The Berry)
You’ll probably meet these 14 dudes in college. Then again, you’ll also probably keep meeting them once you’re done with college. Some things never change. (College Candy)
There’s playing hard to get, and there’s playing hard to get. (YourTango)
Guys apparently hate these fashion trends– which is why you should try them. (TheGloss)
Did you know Kim Kardashian attempted to start a music career? Neither did we. But given this video, it’s probably better that she failed. (Newser)
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Stroke: How to Prevent Another One [en Español]
Stroke: How to Prevent Another OneSkip to the navigation
After you've had a stroke, you may be worried that you could have another one. That's easy to understand. But the good news is that there are things you can do to reduce your risk of having another stroke. Taking medicine, doing stroke rehabilitation, and making healthy lifestyle changes can help.
Take your medicines
You'll need to take medicines to help prevent another stroke. Be sure to take your medicines exactly as prescribed. And don't stop taking them unless your doctor tells you to. If you stop taking your medicines, you can increase your risk of having another stroke.
Some of the medicines your doctor may prescribe include:
- Aspirin and other antiplatelet medicines to prevent blood clots.
- Anticoagulants to prevent blood clots, especially for people who have atrial fibrillation (an irregular heartbeat).
- Statins to lower cholesterol.
- ACE inhibitors and ARBs (angiotensin II receptor blockers) to lower blood pressure.
Manage other health problems
You can help lower your chance of having another stroke by managing other health problems that you might have. Health problems, such as high blood pressure , high cholesterol , and diabetes , can increase your risk of a stroke.
If you have any of these health problems, you can manage them with health lifestyle changes along with medicine.
Take part in a stroke rehabilitation program
Taking part in a stroke rehabilitation (rehab) program can help you learn how to reduce your risk of having another stroke. A stroke rehab program is designed for you and is supervised by doctors and other specialists.
This type of program helps you to regain skills you lost or to make the most of your remaining abilities after a stroke. It also helps you take steps to prevent another stroke. In the program, a team of health professionals provides education and support to help you build new, healthy habits.
In stroke rehab, you'll learn how to manage any other health problems that you might have, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and depression. You'll also learn how to exercise safely, eat a healthy diet, and quit smoking if you smoke. You'll work with your team to decide what lifestyle choices are best for you.
If your doctor hasn't already suggested it, ask him or her if stroke rehab is right for you.
Make healthy lifestyle changes
Healthy lifestyle changes can help lower your risk of having another stroke. And they may help you feel better and live longer. Here are some things you can do:
- Quit smoking, and avoid secondhand smoke. If you smoke, try to quit. Medicines and counseling can help you quit for good.
- Be active. You can still be physically active after a stroke. Doctors recommend ½ to 1½ hours a week of moderate exercise. One way to do this is to be active 30 minutes a day, 1 to 3 days a week. It's okay to be active in 10-minute blocks throughout the day. Your doctor can suggest a safe level of exercise for you.
- Eat heart-healthy foods. These include fruits, vegetables, high-fiber foods, and foods that are low in sodium, saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol. Eat fish at least 2 times each week. Oily fish, which contain omega-3 fatty acids, are best. These fish include salmon, mackerel, lake trout, herring, and sardines.
- Stay at a healthy weight. Being overweight makes you more likely to have high blood pressure, heart problems, and diabetes. These conditions make a stroke more likely.
- Limit alcohol to 2 drinks a day for men and 1 drink a day for women.
It's also important to:
- Get a flu vaccine every year.
- Ask for help if you think you are depressed.
Other Works Consulted
- Kernan WN, et al. (2014). Guidelines for the prevention of stroke in patients with stroke and transient ischemic attack: A guideline for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. Stroke, 45(7): 2160–2236. DOI: 10.1161/STR.0000000000000024. Accessed July 22, 2014.
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RAPAPORT... Malca-Amit implemented the Avigilon high-definition (HD) surveillance system at its new warehouse and corporate office in the U.K. With this surveillance system, Malca-Amit aims to guard cargo from origin to destination.
For the entire coverage of both the interior and exterior of 10,000-square-foot warehouse, parking lot and main road, Malca-Amit deployed 65 Avigilon HD cameras ranging from 2MP to 29MP, mounting cameras with an automatic infrared (IR) filter for high-resolution surveillance in low-light conditions. Security personnel handle the surveillance system live and around-the-clock.
Stephan Kazes, the managing director of Malca-Amit U.K., said, ''Because we ship the majority of the world's diamond and jewelry, the very nature of our business makes security absolutely critical to our success. Chosen for its image quality, advanced management features, and ease-of-use, the Avigilon high-definition surveillance system enables us to capture indisputable video evidence of vehicles, individuals, and packages entering and exiting our premises to deliver the level of security our clients expect.'' | <urn:uuid:aff770e8-e15c-468c-857f-864ece982ecf> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.diamonds.net/News/NewsItem.aspx?ArticleID=40474&ArticleTitle=Malca-Amit+Deploys+Avigilon+HD+Surveillance | 2016-05-24T15:44:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049272349.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002112-00169-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.883405 | 242 | [
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Authorities are investigating the death of a motorist who swerved to avoid hitting couch cushions on Interstate 91 and hit a tractor-trailer, causing the driver's vehicle to catch fire.
The incident happened Sunday just north of Longmeadow.
The victim, who was driving a Jeep, died as a result of the fire, authorities said.
All northbound I-91 traffic was stopped in the area as authorities began their investigation, but left-lane travel is now being allowed, authorities said.
The name of the victim is not known. The name of the tractor-trailer driver has not been released.
The Connecticut State Police Department is assisting in the investigation.
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Family Vacation Fascination
Studies find family facations, group getaways are on the rise
As families across America celebrate the opening of summer, many utilize the time to begin their summer travel plans. The American Resort Development Association (ARDA) points to recent surveys as indicators of a busy summer for the travel industry: more people are planning to travel this year than the previous year, vacationing with family members is a top priority and group getaways are on the rise.
TripAdvisor®, the world’s largest travel site, conducted a recent survey which showed 83 percent of respondents are planning at least one family vacation this year, a four percent increase from 2010. While 59 percent of Americans are planning a trip this summer, up from 51 percent in 2010, according to an American Express Company Survey . That same survey also found vacationing consumers plan to take an average of two week-long vacations, spending an average of $1,200 a person, and three weekend-getaways, spending $300. Nearly 70 percent of those planning to travel said they’ll go with their immediate families, and girlfriend getaways and “man-cations” are growing in popularity.
While travel plans are on the rise, most travelers are still budget conscience and make travel decisions based on cost-savings factors. With hotel stays costing five to ten percent more this year than last year (AAA/HIS Globlal Insight 2011 Memorial Day Holiday Travel Forecsast), ARDA believes this is an opportunity to reach travelers unfamiliar with timeshare.
“Vacationing with timeshare provides the luxury of resort travel but with the comforts of home,” said Howard Nusbaum, CEO and president of ARDA. “There is certainly a monetary value to a traditional timeshare vacation because it affords your family the flexibility to eat meals together in your kitchen rather than splitting a pizza on a hotel bed. But it’s the sentimental value of spending relaxed, quality time with your family or friends in a spacious setting that allows everyone the space to truly rejuvenate that timeshare owners love most about the products.”
While the travel industry has seen declining numbers since 2009 financial difficulties affected most travel budgets, timeshare owners have continued to travel due to the prepaid nature of the product. Timeshares enjoy an 80 percent occupancy rate, according to an ARDA International Foundation 2010 State of the Vacation Ownership Industry report.
“Travelers may not be able to pick their families, but they can certainly choose whether or not to plan trips with them – and Americans intend to do so in their droves this year,” said Karen Drake, senior director of communications from TripAdvisor. “Family vacations are no longer the preserve of young kids and their parents, but a time for relations of all ages to come together for quality time.”
Today, there are more than 5,000 timeshare resorts in 100 countries and many resorts offer rental programs or packages which offer a great opportunity to experience a timeshare vacation. “Building memories is what is important about vacations,” continued Nusbaum. “Timeshare is the perfect way for the entire family to reconnect with family members and rejuvenate away from the daily stresses of life.”
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Removing names from INSTALL
I propose to remove the "We are..." section from our INSTALL
document. It is generated by src/distrib/notes/common/main.
The entire (quite large!) section feels rather vain and adds nothing
to the document other than size. It is a relic from the days before
our website was the main source of this kind of information. All of
the information given in "We are..." is quite easily found online,
where people are more likely to be looking for that information. I'd
like to keep (or rather, make) INSTALL lean, so that it is simply a
document about _INSTALL_ing NetBSD, like its name suggests.
Oh, and since we seem to think that people want to print this document
out, please won't you think of the poor trees wasted by this extra
I'd like to remove the section (and update the new-developer welcome
text) in a week unless someone can think of a strong reason not to.
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Rikki Moye isn't someone who chose nursing as a second or third career.
She wanted to be a nurse from the time she could talk, and for the past 33 years, that's what she's done.
About 10 months ago, the South Carolina native moved to Oklahoma to work at Midwest Regional Medical Center as the “director of resource management.”
Moye's title might not immediately convey what she does, but she is part of a movement affront in health care that's changing how patients receive care before and after they leave the hospital.
“It's an entirely different kind of nursing,” Moye said. “As a nurse on a floor, I can take care of a patient until the end of my shift. As a resource manager, I can take care of a patient long after they leave the hospital doors.”
Moye is in charge of Midwest Regional's efforts to reduce the number of patients who return to the hospital soon after they're discharged.
She said thanks to these efforts, Midwest Regional has seen a reduction in its readmission rate from about 24 percent to 18 percent in the past six months.
“Those statistics translate to me as souls,” she said. “Those are patients out there, and ... if a patient is being readmitted, that's telling me something is wrong.”
In Oklahoma, efforts to reduce 30-day readmissions in the last two years have prevented more than 3,000 readmissions to Oklahoma hospitals, which translates to about $29 million in cost savings to Medicare, according to estimates from the Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality.
These efforts relate to a provision in the federal health care law that penalizes hospitals if their readmission rates are too high.
Under the Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare,” if the federal government deems a hospital's readmission rates too high — meaning these patients are coming in too soon after they've been discharged from the hospital — that hospital can lose some of its Medicare money.
Beginning this year, hospitals receive a payment reduction if they have too many 30-day readmissions for patients with heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia, according to U.S. Health and Human Services.
This law changed has resulted in more than 2,000 hospitals in the U.S. forfeiting more than $280 million because of their readmission rates, according to Kaiser Health News.
Hospital payments account for the largest share of Medicare spending, and Medicare is the largest single payer for hospital services, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
In 2009, more than 7 million people on Medicare experienced more than 12 million inpatient hospitalizations, according to the federal health agency.
One in three Medicare patients who leave the hospital today will be back in the hospital within a month, according to the agency.
These types of errors lead to “significant unnecessary health care spending,” with hospital readmissions costing Medicare an estimated $26 billion in 2009, according to the agency.
For the first year, hospitals were penalized up to 1 percent of the amount of Medicare money they received. Through the years, that percentage will continue to increase.
In Oklahoma, 90 hospitals faced an average penalty of .22 percent of their Medicare money, according to Kaiser Health News.
Midwest Regional Medical Center was one of the Oklahoma hospitals that was penalized the full 1 percent.
Other Oklahoma hospitals penalized 1 percent include Choctaw Memorial Hospital in Hugo, Eastern Oklahoma Medical Center in Poteau, Harmon Memorial Hospital in Hollis, Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa, Medical Center of Southeastern Oklahoma in Durant and Pushmataha Hospital in Antlers, according to Medicare data reported through Kaiser Health News.
To combat readmission rates, hospitals across Oklahoma and the nation are becoming more involved in what happens to patients after they leave.
Some hospitals are setting up follow-up appointments before the patient ever leaves the hospitals. Some have staff members who call patients a few days after they've left to check on them.
Tackling the issues around why a patient is readmitted isn't easy.
Moye said part of it, though, is sitting down with the patient and figuring out what's going on at home. These aren't easy conversations to have with patients.
Sometimes they cry.
Sometimes they say things like, “I had to pay the light bill so I couldn't have my prescription filled” or “If I take my pills every other day, I can make them last two months.”
Moye said she and other staff members connect patients who need financial assistance with different organizations, such as the United Way, that can help them with the problems they face.
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Interview With Silver Surfer artist Stephen Segovia
Head on over to our friends at Newsarama to check out an interview with artist Stephen Segovia on the upcoming February Silver Surfer mini. Segovia talks about creating the silver look of the Sentinel of the Spaceways, being a fan of the Surfer and more! On working in a cosmic setting he had this to say: "I am a big fan of the sci-fi genre. Been looking forward in this kind of gig, and now here it is! The good thing in this genre is actually a combination of the fantasy and sci-fi type of art. You can draw anything you what in this genre because you can draw something that was not actually existing in reality. Most of the time you create new sci-fi designs like backgrounds, armor and other stuff. So I think this is more enjoyable to draw." Then come back check our interview with writer Greg Pak on the Silver Surfer mini! "Silver Surfer #1 (of 5)" hits this coming February! | <urn:uuid:87d7b450-44e5-41c9-9660-dd79d4d57e1b> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.cosmicbooknews.com/content/interview-silver-surfer-artist-stephen-segovia | 2016-05-29T23:27:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049282275.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002122-00244-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929455 | 219 | [
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In the previous post below, we began our discussion of force and acceleration concepts, in the RST, noting that, although Larson redefined motion in terms of scalar magnitudes, he didn’t redefine force and acceleration in scalar terms. Yet, charge, gravitational as well as electrical and magnetic, is a scalar magnitude, not a vectorial magnitude. Force, on the other hand is not a scalar magnitude, but a vector magnitude; that is, a Coulomb force (charge), or a gravitational force (mass), affects another charge, or another mass, only in the direction defined by the distance between them.
Thus, the scalar magnitude of charge is manifest as a vectorial magnitude of force, whenever it interacts with another charge. We see the same thing with scalar motion in general. Galaxies A, B, and C, on a line, are moving away from each other, because of the scalar motion affecting them, but the scalar motion, expanding in all directions, is manifest as a vectorial motion of the galaxies, in a direction along the line between them.
However, in the LST concept, force is measured in units called Newtons, and given autonomous status, as if it were something independent of motion. Larson pointed out emphatically that this is a mistake (see especially The Neglected Facts of Science), but he didn’t go so far as to actually undertake to reexamine the force equation in light of this conceptual error.
Nevertheless, when we consider the so-called self-force concept, which is regarded as the force generated by a charge on itself, we get to the the crux of the major difficulty in LST theory that plagues it to this day. The electromagnetic theory of force is inconsistent. Because of this, classical electromagnetic theory was abandoned in favor of the quantum mechanical approach, but, in the end, this major change didn’t help solve the problem. As Richard Feynman explains it in his Lectures on Physics, page 28-4, the problem ultimately comes down to the idea of autonomous force, which Larson criticized, even though Feynman doesn’t use those words:
In deriving our equations of energy and momentum, we assumed the conservation laws. We assumed that all forces were taken into account and that any work done and any momentum carried by other “nonelectrical” machinery was included. Now, if we have a sphere of charge, the electrical forces are all repulsive and an electron would tend to fly apart. Because the system has unbalanced forces [read autonomous forces here], we can get all kinds of errors in the laws relating energy and momentum. To get a consistent picture, we must imagine that something holds the electron together. The charges [discrete fractions of charges distributed over the surface] must be held to the sphere by some kind of rubber bands - something that keeps the charges from flying off. It was first pointed out by Poincare that the rubber bands - or whatever it is that holds the electron together - must be included in the momentum and energy calculations. For this reason the extra nonelectrical forces are also known by the more elegant name “Poincare stresses.” If the extra forces are included in the calculations, [they] are consistent with relativity; i.e., the mass that comes out from the momentum calculation is the same as the one that comes from the energy calculation. Both of them contain two contributions; an electromagnetic mass and contribution from the Poincare stresses. Only when the two are added together do we get a consistent theory.
Thus, the LST’s autonomous forces, generated by the distributed electrical charges, on the surface of the sphere, have to be held together by some mechanism of restraint, a mechanical force of some kind, and if this is included in the calculations, then the mass of the electron, calculated from the energy of the electrical field from the charge, or from the mass component of the momentum associated with the velocity of the field, is the same. The bottom line is that the mass cannot arise solely from the electron’s charge; another, non-electrical, non-explainable, autonomous, force is required to hold the electron together against the strong electrical forces pulling it apart, and this leads to trouble. As Feynman observes:
Feynman goes on to explain in more detail why this is so, but it comes down to the same thing: if you allow the electron to be a point and, at the same time, act on itself, something Feynman characterizes as “perhaps a silly thing,” you have to modify Maxwell’s theory of electrodynamics. “Many attempts have been made,” writes Feynman, “but all of these theories have died.” Moreover, quantum mechanics doesn’t help, because there is no model of the electron in quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics only describes a quantum state of the electron, not its structure. Feynman explains:
Clearly as soon as we have to put forces on the inside of the electron, the beauty of the whole idea [i.e. deriving mass from Maxwell’s equations], begins to disappear. Things get very complicated. You would want to ask: how strong are the stresses? How does the electron shake? Does it oscillate? What are all its internal properties? And so on. It might be possible that the electron does have some complicated internal properties. If we made a theory of an electron along those lines, it would predict odd properties, the modes of oscillation, which haven’t apparently been observed. We say “apparently” because we observe a lot of things in nature that still do not make sense. We may someday find out that one of the things that we don’t understand today (for example the muon), can, in fact, be explained as an oscillation of the Poincare stresses…there are so many things about fundamental particles that we still don’t understand. Anyway, the complex structure implied by this theory is undesirable, and the attempt to explain all mass in terms of electromagnetism…has led to a blind alley.
It turns out, however, that nobody has ever succeeded in making a self-consistent quantum theory out of any of the modified [classical] theories…We do not know how to make a consistent theory - including the quantum mechanics - which does not produce an infinity for the self-energy of the electron, or any point charge. And, at the same time, there is no satisfactory theory that describes a non-point charge. It is an unsolved problem.
Of course, in developing our RST-based theory, we escape the horns of this dilemma, by recognizing that electrical, magnetic, and gravitational forces, are properties of scalar, not vectorial, or M2, motions, and that they are certainly not autonomous entities that can exist independently on the surface of a sphere, as a consequence of interacting charges. In the new system, we can define force and acceleration (mass) in space|time terms in a way that eliminates the infinities of point particles and the need for Poincare stresses, in non-point particles.
That is to say, we can redefine force, just as we redefine motion: In the universe of motion, like everything else, force and acceleration must be motions, a combination of motions, or a relation between motions. Clearly, then, they are relations between motions, and/or relations between combinations of motions. As pointed out in the previous post below, we can see from their dimensions that force, dt/ds2, is one-dimensional energy (inverse speed), dt/ds, per unit of space, 1/ds, and acceleration, ds/dt2, is one-dimensional speed, ds/dt, per unit of time, 1/dt.
However, things are complicated quite a bit by the fact that numerical dimensions, are not necessarily geometric dimensions, that, while geometric dimensions are limited to three, numerical dimensions are not limited to three, even though they are related to the three geometric dimensions, in a special manner. Consequently, we have to be very careful in our expressions of multi-dimensional magnitudes, such as t/s2, or s/t2, in order not to confuse geometric dimensions with numerical dimensions.
For instance, while force, t/s2, can be interpreted as
F = ma,
because the dimensions are consistent, in this case, giving us
F = ma = (t3/s3)(s/t2) = t/s2,
it doesn’t necessarily follow that force should be defined this way in general. In the case of the electrical force equation,
F = Q1Q2/d2,
for instance, the force equation does not involve the dimensions of mass or acceleration:
F = (t/s)(t/s)/s2 = (t2/s2)(1/t) = t/s2 (substituting 1/t for s2, explained below), while,
in the gravitational equation, it does involve the dimensions of mass, but not of acceleration,
F = GM1M2/d2 = G(t3/s3)(t3/s3)/s2 = G(t6/s6)(1/t) = G(t5/s6).
Clearly, t5/s6, makes no sense geometrically, because there are only three geometric dimensions, not six (we don’t subscribe to a concept of hidden dimensions). Yet, when we recognize that the numerical dimensions, higher than three (four, counting zero) are geometrically mapped, so-to-speak, by the Bott periodicity theorem, into repeating groups of four dimensions, called tetrakti, in the reciprocal system of mathematics (RSM), we see that x5 corresponds to x5-4, and x6 corresponds to x6-4, geometrically. Therefore, t5/s6 is equivalent to t/s2, adjusted by a constant, presumably the observed gravitational constant G.
However, if this is true, then what is the 1/t term in the force equation, and where do the higher dimensions come from? Physically, 1/dt is a frequency, and it’s hard to see how time, t, can be equivalent to distance squared. Of course, this will take some more thought, but it’s possible that t is related to s2, because the temporal period of a cycle is related to the spatial area of a square, as the time it takes to complete one cycle defines a definite circumference and diameter, at unit speed. So, increasing/decreasing the distance between two locations, as the index, d, of a square area variable, might also be equvalently expressed as an increasing/decreasing period, as an index, t, of a circular area variable (π r2), even though this seems like a long shot at this point.
As far as where the higher dimensions come from, the separation of geometric from numerical dimensions makes this clear. The dimensions are actually the number of points involved; that is, two points (two S|T units), form the basis for a line, three an area and four a volume, but 5 is a point in the volume, 6 is a line in the volume, 7 is enough for an area, and 8 is enough for a second volume in the initial volume. Then 9 is a point in the volume of the volume, 10 is a line in the volume of the volume, etc, ad infinitum. Again, this is what Raul Bott proved as the periodicity theorem that bears his name.
I know this sounds crazy, but it’s where the path leads. The obvious conclusion is that what we have here, in order to make the dimensions come out right, is a new force equation, the self-force equation, if you will, except that the self-force is actually a scalar force. In other words, we can redefine the vector force equation, the equation that holds for the vectorial force between two charges, or two masses, in terms of the scalar motion equation that the vector force is part of. Just as the galaxies are moving apart scalarly, but a vector motion is part of that motion, as explained above in the beginning of this post, the charges/masses are moving scalarly, but the force property of that motion is directed along the line between them.
Thus, the equations,
F = Q1Q2/t, and F = GM1M2/t,
express the scalar force, because t, the period of oscillation, determines the radius of the sphere that in turn determines the 4 pi r2 area of the sphere, a part of which, is directed along a line between the charges, and is subject to the inverse square law along the line between them.
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St. Cloud State University will inaugurate Earl Potter as its 22nd president this afternoon, even though he has been on the job for 14 months.
Higher education inaugurations are typically celebrated around the first year of the new administration, when presidents are in a better position to talk about the visions for their schools.
Today's inauguration will focus on contributions to the community by faculty, staff, and students.
Potter envisions a stronger relationship between the university and the St. Cloud community. He is expected to address more than 500 people.
Potter came to St. Cloud State from South Oregon University, where he served as executive vice president and provost. He has also had academic administrative positions at four other schools.
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Gears do not work in prism
Nominated for Maverick by Andri Agassi
Binary package hint: gears
I've installed gears package, and prism applications show Gears addon in addon list.
But when I try to install, say, Gmail Offline, or GReader offline, or anything uses gears in prism, relevant webapps ask me to install Gears, not "Allow using Gears to this application?"
|Changed in gears (Ubuntu):|
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Upgraded Volvo V70, XC70 and S80 get latest infotainment and safety technology plus even more efficient drivelines
The Volvo V70, XC70 and S80 are now being upgraded with a number of features that further emphasise the company's focus on cars designed around the needs and wishes of people in modern society.
The new features include the latest user-friendly Volvo Sensus infotainment system, enhanced technology that makes driving even safer and more comfortable, and refined drivelines that offer higher performance and lower fuel consumption.
"These cars mark yet another step forward in our determination to be the brand that best interprets what buyers of modern prestige cars want. Concern for the individual's well-being is the very core of our Scandinavian origin. On this basis we create a logical, intuitive and ergonomically optimised driver's environment that promotes a feeling of relaxed control," says Volvo Cars' President and CEO Stefan Jacoby.
Volvo Sensus is an excellent example of how Volvo Cars refines the driver environment. The new infotainment system made its debut in the Volvo S60 and V60 in 2010. Now the Volvo XC60, V70, XC70 and S80 also get the same feature.
Volvo Sensus - ergonomic high-tech
In Sensus, all information is presented on a five-inch or seven-inch colour screen in the upper part of the centre stack. The screen is positioned high up to make it easy for the driver to keep his or hers eyes on the road.
Pressing once on the "My Car" button in the centre stack offers access to a range of settings, such as for City Safety, Collision Warning, Pedestrian Detection, Driver Alert System, Active Cruise Control, lighting, door mirrors, climate unit, central locking and audio system.
If the customer chooses a multimedia audio system, Volvo Sensus comes upgraded with the larger seven-inch screen that also displays information and images from the navigation system, phone, reversing camera, panorama camera, DVD player, digital TV and so on.
The Bluetooth connection has been upgraded to allow not only hands-free phone conversations but also music streaming from your preferred Bluetooth enabled portable music player. Volvo is actually the only brand to offer Bluetooth music streaming throughout the entire vehicle range.
Integrated navigation with voice commands is available as an option as well as an entertainment system for rear-seat passengers. This package includes among other things DVD player, two eight-inch screens integrated into the front seat headrests, wireless headphones and remote control.
Full control without distraction
All the functions can be controlled via buttons built into the steering wheel or via touch buttons located just below the colour screen.
"Volvo Sensus does not distract the driver from driving. The idea is that the technology should be so intuitive that the user can manoeuvre the menus without having to first read through the instruction manual. We are one of the few manufacturers to offer the driver access to all the system's functions via buttons in the steering wheel," says Lex Kerssemakers, Senior Vice President, Product Strategy & Vehicle Line Management at Volvo Cars.
World-class audio experience
The most advanced audio unit, Premium, has a class D digital 5x130W amplifier, subwoofer, Dolby Digital in combination with Dolby Pro Logic II Surround, the latest MultEQ from Audyssey Laboratories and 10 loudspeakers.
The market-leading MultEQ technology from Audyssey Laboratories eliminates the distortion that might otherwise be caused by the passenger compartment's particular acoustic properties. The result is crisper and clearer sound for everyone in the car.
In addition to Premium Sound, which is combined with a seven-inch screen, there are three other audio system levels. All have been tailored for the car by Volvo Cars' in-house experts.
Now also with Pedestrian Detection
Pedestrian Detection with Full Auto Brake, previously presented in the Volvo S60, V60 and XC60, is now also available in the Volvo V70, XC70 and S80. It is a support function designed to help the driver detect dangerous situations and it can actively help avoid the nightmare scenario of hitting a pedestrian.
Pedestrian Detection with Full Auto Brake uses radar and a camera to monitor pedestrians in front of the car. The system initially provides a warning to alert the driver so he or she can brake or steer clear of the pedestrian. If the driver does not respond, the car automatically brakes with full force moments before the collision becomes unavoidable. With automatic braking, collisions can in certain circumstances be avoided at speeds below 35 km/h.
If all cars had Pedestrian Detection with Full Auto Brake, it is estimated that the number of pedestrian fatalities could be reduced by more than 20 percent. The reduction in serious injuries would be almost 30 percent. In three out of ten cases, a collision could be entirely avoided.
Pedestrian Detection with Full Auto Brake has somewhat impaired "vision" in certain conditions, for instance in the dark and in poor weather.
Adaptive cruise control down to standstill
The collision warning system has also been programmed to respond to vehicles in front that are at a standstill or are moving in the same direction. In certain situations, a collision can be avoided if the speed difference between the two vehicles is less than 35 km/h.
In the area of comfort the Volvo V70, XC70 and S80 equipped with automatic transmission can now be specified with the latest version of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), which automatically helps maintain a constant safety margin to the vehicle in front.
What is new is that this system now operates all the way down to standstill. The car accelerates automatically once the traffic starts moving again.
City Safety as standard
One other new feature is that City Safety is standard in all three models. This system can lessen the severity of or entirely avoid low-speed rear-end collisions at speeds of up to 30km/h.
City Safety keeps a watch on vehicles in front with the help of a laser sensor built into the windscreen at the height of the rear-view mirror. The car automatically brakes if the driver does not respond in time when the car in front slows down or stops - or if the driver is driving too fast towards a stationary object.
If the relative speed difference between the two vehicles is less than 15 km/h, the collision can be entirely avoided. If the speed difference is between 15-30 km/h, the speed of impact is reduced to minimise the effects of the collision.
Other new features inside and out
Among the other new features in the Volvo V70, XC70 and S80 are:
Increased performance and lower fuel consumption
The Volvo V70, XC70 and S80 are the first in the model range to feature higher performance versions of the five-cylinder D5 and D3 turbodiesels.
In the D5 engine Volvo Cars' engine experts have succeeded in boosting performance and torque from 205 hp/420 Nm to 215 hp and 440 Nm while at the same time reducing fuel consumption by eight percent. This means that the fuel consumption of a Volvo S80 D5 with manual gearbox is now just 4.9 l/100 km (EU Combined), corresponding to 129 g of CO2 per kilometre.
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|Dev: Cryptic Studios|
|Pub: Perfect World Entertainment|
|Release: May 21, 2013|
|Players: 1 (MMO)|
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p||Fantasy Violence, Mild Suggestive Themes|
by Robert VerBruggen
Cryptic Studios and Perfect World Entertainment could not have picked a better time to debut a fresh expansion for Star Trek Online. Legacy of Romulus is almost guaranteed to get a bump from Into Darkness, J. J. Abrams' newest film based on the franchise.
But is the new, improved Star Trek Online good enough to hook new players and maintain existing ones? Based on my early experiences with the new material, I'd say it is.
Legacy of Romulus provides a fairly standard MMO experience in many ways, but it sets itself apart by offering a unique Star Trek story, well-done voice acting, and gripping space combat. Throw in the fact that all the new content is free-to-play -- with purchasable enhancements, of course -- and you have a game that deserves to live long and prosper.
Before this expansion, Star Trek Online players had a rather limited set of story options. The Federation was the only available faction at Level 1; you had to unlock the ability to play as a Klingon, and the Klingon characters you created began at a higher level. Now, the Klingons are available from the get-go, with a new tutorial and some missions added to provide a smooth leveling experience. More importantly, the expansion features an entirely new faction as well, the Romulans. At last, Star Trek Online feels like a fully featured MMO, instead of a starter kit for a bigger experience.
I rolled with the Romulans, seeing as they're the hot new thing. For those of you who don’t know Star Trek from Star Wars, the Romulans splintered off from the Vulcans centuries before the events here -- while the split wasn't violent, the Romulans didn't want to head down the Vulcans' logic-oriented path. The Romulans settled on the planet Romulus; Remans, a related group that appears in the expansion as well, settled on nearby Remus.
Unfortunately, Romulus and Remus have been destroyed, and refugees from the planets have dispersed throughout the universe. The evil Tal Shiar seek to unite the Romulans under one banner by force, but you will play as a member of the resistance, rescuing refugees who don't want to be part of the Tal Shiar and fighting back. Once you play through the new Romulan content, you'll choose whether to ally yourself with the Klingons or the Federation, and then you'll play the rest of the game alongside your new friends.
The gameplay in Star Trek Online is divided into two different types. Sometimes, you'll be acting as the captain of a starship, maneuvering through space and directing your crew to attack the enemy. At other points, you'll leave the ship to explore planets, equipped with the usual handheld weapons of the Star Trek universe.
