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I don't usually repost blog entries, because it's lazy. But it's 2.5 hours before New Years as I sit here, and you know what? Tonight I'm lazy (though not so lazy to make a few edits to bring the post up to date). Plus, this post was last seen three years ago, on December 31, 2007, and I have a lot of new readers since then so it's new to them. Also? This post is one my favorites I've ever written. So enjoy it, but fair warning: if you're hungover I can almost guarantee this'll make it worse.
Yay! It's a new year!
But what does that mean, exactly?
The year, of course, is the time it takes for the Earth to orbit the Sun, right? Well, not exactly. It depends on what you mean by "year", and how you measure it. This takes a wee bit of explaining, so while the antacid is dissolving in your stomach to remedy last night's excesses, sit back and let me tell you the tale of the year.
First, I will ignore a few things. For example, time zones. These were invented by a sadistic watchmaker, who only wanted to keep people in thrall of his devious plans. So for now, let's just ignore them, and assume that for these purposes you spend a whole year (whatever length of time that turns out to be) planted in one spot.
However, I will not ignore the rotation of the Earth. That turns (haha) out to be important.
Let's take a look at the Earth from a distance. From our imaginary point in space, we look down and see the Earth and the Sun. The Earth is moving, orbiting the Sun. Of course it is, you think to yourself. But how do you measure that? For something to be moving, it has to be moving relative to something else. What can we use as a yardstick against which to measure the Earth's motion?
Well, we might notice as we float in space that we are surrounded by zillions of pretty stars. We can use them! So we mark the position of the Earth and Sun using the stars as benchmarks, and then watch and wait. Some time later, the Earth has moved in a big circle and is back to where it started in reference to those stars. That's called a "sidereal year" (sidus is the Latin word for star). How long did that take?
Let's say we used a stopwatch to measure the elapsed time. We'll see that it took the Earth 31,558,149 seconds (some people like to approximate that as pi x 10 million (31,415,926) seconds, which is an easy way to be pretty close). But how many days is that?
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Attorney General Lockyer Obtains Patient Protections as Condition of Approving Major California Dialysis Provider's Purchase of Competitor
DaVita Will Divest 36 California Clinics in $3.1 Billion Acquisition of Gambro Healthcare
(LOS ANGELES) – Attorney General Bill Lockyer today announced he has approved dialysis provider DaVita Inc.'s $3.1 billion purchase of competitor Gambro Healthcare after securing conditions that protect thousands of California patients' care by preserving market competition for the crucial kidney disease treatment.
"This merger of California's two largest dialysis providers threatened to undermine stable care and increase treatment costs for kidney disease patients throughout the state," said Lockyer. "The divestiture required as a condition of approving the transaction will keep open clinics that patients need, and help control costs for consumers by alleviating the merger's anti-competitive effects on the market."
The divestiture and other approval conditions are contained in a consent decree filed by Lockyer today in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The consent decree resolves a lawsuit, also filed today in the same court, that alleged the merger violated federal antitrust laws (Clayton and Sherman Acts) and state law that prohibits unfair business practices. The court must approve the consent decree before it becomes final.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today also announced it has conditionally approved a broader divestiture plan. The FTC issued for public comment an order that, in addition to identical California divestiture provisions, requires DaVita to sell clinics in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, North Carolina and Virginia. The FTC will take final action on the divestiture plan after considering the public comment.
Under the divestiture provisions in California's consent decree, El Segundo-based DaVita will sell to Renal Advantage, Inc. 32 clinics now owned by DaVita or Gambro, which is headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado. Renal Advantage – based in Brentwood, Tennessee – will pay $320 million for divested clinics in California and other states.
DaVita also will sell the Gambro Westside Clinic in Los Angeles to S. Robertson Dialysis, the Dialysis Center of Colton to the Colton Partnership, and the Clinic at Roseville Dialysis Center to a purchaser approved by Lockyer and the FTC. In addition, DaVita will transfer management of the South San Francisco Dialysis Center to Peninsula Nephrology.
Gambro must divest all the California clinics, except the Roseville facility, within 10 days after the transaction becomes final. It must divest the Roseville clinic within 120 days from date the consent decree is signed.
In California, DaVita and Gambro operate a combined total of 193 clinics that provide dialysis, the medical treatment that eliminates waste from the blood of patients with kidney failure, formally called "end stage renal disease." At the end of 2003, the two competitors' clinics served 17,548 patients with failed kidneys.
Lockyer's concerns about the merger's anti-competitive effects centered on communities where the combined entity's market share would range from 47 percent to 100 percent. According to Lockyer's complaint, those areas include: Chico, Fairfield, Los Angeles-Orange counties, Palm Springs-Palm Desert, Riverside-Pomona-San Bernardino, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, and Stockton.
Without the divestitures, the merger posed two dangers to dialysis patients. First, in areas where it gained market dominance, DaVita could have decided to close some clinics. That could have forced patients to travel longer distances to obtain treatment. Nephrologists agree longer drives pose health risks to end stage renal disease patients because of their fragile, weakened condition.
Second, DaVita could have used its market power to increase prices. That would have harmed consumers, insurers and health maintenance organizations because their ability to bargain for lower prices would have been reduced by DaVita's market power.

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By Tiernan Ray
Apple (AAPL) shares closed down $10.62, or 2.4%, at $439.88 this afternoon. ZeroHedge's Tyler Durden points us to what appears to have been a "flash dump" in the closing moments of the market, noting a large block of $350 million worth of stock in the waning minutes of the session:
Unlike traditional flash crashes where the trade is an HFT error, or a few shares traded through the entire bid or offer stack, in this case it looks like a very premeditated unloading of some 800K shares (some $350 million worth) of AAPL in the last second, with the full knowledge it was shake the market. Why anyone would want (or wait until the very last second) to do that, while covering the offsetting ES short in the pair trade, to ramp the market into the close, is anyone's guess.
You can see the gap down in the chart below:


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Most wanted
Broomfield police are seeking help tracking down their most wanted fugitives. To view the most-wanted list, including photos, go to broomfield.org, click on police in the left-hand column and then click on "Broomfield's Most Wanted."
Between May 27 and June 1, police reported 29 accidents, three DUI arrests and six shoplifting arrests. Tip line: 303-438-6488.
May 27
1. Miscellaneous power tools were stolen from an unlocked vehicle parked in the 3100 block of West Ninth Avenue Place. Loss, $2,863.
2. A cell phone was stolen from an unlocked locker at Broomfield High School. Loss, $700.
3. An unlocked vehicle was entered while parked in the lot at an apartment complex in the 100 block of Laurel Street. Nothing was taken.
4. Two trailers were broken into in the 1300 block of West Fourth Avenue. Tools and tires were stolen. The lock was damaged on a third trailer. Damage/loss, $2,415.
May 28
5. A man was arrested in the 6600 block of West 120th Avenue for using a stolen credit card.
May 29
6. Two construction sales offices were broken into in the 1200 block of Eversole Drive. Miscellaneous items were stolen. Damage/loss, $654.
7. An iPhone was stolen in the 61 block of W Flatiron Crossing Drive. Loss, $500.
May 30
8. A cell phone was stolen in the 13200 block of Lowell Boulevard. Loss, $300.
9. A man was arrested in the 200 block of Agate Way for violating a restraining order.
May 31
10. A woman was arrested for assault in the 200 block of northbound Interstate 25.
11. Two vehicles were illegally entered while parked in the 11200 block of Broomfield Lane. Sunglasses were stolen from one of the vehicles. Damage/loss, $350.
12. Two LED lights were stolen from a pickup truck parked in the 3400 block of Vestal Loop. Damage/loss, $2,800.


