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Sources to NBC News are reporting Samir Khan, editor of Inspire Magazine, is another American citizen that was killed in the air strike in Yemen, along with Anwar al-Awlaki. NBC's Bob Windrem reports.
By Pete Williams, NBC News justice correspondent
Is it legal for the federal government to kill a U.S. citizen overseas, someone who has never been charged or convicted of a crime? Civil liberties groups are condemning the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, but many legal scholars say it is justified.
No U.S. court has ever weighed in on the question, because judges consider these sorts of issues exclusively matters for the president.
Anwar al-Awlaki's father, Nasser, with the help of the ACLU, sued President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and CIA Director Leon Panetta a year ago, when it became clear that the U.S. was targeting the younger al-Awlaki. But U.S. District Judge John Bates threw the case out, ruling that federal courts were in no position to evaluate whether someone was a terrorist whose activities threatened national security and against whom the use of deadly force could be justified.
"This court recognizes the somewhat unsettling nature of its conclusion -- that there are circumstances in which the executive's unilateral decision to kill a U.S. citizen overseas is 'constitutionally committed to the political branches' and judicially unreviewable," Bates said, quoting an earlier decision on a similar issue.
The ACLU lawyer who handled the case, Jameel Jaffer, said Friday that the U.S. program that targeted al-Awlaki was a violation of both U.S. and international law.
"The government's authority to use lethal force against its own citizens should be limited to circumstances in which the threat to life is concrete, specific and imminent. It is a mistake to invest the president, any president, with the unreviewable power to kill any American whom he deems to present a threat to the country," Jaffer said.
President Obama says the killing of radical, American-born cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki in Yemen is a "major blow to al-Qaida's most active operational affiliate."
But Kenneth Anderson, an international law scholar at American University's Washington College of Law, said U.S. citizens who take up arms with an enemy force have been considered legitimate targets through two world wars, even if they are outside what is traditionally considered the battlefield.
"Where hostiles go, there is the possibility of hostilities. The U.S. has never accepted the proposition that if you leave the active battlefield, suddenly you are no longer targetable," Anderson said.
In early 2010, the director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair, told a congressional hearing that the U.S. was prepared to kill Americans affiliated with al-Qaida, without mentioning al-Awlaki by name.
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"If we think that direct action will involve killing an American, we get specific permission to do that," by which he meant authority from the executive branch, not the courts.
Blair said the military and intelligence agencies had authority to kill U.S. citizens abroad who were engaged in terrorism if their activities threatened Americans. Since then, U.S. officials have said that al-Awlaki's role in al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) had shifted from propagandist to operational tactician and strategist.
The State Department's senior legal adviser, Harold Koh, plainly stated last year the Obama administration's view that it had authority to undertake drone attacks in countries where al-Qaida operatives were located.
Radical cleric influenced many plots, US says
"The U.S. is in armed conflict with al-Qaida as well as the Taliban and associated forces in response to the horrific acts of 9-11 and may use force consistent with its right to self-defense under international law," Koh said in a speech to a Washington legal symposium.
Though he did not specifically address the issue of targeting Americans, many legal scholars believe his speech was an implicit statement that U.S. citizens could be legitimate targets.
One of al-Qaida's most influential leaders - Anwar al-Awlaki - has been killed, according to officials in the United States and Yemen. Authorities have confirmed that the radical Islamist cleric died in an airstrike this morning in Northern Yemen. ITN's Sejal Karia reports.
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Robert Chesney, an expert on international law at the University of Texas School of Law, concluded in a recent law review article that al-Awlaki could be legally killed "if he is in fact an operational leader within AQAP, as this role would render him a functional combatant in an organized armed group."
Anderson, of American University's law school, said it's important to note that al-Awlaki was not targeted because of his role as an al-Qaida propagandist.
"The U.S. is not justifying this on the basis that it's going after him for incitement. He was being targeted because he had gone operational," Anderson said, adding that he believed the killing was entirely legal.
"My view of this targeted killing is straightforwardly, congratulations, Mr. President," he said.


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One-fifth of Hong Kong's population is living in poverty, underscoring the challenge facing Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying (梁振英) as he seeks to narrow a record wealth gap.
About 1.3 million people, or 19.6 percent of the population, were below the poverty line last year, a report released on Saturday said. The newly established benchmark was set at half of the median household income, excluding tax and welfare transfers, the report said.
The report, commissioned by Leung, may give him the backing needed to ask for more spending and overcome objections to further increase the territory's minimum wage. Hong Kong increased its minimum wage 7.1 percent to HK$30 (US$3.87) an hour on May 1.
The raise will bolster the salaries of about 327,200 employees, or 10 percent of all workers, according to a report by a government commission before the new ruling.
"The poverty line is a useful reference point for knowing whether the situation is improving or deteriorating," said Willy Lam (林和立), an adjunct professor of history at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. "The line itself does not solve Hong Kong's problems. What the government should do is ensure its target of public housing is met."
Hong Kong's Gini coefficient, a measure of income inequality in which 1 is total inequality and 0 perfect equality, rose to a record-high 0.537 in 2011 from 0.525 in 2001, the government said last year. The score is above the 0.4 level used by analysts as a gauge of the potential for social unrest.
"To alleviate poverty, the government must promote balanced economic development," Leung said at a summit on Saturday. "Poverty is not only an issue of the low-income population's hardship, but it also affects Hong Kong's harmony and stability, thus affecting its long-term competitiveness."
Accounting for recurring cash benefits, the number of people living in poverty falls to 1 million, or 15.2 percent of the population, the report said. To lift all of these people up to the poverty line would require HK$14.8 billion, Hong Kong Chief Secretary of Administration Carrie Lam (林鄭月娥) said.
There may not be a lot of support for Hong Kong — a capitalist society and a free economy — to tackle the wealth gap with a more socialist attitude, but the point is to create upward mobility, she said.
Tens of thousands of people protested on July 1 — the anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China — to demand the government address inequality exacerbated by the doubling of home prices since 2009. Labor unrest and protests have increased in the past two years as inflation and home prices soared.
"Having an official indicator will help the government define its social welfare policies and will also raise public expectations for something to be done," Chung Kim-wah (鍾劍華), an assistant professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, said on Saturday. "It'll put a certain pressure on the administration."
The average gross household income of the poorest 10 percent of the population fell 16 percent to HK$2,170 a month in 2011 from a decade earlier, a government report said. The comparable income for the richest 10 percent jumped 12 percent to HK$137,480 a month during the same period.
Leung raised welfare spending by about one-third in his first budget delivered in February, boosting recurrent spending by 31 percent to HK$56 billion in the fiscal year starting on April 1. He handed out allowances to more than 400,000 elderly residents and pumped HK$2 billion into a poverty alleviation fund.

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RALEIGH—The atmosphere was electric inside Carter-Finley Stadium, but Carolina spoiled the Homecoming hopes of the crowd with a 27-19 road win to improve to 3-5 on the season and 2-3 in the ACC. NC State dropped to 3-5 overall and 0-5 in conference play.
The wolf howls were echoing throughout the raucous stadium as the Tar Heels received the kickoff to open the contest between 2-5 UNC and 3-4 N.C. State.
The opening drive for Carolina was woeful. Bryn Renner hung out a ball that was easily picked off by a hungry Wolfpack defender. And just like that, NC State was in prime position to draw first blood.
Brandon Mitchell trotted out onto the field to lead the Wolfpack. And he took the ball in his hands with a couple of quarterback keepers to bash the ball inside the Carolina 10-yard line.
And a few plays later, Mitchell waltzed into the end zone untouched to put the Wolfpack ahead 7-0 to the delight of the fans in attendance.
Carolina's next try with the ball nearly ended in more disaster with Ebron fumbling the ball, but recovering it in the nick of time.
And the series was halted by a sack of Renner. The punt unit was forced on the field for the Tar Heels.
Mitchell delivered a clean ball to a wide open receiver to move the chains and start another assault on the Carolina defense. It was clear that N.C. State's game plan was to run the ball over and over again in Mitchell's hands. It was working.
The Carolina sideline seemed dead as the players were lined up looking on in dismay as the Wolfpack were now first and goal. But Tre Boston soon stepped up with a solid one-on-one tackle to force a field goal for NC State.
With 7:12 left in the first quarter, it was a perfect start for the fired up Wolfpack. The score stood at 10-0 in favor of the team in red.
Carolina knew they had to do something different. And they inserted Marquise Williams in at the quarterback position. Williams connected with Ebron and then Logan burst ahead for a first down carry.
Bug Howard then snagged a crisply thrown ball by Williams to set the Tar Heels up for a solid scoring chance. Williams then tucked the ball and ran ahead for some positive yardage.
A disqualification call by the official on a NC State player was controversial inside the stadium. But the Tar Heels weren't complaining. The penalty handed them a first and goal situation from the 4-yard line.
A grab from Quinshad Davis in the corner of the end zone scored a much needed touchdown for the Tar Heels. Williams threw a perfect pass to ignite the Tar Heel sideline and get the Tar Heels right back in the game now down 10-7 with 4:41 remaining.
***Listen to the call***
Williams impressively went 4-4 passing for 43 yards and a touchdown on the scoring drive.