The action on the ground will be very familiar to anyone who's spent a few hours with World of Warcraft (or any other MMO, for that matter). While the combat takes place in real time, it doesn't have the feel of action -- you just click on enemies to direct your character to attack them, and then you engage your special abilities as often as the cooldown timers will let you. It’s kind of like Diablo from an over-the-shoulder view.
I won't sugarcoat it: This can be boring. World of Warcraft is about a decade old, and many of us didn't find its combat all that intriguing to begin with. It doesn't demand careful thought like a turn-based RPG or sharp reflexes like an action game; instead, it's a clumsy hybrid of the two that mainly requires you to figure out the attack pattern that maximizes your damage-per-second statistic and stick to it. Sure, you have to be careful not to trigger too many enemies at once -- and hardcore gamers can discover a lot of nuance, especially when it comes to PvP tactics and high-level dungeon raiding -- but it’s really not for everyone.
Fortunately, the combat is much, much more interesting in space. While the ships move slowly, there is a great deal of strategy involved -- you can cloak yourself and go in for a sneak attack, and many of your weapons will fire only in the direction your ship is facing. Romulan ships are each equipped with a singularity warp core, which charges until it can unleash a huge attack. With this expansion, all non-Romulan ships will receive warp cores as well.
MMOs aren't just about the combat, of course -- they're also about the addictive character-building experience. Legacy of Romulus excels here, albeit mainly by taking the WoW model and giving it a Star Trek-themed makeover.
Over time, you'll acquire massive amounts of gear, as well as crew members and skill points. The skill trees, which have been revamped for this expansion, are ridiculously expansive -- you can create a character with any combination of perks you'd like: from high weapon damage, to an uncanny ability to use grenades, to a variety of less exciting but equally useful skills. Of course, the occupation you choose at the beginning of the game (engineer, science, or tactical) will strongly influence your choices as you beef your character up. | <urn:uuid:fc666e03-b5b9-4809-9a18-16f55fc38be0> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://cheatcc.com/pc/rev/startrekonlinelegacyofromulusreview.html | 2016-05-24T23:26:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049273946.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002113-00189-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955527 | 1,141 | [
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Growth of Twitter vs. Blogger MAY 08 2007
Important update: I've re-evaluated the Twitter data and came up with what I think is a much more accurate representation of what's going on.
Further update: The Twitter data is bad, bad, bad, rendering Andy's post and most of this here post useless. Both jumps in Twitter activity in Nov 2006 and March 2007 are artificial in nature. See here for an update.
Update: A commenter noted that sometime in mid-March, Twitter stopped using sequential IDs. So that big upswing that the below graphs currently show is partially artificial. I'm attempting to correct now. This is the danger of doing this type of analysis with "data" instead of data.
In mid-March, Andy Baio noted that Twitter uses publicly available sequential message IDs and employed Twitter co-founder Evan Williams' messages to graph the growth of the service over the first year of its existence. Williams co-founded Blogger back in 1999, a service that, as it happens, also exposed its sequential post IDs to the public. Itching to compare the growth of the two services from their inception, I emailed Matt Webb about a script he'd written a few years ago that tracked the daily growth of Blogger. His stats didn't go back far enough so I borrowed Andy's idea and used Williams' own blog to get his Blogger post IDs and corresponding dates. Here are the resulting graphs of that data.1
The first one covers the first 253 days of each service. The second graph shows the Twitter data through May 7, 2007 and the Blogger data through March 7, 2002. [Some notes about the data are contained in this footnote.]
As you can see, the two services grew at a similar pace until around 240 days in, with Blogger posts increasing faster than Twitter messages. Then around November 21, 2006, Twitter took off and never looked back. At last count, Twitter has amassed five times the number of messages than Blogger did in just under half the time period. But Blogger was not the slouch that the graph makes it out to be. Plotting the service by itself reveals a healthy growth curve:
From late 2001 to early 2002, Blogger doubled the number of messages in its database from 5M to 10M in under 200 days. Of course, it took Twitter just over 40 days to do the same and under 20 days to double again to 20M. The curious thing about Blogger's message growth is that large events like 9/11, SXSW 2000 & 2001, new versions of Blogger, and the launch of blog*spot didn't affect the growth at all. I expected to see a huge message spike on 9/11/01 but there was barely a blip.
The second graph also shows that Twitter's post-SXSW 2007 growth is real and not just a temporary bump...a bunch of people came to check it out, stayed on, and everyone messaged like crazy. However, it does look like growth is slowing just a bit if you look at the data on a logarithmic scale:
Actually, as the graph shows, the biggest rate of growth for Twitter didn't occur following SXSW 2007 but after November 21.
As for why Twitter took off so much faster than Blogger, I came up with five possible reasons (there are likely more):
1. Twitter is easier to use than Blogger was. All you need is a web browser or mobile phone. Before blog*spot came along in August 2000, you needed web space with FTP access to set up a Blogger blog, not something that everyone had.
2. Twitter has more ways to create a new message than Blogger did at that point. With Blogger, you needed to use the form on the web site to create a post. To post to Twitter, you can use the web, your phone, an IM client, Twitterrific, etc. It's also far easier to send data to Twitter programatically...the NY Times account alone sends a couple dozen new messages into the Twitter database every day without anyone having to sit there and type them in.
3. Blogger was more strapped for cash and resources than Twitter is. The company that built Blogger ran out of money in early 2001 and nearly out of employees shortly after that. Hard to say how Blogger might have grown if the dot com crash and other factors hadn't led to the severe limitation of its resources for several key months.
4. Twitter has a much larger pool of available users than Blogger did. Blogger launched in August 1999 and Twitter almost 7 years later in March 2006. In the intervening time, hundreds of millions of people, the media, and technology & media companies have become familiar and comfortable with services like YouTube, Friendster, MySpace, Typepad, Blogger, Facebook, and GMail. Hundreds of millions more now have internet access and mobile phones. The potential user base for the two probably differed by an order of magnitude or two, if not more.
5. But the biggest factor is that the social aspect of Twitter is built in and that's where the super-fast growth comes from. With Blogger, reading, writing, and creating social ties were decoupled from each other but they're all integrated into Twitter. Essentially, the top graph shows the difference between a site with social networking and one largely without. Those steep parts of the Twitter trend on Nov 21 and mid-March? That's crazy insane viral growth2, very contagious, users attracting more users, messages resulting in more messages, multiplying rapidly. With the way Blogger worked, it just didn't have the capability for that kind of growth.
A few miscellaneous thoughts:
It's important to keep in mind that these graphs depict the growth in messages, not users or web traffic. It would be great to have user growth data, but that's not publicly available in either case (I don't think). It's tempting to look at the growth and think of it in terms of new users because the two are obviously related. More users = more messages. But that's not a static relationship...perhaps Twitter's userbase is not increasing all that much and the message growth is due to the existing users increasing their messaging output. So, grain of salt and all that.
What impact does Twitter's API have on its message growth? As I said above, the NY Times is pumping dozens of messages into Twitter daily and hundreds of other sites do the same. This is where it would be nice to have data for the number of active users and/or readers. The usual caveats apply, but if you look at the Alexa trends for Twitter, pageviews and traffic seem to leveling out. Compete, which only offers data as recently as March 2007, still shows traffic growing quickly for Twitter.
Just for comparison, here's a graph showing the adoption of various technologies ranging from the automobile to the internet. Here's another graph showing the adoption of four internet-based applications: Skype, Hotmail, ICQ, and Kazaa (source: a Tim Draper presentation from April 2006).
[Thanks to Andy, Matt, Anil, Meg, and Jonah for their data and thoughts.]
Some notes and caveats about the data. The Blogger post IDs were taken from archived versions of Evhead and Anil Dash's site stored at the Internet Archive and from a short-lived early collaborative blog called Mezzazine. For posts prior to the introduction of the permalink in March 2000, most pages output by Blogger didn't publish the post IDs. Luckily, both Ev and Anil republished their old archives with permalinks at a later time, which allowed me to record the IDs.
The earliest Blogger post ID I could find was 9871 on November 23, 1999. Posts from before that date had higher post IDs because they were re-imported into the database at a later time so an accurate trend from before 11/23/99 is impossible. According to an archived version of the Blogger site, Blogger was released to the public on August 23, 1999, so for the purposes of the graph, I assumed that post #1 happened on that day. (As you can see, Anil was one of the first 2-3 users of Blogger who didn't work at Pyra. That's some old school flavor right there.)
Regarding the re-importing of the early posts, that happened right around mid-December 1999...the post ID numbers jumped from ~13,000 to ~25,000 in one day. In addition to the early posts, I imagine some other posts were imported from various Pyra weblogs that weren't published with Blogger at the time. I adjusted the numbers subsequent to this discontinuity and the resulting numbers are not precise but are within 100-200 of the actual values, an error of less than 1% at that point and becoming significantly smaller as the number of posts grows large. The last usable Blogger post ID is from March 7, 2002. After that, the database numbering scheme changed and I was unable to correct for it. A few months later, Blogger switched to a post numbering system that wasn't strictly sequential.
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On yesterday’s episode of Hallmark Channel’s MARIE, host Marie Osmond welcomed One Life to Live favorite Tuc Watkins (David Vickers) to the show to promote the premiere of the returns of all-new episode of the beloved soap opera!
During Tuc’s two segments, Marie posed questions many fans have asked in regards to how the new One Life will be different than than the ABC version, and the how the show no longer has to deal with the standards and practices barrier of the network in their new online platform. Tuc filled the audience at home and in the audience in.
Additionally, Tuc became a proud new papa to two adorable twin babies born four months ago … Curtis and Catchen Watkins! Tuc tells Marie how he came to choose the two names for his new little bundles of joy, and how he prepared for their arrival being a gay single dad.
Later Tuc is joined by his delightful sister Courtney Watkins who Tuc says lives 15 minutes away from him, but often calls with baby emergencies and asked her to show up in five minutes! Of course the ever funny Tuc, was being his witty self! Courtney who is a host on TV’s Disney Family’s The Possibility Show. Tuc’s talented sis, also runs Creative Adventures which is an enrichment program for grade school children, which was also discussed during the segment.
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Sister attended Hutchinson's Junior College and Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Kansas and received her BSN in May of 1943. She worked as a nursing supervisor and in administration throughout her nursing career in Missouri and Kansas until 1981. At this time she went into Pastoral Ministry in Springfield and retired from Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott, Kan. She retired to Mercy Convent in Fort Scott and moved to Barling in January of 2004.
Sister is survived by several nieces and nephews.
Rosary will be said at 11 a.m., Tuesday, May 29, at McAuley Convent Chapel in Barling. The funeral mass will be at 2 p.m., Tuesday, May 29, at McAuley Convent Chapel with burial to follow at Calvary Cemetery in Fort Smith.
Arrangements are under the direction of Fentress Mortuary of Fort Smith.
Pallbearers will be employees of McAuley Convent.
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COMMENTARY ON ISLAMIC WEBSITES
Somali Memo - The pro-al-Shabaab website claimed that al-Shabaab forces are set to soon liberate Galgadud districts which are under the control of the infidel enemy forces. Sheikh Awale Aden of al-Shabaab's Galgadud Administration stated many of the displaced people civilians are returning to their homes, especially districts al-Shabaab liberated from the enemy. The website said al-Shabaab is prepared to liberate the other districts in the hands of the infidel forces.Somali Language
Somaliland Press - The Somali government says it has reached an agreement with traditional elders to move ahead with plans to adopt a draft constitution. A government minister told VOA that a Constituent Assembly will provisionally adopt the measure during an 8-day conference that begins on Saturday. Constitution and Reconciliation Minister Abdirahman Hosh Jibril said leaders set the date during a meeting Sunday. The 825-member assembly was to meet earlier this month. But the gathering was delayed after some elders called for changes in the measure, including the addition of wording that affirms Mogadishu as Somalia’s capital. Officials said some elders also have taken issue with a provision allowing women to run for high office.
Associated Press - A scathing report written for the U.N. Security Council says that systematic misappropriation, embezzlement and outright theft of taxpayer funds have become a system of governance in Somalia. The nearly 200-page report lists numerous examples of money intended for Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) going missing, saying that for every $10 received, $7 never made it into state coffers. The report, written by the U.N. Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea and obtained by The Associated Press Monday, says government revenues aren't even clear: The Ministry of Finance reported revenues of $72 million in fiscal year 2011, while the accountant general reported revenues of $55 million. "Nothing gets done in this government without someone asking the question...'What's in it for me?'" the report quoted a senior government official as saying. (Editor's Note: A detailed analysis and link of the report is published by Somalia Report.)
All Africa - A lawmaker in Somalia's parliament has strongly condemned Kenya's air raids inside Somali territory, a day after Kenyan fighter jets carried out a deadly aerial attacks in Gedo region, west of Somalia. Mohamed Omar Geedi, the MP said during an interview with Shabelle Media that it will not be tolerable that Kenyan military to continue their air raids and kill innocent civilians of Somalia. "We spoke out in several times over the Kenyan attacks against Al shabab fighters. During the attacks many civilians, mostly herds were killed and others seriously hurt. I call upon Kenyan government to avoid civilian casualties as it carries out shelling against rebel-held villages in south and west of Somalia," he added.
The Telegraph - In the feverish atmosphere of Kenya’s war on terror, rumours abound as to the whereabouts of Samantha Lewthwaite, the Muslim convert from Aylesbury who is on the run after a foiled bomb plot. Yet several witnesses who spoke to The Daily Telegraph this week said they saw a woman in Islamic clothing, including a headscarf but not a veil, and several said she was pale-skinned. There are two dangers here. First, there is the possibility that the myth created around her will take on its own life. "The fact is that every young Muslim here sees the double standards of the West," said Sheikh Abubaker. "By accusing us of being terrorists when we are not, that will of course turn us into terrorists, through our anger and frustration. You must beware of what you create." The other danger, more chilling, is that Samantha Lewthwaite is everything that she has been accused of being.
FOX News - Sea piracy fell 54 percent worldwide in the first half of 2012, led by a dramatic drop in Somali piracy, an international maritime watchdog said Monday. The International Maritime Bureau attributed the sharp drop to anti-piracy operations by international navies patrolling in seas off Somalia as well as increased vigilance by ships, including the hiring of private armed guards on board. Attacks off Somalia's coast plunged to 69 in the first six months from 163 a year earlier, it said. Somali pirates were able to seize 13 vessels, down from 21. "The naval actions play an essential role in frustrating the pirates. There is no alternative to their continued presence," said IMB Director Pottengal Mukundan. He warned that Somali pirates remain a serious threat, with 11 vessels and 218 crew members still in their hands as of late June.
OIL EXPLORATIONS/EAST AFRICAN CONFLICT
Oil Price - Kenya has raised the ire of Somalia by awarding offshore oil and gas exploration blocks to multinational companies in contested waters, and while the mainstream Western media glosses over this as a simple irritant for Kenya, Total and ENI, the move will give new impetus to Somali piracy and threatens to open up another frontline in the Somali conflict. Kenya is perhaps being a bit hasty in its excitement over oil, having discovered its very first commercially exploitable oil inland in the Rift Valley earlier this year. While that find is not contested, its decision to award three exploration blocks to Italy’s Eni and one to France’s Total in coastal waters claimed both by Kenya and Somalia is questionable. "Kenya is clearly holding most of the cards, here, but this is a dangerous game whose timing is a bit off. The transitional Somali government requires as much support from the various influential clans as it can muster in order to defeat al-Shabaab and lessen the chance of any future insurgencies of a nationalist flavor. Kenya’s move to sideline Somalia over these oil exploration blocks risks skewing alliances at a pivotal point in the conflict," Michael Bagley, president of Jellyfish Operations, which manages an intelligence network in Somalia, told Oilprice.com.
Garowe Online - At least 40 people are suffering from an outbreak in the town of Qol in Haylaan region of Puntland State of Somalia, Garowe Online reports. The symptoms of the sickness include chronic diarrhea and excessive vomiting and have led to over 40 people in the small town of Qol seeking medical treatment. Dr. Adan Mohamed Ali, who is part of the small staff of doctors in Qol, said that the outbreak and the lack of medical services in the town have caused some to seek treatment in Qardo and Garowe. According to sources, out of the 40 plus people who have been suffering from the symptoms, 6 are in critical condition and have been taken to the nearest cities.
HUMANITARIAN CRISIS/PUBLIC HEALTH
New Strait Times - The Perdana Global Peace Foundation (PGPF), is putting together resources to help those in Somalia to have clean water facilities. Foundation trustee Datuk Ahmad A. Talib, who had just returned on Saturday from a six-day trip to Mogadishu, said the people there needed better water facilities. "They are relying on wells for their daily water supply and some of these wells have been around for more than 300 years. But these wells are very deep and need a good pump system. "In our recent visit, we helped to fit new pumps at three wells. We plan to help them to build more wells in Mogadishu when we go back there in three to four months."
CBS Sports - This video showcases the determination of Somali Olympiads to make to the London Olympics 2012, despite all the odds against them. "At this summer's Olympic games, the two Somalis who will be competing know that a medal is beyond their grasp. But just making it there is a dream come true for the two athletes, who have spent their lives running for bullets and a brutal civil war."
Radio Mogadishu - A pro-government radio station
A statement released by the office of Somalia President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed announced that the president has appointed a new administration for Galgadud region of central Somalia after certain Galgadud districts were recently liberated al-Shabaab militias. Ahmed Yusuf 'Iyow was nominated to be the governor of Galgadud region, Deputy Governor Saadaaq Sheikh Yuusuf Sheikh Ibraahim, chairman of the capital city, Dhuusamareeb Mo’alim Abdirahmaan Geed-La-Qorow and the chairman of Guri’el district Osman Iise Nuur. "The Galgadud region is suffering a lot of problems, including armed conflict, drought and water shortage, so we are urging the government to help the people of the region," said the new governor.
Radio Andalus - A pro-al-Shabaab radio station
A special operation carried out by al-Shabaab Mujaideen's explosions unit killed the former pro-infidel trade minister and current parliament member Mahamud Abdi Ibrahim Garweyne after his car was hit by explosions in Hamar-weyne district of Mogadishu. The Mujahideens attached an explosive device to the former minister's car. Garweyne also was a member of so-called National Security Council and he was a close friend of the leader of the pro-infidels group, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. An eye witness told Radio Andalus that the body of Garweyne could not be identified since it was badly burned by the explosion.
At least six pro-infidels militias and several infidels were injured in heavy fighting that broke out between al-Shabaab Mujahideens and the enemy at Elasha Biyaha, Hawo Abdi, Lafole and other villages in the outskirts of Mogadishu. Both fights erupted when the Mujahideens launched attacks at the enemy’s military bases in those areas. It is also reported that an AMISOM vehicles was burned in the fighting.
Radio Al-Furqaan - A pro-al-Shabaab radio station
At least six civilians and traders were killed and several others injured by the TFG troops in Afgooye town of Lower Shabelle region over the last 12 hours. Four of the people died after TFG militias fired at minibus in Bar-Ismail checkpoint, where TFG militias extort bribes from the motorists. The TFG militias also have killed a father and his son in their shop in the center of Afgoye and looted all the goods in the shop including 70 mobile phones. Afgoye was safe when the Mujahideens were controlling the town but the insecurity and robbers increased since the TFG and the foreign troops took control of it last month.
Radio Bar-Kulan - An independent radio station
Three alleged al-Shabaab militant fighters on Monday surrendered themselves to the Somali government forces in Lower Juba. Col. Mohamed Abdullahi, a government official in charge of Afmadow, told Radio Bar-kulan that three militant fighters surrendered to the government soldiers in the region together with their weapons. He said two of the militants surrendered to government officials in Hosingow while the third one who sneaked from the militant group handed himself in at Afmadow, the second largest town in the region. Abdullahi stated that the trio will soon be moved to the border town of Dobley where there is a rehabilitation camp for defectors. The defectors decided to denounce their militancy and leave the group after they failed to receive their allowances, exposing them to harsh living condition, according to Abdullahi. Their defection comes six days after a senior al-Shabaab militant leader and his bodyguard surrendered to the allied forces in Garbaharey town of Gedo region.
An ASWJ official in central Somalia has claimed that his group has received evidence that the French national, Denis Allex, who used to work for French intelligence services (DGSE) before he was kidnapped by al-Shabaab militants in Mogadishu in 2009 is alive and has converted to Islam. In an exclusive interview with Bar-kulan, ASWJ’s security boss in El-Bur, Abdi Hassan Mohamed, said Allex goes by the name Abu Omar after converting to Islam and he is still in the hands of al-Shabaab. He said Allex now lives in an area called Januni, some 45 kilometres north of El-Bur town where he runs a militant training camp. Mohamed alleged that the former French intelligence services official trains around 900 militant, mainly children. He said they were contacted by parents of some of the "militants to be trainees" handled by Allex himself. Allex was seized in Mogadishu on July 14, 2009, as was another French agent who was held by a different group, Hezb al-Islam, and freed the following month.
Radio Shabelle - An independent radio station
Al Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab militants have shot and killed a young boy in the rebel-held restive town of El-Burin Galgadud region, central Somalia. Farah Mohamed Wehliye was killed by the militants on Saturday after being linked to pro-Somali government ASWJ and Ethiopian troops, according to the local residents. | <urn:uuid:a85b8d30-4d1c-4eeb-9578-493a3f7a2454> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://somaliareport.com/index.php/post/3523/16_July_2012_Daily_Media_Roundup | 2016-05-27T16:04:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049276964.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002116-00104-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966185 | 2,773 | [
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Ronald L. Zastrow, 79
Ronald L. Zastrow, age 79 of Prescott, Wis., died Thursday, Jan. 2, at United Hospital in St. Paul.
Ronald was born March 15, 1934, in Hastings, to Chester and Ethel (Stark) Zastrow. A graduate of Hastings High School, class of 1952, he received his B.A. Degree from UW-River Falls. Ronald married Sally A. Belt on Oct. 25, 1969, in Waupaca, Wis. He attained the rank of Major in the Army National Guard, serving 26 years, and had worked as a sales rep for Standard Oil for 25 years. He was an avid gardener, historian of the Civil War and the military, loved the Mississippi River, and especially spending time with his grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Ronald is survived by his wife Sally; daughters Crista Zastrow, and Rona (John) Schiltgen; grandchildren Taylor, and Ben Schiltgen; also many nieces; nephews; other relatives and friends.
A celebration of Ron's life, officiated by Gordon Gathright, will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, at the Caturia-Smidt Funeral home, 201 E. Seventh St., Hastings. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service.
In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred.
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ROCHESTER — Jean Marguerite (Bigelow) Roberts, of Rochester, passed away suddenly on Sunday Oct. 10, 2010.
Born July 8, 1926 to Phelps and Marguerite (O’Neil) Bigelow in Bloomingdale, she moved with her family to Lake Placid in fourth grade and graduated from Lake Placid High School in 1944.
She worked for Eastman Kodak for a number of years.
Jean is survived by children Glen Roberts (Kim Hickey) and Sharon (Mike) Kelly; grandson Logan Michael Kelly; siblings: William Bigelow, Raymond (Mary) Bigelow, Carol (Bob) Brown and Patricia (Neil) McKenna; and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
She was predeceased by husband Raymond E. Roberts; son Edward Bigelow; sister Shirley Jacques; and brother Phelps Bigelow Jr.
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The recent news about Cyprus banks confiscating depositor’s funds sent chills throughout the financial world here and abroad. I couldn’t believe that the plan in Cyprus hinged on the idea that the bank could just steal customer’s funds to balance the bank’s books. I muttered to myself when I read the story that something as crazy as that couldn’t possible happen here in the United States. Unfortunately, I learned that the plan to pull a Cyprus type grab here was already in the works.
“A joint paper by the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Bank of England dated December 10, 2012, shows that these plans have been long in the making; that they originated with the G20 Financial Stability Board in Basel, Switzerland (discussed earlier here); and that the result will be to deliver clear title to the banks of depositor funds. ” NationofChange
The above article explains that most of us do not realize that when you deposit money in a bank, that it becomes the property of the bank and we become unsecured creditors of the bank! “Although few depositors realize it, legally the bank owns the depositor’s funds as soon as they are put in the bank. Our money becomes the bank’s, and we become unsecured creditors holding IOUs or promises to pay. (See here and here.) But until now the bank has been obligated to pay the money back on demand in the form of cash. Under the FDIC-BOE plan, our IOUs will be converted into “bank equity.” The bank will get the money and we will get stock in the bank. With any luck we may be able to sell the stock to someone else, but when and at what price?” NationofChange
If I deposit $1,000 dollars in my local bank, I trust that the funds are safe and protected by FDIC insurance and that even if the bank fails, I will get my money back. Under the plan listed above, we may not even be able to fall back on the FDIC insurance coverage. The FDIC-Bank of England plan would supersede our FDIC coverage and we would be relegated to become a “shareholder” in the failing bank or its successor entity. Let me see if I understand this scheme. The bank who is failing due to mismanagement or due to risky investments could steal my funds and force me to accept stock in a company led by poor businessmen with an even poorer business record! If you are brave enough, check out the full FDIC-Bank of England plan here.
Cyprus wasn’t the only place where a bankster grab of deposits was put into place or is being discussed. It is being discussed in New Zealand as well. “New Zealand has a similar directive, discussed in my last article here, indicating that this isn’t just an emergency measure for troubled Eurozone countries. New Zealand’s Voxy reported on March 19th:
The National Government [is] pushing a Cyprus-style solution to bank failure in New Zealand which will see small depositors lose some of their savings to fund big bank bailouts . . . .Open Bank Resolution (OBR) is Finance Minister Bill English’s favoured option dealing with a major bank failure. If a bank fails under OBR, all depositors will have their savings reduced overnight to fund the bank’s bail out.” NationofChange
To be clear, this joint FDIC-BOE plan would need enabling legislation to be passed before it could become the law of the land. However, the bankruptcy laws have put unsecured creditors, which depositors would be labeled under the plan, lower in seniority to the claims of derivative counterparties which would mean that the very parties who are causing the bank to fail, could collect before the innocent depositors.
“In the US, depositors have actually been put in a worse position than Cyprus deposit-holders, at least if they are at the big banks that play in the derivatives casino. The regulators have turned a blind eye as banks use their depositaries to fund derivatives exposures. And as bad as that is, the depositors, unlike their Cypriot confreres, aren’t even senior creditors. Remember Lehman? When the investment bank failed, unsecured creditors (and remember, depositors are unsecured creditors) got eight cents on the dollar. One big reason was that derivatives counterparties require collateral for any exposures, meaning they are secured creditors. The 2005 bankruptcy reforms made derivatives counterparties senior to unsecured lenders.” NationofChange
This so-called plan has been labeled a wealth tax in Cyprus, but the United States banks hold the deposits of the poor and middle class and those deposits would be at risk if this type of plan is actually activated. If this type of plan was ever activated or authorized by Congress, why would anyone ever deposit their funds in one of the major banks that could be at risk of failing due to risky derivative investments when those very deposits could be at risk? If the bank files for bankruptcy after depositors funds are confiscated, would depositors be left out in the cold entirely?
This type of bank bail out is an end run on depositors and on the American public. I can only guess why the corporate owned mass media has not been carrying this story. I do not think that I would every put any money in any of the big multi-state banks in light of this potential nightmare of a bailout. I would love to see the Senate hold a hearing to question FDIC officials on this joint plan. While the wealthy use the banks, a good portion of their wealth is in other investment vehicles and therefore the brunt of the bailout could be borne by you and me. Of course the banks will claim that we would receive stock in lieu of the confiscated funds, but can you pay your mortgage bill with stock from a failing bank?
What would you do if your bank confiscated your hard earned deposits to pay their bills? What happened to taking personal responsibility for their mistakes? Too big to fail, too big to jail and now, too big to cover their own losses! Is it any wonder that the banks want no part of Dodd-Frank and the Consumer Protection Agency? | <urn:uuid:67c6e340-051f-486d-8a6b-9c065c19dac2> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | https://jonathanturley.org/2013/03/31/could-the-banksters-grab-your-bank-deposits/ | 2016-05-27T16:10:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049276964.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002116-00104-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966689 | 1,301 | [
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JEFFERSON - Lathan Freeman Banks, 85, died Saturday, February 11, 2012.
Born in Jackson County, he was the son of the late Homer and Sally Fields Banks. He was retired from the Jefferson Mills after 45 years of service and was a retired farmer as well. He was a member of the White Plains Baptist Church. Mr. Banks was preceded in death by a daughter, Carol Ivester; sisters, Frances Smith, KatherineAnne Banks; and brother, Darrell Banks.
Survivors include his wife, Clara Sykes Banks, Jefferson; daughters and son-in-law, Lynda Bruce and Donna and Randy Payton, all of Jefferson; sons and daughters-in-law, Larry and Gail Banks, Jefferson, James and Debi Banks, Talmo; brother, Ray Banks, Jefferson; sisters, Shirley Wilson and Nancy McNeal, both of Hoschton; 13 Grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and one soon to be great-great-grandchild.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, February 13, at 1 p.m. in the chapel of Evans Funeral Home with the Rev. Cary Pittman, Mr. Jeffrey Bell and Mr. Larry Banks officiating. The burial will follow in the White Plains Baptist Church Cemetery with Kyle Banks, Dusty Banks, Eddie Stoyle, Wesley Payton, Travis Payton and Chad Wehunt honored as pallbearers.
In lieu of flowers, please make memorials to the White Plains Baptist Church Building Fund, 3650 Highway 124 West, Jefferson, GA 30549.
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One of the world’s least known boat building areas is in and around the city of Samarinda on the Mahakam River in the province of East Kalimantan on the Indonesian side of the Island of Borneo. While some yards are building a dozen and more boats at a time in modern facilities, the tradition of building on the riverbank is alive and well. One such builder is Mr. Suwandi who, in mid-February, was preparing to launch a 28 by 8.1-meter tug for Mr. Syarifuddin who operates a stone quary at Palu on Sulawesi Island.
The tug, registered in Samarinda and named Syarasd I, is powered by a pair of in-line six-cylinder Cummins KTA19 engines each generating 600 hp and turning propellers manufactured by Tesco in Jakarta through Twin Disc MG5321DC gears with 6.39:1 ratios. Pt. Altrak 1978, the Cummins distributor for Indonesia, supplied the engines.
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PARKERSBURG - Facing a proposed 9 percent health insurance hike, numerous funding requests and very little new revenue coming in, Wood County commissioners continue trying to hammer out the 2012-2013 budget.
A special budgetary session is set for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., today in the Fort Boreman public meeting room of the Judge Black Courthouse annex. The budget is due in Charleston for review at the end of this month, but commissioners said they won't wait till the deadline to get it done. Wood County's fiscal year runs July 1 to June 30.
Commissioner Wayne Dunn said his biggest concern for the $17 million-plus budget is the lack of new revenue, with only about $16,000 in new revenues projected to plug in. In years past revenues, mostly from new construction, have usually come back in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Photo by Pamela Brust
Wood County commissioners continue work on the 2012-2013 budget this week. A special budget session is also scheduled for today.
"We are just not certain where we stand right now. We need to get a good feel for where the bills are going to come in, look at previous year's expenses. The proposed health insurance premium increase would mean about $200,000 in additional expenditures. We have to take that money from savings or what we make, and we didn't get much to work with this time, revenues are flat. We need to see cost projections," Dunn said.
"We are working through the issues, we met with the health care provider to try and find options to try to reduce the rates, as we have in the last five years, to still provide good health care coverage for our employees while keeping our rates in line. We have surveyed other counties on what portion of health care they pay for their employees. It used to be getting a job in government, in general, meant you may not have the best wages versus the private sector, but you had some of the best benefits," said commission President Blair Couch.