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SHIRLEY -- A large, cheery crowd gathered together last Sunday night for the annual Christmas Tree Lighting in Whitely Park. Lura A. White Elementary school students in the Children's Traveling Christmas Choir sang and danced, Venture Crew #34 served hot cocoa and cookies, and the Fire Department made a special trip to the North Pole to retrieve Santa and Elf Number One to help illuminate the tree.
The traveling choir, most of whom were present to give a sampling of what is to come in their next two concerts, is directed by ShirleyArts! Director Meredith Marcinkewicz, who cued the students and merrily sang along.
Participating students in the choir are: second-graders Hanlon Lowther, Julia Lupaczyk, and Darnell Woodson; third-graders Katie Brauckmiller, Sophie Brown, Meghan Chamberlain, Celia Hagman, Michele Lindsay, Sarah Kramer, Olivia Pampinella, Lilly Robinson, and Riley Wilson; fourth-graders Leeyah Austin, Hannah Damon, Stephanie Hart, Rosalyn Lupaczyk, Emma McCarthy, and Courtney Niedermeir; and fifth-graders Alexis Blackwell and Hannah Chamberlain.
After the choir delighted the crowd with several holiday favorites, including the modern version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," in which one of the games the reindeer play is Monopoly and Santa comes to call in his underwear, the sound of a distant fire engine could be heard coming closer and closer.
Soon Santa and his elf companion could be seen emerging from the emergency vehicle with a huge bag of candy canes for all of the children, some of whom visited Santa numerous times.
At Marcinkewicz's invitation, Santa then used his magic to light the tree and posed for photos with throngs of excited children.
The Children's Traveling Christmas Choir will perform again tonight, Friday, Dec. 7, at the Food Court in The Mall at Whitney Field in Leominster between 6 and 7 p.m.
They will also perform at the Bull Run Restaurant brunch on Sunday, Dec. 16, where they will act out the story of the first Christmas, perform the "12 Days of Christmas," and lead in a carol sing. Brunch is at noon and the show is at 1 p.m. For reservations, call 978-425-4311. Both of these performances will benefit the Shirley Friendship Fund, an all-volunteer charity for Shirley families in need.
The tree lighting event was co-sponsored by ShirleyArts! and the Shirley Scouts, who paid for the refreshments, tree and lights. Anyone wishing to help sponsor the annual event is asked to send donations to ShirleyArts!, P.O. Box 49, Shirley, MA 01464, with a note that the donation is for Christmas lights.
For information on the Children's Traveling Christmas Choir and other ShirleyArts! events, contact Meredith Marcinkewicz at firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.shirleyarts.org.


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A representative for Tom Cruise has asked the media to respect the actor's privacy as the "deeply saddened" star works through his divorce from third wife Katie Holmes.
The Batman Begins actress filed papers to end the couple's five year marriage in New York on Thursday, and it appears the split is about to get ugly - Holmes, who has cited "irreconcilable differences" for the split, is requesting sole legal custody and "primary residential custody" of the couple's daughter Suri, six, according to TMZ.com.
Cruise, who turns 50 on Tuesday, was reportedly "blindsided" by Holmes' decision to call it quits and now his spokesperson has asked the press to give the Hollywood actor some space as he comes to terms with the break-up.
A brief statement reads: "Kate has filed for divorce and Tom is deeply saddened and is concentrating on his three children. Please allow them their privacy."
Cruise is also father to two adopted kids from his second marriage to Nicole Kidman.
The Mission: Impossible hunk famously proclaimed his love for Holmes during an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show in May, 2005, when an excited Cruise jumped up and down on a studio couch as he revealed all about his new romance.
He was still gushing about their "very special" relationship during a candid chat with Playboy magazine in May, when Cruise told the publication, "She is an extraordinary person, and if you spent five minutes with her, you'd see it. Everything she does, she does with this beautiful creativity. She's funny and charming, and when she walks into the room, I just feel better... I'm just happy, and I have been since the moment I met her. What we have is very special."


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On 10 November, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites, Eutelsat-21B and Star One-C3, into their planned transfer orbits. The satellites were accurately injected into their transfer orbits about 28 minutes and 33 minutes after liftoff, respectively.
Eutelsat-21B will be positioned above the equator at 21.5°E. It will deliver telecommunications services, data services for corporate networks and governmental administrations, and IP access in Europe, North and West Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Star One-C3, to be positioned at 75°W or 84°W, will provide direct TV broadcast, telephone and long-distance domestic communications services for Brazil and South America.
Flight VA210 was Ariane 5's 52nd successful launch in a row since December 2002.


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I'm making a tile based game that will require certain tiles to be animated, and I may also need the ability to add/remove tiles. From what I understand this isn't possible with the included tiled library, is there a way I can get it to work with TiledMapRenderer without too much work?
If not, and I need to write a new tile engine with animation, am I best not using a camera and re-drawing the viewable area each frame? Or should I perhaps draw the entire static portion of the map (most of it) using TiledMapRenderer, then see if any animated tiles are in view, and if so draw over that tile accordingly?


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Soccer Star Hope Solo Due in Court After Arrest
KIRKLAND, Wash. (AP) — U.S. women's soccer goalkeeper Hope Solo is set to appear in court in connection with her domestic violence arrest at her sister's home in suburban Seattle.
Authorities say Solo was intoxicated early Saturday when she was accused of assaulting her sister and 17-year-old nephew.
But her lawyer, Todd Maybrown, says she was a victim in the altercation.
Solo was booked into jail for investigation of two counts of fourth-degree domestic violence assault. She is set to appear in court Monday afternoon.
The 32-year-old Solo has won two Olympic gold medals with the U.S. women's national team and also plays with the Seattle Reign of the National Women's Soccer League. In her last appearance for the U.S., Solo recorded her 71st career shutout, a 1-0 victory over France on June 14.


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Broadly insurance can be classified in two categories:
First - Life Insurance which matures in event of death of the insured/policyholder. On occurrence of such an event the insurance company pays a sum of money assured to the nominee/beneficiary (person nominated by the policyholder). Life Insurances are of two types:
Traditional Plans - which contain Endowment Plan , Cash Back Plan, Term Plan , (Term Life Insurance) and Whole life policy. And Unit-linked Insurance Plans - are of 4 types - Endowment cum Ulips, Children Plan , Retirement Plan or Pension plan and investment/saving plans.
Second - General insurance. All insurance policies other than life insurance policies come under general insurance segmentation. (Also known as non-life insurance policies). These policies include Home Insurance, Auto Insurance, Travel Insurance, Marine Insurance, Theft Insurance, Office insurance and Health insurance
Health insurance is most acquired policy in general insurance segment. Health insurances are of 3 types - Comprehensive Plan - which include Mediclaim and Fixed benefits plan, Accidental Insurance and Critical Care plan .
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LOMBARD – Formal charges were filed Monday against a Cary man who allegedly was involved in a bank robbery in Lombard earlier this month, along with robberies at two other suburban bank locations.
Evan L. Hall, 26, of the 100 block of River Drive, was charged with three counts of bank robbery, a felony offense, after allegedly being involved in robberies at three suburban TCF Bank branches. A criminal complaint was filed against Hall last week.
According to the criminal complaint, Hall allegedly was responsible for committing bank robberies at the TCF Bank branch, 1157 N. Eola Road in Aurora on June 2; at the TCF Bank located in the Lombard Jewel, 1177 S. Main St. on June 6; and at the TCF Bank branch at 1952 W. Galena Blvd. in Aurora on June 12.
During the Lombard bank robbery, Hall allegedly indicated that he had a firearm in his sweatshirt pocket, but in the other two robberies he just made a verbal request for money, according to the report.
Shortly after the June 12 bank robbery, police stopped a blue Audi near the bank location. Hall was a passenger in the car and taken into custody.
If convicted, Hall faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.