The authoritative drive by UNC signaled to the Wolfpack that they were here to compete. And if it didn't the spirited play of their defense on the next series certainly would. The Tar Heels forced a three and out.
Next, Coach Doeren made a questionable, if not flat out crazy decision to go for a fake punt. He failed, and the UNC offense was gifted prime field position on the NC State side of the field.
The four play, 29-yard scoring drive was capped off by a one-yard touchdown run by Renner to push the Tar Heels ahead on the road 14-10 and temporarily silence the Wolfpack fans.
***Listen to the call***
On the next possession for NC State, tailback Shadrach Thornton rumbled ahead for a 24 yard gain into UNC territory. The Wolfpack were just outside of the red zone when time ran out in the first quarter of play. Carolina was holding on to a 14-10 lead.
The Wolfpack held a 137-97 edge in total yardage.
Oh boy! At the start of the second quarter, a Wolfpack receiver dropped a wide open pass to set up third down. And the next Mitchell pass fell to the turf harmlessly to set up a field goal try for NC State.
The Nick Sade field goal sailed through the uprights to place the score at 14-13 in favor of Carolina with 14:48 remaining in second quarter.
A controversial spot by the officials on what appeared to be a first down reception for the Tar Heels forced a punt and handed the ball back to the Wolfpack.
Thornton was rolling with the football as the offense of NC State was driving into UNC territory looking to reclaim the lead. The UNC defense pushed Mitchell out of bounds shy of the first down marker to force another Sade field goal attempt. Sade punched it through to give the Wolfpack back the lead 16-14 with 10:31 left in the half.
How would the Tar Heels respond? Williams was clobbered in the back field and the decibel level inside Carter-Finley was turned up a notch. Facing a crucial third down play, NC State called a time out to get set.
Renner delivered the goods on third down to keep the drive alive thanks to the capable hands of TJ Thorpe. And lightning struck on the very next play. A 59-yard pass from Ryan Switzer to Davis showed off some tricks in the UNC offensive playbook. The Tar Heels were vaulted back ahead 21-16 with 9:43 left in the half.
***Listen to the call***
What would happen next in this back and forth tussle? Unfortunately for the Tar Heels, bandit Norkeithus Otis was injured and walked off the field on the next series.
The Tar Heel defense put together a solid three and out effort. The Wolfpack were forced to punt.
But it was nothing doing for the UNC offense on the following possession as Tommy Hibbard was on the field for beautiful punt that pinned the Wolfpack back down at their own 2-yard line.
A third down throw was almost intercepted by Tre Boston, but NC State's punt was fielded by Switzer to give the Tar Heels great field position at the 40-yard line of NC State.
But the Tar Heels faced a fourth down decision at the Wolfpack 36-yard line. Would they punt or go for it? Coach Fedora called a time out to think things over with 4:56 remaining in half.
And one timeout wasn't enough. He called another one, and then elected to punt the ball.
A great defensive series was put in by the Tar Heels to earn the ball back for the offense. How would Carolina fare this go around?
Not well at all as the Wolfpack defensive line broke through on third down and Renner was forced to throw the ball away.
NC State was happy to run out the clock and go into the locker room down five with the score sitting at 21-16 in favor of Carolina.
At the half, the stat lines were almost dead even. North Carolina held a slim 216-192 yard edge in total yardage. Brandon Mitchell led the Wolfpack in total rush yards with 76 yards while Khris Francis led the Tar Heels with a mere 16 yards on the ground.
Quinshad Davis was the highlight for the Tar Heel offense with two touchdown grabs. One was thrown from Williams, the other from Switzer.
The ball went to NC State to open proceedings in the second half, but the drive stalled and a solid punt pinned the Tar Heel offense back inside their five-yard line.
Renner was back behind center in the first series and he delivered a clutch throw to Sean Tapley on third down in the shadow of his own end zone.
The dual threat combo at quarterback continued for Carolina as Williams picked up a first down on a sneak up the middle off some solid blocking by the young Tar Heel offensive line.
Renner took a look deep, but the pass fell incomplete. A 39-yard punt by Hibbard gave NC State the ball at the 11-yard line.
Travis Hughes applied some good pressure on Mitchell on first down, but then the quarterback ran ahead for a huge gain only made better by a late hit penalty on UNC.
Coach Fedora was furious on the referee's decision on the penalty. But Mitchell wasn't fazed for NC State. He delivered a bullet completion to push the Wolfpack into the red zone.
The drive was halted by a gang tackle in the back field by the Carolina defense. Sade's field goal was good. The score stood at 21-19 Tar Heels with 4:50 left in third quarter.
On a helmet-to-helmet collision on a third down play, no flag was thrown by the officials. Marquise Williams was shaken up on the play, but walked off the field.
A Hibbard punt resulted in a hefty return by NC State across the 50-yard line.
Tar Heel cornerback Tim Scott came up with a timely interception to give the UNC offense another crack at it. But a holding call on center Russell Bodine set the offense behind schedule to begin the drive.
Renner was hit hard and knocked out of the game, temporarily at least. The third quarter came to a close with the Tar Heels setting up for a field goal attempt from the 26-yard line. Carolina held a slim 21-19 lead heading into the final period of play.
After three, Carolina and NC State were deadlocked at 15 first downs apiece.
Moore's field goal attempt was pushed to the right. NC State was fired up, but they weren't able to build off the momentum, forced to punt.
On the ensuing drive, Carolina was mixing up the play calling well. Ebron hauled in a clutch third down conversion and Bug Howard caught a nice one. The drive was capped off by a run into the end zone by TJ Logan. But a missed extra point by Thomas Moore kept the Wolfpack in the game down just one score and a two-point conversion at 27-19 with 11:19 remaining in the contest.
***Listen to the call***
The Tar Heels got the ball right back off an interception by Brian Walker. Now, UNC could see the finish line if they were able to add points to the scoreboard on this drive.
Well, the story of the next drive for the Tar Heels was unfortunately the yellow flag. Carolina shot themselves in the foot with two holding calls that moved them out of field goal position and forced them to punt the ball back to NC State with 6:20 remaining in the contest. How big would those penalties end up being to the outcome of the game?
It was up to the Wolfpack to take advantage. And they answered the bell with an extensive drive that was spearheaded by tough, physical running by Shadrach Thornton. But soon, it was fourth down and the Tar Heels broke up a pass by Mitchell to get the ball back with 2:42 remaining.
AJ Blue picked up the dagger first down for the Tar Heels, and Carolina ran out the clock from there.
It was a much needed rivalry win for Carolina. The 27-19 win marked the first time the Tar Heels had won in Carter-Finley Stadium since 2005. Carolina kept their bowl hopes alive and awaits Homecoming against Virginia next week.


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By Robert D. Thomas
Music Critic
Pasadena Star-News/San Gabriel Valley Tribune/Whittier Daily
Christine Brewer was the soloist in Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs in yesterday's Pasadena
Symphony concert at Ambassador Auditorium with Michael Stern conducting. Photo
by Ivan Schustak for the Pasadena Symphony.
Normally when you hear that Christine Brewer is going to
appear with an orchestra in Southern California, you'd expect that the ensemble
would be the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Not this year. For the final concert of
its 2011-2012 season, the Pasadena Symphony engaged the well-known American
soprano and had the good sense to ask her to sing one of her signature pieces:
Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs in
two concerts yesterday at Ambassador Auditorium.
Actually, Brewer is better known for her Wagnerian roles
(she was a stellar Isolde in the L.A. Phil's "Tristan Project" under Esa-Pekka
Salonen several years ago) but these were the 81st and 82nd
times she has performed Strauss' magnificent look back on his 84 years of
living. She sang them sumptuously yesterday afternoon.
When Strauss wrote the songs, he was looking back to a
musical era — 19th century Romanticism — that had vanished amid the
wreckage of what World War II had done to Germany and, in particular, its
artistic life. Although there's no evidence that Strauss intended to group the
songs (that was done after his death by his publisher), Strauss used a poem by
Joseph von Eichendorff and three by Hermann Hesse for his evocative texts.
Brewer's lustrous voice swept over the four songs like a
soothing balm. The opener, Spring, was
bright and the second, September, was
wistful. In Going to Sleep,
Concertmaster Aimee Kreston's rich solo line was a perfect complement to
Brewer's singing, and the final song, In
the Twilight, was full of aching melancholy.
The orchestra, under the sure hand of guest conductor
Michael Stern (music director of the Kansas City Symphony), delivered rich,
sumptuous accompaniment for Brewer. Together, it was a memorable performance.
Stern (who by the way, is the son of legendary violinist
Isaac Stern) was subbing for the PSO's music advisor, James DePreist, who is
recovering from recent heart bypass surgery. Stern kept the original program,
which began with Dawn and Siegfried's
Rhine Journey from Wagner's Gtterdmerung,
the sort of music for which Strauss was longing in his Four Last Songs. Stern led a brisk rendition of Engelbert
Humperdinck's concert version of Wagner's music, highlighted by James
Thatcher's horn solos.
After intermission, Stern concluded the program with
Dvorak's Symphony No. 8. Stern obviously knows this piece well (he conducted
without a score) and offered a distinctive reading of this four-movement work
that Stern, in his preconcert discussion, characterized as another of Dvorak's Slavonic Dances. You might not have
fully agreed with Stern's push-and-pull tempos but the orchestra played
gorgeously and he made me think about what was being played — altogether, not a
bad combination for a very familiar work.