"As the county has increased its wages, in some instances, are better than the private sector, we need to start looking at how we stack up there," Couch said. "That is a consideration we have to take into account. But we have worked very hard to keep benefits in line and have changed numerous parts of our benefits package so it did not increase the cost significantly. We've been given a proposed rate hike of 9 percent, but hopefully with some modifications, we can reduce that," Couch said.
Commissioners will comb through elected officials' funding requests, the expenditures side of the budget and look at the reduction in utility costs anticipated due to no longer using and anticipated demolition of the holding center, and magistrate court.
"We need to project utility costs for the new justice center and we should be able to find some savings with the elimination of the other buildings and that will help," Couch said.
While there was some new construction that produced some additional revenue, county officials said much of it was offset by the loss of revenue when St. Joseph's Hospital became nonprofit. At the time of the sale of St. Joseph's Hospital to the West Virginia United Health System it became a tax-exempt entity, reducing tax revenue to the county, city, state and Wood County schools by about $817,456, according to figures released from the assessor's office at the time of the sale.
Couch said the commissioners will not raise taxes.
"We've talked about this before, how we would adjust to make sure we don't raise taxes, and we will stay within budget," Couch said.
The county sets its levy rate in April.
This is Wood County Commissioner Steve Gainer's second year to work on the county budget, and he said the process doesn't seem to be getting any easier.
"My biggest concern is the health coverage and the fact the revenue is flat. The payments on the justice center are also a concern," Gainer said. The justice center payment will come out of the reimbursements for the first couple of years, and the reimbursement of interest costs on the bond will go back into a fund to help make the payments, along with some of the carryover, officials said. The first year or two the annual payment on the new justice center is be about $660,000 then it is anticipated to go down to around $470,000 yearly after that. County officials said there is no penalty for early payoff.
"I am concerned about the future, hopefully the economy will improve," Gainer noted. "The big concern is the revenue side which doesn't seem to be increasing as much the demands are."
The county has about $2 million in special building savings and another $1.5 million in rainy day savings. The county has been reimbursed for the purchase of the Hintgen building (now the justice center), the energy efficiency programs and related expenses at the justice center and has received the first reimbursement for the 45 percent of the interest through the federal bond program. | <urn:uuid:b4361bee-5993-4fbb-8b8c-a06e68e0d20c> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.newsandsentinel.com/page/content.detail/id/558842/Commissioners-at-work-on-Wood-budget.html?nav=5066 | 2016-05-30T09:10:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464050955095.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524004915-00019-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977536 | 1,032 | [
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Peter Desbarats was once one of Canada's leading political columnists. Later, he became Dean of journalism at the University of Western Ontario - many of whose alumni are reporters on Parliament Hill today. When he was appointed as one of three commissioners, it was taken as a good omen for the independence and thoroughness of an Inquiry looking into the beating and torture of Somalia teenagers by members of the Canadian Forces, and the shooting death of Shidane Arone.
In today's Citizen, you can read this letter to the editor:
Today's article by two British-based academics draws some interesting parallels between current events in Afghanistan and the situation in Somalia in the 1990s, but I would like to clarify something.
The authors state that the Somalia Inquiry "fundamentally was called for political reasons ... the inquiry's purpose was to distance and shield the government from allegations that it tried to cover up the killing" (of a teen-age Somali thief). Nothing could be further from the truth.
The fact is the Somalia inquiry, far from covering up what really happened in Somalia and the federal government at that time, was so successful in discovering the truth that the government of the day (Chrétien) took the unprecedented decision to close the inquiry prematurely. It was this blatant cover-up by government that I described in my book Somalia Cover-Up - A Commissioner's Journal .
The authors conclude their article by stating that "there is some use for an inquiry into the Afghanistan prison abuse case, but the way forward is fraught with hazards - we've been waylaid in the past."
Commissioner, Commission of Inquiry into the Deployment of Canadian Forces to Somalia
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Date Photo Taken: April 23, 2011
Location: Fayetteville, GA
Posted By: wabrundage
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Led by drummer Guilherme Franco and bassist Alberto Beserra, who propel their band with catchy rhythms, Nova Bossa Nova builds on the fusion of cool jazz and various Brazilian rhythms, which gained momentum in the U.S. in 1962 when Charlie Byrd and Stan Getz issued Jazz Samba. Capturing the bossa's laid-back essence, NBN sprinkles their inventions with hard-swinging modern tinges, with fine solo moments from Japanese pianist Achan Inoue and accordionist Eddie Monteiro (whose accompanying vocalese adds flair to the session). Nine tunes, mostly written by the co-leaders, are inspired by commonplace situations. While everyone shines, the stars are the incomparable hard-bop front line featuring tenor saxist Bob Mintzer (of Yellowjackets fame), trumpeter Claudio Roditi (Brazilian native who has performed and recorded with numerous groups including Dizzy Gillespie's United Nations Orchestra), alto/soprano saxophonist Joe Ford (veteran player with bands of McCoy Tyner and Jerry Gonzalez's Fort Apache Band). With its distinctive 1990s edge and fine solo work, Jazz Influence is a carnival-a buoyant, intoxicating session that invites repeated listening. | <urn:uuid:183b6123-0ec3-4d3b-8669-18270b9a2261> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://jazztimes.com/articles/8378-jazz-influence-nova-bossa-nova | 2016-05-25T07:38:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049274191.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002114-00209-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90993 | 255 | [
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That’s according to a new study from Nielsen Audio (formerly Arbitron) that examines correlations between what kind of station a consumer listens to on the radio, what kind of car they drive and where they drive it. For example, buyers of roadsters (e.g., Mazda Miata, Audi TT, or Nissan Z) listen to news, talk and information. At least they do in Los Angeles and Chicago, according to the data.
Basic luxury automobile buyers in Los Angeles listen to news, talk and information as well, but also to contemporary Christian and country radio formats. In New York, premium vehicle buyers listen to sports. They also listen to world ethnic content.
Nielsen says it got these results by linking its Nielsen local market insights to radio listening data from its portable people-meter results and tied its demographic data to R.L. Polk's own research results on who buys what kind of car in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago -- the three largest radio markets.
The study also cuts the other way, looking at which owners of different vehicle types listen to a given category of music. In New York, sports radio scored the best among high-end vehicle buyers, particularly those in the prestige sporty and prestige luxury categories (e.g., the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, Lexus LS or BMW 7 series). Among all vehicle types, sports radio enthusiasts are most likely to have purchased prestige sporty, prestige luxury, mid-sport or mid-luxury vehicles in the past year, per the study.
Farshad Family, SVP, local product media leadership at Nielsen, tells Marketing Daily that the company this year started linking audio data with consumer data through third parties to tell a story that moves beyond age and gender. "That was the overarching theme," Family says.
The auto study doesn't concern itself with satellite radio or app-based digital radio, but in fact those are the growing segments for advertising buys. According to the Radio Advertising Bureau's first-quarter ad revenue report, the first three months this year constituted the fifth flat quarter in a row for radio overall. What increases there were happened in digital and off-air, each up 16%.
The top 10 of radio spenders for the quarter: AT&T, MetroPCS, Verizon, Comcast Xfinity, McDonald's, T-Mobile, Geico, Toyota Dealers, Safeway and Fox TV.
In the auto category, the segment was dominated, not surprisingly, by dealer groups advertising in spot radio led by the Toyota Dealer Association. The study says that in spite of weather in Q1 that kept consumers at home, auto advertisers’ spot spending kept pace with last year.
Even though the Toyota Dealer Association spent 3% less in Q1 versus last year, it committed nearly twice as much as second-ranked Honda Dealer Association, which declined 29%. Nissan Dealer Association’s 80% increase put them at third place, ahead of the Ford Dealer Association and Chevrolet Dealer Association.
After those dealer groups came the companies themselves: Chrysler LLC was number six, while Toyota Motor Corporation was seven. AutoNation USA was in eighth place followed by Nissan Motor and Dodge Motor Corporation rounding out the top 10.
“We know local radio remains a major part of a consumer’s day, with the average consumer listening to over 2 hours of radio per day," says Family. "Auto dealers are looking to make a connection to potential customers in their local communities and they know that radio is an important part of how to make that connection.” | <urn:uuid:8d70380c-bdcd-4976-9e6a-ac5906d34562> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/230399/radio-choices-correlate-to-what-you-drive.html | 2016-05-25T07:51:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049274191.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002114-00209-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947742 | 727 | [
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No big surprise here! In last night’s Jimmy Fallon/Jay Leno duet, the late night hosts didn’t deny the possibility that Fallon was being primed to take Leno’s place as the host of “The Tonight Show,” moving the show to NYC. Now, THR reports that Fallon has indeed closed a deal to take over Leno’s position when Leno’s contract with NBC expires.
Though NBC refuses to comment, Leno’s contract with “The Tonight Show” expires in Sept. 2014. Reports suggest that Fallon could take over as early as February 2014, when NBC will be covering the Winter Olympics.
As for who will take over “Late Night” for Fallon, “Saturday Night Live” favorite Seth Meyers is said to be the frontrunner, particularly because he’s a protege of “Late Night” boss Lorne Michaels. According to THR, no announcement will be made about the NBC lineup until a deal is closed with Meyers. | <urn:uuid:85a8a723-a46a-476d-ae97-50fb06b952bc> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://zap2it.com/2013/04/jimmy-fallon-closes-tonight-show-deal-seth-meyers-on-deck-for-late-night-position/ | 2016-05-25T07:38:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049274191.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002114-00209-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954631 | 219 | [
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The Austin 7 wis a caur produced frae 1922 through to 1939 in the Unitit Kinrick bi the Austin Motor Company. Nicknamed the "Baby Austin", it wis ane o the maist popular caurs ever produced for the Breetish market, an sold well abroad. It wiped oot maist ither Breetish small caurs an cyclecars o the early 1920s; its effect on the Breetish market wis similar to that o the Model T Ford in the USA. It wis also licensed an copied bi companies all over the warld. The very first BMW caur, the BMW Dixi, wis a licensed Austin 7, as wur the original American Austins. In Fraunce they wur made an sold as Rosengarts. In Japan Nissan also uised the 7 design as the basis for their original caurs, though not under licence.
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Right on Crime | March 30, 2012
For a variety of reasons, corrections and criminal justice issues in Colorado have earned increased attention from the legislature.
Legislators looking for cost savings in the state budget are wondering why corrections spending is up almost 30 percent over eight years—even though the number of inmates is the same as it was in 2004. Colorado has apparently increased its per-inmate expenditures from $24,000 per year to $31,200 per year. Corrections officials point to increased costs for health care, utilities, and transportation, but legislators are determining whether cost-cutting measures might be possible, including prison closures, if there enough empty beds to warrant it.
One facility targeted for potential closure is so new that it won’t even be paid off until 2021. But shrinking offender populations and empty beds in other facilities suggest that simply closing the facility might actually make more sense. But Colorado’s legislators are first making sure that a possible prison closure is carried out with public safety implications in mind. For instance, legislators may seek to limit the number of prisoners who are directly released out of solitary confinement.
Furthermore, Colorado is considering proposals that would reduce the number of drug possession offenders entering the prison system. A bipartisan effort is underway to reclassify certain low-level drug possession charges from the lowest possible felony charge to the highest possible misdemeanor charge. These reforms would allow a portion of the savings to be reinvested into drug treatment programs. | <urn:uuid:64498232-b769-4013-a096-f24dcb7402e8> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://rightoncrime.com/2012/03/looking-at-corrections-in-colorado/ | 2016-05-28T00:01:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049277286.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002117-00124-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947043 | 317 | [
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Here are the Prezi slides and handouts from the iTeach: Planning, teaching and monitoring with iPads session that was presented at the TESOL Arabia Conference in Dubai on 14.03.2013. The session included a presentation of Apps teachers can use to plan their lessons, create workflows, present content and share resources. Please visit join the Edmodo group by using the group code 8tp2rh to leave feedback and share which other Apps you use for these purposes.
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Oasis | Local 186 | October 21, 1994
A year before “Champagne Supernova” became a radio hit, Oasis already had a rep for stirring up trouble in Boston thanks to their debut at Local 186. They were the sullen guys at the table at some dinner Epic gave before the show. And the label did a good job of making sure the club was full for the band’s set. But even from the back of the room it was hard not to notice some sort of scuffle off to the side of the stage as Oasis prepared for their set. Apparently, Oasis had a disagreement with the local opening band that turned ugly enough for the Brothers Gallagher to throw a few punches. All in a hard day’s night, right? It wasn’t the kind of thing that endeared Oasis to the local scene. And Liam further compounded his error when, later that night, he and his bandmates showed up at a small party at Lily Dennison’s apartment, sat down by the turntable, and asked earnestly, “What record is that?” It was Otis Redding. “That’s why they think they’re the best band in the world,” one of the guests whispered. “They obviously haven’t heard any music.” It was the kind of night that’s rightly given Boston the rep of being a tough town for bands who can’t handle the heat.
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In this Instructable I will show you how to start up a foundry of your own. Now I am in no means saying this is the only way to do it, I am just showing you how I did it. So, let's get started!!!
Step 1: Forge
Now, before you even start thinking about getting an anvil or hammers, I suggest you start looking for a nice forge. This will probably be the most expensive thing you will have to buy if you are getting a gas forge, so this will really decide wither or not you really want to get into blacksmithing. Now you have two choices: coal or gas. There are benefits to both.
With a gas forge it's a lot cleaner and easier to use. They are also more portable. But they have less control over temperature and can get very pricey for gas and the initial cost of the forge.
With a coal forge it's a lot cheaper (next to nothing) to buy/make and you can control the temperature better. But coal is also very messy and depending on where you live you might not have a source of coal nearby.
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With Valentine’s Day just about a week away, I decided to get in the kitchen and put some of those boxes of Kellogg’s Rice Krispies Cereal to use in a fun little project I could do with my children. I’m sure you are all familiar with the popular Rice Krispies Treats, but instead of your traditional square treat, we decided to make Valentine’s Rice Krispies Treats.
We made a batch of regular Rice Krispies treats and we also made a batch in pink, in honor of Valentine’s Day. We made big hearts and we made small hearts and then we decorated them to our hearts desire using melted milk chocolate, colored candy melts, and sprinkles.
With as busy as we’ve been lately, it was a nice change of pace to enjoy a fun, family-friendly activity with my children. It really made me realize I need to let them help out more in the kitchen. Although things may be rushed and crazy, they really enjoy it and I need to make it happen more often.
Valentine’s Rice Krispies Treats
- 3 tablespoons butter or margarine
- 4 cups miniature marshmallows
- 6 cups Kellogg's® Rice Krispies® cereal
- Milk Chocolate Chips and/or Candy Melts
- In large saucepan melt butter or margarine over low heat. Add marshmallows and stir until completely melted. Remove pan from heat.
- Add KELLOGG'S RICE KRISPIES cereal to melted mixture and stir until well coated.
- Using wax paper, evenly press mixture into 13 x 9 x 2-inch pan coated with non-stick cooking spray. Cool. For traditional Rice Krispies Treats, cut into 2-inch squares. If you want hearts or any other shape, use a cookie cutter and cut out your desired shape. Make sure to spray your cookie cutter with non-stick cooking spray
Although we decorated ours for Valentine’s Day, Rice Krispies Treats are so versatile and can be made to compliment any occasion or holiday.
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This is pretty cool in my book. A lunar religion? How could I not like it? :)
Since the waxing moon is associated with generally positive things and the waning moon with generally negative things, are there any associated beliefs regarding the evening and the morning? (Since the waxing moon is more visible in the early evening and the waning moon moreso in the late morning.)
Are there differences in how the moon phases are perceived during the different seasons? For instance, would the new moon in winter be seen as a strong time for Mortes since the harsh weather likely means more deaths?Go to Comment
I don't have much to add beyond what others have said. I like the mushroom handle; it's a nice touch. Also the delayed buildup. The names are a nice departure from the usual.
The stats are fairly meaningless to me, although I can mostly extrapolate out their meaning. Some fluff text for description would have been a nice addition.Go to Comment
This is quite creative and cleverly done. Enough is hinted at (even if not outright stated) to add this type of magic to a world.
One thing that stands out for me is that, rather than stated openly and boringly, a picture is painted of the callousness required to be a practitioner of this art.
I see this as a potent school of magic with very few practitioners. Learning this blood magic, it seems to me, requires a certain sociopathic bent as well as patience and focus. (In other words, they would make excellent, coldly calculating, villains.)Go to Comment
I feel like I get some teasing glimpses of a larger world here. References to the Plague, using sorcery to induce vampirism, groups such as "Masters of the Tomb", the vampire god (whether real or not), etc. Color me intrigued in the setting.
Aside from that, I think this could benefit from some plot hooks. Halan seems like a major player in this world and I would like to see how you view that in terms of the players.
I hate to say it but the name Oleastra puts me in mind of the food product olestra (not really your fault and I know I'm not really one to talk when it comes to odd names, it just seemed important to point out; of course it could just be me.)
Overall, I like this and look forward to reading more.Go to Comment
I had to read through it a couple of times but I think it finally sunk in. I like the idea of an order of Paladins fighting for good while unknowingly working for an evil entity. It's the kind of twist a skilled GM of evil intent could do much with :)
The plot hooks seem like good ways to get the PCs investigating something that would otherwise remain hidden to them. A party could fight their way up the food chain after they learn the truth. Tactically minded PCs, however, might seek to turn the lowest order of Paladins against their god.
I especially like that Krunuth holds his followers in such low esteem. It's a nice touch.Go to Comment
We need a "save the cultist" movement. For too long have the forces of good and right trampled upon the simple, hardworking, and downtrodden cultist; those whose only collective desire is to unleash world-destroying demonic forces. Is that really so worthy of being harried in their homes and put to the sword in their places of worship? Have we no tolerance?
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So this got read, in order to review it for NEW HUMANIST. Haven’t read anything by Seth Grahame-Smith before, and was pleasantly surprised.
I am pausing New Book for a couple of days because I have to do some other things, not least of which is stay on top of the PR effort for GUN MACHINE. Interviews, creative development and management, schedules, that kind of thing. Weirdly hard to put in sustained novel-writing hours and do that stuff at the same time: it seems to steal from the same pool of energy, and I’m not sure why.
Also I’ve had a headache for a couple of days now, which either means blood pressure or maggots are hatching in my brain. Your call.
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Gov. David Paterson is doing a marathon radio tour this morning, appearing as a guest on WGY’s Don Weeks Show as well as his normal Thursday date with John Gambling on WOR. Starting at 9, Paterson will take questions on WAMC’s “The Roundtable.”
On WOR, Paterson reiterated his call for the legislature to cut a mid-year budget deficit during a special session he’s called for next week.
“We’re all pledging our support to the new governor,” Paterson said. “He should start with a level playing field. We should clean up the deficit that was created on our watch. I don’t understand why there’s such a debate about whether we’re coming back on Monday. It’s our duty.”
“I expect everybody to be there and to work hard,” he said.
Paterson also said he agreed with a screening panel set up by the State Education Department to weigh a waiver for Cathie Black, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s pick to be chancellor of New York City’s public schools. The waiver is needed since Black has no professional background as an educator.
Paterson said outgoing chancellor “Joel Klein, though his basic career was not in education, was on a lot of education boards…he had compiled a threshold of, I think, education credentials. So in addition to making the decision they made, they made a recommendation that I think Mayor Bloomberg should heed,” namely, to “have an education professional acting as her deputy.”
“I’m not saying that she wouldn’t have put this in on her own. I think she would have done this anyway. But there is a reason why there is a review of a chancellor choice. I don’t think it will cost the mayor or Ms. Black anything to comply with the request and move on,” Paterson said. “He did say it would increase her chances, and if that’s what they ruled, I don’t think that’s a hard thing.” | <urn:uuid:1fa856c4-d938-4cbf-853e-52c0e8f94abf> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/34702/paterson-black-should-try-again-if-not-me-cut-for-cuomo/ | 2016-05-25T15:46:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049274994.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002114-00229-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980842 | 455 | [
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Lindsay Lohan's Defense on Jewelry Theft Case: 'I Would Never Steal'
Lindsay Lohan has protested her innocence after she was charged with felony theft on Wednesday, February 9 in a new Facebook posting. The actress has pleaded not guilty to accusations she stole a necklace from a Venice, California jeweler, maintaining she understood the item was on loan to her.
Her lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley insists the case against the "Mean Girls" star is "entirely defensible", but she's interested in taking a plea deal with prosecutors if it means no jail for Lohan. The actress insists that doesn't mean she has been lying about the jewelery drama. Taking to her Facebook page, she writes, "fyi - i would never steal, in case people are wondering. I was not raised to lie, cheat, or steal."
Lohan also hit back at reports she was dressed inappropriately for her day in court on Wednesday, February 9. She wore a figure-hugging white mini-dress, which critics suggest resembles the one a pants-less Sharon Stone wore in "Basic Instinct". The actress adds, "Also, what i wear to court shouldnt be front page news. it's just absurd. god bless."
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Hurricane Sandy's blow to New Jersey and New York has sparked renewed focus on climate change, raising questions about whether it will be a factor in the Nov. 6 presidential election.
In the wake of the storm, as covered in a Nov. 1 World Climate Change Reportarticle, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (I) endorsed the re-election bid of President Obama on the basis of what the mayor called his leadership on climate change. Bloomberg's endorsement came on the heels of glowing reviews by New Jersey's Republican governor, Chris Christie—a superstar in the eyes of many in the GOP—of the Obama administration's response to the storm.
Furthermore, according to survey results announced Oct. 9 by Yale University in a press release, 74 percent of Americans say "global warming is affecting weather in the United States," an increase of 5 percentage points since March. “Americans have just experienced two years of record-setting extreme weather events, and are increasingly connecting extreme weather in the United States to global warming,” Anthony Leiserowitz of Yale University said in the release. "Half of Americans (52 percent) recall unusual weather events that have occurred in their own local area over the past year, while 61 percent recall unusual weather events that have occurred elsewhere in the U.S."
However, Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have largely remained silent on climate change in the days leading up to the election. Instead, they have been focusing on energy issues, with Obama's top climate official saying the administration would hit the "reset" button with Congress on energy policy, and Romney's team touting an "energy independence plan" to be achieved by 2020.
From Nov. 5-6, the National Academies will hold a meeting in Washington, D.C., on "Understanding and Monitoring Abrupt Climate Change and Its Impact." As detailed in a blog published in June, a study by 22 scientists and researchers found that human-induced greenhouse gas emissions may be rapidly changing the Earth's biosphere, pushing it into a new geologic age.
U.S. Trade Commission
The U.S. International Trade Commission is expected to vote Nov. 7 on whether the U.S. solar industry has been materially injured by a flood of low-priced imports of solar cells and modules from China. The alleged solar cell dumping by China, which critics say has led to layoffs of U.S. workers, is covered in an Oct. 4 article.
A report by the National Research Council that found sea levels in Oregon and Washington are rising will be the topic of a workshop Nov. 8 in Montesano, Wash., hosted by the Washington Department of Ecology. The report, Sea Level Rise for the Coasts of California, Washington and Oregon: Past, Present and Future, found that north coast sea levels are rising 1.5 to 3 millimeters annually. The workshop will explore how the NRC findings can be used to evaluate local risk and vulnerability and how to incorporate sea-level rise into policies and planning.
Association of Climate Change Officers
Nancy Gillis, director of federal supply chain emissions for the General Services Administration, will be the featured speaker Nov. 7 in Washington, D.C., at an event hosted by the Association of Climate Change Officers. Gillis will discuss the formation of "a sustainable supply chain community of practice" and GSA's involvement in data.gov.
Land Trust Alliance Webinar
On Nov. 5, the Land Trust Alliance will hold a webinar on "Climate Adaptation in Land Acquisition & Stewardship: Funding Opportunities & Examples from the Field." Speakers include Darren Long, program director for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Climate Adaptation Fund; Jennifer Hoffman, senior scientist and director of projects for EcoAdapt; Bruce Stein, director of the National Wildlife Foundation’s Climate Change Adaptation Program; and Abigail Weinberg, conservation research program manager for the Open Space Institute.
Bloomberg BNA Webinar
Bloomberg BNA will host a webinar Nov. 6 on "The 2012 Election: Win Or Lose—How the Election Will Impact Federal Environmental Policy in the Next Four Years." Panelists include Christopher Miller, senior policy adviser on energy and environment for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.); Michael Catanzaro, former senior policy adviser for energy, environment, and telecommunications for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and now managing director for FTI Consulting; and Roger Martella, partner with Sidley Austin LLP and former EPA general counsel. Catherine Karen, counsel with Sidley Austin LLP, will moderate.
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What do box turtles, a rainbow, and the Lincoln Memorial have in common? How about King Tut, a pinwheel, and the word “WOW”? Like many animals and plants as well as objects made by people, they have SYMMETRY.
“An entertaining assortment of dozens of
diverse and colorful examples from quilts to kites to cupcakes invites the reader to
discover both line and rotational symmetry.”
Learning about line and rotational symmetry is a great way to visually explore basic math concepts such as equality, measuring, patterns, repeats, and transformations. Aligned with the Common Core State Standard for 4th Grade Geometry: 4.G.3, Line Symmetry
Grades 1–3. 32 pp. Full color art. Holiday House, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8234-2360-6.
To make it easier for teachers and parents to find my book-related activities, I now have a store on Teachers Pay Teachers. My teaching resources for symmetry are free or priced PDFs such as:
We See SYMMETRY!
WOW MOM Mother's Day Card
Spring Mirror Word Puzzles
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No, ye momineen ki shan ke khilaf ha ke aisa lafz use karen.
Use ASS for these terrorists. Never write SSP or etc, etc.
ASS member was visiting EU silently for funds for terrorism but was caught red handed in drunk state. Police and doctors have made his movie.
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See some of the sculptures from Stobi
The town of Stobi developed from a small Paionian settlement established as early as the Archaic period, and covered an area of about 2.5 hectares located on the northern side of a hilly terrace. Its position at the mouth of the rivers Ergion and Axius, at the fertile region of the Central Vardar Valley, and the vicinity of gold deposits of Mount Kozuv, enabled fast development of Stobi, particularly during the nonwarring period of the I and II centuries A.D. In addition, the town was close to Mount Klepa, i.e., its eastern and southern slopes, rich with deposits of gray - white and pink marble. However, it seems that the native Paionian ethnic element was particularly strong and compact, so that the newly settled citizens with Roman civic rights did not manage to obtain a colonial status. That, of course, did not hinder the construction of all public buildings typical for the Classical towns of the Roman Empire on the town's agglomeration that covered about 20 hectares: a theatre and thermal baths, an aqueduct, temples, court halls, etc. Rather early, during the reign of Emperor Augustus, Stobi was originally granted the rank of oppidum civium Romanorum, and slightly later of municipum. On the coins stamped at Stobi, a rank of municipum Stobensium is imprinted.
At Stobi there are numerous cult depictions of the Greek - Roman pantheon: Apollo and Artemis, Asclepius, Dionysus, Nemesis, Zeus, Tyche, Aphrodite, Hygieia, Telesphor... These are either bronze and marble statues or relief depictions carved on small stone icons. Also numerous samples of architectonic stone plastics that originate from the early Roman temples were discovered. Unfortunately, the archaeological excavations have not as yet revealed the shape of the Roman town, so that today there are no ruins from that period, except two to three buildings, among which the theatre is the most prominent one. The coins stamped at Stobi suggest the existence of at least two town temples. The Stobi coinage workshop was active in the period between the reign of Emperor Vespasian (69 - 79) to that of Elagabalus (218 - 222). It is believed that the earliest coin depicts Victoria - the genius of victory, and an ox figure. Dating of this so-called autonomous type is not explicitly defined. The coins from the Vespasian time on the obverse bear the profile of the Emperor, and on the reverse there are: four-colons temple with a miniature figure of Asclepius in the centre; Bonus Eventus -the genius of good luck; an unknown genius that holds small Victoria in one hand and has a cornucopia; a helmet; a shield and a suit of armour; a woman - genius of the town of Stobi with a wreath in her hair, holding a small Victoria and cornucopia in her hands. There is one type of coins from the times of Titus and Domitian that on the obverse contain the profiles of both emperors facing each other, and on the reverse a 4-column temple. The coins of Domitian (81 - 96) have 4-column temple and a small figure of the emperor wearing the suit of armour, holding a spear and a skypthron. There are also coins with a profile of his wife Domitia. On Trajan's coins there are: a 4-column temple with a figure; and one rather significant symbolic scene depicting the woman - genius of the town with corona muralis (the town's crown) in her hair, who is holding small Victoria and a scepter in her hands. Underneath her, to her left and right sides, two bearded figures are laid down, holding pots with water pouring out of them. The figure on the right side holds a reed stalk. These are the river genii of Ergion and Axius. Marcus Aurelius's (161 - 180) coins have the same depiction, and also: a figure of Jupiter holding a scepter and a pathera (shallow cult plate); a figure of Victoria, the woman -genius of Stobi, holding a spear and a pathera. There is one type of coins of Marcus Aurelius's wife Phaustine with a profile of Fortune with cornucopia and a helm. The coins from the time of Septimius Severus (193 - 211) have a profile of Victoria with a wreath and a palm; there is also a depiction of Pluto seizing Persephone, who is portrayed in a quadriga (a chariot drawn by four horses). On the coin of Julia Domna, the second wife of Septimius Severus, who committed suicide by depriving herself of food, there are her profile and the scene of Persephone's seizure. On the coins of her firstborn son Caracalla (198 - 217) there are: Victoria in a number of variations; Jupiter on the throne, holding a scepter and small Victoria; Pluto seizing Persephone; Jupiter standing; Demetra standing; Mercury who holds a sack of money in one hand and sits on a rock. On the coins of Getus (209 - 212), the second son of Julia Domna, there is a figure of a soldier between the two nymphs or Victorias. On the coins of Elagabalus (218 - 222) there are: a seated figure of Jupiter who holds small Victoria and a scepter; a figure of a boy (perhaps an athlete) with a victor's wreath and a palm; Victoria in a number of variations; a figure of a warrior; Pluto seizing Persephone. All currently known coins are made of bronze. Bearing in mind the modest array of the coin types, scientists believe that the Stobi workshop coined jubilee coins for special occasions exclusively.
Both Stobi and Skupi, as well as a number of our Classical towns, did not escape the III century barbarian raids. Stobi was reconstructed in the IV century, but was again devastated during the invasions of Attila's Huns, and subsequently during the invasion of Ostrogoths lead by Theodoric in 479 A.D. The Christian community revived the town at the end of the V century, and the life continued. However, its easily conquerable position brought decadence to Stobi during the tumultuous IV century, and the only bright spot is the monumental Episcopal basilica. Classical sources describe several Christian priests from Stobi: Bishop Budius (Nichean Council, 325 A.D.); Bishop Eustatius (shown on the floor mosaic of the Old Episcopal basilica, between 343 - 381 A.D.); Bishop Nicholaus (4th Ecumenical Council at Halkedon, 451 A.D.); Bishop Philip (the reconstructor of the large Episcopal basilica at Stobi, around 500 A.D.); Bishop Focus (participated at the 5th Ecumenical Council in Constantinople, 553 A.D.). Surprisingly late is the earliest mention of Bishop Jovan of Stobi who participated in the 6th Ecumenical Council in Constantinople in 681 A.D., as well as of his successor, Bishop Margarit, who participated in a council in the same city in 692 A.D. Some analysts comment that in the newly created circumstances, with the Balkans overwhelmed with the Slavs, the Christian priests certainly had to withdraw - emigrate into the safety of the late Classical metropoles of Thessaloniki and Constantinople. | <urn:uuid:6082eab6-0e86-46e4-ad0a-2587d9007e37> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.soros.org.mk/konkurs/076/angver/stobi.html | 2016-05-25T14:53:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049274994.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002114-00229-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950446 | 1,580 | [
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It is possible for a team from a Group of 5 conference to crack the code into the College Football Playoff semifinals, it just has to have the perfect season, the perfect schedule and the perfect storm.