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Submission + - Brain scans used in murder sentencing (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: For what may be the first time, fMRI scans of brain activity have been used as evidence in the sentencing phase of a murder trial. Defense lawyers for an Illinois man convicted of raping and killing a 10-year-old girl used the scans to argue that their client should be spared the death penalty because he has a brain disorder. Some experts say the scans are irrelevant because they were taken 20+ years after the crimes were committed. Others point out that the scans are only being considered because the sentencing phase of a trial has less stringent standards about evidence than those for evidence used to establish a defendant's innocence or guilt.


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Surge in Global CU Savings, Loans Highlights WOCCU 2009 Statistical Report
July 08, 2010
MADISON, Wis. — Credit unions in nearly all regions worldwide saw an increase in member savings and loan activity during 2009, according to World Council of Credit Unions' (WOCCU) newly released 2009 Statistical Report. The trend illustrates the increasingly more important roles that credit unions and other financial cooperatives worldwide played in their members' lives during last year's global recession.
Total savings for all responding credit unions reached more than US$1.1 trillion, the highest level recorded since WOCCU first began conducting the annual survey in 1972. The rate of growth represents nearly a 15% increase compared to the US$995 billion in savings reported in 2008.
Loans were another indicator demonstrating strong growth over the previous year, climbing to nearly US$912 billion from US$847 billion in 2008. This sizeable increase is further accentuated in contrast to a slight decrease in loans globally between 2007 and 2008. Annual survey respondents from 97 countries worldwide reported that 49,330 credit unions served nearly 184 million members.
In recent years, credit unions worldwide have seen notable growth in assets, membership, savings and other indicators. Cumulative assets reached nearly US$1.4 trillion in 2009, up from US$1.2 trillion in 2008, and reserves reached nearly US$120 billion in 2009, up from slightly more than US$115 billion in 2008. Strong financial performance demonstrates members' renewed faith in credit unions' resiliency during difficult economic times.
WOCCU has collected annual statistics on the international credit union movement for the past 37 years to produce its annual Statistical Report, and data is based solely on the number of countries responding to the survey. The only source for such comprehensive data on the global credit union movement, WOCCU's Statistical Report is widely cited by governments, international institutions and analysts. To download a free copy of the report, visit www.woccu.org/publications.
World Council of Credit Unions is the global trade association and development agency for credit unions. World Council promotes the sustainable development of credit unions and other financial cooperatives around the world to empower people through access to high quality and affordable financial services. World Council advocates on behalf of the global credit union system before international organizations and works with national governments to improve legislation and regulation. Its technical assistance programs introduce new tools and technologies to strengthen credit unions' financial performance and increase their outreach.
World Council has implemented 300+ technical assistance programs in 89 countries. Worldwide, 68,882 credit unions in 109 countries serve 235 million people. Learn more about World Council's impact around the world at www.woccu.org.