Although the classical season officially ended yesterday,
two free concerts have been added next Saturday at Ambassador Auditorium. At 2
p.m., Jack Taylor will lead his Pasadena Youth Symphony Orchestra in music by
Bach, Rimsky-Korsakov, Copland and others that will be a preview of the
ensemble's upcoming European tour. At 7:30 p.m., Donald Brinegar will lead a
new chorus that has been formed at Jet Propulsion Laboratory along with the
Pasadena City College Chamber Singers in music by Britten, John Lennon and Paul
McCartney, Faur and others. Information:
The Pasadena Pops opens at its new home, the Los Angeles
County Arboretum, on June 16 when Marvin Hamlisch leads a concert version of
his own musical, They're Playing Our
Song, with Lucie Arnaz and Robert Klein as soloists. The evening will also
include a tribute to Arnaz's parents, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Information: www.pasadenasymphony-pops.org
(c) Copyright 2012, Robert D. Thomas. All rights reserved.
Portions may be quoted with attribution.


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Wisconsin 65, Michigan 62 (OT)
MADISON, Wisc. -- It was a game of big shots.
But none were bigger than the two Wisconsin guard Ben Brust drilled, including the game-winning 3-pointer with 39 seconds left in overtime to give the Badgers a 65-62 upset victory over the No. 3 Michigan Wolverines at the Kohl Center.
And yes, the Wisconsin student section did storm the court after its team moved into a second-place tie in the Big Ten.
Michigan (21-3, 8-3 Big Ten) had a chance to up Brust's 3-pointer but Tim Hardaway Jr. missed his layup attempt with 24 seconds left, forcing Michigan to play the fouling game.
Wisconsin senior forward Ryan Evans, a 42.5 percent free-throw shooter, missed the front end of his one-and-one. The secured rebound gave Michigan 12 seconds to respond.
Trey Burke, who had a game-high 19 points, attempted a 3-pointer with about 5 seconds left, but Evans got his fingers on the rebound and tipped it to Brust, who secured the ball for the victory.
Brust, who led Wisconsin in scoring with 14 points on 4-of-10 shooting, wouldn't have been in position to sink the game winner in overtime if not for his heroics in the closing seconds of regulation.
With Wisconsin (17-7, 8-3) was down 60-57 with 2.5 seconds left in regulation. Brust took the inbounds pass from Mike Brusewitz, who was at the baseline at the other end of the floor and got off a heave from just inside the half-court line that was nothing but net to even the score and sent play to overtime.
Hardaway, who finished with 18 points, drained a 3-pointer from the top of the key with Badgers defenders in his face and 2.5 seconds left to give Michigan the 60-57 lead.
The possession before that, Wisconsin's Jared Berggren drove from the 3-point line and threw down an authoritative dunk that drew a blocking call against Burke. Berggren, a 70.1 percent free-throw shooter entering the game, calmly sank the free throw to even things 57-57. He finished with 13 points and eight rebounds.
Things eventually got going offensively in this one, but offense was at a premium to open the affair as the two teams combined to start 0 of 4 from the field before Evans ended the drought about 2 minutes in. He finished with 11 points and nine rebound.
Wisconsin freshman forward Sam Dekker entered the game at the 14:42 mark, grabbed three rebounds and scored seven points on 3-of-3 shooting in roughly 6:30. He finished the first half with four rebounds and a game-high nine points on 4-of-7 shooting. He finished with 12 points and five rebounds.
Michigan took longer than Wisconsin to get its offense going and found itself down 23-14 with 7:54 left in the half. At that time Michigan was 6 of 21 from the floor.
Burke and Hardaway kept Michigan in the game, scoring 14 of Michigan's 29 first-half points and giving the Wolverines a 29-28 advantage at the break. Each player had seven points on 3-of-8 shooting.
Notes: This was the 155th meeting between the two teams. Michigan owns an 87-68 all-time advantage while the Badgers lead the series in games played in Madison, 46-32, after Saturday. ... Burke ended his three-game streak with eight assists at three games. Burke entered the game averaging 7.2 assists per game, best in the Big Ten and seventh best in the nation. He finished Saturday with four. ... The Wolverines extended their losing streak at the Kohl Center to 11 games with Saturday's loss. The streak began Feb. 12, 2000, when the Badgers won 75-59. Michigan's last win in Madison came in a 51-39 affair in 1999, which was later vacated by the NCAA. The last official win in Madison for the Wolverines came in 1991 during a 69-68 overtime contest. ... Entering the game, Wisconsin had won five of its last six home games against teams ranked in the AP top 25, beginning with an 89-75 victory over No. 2 Pittsburgh on Dec. 16, 2006. Michigan entered this one ranked No. 3 in the AP.


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Preservation Hall Jazz Band Sit In With Billy Joel at Jazz Fest
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band joined Billy Joel during his set at Jazz Fest on Saturday. The iconic New Orleans outfit took the stage for Joel's classic "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant." Joel also incorporated some New Orleans flair into his set in other ways—with a tease of Jimmy Horton's "Battle of New Orleans" during "Big Man on Mulberry Street" and another tease of local favorite "Iko Iko" during the "River of Dreams" encore.
This Saturday's Jazz Fest performance was Joel's second full set in two years. The singer-songwriter played a show in Sydney, Australia last weekend, but he has no more concerts scheduled at the moment.


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Who is the woman accused of abandoning her daughter? | News
It's a crime that few parents can imagine: abandoning your four-year-old child in a foreign country.
That's what Leah Neely is accused of doing three years ago. She fled Cumberland County with her boyfriend Gabriel Duran. They took young Macy Neely with them.
Macy is back home safe and sound now.
Read Macy's story here.
But for the past three years she was a ward of the Mexican government and living in an orphanage in Guadalajara. Mexican authorities found her when she was four, living in a house by herself with only her dog. Her grandmother discovered she was there there nine months ago.
With the help of Crossville's House of Hope and donations from the community, she rescued Macy three weeks ago.
Neely and Duran both have a long history with the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff himself remembers them well.
"They're frequent flyers with us," said Cumberland County Sheriff Butch Burgess.
Neely visited the Cumberland County jail more than 40 times in eight years. Her boyfriend wasn't far behind her.
Sheriff Burgess said their list of charges ranges from DUIs to theft, but like most of the people in his jail, their problem stemmed from drugs. He recalls a time when he reached out to help her.
"She was getting out for some drug charges and I explained to her there were some things we had in place that we could help her with. She didn't care. She didn't need any help," he said.
Sheriff Burgess said they both have outstanding warrants. Neely has nine in all. Both also made the top 10 most wanted. But in 2008, they disappeared.
"We didn't have any luck finding them here locally and they didn't turn up in any of the jails in Tennessee," said Burgess.
That's when they are believed to have have fled to Mexico with Macy. It's something that didn't surprise Sheriff Burgess.
"At the rate they're going and I've not talked with them since they took off to Mexico but I don't think that's a place they went seeking rehab or anything like that," he said.
If they ever try to come back, Sheriff Burgess says he will make sure one thing happens, "They're going to jail. For as long as we can keep them."
But he said he hopes they never return. "I'd as soon see them stay in Mexico. Leave the little girl alone let her have a life."
He believes Macy will have a better life at home with her grandmother.
The sheriff says to his knowledge if Neely returns-- she would not be able to get custody of Macy. He says he will do everything in his power to make sure that doesn't happen. They will also face additional charges for fleeing the country.


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8:42pm: The deal will take place if Marmol agrees to join the Angels, a source told Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports (via Twitter).
Read more at http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/#PAii39OVTQWhUhYv.99
8:42pm: The deal will take place if Marmol agrees to join the Angels, a source told Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports (via Twitter).
Read more at http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/#PAii39OVTQWhUhYv.99
Ken Rosenthal
Source: Marmol would have OK'ed trade to #Angels, but #Cubs pulled deal off table and trade is not happening. Angels talking to other clubs.
Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance.
What could the Reds offer for Haren?
Title change needed
Can't win with 'em
Can't win without 'em
9:27pm: Marmol would have approved a trade to the Angels, but the Cubs pulled the deal off of the table, a source tells Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports (via Twitter). The Angels are still talking with other clubs about Haren as they close in on the 11pm CST deadline to exercise his $15.5MM option.
9:20pm: The trade will not take place, a Cubs source tells Carrie Muskat of MLB.com (via Twitter).
And now he is a FA
The Angels have declined their option on Dan Haren's contract for 2013, according to Alden Gonzalez of MLB.com (via Twitter). The hurler will now enter the open market with a $3.5MM buyout rather than a $15.5MM salary with the Angels next season. Earlier this evening it seemed as though the... #mlb
Can't believe there isn't a team willing to roll the dice on a 1 year 12M deal on Haren. He wasn't THAT bad this year. He's not an ace, but he's not much different than James Shields in my mind.
The only thing I can think of is something in his medical records, why else wouldn't they have been able to trade him? Why else would the Cubs have backed out?
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Educating someone is teaching him how to be creative but also practical
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Educating someone is much more than providing pens and books. Education is practical, education is productive and educating someone is to identify problems and provide solutions.