(So you're saying there's a chance ...)
"I won't say there's a glass ceiling," said Mid-American Conference commissioner Jon Steinbrecher, "but you wonder."
The Group of 5, comprising the American, Conference USA, Mid-American, Mountain West and Sun Belt, fared far better in the selection committee's Top 25 rankings than it did a season ago but is still perceived as a collection of second-tier teams that has to beat the sport's heavyweights on a consistent basis to earn national respect.
It definitely made some dents.
Toledo beat Arkansas. Memphis beat Ole Miss. Temple beat Penn State. Houston beat Louisville and Vanderbilt.
The American carried the banner with three ranked teams -- No. 18 Houston, No. 21 Navy and No. 24 Temple -- with Houston earning a spot in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl against Florida State because it was the highest-ranked conference champion from the Group of 5.
"For the American, the strength at the top really helped them," CFP executive director Bill Hancock said. "To have those four quality teams, four teams that the committee clearly respected because they had them in the Top 25 at one point or another, that was absolutely what carried them, four teams of that caliber and the way they performed in their nonconference."
The G5 commissioners agree that the automatic spot in a New Year's Six Bowl makes this system vastly more favorable than the BCS was, but it's still on the outside looking in when it comes to finishing in the top four.
"I think it certainly has to be the right set of circumstances," said former Memphis coach Justin Fuente, who was hired at Virginia Tech in November. "Is it possible? Sure. Is it very likely? I don't know. Your nonconference schedule has to pretty good, obviously you've got to win them. You're going to have to run the table, and then your league has to help you out. I thought this year our league was good enough that if you had the right nonconference schedule and you made it all the way through that league, then you certainly deserved some serious consideration. It will certainly be difficult, but if you run the table and the dominoes fall the right way for you, you at least have a shot."
It's going to take a Herculean effort to unseat the likes of an Alabama or Oklahoma, but there is a formula for it:
1. Schedule aggressively: Bowling Green, which opens at Ohio State next year, and Toledo are two MAC teams that got the memo. The Falcons' nonconference schedule included Tennessee, Maryland, Memphis and Purdue. The Rockets caught the country's attention when they upended Arkansas, and they also beat Iowa State. Those two MAC teams went 4-1 against their Power 5 opponents, with the lone loss coming to a ranked Tennessee team.
"Early on we titled our schedule 'Fiesta Bowl or bust,'" said Bowling Green athletic director Chris Kingston, who didn't hesitate to plug in Tennessee after UAB temporarily shut down its program. "Specifically in the nonconference portion, to have success in that puts us in the national conversation."
Kingston said he wants to schedule at least two Power 5 teams and two Group of 5 teams annually in the future.
"I listen to [CFP chairman] Jeff [Long]," he said. "I listen to the committee."
2. Go undefeated: A two-loss Boise State team played in the Fiesta Bowl last season (and beat Arizona), but any G5 team with aspirations of a semifinal seed simply has no margin for error. Had Memphis gone undefeated and won the American, it absolutely would have been at least considered for a top-four spot -- especially if Ole Miss had gone on to win the SEC.
"I think this year the Ole Miss-Memphis game was probably the most important game we played," American commissioner Mike Aresco said. "It was the one that galvanized things for us. We got a lot of attention from that."
3. Depth in the conference (the American): This is an underrated key to the puzzle, because while athletic directors can control their nonconference schedules, they have zero influence over how good the league might be in any given year. The American carried the banner this season for the Group of 5, with just as many teams as the ACC ranked in the final Top 25.
"The rising tide in that conference did lift all the boats," Hancock said.
The Mountain West Conference can attest to the benefits of it.
"Last year we had four 10-win teams and we were a much stronger league," commissioner Craig Thompson said. "This year we had one 10-win team. The American kind of fed off itself. We had that when we had TCU and Utah, and BYU on occasion, all three in the Top 25. You've got to get help from your league schedule, you've got to play the right nonconference schedule and no question -- you have to be 12-0."
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They say America has a trust deficit. That we don’t trust our institutions any more. We don’t trust Congress. Or the White House. Or the Supreme Court. Everyone’s cutting deals! Everyone’s looking out for themselves! Liberals and conservatives agree – you can’t trust the media. The stories are slanted to fit an agenda… or just flat-out wrong! And you sure can’t trust the banks! If you’re late on your loan, they might foreclose on you. If you invest with them, they might sell you junk wrapped in a pretty wrapper. And we just learned this week, that they’ve been lying. Lying about the interest rate they charge each other. All so they would look better to regulators. And so they wouldn’t have to pay savers and investors as much.
We profess to be shocked. Shocked! How could banks lie? How could the media get it wrong? How could politicians be so inept?
I wonder. I wonder what the trust deficit means. Does it mean that America’s great institutions. Its leaders and functionaries. Have their work cut out for them? And that all they have to do is start telling the truth? Start being honest? Start being accountable? I am not so sure.
It’s not just because I don’t think they CAN be honest. It’s because I don’t think we should EXPECT them to be honest.Because frankly, that’s not how America was designed. The Founding Fathers were suspicious of big institutions: The Church of England, the big trading companies of London, the King.
Exploiters. Taxers. It was their way – or banishment.
So the Founders chose revolution. They trusted the individual and placed power in the citizen. They wrote the Constitution with this in mind. They didn’t want America dominated by a new Church, a new King. Because they knew that at the heart of trust is dependency.
Trust is wonderful, don’t get me wrong! Trust is at the heart of friendship, of all enduring human relationships – especially marriage.
But trust between people is a two-way street. Trust between people and institutions is a dead-end. The individual trusts. The institution is indifferent.
So maybe this is a good thing. To have our trust shattered. It’s a wake up call. It’s a reminder. We are citizens, not children. It would be nice to trust our leaders, but we shouldn’t have to. We should have to trust only ourselves. We should trust those we know – not distant bureaucrats, not even our elected leaders. Certainly not self-appointed experts, and media pundits, and the CEOs of banks and corporations.
But this is easier said than done.
We have been trained…trained to wait like a damsel in distress for someone else to save us.
When the banks lied to us we ran into the arms of the bank regulators! And when the regulators fail, we are told: ‘Hire more regulators! Create more regulations!’
Last week, there were storms across the country. Trees down. Power outages. Houses destroyed. The east coast took quite a hit. And one area – Washington DC – stayed dark for days. After a few days of sitting in the heat,the people of Washington rose up!
What did they do? They complained! They wrote letters! And what did they say? They said: Where are the utility regulators? Why isn’t our government protecting us from these evil and lazy utility companies?
It’s a habit. It’s a bad habit. Imagine what the Founding Fathers would say? ‘Why are you so dependent? Where did America go so wrong? What happened to the Republic?’
If our institutions fail us we shouldn’t run into the arms of another big giant institution – we should take on the work of fixing things.
Stop delegating the work to others. Stop complaining when others don’t do things right. That’s what children do. And we’re not children.
Let’s make our institutions earn our trust. But if they can’t…if they won’t…someone else has to the job. Will it be you?
Many thanks for watching. God bless you and God bless the Republic.
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Williams Women's Basketball Surges Past Wesleyan
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Early in the second half of Saturday's New England Small College Athletic Conference quarterfinal, Williams' Ellen Cook pulled up from behind the top of the key and tossed up a 3-point attempt that was just a shade too long and clanged off the back of the rim.
For a long instant, the ball hung in the air above the hoop, as though suspended by some unseen string. Then it dipped cleanly through the netting.
It was just that kind of afternoon for the Ephs (21-4, 9-1), who turned in another all-around effort to defeat Little Three rival Wesleyan University (11-11, 4-6) at Chandler Gym, 72-43. The victory, the Ephs' third of the season over the Cardinals and fifth straight overall, was the 400th of Eph coach Pat Manning's career, making her the first Williams basketball coach (men or women) to reach that lofty plateau. Yet in her typical style, Manning did her best to shift the focus onto her squad's overall performance.
"The most important thing is that we advanced. That's number one," said Manning. "I'm not big on milestones and stuff like that. What I like about it is that it's with this group because this team is so special to me. I'm thrilled that a milestone win like that was with them. It means the world to me."
In the first half, the Ephs turned in one of their best 20-minute performances of the season as they limited the Cardinals to a scant 10 points while shooting a devastating 78 percent (7-9) from behind the three-point line. Initially, both teams had trouble getting on the board, and nearly a minute and a half had elapsed before Danny Rainer found Claire Baecher open for three on outlet pass, moments after Baecher had come up with a clean block on Kendra Harris, the first of six the Ephs would record in the half. Just over a minute later, Baecher contented herself with merely starting the play as she corralled a Jess Cherenza miss and flung a stretch pass to Kellie Macdonald, who quickly worked her way inside for a 5-0 Ephs lead.
The Cardinals, however, answered back immediately with a jumper from Cherenza, then pulled to within one with just over five minutes elapsed when Jackie Browne (the younger sister of Eph senior guard Stephanie Browne) fell down and lost her dribble but recovered well and dished to Chekira Lashley, who banked in a mid-range jumper to make it 5-4 Williams. With 14:55, the game had all the makings of a tight, gritty defensive struggle.
Then the Ephs found their range.
Cook began the barrage immediately after Lashley's jumper with a 3-pointer near the top of the key. That was followed, in short order, by a nice Baecher spin for a layup, a long 3-pointer from Rehnquist and another trey from Baecher off a feed from Cook in transition, giving the Ephs a 16-6 lead with 10:26 to go and prompting Wesleyan coach Kate Mullen to burn a 30-second timeout, though it appeared to have little effect on the Ephs' shooting.
Indeed, things went so well for the Ephs that even broken possessions became points. With about nine minutes left in the half, Cook slipped and fell early in an Eph trip up the court, she calmly responded with an emergency outlet to Jennie Harding, then got it back and fed Kellie Macdonald for a well-placed floater from underneath the basket. Less than a minute later, Macdonald pulled in a lob from Rehnquist and went up for the layup, where the ball was met in mid-jump by a Wesleyan defender for what looked to be an easy block. But Macdonald maintained her composure, never let go of the ball and finished to make it 23-8.
As the clock dipped under two minutes to go, the Ephs salvaged another seemingly lost play when Mary-Kate O'Brien stumbled but still managed to feed Rehnquist, who hastily knocked down her third three of the half just a few feet away from the home bleachers to push the Eph lead out to 26. By that point, the Ephs had held the Cardinals without a field goal for over 10 minutes, a stretch that finally ended when Amber Wessells grabbed her own rebound off a driving layup attempt to make it 34-10.
While the Cardinals came out of the locker room to begin the second half with a renewed vigor and made two of their first four shots, the Ephs replied with a 15-0 run that left them with 37-point cushion and essentially salted away the contest with well over half the period still to play. Once again, Baecher led the carousel of Eph scorers in notching six of her game-high 26 points during the run, including an unguarded layup and a three-pointer that bounced in after getting a generous roll off the rim, moments after Cook's equally auspicious three had made it 44-14.
With the game seemingly out of reach and over three-quarters of the half still to play, the determined Cardinals refused to quit and launched a 12-0 run punctuated by a pair of threes from Kelly-Ann Rooney, who led the Cardinals with 14 points. That run prompted a slightly concerned Manning to put her starters back into the game, though the Eph advantage never dipped lower than 22 points and hovered around 30 as the final minutes ticked off and eventually gave way to a brief on-court ceremony commemorating Manning's milestone win.
The Ephs now turn their gaze eastward to Amherst, which will host the semifinals and finals of the NESCAC tournament next week. First up for the Ephs, however, will be Middlebury, who earned a 75-64 victory over Bates earlier today. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:30 p.m., immediately after the first semifinal between Amherst and Bowdoin. | <urn:uuid:4140baab-8521-4720-8388-2453404d0306> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.iberkshires.com/story/43294/Williams-Women-s-Basketball-Surges-Past-Wesleyan.html | 2016-05-28T07:58:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049277475.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002117-00144-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970027 | 1,301 | [
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Theater review: `High Spirits’
Spirits are blithe in Moon’s `High Spirits’
What’s the point of reviewing a show just a few days before it closes? Not much from a commercial point of view.
But given the sudden interest in all things Noel Coward, I had to check out 42nd Street Moon’s production of High Spirits, a 1964 musical based on Coward’s play Blithe Spirit. And I’m certainly glad I did – the show turned out to be one of Moon’s can’t-miss productions.
The show itself, with music, lyrics and book by Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray, has some snappy (and forgettable) tunes and adheres closely to Coward’s original blueprint. But what makes this musical event stand or fall is its core quartet of actors.
If you happen to be in New York these days, you can pop in on the revival of Blithe Spirit and see Rupert Everett, Jayne Atkinson, Christine Ebersole and the redoubtable Angela Lansbury in the roles, and lucky you. But it’s hard to imagine that starry foursome being funnier or more charming than the 42nd Street Moon crew.
Michael Patrick Gaffney (above, photo by Robert Millard) is Charles Condomine, a writer and widower working on a new book that involves a séance. To assure accuracy, he invites a medium named Madame Aracati to his home for an evening’s ghostly entertainment. On Broadway, Lansbury is said to be divine in the role, but 42nd Street Moon has a real secret weapon here: Megan Cavanagh, in her second Moon outing. Cavanagh is a seasoned comic who knows better than to simply put on a kooky show as the bicycle-riding spiritualist.
Cavanagh is hilarious and heartfelt. Her big numbers, “The Bicycle Song” (cleverly choreographed by Tom Segal), “Go Into Your Trance” and “Talking to You” (an ode to a Ouija board) and “Something Is Coming to Tea,” are all show highlights simply because Cavanagh’s Arcati is so much fun to watch. We don’t believe for a minute that Arcati, as eccentric as she is, could be a phony. She’s much too sincere and has too much belief in her own gifts.
That’s a key to making sense of the silly plot. During the séance, much to the dismay of Charles’ second wife, Ruth (a droll Maureen McVerry, funny in a starched British way, pictured above with Gaffney), Arcati conjures the fleshy ghost of Charles’ first wife, the dashing Elvira, played with pizzazz by Dyan McBride.
These four performers, under the loving direction of Greg MacKellan are a joy. They have chemistry together; they sing, dance and act effortlessly; and they seem genuinely to be enjoying their time on stage.
McBride gets the show’s two standout numbers – “You’d Better Love Me” and “Home Sweet Heaven” – and she swirls around the stage in a lovely, flowy blue dress (Louise Jarmilowicz gets credit for the costumes). She even infuses a less interesting song, “Faster Than Sound,” with style and humor.
Musical director Dave Dobrusky lets the feel of the early ’60s strike a groove in his playing, and he gets stalwart support from Nick DiScala on saxophone, clarinet and flute. With only two players, Dobrusky and DiScala manage to provide varied and pleasant arrangements that go a long way in selling the songs.
In recent shows, 42nd Street Moon, now in its 16th year, has evolved from straightforward concert productions, with actors holding their scripts, to more fully staged, though still minimalist, presentations. The great thing is that the transition seems to be working. These aren’t big, splashy set- and costume-heavy shows, but the strengths of the shows themselves shine through and provide a showcase for some of our talented local musical theater performers.
Something to look forward to: The just-announced 2009-10 42nd Street Moon season begins in September with Irving Berlin’s Call Me Madam starring New York cabaret star Klea Blackhurst. Harold Rome and Leonard Gershe’s musical western, Destry Rides Again, will star local light Connie Champagne and run Oct. 28-Nov. 15. Cole Porter’s Jubilee returns Nov. 25-Dec. 13 starring High Spirits cohorts Megan Cavanagh and Michael Patrick Gaffney. The Gershwins’ Lady, Be Good! Runs March 31-April 25 and Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein’s Very Warm for May runs, appropriately, May 6-24.
The new season kicks of the beginning of a multi-year celebration of composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Ira Gershwin. The new season will also introduce “salon evenings” honoring lyricists Dorothy Fields (Oct. 13) and Ira Gershwin (Jan. 28).
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My mother has this, thanks to a difficult delivery when she was born. She can't raise her right arm above the shoulder, and I believe that her right arm may be *just* a smidge shorter than the left. It's not impacted her daily life (however, she doesn't ride) other than having to ask me to get things off of high shelves. Of course, she's 5'4" and I'm 5'10"...
I do know that she recently worked with a physical therapist for something else, and they took the time to work on her right shoulder as well - she managed to increase her strength and range of motion in that arm. Hope this helps a bit...
Is the entire right side of her body affected, or "just" the right arm?
My client has slight deficits on the left side affecting the arm and leg, sometimes with pretty severe tightening of the neck & shoulder muscles on that side. She often cannot feel what her left side is doing, or where her arm or leg is positioned. That's probably the worst part. Switching to a Western saddle from a dressage saddle has helped her a lot.
I have told her I have able-bodied students with worse asymmetries than she exhibits.
Growing up, my Mom often asked me to reach things on shelves. No Erbs Palsey, but she was a petite 5'2" and I'm 5'4" with gorilla arms!
My daughter has Erb's Palsey. It affects her left arm. She gets a lot of tightness with it and if she doesn't keep up with her stretching it can become quite contracted. If she stretches regularly, you really can't tell which arm is afflicted. She is supposed to use it more than her right arm to keep the muscles strong. I do find that riding is one activity she can do that does not make her feel self conscious about it. I make her do stretching exercises when she is in the saddle, that way it seems like more fun. | <urn:uuid:c439122b-4c32-46b6-9f6d-a8d3baf4c2e7> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.chronofhorse.com/forum/showthread.php?226868-Anyone-dealing-with-Erbs-Palsey | 2016-05-31T01:15:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464051151584.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524005231-00059-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988208 | 416 | [
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Evanna Lynch and Domhnall Gleeson Attend Irish “DH: Part 1″ Premiere in Dublin
Nov 16, 2010
Last night the Irish “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1″ Premiere also took place at Dundrum Cinema in Dublin, Ireland. Irish news websites Entertainment.ie and Herald.ie both have stories about the premiere featuring new quotes and pictures of Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood) and Domhnall Gleeson (Bill Weasley), who attended the event. You can find the photos from the premiere here in our galleries.
Some quotes from Evanna, courtesy of the Evening Herald:
“I’m repeating the Leaving Cert, sadly, but I hope to continue acting afterwards,” the actress explained. “That’s the thing with acting. It can be a very unsteady business so I
want to make sure I have something to fall back on in case I want to go
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“I love writing and I’ve always enjoyed it but I’m not going to say
I’m going to write a book or anything right now because there would be
too much pressure. And I feel too inexperienced. I write just for pleasure now, but I
think when I’m older it’s something I would like to do,” she said.
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Humans who do not understand what humanity means, must not get treated in respect. Governments admitting such disgusting behaviour are poor in mind and miserable.
Humans are a despicable species. To do something so heinous takes a vile, dark, sinister mind. I am a freelance artist trying very hard for some recognition. You are no artist. You are a criminal animal abuser. I hope you rot.
this is SO sick, they should go in jail...F.........bastards!
I remember this ... Was on the news in 2007... and i cried so much.... this artist deserves the same and still i m too kind .... we live in a CRUEL world guys
This still disgusts me. I really am ashamed to be human at times.
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Deeds, McDonnell Attend Fundraisers Tonight
Both candidates for governor will be trying to raise some money tonight.
Republican Bob McDonnell will attend a fundraiser with Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts governor and possible presidential hopeful, at the offices of the American Gas Association in the District. About 100 people are scheduled to attend the fundraiser, which is expected to bring in about $100,000.
The fundraiser prompted a response from the Democratic National Committee, which has been critical of Romney and McDonnell in recent days.
"I suppose if Mitt Romney's trying to burnish his right wing credentials to make up for the credibility gap with his party's base that his serial flip-flopping has earned him, embracing a candidate so extreme that he believes that women shouldn't work outside the home, victims of rape and incest should be denied medical options, and even married adults should not have access to contraception, is a good way to go," DNC Press Secretary Hari Sevugan said.
Meanwhile, Deeds is attending a fundraiser at the home of Harry Watkins and Arvat McClaine at Vistas on the James in downtown Richmond. The couple run Renaissance Inc., a counseling and mentoring service, and helped found the Nubian Village Academy, an African-themed private school.
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With the one possible exception of an apple in the Garden of Eden, ingesting more fruits is seen universally as a wonderful idea. One of the reasons is the benefits of fiber – whether from fruits, vegetables, grains or other sources.
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"While the fiber-fortified beverage market is still relatively small, beverage brands and manufacturers see a lot of opportunity for growth," says Patrick Luchsinger, marketing manager for nutrition at Ingredion Inc., Westchester, Ill.
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Those "advances in ingredient technology" include Ingredion's Nutraflora and Nutriose products. Nutraflora is a short-chain fructooligosaccharide, a natural prebiotic fiber derived from non-GMO beet or cane sugar. Nutriose is a soluble fiber of natural origin, derived from wheat and corn.
"Functional beverages are already part of a healthy lifestyle, but consumers aren't always aware of the health impact of different types of dietary fiber," said Rhonda Witwer, head of nutrition communications (NAFTA) at Beneo Inc. "They may be looking for beverages with natural ingredients, beverages with lower caloric content, beverages with substantiated health benefit statements, or all of the above at the same time. Beneo's prebiotic fibers, including inulin and oliggofructose derived from chicory root, are quickly gaining interest for all of these needs."
Who would even think of buying a car without cup holders? Society is more on-the-go than ever, and consumers want to match their active lives, where more calories are consumed in transit, with their quest for healthier foods.
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"Demand for all-natural is growing, as is the overall market for products that make people feel good about what they are consuming and help them feel well afterwards," adds Witwer.
"Overall, consumers don't want to change their lifestyle or diet. They want to be able to integrate healthy nutrition within their regular daily routine via small changes (such as an occasional beverage). Prebiotics from nature that are incorporated in beverages, without changing the taste and texture, are an ideal way to create new fiber-fortified solutions for today's consumer needs."
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENTS
Referring first to FIG. 1, a tire characteristic receiver 10 is illustrated. Tire characteristic receiver 10 is advantageously removably coupleable to a vehicle and, more particularly, configured for mounting to a vehicle interior element in a removable manner, as will be described hereinbelow. In this exemplary embodiment, tire characteristic receiver 10 includes a housing 12 or base member having a size suitable for being held in an operator's hand. For example, the housing can encompass a volume of less than 1,000 cubic inches or less than 800 cubic inches for a smaller, more compact version.
Housing 12 encompasses a receiver circuit configured to receive tire characteristic data from one or more vehicle tires, a processing circuit configured to process the tire characteristic data and to provide an output to the operator, and a power circuit, all of which will be described hereinbelow with reference to FIG. 3. Generally, tire characteristic receiver 10 receives tire characteristic signals representing tire characteristic data (e.g., tire pressure, tire temperature, tread depth, etc.) along a wireless transmission (e.g., infrared, radio frequency, etc.) from one or more tires coupled to a vehicle. Receiver 10 processes the data, including identifying the location of the tire associated with each received tire characteristic data, and provides this data to an operator of a vehicle via an operator interface device.
As illustrated in FIG. 1, receiver 10 includes one or more operator interface devices, such as, a display 14, a speaker 16, a release switch 18, and a light on/off switch 20. Receiver 10 is configured to provide tire characteristic data to the operator via either or both of display 14 and speaker 16. In this embodiment, display 14 is a liquid crystal display (LCD), vacuum fluorescent display, or other type of display. A vehicle icon 22 is illustrated including four tire icons 24. A low pressure or high pressure condition, or other tire condition, or the actual tire pressure of one or more of the vehicle tires can be illustrated on display 14 by using a unique color, shading, or other display format for the tire icon corresponding to the vehicle condition. The tire condition or characteristic data can be provided via speaker 16 or on display 14. An additional input switch may be used by the operator to select one of the vehicle tires for display and to further select a tire characteristic for display. For example, display 14 may be configured by the operator to show the tire pressure associated with the left front tire. Any type of input device may be used, such as, buttons, switches, dials, touch-screens, and voice recognition, to receive comments from an operator for controlling the output at display 14 and/or speaker 16.
Speaker 16 may be used to transmit an audible message corresponding to tire characteristic data to the operator. Both display 14 and speaker 16 are under control of the processing circuit, as will be described hereinbelow.
Receiver 10 further includes a light source 26 which is turned on or off by a light on/off switch 20. Switch 20 may be a toggle, push button switch, or other type of switch. Light source 26 is configured to provide illumination to the surrounding area, which is particularly advantageous when used in the vicinity of a vehicle tire which may be flat or otherwise require maintenance when the ambient light is low.
Receiver 10 may further include a stand 28 hingedly coupled to a back surface 30 of receiver 10. Stand 28 may be opened such that receiver 10 can rest upon stand 28 when used away from a vehicle interior, and stand 28 may be folded flush with back surface 30 when receiver 10 is used in a hand-held mode or when receiver 10 is coupled to a vehicle interior element.
Referring now to FIG. 2, back surface 30 of receiver 10 is shown. An interface circuit 32 is coupled to housing 12 and is configured to be coupled to one or more detectors or antennas (not shown) and may also be configured to be coupled to a vehicle power source. Detector terminals 34 on interface circuit 32 provide electrical conductivity between the detectors (of which there are four in this exemplary embodiment, but there may alternatively be only one detector or other numbers of detectors) and the receiver circuit within housing 12. Power terminals 36 are configured to provide electrical conductivity between a vehicle power source and a power circuit within housing 12. Interface circuit 32 may take various forms, including plastic, metal, recessed connectors, 9-pin connectors, or other interface circuits.
The embodiment of FIGS. 1 and 2 discloses a housing 12 which completely encloses a receiver circuit and a processor circuit. Advantageously, housing 12 may provide radio frequency shielding to prevent interference of surrounding radio waves with the operations of the receiver circuit within receiver 10. Alternatively, one or more of the receiver circuit or the processing circuit may be mounted with a portion extending outside of housing 12.
Detector terminals 34 in interface circuit 32 comprise an exemplary detector coupling configured to couple housing 12 to one or more detectors, wherein wireless data signals from the vehicle tires are provided through the detectors, through the detector coupling to the receiver circuit within housing 12. Power terminals 36 in interface circuit 32 further comprise an exemplary power coupling which is configured to receive power from a vehicle and to provide the vehicle power to the processing circuit, the receiver circuit, or both within housing 12. These couplings may take various alternative configurations.
Referring now to FIG. 3, a block diagram of receiver 10 is illustrated according to an exemplary embodiment. Receiver 10 includes a processing circuit 40, which may include one or more analog or digital components, such as microprocessors, microcontrollers, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), or other processing circuitry. Processing circuit 40 is coupled to a receiver circuit 42, both of which are disposed within housing 12. Receiver circuit 42 includes the necessary amplifying, mixing, demodulating, and/or other circuitry necessary for receiving and demodulating wireless tire characteristic signals from transmitters located on each vehicle tire via detectors 44. Detectors 44 are antennas in this exemplary embodiment, but may alternatively be infrared receivers, or other signal detectors. Interface circuit 32 is disposed between detectors 44 and receiver circuit 42. A power circuit 46 provides power to processing circuit 40 and receiver circuit 42. Power circuit 46 is illustrated as drawing power through interface circuit 32 from a vehicle power source 48, such as a vehicle battery. Alternatively, power circuit 46 may include a battery which does not draw power from vehicle power source 48. Alternatively, power circuit 46 may comprise a rechargeable battery, such as a nickel cadmium, lithium ion, or other type of rechargeable battery which is rechargeable from vehicle power source 48 when receiver 10 is coupled thereto. Processing circuit 40 may further utilize power management techniques in the case of a battery-operated system to promote a longer battery life.
Receiver 10 further includes an operator interface device 50 which may include display 14 and/or speaker 16 (see FIG. 1). Operator interface device 50 may further include light on/off switch 20 and any other operator input or output devices.
Receiver 10 can be configured to monitor tire characteristics on one or more vehicle tires as disclosed in commonly assigned U.S. application Ser. No. 09/896,528 to Honeck et al., which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety. Receiver 10 can further operate as disclosed in commonly assigned U.S. application Ser. No. 09/931,456, to Vredevoogd et al., which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety.
Receiver 10 is configured to receive tire characteristic signals (e.g., tire pressure data, tire temperature data, tire tread depth data, etc.) from transmitter/sensor units on each of a plurality of vehicle tires via a wireless link (e.g., radio frequency, infrared, etc.) at detectors 44. The tire characteristic signals are provided to receiver circuit 42 which demodulates the data on the signals and provides the data to processing circuit 40 for further processing. Processing circuit 40 is configured to receive the tire characteristic data and to provide the tire characteristic data to operator interface device 50. Processing circuit 40 may be programmed manually or automatically to identify the location of the tire associated with the data received and can further provide this data to operator interface device 50. The received tire characteristic data from each transmitter/sensor unit includes tire identification data and one or more items of tire characteristics. Processing circuit 40 may be configured to identify the positions of a plurality of tires on the vehicle based on the tire identification data, or based on pre-programmed data.
Receiver 10 may further be configured as a trainable transceiver in which a wireless message is received, for example, for a garage door opener, characteristics of the wireless message are stored, such as, bit encoding scheme, frequency, etc., and a wireless signal is transmitted from receiver 10 in response to operator actuation of a switch, when the transmitted signal is based on the recorded characteristics. In this embodiment, receiver circuit 42 acts as a transceiver circuit capable of both receiving and transmitting a wireless message. Exemplary trainable transceiver systems are described with specificity in U.S. Pat. No. 5,854,593 to Dykema et al., which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
Further still, receiver 10 may be configured to receive a remote keyless entry signal indicative of a request to lock or unlock a vehicle door, to turn a security feature on or off, or to operate another system within the vehicle. In this example, receiver 10 includes an interface to a vehicle system via a vehicle bus or via a direct wired or wireless link to operate the vehicle system in accordance with the command received from the remote keyless entry transmitter (e.g., a keyfob).
Advantageously, receiver 10 may be configured for one or more of tire characteristic monitoring, trainable transceiver, or remote keyless entry functions described hereinabove using the same set of receive circuitry and processing circuitry. Furthermore, all three functions can be provided in a housing 12 which is removably coupleable to a vehicle interior element, as will now be described.
Referring now to FIG. 4, receiver 10 is illustrated in a position wherein receiver 10 is coupled to a vehicle interior element 52. The vehicle interior element is an instrument panel in this exemplary embodiment, but may alternatively be an overhead compartment, a floor console, a trunk, a vehicle seat, a headliner, a visor, a glove box, a door, a lift gate, etc.
As illustrated in FIG. 5, receiver 10 is removable from vehicle interior element 52 for use outside of a vehicle interior. An exemplary removable coupling arrangement will be described with reference to FIGS. 6 and 7 hereinbelow, although any suitable coupling arrangement can be used. Referring again to FIG. 4, in response to user actuation of release switch 18, receiver 10 becomes removable from vehicle interior element 52 for use outside of the vehicle. In this exemplary embodiment, receiver 10 is removable from vehicle interior element 52 only in response to an operator-actuated switch, and otherwise remains in a coupled configuration with vehicle interior element 52.