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I love controversy. It is almost like a hobby of mine. I like listening to both sides and forming my opinion. I often don't share my opinions because controversy can often to lead to arguments. Even if you aren't directly affected by the situation.
I have a distance family member who got divorced over the OJ Simpson trial. They argued about it so much they couldn't live with each other any longer. They reunited five years later.
There has been a lot controversial headlines lately. No matter what your opinion is you can seem to find a news source that backs up your side. I often like to look at the channel that leans the opposite direction than me. I also like looking at social networks and see my friends go back and forth about their opinions. I rarely interact. I will post controversial stories sometimes if it is a no brainer. I once posted a story about a woman caught on camera beating a young child.
I posted my opinion this week about a video of police officers in California shooting a dog. I don't know if it is because my second dad was a police officer before I was born or because my dad served in the military for 20 years, but I am passionate when it comes to law enforcement.
If you have seen the video, you know exactly what I am talking about. If you haven't, you probably don't want to see the video. It is very shocking to see the dog get shot. I am going to do a quick recap. Police officers detain a man. While they are detaining him, the man's rottweiler jumps through a car window and approaches the police. The dog is showing aggressive behavior, barking and lunged at the police officers. The dog's owner appeared to try to get the dog to back off but the dog didn't. When the dog lunged toward an officer, he shot the dog four times.
The dog start convulsing and it is very sad. This is where the controversy begins. People are outraged that the police officers shot and killed the dog. I have seem comments about race, about the police department, and the fact that so many people were recording the situation.
Here is what I wrote on my social networking page, "So... I just saw a video of cops who shot a dog. People are supposedly upset about it. It was a very, very sad video but if a dog was coming at me and I had a weapon, I would most likely use it."
One of my friends said his issue with the situation was the officer shot the dog and then shot three more times. Here is my response to him, "I seriously enjoy having you as a friend, you challenge me to look at another point of view. I might see your point because if it was me, I probably would have shot the dog 6 or 7 times or however many bullets a gun holds but I am not a professional trained law enforcement officer."
I am a dog lover. I have two dogs of my own. I grew up around dogs. I have been bitten by a neighbor's dog. Luckily it wasn't too serious. I am always cautious around dogs I don't know. It doesn't matter if it is a small or large dog. No matter what breed it is, I am cautious.
My husband recently took my son on an overnight trip. I had several rules for him. One of those rules was that my son was not to be around his sister's dogs. I was very clear and serious about this rule. I would like to mention his sister dog's are from my dog's litter. I still didn't trust them because they don't know my son and I don't know those dogs.
I remember a story last year about a family's dog that killed a two month old baby. When it comes to dogs, I always side with caution. When it comes to law enforcement officers, I often to give them the benefit of doubt and realize their lives are in danger every day.
I know seeing a dog being shot is very sad and shocking. I don't find it shocking that anyone would defend themselves against a dog.
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VantagePoint software is a unique application that allows you to manage your Magellan outdoor GPS experience. With the click of your mouse, you can view and search Satellite Imagery, Summit Series, City Series, and other Magellan maps. Create your own GPS journal complete with geotagged pictures, voice memos, and videos. Upload your tracks, waypoints, and multimedia files from your compatible eXplorist GPS receiver. VantagePoint also provides automatic alerts when new software updates for your outdoor GPS device is available. Download now and "Experience. Capture. Share" all your outdoor adventures!
Satellite Imagery: Experience with the best satellite imagery available on the market today. Thanks to a seamless process, you can now transfer beautiful satellite maps of your preferred areas directly onto your Magellan eXplorist® or Triton™, without any geographic restrictions. You will enjoy realistic and detailed maps of your surroundings for an improved experience during your outdoor activities. Imagery is available to download to your device with an annual subscription. Click here to learn more about the DigitalGlobe Annual Subscription.
Manage All Your Maps: View various maps, including Summit Series, City Series, and other Magellan maps. VantagePoint software supports both new and old Magellan maps, including Magellan Certified maps, Topo USA (powered by AccuTerra), SnowRanger, and StoneMaps. Click here to check out all the complete list of available maps.
Go Geocaching: Manage all your geocaches in VantagePoint and plan your next geocaching adventure! Log into Geocaching.com and download Pocket Queries from within the application. View descriptions, hints, user logs, attributes and child waypoints.
GPS Journal: Create your personalized GPS journal, which can include waypoints, geocaches, trails, and routes. Each journal entry can be customized with unique names, descriptions, and display icons. You can even attach videos, pictures, and sound files!
3D View: See all your topographic maps in 2D and 3D on your PC. Zoom in and out, rotate the map, and scroll with your mouse to "fly through" the terrain.
Smart Search: Easily locate points of interest and content you create on the map with basic and advanced search options. View locations by category or distance from any point using coordinates.
Plan Routes: Plan your adventures beforehand by creating routes in VantagePoint and exporting them to your compatible Magellan GPS receiver. Add, edit, and customize waypoints, geocaches, points of interest, and locations on the map to create a route. Easily rearrange points to optimize a point-to-point navigation experience. Supports new waypoint icons and categories.
Trail playback: Relive your experiences by playing trails in full simulation mode in 2D or 3D. Start, stop, and pause. View odometer, date, time, current speed, and heading. See all the action again and again!
Vertical profile: Click on any linear feature, such as trails, routes, and streets, to view the terrain underneath. See a cross-section of elevation change for the duration of the line.
VantagePoint Lite: Get automatic alerts on your desktop when new software updates are available for your compatible Magellan GPS receiver. Simply click on the alert to launch the software update wizard.
Software Auto Update: When you install VantagePoint software on your computer and register your Triton or eXplorist GPS receiver with Magellan, VP will automatically alert you when a new software update is available for your device and guide you through the update process.
Map Transfers: This feature allows you to extract the pre-loaded maps from your compatible Magellan GPS receiver and load it into VantagePoint.