Let's train children to be productive, let's teach them how to create a good environment that what will bring food to their tables tomorrow, one that will provide shelter for them in the future.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- As enterprise architecture (EA) continues to gain global recognition, organizations are increasingly interested in acquiring knowledge about the practice and hiring qualified EA professionals. Brian Cameron, executive director of the Center for Enterprise Architecture at Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), was invited to share his expertise on enterprise architecture with international business leaders at events held in May in Kazakhstan, Taiwan and Mexico.
"It is a great honor to have my work in the Center for Enterprise Architecture and the Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional Organizations (FEAPO) recognized internationally and to be asked to speak by these prestigious organizations," Cameron said.
The Center for Enterprise Architecture, which was established in 2011, strives to design extend, and invent practices, tools and theories, in partnership with industry, to produce effective outcomes at the intersection of theory and organizational practice. The center helps organizations understand, utilize and extend enterprise architecture as a strategic resource. In April 2012, the College of IST launched the first Master of Professional Enterprise Architecture studies program in North America and the first online EA master's program in the world. In addition, a supportive option for undergraduates was rolled out at the beginning of the fall 2012 semester.
FEAPO, which was founded by Cameron in 2011, is a worldwide association of professional organizations which have come together to provide a forum to standardize, professionalize and otherwise advance the discipline of enterprise architecture.
Cameron was one of the keynote speakers at the Astex 2013 International Exhibition in Astana, Kazakhstan. Leading companies from Kazakhstan and foreign companies, including winners of a national contest of startup projects, demonstrated their new technologies.
In addition, a conference was held within the ASTEX 2013 International Exhibition. First Deputy Prime Minister Bakhytzhan Sagintayev and Vice Minister of Transport and Communications Saken Sarsenov, along with business representatives, took part in the event to discuss innovations in electronic government, education, health care and business. During his keynote address, Cameron talked about the use of enterprise architecture for analyzing, planning and evaluating emerging technologies.
Cameron also spoke to senior executives at the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Hsinchu, Taiwan. ITRI is a nonprofit research and development organization engaging in applied research and technical services. During his talk, he discussed advanced EA concepts and practices.
Finally, Cameron spoke at a senior executive meeting sponsored by the Mexican government at Infotech, a public center of innovation and technological development in Mexico City. During his presentation, he talked about the use of enterprise architecture to foster internal innovation within organizations.
When discussing enterprise architecture with business leaders in foreign countries, Cameron said, he tailors his message to address their particular situations. Since EA is a relatively new discipline, executives are looking for examples of practices that could benefit their companies. A major issue that was discussed at all three recent events, he said, was the shortage of EA skills among job applicants. As a result, many of the participants expressed interest in the College of IST's MPS in EA program, which is designed for working professionals with a variety of backgrounds, including information technology, business and engineering.
"One of their number-one concerns is where they are going to find people with the skill sets needed to implement enterprise architecture effectively in their organizations," Cameron said.


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Amrita and Mrs. Sondhi, 1986
Ken Lum
Canadian, 1956
dye coupler print and acrylic paint on opaque plexiglas
102 x 225.9 x 6.3 cm irregular
Gift of Ydessa Hendeles, Toronto, 1993
National Gallery of Canada (no. 37583)
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"Amitra and Mrs. Sondhi" is part of a series produced by Ken Lum in the 1980s titled Portrait Logos, in which the intimacy of a family portrait is interrupted by the look and feel of corporate advertising. Lum suggests the piece is actually a portrait of Mr. Sondhi, the "patriarch" of the family who is absent but represented in name and logo on the left hand side of the picture. He explains: "I was interested in the fact that Mr. Sondhi was always travelling, because he was a businessman. I think the world is still the man's oyster, especially in the third world, places like India, China. This piece was a meditation on that. He's not there, but he's there."
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7/10/2013 C25K Training
I am leading a C25K group at my work – I was hoping to get a few members and ended up with 53 people who signed up and who look to me for support and direction. Some of those 53 members I have not heard from at all and are training on their own (at least I assume they are training) and others are showing up weekly for the training sessions. It makes me feel good to know I am helping others realize they can do something they never thougth they could do. They just need to believe they can do it!
It's been fun – we have 8 more weeks before race day. I have a friend who asked me to do a Color Me Rad race with her in October so I have another C25K training going on too. I told her I would help her too if she wanted it. This will be good – a 5K in September and a 5K in October. I need to find a few more races to sign up for to keep me motivated. I want to run the whole thing – NO WALKING. Amazing how hard it has been lately to do anything. It's been so hot and humid and my heart just has not been in it.
My sons baseball consumed so much of my time since May I am looking forward to this being his last week of baseball. He will play another weekend tournament this month but this week day shit will end! Well Baseball will end but Football will start in August. I find I still run during football practice – something about sitting there for a 2 hour practice. I run for the first hour then I sit and read or watch practice. Looking forward to Football starting – I know I am crazy!


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I can create html pages and most graphics and other elements that go into that.... BUT I have a real estate agent looking to create a website and he wants the ability to do property searches...and his potential clients to do property searches like many of these main stream real estate companies do. HOW do they do that ? Is it just a "link" that takes them somewhere else (although appears to stay on his website) or what ? Can anyone help explain this in SIMPLE terms (so I can understand it).
Maybe I can design the bulk of the design, and hire/find a super geek to do the search part.... Not sure where I would find the right person for that ?
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I know a Property management company Birmingham who will definitely do work for you. There are many property management companies do such jobs. Just Google them if you can't find anywhere.


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Since becoming a parent, I've paid a lot more attention to the latest kids' music CDs. There are a lot of choices - and sometimes, it seems as if the CDs are aimed as much at the aging, hipster doofus parents as at their offspring. One way kids' music artists appeal to parents' tastes is to release lullaby versions of songs they know and love. The idea isn't new - I remember seeing "Beatles for Babies" records decades ago - but the trend has grown.
Recently, power-pop cult figure Jason Falkner (ex-Jellyfish, Grays) released Bedtime with the Beatles Part Two. A gifted vocalist, he offers humming only on "Hey Jude", concentrating instead on instrumental versions of Fab Four faves, awash in his multi-tracked keyboard arrangements which nod to psychedelia while carrying children (and tired parents) off to dreamland.
While I'd sing most of these classics to my wee one, tunes like "Norwegian Wood" and "She's Leaving Home" are best left as instrumentals - I don't need questions about sleeping in the bath or runaways treating mums so thoughtlessly. Still, these are far from the most questionable kids' versions of songs out there - I can't decide which is the bigger head-scratcher, "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" (on Jersey Babys: the Music of Frankie Valli & the 4 Seasons for Kids), or the Trent Reznor-penned "Hurt" (on Baby Love Lullaby: Lullaby Versions of Johnny Cash). Seriously - "everyone I know goes away in the end"? Night night, sweetie!
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
Will Carroll: Cubs Near To Aramis Ramirez Extension
According to Will Carroll, the Cubs have all but finished drying the ink on an extension for Aramis Ramirez:
Aunt Jemima (Atlanta): If Aramis Ramirez leaves the Cubs as a free agent, any chance the Cubs would be smart enough to pick up Edwin Encarnacion, a player that the Reds seem to unappreciate? Which guy would they be better off with?If you were thinking, as I was, that the Angels might have a shot at picking him up in the offseason, well, maybe not.
Will Carroll: I don't think Ramirez will leave. In fact, I think the deal's essentially done to keep him.
Encarnacion? Sure, Krivsky traded Lopez and Kearns but that doesn't mean that every GM can pillage his roster, does it?
Well, if Will Carroll is reporting it, I think we can pretty much start fitting Aramis for a uniform.
I agree (if I sense your sarcasm correctly, chronicler). Will Carroll reporting a rumor holds about as much water as John Kruk's "analysis" on Baseball Tonight.
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Bulgaria's financially struggling Rozhen observatory is to carry out tasks for the country's Agriculture Ministry and for the Ministry of Environment, it was announced on Wednesday.
In exchange, the observatory will receive a modest cash injection that would help it survive by the end of the year.
On Tuesday, Rozhen astronomers met with the country's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov in a bid to convince him that the observatory should not be closed....
This is the way to handle all BAS institutes: let them find sponsors in society that are willing to pay part of their expenses (because they are useful to the sponsor, for instance, or enough persons are willing to spend money on it), and the government should also sponsor them. If they can't find any sponsors, the institute apparently doesn't have a function in society, and it should be closed.
When put to the choice of missing an exploding star, and missing a relative because there was no ambulance available to take him/her to the hospital, only a mad scientist would chose the star.
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THE sport of horse racing is generally portrayed as a landscape of glitz and glamour.
Wealthy owners spending millions on their bloodstock, having them trained by the best conditioners in the land and racing for good prize money on well-maintained tracks.
Maybe if you're in the city and lucky enough to have a good horse.
Spare a thought for the bush jockeys who ply their trade on some rather average animals in far-flung places on dusty circuits for less money.
The life of a jockey isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Some of them live on a diet consisting of little more than fresh air, and in summer that becomes harder as a drink may even be too much to ask for.
Then consider the plight of the female jockeys - a growing band that at some meetings rivals the male gender for numbers but in terms of resources still lags far behind.