As illustrated in FIG. 5, receiver 10 may be placed near a vehicle tire 54 while an operator or service technician is checking the characteristics of the tire and servicing the tire, for example, by adding pressure with a tire pressure hose 56. Light source 26 can be enabled by light switch 20 to provide light to the surrounding area as the vehicle tire is checked and/or serviced.
According to one advantageous feature, as pressure is added to tire 54, the transmitter/sensor circuit 58 coupled to tire 54 continuously sends messages including tire identification data and tire characteristic data to receiver 10. Receiver 10 is configured to provide an audible indication 60 of the tire pressure as pressure is added. The audible indication or message 60 can be enabled by the user pressing a switch on receiver 10, and likewise disabled. Audible messages can be transmitted from receiver 10 at increments of one pressure per square inch (PSI), only at the tire pressure fill limit (e.g., 35 PSI), or in other configurations. Advantageously, a single tire characteristic receiver can be used both in the vehicle to monitor the tire characteristics of vehicle tires while driving, and then used outside of the vehicle when servicing a tire or checking the status of the tire.
According to one alternative feature, receiver 10 is configured to identify a vehicle tire nearest to receiver 10 based on the tire characteristic data and without operator input. Receiver 10 calculates the strength of signals received from each transmitter/sensor in each vehicle tire and indicates to the operator via display 14 which tire is nearest by assuming the tire with the strongest signal strength (RSSI or received signal strength indicator) is nearest. Other alternative methods of identifying the positions of the vehicle tires on the vehicle are contemplated.
Referring now to FIGS. 6 and 7, cross-sectional views of vehicle interior element 52 and receiver 10 are illustrated. FIGS. 6 and 7 illustrate an exemplary removable coupling arrangement or mechanical coupling for coupling housing 12 of receiver 10 to vehicle interior element 52. In this exemplary embodiment, vehicle interior element 52 includes a mating interface circuit 62 configured to interface in a mating arrangement with interface circuit 32. Mating interface circuit 62 includes a plurality of electrical contacts 64 configured to provide vehicle power and/or detector signals to interface circuit 32.
The mechanical coupling for providing releasable connection or removable coupling in this exemplary embodiment includes release switch 18 coupled to a lever 66 which is coupled to a protuberance 68. A pivot 70 is coupled to housing 12. A spring 72 biases lever 66 in a clockwise direction as illustrated to bias protuberance 68 outward from housing 12 through an aperture 74 in housing 12. As housing 12 is slid into vehicle interior element 52 in the direction of arrow 76, protuberance 68 is biased inward to housing 12 by leading edge 78 of vehicle interior element 52. As housing 12 continues to slide into vehicle interior element 52, protuberance 68 meets an aperture 80 in vehicle interior element 52. At this juncture, spring 72 biases lever 66 clockwise and moves protuberance 68 into a locking arrangement within aperture 80. To remove receiver 10, release switch 18 is actuated to move lever 66 in a counterclockwise direction around pivot 70 to remove protuberance 68 from aperture 80, thereby allowing housing 12 to be removed. One of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that many alternative mechanical coupling, electromechanical coupling or magnetic coupling arrangements are contemplated.
According to one exemplary embodiment, when receiver 10 is removed from the vehicle, the information on display 14 continues to be displayed so that the person adding air to the vehicle tires knows how much air should be added. Receiver 10 is then used at the tire to display pressure and confirm that the appropriate amount of air is in the tire.
According to one advantageous embodiment, vehicle icon 22 on display 14 is oriented in a way that reduces confusion, specifically, by providing the front left tire of the display in coordination with the front left tire on the vehicle when display 14 is mounted on the vehicle. Furthermore, an indication can be provided on display 14 to indicate to the user a reference point on the vehicle, such as the vehicle front, to simplify proper orientation of receiver 10 during use outside of the vehicle interior.
Referring now to FIG. 8, a perspective view of a tire characteristic receiver 110 and a vehicle interior element 112 is illustrated. Receiver 10 includes an interface circuit 114 having a plurality of connectors 116 and a retractable, spring-loaded door 118. Receiver 110 further includes one or more recesses 120, 122 within the housing of receiver 110. A back side of receiver 110 is illustrated in FIG. 8. Door 118 is biased in a closed position, wherein connectors 116 are covered and protected. Door 118 is configured to recess within receiver 110 in response to a force exerted thereon. The housing of receiver 110 has a size and weight such that receiver 110 can be held in a person's hand. Vehicle element 112 includes a recess 124 configured to receive housing receiver 110. Vehicle interior element 112 further includes a release button 126 which acts on a protrusion 128 which extends into recess 124.
As receiver 110 is placed into vehicle interior element 112, recesses 120, 122 are aligned with corresponding protrusions 136 (FIG. 9) from vehicle interior element 112 into recess 124. A first end 130 of receiver 110 is inserted into a first end 132 of recess 124. A second end 134 of receiver 110 is moved toward protrusion 128. Protrusion 128 is biased by a spring or other biasing device toward recess 124.
Referring to FIG. 9, first end 130 of receiver 110 is shown inserted into recess 124, wherein recesses 120, 122 fit in substantially mating alignment with protrusions 136. Second end 134 of receiver 110 is moved in the direction of arrow 138 toward protrusion 128. Second end 134 biases protrusion 128 away from recess 124 to allow receiver 110 to fit into recess 124. Protrusion 128 locks receiver 110 in place at recess 140. Button 126 is pressed to release second end 134 of receiver 110 by imparting a force on protrusion 128 to move it out of recess 140, thereby allowing receiver 110 to be removed.
Referring now to FIG. 10, a tire characteristic receiver 200 is illustrated according to another exemplary embodiment. In this embodiment, receiver 200 includes an interface circuit 202 having connectors 204. A back side 206 of receiver 200 is placed into a mating recess 208 of vehicle element interior element 210, shown as an instrument panel. A plurality of mating contacts or interconnects 212 are configured to make contact with contacts 204. A door 214 is slidable from a closed position (in the direction of arrow 216) to an open position (in the direction of arrow 218). Alternatively, door 214 may be hinged and may include detents, an interference fit, or other structure for holding door 214 in an open and/or closed position to thereby retain and/or release receiver 200 from recess 208.
Advantageously, other features and/or functions not related to tire characteristic monitoring can be implemented with the tire characteristic receivers described in the various exemplary embodiments herein. During normal vehicle driving, when the tires are in good condition, the display on the tire characteristic receiver may be used for other vehicle functionalities. For example, as illustrated in FIG. 11 and FIG. 12, a tire characteristic receiver 300 includes a navigation function wherein a map 302 is provided on the display of receiver 300 when receiver 300 is not used for the display of tire characteristic data. As shown in FIG. 12, receiver 300 is configured to be mounted to and recessed within a vehicle interior element 304, shown here as an instrument panel. According to one embodiment, a plurality of user input devices 306 are coupled to vehicle interior element 304 and are configured to communicate with receiver 300 via an interface circuit. An icon 308 of a vehicle is illustrated having tire icons 310, which can indicate tire characteristic information. Input device 306 can be used to cycle through various functions to be displayed on the display of receiver 300. Receiver 300 may include a GPS receiver and antenna, or may receive data from a GPS receiver and antenna mounted on another location of the vehicle and connected to receiver 300 via a communication link, such as, a vehicle bus. According to one example, a map can be downloaded to receiver 300, and the map can be removed from vehicle interior element 304 and operational on battery power as a user takes receiver 300 and map 302 away from the vehicle for use outside of the vehicle.
Referring to FIG. 13, another exemplary embodiment of tire characteristic receiver 400 includes an integrated wireless telephone having a retracting or folding antenna 402 such that receiver 400 can fit in a recess within the vehicle interior element. The tire characteristic receiver 400 may include a display 404 for the display of data information, including maps, and other downloaded data from a wireless communication via antenna 402.
Referring now to FIG. 14, the tire characteristic receiver may be integrated in a single package with a remote object finder, such as a vehicle finder. In this embodiment, a tire characteristic receiver 500 further includes a display having an arrow icon 502, a wireless or infrared transmitter 504, and a wireless or infrared receiver 506. Transmitter 504 and receiver 506 are aimed in the same direction relative to receiver 500 and are mounted in recesses 508, 510 within the housing of receiver 500. Recesses 508 and 510 include sufficient radio frequency and/or infrared shielding. As illustrated, a signal 512 is transmitted from transmitter 504 and deflects off an object and returns to receiver 506. A control circuit within receiver 500 detects the location of the object relative to receiver 500 and provides an arrow icon indicating the direction to the object. Receiver 500 may be useful in identifying the location of a vehicle, provided the vehicle includes a tag or other device configured to deflect signal 512.
Referring now to FIG. 15, a tire characteristic receiver 600 includes a storage area 602 configured to house a plurality of tire valve stem covers 604. Receiver 600 further includes a retractable tread depth gauge 606. Other instruments may be configured for use with receiver 600.
A further feature which may be combined with the tire characteristic receiver is that of a digital voice recorder located in the visor of the vehicle. An exemplary system is illustrated in U.S. Pat. No. 5,810,420, which is herein incorporated by reference.
According to another exemplary embodiment, a removable charging unit 700 is provided for a vehicle. Unit 16 includes a housing 702 having a first interface circuit 704, a power storage circuit 706, and a second interface circuit 708 coupled thereto or disposed therein. The housing is removably coupleable to a vehicle interior element, for example using one of the methods described hereinabove. A first interface circuit 704 is coupled to the housing and configured to receive a power signal from the vehicle power (e.g., vehicle battery power). The first interface circuit is further configured to provide the power to power storage circuit 706. Power storage circuit 706 can be a battery, such as a rechargeable battery. A second interface circuit 708 is configured for coupling between power storage circuit 706 and an accessory exterior to or coupled within housing 700. For example, the accessory can be an electronic vehicle safety accessory, such as, a cellular phone, an alarm, a portable navigation system, etc. The electronic vehicle safety accessory may further be a transceiver configured to communicate voice, data, and/or other information with a remote diagnostic site, wherein the remote diagnostic site can provide assistance to the vehicle via a human operator or via an automatic dispatch service. The transceiver can communicate via cellular or other wireless telephone technologies, or may also communicate via a personal area network (PAN) or other wireless system. Advantageously, the removable charging unit for a vehicle provides battery power for one or more electronic vehicle safety accessories when vehicle power may be dissipated.
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Transylvania, land of Dracula and part of the Austro-Hungarian empire for more than 1,000 years, is today in the isolated region of north-central Romania. It's been said that Transylvania sits on one of Earth's strongest magnetic fields and its people, as a result, have extra-sensory perception.
Sighişoara's castle-topped 12th-century citadel is infamously associated with the legend of Dracula. Complete with torture chambers, the baroque Clock Tower and restored medieval homes and churches, the citadel – a UNESCO World Heritage Site – resembles the set of a horror film.
In the town square, there's a plaque marking the site of beheadings by Vlad the Impaler, who inspired Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula. You'll find a charming plaza lined with terrace cafes and shops displaying vampire souvenirs.
With its traditional Romanian villages, the beautiful unspoiled mountain scenery of the Bargau Valley in the Carpathians makes an ideal base for hiking, sightseeing or exploring the legend of Dracula.
The passageway of Borgo Pass through the Carpathian Mountains in northern Translvania was made famous in Dracula and is only accessible by car via the town of Tihuta.
Dracula's real castle is the Poenari Castle on the border between Wallachia and Transylvania in the Transylvanian Alps. You climb 1,500 steps (a one-hour walk) to reach the castle, winding through a picturesque forest along the hillside. We walked through the ruins and viewed the torture dungeon where people had been tortured to death during Vlad the Impaler’s rule.
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For survivors, church is their foundation
By CATHERINE E. SHOICHET
Published February 5, 2007
LADY LAKE - The Rev. Larry Lynn stood on his church's crumbling concrete foundation. Splintered wood and bent steel beams stuck out behind him. Fallen power lines snaked through broken tree branches above.
"This pile of rubble gave us a platform to speak to the world today," the Pentecostal pastor said.
The tornado that ripped through Central Florida early Friday, killing 20 people, destroyed the 31-year-old Lady Lake Church of God.
But the building was merely a meeting place, Lynn said Sunday, preaching to more than 200, including Gov. Charlie Crist and dozens of television news crews.
Choir members sang beside him:
On Christ the solid rock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand
"There are some folks down south of us who are going to be getting fanatical about a football today," Lynn said. "We're just fanatical about Jesus."
In his sermon, he urged listeners to start anew and keep faith.
Congregation members stood under a blue, cloud-streaked sky, swaying and shouting, "Praise the Lord!"
Some of them sat on dusty chairs that had been pulled out of the rubble. Others brought blankets or lawn chairs from home.
Kathy Fillman, 53, was in the front row, only a few feet from the church's fallen steeple. She waved a red flag that said "Holy Ghost Fire."
"The church is the people," she said. "Our prayer is that we touch the unsaved people."
Choir members clapped, stomped and shouted, "Hallelujah!"
They finished with Amazing Grace.
Crist slipped out of his front row seat 40 minutes into the service. It was his third visit to the demolished church since Friday.
He praised Lynn for his "absolutely infectious" spirit.
"God bless you. God bless your church. God bless Florida," he said.
As the audience thinned out, Suzette Thiel, 40, moved to the front row. She wore a cross necklace and a backpack full of Gatorade. In her hands, she clutched her leather-bound Bible.
Between its tattered pages were news clippings showing the tornado-ravaged spot in the Lady Lake mobile home park where her trailer once stood.
She found the Bible in a pond Friday. It was one of the few items she was able to salvage.
As the pastor spoke, Thiel wiped away tears and nodded her head.
"Now we've just got to pray to Jesus," she said, "and pray we can get back on our feet again."
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Fulfilling potential, Samardzija ready for Opening Day
By Carrie Muskat / MLB.com
MESA, Ariz. -- He used to catch passes in front of more than 80,000 people on Saturdays in South Bend, Ind., plus millions more watching on television. More than 100,000 have watched him play in college bowl games. Jeff Samardzija can handle the spotlight.
But Samardzija admits he'll be a little nervous when he takes the mound Monday at PNC Park at 12:35 p.m. CT, making his first Opening Day start. The right-hander will get the Cubs' season started where his ended last year on Sept. 8.
Samardzija was on an innings limit in his first full season as a starting pitcher in 2012. This year, there are no limits. Cubs manager Dale Sveum named the former All-America wide receiver his No. 1 starter in early March. It was a no-brainer.
W: Samardzija L: Burnett S: Fujikawa
"He's a guy who players rally around because of his work ethic, his bulldog mentality when he's on the mound," Sveum said.
Samardzija earned the assignment because of how he developed during last season. In his final start, he threw a complete-game victory against the Pirates, striking out nine.
"I thought that was a big start," Samardzija said. "I thought the most important start last year was the Atlanta start [July 2]. I didn't have a good June, but if you look at from that Atlanta start on, it progressively got better every time out and culminated with that Pittsburgh game.
Against the Braves, he gave up one run and struck out 11 over seven innings. From that point until year's end, he compiled a 2.58 ERA in 13 games.
"That's been the roll I've been going on, and I want to keep the momentum going," he said. "It's funny we start back in Pittsburgh, and I look forward to it."
Samardzija and Sveum bonded on the day the manager was named in November 2011. They met at Wrigley Field, and Samardzija stressed his commitment to baseball at that time.
"Me and Dale were on the same page from Day 1 with what we wanted," Samardzija said. "We didn't want any personal accolades, we just want to win ballgames. That is it. It doesn't matter when you pitch, or where you pitch or what the lineup is. I felt that from him when I met him at Wrigley the day he was hired. It's a good thing to have. There's no drama, you just go out and play ball."
|Projected Opening Day lineup|
Since he was drafted by the Cubs in 2006, Samardzija, 28, has made it clear he wants to start, but early on he was shuffled between the rotation and bullpen. At one time, he did consider playing both sports.
"I wanted to leave all my options open," he said. "Being a young kid, you don't know what you want all the time."
So, why baseball?
"I loved both," he said, "and I knew it would be a tough decision. After playing a summer with the Cubs [in 2006], and before I went back for my senior year of football, it really opened up my eyes as to what the sport was all about. I was intrigued at the amount of time I had put in football that I hadn't put in baseball. I was intrigued by what the ceiling was, and where we could get to. I had fun playing baseball and that was the most important thing."
At Notre Dame, student athletes were allotted 20 hours each week for sports. Samardzija spent 16 hours on football and four on baseball. He does watch NFL games and sometimes wonders "what if," but he's happy with his choice.
"You can't have your ice cream and eat it, too, all the time," he said.
That football mentality has both helped and hurt him. Sveum called it a "gorilla" approach to pitching. That may be the biggest change in Samardzija last year as he learned how to pitch rather than just trying to blow fastballs by hitters.
"Early in my career, I had to battle too many emotions and having that [football] mentality," he said. "To kind of suppress that for a while and learn how to pitch as a pitcher helped a lot. There are certain times when you need that -- you need that little extra energy, extra fire to get through tough situations. But everything has to be in check and under control."
It didn't take long for Sveum to see that Samardzija could be the ace of the Cubs' staff.
"It made sense as a big-body guy who should be able to handle the load and a guy who has learned how to pitch in the big leagues and had to learn how to be a starter," Sveum said. "I wasn't taken aback [at that meeting in 2011], but it was actually, 'Yeah, man, if this works out, this could be kind of special.'"
It all gets started Monday.
"I've gone through some humbling baseball experiences in '09 and '10 that put a lot of things into perspective," Samardzija said. "The best thing as an athlete is all your hard work -- you see positive gains from it. It gets you to keep working hard and keep improving. You get a little taste of success and you want that to keep going. I feel that's where I'm at now and I want to keep the ball rolling."
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SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market, has confirmed its participation in Africa’s premier technology showcase and networking event, the Tech Demo Africa 2013.
Tech Demo Africa 2013 is an industry platform that offers businesses the opportunity to showcase their products and services, and is targeted at key industry influencers, business leaders, as well as local and international media.
The event will focus on two main areas: Enterprise Technology and Mobile Applications, incorporating discussion of burning IT issues such as Mobility, BYOD, Cloud, Big Data, Security, Enterprise Innovation and Startup funding.
Through innovative solutions, SAS helps customers at more than 60,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know®.
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Tech Demo Africa is an exclusive event targeted at CIOs and other executive level decision makers.
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I think it's a viable option.
Financially speaking, you can diversify how you bank it with diverse investments and live off dividends, lowering your tax rate in the process as well, and also being able to walk away at any time. Not just to go and travel (knowing everything is secure), but also if you just want to move to another location that might be better for you.
DH and I talked about this the other day. We actually really like renting. The place we had our eye on from day 1 when we came here has some available. Unfortunately, it's currently beyond our means, but it's not that far. So, in a little while, we'll be able to move there. It has about 70 million amenities (parking in town being a huge one), and is a two block walk to work. It's a 15 minute drive to DS's school. Seriously, it's golden.
Owning it would be a hassle unless someone's looking at that as a long-term financial investment (in terms of running a property business). I used to have a lot of interest in that, but now that I know several people who run property businesses and I've seen it from the inside, I say to myself: no thanks!
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The other day we wrote about how bad the Flyers are in shootouts. Last night, a third-period tip-in goal from Brayden Schenn helped the Flyers tie the Washington Capitals at 1 in regulation. The game was scoreless through the 3-on-3 overtime, and so the Flyers were headed to a shootout.
The Caps have already clinched the President’s Trophy for the best record in the league. They were 4-1 in shootouts going into last night’s game; the Flyers were 2-8. Wouldn’t you know: Nick Cousins and Sam Gagner scored for the Flyers in the shootout and the Flyers upset the Capitals last night. Read more »
The game-winning goal by Philadelphia Flyers’ Claude Giroux.
The Flyers are horrible in shootouts. Just terrible. They’re 2-8 in them this season, the most losses in the league and the second-fewest wins. And it looked like last night’s game against the Winnipeg Jets was headed to another shootout.
But then Shayne Gostisbehere and Claude Giroux stepped in. NHL overtimes are 3-on-3, and the Flyers had a 2-on-1 break with about 20 seconds left. But as Giroux attempted to pass it to Gostisbehere, the Jets’ Mark Scheifele tipped the pass into the air. But Gostisbehere dove for it, hit it with his stick, stopped it with his glove, then passed it to a wide open Giroux in front of the net. He scored, and the Wells Fargo Center crowd went wild. Read more »
Flyers goalies Michal Neuvirth (left) and Steve Mason.
Last night, as we discussed yesterday, the Flyers had a chance to move into playoff position with a win over Chicago. The Blackhawks, though, are one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference — just three points behind the conference leader.
It didn’t matter. Michal Neuvirth made 24 saves on 26 shots and a third-period Radko Gudas goal, just his third of the season, gave the Flyers a 3-2 win. If the season ended now — and that would be really weird, because there are still have 13 games left — the Flyers would be the No. 8 seed in the playoffs.
Many Flyers fans, relentlessly upbeat as far as Philly sports fans go, are starting to get excited. Some are even comparing the team’s recent form to that of 2010. That year, the Flyers made the playoffs on the last day of the regular season and went all the way to Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final before being eliminated. Read more »
Philadelphia Flyers right wing Wayne Simmonds celebrates his goal against the Detroit Red Wings.
The Flyers edged the Red Wings last night, 4-3. Shayne Gostisbehere’s third-period pass deflected off a Detroit skater and went into the net, giving the Flyers a two-goal lead. When the Red Wings scored to cut the deficit back to one, the rookie gave the Flyers the eventual margin.
Michael Raffl also scored twice for the Flyers, who jumped out to a 2-0 lead after the first period. Philly outshot Detroit 23-3 in the first.
“I think it was the best start I think we’ve had all year,” said Wayne Simmonds. “It’s the biggest game of the year for us. And everyone was pretty damn pumped.” Simmonds scored the Flyers’ other goal. Read more »
The Flyers won again last night, moving them just two points back of the final playoff spot in the NHL’s Eastern Conference. They were almost perfect on their six-game home stand, going 5-1; they’ve passed all the other teams vying for a playoff spot and are now squarely in ninth in the conference.
Last night’s win over the Lightning was by far the most exciting game of the Flyers’ recent stretch. Tampa Bay, in first place in the Atlantic Division, was on a nine-game winning streak heading into the game. The Lightning took a 1-0 lead just four minutes into the game; it looked like it could be a long night.
But then the Flyers turned up the heat on defense: They allowed just nine shots through the first two periods, while putting the puck on net a whopping 31 times themselves. Finally, rookie defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere put one past Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy to tie the score. Read more »
The Flyers currently sit on the outside of the playoffs, but they have a good chance to make up some ground in the next two weeks: Last night was the first in a six-game homestand. They were tied with the Minnesota Wild going into the third period, but Pierre-Edouard Bellemare’s fourth goal of the season gave them a 3-2 lead.
That lead stood until the final buzzer. But it took an incredible save with just seconds left left by goaltender Michal Neuvirth to preserve the win. The Wild’s Charlie Coyle got the puck after a cross-ice pass and had a wide open net. But Neuvirth recovered somehow and kept it out of the goal. Read more »
Today, The Hockey News’ Ken Campbell published a long profile on Eric Lindros. It’s a story about how Lindros, who was a Flyer from 1992 to 2001, is at peace with his career despite how tumultuous it was: He was the best player in the world for a few years, but he feuded with Flyers management, never won a Stanley Cup and somehow was even linked to Joey Merlino.
(Last year, I wrote about a libel lawsuit Lindros filed against former NHL referee Paul Stewart and The Huffington Post over a column Stewart wrote for the site.)
Campbell’s story is also about how Lindros was a driving force for player safety in the NHL, how he continues to fight now for concussion awareness and how he’s trying to raise money for Dr. Arthur Brown’s research into a way that could prevent the damage caused by concussions.
Here are five takeaways from The Hockey News’ story. Read more »
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As the clock wound down in the second quarter of the Eagles game against the middling Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the visitors had already piled on four touchdowns. All signs — particularly the Birds’ defense, which resembled matadors and turnstiles — pointed to a rout. In the wake of a heartbreaker loss to the lousy Miami Dolphins the week before here at home, a letdown against the Bucs had season-ending implications. The fans knew this. Which is why, as the players jogged off the field at halftime, a shower of boos rained down. These weren’t your garden-variety “We’re not happy” boos. This was a deafening, guttural roar. A seismic display of frustration. A tsunami of “You suck.” Read more »
If you can wait four more years until we get to 2020, sports in Philadelphia is going to be pretty good.
That’s what my crystal ball says. My theory is this: All four teams in Philadelphia right now are at the bottom rung of a ladder, but all four are on a plan to build up from scratch until they get to a championship level. By my estimation, that’s going to take four years for the Eagles, Flyers, Sixers and Phillies. But it’s going to be worth the wait. We’re going to wake up one day, and the year 2020 is going to be just like 1980.
The Phillies won the World Series over the Royals; the 76ers faced the Lakers in the NBA finals (where they came up painfully short, but set the stage for their eventual triumph in ’83); the Eagles were in the Super Bowl (though they painfully lost to the Raiders); and the Flyers were in the Stanley Cup finals (where they just as painfully lost to the Islanders). All four teams played for a championship that year. That was Philadelphia sports’ highest peak.
Let’s look at the state of Philly sports right now: Read more »
The You Can Play project is a group fighting to change the culture around LGBT athletes, coaches and fans in sports. It works to promote LGBT athlete safety, seeking “to challenge the culture of locker rooms and spectator areas by focusing only on an athlete’s skills, work ethic and competitive spirit.”
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In a sign that most Americans favor a progressive social agenda, a recent public opinion poll revealed that a solid majority of respondents want to curtail military commitments abroad, raise taxes on the rich and close tax loopholes for large corporations.
At the same time, the survey shows that the Republican political establishment is out of sync with the views of the Republican base on these and other questions.
According to results of a survey released by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press earlier this month, in order to reduce the national debt and deficit:
- 66 percent favored increasing taxes on those making more than $250,000 a year
- 65 percent favored reducing military commitments overseas
- 62 percent favored limiting tax deductions for large corporations
The attitude for decreasing military presence abroad corresponds with the public view - held by six-in-ten - that the cost of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars has contributed greatly to the national debt, more than any other factor tested.
This public sentiment was no doubt an important factor in President Barack Obama's recent decision to scale back troop presence in Afghanistan.
The findings also reveal that the Republican political establishment appears to be at odds with the majority of the Republican base. Sixty-two percent of Republicans approved limiting corporate tax deductions and 56 percent favored reducing military engagements abroad.
While Republican leaders in Congress stand firm against raising income taxes (for the rich), Republican respondents were evenly divided (49 to 49 percent) on whether to support increasing taxes on income over $250,000 to reduce the national debt.
Meanwhile, the poll finds widespread opposition to measures being promoted by Republican Congressional leaders aimed to reduce the deficit and national debt:
- 73 percent of respondents overall (64 percent of Republicans) disapprove of cutting funds for the states for education and roads
- 73 percent overall (70 percent of Republicans) disapprove of taxing employer-provided health insurance
- 59 percent generally (51 percent of Republicans) oppose gradually raising the Social Security retirement age
- 54 percent generally (43 percent of Republicans) oppose reducing programs that help low-income Americans. Of the four, this is the only issue on which a majority of Republicans (52 percent) goes along with Republican political leaders.
Despite the Republican propaganda machine's best efforts, the figures demonstrate that clear majorities understand what is in their and the nation's best interests.
The study also reflects the positive impact on public opinion of issue-oriented campaigns led by labor and other popular movements in conjunction with center-left politicians and political figures in the Democratic camp, including the president on several issues he has championed.
The survey further showed that public concern for the budget deficit increased since last year. May 25-30, when the survey was conducted, 28 percent cited the budget deficit as the economic issue that most worries them, up from 24 percent in March and 19 percent in December.
This appears to demonstrate the influence that the powerful Republican propaganda blitzkrieg - coupled with the acquiescence of some Democratic politicians - is having on people's thinking.
However, the job situation remains the number one concern for even more Americans - 38 percent said they worry most about jobs, up slightly from March (34 percent), though down from 47 percent in December.
While the March and May figures suggest a somewhat (albeit anemic) overall improvement in the job situation, it also shows the need for a more robust movement for jobs - all the more so given the increased likelihood of a double dip economic downturn.
Massive jobs' creation is a sure way to bring down the federal deficit because it will expand the tax base.
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Oct. 22: Priest retreat
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Oct. 23: Lay Leadership Committee, Chancery
Oct. 24: Visitation of various diocesan cemeteries
Oct. 27: 10:30 a.m., Mass, St. Felicitas Parish, San Leandro
Oct. 29-30: California Conference of Catholic Bishops
Nov. 2: 5 p.m., Mass, Holy Spirit Parish, Fremont
Nov. 3: Confirmation, Federal Women's Prison, Dublin
Nov. 5: FACE Advisory Board, Chancery
Nov. 7: Pastoral Leadership Placement Board, Chancery
Nov. 8-15: U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Nov. 16: 10 a.m., Permanent deacon ordination, Cathedral of Christ the Light
Nov. 16: 5 p.m., Mass, St. Callistus Parish, El Sobrante
Nov. 17: 11 a.m., Mass, St. Bonaventure, Concord
Nov. 18: 10:30 a.m., Mass, Mercy Retirement Center, Oakland
Nov. 18: College of Consultors, Chancery
Nov. 19: 9 a.m., Mass, All Saints School, Hayward
Nov. 19: Deanery 13 luncheon
Nov. 21: 11 a.m., Mass, St. Felicitas School, San Leandro
Nov. 21: Vespers and dinner, University of California at Berkeley, Catholic faculty and Graduate Theological Union, Cathedral Event Center
Nov. 24: 4 p.m., Mass, Vietnamese Martyrs, St. Anthony Parish, Oakland
Nov. 25: 10 a.m., San Francisco Province Bishops, Archdiocese of San Francisco
Nov. 26: Priests' Day Lecture, Mass and dinner, St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park
Nov. 28: 10 a.m., Mass, Thanksgiving, Cathedral of Christ the Light
CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE LIGHT
Fall film series
Rev. James Martin, SJ, author of the best-selling book "My Life with the Saints," will introduce his favorite Catholic saints via a DVD that combines Father Martin's commentary along with dramatic photos and artwork that bring to life the lives of the saints.
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The no-cost series will be on four consecutive Wednesdays beginning Oct. 30 (and Nov. 6, 13 and 20) in the Parish Hall, 2121 Harrison St., Oakland. Fellowship begins at 6 p.m. and viewing and discussion runs from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
For information: www.ctlcathedral.org or 510-893-4711.
||Kids in the hall
The art program at St. Patrick School in Rodeo focuses on the elements and principles of art. On display in the art hall in the cathedral Event Center are reproductions of mosaics made by members of the Class of 2013. The pupils, having studied self-portraits through the eyes of Van Gogh, Kahlo, van Eyck and Raphael, use the ancient art form of mosaics to recreate pictures of themselves, which are displayed during their graduation festivities. Using magazine page pieces, students must find the proper skin tones, and background colors to match their self-portrait pictures. Says art teacher Loretta Airoldi: "Students learn the importance of taking time on a piece of artwork (this is a very slow and time consuming project,) being meticulous (neatness counts) and keeping their magazine 'mosaic' pieces the right size (small is better!)"