Data Storage: VantagePoint software allows you to backup your GPS Journal. All data synchronized or imported into VP will be stored on the PC unless manually deleted. eXplorist and Triton users can synchronize their files and also use the automatic Backup and Restore feature. VantagePoint software serves as a "master" database. If you delete files from your GPS receiver, they will not be deleted from VP.
Data Synchronization: The eXplorist and Triton series support data synchronization. This is a great feature that allows simple data transfer to and from the device with the click of one button.
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User Interface: Completely redesigned user interface, including adjustments to the main window and left hand control panel. These improvements make VP easier to use and more efficient to navigate. In addition, the control for Route Planner and multimedia management and synchronization has been improved.
Map Legend: Improvements to map legend that allows the user to customize the map display by turning ON and OFF various layers. Turn layers ON and OFF to adjust the map view with right level of detail to plan your next adventure or show off your most recent.
GPS Journal: Several improvements to GPS journal have been added, including the ability to sort user data by any field in the "View All Details" window.
Edit Tracks: Save your favorite tracks and trails to VantagePoint and then edit them to improve quality or, remove points and segments. Automatically "simplify" tracks from thousands of track points down to just a few hundred. Start building your GPS journal of all your adventures - step by step!
Coordinate Systems: Improvements to the UTM coordinate system.
GPS Logging: VantagePoint supports GPS logging for Triton and eXplorist GPS Receivers.
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GPS Logging: VantagePoint software can now be used to display the geographic position of compatible GPS receivers when off-roading or out on the water. Track all your movements on your laptop and save trails directly into VantagePoint software.
VantagePoint Lite: Access VantagePoint software quickly and easily via VantagePoint Lite, an icon that sits in your PC's system tray. VantagePoint Lite provides automatic alerts when new software is available for your Magellan GPS receiver.
3D Exaggeration: 3D topographic map imagery can now be blown up to amplify mountain heights and valley depths - great for route planning and trail playback.
Search Improvements: Use one of three different latitude and longitude formats (Decimal Degrees (DD), Degrees Minutes (DM), or Degrees Minutes Seconds (DMS)) to perform searches on specific geographic coordinates.
Track/Trails Improvements: 3D positional arrow now provides better visualization of your path during playback. You can also change trail colors and convert a trail to a route to customize your adventure.
GPS Journal. Now you can import Google Earth user data files in .KML format and geocaches in .LOC format!
What's new in VantagePoint 1.41
Shaded relief: Shade relief allows you to see topographical features, such as mountain peaks and valleys, more clearly. Shaded relief can be turned on/off for topographical details maps. In addition to turning contour lines on/off, you can now do the same with shaded relief textures.
Quick Start Guide: Quick Start Guide is accessible in the "Help" dialog of the VantagePoint software.
Backup: A new "Backup" button is added to the "Protect" menu under My GPS tab. When you selects the "Backup" button, VantagePoint software starts to backup your GPS journal and displays a status bar popup. After your data backup is complete, a confirmation is displayed.
Restore: A new "Restore" button is added to the "Protect" menu under My GPS tab. When you select the "Restore" button, VantagePoint software starts to restore your GPS journal from the previously saved location and displays a status bar popup. After the user data restore is complete, a confirmation is displayed.
Disconnect: A new "Disconnect" button is added to the "Connectivity" menu under My GPS tab. When you select the "Disconnect" button, VantagePoint software disconnects from the GPS receiver so that it can be used with other software or on its own while the USB cable is still connected.
Reconnect: A new "Reconnect" button is added to the "Connectivity" menu under My GPS tab. When you select the "Reconnect" button, VantagePoint software reconnects with the GPS receiver so it can be used with VP. Other software will not be able to communicate with the GPS receiver while its connected to VP.
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The Catholic Education Commission of Victoria has taken legal action to try to deter teachers and school support staff from participating in Thursday's strike.
Executive director Stephen Elder said it had successfully sought a ruling from Fair Work Australia which deemed the action unprotected and therefore unlawful.
However he said the commission would not pursue individual teachers through the courts or seek to fine them.
"The Independent Education Union and its agents must cease from organising disruptive action in Catholic schools," Mr Elder said.
"We have sought this ruling from the independent umpire and will now leave it up to individual teachers to follow their conscience."
Mr Elder said in the past the majority of Catholic school teachers had respected the umpire's decision and he hoped they would do so again.
Forty-one Catholic schools were closed last September when Catholic teachers joined their state school counterparts in a march to Parliament House.
Catholic staff have vowed to again join the protest because their wages are directly linked to those in the state system, so they are directly impacted by any deal negotiated between the Australian Education Union and the state government.
In a bulletin to members, Independent Education Union Victoria general secretary Debra James said the commission was once again trying to silence staff in Catholic schools.
"As you know, the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria refused to negotiate the type of agreement which would have allowed members to take protected industrial action," she said.
"Australian Education Union members, on the other hand, with only one employer, are able to take protected action."
The action in Fair Work Australia came after the Federal Court last week rejected the state government's attempt to stop state teachers striking and taking other industrial action.
Justice Christopher Jessup criticised the government for waiting so long before applying for the injunction and said the government had failed to convince him the planned action was unlawful.
However a spokeswoman for the Minister for the Teaching Profession, Peter Hall, said the government hoped the strike would not go ahead on Thursday.
"The government has made it clear we believe the industrial action is not in the best interest of Victorian school children or their parents," she said.
The Australian Education Union will meet with the government on Tuesday afternoon as part of ongoing negotiations.
However Ms James told Catholic teachers and support staff that given the intransigence of the Baillieu government so far, it seemed very unlikely there would be a resolution reached.
"If a significant breakthrough can't be arrived at in tomorrow's negotiations, I hope to see you and thousands of others at the Treasury Gardens on Thursday at 11.15am," she wrote.
The Australian Education Union is seeking a 12 per cent pay rise over three years - a significant shift from the 30 per cent originally sought.
However the Victorian government is refusing to budge from its offer of 2.5 per cent a year plus performance-based pay, something opposed by the union as divisive and punitive."