The male jockey rooms at most tracks in the area aren't five-star resorts but for the lady riders, the choices are often to set themselves up in a small room of their own, in a hallway or over with the blokes.
The latter option isn't obviously for everyone but sometimes it is a necessity.
"Recently at Dubbo, Cat Markwort and myself were in the men's jockey room," Dubbo-based rider Kacie Chater said.
"There was about eight girls riding that day and the room is probably comfortable with four.
"Dubbo is probably one of the better ones going around as well so it was lucky that myself and Cat were comfortable to go and sit in with the blokes because there are some girls out there who aren't and that's their choice.
"The men's room is a good size at Dubbo but there's a few of them that are pretty rough as well, and those places don't have much set up in the way of a decent room for the girls.
"They would have been set up when there weren't many girls riding but there's more and more of us now."
Racing NSW figures reveal there are now 79 licensed female riders in NSW, made up of 19 senior jockeys, 25 apprentices, 16 approved riders, 10 first-year apprentices and four non-race-riding apprentices.
According to Racing NSW general manager of industry and analysis Scott Kennedy, the organisation is committed to upgrading facilities at the 46 country TAB racecourses in the state.
"Improving the quality of female rider's amenities is very important and Racing NSW is working to improve these in consultation with the NSW Jockeys Association," Kennedy said.
"To date, amenities at 43 of the 46 country TAB racecourses have been assessed by the Racing NSW projects manager with building inspection reports prepared for each club including recommended solutions for improved facilities.
"Three provincial plus four non-TAB country clubs have also been similarly inspected and reported on.
"Thus far, upgrading works have been completed at 16 racecourses with more being progressively undertaken.
"In the central west, female jockeys' amenities have been upgraded at Coonabarabran, Forbes, Gilgandra, Parkes and Louth."


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CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama congratulated Republican rival Mitt Romney on Tuesday for running a hard-fought race for the White House and expressed confidence he would win re-election during a stop at a local campaign office to thank volunteers.
"I ... want to say to Governor Romney congratulations on a spirited campaign. I know that his supporters are just as engaged and just as enthusiastic and working just as hard today," Obama said as volunteers made phone calls encouraging supporters to get to the polls.
"We feel confident we've got the votes to win, but it's going to depend ultimately on whether those votes turn out. And so I would encourage everybody on all sides just to make sure that you exercise this precious right that we have that people fought so hard for us to have."
Obama made calls to volunteers from the campaign office to thank them for working for his re-election.
"I expect that we'll have a good night, but no matter what happens, I just want to say how much I appreciate everybody who supported me, everybody who's worked so hard on my behalf," he said.
Opinion polls show Obama and Romney in a virtual dead heat, although the Democratic incumbent has a slight advantage in several vital swing states that could give him the 270 electoral votes needed to win the state-by-state contest.
Traditionally presidential candidates get media attention on Election Day by going to vote. But Obama cast his ballot in Chicago last month - part of his campaign's push to get its supporters to vote early.
So the president's visit to the office gave him a chance to get in front of the cameras, generate news coverage and encourage turnout.
Obama and Romney, a former Massachusetts governor and private equity executive, have fought a largely negative campaign. Obama's team attacked Romney for his business record, and Romney's team criticized the president for presiding over high unemployment and a slow economic recovery.
Obama's conciliatory comments represent the close of the bitter campaign and could appeal to last-minute undecided voters, who are turned off by the lack of bipartisanship in Washington.
In addition to his campaign office stop, Obama is doing a round of interviews and is expected to play basketball with friends, a tradition for the sports-loving president on Election Day.
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Were it not for id Software's seminal Wolfenstein 3D, who knows how we'd be shooting men in the face today? Publisher Bethesda Softworks today announced a "reimagining" of the Nazi-busting FPS in Wolfenstein: The New Order, developed by MachineGames. This is the first game from the studio founded by Starbreeze veterans, which Bethesda owner ZeniMax snapped up in 2010.
The New Order is set in an alternate 1960, where the Nazis won World War 2. Our hero B.J. Blazkowicz will once again be shooting men (and Nazi robots) to save us all.
Wolfenstein: The New Order is headed to PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and unspecified next-gen consoles (presumably PlayStation 4 and the next Xbox), slated to launch between October and December--the fourth quarter--of this year.
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How to clear your Facebook search history
Can you lose your Facebook Page because you didn't follow the rules? Facebook would never shut down a Page because they ran a contest and did something like... oh, I don't know, maybe offer to donate a dollar to charity for every Like their Page gets... right?
I'm constantly seeing people saying they've never heard of a Page being shut down for violating a rule and that Facebook doesn't enforce most of them anyway. Well, here are two examples of some popular Pages that were shut down by Facebook for some seemingly innocent contest rule violations. Think it's okay to do it just because you see the big dogs doing it? Think again.
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WASHINGTON – President Obama's White House is trying to ratchet up pressure on Congress by putting out details of federal spending cuts it says will take place if a scheduled March 1 deadline for deep automatic, government-wide spending cuts cannot be averted.
In a fact sheet, the White House cites what it calls "large and arbitrary" cuts to federal programs on education, small business, food safety, law enforcement and emergency management.
It says it could mean furloughs of hundreds of FBI agents and federal prosecutors
Current law calls for $1.2 trillion of additional spending cuts over the next 10 years, including about $85 billion this year.
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WVU could be back on the SEC's radar as Missouri likely stays put, scheduling with 13 teams is likely to be a huge hassle.
WVU could be back on the SEC's radar as Missouri likely stays put, scheduling with 13 teams is likely to be a huge hassle.
Go Gators!
And honestly I would rather be in AAA in the Big 12 than the AA that the Big East is becoming with who they are talking about adding. I don't believe the rumors about the service academies we have heard that for YEARS and yet to come to fruition.
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But this whole expansion thing got me thinking. What if the Pac 12 and Big 10 stand put and the Big 12 stays viable? The biggest name school to move was Nebraska. You can jockey all you want but if you are not landing a big name school (Texas, OU, OSU, OSU, Michigan, ND, PSU, USC, etc.) what is the purpose of expanding? It could be very interesting to see what happens if both the Pac 12 and Big 10 stay put.
The more I think about it, I would really like to see the SEC expand to 16 teams and go to a pod format. Play everybody in your pod in football and play another pod each year plus one from the other (NFL setup). In basketball play everybody in the pod twice and the rest of the conference once.
Example: (Add WVU, Missouri, A&M, and USF)
SEC North:
West Virginia
SEC Atlantic:
South Carolina
South Florida
SEC Gulf:
Ole Miss
Mississippi State
SEC West:
Texas A&M
A big part of me thinks that when all is said and done none of us will recognize the world of college sports.
ESPN reported that Texas A&M has joined the SEC.
SEC announces Texas A&M becomes official member July 1, 2012
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SEC presidents and chancellors announced Sunday that Texas A&M will join the conference as the league's 13th member July 1, 2012, and the Aggies will begin competing in all sports for the 2012-13 academic year.
The SEC announced the move will be effective next July, and said Texas A&M will participate in all sports during the 2012-13 academic year. That gives the SEC 13 members and its first addition since South Carolina and Arkansas in 1992.
Looking forward to seeing what kind of schedule dance they do for 13 teams in football.
Go Gators!
13 teams isn't unworkable, the MAC has been doing it on-and-off for years.
So as it stands now:
Big 12 has 9 teams
SEC has 13
Big East has 7 football schools
Is that right?
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If Oklahoma is going to stay and the PAC 12 doesn't want to expand than the Big 12 will grab 1 or 3 schools depending on what they want to do. I'm surprised there hasn't been more talk of Boise St or BYU to the Big 12.
It sounds like Missouri will be the 14th SEC member.
I'm not sure who the Big East picks up and if they lose Louisville I think that's probably it. I guess UCF, ECU, Marshall, maybe Houston?
And at this point if the Big East loses any ONE of Louisville, WVU, USF, TCU the league is DONE. Those 4 could possibly become enough of a core to patch something together but without all 3 there is no chance I see.
I don't think Missery wants to go to the SEC, they want to go to the big 10. A big 12 with Texas and Oklahoma leaves them plenty of power as a football conference to buy them time. They are also (i heard) the head of the conference expansion committee for the Big 12 I read. I don't think they leave the Big 12 for the SEC, they would if the Big 10 called. I also think SEC is less than thrilled with any option. Combine Missery's market and WVU passion and the invite would have long ago been sent.
Texas seems to want to just go back to 10 (easier trek to BcS) the rest of the league seems to want to go to 12. I think they end up at 12.
Big East "Expansion": Army, Navy, Houston and call it a day. Puts the big east back at 8 and 8 (academy football only) for all sports. If no one else gets pilfered.
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Are Army and Navy real possiblities? I would think they are behind several other schools, but I could be wrong.
The Big East has been after Army and Navy for years as football only members, but the schools have no interest.