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Diocese Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/oakdiocese
Diocese Twitter: @oakdiocese
Cathedral Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ctlcathedral.org
Cathedral Twitter: @oakcathedral
Cathedral Events Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ctlcathedral
The Vietnamese Community of the Diocese of Oakland will celebrate the 25-year anniversary of the Vietnamese Martyrs' canonization at 4 p.m. Nov. 24 at St. Anthony Parish, 1535 16th Ave., Oakland. Bishop Michael C. Barber, SJ, and Bishop Emeritus John S. Cummins will participate in the procession and liturgy. For more information, contact Sister Rosaline Nguyen, 510-628-2153, or [email protected].
The Faith Formation Conference is a multicultural event that highlights the importance of faith development at all levels of church and society, aimed at adults to enrich their faith and strengthen their knowledge and skills to do ministry in their church and in the world. Parish ministers, catechetical leaders, catechists, teachers, youth ministers or youth leaders or if you want to learn more about the Catholic faith — this conference is for you. Workshops are offered in English, Spanish and Vietnamese.
The conference is Nov. 22-23 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara. For more information, about workshops, exhibitors, speakers and registration, dial 510-267-8371 or visit www.faithformation conference.com. The Diocese of Oakland is a co-sponsor of this conference, together with the dioceses of San Jose, Monterey and Stockton, and the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers are offering a workshop at the conference, Making the Spirit of Pentecost Come Alive in Your Parish.
Sacred relics coming
Rev. Carlos Martins of the Companions of the Cross will be at St. Philip Neri parish, 3100 Van Buren St., Alameda, Nov. 6 to teach about these holy objects. He will bring with him more than 150 relics, some as old as 2,000 years. Among the items will be relics of St. Maria Goretti, St. Therese of Lisieux, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Faustina Kowalska. Those in attendance will be able to examine and venerate each relic. For more information, contact Mary Ann Bachmann, 510-373-5200 or [email protected] or www.treasuresofthechurch.com
Supreme Court docket
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's docket for the term beginning Oct. 7 is notable — from the perspective of the Catholic Church — for a handful of cases accepted or in the pipeline that would refine previous rulings on free speech, public prayer and the Affordable Care Act. The docket so far lacks cases that would appear to be of wide-reaching significance, like last year's rulings on same-sex marriage, the Voting Rights Act and affirmative action at colleges. But there are several challenges bubbling up from lower courts which the court could add to the calendar, over aspects of the national health care law and its requirement that most employers cover contraceptives free of charge in their health plan for workers. On Nov. 6, the court will consider whether it's appropriate for the town council of Greece, N.Y., to open its sessions with a prayer. The case may test the reach of a previous ruling that permitted prayers in legislatures as "a tolerable acknowledgment of beliefs widely held among the people of this country." The case is Greece v. Galloway. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the practice in Greece violates the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment of the Constitution. Although the town allows the prayer to be offered in any faith tradition, the court found that because the vast majority of the prayers were specifically Christian, with sectarian references to Jesus and "your son," and there was little effort to broaden the type of prayers offered, the practice is unconstitutional.
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Bishops' probe spending
VATICAN CITY — The president of the German bishops' conference said he is following with "great attention and great concern" the case of a bishop accused of making false statements in court and under fire for allegedly spending close to $40 million in renovations and new construction on his residence and diocesan offices. Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, the bishops' conference president and recently retired archbishop of Freiburg, told reporters Oct. 14 that the conference has formed a commission to investigate the project in the Diocese of Limburg, and he expected the head of the diocese, Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, to do some serious "self-examination."
||Cardinal Bertone retires
Pope Francis shakes hands with the outgoing Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, during the cardinal's farewell ceremony at the Vatican Oct. 15. Pope Francis acknowledged his contribution to the running of the Vatican.
CNS photo/L'Osse rvatore Romano via Reuters
Maternity is 'special'
Pope Francis said women's "vocation and mission" today remain essentially connected to their capacity for motherhood, but warned against unjustly restricting their participation in the church or civil society on that basis. "Many things can change and have changed in our cultural and social evolution, but the fact remains that it is the woman who conceives, carries in her womb and gives birth to the children of men," the pope said Oct. 12.
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Professing that the church is "catholic" means accepting its teachings, accepting the gifts it offers to help one grow in holiness and accepting the fact that it is composed of different people with different gifts and opinions, Pope Francis said. "Let's ask ourselves: Do we live in harmony in our communities? Or do we fight among ourselves?" the pope asked Oct. 9 as he focused his weekly general audience talk on the meaning of the creed's profession that the church is "catholic."
Marry, start a family
In societies that trumpet individual rights, see everything as fleeting and see no value in sticking to something that's difficult, deciding to get married today takes courage, Pope Francis told young people in Assisi. "Don't be afraid of taking definitive steps, like that of marriage," the pope told thousands of young adults and teenagers who flocked to see him Oct. 4 in the square outside Assisi's Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels.
Just words in a dictionary?
The Cold War has ended and the Berlin Wall has fallen, but war and the threat of war continue and migrants are still dying as they travel in search of safety and a better life, Pope Francis said. Addressing a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Blessed John XXIII's encyclical "Pacem in Terris" ("Peace on Earth"), Pope Francis asked whether "'justice' and 'solidarity' are just words in our dictionary or do we all work to make them a reality?"
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The Horse Forum (http://www.horseforum.com/forumindex.php)
- Miniature Horses (http://www.horseforum.com/miniature-horses/)
- - ones not enough/ Jewel makes 2 (http://www.horseforum.com/miniature-horses/ones-not-enough-jewel-makes-2-a-151958/)
ones not enough/ Jewel makes 2
Well just as everyone warned me minis are like chips and 1 is never enough. Addictive..oooh yeahhhh
want to introduce my new mini Jewel. Jewel is not home yet as she is being ultra sounded for pregnancy. HOPING so bad she is. I got her for a steal from a wonderfullady who is downsizing and lookinjg for good homes for some of her horses. She's a young mare, with a show record coming from some very impressive bloodlines. jewel and the stallion I hope she is bred to are both awsome! trying to find the pictures..they will be on here soon
What a beautiful girl! What is her registered name? I can't quite make it out on the calander. The stud is lovely as well. Kind of reminds me of an old fashioned morgan horse for some reason.
Her name is Villa's Perfect jewel, She was ultra sounded and is confirmed in foal and due late may early June.
And I just added a few more to my herd. JJ a pregnant bay pinto, daisy a possible dunalino and her starving sickly 8 month old filly dnow flake. So cute
and of course my first Misty
ahhhhh soooo cute!! i love minis!! i love lunging my friends mini :-)
nice herd :D
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Pumping Systems Optimization Course at WQA Aquatech
Pump Systems Matter & Hydraulic Institute cosponsor pumping course
Pump Systems Matter (PSM) and the Hydraulic Institute (HI) will cosponsor a one-day course, Pumping Systems Optimization: Opportunities to Improve Life Cycle Performance, on Thursday, March 19, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Ill.
During the instructional seminar, presenters William C. Livoti, Baldor Electric
Co., and Trey Walters, Applied Flow Technology, will focus on pump and system
interactions, pump system optimization opportunities, cost-of-ownership
calculations and methods for improving pump performances and building better
Also discussed will be the availability of current pump system modeling tools such as the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pump System Assessment Tool and the Pump Systems Improvement Modeling tool offered by HI. PSIM is an educational tool that enables users to assess the hydraulic behavior of pumping systems based on field measurements such as flow rate, head and motor power or current to perform the assessment. | <urn:uuid:c996e63e-4610-476c-b8d6-708cb4e511bb> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.wqpmag.com/pumping-systems-optimization-course-wqa-aquatech | 2016-05-26T09:20:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049275764.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002115-00024-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.876652 | 228 | [
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Django code skeletons
nensskel provides so-called "paster templates" so you can easily create new
Django applications, websites and python libraries. They're not fully
generic, as they originated within one company (see below).
The nensskel script creates a directory structure for you with (some
partially filled) basic files (like a
README.rst and a
Call the nensskel script to get usage information.
Installation is straightforward with easy_install:
$ easy_install nensskel
or with pip:
$ pip install nensskel
(Probably you need to run it with sudo on osx/linux).
Don't forget to update from time to time:
$ easy_install --upgrade nensskel
Three nens-specific templates are included:
- nens_library: A buildout for nens libraries
- nens_djangoapp: A buildout for nens Django applications
- nens_lizardsite: A buildout for nens lizard Django sites
Nensskel originates at Nelen & Schuurmans. We set it up the way we like it and we change it the way we like it so it might not fit your case 100%.
But it does provide a good example to give you a head start with a completely setup Django application/site. For example, the Django sites come with a full-blown nginx config and Django-staticfiles is included for easy css/js setup.
If the available templates don't serve your need, you can do two things:
- Clone the repository and edit the template as you like; possibly submit a pull request
- Make your own template
Drop us a line if you need help.
Example for your own skeleton
When you want to create your own skeleton, nensskel can be a nice, small example. Just download the .tar.gz and unpack it.
Do the regular
python bootstrap.py && bin/buildout and you're good to go.
The nensskel and paster scripts are created in the bin/ directory.
There is one python script in
nensskel/*.py per template. The actual
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http://pythonpaste.org/script/developer.html for some documentation on
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It was recently put to me that the NHL's poor-to-begin-with popularity is currently on the decline in the States (again). This article will address my ideas on "repairing" the game.
First and foremost, the NHL absolutely needs to standardize what it dishes out for discipline. After an elbow to the head, for example, the offending players who have been called on the carpet at the NHL HQ have been handed several different punishments, from fines to multigame suspensions. This has to change.
Ideally, certain types of offences would be met with standard, strict and uniform punishments. If a certain infraction merited a five-game suspension for one player, then all players who commit the same offense are given the exact same punishment.
In keeping with this, all punishments should be graduated or "stepped" for those who are repeatedly found guilty of doing the same thing over and over again.
For instance Chris Pronger, while being one of the NHL's top 10 defensemen, is notorious for dishing out the high elbow. So, suspend him for two games the first time he is given a match penalty, then five games the second time, then 10 games, and so on until you hit the magical 25 games suspended. From there, introduce fines of increasing intensity.
The second thing the league needs to do is stop ignoring Canada! In their quest for the "holy grail" (a better market share in this case, not the Stanley Cup), the ones in charge, led by Gary Bettman, seem to think that putting a team in a city that has to offer $10 tickets and free beer to attract the casual fan makes sense. All this while deserving cities like Hamilton are left salivating and other burgs such as Winnipeg and Quebec City are now knowing the feeling of losing something they didn't realize how much they loved.
You can increase competitiveness by inserting the Lightning into Hamilton, and returning the Coyotes to Winnipeg. Buffalo would definitely benefit from this, and so would Detroit, Philadelphia, and Minnesota simply from added competition.
Next, some on-ice rules need to be changed or eliminated altogether. This instigator rule for fighting is one of the worst rules that has ever been implemented. The players must be allowed to police themselves and each other as they used to in the past.
Stick work by players has actually increased since this silly rule came about. I do not want to sound like Canada's Donald S. Cherry here, but the reduction of the hacks and the slashes and hooks and all that would be realized if Goony Goonison was allowed to go after the other team's tough guy, Thuggy McTuggison, after Thuggy slashed Goony's all-star centre, with the proviso that both would serve equal time in the sin-bin afterwards.
Of course, this scenario is one that could be expected only if the refs missed the slashing call in the first place.
At least one other rule change implemented a couple seasons ago I dearly would love to see rescinded is the stupid trapezoid "no-goalie-area."
The idea for this in the first place was to work on increasing scoring, yet I have seen a lot of potential scoring opportunities never materialize because the goalie is no longer allowed to find himself out of position. I have witnessed so many games where goals have been scored on a turnover because the goalie was in the corner, misplaying the puck.
Probably the most important tweak I could possibly think of would be exposure. Instead of chasing the almighty buck and putting games on a network that at least half of the American population doesn't even have access to, take a short-term hit to get games on national TV, such as NBC, CBS, major sports networks such as ESPN—no 1, 2, or 3, but the "Big Dawg."
Work with media outlets to stop burying hockey in the sports sections. The best way to sell something is to advertise. The best advertising is putting your product in peoples' faces as much as you can. The more the games are on Saturday afternoon sports, the more people will finally relent and watch. It's the simple law of inertia, and one of the first things they teach in advertising class.
I'll leave you all with food for thought. Go to Anytown Canada any time of the year and you will find kids playing street hockey. Once the game is played, even on a residential roadway, one becomes hooked by it. Make the game more accessible to the kids, sell to the kids, and the parents—the ones you can sell that Ford truck to in your ads—will follow.
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9 Good Reasons to stay in Co.Clare...
1A Golfer's Paradise
The West of Ireland boasts some of the best golf links courses in the world! Lahinch and Doonbeg courses offer a challenging day's golf and overlook stretches of sandy beaches. Near Berry Lodge is Spanish Point 9-hole links course! We help organize your golf day if requested.
2 Caving in the Burren
The limestone region of the Burren is a world renowned heritage site famous for its stunning scenery. The stone walls are a study alone as they stretch ruggedly across the bare rock. Visit in May and June to see the unique flora in bloom!
The ancient dolmen of Poulnabrone, Glenisheen wedge tomb as well as other ancient monuments are dotted throughout this special landscape and shouldn't be missed.
3The Cliffs of Moher
stand majestically over the Atlantic Ocean, looking out to the Aran Islands, to Lahinch to the South and to Galway Bay to the North.
Further south is Loop Head Peninsula - the Cliffs stretching between Kilkee towards Loop Head are equally impressive and secret hideaways well worth a visit. Bird, Dolphin and Whale watching are popular among visitors to the region
The Shannon Estuary is home to Euope's largest population of bottle-nosed dolphins. Watch Boats depart from Carrigaholt and Kilrush throughout the summer months.
Irish Music is the living, breathing natural treasure of the County. Visit the Willie Clancy Summer School Miltown Malbay in early July! The local pubs have lively traditional entertainment until the early hours throughout the summer months. [more...]
6The 'Riches of Clare'
This exhibition at the Clare Museum in Ennis shows artifacts of Clare from the National Museum of Ireland, and also those collected locally. It gives an interesting insight into the life of the county through the ages.
Bunratty Castle and Folk Park shows life as it was in bygone eras and plays host to entertaining musical medieval banquets, as does Knappogue Castle near the village of Quin - a 10 Minutes drive from Ennis.
7Surfing the Waves
The wild, rolling waves of the Atlantic crashing against the Western coastline provide a challenge for even the most dedicated surfers. Lahinch, Donbeg and Spanish Point are the most popular surfing destinations, with Surf schools in Lahinch developing young people's skills to face the waves throughout the year.
8Festivals and Events
The Irish enjoy nothing more than our festivals, horse races and GAA events in Gaelic Football and Hurling. Look out for these in the different areas when visiting! [more...] Click here for the official Events Brochure 2012 (pdf, 1 mb)
9 Walking, Hiking and Cycling
The best way to experience the Burren is by walking and hiking along the many 'green roads' criss-crossing the landscape! The 'Burren Way' and the 'Mid Clare Way' are set up especially for long distance walkers and each area of Clare can be covered on several sign posted cycleways. GPS Tracks for Walking, Cycling and Hiking -here! | <urn:uuid:851b1c15-f3c0-469a-93f5-b6693a9e1a5e> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.berrylodge.com/location.htm | 2016-05-28T23:53:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049278244.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002118-00184-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934229 | 656 | [
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|7905180||Long range electrified projectile immobilization system||2011-03-15||Chen|
|20110001619||AUTONOMOUS OPERATION OF A NON-LETHAL PROJECTILE||2011-01-06||Danon|
|7354017||Projectile trajectory control system||2008-04-08||Morris|
|7327549||Systems and methods for target impact||2008-02-05||Smith|
|7284490||Rod warhead systems and associated methods||2007-10-23||Mutascio|
|7234399||Deployable bullets having high voltage electrodes||2007-06-26||Rastegar|
|20070101893||Non-lethal wireless stun projectile system for immobilizing a target by neuromuscular disruption||2007-05-10||Shalev|
|20060254108||Electrical discharge immobilization weapon projectile having multiple deployed contacts||2006-11-16||Park|
|7059561||Deployment device for a fin||2006-06-13||Trouillot|
|7042696||Systems and methods using an electrified projectile||2006-05-09||Smith|
|6905093||Deployment mechanism for stowable fins||2005-06-14||Dryer|
|6880446||Air cushion cylinder apparatus with a lock||2005-04-19||Carman|
|6877434||Multi-stage projectile weapon for immobilization and capture||2005-04-12||McNulty|
|6761331||Missile having deployment mechanism for stowable fins||2004-07-13||Eisentraut|
|6729222||Dart propulsion system for an electrical discharge weapon||2004-05-04||McNulty|
|6588700||Precision guided extended range artillery projectile tactical base||2003-07-08||Moore|
|6575073||Method and apparatus for implementing a two projectile electrical discharge weapon||2003-06-10||McNulty|
|6543364||Less lethal multi-sensory distraction grenade||2003-04-08||Wes|
|6477933||Dart propulsion system for remote electrical discharge weapon||2002-11-12||McNulty|
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|5988036||Ballistically deployed restraining net system||1999-11-23||Mangolds|
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|5898125||Ballistically deployed restraining net||1999-04-27||Mangolds|
|5841622||Remotely activated electrical discharge restraint device using biceps' flexion of the leg to restrain||1998-11-24||McNulty|
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|3754726||ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A SELF-PROPELLED FINNED PROJECTILE AND ITS CASE||1973-08-28||Rusbach|
|1650908||Method and apparatus for identifying ammunition||1927-11-29||Ramsey|
This application is a continuation of and claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §120 from U.S. Non-Provisional patent application Ser. No. 11/771,240 filed Jun. 29, 2007 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,856,929 by Gavin, et al.
Embodiments of the present invention relate to deploying an electrode of an electrified projectile for providing a stimulus signal through a target.
A conventional electrified projectile carries, among other things, electrodes and electrode deployment apparatus to the target to place electrodes a suitable distance from each other. At least 6 inch separation is believed to be necessary to stimulate sufficient skeletal muscle contractions to halt locomotion by the target. Conventional solutions for electrode deployment are not practical for low cost, small size, and minor blunt impact. Without the present invention, electrified projectiles will not see wide use for military, law enforcement, and personal defense purposes.
An electrified projectile, according to various aspects of the present invention, delivers a current through a target. The electrified projectile includes a body and an electrode. The body includes a channel. The electrode includes a spike and a loop. The loop is disposed in the channel. The loop stores a torsion. The electrode delivers the current.
A method, according to various aspects of the present invention, is performed by an electrified projectile that delivers a current through a target. The method includes, in any practical order: (a) retaining an electrode with a film; (b) unfastening the film, and (c) providing the current through the electrode. The electrode moves from a stowed position to a deployed position when the film is unfastened.
An electrified projectile, according to various aspects of the present invention, delivers a current through a target. The projectile includes a body, a first spike, and a second spike. The first spike is in mechanical communication with the second spike. The mechanical communication has a torsion. The torsion urges the spikes away from the body. The current is delivered through at least one of the spikes.
An electrified projectile, according to various aspects of the present invention, delivers a current through a target. The projectile includes a body and a spur. The body includes a signal generator. The spur includes a spike. The spur has a torsion released for deploying the spike away from the body to contact the target. The spike is coupled to the signal generator for delivering the current.
A method is performed to prepare a round for deploying an electrified projectile. The projectile provides a current through a target to incapacitate the target by causing skeletal muscle contractions. The method includes in any practical order: (a) positioning a spur in a channel of a body of the projectile; (b) storing a torsion in the spur; (c) retaining a spike of the spur substantially parallel to an axis of the body with a film; and (d) loading the round with the projectile whereby the spike deploys on release of the torsion to conduct the current.
Embodiments of the present invention will now be further described with reference to the drawing, wherein like designations denote like elements, and:
FIG. 1 is a perspective plan view of an electrified projectile, according to various aspects of the present invention, prior to loading the projectile into a shell, the shell having a propellant to launch the projectile;
FIG. 2 is a perspective plan view of the projectile of FIG. 1 in flight;
FIG. 3 is a perspective plan view of the projectile of FIG. 1 during recoil after impact;
FIG. 4 is a perspective plan view of the spikes of a spur of FIG. 1 in a stowed position with film 110 omitted for clarity;
FIG. 5 is a perspective plan view of the spikes of the spur of FIG. 1 in a deployed position;
FIG. 6A is a top view of the body subassembly of FIG. 5 showing spur 120;
FIG. 6B is a cross-section of another spur according to various aspects of the present invention, that may be used in place of spur 120;
FIG. 7 is a perspective plan view of a film that may be used in place of the film of FIGS. 1 and 2;
FIG. 8 is a perspective plan view of another film that may be used in place of the film of FIGS. 1 and 2;
FIG. 9 is a perspective plan view of still another film that may be used in place of the film of FIGS. 1 and 2;
FIG. 10 is perspective plan view of yet another film that may be used in place of the film of FIGS. 1 and 2;
FIG. 11 is a functional block diagram of a round, according to various aspects of the present invention; and
FIG. 12 is cross-section of a round of FIG. 11 with a projectile of FIGS. 1 through 6.
An electrified projectile may be delivered to a target without a tether. The projectile may exit a launch device, fly toward the target, impact the target, deploy electrodes, and deliver a stimulus signal through the electrodes and through the target. An electrode that contacts and/or is proximate to target tissue provides a stimulus signal through the target. Increasing the number and orientation of electrodes increases the likelihood of delivering the stimulus signal.
According to various aspects of the present invention, electrodes having multiple spikes positioned at a variety of orientations deploy to increase the likelihood of delivering a stimulus signal. The electrodes require little space in a stowed position.
A round that includes an electrified projectile, according to various aspects of the present invention, maintains the projectile in a stowed condition until after launch. The round may include a propulsion system (e.g., pyrotechnic shell) and/or cooperate with a propulsion system (e.g., compressed air). Launching propels the projectile away from the round (e.g., out of a shell) and through a smooth bore barrel for impact with a human or animal target. It is desirable that the impact of the projectile with the target not cause serious injury to the target due to blunt force. Consequently, light weight electrified projectiles with relatively low muzzle velocity are desirable.
An electrified projectile includes any apparatus that establishes a circuit through a target for delivery of a stimulus signal for immobilizing the target. An electrified projectile may include an energy source (e.g., battery, charged capacitor), a circuit (e.g., signal generator and controls), and one or more electrodes. The signal generator provides an electrical stimulus signal (e.g., current) in a circuit through the electrodes and through the target sufficient to cause contraction of skeletal muscles to immobilize the target. One or more electrodes for establishing a suitable circuit for the current may be fixed to portions of the projectile or launched from the projectile (e.g., wire-tethered to a portion of the projectile). Portions of the projectile may separate from each other in flight or after impact with a target to accomplish suitable spacing between electrodes.
Electrode spacing of at least 6 inches is believed to be effective for immobilization. Delivery of the electrified projectile to the target with a desired orientation improves the likelihood of establishing a circuit with suitable electrode spacing. For an electrified projectile application, accuracy refers to effective placement of electrodes into the target at a suitable spacing.
Electrodes may be deployed to accomplish suitable spacing before launch, during flight, upon impact, or after impact. Deployment of electrodes before and/or during flight may negatively impact the aerodynamic characteristics of the projectile and interfere with accuracy. Electrodes deployment may be time delayed (e.g., until impact) to improve accuracy. It is desirable that an apparatus that delays electrode impact require little space.
It is desirable to stow electrodes during flight and deploy them when suitable electrode placement may be achieved without adversely affecting accuracy. The force of impact and/or recoil may accomplish suitable spacing. Conductors between spaced electrodes may be protected from damage due to the force of recoil. Furthermore, it is desirable that apparatus used to deploy electrodes at a suitable spacing occupy little space and use a torsion.
An electrified projectile according to various aspects of the present invention performs the functions and overcomes the problems discussed above. For example, the electrified projectile 100 of FIGS. 1-12 improves electrode deployment to provide a stimulus signal, and accuracy. Projectile 100 is of the type known as an electrified projectile as described in Ser. No. 10/714,572 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,042,696; Ser. No. 10/750,551 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,057,872; and Ser. No. 10/750,374 filed Dec. 31, 2003; all incorporated by reference. Electrified projectile 100, shown prior to loading the projectile into a shell, includes a body 102 and a nose 130. Body 102 includes a battery (not shown), a circuit having a signal generator (not shown), an activation strap 170, film 110, and three stabilizers 150, 160 and 240 (shown in FIG. 2). Film 110 includes six tabs to retain each stabilizer in a stowed position of which tabs 152 and 154 are shown retaining stabilizer 150. Body 102 further includes three spurs 120 (stowed in FIG. 1), 310, and 320 (shown in FIG. 3). Each spur includes a pair of spikes as electrodes. A stimulus signal is generally provided through a circuit that includes at least one frontal electrodes of the nose, tissue of the target, and at least one spike electrode of the body. Nose 130 includes frontal electrodes 140, 142, 144, and 146.
A body defines the shape of the electrified projectile, orients electrodes, and houses the battery and circuitry of the electrified projectile. The shape of the body may improve accuracy and/or stability of the electrified projectile, and provides a surface against which torsion may be applied. The body may permit portions of the electrified projectile to be deployed at different times. For example, body 102 is substantially cylindrical about a central axis 180 for packaging the projectile in a shell and launching the projectile from a smooth bore.
A nose retains electrodes, orients electrodes, controls the amount of separation between frontal electrodes while becoming embedded into the tissue of a target, and/or affects the amount of momentum delivered by the electrified projectile to the target at impact. A nose includes the forward portion of the electrified projectile relative to the direction of delivery. For example, nose 130 retains a plurality of frontal electrodes including electrodes 140-146. Nose 130 orients frontal electrodes 140-146 along the direction of delivery. Nose 130 includes thread 210. Body 102 and nose 130 are coupled (e.g., by rigid attachment until impacting the target) to orient the nose to the direction of delivery along body axis 180. Nose 130 is intended to impact the target before any other part of the projectile impacts the target. In flight, body 102 spins on body axis 180.
Nose 130 may include one or more rear-facing electrodes (e.g., rear-facing electrodes 370 and 372 of FIG. 3). Target movement may establish contact with a rear-facing electrode.
Coupling between nose 130 and frontal electrodes 140-146 may affect an amount of change in electrode spacing upon entry of electrodes 140-146 into target tissue (not shown). In one implementation, frontal electrodes 140-146 are flexibly mounted to nose 130 to diverge. The distance between the respective tips of the frontal electrodes may increase as the electrodes enter target tissue. An increase in the distance between frontal electrode tips may increase the ability of frontal electrodes to remain embedded in target tissue. Each frontal electrode 140-146 may include a barb to increase the likelihood of frontal electrodes 140-146 remaining embedded in target tissue.
The material forming nose 130 may affect an amount of momentum transferred from electrified projectile 100 to the target at impact. In one implementation, nose 130 is made of a relatively flexible material that flexes upon impact to distribute the force of impact over a larger area or to transfer momentum to body 102. Any conventional rubber or plastic may be used. Foam may be used.
An electrified projectile may have a limited function state and a full function state. The limited function state facilitates storing the projectile for an extended period. In a limited function state, the electronics of the projectile consume little or no power (e.g., the projectile is “off”). The full function state includes the function of producing a stimulus signal through target tissue (e.g., the projectile is “on”).
An activation strap includes any structure that facilitates switching operation of the projectile from a limited function state to a full function state. An activation strap may separate a battery from a circuit that would otherwise be in physical contact (e.g., urged together and held in electrical contact by a resilient material). For example, strap activation 170 maintains an open circuit between a battery and a signal generator of projectile 100. During launch, activation strap 170 is pulled away from body 102 and is not part of the projectile in flight or on impact.
A stabilizer improves accuracy and stability. A stabilizer may have a stowed position proximate to the projectile and a deployed position away from the projectile. For example, stabilizers 150, 160, and 240 impart spin to projectile 100 on body axis 180.
Stabilizers may be maintained in a stowed position by a film. The film may have tabs that partially cover a stabilizer. Tabs may retain a stabilizer in a stowed position as the projectile is inserted into a case, as the projectile exits the case, and as the projectile transits the barrel during launch. For example, film 110 comprises a thin sheet of plastic having tabs (e.g., 152 and 154 are typical of all six tabs of film 110) integral with the sheet to hold a stabilizer (e.g., 150) in a stowed position of the stabilizer. Stabilizer 160 is held by tabs 232 and 234. Stabilizer 240 is held by additional tabs (not shown). Tabs 152 and 154 assist to retain stored torsion in stabilizer 150 and protect stabilizer 150 during launch. In the stabilizer's stowed position, tabs 152 and 154 partially cover stabilizer 150 from a time before projectile 100 is inserted into a case of a round to a time after the projectile is launched from the round into a barrel and leaves the barrel. Release of tabs 152 and 154 permits stabilizer 150 to move to a deployed position. Tabs 152 and 154 are formed of film 110. In a preferred implementation tabs 152 and 154 are not shaped to retain a stabilizer outside a shell unassisted by manufacturing tooling yet are sufficient for assisting in handling a projectile 100 (e.g., preparing for insertion of projectile 100 into a holding fixture or into a shell).
Film 110 may include an opening for each stabilizer that permits each stabilizer to remain attached to body 102, be positioned in its stowed position, and be deployed without interfering with the position of film 110 about body 102. For example, stabilizer 240 is assembled onto body 102 before film 110 is wrapped about body 102. Opening 212 permits film 110 to avoid interference with stabilizer 240 as film 110 is wrapped around body 102 and fastened to remain surrounding body 102.
A body and a nose may have, with respect to each other, an engaged relationship and a disengaged relationship. By maintaining the engaged relationship until impact with a target, the aerodynamics of a projectile may be controlled primarily by stabilizers. A disengaged relationship facilitates placement of electrodes into the target. The body may have electrodes and the nose have additional electrodes. After being disengaged, the electrodes of the body may impact the target a suitable distance from electrodes of the nose. For clarity, the electrodes of the body of the projectile are herein called spike electrodes to avoid confusion with the body of the target.
For example, projectile 100 as shown in flight in FIG. 2 spins due to stabilizers 150, 160, and 240 and maintains an engaged relationship between body 102 and nose 130 until impact with a target (not shown). After impact, body 102 and nose 130 attain a disengaged relationship as shown in FIG. 3 and spike electrodes 120, 310, and 320 are deployed. Impact may release one or more fasteners (e.g., frangible plastic fasteners) that when released allow body 102 and nose 130 to move independently of each other. When impact lodges nose 130 in target tissue, body 102 dissipates the kinetic energy remaining after impact.
A spur includes any structure that deploys an electrode to provide a stimulus signal through a target. A spur may include one or more spikes. A spur may be formed of conductive and resilient materials. A spur may be formed of a material that is both conductive and resilient. A spike electrode has a stowed position and a deployed position. A spike electrode stows in a small space. A torsion urges a spike electrode to a deployed position. For example, in a stowed position spike electrode 120 is proximate to body 102 (FIGS. 1 and 4) and parallel to body axis 180. In a deployed position, spike electrode 120 is away from body 102 (FIGS. 3 and 5).
A film, according to various aspects of the present invention, may improve aerodynamic flight, protect a spike electrode prior to deployment, and/or retain a spike electrode in a stowed position. A film may maintain a hygienic and/or lubricated condition of a spike. Retaining electrodes covered at least in part by a film may avoid drag that deployed electrodes would otherwise provide during flight. For example, film 110 retains spike electrodes proximate to body 102 and substantially parallel to an axis 180 of body 102 during flight. Retaining a spike in a deployed position until after impact precludes slicing a target with a prematurely deployed electrode when a projectile flies beside a target, failing to impact the target. Film 110 protects spike electrodes from damage during exit of electrified projectile 100 from a barrel and during assembly.