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Bruins defenseman Steven Kampfer and forward Jordan Caron have been on the sidelines lately, so Boston has decided to ship both out to the Providence (AHL) farm club to get some action.
Both players are expected to play for the P-Bruins Friday night in their home game against Connecticut.
Kampfer hasn't played since Nov. 17. Caron hasn't played since Nov. 15.
Expect one or both players to be back with Boston by Saturday or Sunday the latest, as the Bruins leave for a two-game road trip Monday and Tuesday at Pittsburgh and Winnipeg.


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While they weren't able to make rain fall they did make 34 pigeons, 12 sparrows, 334 bees and 1 hanglider fall from the sky...
...and a whole lot of nitric acid.
Yes, and the people who were near the where the lasers impacted the earth at the end of their ballistic trajectory were not amused.
http://xkcd.com/401/ [xkcd.com]
While they weren't able to make rain fall they did make 34 pigeons, 12 sparrows, 334 bees and 1 hanglider fall from the sky...
I've said it before and I'll say it again...
Stop trying to solve engineering problems with frickin' laser beams.
The question is, how many languages can you have with binary based languages?
How about 10?
Yes, then that way the dust that blows across the Atlantic from the Sahara to fertilize the Amazon can stop, and whilst Africa becomes a luscious new area of growth the whole of the Amazon can just die off.
Really, fucking around with things that can have such a massive, potentially unknown effect elsewhere isn't a smart idea at all because you can just end up making things worse.
Other parts of the world depend on the Sahara being like the Sahara is, so if you change the Sahara, you change those other parts of the world. In boosting food supplies in Africa you damage the food supplies in say South America, and create a problem there instead.
> Other parts of the world depend on the Sahara
Yep. I've got hurricanes on the mind lately, so here's just one example that might not immediately occur to more normal people (I'm definitely abnormal): sometimes, you'll have a storm brewing in the Atlantic, but intensity will be inhibited by dry Saharan air mixing into the core. If you remove that dry air, we might have stronger hurricanes.
Of course, then someone will decide to blow lasers or set off nukes in the storm to compensate. What could POSSIBLY go wrong then?
In boosting food supplies in Africa you damage the food supplies in say South America, and create a problem there instead.
Which might bother the Africans if they weren't largely subsistence farmers.
It depends what you mean by "just fine".
Certainly it wasn't the same ecosystem it is now, and certainly removing fertilization from the sahara would decrease south american biomass and reduce biodiversity.
If you mean it'd still have some green stuff there then yes, you're probably right, but how much, and how diverse would be the fundamental problem. Would biomass increase in Africa occur quickly enough to deal with the resultant decrease in South America, and hence the potential imbalances in CO2 capture,
Other parts of the world depend on the Sahara being like the Sahara is, so if you change the Sahara, you change those other parts of the world.
And my straw reaches acroooooooss the room, and starts to drink your milkshake
Stupid swiss should better stick to making chocolate !!
Stupid swiss should better stick to making chocolate!!
Solution as clear as the sky: Attach a propel to the LHC.
Indeed! But don't call me Shirley.
And they will call this the Laser Age!
I'm not convinced that Eastlund's account is all that credible. That he took his presented about applying microwave technology to the military is undeniable, but the connection to HAARP amounts to "I had these ideas, I think HAARP is somehow doing them".
This gave me an image in my head similar to Travolta's famous dance scene in Saturday Night Fever, but it was a guy in a laser suit (suit that emits lasers in all directions) breakdancing in the middle of the room to electro music with lasers going everywhere like an epileptic's worst nightmare. Also everybody was wearing Daft Punk-style helmets (which makes sense now that I think about it, you'd need to shield your eyes from the lasers).
LASER AGE! pewpewpew!
Nitric acid [wikipedia.org] raining from the sky sounds no good at all to me.
But maybe I'm not so good at science to understand the pros of such a rain.
Compounds like nitric acid act as nucleation sites for rain already. It'd be no more acidic than natural precipitation.
There will definitely be more nitric acid than natural. They are pushing hard to increase it above the natural concentration.
Right, you still have to deal with dicking with the nitrogen cycle, but at least the pH of the rain will be normal.
We won't like it when it's going to rain sharks all of a sudden!
Presumably they were testing the equipment in Europe this year, thus summer failed to happen.
Presumably they were testing the equipment in Europe this year, thus summer failed to happen.
It sure happened! it was the 17th of August.
Wrong. [discovermagazine.com]
Your version of the story is not getting much press because it's not true.
You might want to read the quotes from the actual research cited there. And I won't hear a thing said against Philip Plait.
No, his version of the story is not getting much press because there's no money in it. Truth and falsehood make no difference to the press.
Interesting. After some searching.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/08/24/breaking-news-cern-experiment-confirms-cosmic-rays-influence-climate-change/ [wattsupwiththat.com]
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/08/25/some-reactions-to-the-cloud-experiment/ [wattsupwiththat.com]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD [wikipedia.org]
I hadn't heard about this.
Instead of reading a blog, you should read the actual article. Much more informative, and much less wrong. See above for various links with far more informational content than Watt's blog.
Here. Read this [slashdot.org] who describes the original paper and it's conclusions. Not some random blogger. One of the better posts on the thread.
Um... cosmic rays do not come from the Sun, in fact when the Sun is at the top of its 11 year cycle cosmic rays are suppressed by the Sun's magnetosphere and vice versa.
No one is suppressing the story about this research unless you think pointing out that doesn't mean as much as WattsUpWithThat and others want it to mean with regards to global warming is suppressing it.
It's warranted, my friend. It's warranted.
Some moderators don't understand the concept of "humor", but a lot of them do. Roll dem dice!
I think that I saw this already, in the land of Malaria, an Evil Scientist (Why are they always Evil?) creates a rain machine (Fires pink beams into the sky) and causes it to rain ALL the time.......causing a situation where Evil science projects are the country's only source of income........and the Igor saves the day/country/his lot in life/, in the end by destroying it.
I saw that too. I thought it was a travel documentary about Scotland.
Maybe they can use energy-collecting thongs that absorb the lasers and then they can sell the power back to the grid. Couple that with using the same material for the floor around the pole, the club sells that power back and repays the strippers based on how many watts were collected during their act.
... and the following famines and potential warfare.
We already see this with dams on rivers which are vital to the down streams countries and people. If it became realistically possible to control the rain, we would start to see countries affecting each others rain fall, especially due to fairly predictable overall wind patterns.
I'm not saying there aren't positive possibilities, but there is massive scope for negative consequences and if this became viable technology it is something the UN would have to b
Still, I welcome our rain-making overlords.
Fascinating story but, my question is, what sensory apparatus are they using to measure "stable drops a few thousandths of a millimeter in diameter" in the resulting atmosphere?
They seem to have neglected to mention their prior discovery, The Star Trek Duotronic Sensor Array...
So let's say we're in drought-stricken West Texas and you zap the clouds and make it rain. But that rain would have originally fallen on central or east Texas. To whom does the rain water belong?
That's a real issue. Santa Clara County, CA, which used to be a major agricultural area before Silicon Valley took it over, had, for decades, a rain-making operation. [ametsoc.org] Several hundred silver-iodide generators were spread around the county, and, when conditions were right, the call went out to turn them on. This increased rain in the agricultural valley, while reducing it in the barren inland hills. The end result was about 10% more rain.
To whom does the rain water belong?
Billy Bob.
So let's say we're in drought-stricken West Texas and you zap the clouds and make it rain. But that rain would have originally fallen on central or east Texas. To whom does the rain water belong?
Stop being smart. You're ruining the stock values.
HUMOR, people. HUMOR.
I'm-a go out this evening and fire every damn laser pointer I gots into the air tonight...It may not work but it will drive the cats completely nuts.
It will never work. They need to have prayer meetings like we do here in Texas. That always works.
Oh wait.
It will never work. They need to have prayer meetings like we do here in Texas. That always works.
Oh wait.
Well, it will eventually.
Maybe not today, maybe not this year.... but damnit, it will!
stable drops a few thousandths of a millimeter in d
How many Olympic-sized swimming pools is that?
About 10^-20?
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I know the buildings where the lunar module was built are nearby but need something more to see if possible please.
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Greg Starr, a senior executive at I.T. Works, a Houston-based solution provider, typically spends his day talking business strategy with clients and vendors. But on a recent afternoon, with all his technicians deployed elsewhere, Starr sat at a desk putting Windows 7 --not Windows 8 -- on a new PC.
It wasn't the first time I.T. Works has installed the older version of Windows on a PC and it won't be the last either, Starr said. Six months after the release of Windows 8, corporate customers just don't want Microsoft's latest operating system, he said.
"I don't have any clients who say, 'Give me Windows 8.' They're saying just the opposite ... the thing came in on Windows 8 and we had to make it [Windows] 7 Pro," Starr said. "Most machines come with [licenses for] 7 and 8 both, and you choose which one you go with. All our clients are staying with Windows 7 Pro."
Starr's experience is far from unusual. Customers are rejecting Windows 8 with its tiles and lack of the customary Windows Start button in droves, solution providers say. They're even paying extra to have it ripped out. Altogether, the operating system that was supposed to herald a new era for the beleaguered PC market -- which continues to reel from the soaring popularity of tablets among both business users and consumers -- has fallen short of industry expectations.
"I wish we were getting demand for Windows 8, but we're not. It hasn't been well-received by corporate customers. And it's not even close to being implemented on a wide scale. It'll probably be at least a year before we see significant adoption," said Iris Sepulveda, sales and marketing manager for PR Computer Services in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. "A lot of clients are still on Windows XP and most are happy with Windows 7, so our customers aren't even looking at Windows 8, let alone testing or evaluating it."
According to a CRN survey of approximately 300 solution providers, Windows 8 accounted for an average of 13 percent of survey respondents' total Windows-related revenue so far this year, compared with an average of 74 percent for Windows 7.
Seventy-four percent of solution providers surveyed said they do not believe Windows 8 is a solid operating system for their business customers today. Among those who said it is not a solid choice for customers, 62 percent said functionality improvements in Windows 8 are not significant enough to justify an upgrade. Sixty-one percent said Windows 8 training costs for customers are a barrier, and 53 percent said customers' business applications haven't proved to be stable to run on Windows 8 yet. More than 70 percent said customers are not interested in Windows 8.
In fact, customers' distaste for Windows 8 has some going so far as paying extra to have it ripped out: Among 70 solution providers who answered the question, 88 percent of respondents said they've sold and installed Windows 8 machines only to have to re-image the machine with Windows 7. More than half of the solution providers that have ripped out Windows 8 say they charge customers, some collecting fees of upward of $200 to do it.
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North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple should not sign any of the legislature's half-dozen bills that seek to subvert a well-established constitutional right to abortion.
Late last week, the North Dakota legislature passed a bill that would ban a woman from having an abortion as soon as the heartbeat of the fetus is detected, which can happen as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. If Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple signs it into law, North Dakota will have the ignominious distinction of being the most restrictive state in the country on abortion.
A measure to ban abortions so early — at a point when many women don't yet know they're pregnant — is not only repressive and extreme but also likely to be struck down in the courts as a violation of the Supreme Court's ruling in Roe vs. Wade that women have a right to an abortion until the fetus is viable outside the womb. (That's about 24 weeks.)
The heartbeat bill is just one of half a dozen pieces of legislation restricting access to abortion that are passed and headed to Dalrymple's desk or may soon be. The legislature also passed a bill banning abortions for gender selection or because of a genetic abnormality. Additionally, the legislature is considering a total ban on abortion at 20 weeks, two measures that define "personhood" as starting at conception, and one that would require abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges. As Elizabeth Nash of the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion rights research group, notes, "They're throwing everything against the wall and trying to find something that sticks."