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text: Gallery: Great movies you don't want to see again. 02.19.2013Platoon There's one scene in here that means I can never watch this affecting piece of filmmaking again. And if you've seen this movie, you know exactly which one I'm talking about: the platoon pulls a woman and a mentally retarded youth from a hiding spot in a hut in a village suspected to harbour Vietcong. American soldier Chris (Charlie Sheen) starts yelling at the smiling youth and firing his rifle at his feet. "You want something to smile about? Dance, one-legger! Dance!," he screams as the mother pleads for her child. That absolute cruelty is enough to make me shy away from the screen, but then Kevin Dillon's character Bunny steps in and beats the poor boy's head into a pulp with his rifle. The world can be a senseless, dreadful place and this scene drives that home. The film was up for eight Oscars, and took home four, including Best Picture and Best Director for Oliver Stone, who was on a tear at the time. Consider this: the writer/director released Salvador, Platoon, Wall Street, Talk Radio, Born on the Fourth of July, The Doors and JFK in a five-year period from 1986 to 1991.Requiem for a Dream It starts off bleak — an addict (Jared Leto) locks him mom (Ellen Burstyn, above) in a closet — and gets darker from there. The emotionally taxing film by Darren Aronofsky is based on a novel by Hubert Selby Jr. (who also wrote Last Exit to Brooklyn, which also had its own feel good film adaptation). It's an amazing piece of cinema, filled with memorable performances and amazing technical flourishes. But don't expect a happy ending for any of these sad sacks treading water in their mucked-up, scraping-to-get-by lives. In the DVD commentary, Aronofksy says "anyone who's lived 20 years on this planet knows that things get f….d up, and they stay that way." Case in point: Burstyn was rightfully nominated for Best Actress at the 2001 Oscars, but lost to Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich. And Aronofsky wasn't even nominated for Best Director. Such is life.Leaving Las Vegas Proof positive that misery loves company (and a stiff drink): this love story between an alcoholic (Nicolas Cage) and a hooker with a heart of gold (Elisabeth Shue) is enough to scare even a committed social drinker straight. Downward-spiralling screenwriter Ben (Cage, who took home the Best Actor statue for his work) meets his soul mate in Sera, a working girl in Vegas. While they share moments of true tenderness and vulnerability, neither one is looking to change anything about their situation. Instead, they accept each other for who and what they are, and the story reaches its inevitable conclusion. As if that weren't sad enough, author John O'Brien killed himself two weeks after agreeing to have his autobiographical novel adapted for the screen.Suzanne HanoverPrecious Urgh, this one is such a soul-crushing bummer, all the more depressing for its realism. Precious (Gabourey Sidibe, who received a Best Actress nomination in her first film) is 16, morbidly obese, illiterate and pregnant for the second time, the result of being raped by her father . . . again, which her horrible, horrible mother (Mo'Nique, in a Best Supporting Actress-winning performance) condones. There is hope, in the form of Precious trying to improve her life, but no matter how many positive steps forward she takes, life keeps pushing her to the back of the line. By the end of the film, I was hoping for a bus to come along and put the poor girl out of her misery.Life is Beautiful I'm tearing up just thinking about the lengths a Jewish father (Roberto Benigni, above right) goes to in protecting his young son (Giorgio Cantarini, centre) when they are put in a concentration camp during the Second World War: he turns it all into a game with a tank going to the winner. And what five-year-old boy doesn't want a real tank? Moments of unforgettable joy in the family's earlier life (remember the red umbrella?) are muted and drained of colour by the horror of the Nazi's master plan. The push and pull comedy and tragedy are juxtaposed to unforgettable results in the rare foreign-film hit at the box office ($57 million). Life is Beautiful also scored with the critics, earning seven Academy Awards nominations. Benigni's win for Best Foreign Film provided one of the most memorable Oscar moments in history, when he stood on the armrests of his seat before bunny hopping up the stairs to accept his statue from Sophia Loren.ShareAdjustCommentPrint xShareGallery: Great movies you don't want to see again. Email Twitter Facebook Pinterest Google Linkedin


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Undated news clipping, possibly Alexandria, Indiana Times-Tribune
Bill Wright, employee of the post office, was telling the folks back home this week about the "ones that got away" while on his vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Wright were fishing at Tippecanoe lake last Saturday night and had a string of six fish tied on the back of the boat. The boat drifted into some weeds and the fish became tangled in the weeds and broke loose.
Among the catch was the largest fish ever caught by Mrs. Wright, a one and one-fourth pound crappie.
That's the story!
Bill Wright was my maternal grandfather.
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Clinton Li, a 3rd Year student from the Diploma in Business Information Technology (DBIT), clinched the bronze award at the Quest Ventures-EDGE National Youth Entrepreneurship Awards 2017.
It was that one day that DIT freshmen would be able to know their classmates and cohort mates better - the Bonding Day.
Three students from the Diploma in Music and Audio Technology (DMAT) bagged the prize for best composition at the National Schools Xinyao Singing and Songwriting Competition.
Livvit secures funding from investors for tech start-up
DDM Alumnus wins Best New Director Award at China Short Film Golden Hummingbird Awards
A new adventure.
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DBIT students learn why Big Data Analytics is one of the best career choices they can make
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Standing out with innovative projects that demonstrated potential to influence gaming, healthcare and customer care fields, three teams now stand a chance to represent Singapore at the Imagine Cup 2016 World Finals in Seattle, Washington, USA
"On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer" - Satoru Iwata
Winning the "Best Technology" prize was the cherry on top of an amazing experience with friends.
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Sounds like job security for those of us who reset passwords for a living.
Sounds like job security for those of us who reset passwords for a living.
Better to reset a password than find that your fingerprint scanners can be compromised by silly putty or your retinal scanners can be compromised by a picture painted on the back of a marble and instead of resetting a password, you're replacing hardware.
Try breaking your wrist and having your hand/forearm in a cast...
Exodus' solution was for me to use my left hand, upside down in the scanner and retake the initial scan since they only use right handed hand scanners.
In any case it could still be defeated with his severed head.
That is macabre. I would think just tying him up and holding the phone up to his face would work just as well, or putting a gun to the back of his head, or if you must kill him I don't think removing the head is actually necessary. But hey, different strokes for different folks
In any case it could still be defeated with his severed head. Now, a password might be given up under torture, but nobody is going to get it by killing you.
Once the password (or head) is given, there is no need to keep you alive. It is the future hope that you will reveal the password that keeps you alive... and keeps them torturing you.
And what happens if your biometric signature is discovered? Obviously not from the biological side, but the digital side. After all, it's just a number. Of course it would require a more technical exploit at the software level to utilize, but the big downside is you can't change that signature like you can a password (you've only got so many finger prints, or retinas, or whatever).
Forcing me to come up with a half dozen passswords to remember.
Only a fool uses a single password for multiple sites. Write the damn things down as Bruce Schneier tells you.
As for your brain hurting, that's exercise. No pain, no gain.
...but still better than none.
A proper security system is one that has tests for who you are, what you know, if you are under duress, and potentially if you should even be there that day.
Such a security system is hard to make, in the simplest form it has a biometric component, two passwords (one for regular use, one to act like the proper password but alert security), and is hooked up with the scheduling system (not to lockout, but also alert security). This is reasonable for high stakes facilities, but sufficiently cumbersome that it gets in the way of getting things done for things like PC login and on-line transactions.
Why does web site x have an 8 character length limit, alphanumeric only?
Why does web site y have more allowable character types, but minimum of 5 chars, max of 18?
Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/936/ [xkcd.com]
Remember, you can't solve for the parts of a pw, only the whole thing in one go.
Yup, works fine.
Good luck typing any password as long as "correct horse battery staple" correctly on the first time on a handheld device's on-screen keyboard.
I have a much easier time typing long alphabetic passwords than I do alpha+numeric+symbol passwords.
And how did you know my password was "correcthorsebatterystaple"!? I followed the XKCD comic *exactly* to generate a secure password, it should have taken you 550 years to guess it.
The example given in XKCD http://xkcd.com/936/ [xkcd.com] appears to be calculating entropy [wikipedia.org] based on the vocabulary space of the English language, not the character space of a random string of N symbols*. Therefore, the strength they calculate would not be diminished by applying a spell checker to your password input. A few small misspellings would be tolerated.
In other words, your password would be that strong even if your input was misspelled but then auto-corrected. I could live with that.
*Using the Wikipedia for
Technically, you could have your phone autocomplete / spellcheck your password if such a scheme were used.
Steve Gibson from the Security Now podcast did a lot of work in this arena and found that the password "D0g....................." is harder to break than the password "PrXyc.N(n4k77#L!eVdAfp9". He makes this very clear in his password haystack reference guide and tester [grc.com]: "Once an exhaustive password search begins, the most important factor is password length!"
Of course if that's the root password for the company's server and you type that close to someone else it won't be that difficult for them to find out.
If your attacks only come from someone who knows nothing about the password, that theory works fine. If they saw you typing a three letter word and then put a bunch of dots after "PrXyc.N(n4k77#L!eVdAfp9" seems "slightly" better.
Why does web site x have an 8 character length limit, alphanumeric only?
Why does web site y have more allowable character types, but minimum of 5 chars, max of 18?
And why won't they tell me what their password restrictions are until I've failed 3 times and need to reset my password? I use the same (or similar) password at all non-important sites (discussion forums, etc, not anything that involves a credit card, bank account, or personal email). If they'd just post their password requirements when I'm entering the password (or at least after the first time I mistype the password), I'd be able to remember what password I used.
I can't believe hiding the password requirements makes life any harder for a hacker (who could just create a dummy account to see the password requirements).