A film may have a fastened position and an unfastened position. The fastened position may hold a spike electrode in the electrode's stowed position as discussed above. The unfastened position of the film may facilitate deployment of spike electrodes. Movement of the film from the fastened position to the unfastened position may be facilitated by release of a fastener and release of a torsion of the film. The film may include a resilient material for storing torsion. The fastener may comprise features integral to the film. In one implementation, perforations through the film and a thread may form a fastener. For example, film 110 is formed of one resilient sheet material that stores torsion when wrapped about body 102. Film 110 includes perforations (e.g., perforation 220) that permit a fastener (e.g., thread 210) to sew portions of film 110 together so that film 110, despite the torsion of its resilient material, remains wrapped about body 102 as long as thread 210 is in place (e.g., fastened position).
A thread includes any structure for closing a film through perforations in the film. A thread, according to various aspects of the present invention, releases the film in cooperation with disengagement of the body and nose. For example, thread 210 may be formed of spring wire for resistance to corrosion. Thread 210 is wrapped about frontal electrode 144 so that rearward recoil of body 102 after impact of nose 130 with a target urges film 110 to withdraw away from thread 210, releasing film 110 from its fastened position. Thread 210 may be uninsulated to provide an extension of electrode 144. If another part of the target comes into contact with thread 210, a suitable circuit for conducting stimulus current through the target may be formed. Thread 210 may have a substantial stiffness (e.g., operate as a pin).
A film may cooperate with a nose to deploy spike electrodes. A film may provide time delayed deployment of portions of an electrified projectile. A film may delay the release of electrodes until the projectile impacts a target. For example, spike electrodes 120, 310, and 320 are not deployed until film 110 is removed by separation of body 102 from nose 130. Film 110 retains spike electrodes 120, 310, and 320 in a stowed position. Before inserting electrified projectile 100 into case 1220, film 110 encircles body 102 and spike electrodes 120, 310, and 320. After projectile 100 exits the barrel, tabs of film 110 release stabilizers 150, 160, and 240, but film 110 retains spike electrodes 120, 310, and 320. Film 110 is retained in an encircling position around body 102 by a fastener. In a relaxed state, film 110 is substantially rectangular in shape having perforations 220 at opposing edges. Spike electrodes 120, 310, and 320 are held in a stowed position and encircled with film 110. Thread 210 is inserted through perforations 220 to retain film 110 in the encircled position
Upon impact, frontal electrodes 140-146 embed into target tissue and nose 130 strikes the target. Barbs on frontal electrodes 140-146 help retain frontal electrodes 140-146 in target tissue such that the nose 130 remains against the target. The recoil force from impact causes body 102 to unfasten and separate from nose 130. During separation, nose 130 retains thread 210. As body 102 pulls away from nose 130, thread 210 is pulled from perforations 220. Once thread 210 is free from film 110, the torsion stored in film 110 and in spike electrodes 120, 310, and 320 pushes film 110 away from body 102 and spike electrodes 120, 310, and 320 move to a deployed position. Film 110 falls away.
When disengaged from a nose, a body and nose may remain electrically and mechanically coupled. Mechanical coupling may provide strain relief to preserve the electrical integrity of the electrical coupling. A filament, according to various aspects of the present invention, between a nose and a body may protect conductors between a signal generator in the body and electrodes in the nose. The filament may also redirect movement of the body with respect to the nose. Assuming for example that the nose is embedded in a target by impact with the target, a recoil force from this impact generally forces the body to move away from the nose and consequently away from the target. The force applied on the filament when the filament reaches its greatest extent redirects the movement of the body toward the target. As a consequence of the filament, upon impact of electrodes in the nose with the target, the body of the electrified projectile moves initially away from the target then moves toward the target. Movement of the body toward the target embeds spike electrodes in the target a distance away from the electrodes in the nose.
For example conductors 350 and filament 360 respectively electrically and mechanically couple body 102 to nose 130. Filament 360 is shorter than conductors 350 and formed of a non-elastic fiber (e.g., a poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide of the type marketed as Kevlar®). Conductors 350 electrically couple frontal electrodes 140-146 to a signal generator in body 102. Conductors 350 are wound about body 102 when body 102 is engaged with nose 130. When disengaged, conductors 350 unwind allowing separation between body 102 and nose 130 without loss or change in electrical coupling. Filament 360 mechanically couples nose 130 to body 102 to relieve strain in conductors 350 when body 102 pulls away from nose 130.
As body 102 moves away from nose 130 due to the recoil force of impact, filament 360 extends to its maximum length (e.g., from about 6 to about 24 inches). At its maximum extent, filament 360 may stop the movement of body 102 away from the target to protect conductors 350 from stretching or electrical decoupling. Filament 360 further redirects the movement of body 102 away from the target to movement toward the target such that spike electrodes 120, 310, and 320 are embedded into the target at a distance away from frontal electrodes 140-146. In an accurate impact, a circuit path between embedded frontal electrodes 140-146 and embedded spike electrodes 120, 310, and 320 is at least six inches long.
Filament 360 and/or its couplings to portions of the projectile may break after sufficient force of recoil has been absorbed to permit conductor 350 to absorb the remaining force of recoil without damage. Filament 360 may be adhered or attached to body 102. Preferably, filament 360 is disposed inside a chamber of body 102 that is then filled with a conventional potting compound that retains filament 360, mechanically coupling it to body 102.
Conductors between the body and the nose conduct a stimulus signal between a signal generator and the frontal electrodes. Any portion of any conductor between the body and the nose may comprise uninsulated, exposed, conductor to serve the same function as a rear-facing electrode as discussed above.
A spur, according to various aspects of the present invention, may bias a spike for deployment and may bias it to remain deployed. A spur may include a first spike and a second spike in mechanical communication with the first spike. A spike delivers a stimulus signal to a target. A spike penetrates clothing and/or target tissue. For example, spikes 422 and 424 of spur 120 each have a sharp end. Each spike 422 and 424 may include a barb to increase the likelihood of spur 120 remaining in electrical contact with target tissue.
A mechanical communication between spikes may store a torsion. The torsion may urge the spikes of a spur to a deployed position. The torsion may be sufficient to deploy one or more spikes and push film 110 away from body 102. Any structure may be used to couple a plurality of spikes to form a spur. According to various aspects of the present invention, a structure for mechanical coupling between spikes may store a torsion and/or conduct the stimulus signal to one or more spikes.
A loop (e.g., full turn, less than a full turn, multiple turns) and/or elbow of resilient material (e.g., a spring) may store a torsion. A loop may couple spikes to each other mechanically and/or electrically. A torsion applies pressure against a surface to deploy a spike electrode. For example, loop 430 of FIGS. 4, 5, and 6A is positioned in channel 420 of body subassembly 410 which is a portion of body 102. Channel 420 and corner 602 (typical of all symmetrically arranged corners of channel 420) provide surfaces for torsion to operate to move one or more spikes. Torsion in loop 430 and/or elbows 426 and 428 urges spikes 122 and 124 from a stowed position proximate to body subassembly 410 to a deployed position away from body subassembly 410. The circular form of loop 430 and the fact that loop 430 may be less than a full turn both contribute to reducing the space occupied by a spur. The spikes of a spur stow along the length of the body thereby also requiring little space.
A loop portion and spikes may be formed in a plane for simplicity of manufacture. For example, spur 120 of FIGS. 3 and 5 deploys spikes to an angle of about 90 degrees from axis 180 of body 102 and further biases the spikes to return to that angle. In another implementation, spur 610 of FIG. 6B includes loop 630 and two spikes, of which spike 622 is typical. FIG. 6B shows a cross section of loop 630 that is from the same point of view as the cross section identified A-A for spur 120 in FIG. 6A. Loop 630 is analogous to loop 430 of spur 120. Spike 622 radiates from loop 630 through two bends. The first, elbow 632, is analogous to elbow 426 of spur 120. The second bend positions spike 622 out of the plane 606 that is perpendicular to axis 180 of body 102. Plane 606 may include a centerline of loop 630. The angle 604 from plane 606 to a centerline of spike 622 may be measured toward nose 130. Angle 604 may be acute (e.g., less than 90 degrees), from 0 to 45 degrees, preferably about 15 to 30 degrees, more preferably about 25 degrees. Spikes of a spur may be at the same or different respective angles 604. Deploying spurs at a variety of respective angles 604 may improve the likelihood of sufficient contact with target tissue.
Spikes may be formed of any material that conducts a stimulus signal. A loop may be formed of any material that stores a torsion. A spur may be formed of a single strand of wire, for example, 0.010 diameter stainless steel (e.g., type 301) of full hard temper and stress relieved after being formed as discussed herein. A spike may be straight from elbow to tip. A spike may include a bend toward the nose. One or more elbows may store torsion sufficient to perform the biasing functions of a spur. The spur's loop and spike structures may be formed of relatively nonresilient (e.g., stiff) material. An elbow may include a living hinge. Non-conductive materials for a loop, an elbow, and/or a spike may be coated with conductive material to serve as conductors.
A fastener, according to various aspects of the present invention, includes any structure for retaining a film in a fastened state. For example, thread 210 and perforations discussed above retain film 110 in a fastened state as described above. A fastener may be formed integral to a film. For example, a fastener may include a tab and an opening (e.g., an orifice, slot, or perforation). The tab cooperates with the opening to hold the film in the fastened position. Disrupting the cooperation of the tab with the opening permits release of the fastener and film. For example, tab 710 is formed in edge 712 and opening 720 in edge 722 of film 750. In the fastened position, tab 710 engages opening 720 thereby holding film 750 in a fastened position. Moving edge 712 relative to edge 722 pulls tab 710 from opening 720 thereby unfastening film 750. Tab 710 and opening 720 may cooperate as a hook and eye. Edge 712 may be coupled to nose 130 and edge 722 may be coupled to body 102 to unfasten film 750 on impact.
In another implementation, a fastener comprises a channel. Placement of the film in the channel retains the film in the fastened position. Removal of the film from the channel unfastens the film. For example, substantially rectangular film 850 forms a substantially cylindrical shape where edge 812 overlaps edge 822. One end of the cylinder is placed in channel 810 of fastener 820. Film 850 expands under a torsion to contact channel 810. Contact with channel 810 halts additional expansion thereby holding film 850 in a fastened position. Withdrawing film 850 from channel 810 unfastens film 850. Fastener 820 may be coupled to nose 130 and a portion of film 850 opposite fastener 850 may be coupled to body 102 to unfasten film 850 on impact.
In another implementation, a fastener integral to a film, comprises a dovetail and a notch. The dovetail cooperates with the notch to hold the film in the fastened position. Disrupting the cooperation of the dovetail with the notch permits release of the fastener and film. For example, tab dovetail 910 is formed in edge 930 and notch 940 is formed in edge 920 of film 950. In the fastened position, dovetail 910 engages notch 940 thereby holding film 950 in a fastened position. Moving edge 930 relative to edge 920 pulls dovetail 910 from notch 940 thereby unfastening film 950. Edge 930 may be coupled to nose 130 and edge 920 may be coupled to body 102 to unfasten film 950 on impact.
The force required to unfasten dovetail 910 from notch 940 may be increased by applying an adhesive to the joint. For example, tape may be positioned over dovetail 910 and notch 940. The support provided by the tape increases the force required to unfasten dovetail 910 from notch 940. Removal of the tape may also act to unfasten dovetail 910.
In another implementation, a film and fastener comprises a band and a wire. The film in the unfastened position mayform the band. The wire cuts the band to unfasten the film. For example, film 1050 is a band in a fastened position. A substantially rectangular film may form a band by coupling two edges of the film. Fastener 1020 is a wire coupled to the nose, the body or both the nose and the body. Film 1050 may be attached to the body or the nose. Wire 1020 cuts through film 110 as film 1050 separates from wire 1020. Cutting unfastens film 1050.
A round may include an apparatus for launching an electrified projectile. A round may omit a propellant when for example the round is for use with a launching apparatus that includes a supply of propellant (e.g., a launcher having a compressed air supply). Any conventional method of propelling a projectile may be used. An electrified projectile may include a propulsion system and/or propellant. A launching apparatus and/or a round may facilitate the simultaneous launching of any number of electrified projectiles. A round may include a case and a base having a form factor and made of materials suitable for use in a conventional weapon for breach loading or muzzle loading (e.g., cannon, mortar, 40 mm grenade launcher, flare gun, musket, 12-guage shotgun, 20-guage shotgun, pistol). The weapon may initiate launch of the projectile by any conventional apparatus (e.g., percussion firing pin, switched electrical current).
For example, round 1100 of FIG. 11 includes propulsion system 1120 and projectile 1110. In operation, round 1100 is placed in a weapon. The weapon provides a launch signal or action received by propulsion system 1120. Responsive to the launch signal or action, propulsion system 1120 launches projectile 1120 out of the weapon and toward a target.
An electrified projectile includes any apparatus that travels toward a target, places electrodes on a target, and delivers a stimulus signal from a circuit of the projectile through the electrodes and through the target. An electrified projectile may deliver a stimulus signal by transporting to the target a source of energy and a signal generator. For example, projectile 1110 includes battery 1130, switch 1140, signal generator 1150, electrodes and stabilizers 1160, and deployment apparatus 1170. Deployment apparatus 1170 deploys an electrodes and stabilizers. Examples of deployment of electrodes and stabilizers are discussed above. Battery 1130 provides energy to signal generator 1150 to provide a stimulus signal through the deployed electrodes and through the target. Switch 1140 couples battery 1130 to signal generator 1150.
Switch 1140 may be closed to provide energy to signal generator 1150 at any time. For example, switch 1140 may be closed for a short period during assembly of round 1100 for testing. Switch 1140 may be closed upon insertion of round 1100 into a weapon. To conserve battery power, switch 1140 may be closed upon impact of projectile 1110 with a target. Preferably, switch 1140 is closed upon launch of projectile 1110 so that signal generator 1150 prepares a stimulus signal during flight. Conserving battery power may increase a duration of providing a stimulus signal through the target.
Any conventional method of propelling a projectile may be used. A launching apparatus and/or a round may facilitate the simultaneous launching of any number of electrified projectiles. A round may include a case and a base having a form factor and made of materials suitable for use in a conventional weapon for breach loading or muzzle loading (e.g., cannon, mortar, 40 mm grenade launcher, flare gun, musket, 12-gauge shotgun, 20-gauge shotgun, pistol). The weapon may initiate launch of the projectile by any conventional apparatus (e.g., percussion firing pin, switched electrical current).
For example, round 1200 of FIG. 12 includes case 1220, base 1210, and projectile 100. Base 1210 may include a propellant to launch projectile 100 toward a target. For example, base 1210 includes propellant 1250. Electrified projectile 100 includes signal generator 1230, battery 1240, and switch 1260. Prior to launch, switch 1260 separates leaf spring 1270 (a conductor to signal generator 1230) from battery 1240. An end portion of switch 1260 is anchored to base 1210. At launch, electrified projectile 100 exits case 1220. Switch 1260 withdraws from between leaf spring 1270 and battery 1240 such that battery 1240 contacts leaf spring 1270 thereby establishing an electrical connection with signal generator 1230. Switch 1260 remains in case 1220 after launch.
The foregoing description discusses preferred embodiments of the present invention which may be changed or modified without departing from the scope of the present invention as defined in the claims. While for the sake of clarity of description, several specific embodiments of the invention have been described, the scope of the invention is intended to be measured by the claims as set forth below. | <urn:uuid:c4289edf-bd12-40fe-9ede-2ae023024649> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8104407.html | 2016-05-29T00:03:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049278244.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002118-00184-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.887391 | 8,761 | [
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Portable enough to carry with your notebook. Powered through the USB connection. Exchanges data with Microsoft Outlook Express, Outlook, and other contact-management programs.
Doesn't parse information as well as some of the competition. No automatic document feeder.
The NewSoft Presto! BizCard Reader 5 does its job well enough to be useful, and is small and light enough to take with you anywhere you take your notebook.
NewSoft Presto! BizCard Reader 5
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Writer. Director. Storyteller. Commedienne. World Famous.
Shaz is a writer, director, storyteller and rabble-rouser. On her way to being a full time filmmaker and writer of televsion – Shaz worked in a fish
cannery; bartended at a mafia bar; was a film programmer at Sundance, LA Film Festival and AFI FEST; peddled liquor undercover; developed films for actor Giancarlo Esposito; and was Cher’s
stand-in for a day. Her films and performance pieces have been seen in festivals, theatres, museums and abandoned warehouses all over the United States, Mexico, Canada, South Africa and Europe.
One of 8 women selected to the prestigious AFI Directing Workshop for Women, nominated as one of Fox's Top 20 and co-chapter leader for Film Fatales Los Angeles, a group of directors who happen
to be women.
Shaz just finished shooting her debut feature film ALASKA IS A DRAG -- written & directed by Shaz Bennett, starring Martin L. Washington Jr, Maya Washington, Matt Dallas, Christopher O'Shea,
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Whether or not you realize it, there are (digital) forces at work that are tracking you and gathering statistics about your net surfing habits. But we’re not talking about a clandestine government program here that is gathering intelligence about you as an individual, but rather your activities and proclivities as an anonymous user. Simply put, that’s what web analytics is – a process of continuously gathering and analyzing internet data that’s often carried out by unknown 3rd parties.
What’s the point of web analytics?
Aside from simply trying to improve the internet (overall), web analytics are usually specifically tapped to develop better web sites. Since most websites deal in commerce, it’s safe to assume that the use of web analytics has helped to improve the quality of businesses operating in a great number of areas.
However, it’s not just about improving individual businesses and websites; using analytics to analyze web traffic allows groups like the US Federal government and critical corporations like Google to maintain the internet itself. Whether or not you realize it, there are limits in terms of what’s possible when it comes to online traffic. Just like in real life, if there are no traffic directions or rules, the integrity of the web quickly disintegrates. Meaning, it is through the analysis of web analytics that we are able to provide a more seamless online experience. Furthermore, as newer technologies come onto the scene, web analytics allows us to quickly determine what’s working and what isn’t.
What types of benefits can be extracted from the use of web analytics?
For individuals or businesses, the use of web analytics allows one to accurately gauge just how successful or appealing certain pages or approaches are when it comes to things like sales conversions. In other words, through analytics, specific performance statistics can be gathered. This in turn would allow a company to gain a glimpse into what truly works when it comes to sales. Naturally, any information ascertained via web analytics will likely lead a business toward completely redefining their online approach to suit the desires of their consumers, which hopefully means increased sales. There are a great number of various types of (analytical) tools available too, some which actually track users’ eye movements and reactions as they look at different portions of a page. For most businesses however, web analytics are used to help build better marketing programs which are capable of more accurately targeting consumers.
How can your average business best utilize web analytics?
The average business can actually implement web analytics in various ways which will hopefully improve their site’s overall performance. The most important thing that organizations need to focus on, aside from traffic, is conversions. The percentage of conversion simply implies the proportion of people who actually buy something or further engage the site vs. those who don’t or immediately click away. Your goal (assuming that you’re gathering and analyzing web statistics) is to determine what common factors are present with those participating consumers. In other words, you might be able to use basic web analytics to determine, or rather precisely target your true consumer base. If you are able to better locate traffic which is comprised of individuals who are already looking for the product / services you provide, then you’re going to have a much larger rate of conversion. Moreover, if you can determine exactly why certain segments of the population are being repelled by your site, it might be possible to simply fix those elements which are lacking and dramatically improve conversion rates.
Does your IT department know how to gather and utilize web analytics?
Needless to say, if your company’s IT department draws a blank whenever the topic of web analytics comes up, something needs to be done. Perhaps the simplest and most affordable way to take advantage of what web analytics has to offer is to simply have some (or all) of them complete certification courses in this area. There are some really excellent programs out there which not only teach respondents the best techniques for gathering critical consumer data from the web, but also how to implement various strategies designed to take advantage of certain situations. Given the incredible competition in the area of e-commerce alone, online businesses need to consider every possible avenue when it comes to assistance and direction. The internet can be quite fickle, and in some ways, the use of web analytics allows businesses and site owners to gain a greater sense of stabilization than might otherwise be possible. | <urn:uuid:120b9e3c-9a18-4d6a-93c6-8b0a01e5e825> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://theartofservice.com/what-are-web-analytics.html | 2016-05-31T15:59:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464051417337.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524005657-00099-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939958 | 895 | [
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FORMER England and Newcastle Falcons wing Michael Stephenson has returned to his native North East after taking over as player-coach at newly-promoted Percy Park.
The 31-year-old forms part of a new coaching team alongside Ed Midcalf and James Ponton at Preston Avenue next season, with the Northumberland Senior Cup winners having also climbed up to National Three North after winning their promotion play-off match.
Chris McDine, Mark Carr and Nick Shepherd all step down from coaching roles, while Paul Jobson is retained in the coaching and managerial set-up.
Stephenson, capped three times by England, was a two-time Cup winner with Newcastle Falcons before leaving for Bath and most recently Leeds Carnegie. His 175 Premiership appearances have yielded 42 tries, with a further 25 tries in 55 European outings.
Joining him in the new-look coaching team is Midcalf, the former Darlington Mowden Park hooker and level three coach who for the past four years has ran the Newcastle Falcons AASE apprenticeship scheme at Gosforth Academy.
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There’s a revenge porn law in the works in New York State, but some think the bipartisan bill might create other problems. Like what about that person who gets an unsolicited dick pic from a politician like Anthony Weiner and then releases it to the public?
“These laws criminalize an awful lot of stuff innocent people do,” Criminal defense lawyer Scott Greenfield said.
The law, sponsored by Assemblyman Edward Braunstein and state Sen. Joseph Griffo, would make releasing explicit images, that were created in private, without the subject's consent a misdemeanor.
It’s debatable whether Weiner’s penis making its way on to social media's public spaces could be considered "innocent," but it does seem beside the point. Posting nude or nearly-nude images of people without permission is wrong and has become such an epidemic that something must be done. For example, the New York Daily News reports that just last week a judge threw out a case of revenge porn because the defendant, who sent nude images of his ex-girlfriend to his sister and boss and posted them on Twitter, couldn’t be found guilty of harassment according to the law. If posting someone else's body on Twitter without their permission isn't breaking the law, then we need a new law. | <urn:uuid:c94b7552-e5bf-47e4-b9b8-b265f97eef1f> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://jezebel.com/if-posting-someone-elses-body-on-twitter-without-their-1530832729?tiger=on | 2016-05-26T17:48:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049276131.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002116-00044-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954845 | 267 | [
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Display a Nowzad Poster
Can you display a Nowzad Dogs poster (click the image below to print the PDF A4 version of the Nowzad poster), or add a piece to your local newspaper or magazine? If you have read ‘One Dog at a Time’ and ‘No Place Like Home’ could you write a review for your local magazine, newspaper, book club? It all helps! Do you have your own website or blog? If so, could you help us highlight the work of the charity by adding a link to Nowzad Dogs on your site.
Pennies for Pups
Almost run out of strawberry jam? Scraping the bottom of the peanut butter jar for your morning toast?
Well Nowzad has a use for that empty jar once you have given it a wash out! ‘Pennies for Pups’ or if you are from the ‘other’ side of the pond then ‘Nickels for Nowzad’
By sending Nowzad a self-addressed envelope (correct postage please!) we will send you a Nowzad ‘Pennies for Pups’ sticker that will brighten up your old jam jar whilst gently reminding you to place your discarded pennies into the pot. Full instructions are included to let you know how to donate once your jar is full.
How many pennies or nickels will it take for you to fill your jam jar or in the Nowzad household ~ empty crunchy peanut butter jar (which Nowzad loves by the way…)
If you would like to receive a Pennies for Pups stick please send SAE’s to:
The Meriel Suite
Hartnoll Farm Business Centre
Or alternatively please download your stickers by clicking on the images below.
Friends of Nowzad
As you know Nowzad is always looking at ways to spread the word about our work and raise vital funds for the charity. We have now set up an initiative called ‘Friends of Nowzad’ and we need your help to get up and running!
Can you spare a few hours (or more) a month to set up a meeting in your area with like-minded supporters to organise fundraising events locally where you live and discuss new ways of fundraising for Nowzad Dogs? There are lots of ways you can fundraise from organising a collection day at your local supermarket or pet store to hosting a coffee morning, or even having a Nowzad stand at a local event or community day.
For more information on ‘Friends of Nowzad’ please download the flyer by clicking on the image below
Give A Car
Nowzad has came across a unique fundraising opportunity, that could help us to raise thousands more over the next year! Giveacar will actually tow away the unwanted car taking up space in your driveway and donate the profits to your chosen registered charity. And the best part about the scheme is that it won’t cost you a penny!
So, how does it work? Giveacar dispose of your vehicle in an environmentally friendly way, recycling at least 85% of the weight of the car. The profits from the scrap or sale of your car then go to the registered charity of your choice. If you choose to donate to Nowzad Dogs you could help us to reach our fundraising goals and help raise vital funds towards our work in Afghanistan.
Giveacar can pick up any vehicle, anywhere in the UK and you could raise up to £130.00 for Nowzad Dogs at no cost to you.
Please click below for further details.
More Fundraising Ideas
For more fundraising ideas please click on the image below to download ‘Nowzad’s guide to fundraising’.
Combine the most exciting moment of your life with raising money for Nowzad Dogs!
15,000 ft Tandem Skydive for Nowzad Dogs.
Situated at Dunkeswell, near Honiton, Skydive Buzz Ltd are carrying on a proud tradition of sport parachuting at the airfield, which started in 1964. Affiliated to the British Parachute Association they are setting the standard for safety, ensuring that you can enjoy the most exhilarating, breathtaking, adrenalin pumping moment of your life with complete confidence.
A tandem is an easy and enjoyable way to experience the thrills of skydiving without having to learn how. The exhilarating freefall combined with the peace and tranquility of the parachute ride, makes tandem skydiving a unique and eye-opening way to raise funds for a cause you care about.
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Since you already are familiar enough with TER to post. When you find a girl on BP that interests you, check her out on TER. I think any odd LE check will have been vetted. VIP gives a wealth of info worth the time or money. I would suggest if you want help be helpful, giving reviews of those you have seen helps others.
As for BP I would guess most in the top 100 started somewhere similar to BP or with an agency.
So I would suggest there are gems on BP that are just as hot as the top ten on TER.
At times the board appears to be divided between the verified and the unverified. Being verified is easy for some and not for others. If you are a small business owner that works with family maybe not so easy.
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Lawn Maintenance Brampton
If you are looking for professional lawn maintenance in Brampton and the surrounding areas, visit AD Landscaping.
For more information about lawn care in Brampton, please continue to browse the rest of our website.
Our company will offer you reliable lawn care in Brampton and the surrounding areas.
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At Newcastle Plumbing and Heating Supplies you’ll find a vast range of heating supplies and plumbing supplies to suit any project. Looking for plastic piping to replace broken pipes? Need bathroom taps or washers? Our staff are eager to please and will help you find the product you need at an affordable price.
We are a local, family run business that has developed a reputation for excellent customer service over almost 30 years. Your supplies can be delivered to anywhere across Staffordshire and the West Midlands, and free delivery is offered for business locations within a 5 mile radius of our showrooms in Newcastle-under-Lyme and Alsager.
Whether you're looking for cutting edge modern style or a more traditional aesthetic, with our comprehensive range of quality glass, metal and china bathroom suites you're sure to find just what you're looking for.
Sourcing only the highest quality supplies from respected manufacturers including Triton, Polypipe and Worcester Bosch. We have all kinds of bathroom and heating supplies available including boilers, radiators, underfloor heating, bathroom suites, wet rooms, shower enclosures, tiles & accessories and wet wall panels.
Heat your room evenly from the ground up with an underfloor heating system from Polypipe. Newcastle Plumbing and Heating Supplies offer a full design service and can supply a list of registered installers to have your new system installed quickly and easily. All staff are fully trained with the Polypipe underfloor heating product.
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Whether you’re a new customer or one of our loyal returning customers, you can benefit from our money saving offers in these tough times. You’ll find discounts across our product range to help you save money on new build and renovation jobs. Offers are updated intermittently so please keep checking back on our special offers page.
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You can see most of our units, fixtures and fittings on display at our in-store showrooms in Newcastle-under-Lyme and Alsager. Our showrooms are open Monday – Friday 7:45am – 5:15pm and Saturday 8:00am – 1:00pm. Both showrooms are closed on Sundays and at Bank Holidays.
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In 2008, nearly 300,000 infants in China got sick from milk formula tainted with melamine, a plastics additive that was used illegally to bulk up the formula's apparent protein content. Now, a study in rats implicates bacteria living in the gut as unwitting accomplices in this mass poisoning. The work helps clarify how melamine toxicity arises and also drives home the key role that gut bacteria play in human health.
Melamine is an industrial chemical used as a fire retardant and a stabilizer for plastics. In 2007, a rash of kidney stones in dogs and cats in the United States was traced to melamine-contaminated gluten from China. Then in September 2008, scores of infants in China were hospitalized for kidney stones; at least six died. Subsequent investigations uncovered melamine in powdered infant formula and fresh milk produced by more than 2 dozen companies. To stretch profits, milk brokers and other individuals had diluted milk and then added melamine to make the products pass spot checks for required protein content.
Typically, melamine-induced kidney stones are crystals of melamine comingled with a chemical relative called cyanuric acid. "It only takes a small amount of cyanuric acid to trigger the stone formation and kidney toxicity," says Wei Jia, a pharmacologist from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. The contaminated pet food contained both additives. But cyanuric acid was not in the infant formula, so it was initially unclear why kidney stones formed in the children.
Jia first began to suspect microbes after he and his colleagues noticed that metabolites produced by gut bacteria in rats are different after exposure to melamine. They wondered if bacteria had converted some melamine to cyanuric acid. They tested this idea by giving rats antibiotics for 4 days before exposing them to melamine for 2 weeks. Kidney stones and damage was much less pronounced in those rats compared with rats that didn't get the antibiotics, they report today in Science Translational Medicine. Moreover, the rats on antibiotics excreted twice as much melamine, likely because there were no bacteria present to convert melamine to cyanuric acid.
Jia's team put rat feces in a container with nutrients and melamine. Over 36 hours, the amount of melamine decreased and cyanuric acid appeared in the container, demonstrating that bacteria in the poop were converting melamine to cyanuric acid. The researchers winnowed down the suspects to bacteria called Klebsiella and found that this microbe on its own processed melamine into cyanuric acid and other byproducts. Kidney damage was worse if rats were given these bacteria before they were exposed to melamine, the researchers report.
"They very methodically demonstrated through a huge number of experiments that these products are generated by the gut microbes," says Andrew Patterson, a molecular biologist at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, who was not involved with the work. "That they were able to nail down a culprit out of the whole mess of the bacteria in the gut was very impressive."
During the 2008 adulterated milk incident, less than 1% of infants who drank the tainted dairy products got sick. That's approximately the same percentage of people who carry Klebsiella in their guts, Jia points out. He suspects that only those children with the melamine-converting bacteria were harmed.
"They make a pretty compelling argument," Patterson says, "but it will be a very hard thing to prove unequivocally that this is what happens in humans." Given stepped-up monitoring, the likelihood of another melamine incident is small, adds David Goldfarb, a nephrologist at New York University School of Medicine in New York City. Nonetheless, he says, the study "shows that [gut bacteria are] a very important part of our health." | <urn:uuid:09cc951e-fe68-447d-a7ec-6f08c69bb172> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/02/gut-bacteria-conspired-melamine-poisonings | 2016-06-01T01:12:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464053252010.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524012732-00119-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968918 | 775 | [
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The PGA Tour's policy board and the PGA of America announced Monday that they will fall in line and comply with a new USGA rule that bans the anchoring of a putter to the belly, chest or any other part of a golfer's body.