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The new Tomb Raider stars a younger, less self-assured Lara Croft. Hollywood appears to be taking that tack and running with it, as Crystal Dynamics head Darrell Gallagher said that it's working with GK Films on an adaptation that will account for the "new take" on the character.
"They are working from this new take that we've given them," Gallagher told Variety. "It's a good partnership. We're seeing the challenges through the same lens. It was important for both of us to have a cohesive version of the franchise. We didn't want to see a film version that was a continuation of the old 'Tomb Raider' films."
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|Sean Rush, left, visits with PBA art student Yessira Rosario and her professor James Craft in Rush's West Palm Beach atelier.
Art student Yessira Rosario is the first recipient of an annual scholarship established by artist and designer Sean Rush.
Rush's West Palm Beach gallery, which features interior design and fine art, also has hired two interns from PBA, Laura Morris and Evan Sahlman.


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I love when they emphasize a guy's blue eyes either by using the same color all over, or just making them stand out.
Unfortunately, these are the only two I can think of and the ones I found of Bradley Cooper just didn't do him justice. So, if you know of any…. Let me know and I can add them to this post. I know Frank Sinatra was Mr. Blue Eyes, but well, I never thought he was super good looking.
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The small fee technically makes the Wii U's online services not entirely free, but it's a way to confirm that a guardian is truly approving registration instead of a lying 12 year old.
The fee is there so that Nintendo is compliant with COPPA, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. Parent's only have to pay the fee once if they are registering multiple children under the age of 13, and the credit card information is not stored on the console or online.
You can head to the Wii U's support page to find out more the fee.
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That's interesting and weird.
Thats actually a good idea.
its a good idea but kinda odd...
What the hell?
Let the money roll on in.
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How Bob Atkins Led This B to The Center of the Blood Type Mystery (Reprise from 8 January, 2006)November 26th, 2010 , by Sante
I wasn't really thrilled to be B, or any type I might have been, as long as I was "doing-things-with" most of the right ingredients, until the Epiphany, with which I really have to credit Dr. Robert Atkins, the breakthrough-messenger in this regard: "It's okay to eat outside the Low-Fat box." For me that box, of whose tyranny I'd been quite unconscious before, was labelled "Full Fat Dairy Is Forbidden".
Frankly, I'd preferred whole milk to reduced-fat all my life, but only permitted myself to guiltfully buy the occasional quart, and I indulged my taste for it chiefly in two places: Half-and-half in my coffee, and -- rarely -- an ice cream treat, again: Knowing it's "not good for" me.
After scanning Bob's book last summer, I made different choices at the dairy department that very evening: I bought heavy cream and full-fat yogurt and sour cream. And, indeed, the ensuing weight loss was -- dramatic! (In the past, whenever I've wanted to lose weight, I've used a terrific weight loss "diet". It includes lots of dairy, but all skim or almost-skim. Not really satisfying.)
But here's what this B has discovered: I LOVE preparing cream sauces, creamy dressings and desserts. I LOVE paneer amidst my curries, and sour cream on my manna toast, with fruit. The guilt is gone: I openly and unabashedly look forward to feta cheese dressing on my beets, and I've invented a bedtime cordial that is very calming and satisfying: A shotglass of cream (occasionally diluted with cold spicy (leftover) herb tea).
In sum, I decided to indulge myself in my inherited right to really ENJOY dairy, not just "permit it, low-fat". And once I began doing so, I confirmed that the BTD is not so much about dodging lectins and "avoids": It's about, indeed, coming fully into one's genetic individuality and brazenly enjoying whatever parts of one's "beneficials"-spectrum seem to fit with THAT. My individuality -- not the Blood Type Diet -- is primary. A North American Pharmacal brochure puts it this way: "Dr. D'Adamo's research and the Blood Type Diet can help you...feel 'right' in your body, your mind and your world."
As a B, it dawned on me that the enjoyment of a way of eating that featured dairy CENTRALLY was not only "to be tolerated" but, in fact, The Answer. I'd been thinking, like most Westerners, as an O: "What's my MEAT going to be? and I'll build the menu around that." The O hunter goes out and spears the deer, and all meals revolve around that carcass for a long time. But now I think as a B: "What's my milk, my cream, my cheese, my yogurt going to be?" The B shepherd/nomad goes out and milks his camels/horses/goats/sheep, drinks the milk, churns some butter, curdles some cheese, cultures some yogurt/kefir. These guys walk alot too, and they're in great condition. Instead of: "Cool! As a B I 'can-include-some' dairy, like a low-fat kefir drink or yogurt shake", I'm saying, "WOW! I can indulge in my favorite food! Hooray!"
Example: Instead of making a tomato sauce for my spaghetti (ho hum), I'm cooking a super-creamy veal and mushroom stroganoff and covering my parsleyed egg noodles with it, next to the brussels sprouts and red wine. I'm thinking, "Those poor suckers who have to fall back on tomato sauce..."(Corollary: The way to stop missing your "avoids" is to start REALLY DIGGING your bennies!)
I'm learning a whole new way to everyday-cook. When I lived in Switzerland, I was semi-attached to my Californian metabolism, unable/unwilling to handle the "gruyère, gruyère, everywhere" ways of my friends..until NOW. (Timing is Everything.) Just as my BTD-compliant, type A, brother is admitting that he's just not honestly drawn to animal food anymore, I'm admitting that my particular B-inheritance has me enjoying the creamy milk of the flock, above and beyond all else: The milk is my centerpiece and shall take a much more central place in my every meal and snack.
Do you see how we tend to congratulate the O who identifies with the hunter/gatherer and "discovers" meat? and how we likewise praise the A who begins to really enjoy his tofu and veggies? but we address all sorts of caveats to the B who develops a cell-deep appreciation of the shepherd's way of eating? (Ever see a shepherd milk his goat and then skim off the fat before drinking it? What were we thinking????)
So, my B clanmates: Nonfat yogurt and skim milk as occasional snacks to form part of the periphery around a meat-centered diet (and those meats are supposed to be the wild stuff: venison and bunnies) may actually be unbalanced. Since I could, alas, find game and rabbits only seldom, I was spending pretty pennies on lamb, lamb, lamb and fish, fish, fish: Maybe that's your limbo-stage, too, in adhering to B. But it gets really FUN when you start saying, instead, from your deepest origins, "Look how much milk I've gotten from this cow: How can I use it creatively and satisfyingly?" and then ADAPTING your turkey leftovers or your fresh-caught cod to THAT. Pick up some paneer and say; "Where can I harvest some greens to make a saag?" and only THEN, go get your (smaller) pieces of meat and fish, and your veg/fruits/nuts...
You'll certainly be reading more from me on this topic. Meanwhile, Bob, wherever y'are: Thanks, Buddy.


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29 year-old Jared Fruend, the man accused of sexually assaulting two young girls, ages 4 and 5 on September 29th, has been sent to the Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs for a psychological evaluation.
According to the charging documents filed on October 1st, police responded to a Missoula home to investigate a report of a sexual assault committed against two girls, ages 4 and 5.
Officers interviewed the parents who reported that they had left their children in the care of Jared Freund, who was a friend of the family, for a brief time while they had to be away from home.
The parents told authorities they returned home unexpectedly after only being gone for approximately 15 minutes. They expected to find Freund in the garage drinking beer where they had left him.
The parents located Freund in bed with one of the girls who was undressed. The girls' mother asked them what had happened, and both girls reported that Freund had touched them inappropriately. The girls also told their mother that Freund had done so on previous occasions.
After speaking to the girls, the parents went to confront Freund, but he had fled from the house. He was chased down and apprehended by two neighbors until he was taken into custody by law enforcement. He showed no reaction when told why he was being arrested, and subsequently confessed to touching both girls' genitals, and to having done so on a prior occasion.
During an appearance in District Court Thursday morning, Freund was ordered to the Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs for a psychological evaluation.
Deputy Missoula County Attorney Cathleen Sohlberg says the reason why a suspect is sent to Warm Springs is that there is a question as to whether they are psychologically capable of assisting in their own defense. Often, a local professional examines the suspect, and makes a recommendation to the court that he be sent for evaluation.
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From msnbc.com's Tom Curry in Bellevue, Wash.:
Scott Brown, the regular guy from Wrentham, Mass. who last January suddenly was the first Republican since 1972 to be elected senator from Massachusetts, came to Bellevue, Washington Tuesday to raise money for Republican Senate candidate Dino Rossi.
Brown let it be known he still is a regular guy. "I came from driving my daughter to college and I think the last thing I did was I took out the trash. It's trash day back home," he told reporters before speaking to a gathering of 400 at the Westin Hotel.
Brown, a phenomenon for having won in a state that Barack Obama had carried only 14 months earlier with 62 percent of the vote, stopped on his way to California to appear at fundraisers for Republican candidates Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman.
He said his message on his transcontinental trip was aimed not just at Republicans, but at all voters.
"Being a new guy in Washington, we need other new people who are going to look out for people's wallets and pocketbooks and focus on the debt and the spending and the taxation," Brown said.
Although Brown has been in the Senate since February, he still refers to the other 99 members of the Senate as "they."
"They are not talking; they are not working together to solve problems," he complained.
Brown said after he met Rossi, "I asked if I could help him. He didn't ask me." Rossi "cares about jobs; he has experience in that sector," Brown said.
The two men don't see eye-on-eye on the Chris Dodd-Barney Frank Wall Street reform bill that Brown voted for in July. (Brown was one of only three GOP senators to vote for the bill.)
With Rossi standing at his side, Brown said, "We're not going to agree on everything – I certainly hope not. He's from a different part of the country, different needs…. I am from Massachusetts – the number two financial services industry in the country."
Part of Rossi's criticism of the financial regulation bill was that it omitted reform of mortgage loan behemoths Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Brown asked, "Does that mean we do nothing? I felt that the rules and regulations needed to be upgraded… some of them hadn't been changed in 50 years."
Brown said the basic problem in the nation's capitol remains: "Absolutely no paying attention to the needs of average Americans." All that most Americans want, Brown said, is "take their kids out to a movie and then go out to dinner with their wives or husbands, pay their mortgage, pay for school -- and they're scared. They see the amount of debt that's been incurred." By debt he meant federal debt.
Democrats, he said, "don't want to have a true bipartisanship." He cited the $30 billion small bank lending bill which Rossi's Democratic opponent Sen. Patty Murray is pushing.
"If you let us be part of the amendment process and have one amendment" then he and other Republicans might be willing to allow the bill to move forward, Brown said. "It's very important if we're going to get this country moving again to work in a bipartisan manner to tackle these problems and Dino is going to be a great addition to that."
One attendee at the Rossi fundraiser was Republican National Committee member Fredi Simpson from Wenatchee, Wash., east of the Cascade Mountains," where we're extremely conservative." She said, "We're not going to get someone as conservative as we are to represent Massachusetts as a Republican. So Scott Brown was great."
She added, "Dino is very conservative. We're not concerned that Dino is going to be like a Scott Brown. I think Dino is between a Marco Rubio and Jim DeMint -- and Scott Brown."
Simpson acknowledged Murray's legislative skills, saying the three-term Democratic senator "had played the political chess game extremely well. She's done great things for the veterans; in Wenatchee, she helped put in a veterans clinic."
But, she said, the problem for Murray "is that people are starting to wake up."