And why won't they tell me what their password restrictions are until I've failed 3 times and need to reset my password?
Bad design, pure and simple.
My favorite requirement was exactly 8 characters, one of which must be capital, one of which must be a symbol, one of which must be a number, none of those three may be in the first or last position, and it had to be changed every month.
Everything is migrating towards mobile devices, or at a minimum, some degree of accessibility from mobile devices. Longer, more complex passwords are even less conducive for use / convenience on mobile devices than computers with full keyboards. So I believe people are going to trend in the exact opposite direction - shorter passwords because they are easier to enter on mobile devices.
Seems like a conflict of interest to me: "Oh, passwords are here to stay!" seems to be FUD designed to discourage people from innovating so that MIcrosoft can find the patent first (because it'll eventually supplant their password system and the IP birds will come home to roost).
No, passwords (or passphrases, just a long password really) will always be there because information that is only stored in your memory is the most secure.
Biometrics are quite easy to force out of you, when the reader is even secure (see face & iris scanners being fooled by pics, fingerprint scanners being fooled by scanned or molded fingerprints). No such thing as a duress password with biometrics.
Keyfobs can enhance the security of a password, but by itself is *less* secure than a password, because th
I have worked for years with security and authentication.
there are three ways to establish trust. Something you have , something are , something you know.
that will never change. and most any one of them can be compromised. thus it is better to build systems that use
more then one.
care keys ( something you have)
thumb print ( something you are)
password/ pass phrase/ etc. ( something you know) .
all three together are more secure and more trust can be built by using multiple aspects but the easiest will be probably always be something you know.
Think about it authentication before computers.
Go to the bank ( hopefully the banker recognized you ( multiple bio metric) )
do you have your checkbook / check card/ pass book?
do you have a pin / password etc.
it really won't ever get much better you can use more and more bio metrics but that won't stop fraud only make it more costly.
>> Something you have , something are , something you know.
My brother-in-law's password oughta be assholeassholeasshole.
Still, some users will always find a way to muck things up.
"Nothing can be made foolproof, because fools are so ingenious."
care keys ( something you have)
You'll lose it.
thumb print ( something you are)
Like, dead. "We have his key, but his thumb is decomposed, so we can't open it anymore."
password/ pass phrase/ etc. ( something you know)
You'll forget it.
You want to have a truly secure system? Get rid of any humans in the system.
Secure and sure. Secure and sure. Not just secure. A system even the authorized user can never enter because it's too bloody hard to accomplish is busted, but it's still secure. DAMN secure.
there are three ways to establish trust. Something you have , something are , something you know.
This is incorrect, there are only two. "Something you are" (fingerprints, retinas, etc.) is really just another kind of "something you have". The only differences between biometrics and something like a physical key or access card is that biometrics are horribly insecure (how many objects have you left your fingerprints on today?) and nearly impossible to replace if they get compromised.
If your arm is eaten by a shark or your eye is poked out by a nail gun, you'll never be able to get a replacement fingerprint or retina pattern, but if you lose your access card and are able to talk the security officer into giving you another, you won't be fired for inability to do your job because you can't get into the site.
Which do you fear more? Making your passwords so easy to steal that someone robs you of everything? Or making your passwords so hard to retrieve that you effectively lose access to them and lose access to all of your own stuff? Choose one or the other. Think carefully. Hint
A new strain of the Sykipot Trojan is been used to compromise the Department of Defense-sanctioned smart cards used to authorise network and building access at many US government agencies, according to security researchers.
In my opinion, passwords are pretty much here to stay for the foreseeable future. The thing that I see changing is making the password a single item in an authentication scheme. Most of the major websites have two factor authentication methods available (think Google, Facebook, Paypal, etc.) and most of the banks that I use have methods of dealing with unknown devices connecting, via a series of questions, an email link, or a code sent to me out-of-band. We are certainly moving in a direction where the pass
And yet, here we are almost 15 years later still using usernames and passwords. Oh, well. Was a fun project.
True story -- when the project launched we had a big event, with everybody gathered around the box to turn their keys. Then they all took their key and scattered off to wherever, what with the whole "must keep the keys off site and multiple locations" thing. What nobody realized is that the network center (we did our own hosting) had already posted plans for a scheduled power outage that weekend, and nobody'd connected these particular thoughts. So they cycled power in the room to do whatever it is that they did, and the box didn't come back online. Somebody contacted me. I told them to round everybody up to come back and turn their keys again.
Brute force security needs to be evaluated under the assumption that a Russian botnet has compromised a large number of social networking sites, and gained three to five different clear-text passwords (of possibly no great importance) associated with the targeted user. They now also know--or strongly suspect--the identities of your financial institutions.
Using commonalities of the exposed password set, the botnet bastards will attempt to model your personal password generation heuristic. Since they are not stupider than bricks, they might also assume that your bank password is similar, but fortified to the next level. Gaining some experience in cracking bank passwords, they'll soon have a model for that, too.
My Thomas and Cover from 1991, which happens to be at hand, has chapters on "Jointly typical sequences", "Encoding of correlated sources", and "Source coding with side information". This last section makes reference to Slepian-Wolf encoding, which is kind of interesting. I hadn't spotted that before.
On Slepian-Wolf compression, in memory of Jack Wolf [blogspot.com]
Along with David Slepian, Wolf proved the Slepian-Wolf theorem: as long as certain conditions are met, files X and Y can be compressed to H(X,Y), even if the X server has no knowledge of file Y, and vice versa.
This might not be precisely the right theory to apply to the breaking of password clusters, but the guy doing the math on that has probably read these papers.
Way too little concern is placed on the independence of the passwords chosen, and this vulnerability increases rapidly with the proliferation of passwords used. I'm sure I have more than 100 passwords out in the wild, many held by hopelessly incompetent and untrusted internet discussion forums.
Even a single compromised site can form a model of your password heuristic if you're duped into changing it often.
It wouldn't surprise me that if everyone adopted the four word xkcd approach, that for many individuals, entropy per word is closer to seven or eight bits than eleven, where concrete nouns of five to eight letters predominate, and a further bias to concrete nouns that are visually active in the mind's eye, and 40% of all such passwords contain at least one animal word.
That's where brute force would begin: assume at least one common animal word (four to five bits; since cat/dog don't make the cut, you'll be seeing a lot of parrot/leopard/zebra/unicorn).
I've cracked one already.
Don't sell your stock in the Post-It note company after all.
FailDesk: http://faildesk.net/2012/01/12/passwords-are-like/ [faildesk.net]
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Shannon Nicole Washer, 36, Borger, went before U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson on January 24, 2012.Walker was owner of Shannon's Restaurant in Borger. According to documents, Washer passed $440 in counterfeit currency at Buttons, Bows, and Balloons in Panhandle on August 9, 2011. Then, on August 12, 2011, she passed $180 in counterfeit currency at Allsups in Dumas. Also, she attempted to pass a $100 counterfeit note at the Valero South and Pak-a-Sak in Dumas. On the same day,Aug. 12 ,she attempted to make a $151 purchase at Hobby Lobby in Amarillo using counterfeit notes. The investigation revealed that she had also passed a counterfeit note at a Sonic in Amarillo. When taken into custody, she was carrying extra counterfeit notes and a search of her vehicle revealed more counterfeit notes and some sheets of paper that appeared to have counterfeit notes cut from them. She was also in possession of several $20 bills and two $1 bills. As officers looked at the denomination of the bills, it was determined that the $20s all had the same serial number and the $1 bills had the same serial number. Police reports state, there were 23 counterfeit $100s, 13 counterfeit $20s, and 13 counterfeit $10s all in total at that time. Washer was sentenced to 10 months in federal prison after she plead guilty in October 2011 to one count of dealing in counterfeit currency. The case was investigated by the U.S. Secret Service. Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris L. Drake, of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Amarillo, was in charge of the prosecution.


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*eyeroll* Oh, dear goodness, that is one of the most rediculous +4 insightful posts I've ever read.
Right, because using an SUV chassis for a project that advances our knowledge and technological capabilities in the Computer Science fields of robotoics and AI is such a major problem in the US. Scientific research... bah! It's a perfect example of conspicuous consumerism! After all, using an SUV for it's original design spec
Actually, after I spewed my rant, I reread your post, and thought, "wait, uh... Oh, he's joking. Ah. uh... oops.
I hearby unflame you. Sorry about that, heh, I've got this flamethrower and an itchy trigger finger sometimes.
Of course, whoever modded you insightful instead of funny is still on crack.
Bah...I have three of them in my garage.
Was that pun intended? Given the circumstances regarding their test run, that's pretty funny.
Keep in mind that CMU has two entries this year - Sandstorm (last year's design with upgrades) and H1ghlander (still a hummer, but using different systems and software). I haven't heard anything about Sandstorm's qualification run, but their website [redteamracing.org] says "H1ghlander nudged a gate and tipped one cone."
I went to CMU, so obviously I'm cheering for them however I have a tremendous amount of respect f
Really? I didn't even know UF had a DARPA team. Well, that fills me with some serious school pride.
After searching UF's website, I found some more info about the UF team, Team CIMAR: http://cimar.mae.ufl.edu/grand_challenge/ [ufl.edu]
Go Gators.