Chattanooga-area golf clubs will follow suit as well, at least for their championship events.
Four of the last seven men's major tournament champions have anchored their putters in some way.
The anchoring ban is set to be implemented on Jan. 1, 2016, but the PGA of America asked the USGA to delay the implementation for amateurs, perhaps until 2024 when new groove rules will be applied.
"It's going to become a rule of golf and there's no flexibility," Tennessee Golf Association executive director Matt Vanderpool said. "The USGA changes numerous rules every four years. We'll conduct our championships under USGA rules and adopt whatever changes that come into effect."
Chattanooga TPC series director Mike Jenkins said the ban would impact about 10 percent of the participants if the rule were put into place ahead of the Chattanooga Men's Metro next weekend.
"By 2016 or even later, I don't think it will affect anybody because I think they will have adjusted," Jenkins said. "The ones it affects, it affects big, but that's not a big number."
The head golf professionals at Cleveland Country Club, Lookout Mountain Golf Club and Creeks Bend Golf Club said they will follow USGA rules for their competitions -- no matter the rules at the time.
"I can see us staying with the USGA's stance, but our competition committee and tournament committees haven't had any formal discussions," said Lamar Mills of Cleveland CC. "I don't see us coming up with any special rules going up against anything the USGA and PGA will be doing during our tournaments."
But the pros wouldn't object if players continue anchoring a putter during average daily play where the rules and stakes are determined by the group.
Mike Nelms of Creeks Bend noted that head pros want to promote golf as much as possible.
"If they can stand on their head and putt, that's fine with me," he said.
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Mass Effect 4 might be getting a reveal at E3 2014. A post on Twitter by Yannick Roy, says that the Studio Director for Bioware Montreal is heading to Los Angeles for E3, a trip that Roy rarely makes.
“Excited to be heading to LA for E3 this morning. My last visit was 8 years ago,” reads the post by Roy.
It would make a lot of sense for Electronic Arts to get the hype train rolling for the next Mass Effect game. While they haven’t revealed the game officially, Bioware has been openly talking about the game via Social Media and their blog for quite some time.
The last we heard, the fourth Mass Effect game was somewhere in the middle of the development process. Is a 2015 release in the cards for Mass Effect 4? We’ll likely find out when EA takes the stage at their press conference on Monday, June 9th.
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Presentation on theme: "G.O. Wesolowsky Statistical Detection of Cheating on Multiple Choice Exams: Software, Implementation, and Controversy George O. Wesolowsky Professor Emeritus."— Presentation transcript:
1G.O. WesolowskyStatistical Detection of Cheating on Multiple Choice Exams: Software, Implementation, and ControversyGeorge O. WesolowskyProfessor Emeritus of Management ScienceDe Groote School of BusinessMcMaster University, Hamilton. Ontario,Essentials:Bubbling in or selecting choicesUnauthorized communication – one way or two way. Commonly known as copying, which is cheating
2Outline of this Presentation G.O. WesolowskyOutline of this PresentationIntroduction: Cheating on multiple choice testsHow I got into this.Outline of statistical detection methodologyPractical capabilities of SCheckCommon attitudes to detection and preventionRecommendations
3Ideal* Writing Conditions G.O. WesolowskyIdeal* Writing Conditions* I have seen more than 30% cheating under such conditions
4Less than Ideal Writing Conditions G.O. Wesolowsky
5Prevalence of MC Tests and Exams G.O. WesolowskyPrevalence of MC Tests and Exams30% ? of marks in UG classes given through MCAt McGill (20000 undergrads) in the Fall Semester of 2002:Finals: 83 courses,15072 studentsMidterms: 70+ courses, students
6How They Do It: Copying Sampler G.O. WesolowskyHow They Do It: Copying SamplerPeekingPassing (papers or whole examsSignaling. One invigilator told me a student was twitching so much all over his face and hand he thought at first it was a seizureClandestine electronic communicationCartoon of a toilet communications base from a web sit of a Scandinavian company selling electronic counter measures.
7How They Do It: Types of Cheating not Resulting in Similar Responses G.O. WesolowskyHow They Do It: Types of Cheating not Resulting in Similar ResponsesI am an impostorUsually not vulnerable to statistical detection
8G.O. WesolowskyA guide to cheating during tests and examinations From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collectionContents[hide]1 Preamble1.1 A few definitions to consider1.2 The rewards/dangers of cheating1.2.1 Rationales of cheating1.2.2 Rationales of prosecuting cheaters1.2.3 Possible Penalties2 General notes3 Techniques3.1 Copying from a person3.1.1 Application of codes3.2 Copying from a pre-written source3.2.1 Directly from textbook/notes3.2.2 Cheat Sheet3.3 Precautions3.4 Copying from a planted source3.5 Locating Cheating Material on the Web3.6 Test previewing
9Some Statistics plagiarized text (CAI) G.O. WesolowskySome Statistics plagiarized text (CAI)CAI Research Conducted By Don McCabe (Released In June, 2005) is typical of many studies: As part of CAI’s Assessment Project, almost 50,000 undergraduates on more than 60 campuses have participated in a nationwide survey of academic integrity since the fall of The results were disturbing, provocative, and challenging.On most campuses, 70% of students admitted to some cheating. Close to one-quarter of the participating students admitted to serious test cheating in the past year and half admitted to one or more instances of serious cheating on written assignments.Faculty are reluctant to take action against suspected cheaters.In Assessment Project surveys involving almost 10,000 faculty, 44% of those who were aware of student cheating in their course in the last three years, have never reported a student for cheating to the appropriate campus authority. Students suggest that cheating is higher in courses where it is well known that faculty members are likely to ignore cheating.
10One Method of Cheating Detection G.O. WesolowskyOne Method of Cheating DetectionMy favorite method.
11Questionable Statistical Detection G.O. WesolowskyIt is not infrequent that instructors, when confronted by a suspected cheating situation, invent their own methodology on the spot. This is usually what I call ‘outlier methodology’. The basis is some way of using the number of wrong answers that two students have in common.It could be simply a count of such 'wrong matches', a proportion, a run length, a ratio with other counts, or a multivariate plot of such variables. The idea is to look for outliers and attribute them to cheating.
12G.O. WesolowskyExampleBonnie and Clyde engaged in suspicious behavior. A comparison of responses revealed:“Bonnie and Clyde are surprisingly similar; 23 matches out of 23 wrong.”.....C......B C BD D..DB.A..ABD.B..A..CB...B ABAC..A..CBoth chose C, which is wrong. = correct
13But then: The instructor wrote a program: G.O. WesolowskyBut then:The instructor wrote a program:“My script just returns any match that has a high percentage of matching errors (and sufficient errors to convince you that some thing's up!) ““Holmes and Watson are surprisingly similar; 8 matches out of 11 wrong.”D......D B.....D.A BBA BD.B.....CD..BCC....BB...DC..CA..D.EC.....D......AD...B.DDAB...B..A..A.AA....CDB.AA.C......BDDBE.B..Intuitive override: “ I had found by chance (Bonnie and Clyde), but what about the rest? It's very unlikely that Holmes and Watson were cheating, but I think it's likely that the others were”.This instructor then concluded that statistical detection is not really reliable. Bad statistical detection often discredits the good.
14Aside: A Better “quickie” Index G.O. WesolowskyAside: A Better “quickie” IndexA better but not good simple index is the Harpp-Hogan index, which is the number of wrong matches divided by the number of differences. One is supposed to be suspicious when it is > 1. For Holmes and Watson this works out to 8/32.
15Problems with “Simple” Indices or combinations thereof G.O. WesolowskyProblems with “Simple” Indices or combinations thereofThe value of the indices can depend in an unknown way on class size, number of questions, number of choices, etc.They use very little information. Capability of students and difficulty of questions are often not incorporatedThe risk of “false accusations” is not predictableMany combinations of indices and plots are possible, and they may point in different directions.
16How I Got Into This Request from an administrator G.O. WesolowskyHow I Got Into ThisRequest from an administratorTwo students were suspected in another course, how many exactly similar answers did they have in my course?Probability tree diagramsChecked the literatureWesolowsky G.O. (2000) "Detecting Excessive Similarity in Answers on Multiple Choice Exams", Journal of Applied Statistics, Vol. 27,
17pki pji 1 - pki 1 - pji 1 - pki 1 - pki 1 - pki match w1i match w1i G.O. WesolowskymatchProbability correctpjiw1iCond. probability wrongmatch1 - pkiw1iQuestion i1 - pjiw2iw2iProbability of a match by students j and k on question I = sum of match probabilities1 - pkimatchw3i1 - pkiw3imatchA matching answer occurs on a question if both students get the same right answer or the same wrong answerWhat is needed are the probabilities of a correct answer for each student, and the conditional probability of a wrong answerSum the product of the probabilities along each of the “match” branchesw4i1 - pkiw4imatch
18G.O. WesolowskyAssumptionsThe probability that a student gets an answer right depends on the ability of the student and the difficulty of the questionThe probability of a match on wrong questions depends on the ‘popularity’ of wrong answersIndependencies as implicit in the diagram
19But how to we estimate wli and pji ? G.O. WesolowskyBut how to we estimate wli and pji ?
20depends on two things 1 1 Above average student Below average student G.O. Wesolowskydepends on two thingsAbove average student1Below average studentProportion of class that answered correctly on question iThe ability of the student and the difficulty of the question1
21Finding cj = proportion of questions answered correctly by student j G.O. WesolowskyFindingcj = proportion of questions answered correctly by student j1) aj is the student ability index2) The function is borrowed from location theory.3) For each student, the aj estimate is obtained by making sure that the modeled proportion correct is equal to the proportion correct actually obtained.Find by solving
22G.O. WesolowskyP value for each pair of students = probability of the observed number of matches or moreQuestion qQuestion 1Question jMMM1) If the probability of a match on each question were the same, this p-value could be found by the binomial distribution. A Bernoulli process always has the same probability of success2) Here, the probability of a success (match on a question) is different for every question3) The probability distribution is called the compound binomial distributionCompound Binomial Distribution because the probability of a match is different on each question
23Example of SCheck Output G.O. Wesolowsky** pair = ** Harpp-Hogan stat = #wr.mat/#diff = 19.00##################################################################Zb = 'equivalent' z from the BVP modelSignificance of Zb on a pre-selected pair = 1.5E-15Significance bound (Bonferroni)on program selected pairs = 1.3E-11#matches = 33 | 34 (mu,s)=( , )prop. right for 2 = prop. right for 78 = 0.412Quest. range = [ ] #students = 132.d.abccd.e .e.abedb.. ...da..b.. ea.e.d.abccdee .e.abedb.. ...da..b.. ea.eestimated match probabilities:** pair = ** Harpp-Hogan stat = #wr.mat/#diff = 19.00##################################################################Zb = 'equivalent' z from the BVP modelSignificance of Zb on a pre-selected pair = 1.5E-15Significance bound (Bonferroni)on program selected pairs = 1.3E-11#matches = 33 | 34 (mu,s)=( , )prop. right for 2 = prop. right for 78 = 0.412Quest. range = [ ] #students = 132.d.abccd.e .e.abedb.. ...da..b.. ea.e.d.abccdee .e.abedb.. ...da..b.. ea.eestimated match probabilities:
24Data Dredging The number of student pairs examined is n(n-1)/2. G.O. WesolowskyData DredgingThe number of student pairs examined is n(n-1)/2.For 693 students this is 239,778 pairssuspiciousAn oversight by many statistical detection methods. Consider a standardized normally distributed index of similarity .It might seem that a Z of 4 would be very unusual. But a dotplot shows otherwise. With so many pairs, rare single draw occurrences become common.The level of suspiciousness has to be raised.
25“Unusual” Z’s Depend on Class Size G.O. Wesolowsky“Unusual” Z’s Depend on Class SizeClass sizeNo. of pairsP(Zmax >3)P(Zmax >4)P(Zmax >5)P(Zmax >6)213.167E-52.8665E-79.8659E-1010049504.8836E-640079800E-510004995005000Analogy. Suppose the Z’s are independent.The probability of seeing a Z > 5 in a class is 3 in 10 million.But in a class of 5000, the probability is .97
26Multiply the Pvalue by n(n-1)/2 G.O. WesolowskyMultiply the Pvalue by n(n-1)/2** pair = ** Harpp-Hogan stat = #wr.mat/#diff = 19.00##################################################################Zb = 'equivalent' z from the BVP modelSignificance of Zb on a pre-selected pair = 1.5E-15Significance bound (Bonferroni)on program selected pairs = 1.3E-11#matches = 33 | 34 (mu,s)=( , )prop. right for 2 = prop. right for 78 = 0.412Quest. range = [ ] #students = 132.d.abccd.e .e.abedb.. ...da..b.. ea.e.d.abccdee .e.abedb.. ...da..b.. ea.eestimated match probabilities:A similarity this unusual will occur at most 1.3 times, on the average, per 100 billion classes.
27G.O. WesolowskyImportant!The significance (probability that a similarity that high will occur for an innocent pair) is different for a pair that is pre-selected by, say, suspicious behavior, from that of a pair that was selected purely by the program. In other words, the former case does not need as high a level of similarity evidence. Scheck, therefore, allows pre-selected pairs to be forced into the analysis
28Features of SCheck New: Two Type I methods for setting cutoffs G.O. WesolowskyDeveloped from experience with large scale testing, research into cheating psychology, tribunal cases, different data formats, etc.New: Two Type I methods for setting cutoffsAdjustment for “speed tests”Interactive or stored option choiceBatch processing of multiple filesOptional Excel grades outputFiles with all components necessary for verification of calculationsDiagnostic graphOptional fine tuning (T parameter)Compact and intuitive question diagnosticsUtility programs (format translators)Up to studentsUp to 200 questionsUp to 27 choices, numbers or lettersTrue or false or multiple choice in any combinationSelect a contiguous block of questionsOption for pre-selected student pairsOption for similarity scores for all studentsOptions for removing student identification from input and output filesSince 1998, quite a few features were added.Important ones are:
36This forces suspect pairs into the output for analysis. G.O. WesolowskyThis forces suspect pairs into the output for analysis.
371) The students pre-chosen don’t have to be adjacent G.O. Wesolowsky1) The students pre-chosen don’t have to be adjacent
38G.O. WesolowskyThis means that a false positive should occur in fewer that 1 in a 100 classes or runs.
39A marginal improvement in the model G.O. WesolowskyA marginal improvement in the model
40Straightness = normality Slope indicates stdev of Z’s G.O. WesolowskyVertical red line indicates similarity cutoff. Position depends on class sizeStraightness = normalitySlope indicates stdev of Z’sInnocent class is symmetrical within the linesTypical class with no identified cheatersOne possibly suspicious outlier, but outliers can happen by chance.
42Forced pairs in NAM file G.O. WesolowskyThis pair was forced in as an illustration. The program would not have selected it otherwise. It has a negative Z and I hence not suspicious,Students are identified
43Forced pairs in OUT file G.O. WesolowskyStudents are not identified, but there is more information
44Diagnostics on questions G.O. WesolowskyDiagnostics on questions1) The program gives all the information necessary to manually check the model2) Also has tables to check if answer keys are correct, questions are not flawed, etc.3) This is not item analysis but I think more useful.
45It’s Cheating timeG.O. WesolowskyFinally, what if there were dark deeds done during the test?
46Detected Pairs Summary of significances of identified pairs G.O. WesolowskyDetected PairsSummary of significances of identified pairspair Z A Priori BonferroniSignif Signif.2, E E-112, E E-1036, E E-636, E E-336, E E-460, E E-369, E E-769, E E-470, E E-778, E E-9All pairs were found in adjacent seatingBut some individuals have similarity links to more than one person!
47G.O. Wesolowsky366970722789760119These students were all in adjacent seating and proximity copying was possible132 studentsteamwork
48Have you ever seen anything like it? G.O. WesolowskyHave you ever seen anything like it?(Contact at a testing agency)When I saw something like this previously, the question was a comment: “There is something wrong with your program”
49Pair Z Pair Z Pair Z Pair Z 16, 39 6.453 16, 41 5.453 16, 42 6.090 G.O. WesolowskyPair ZPair ZPair ZPair Z16,16,16,16,16,16,16,39,39,39,39,39,39,39,39,39,39,41,41,41,41,41,41,41,41,42,42,42,42,42,42,42,42,43,43,43,44,44,44,44,46,46,46,46,46,49,50,50,50,57,64,65,82,82,82,86,87,87,91,91,91,93,93,100,109,113,113,113,113,117,118,120,120,120,120,122,122,124,Students seem to have a lot of partners, to whom they are linked with high similarities
50Really enthusiastic teamwork! G.O. Wesolowsky821131687491171093910911950110110411205786921221184264124138431376591931001071) How did “the firm” manage this?2) I asked and was told this was sensitive and confidential, so I will never know.3) The student numbers have adjacency tendencies, so it could be proximity copying, as opposed to electronics, but how?44141694635 suspects, 79 pairs, 200 students
51A NEW OPTION SCheck Version 8a7. #### 03-05-2009 11:21:34 G.O. WesolowskyA NEW OPTIONSCheck Version 8a7. #### :21:34Bonferroni program selected significance bound is 0.01_____________________________________________________________** pair = ** Harpp-Hogan stat = #wr.mat/#diff = 2.12##################################################################Zb = 'equivalent' z from the BVP modelSignificance of Zb on a pre-selected pair = 9.4E-8Approximate significance of program selected pair = 3.7E-5Signif. bound (Bonferroni) on program selected pairs = 5.6E-3#matches = 42 | 50 (mu,s)=( , )prop. right for 48 = prop. right for 188 = 0.580Quest. range = [ ] NRT = #students = 348.b.b...aa. a.ba..baa. ..cb..b.c. .c.e.aad.e .....b.a.b.b.b...aa. a.ba..baa. ..cbb.b.c. .c...d..ce .....b...aestimated match probabilities:
52History of Applications G.O. WesolowskyHistory of ApplicationsEarly studies for economics departmentFor individual instructorsLarge assessment organizationsNational education departments“This is the only instance where separate examination venues have shown up and I have used your analysis on probably about 30,000 candidates.”
53G.O. WesolowskyDallas Morning News Study on Cheating on the TAKS test (June 2007), an Application of SCheckDMN:“ The test scores of more than 50,000 students show evidence of cheating. Some of those students were the innocent victims of others copying their answers. But experts say most were likely either deliberately copying answers or had their answer sheets doctored by school staff. “TEA response“Officials at the Texas Education Agency have consistently argued that statistical analysis can't prove cheating and that they must rely on other forms of evidence – like getting teachers to confess to misbehavior – in their investigations. TEA decided not to use data drawn from student answer sheets – even with evidence of widespread copying in a classroom. “
54G.O. WesolowskyCommon Objections: We studied together, we are from a similar background, we are twins, etc.Some direct studies have been done.Note that a huge number of pairs is being looked at.We would expect that there would be a large number of highly similar pairs that couldn’t have cheatedWould expect that if prevention is implemented the high similarity rate would continue
55Both expectations have been proven false in thousands of data sets. G.O. WesolowskyBoth expectations have been proven false in thousands of data sets.Prior to electronic cheating methods, no very high similarities lacking the opportunity to cheat (adjacent seating) were found.Multiple versions of exams cause a drastic decrease in the cheating rate.
56Pitfalls in interpretation G.O. WesolowskyPitfalls in interpretationHigh marks make detection difficult*Non-responses can invalidate the modelCheating must be substantial for detectionToo much cheating can invalidate the modelHierarchical questions violate assumptionsData sets may be too small*In the extreme, if one student copies from another with a perfecttest, there is no way statistical detection can distinguish this case from thecase of two brilliant students with perfect papers. Scheck knows this.
57Effective Prevention Measures G.O. WesolowskyEffective Prevention MeasuresMultiple versionsRandomized or assigned seatingSeat spacingInvigilationElectronic counter-measures“Education on integrity” & ethics indoctrination
58G.O. WesolowskyDecember 2002 exams McGill University. Proper prevention measures are in place.finalsmidterms217
60Some Controversial Personal Opinions G.O. WesolowskySome Controversial Personal OpinionsMultiple choice tests provide a substantial component of grades in undergraduate courses. Statistical detection of copying or collusion on such tests has proven to be quite successful, and has in turn demonstrated that simple and non-intrusive prevention measures are very effective. Why then is this subject conspicuously absent in most discussions on cheating prevention strategies?
61G.O. WesolowskyThe most common general attitudes of student leaders, instructors, and administrators towards cheating are remarkably similarSee no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no EvilGenuine concensus
62G.O. WesolowskyCommentsA “look the other way” strategy is actually the best one if the goal is to protect the integrity reputation of a universityWhy? Media assume that the cheating problem is proportional to the number of reported cases or the amount of discussion about cheating. Keeping quiet, therefore, creates the impression that there is no problem.A university that tries to do something about cheating often gets a reputation for being infested with cheating. (Otherwise, why would they talk about it?)No good deed goes unpunished.
63Instructor: Not on my tests you won’t! G.O. WesolowskyInstructor AttitudesInstructor: Not on my tests you won’t!
64#1 Believe in justice? Feel personal betrayal? G.O. WesolowskyBelieve in justice?Feel personal betrayal?Not very many of these, and so their effect on the system is relatively minor.
66G.O. WesolowskyInstructor: I’m not a Policeman or Prison Guard, I’m an Educator and ResearcherTranslation: I am not going to charge any students with cheating or take any special prevention measuresThis sounds idealistic and has the added benefit of saving a lot of work and avoiding unpleasant confrontations1) Find may more of these.2) Variations, such as I’m too busy with research.
67G.O. WesolowskyCommentsImplicit assumption: The university’s main function is to provide an education and grades are merely an unimportant side-issue.I disagree: The main product of a university is grades and degrees and diplomas. Without these, even if it continued to give a good education, the university would be out of business overnight.On the other hand, degrees without education (diploma mills) are a growing phenomenon.The assumption of a degree is that a required level of academic achievement has been met. Grades and degrees without this level of achievement are defective.By giving degrees with based on defective grades it is giving the public a defective product.
68Postscript: Education versus Grades G.O. WesolowskyPostscript: Education versus GradesBy JANE ARMSTRONGFriday, January 27, 2006 Posted at 5:20 AM ESTFrom Friday's Globe and Mail“Professor David Weale called it a "January clearance" -- and clear out they did. Dismayed by his crowded classroom, the history teacher at the University of Prince Edward Island offered his students a deal some couldn't resist: Drop this Christianity class and you'll get a B minus. “Rule of 20?“The offer, also dubbed the "Weale deal" worked. The next week, about 20 of the 95 students were gone. So too is Prof. Weale after shocked administrators caught wind of the unorthodox academic transaction.”
69G.O. WesolowskyAddendum“Vice-president Gary Bradshaw said the school had no choice but to suspend Prof. Weale while a disciplinary probe begins. Offering students a credit without doing the work "strikes at the very heart of the academic principles," Mr. Bradshaw said.”The next week, he sweetened the offer, saying he'd give students who left a mark of 68. Students mulled it over during the break and negotiated the deal up to 70, which is a B minus. Departing students were required to send Prof. Weale an and pay the $450 for the course.
70Student Leaders and Instructors G.O. WesolowskyStudent Leaders and Instructors
71Student Leaders and Instructors: A Matter of Trust* G.O. WesolowskyStudent Leaders and Instructors: A Matter of Trust*Student Leader: “If you take prevention measures you show you don’t trust us and that cheating is expected. This will only increase cheating. Anyway, cheating is very rare.”Translation: My constituency would feel threatened.Instructor: “Cheating prevention and detection poisons the atmosphere and destroys the vital rapport and atmosphere of trust I have with my students”Translation: My teaching evaluations would go down.*paraphrased
73Administration: The Best Solution is ‘Ethics Reengineering’ G.O. Wesolowsky“E-tegrity board members, …,have developed a range of new initiatives to integrate integrity into the college’s culture.”“… suggest a more broadly focused approach that creates an educational community valuing academic integrity and focusing on the moral and ethical development of students”Sounds good and plays well in the media. Often arises out of bad publicity on cheating incidents.1) Will it work if it is seriously implemented?McCabe versus the economists2) Will it ever be implemented beyond the talk level?Web pages, articles in school newsletters, “integrity officers”, inviting McCabe.Usual outcomes: a) effort fades away b) majority of students and instructors are not involved.3) Contrast this with prevention measures on MC tests, which have been shown to virtually eliminate cheating.The re-engineering initiatives usually crop up after some bad publicity. Local or nationalEconomists: Cheating depends on opportunity payoffs and risks, - As Reagan would say” there they go again.”Psychologists: linking cheating to psychopathic tendencies. One study uses my software.2) In the case of business schools it could be because of misbehavior in corporations.3) The great majority of students are unaffected.
74Comments on Honor Codes G.O. WesolowskyComments on Honor Codes
75Honor Codes* Traditional Honor Codes Pledge and ceremonies G.O. WesolowskyHonor Codes*Traditional Honor CodesPledge and ceremoniesProctoring of tests not allowedStudents in charge of tribunalsStudents obliged to report infractions (rarely enforced)Modified Honor CodesProctoring allowed*McCabe
76G.O. WesolowskyQuote on Honor codesIn this same study that found over 75 percent of students admitting to cheating, McCabe saw that only 57 percent of students cheated at schools with honor codes. Chronic cheating also seems to reduce with honor codes. At schools without codes, 1 in 5 students admits to cheating more than twice. Only 1 in 16 students admits to the same offense at schools with honor codes."I think it's a question of making your students understand that academic integrity is important to the school," McCabe said. "Just the fact that it's being discussed" can heighten student's awareness and reduce cheating, he concluded.Administrator friendly comment.
77Do Honor Codes Work? Comments G.O. WesolowskyDo Honor Codes Work? Comments?Only? 57%Response bias:‘Honor’ rhetoric leads to fewer admissions of cheating?Fear of Draconian penalties?Control for other variables: Types of exams, subject matter etc.Low response rates → non-response bias“it is clear the response rate is below desired levels, averaging between 10% and 15% and varying from as little as 5% to 10% on some large campuses to over 50% on a limited number of small, residential campuses”
78Advantages of Honor Codes G.O. WesolowskyAdvantages of Honor CodesMedia friendlyReduce the number of reported cases of dishonestyDisadvantages of Honor Codes?
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Kobald also expressed gratitude to HBO and United Airlines for helping to “make a heart-wrenching situation more bearable.”
The Gandolfini family friend said Gandolfini’s body was expected to leave Rome on Monday morning and be back in the U.S. by the evening.
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The bitter cold is a challenge for cattle ranchers who need to ensure animals are getting enough nutrition to generate the extra energy needed to stay warm.
Agriculture experts and ranchers know that when the temperature dips below -20 C, cattle need to eat more.
"Most years the average hay out there is good enough to maintain a cow in wintertime," according to Murray Feist, a ruminant nutrition specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture. However, when there are extra demands on the body, the animal will need extra food.
Cows that are pregnant or are providing milk for a calf will need more food. As will all animals facing very cold weather.
"Once we get into these really cold, cold days, we have to add a different form of energy into the diet," Feist says. For most, the choice is a grain feed. "It's got a considerable amount more energy per pound than what you would get from a feed like a hay."
Feist says there are other factors to consider, such as shelter from the wind.
The general rule of thumb is to feed an extra pound of grain for every five degrees below -20 C.
Much of Saskatchewan was in a deep freeze Monday with temperatures near or below -30 C and wind chills colder than -40 C. At one point in Regina, it felt like -47 C with the wind chill.
"When we get down to temperatures of the -30s, and you know -50 with the wind chill, those cattle feel the cold pretty quick, so you really have to be able to adjust and accommodate for those temperatures by feeding a certain amount of grain," said Feist.
But getting cattle through the frigid weather is not as simple as just feeding more grain. Ranchers also need to be careful to avoid "grain overload," known as acute acidosis, said Feist.
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Millennial Conference on Number Theory
May 21 - 26, 2000
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Group Photo (jpeg file [1,270k])
List of Participants (ps file [87k])
Titles of Talks (ps file [99k])
Abstracts (ps file [324k])
Abstracts in html format (from AMCA abstract server)
A total of 276 participants
have registered for and attended the
conference. An additional 11 number theorists registered for the
conference, but could not attend in
person. The participants represented 30 countries, ranging from the
U.S. and Canada to European countries
and to far-away places such as Fiji, Japan, Taiwan, China, and Australia.
The conference featured 157 talks, of which
19 were one-hour plenary
talks, 73 half-hour invited talks given in 4 parallel sessions, and
65 contributed talks given in 5 parallel sessions. In addition to
these scientific talks, the conference included three 40 minute
talks of historical and reminiscing flavor, and several after dinner
speeches honoring Professor Emeritus Paul Bateman on his 80th birthday.
The Conference Proceedings will be published by A K Peters in a
projected set of two volumes totaling approximately 1000 pages.
In addition to these traditional style proceedings,
A K Peters will publish an economically priced
paperback volume containing selected survey lectures given at the
conference. The Proceedings are scheduled to appear in mid 2001.
All speakers are invited to submit a paper for these proceedings.
Papers should normally be based on (or at least closely connected with)
the talk given at the conference.
In addition to original research papers, we welcome well-written
survey papers. Because of restrictions on the size of the volumes,
shorter papers are preferred, and we may not be able to consider
excessively long papers.
(Plenary speakers do not fall under this restriction.)
Research papers will be refereed using the standards of journals such as
the Journal of Number Theory, Acta Arithmetica, the Journal de Theorie
des Nombres de Bordeaux, and The Ramanujan Journal. We will make every
effort to ensure timely refereeing, and we thank in advance the
referees (many of whom will be selected from among the conference
participants) for their work.
Technical preparation of papers:
If possible, papers should be prepared in LaTeX, with
a font size of 10 points, and textheight and textwidth
set to 42pc and 27pc, respectively. To achieve these dimensions,
proceed as follows:
Papers can be submitted either electronically or as a hard copy.
For hard copy submission, send two copies of the paper to the
member of the Organizing Committee (B.C. Berndt, N. Boston, H.G.
Diamond, A.J. Hildebrand, and W. Philipp, all at the Univ. of Illinois,
Dept. of Mathematics, Urbana, IL 61801) most appropriate for the paper.
For electronic submission, send your tex file(s) to
[email protected], along with a brief email cover
letter. Papers received electronically will be processed and passed on
to an appropriate editor.
Please do not send submit both an electronic file and a hard copy.
The deadline for submission of manuscripts is September 30, 2000.
The organizers gratefully acknowledge the following organizations
for providing financial support to the conference:
We are particularly grateful to the University of Illinois Mathematics
Department for providing financial, logistical, and staff
support for the conference, and for offering its facilities in
Altgeld Hall for use the conference.
The conference would not have been possible without the help
provided by our own graduate students and by mathematics staff
We are especially grateful to Betsy Gillies, conference coordinator
of the mathematics department, who worked tirelessly behind the
scenes to ensure that the conference would run smoothly.
The Organizing Committee for the Conference consists of
B.C. Berndt, N. Boston, H. Diamond, A.J. Hildebrand, from the University
of Illinois Mathematics Department, and W. Philipp of the Statistics
Department of the University of Illinois.
For general questions or comments regarding the conference,
please use the following contact addresses:
Conference email address:
Conference web page:
Department of Mathematics
University of Illinois
1409 West Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
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