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- Years of great running back tandems at Cal convinced Jeff Tedford of the value of a shared backfield
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Doug Martin, Mike Jamesand Bobby Raineyrepresent an impressive group of talent from which to construct a running game
- The Bucs will be looking to establish a reliable identity in the rushing attack in 2014
Well, with Jeff Tedford in town as Smith's offensive coordinator, Buccaneer fans might get a reminder of one of the most unforgettable offensive combinations in franchise history, as well.
James Wilder of the early-'80s Buccaneers is still the most prolific rusher in franchise history, though Doug Martin threatened his best seasons in 2012. Of all Tampa Bay quarterbacks, Brad Johnson probably peaked the highest with the 2002 Super Bowl teams, and top-notch receivers have dotted the Buccaneers' four-decade timeline, from Kevin House to Mark Carrier to Joey Galloway to
There may never have been an offensive combination that fired the imagination of Bucs fans more than "Thunder & Lightning," however. The tailback-fullback duo of Warrick Dunn and Mike Alstott overlapped from 1997-2001 and was the most successful tandem of runners in team history, in terms of an extended period of years. The 1997, 1998 and 2000 seasons represent three of the top six rushing campaigns in team history, and Alstott and Dunn were also fixtures in the passing game during that span. In 1998, for instance, the team rushed for 2,148 yards, it's second-best mark ever, while its Thunder & Lightning combo also combined for 66 receptions and a total of 17 touchdowns.
Dunn went on to split a brilliant NFL career roughly in half between Tampa Bay and Atlanta, while Alstott retired after the 2007 season as one of the most beloved players in team history. Each was a unique talent that may never be duplicated in Tampa. That type of shared impact in the backfield, however…that could be on the way back.
Tedford met with the Bay area media on Wednesday, after just four days of work at One Buccaneer Place. He has only just begun to scratch the surface of the task he's inherited, that of breathing life back into the NFL's 32nd-ranked offense in 2013. There will be many questions he'll have to address in terms of the team's depth chart, from the front line to the quarterback room.
-- M. James and D. Martin were two of the three backs who posted at least one 100-yard rushing game for the Bucs in 2013
Tedford's experiences over 11 years as the head coach at Cal, as well as previous assistant coach stints at Fresno State and Oregon State, taught him the value of a versatile and deep backfield.
"I've been very fortunate to be around a lot of great backs – Michael Pittman, who played here; Maurice Morris, at Oregon," said Tedford. "And then through Cal we were really fortunate to always have two really good backs, whether it was J.J. Arrington and Marshawn Lynch who were together; and then Marshawn and Justin Forsett were together; and Marshawn and Jahvid Best; then Jahvid Best and Shane Vereen. We really always had a real good 1-2 punch in the backfield, and I think that's what you need. I think for one guy to carry the load the whole time, especially as physical as this level is, [is difficult]. [You need] to have two and probably three backs that are quality backs that can provide different things for you, as far as third-down backs are concerned, catching the ball out of the backfield, pass protection, all the things to be able to create some matchups.
"I think it's important to find guys that are versatile that can do those things, and then have great speed. When I say "speed in space," [I mean] to get out-flanked and get guys in the open field that can make guys miss and be explosive with big plays."
Tedford will get to assemble a backfield from among the likes of Doug Martin, Mike James and Bobby Rainey, all of whom had at least one 100-yard game in 2013 and none of whom have been in the league for more than two years. Martin, James and Rainey weren't a committee last fall; rather, injuries forced the Buccaneers to go from one to the next as lead runners and they essentially never got to work in tandem. They did get to work, however, and all three looked like viable NFL starters.
Martin, of course, is the likely lead back. A first-round pick in 2012, he had a marvelous debut season, recording a combined 1,926 yards from scrimmage that ranked as the third-highest total ever for an NFL rookie. Before a struggling Buccaneers offense could get untracked in 2013, Martin was knocked out for the season in Week Seven by a shoulder injury.
On came James, a 2013 sixth-round pick who was more of a jack-of-all-trades than a workhorse at the University of Miami. Like the former Buccaneer to which he was often compared, Earnest Graham, James proceeded to show he could thrive as a featured back in the NFL, rushing for 295 yards in what amounted to one full game and parts of three others. Unfortunately, he took saw his season end prematurely with a knee injury in Week 10.
That transferred the tailback duties to Rainey, an October waiver-wire claim who had all of 13 NFL carries before arriving in Tampa. Rainey broke out with a 163-yard, four-touchdown game in a big win over Atlanta and added another 100-yard outing against Buffalo in early December. Rainey's numbers nose-dived with the rest of the Buccaneers' offense over the final three weeks of the season but he still finished with 566 yards in roughly a half-season of work.
There's a good chance that Tedford can find a prolific combination out of at least two of those backs, if not all three, in 2014. And make no mistake, the Buccaneers will be establishing the ground game next fall. That doesn't mean Tedford is rewinding the clock or ignoring the ongoing NFL shift to a more pass-centric game. It doesn't even mean that the run will be the number-one priority on offense on any given Sunday. What it does mean is that the Buccaneers will be adamant about creating an identity when it comes to running the football, a proven approach they can lean on when needed.
"I think it's leaning that way [towards a QB-driven league]," said Tedford. "But I think you still have to be able to run the football. When you get inside the red zone, when you get inside the 10 and the five-yard line…you can throw it all the way down there but unless you can bang it in, not everything can be a pass. Football in general is going to that – spread it out, spread the field, speed in space, throw the ball. But I think an identity of a team of being able to run the ball downhill with different run schemes – inside, outside, perimeter, traps – all the different things we want to do on offense, I still think you have got to be able to have an identity of running the football."
The Bucs certainly had such an identity in the days of Thunder & Lightning. They appear to have the talent – and the direction – to find one that's just as productive in 2014.