Actually it is the opposite - a good application of a manual. Manual transmissions still get better milage and handle torque better than automatics, when all else is equal. A computer can shift the manual exactly when required, (in fact that is what an automatic is, a fluid computer that shifts gears) with no issue that it takes a hand that should be on the wheel or some such. So why not put in a manual transmission and get those benefits?
Note that I qualified things with when all else is equal. Au
Modern automatic transmission are very good. I have a 2003 Accord and it's the best automatic I've ever driven. Shifting is very smooth, and downshifting occurs when it is supposed to. It uses what Honda calls "Grade Logic Technology" which basically detecs when you're going uphill or downhill to determine whether to downshift or upshift much sooner than older automatic transmissions. It's also a 5 speed automatic which helps a lot. I believe Mercedes has a 7 speed automatic in their newer cars though I haven't driven them.
My understanding is that modern Diesel engines don't have this problem as much, though they still emit tiny particulates. The low-sulphur diesel fuel mandate in the US (2008?) should help with this.
I'm a big fan of diesel engines, though I don't need or like the models offered in the US. The Mercedes
I for one am very happy to see this technology advancing. It's not gonna take much intelligence to make an autonomous driver better than most human drivers.
I for one am very happy to see this technology advancing. It's not gonna take much intelligence to make an autonomous driver better than most human drivers.
The benefits of having cars that drive themselves will be enormous. First, these cars can be programmed to drive in a manner that conserves gasoline (e.g., no jack-rabbit starts, limit speeds to 55 mph, time their accelerations between stoplights so they don't have to come to a complete stop at every one). Second, cars that drive themselves in a rational manner -- instead of the emotional, irrational manner that people drive them -- can significantly reduce traffic jams. There is an insightful analysis of traffic jams at this page [amasci.com] which explains that jams are larely the result of people not letting other people merge into their lane coupled with the relatively-slow reaction time of humans. Cars that can synchronize their motion in relation to nearby traffic could make traffic jams a thing of the past.
Not to mention that if the car drives itself, I can read slashdot on the commute home (or watch Natalie Portman movies).
The "merging traffic" analysis on that page is flawed. The "neatly merging zipper" fails to account for the fact that the newly merged cars must slow down in order to re-establish their previous following distance. Furthermore, those two animations are not actually accurate depictions of
They changed the course to manicured suburban streets this year??They didn't pic SUVs to pick SUVs. They picked them because they are vehivles that can handle the terrain
The other bit would be finding sufficient countryside where unmanned vehicles could be let loose!!!!
Great! So in the next Grand Challenge, someone can just hook up a Nintendo Revolution controller to the car and be guaranteed a win! Better pre-order my console now...
On Judgement Day, you'll fell sorry you wrote that.
Joke aside, what's the difference between a learning system and a non-learning system ? Aren't the DARPA entries already immensely more "intelligent" than factory-floor robots operating in a predictable environment ?
Is a Bayesian algorithm a learning system ? Is it AI ?
Does AI have to be some kind of automagic algorithm that we can't analyze with the concepts of computer science ?
Driving across 150 miles of roadless, obstacle-ridden desert is not something most humans do, or even attempt. Don't be so sure that "even severely IQ handicapped humans" could handle it routinely.
Will we need Cray-like computing power to handle the sensory input quickly enough to work a steering wheel, brake and gas pedal?
Yes, because being able to take two dimensional sensory input and use it to construct an acccurate three-dimensional representation of the local surroundings, and then plan a viable route through those surroundings, is not a trivial task. People do it pretty well (at least when on foot), but then they've had billions of years of development time put into their massively parallel computational hardware. Computers can do it too, and eventually that "Cray-like computing power" will be squeezed down into smaller boxes, but it isn't an easy problem.
Good advice for designing a brain made of neurons, but not good advice for a system based on today's computers. Neurons are massively parallel and not very fast; computers are lightning fast and not very parallel. Attempting to implement brain-like processing on today's computer architectures is an exercise in futility (as decades of
That often-repeated claim fails to explain why progress in AI has been so abysmally slow. Are people really that stupid? Have we failed to see the answer lying in plain sight for so long? I believe there is a different explanation.
We don't need more computing power exactly, we need a different type of computing power. The processing needs to be closer to the memory and massively parallel, but not necessarily very fast. Simulating thi
In my opinion, by far the hardest part of this challenge is in the sensing. None of the sensors we currently have for robots come close to giving us the same level of useful information we get from our eyes and visual cortex. These robots need to determine what the terrain looks like from noisy sensor data, and they need to do it fast enough and for a far enough dist
In comparison, the world's fastest supercomputer (BlueGene/L) is rated at a maximum of 183,500 gigaflots, which is about 0.2 peta flops, or one fiftieth of the maximum speed of the human brain.
Now, you don't NEED the full processing power of the human brain in order to drive. That's not my point. My point is that a car-load of computer parts, at the current level of technology, is probably going to drive about as well as a Horseshoe Crab. I'm actually very impressed that developers have actually got as far as they have, as they're very unlikely to be using state-of-the-art technology for this, most are probably using pile-of-PC architectures, not much more than some webcams for vision and basic motors for the robot linkage, most likely continuous for power - steppers have vastly superior accuracy but have no force behind them.
You also have to look at the power cleaning systems they need - car batteries are NOT smooth and car electrical systems are typically pretty rough. On the other hand, computers need power that is spike-free and ADCs (analog-to-digital converters) rely on a steady reference voltage to be able to do anything useful. A noisy power system would be Bad News for a self-operating vehicle. Oh, and computers don't do well when hot, but air conditioning units - particularly if they switch on and off - are going to add some serious noise to the power.
Whoever builds a car that can go a decent distance is worthy of vast respect and awe, because there are some massive technical problems that require ingenious hacking of mechanical, electrical and microelectronic systems to operate in some pretty harsh environments.
I do think DARPA would be foolish to end the contest if there is a winner this year - rather, they should extend the challenge. Have the vehicles go through a wider range of terrains, as a multi-stage rally, perhaps, with cars who succeed in the desert then having to navigate through a forest, swamps, along the tops of snow-covered mountains - pretty much any terrain that a vehicle could realistically encounter if used for military missions.
If DARPA did that, and the contestents succeeded, then (and pretty much only then) would DARPA have a general-purpose robotic vehicle they could throw into any arena that would be hazardous for humans under combat conditions. Why stop when you have something that could have made things easier three years ago had it existed, but which may be useless in a scenario three years from now, when the dangers may be completely different?
I know my money is on Austin Robot Technology. Vehicle "(Not Available)" sounds like it'll be a real winner. lol!
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The UUV poses no danger or threat to the public or sea life. The UUV is a battery powered vehicle that is programmed to follow an underwater search pattern using low power sonar energy to look for objects on the sea floor.
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TAMPA — It's early morning. A school bus is parked outside Tampa Bay Boulevard Elementary School.
A video shows driver Stephanie Wilkerson, 41, guiding the children down the stairs. The first two leave, no problem.
But the third child pushes and shoves the driver. They are special-needs students, according to a police report, and the 8-year-old girl has autism.
Two minutes into the video, released Wednesday by the Hillsborough State Attorney's Office, you see the child hesitate on the stairs while a fourth child rocks back and forth behind Wilkerson, itching to leave.
Minute 2:16. Wilkerson thrusts her left foot forward. It makes contact with the child. She falls. She rolls around on the ground.
She does not stand up.
Wilkerson, who was hired by the Hillsborough County School District in 2008 and earned $14,500 a year, now faces a charge of aggravated child abuse, a first-degree felony. She pleaded not guilty. Police say the child broke her ankle in the fall.
The incident happened on Sept. 28, about a month before another family sued the district, saying their daughter went into respiratory distress because her wheelchair was not positioned properly on a bus. No one called 911 and the child died.
Since then the district has been working to improve safety training, especially when it comes to students with disabilities.
But none of that enters into the Wilkerson case, said district spokesman Stephen Hegarty. "It's completely unacceptable," he said. "She was immediately suspended and her employment was terminated."
The girl's family has a lawyer, according to a district report. The schools' attorney contends the district is not responsible for what he calls an "intentional act." He cited a state law that says government is not liable if an employee acts "in bad faith or with malicious purpose or in a manner exhibiting wanton and willful disregard of human rights, safety, or property."
Like other districts, Hillsborough faces a shortage of school bus drivers. At last count there were 144 unfilled vacancies. Another 21 are on leaves of absence, and the rate of absenteeism is 20 percent.
The president of the union that represents them, Vicki Lawry, told the School Board recently that some drivers make double and triple runs to fill the gaps. In other cases, she said, "we're talking 65 to 77 students with one adult to control it all."
A far smaller number are shown on the video of Wilkerson's bus. After the girl falls to the ground, Wilkerson is shown following her off the bus, where several adults hover around her.
She remains on the ground until one of the adults carries her away about three minutes later.
Wilkerson leaves, then returns to the bus. She waits, drumming her fingers on the dashboard. Another adult brings her a beverage. They talk. Wilkerson becomes animated, gesturing to the other adult.
At minute 10:24, she pulls her bus away.
She was arrested on Oct.25.
Alexandra Zayas contributed to this report. Marlene Sokol can be reached at (813) 226-3356 or [email protected]