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Sir Gerald Kaufman (Lab, Manchester Gorton)
Those who have always hated the idea of the current Speaker [Michael Martin] occupying the chair of this house have abused this situation to seek further to undermine him.
What I say to the House of Commons is this: the Tory party has created a bogus controversy about the abuse of privileges that do not exist and the need for a warrant that is not required. We are wasting this afternoon when it could have been used for this house to debate serious and relevant issues about which our constituents care deeply. They do not care in the slightest.
These interruptions show what the Tories believe about whistleblowing and free speech. They do not care about free speech. They want to divert the electorate's attention from the real issues to this bogus issue of what the honourable member for Ashford [Green] did or did not do, about which, frankly, our constituents do not give a damn.
Sir Menzies Campbell (Lib Dem, Fife North East)
In this matter, the leader of the house [Harriet Harman] has special responsibilities. She is a government minister, but she also has responsibilities to the house, so I ask her to reflect on something. It is generally accepted that John Biffen and Robin Cook, both, sadly, no longer with us, were the epitome – the best examples – of leader of the house in recent times. What would John Biffen and Robin Cook have done in similar circumstances? I believe that they would have asserted the independence of this House of Commons.
Andrew Mackinlay (Lab, Thurrock)
When I criticised something that a colleague – he is no longer in his place – had said earlier, he said: "Well, what about paedophilia?" I said that if an honourable member were guilty of a serious crime, such as pushing drugs or being a member of the mafia, the Speaker could take cognisance of a legitimate representation made to him by law enforcement officers and would say: "Yes, of course you must proceed forthwith." The role of the Speaker is to be a safeguard, and that is what we must ensure. Let us kill the lie now: no one is asking for special privileges for members of parliament. We want any bad member to be prosecuted with vigour, but we need to safeguard people from arbitrary action by the executive arm of government.
David Davis (Con, Haltemprice and Howden):
Frankly, I find that use of the offence of misconduct in public office very worrying. I received an email today – perfectly legally – from a recently retired senior police officer, who said the following about misconduct in public office: "This is a catch-all or fallback, flavour of the month, supposed offence that the Met[ropolitan police], Thames Valley and at least one other police force" often pursue. He continued: "They have used it to contrive allegations of criminal conduct against a large number of public servants. Overwhelmingly, those investigated have faced years of debilitating investigation that has damaged their lives as well as their careers and the lives of their families but have faced no criminal charges of any kind or, even, disciplinary charges related to the supposed misconduct investigated. In the vary rare convictions for the supposed serious criminal offence, the sentences have been the lightest tap on the wrist and all costs have had to be met by the crown."
He goes on to assert that more than 50 civil servants have faced that process.
Kenneth Clarke (Con, Rushcliffe)
I am worried about the Met, given their behaviour in the so-called "cash for honours" case, and the case of the right honourable member for Neath [Peter Hain]. When the police are called in they should not think: "Here's a good public interest case. We'll get a lot of good publicity out of this; it'll be a good, high-profile thing." They should have said to the Cabinet Office: "This is not a matter for us. Go away and sort it out inside the department itself."


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The University of Michigan will host the 2014 Big Ten Championships Wednesday through Saturday, Feb. 26-March 1, inside Canham Natatorium in Ann Arbor. Swimming preliminaries will begin at 11 a.m. EST each day, with swimming finals commencing at 6:30 p.m. Diving prelims (and consolation finals) will be held immediately after swimming prelims on days two through four.
Results and Award Winners
Final Standings
Award Winners
Swimming Coach of the Year
Day One Wednesday, Feb. 26
Finals 6:30 p.m.
200 Medley Relay
Day Two Thursday, Feb. 27
Prelims 11 a.m.
500 Freestyle
Finals 6:30 p.m.
500 Freestyle
Day Three Friday, Feb. 28
Prelims 11 a.m.
400 Individual Medley
Finals 6:30 p.m.
200 Freestyle Relay
Day Four Saturday, March 1
Prelims 11 a.m.
200 Backstroke
Finals 6:30 p.m.
1,650 Freestyle (Last heat of timed final)
Video Streaming
The first six sessions of the 2014 Big Ten Championships -- Wednesday evening, Thursday morning/evening, Friday morning/evening, Saturday morning -- will be shown live via the Big Ten Digital Network for a fee.
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Michigan State | Minnesota | Northwestern
Ohio State | Penn State | Purdue | Wisconsin
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Fans with a Big Ten Network subscription through their cable provider can watch the final session of the meet -- Saturday night -- live online and on mobile devices via BTN2Go. It will also air on the Big Ten Network the following day (Sunday, March 2) on a tape-delayed basis at 10:30 a.m.
Ticket Information
Tickets for the 2014 Big Ten Men's Swimming & Diving Championships will go on sale on Monday, Jan. 20. To purchase, go to MGoBlue.com/tickets or call (866) 296-MTIX. Tickets will be available at Canham Natatorium if they are not sold out.
All-Session Passes (on sale now)
• Adult -- $40
• Youth/Senior/Student -- $25
Single-Session Passes (available at the door only)
• Adult -- $8
• Youth/Senior/Student -- $5
Limited parking is available in the Athletic Lot near Canham Natatorium due to regular Athletic Department Employee workday parking. Please see parking maps for specific lots.
Parking Lot Information
Parking Maps: Prelims | Finals
Note: Due to an ice hockey game on Friday, Feb. 28, at Yost Ice Arena, the entire athletic lot is permit and limited ADA cash sales beginning at 4 p.m. Additionally, due to a men's basketball game on Saturday, March 1, at Crisler Center, lots SC-4, 5, 6 and 7 (see map) will not be available to park for the finals.
Prohibited Items
To ensure a safe and comfortable environment at Canham Natatorium, the following items are prohibited from being brought into the natatorium for intercollegiate athletic contests:
- Containers of any kind (including coolers, thermoses, cups, bottles, cans, flasks)
- Aerosol and Spray Cans
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Food of any kind
- Still Cameras with a lens longer than 6 inches
- Apparel or signage displaying profane or abusive language
- Any projectile or object that could cause injury if thrown onto the playing area or the seating areas.
- Camcorders and tripods
- Dogs and other pets (service and other animals for disabled are allowed)
- Irritants (i.e. noisemakers, airhorns, etc.)
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Steve sir if you can spare a few minutes, would you mind detailing how the reverse gear in your former e34 went out, the leadup to it, and any advice you received from techs about that which you feel is correct. Perhaps it can help us understand this a bit better.
Well, let me see if I can remember. The car had 256K on the original transmission. It was regularly serviced by a good independent mechanic (this was my pre-diy days for BMW).
It began as follows. In the mornings upon first start up, I would place the car in reverse and there was just a slight delay in gear engagement at first ... perhaps a 2-3 second delay. Once warmed up, it would engage fine. This went on for maybe a week or so. It was quite some time ago so I am unclear on the time frames. The problem progressively got worse with the delays lasting as long as up to 10 seconds. Finally, it would just not go into reverse at all. All forward gears worked fine. I tried Lucas transmission treatment prior to it letting go completely and don't recall seeing any improvement.
I was told by the indy mech that this was a known problem with these transmissions and would need to be rebuilt or replaced. I'm sorry but I don't remember what specifically he said was the actual problem. I don't have enough knowledge of transmission internals to even take a stab at it.
The car also needed a new aux fan and I was told that the combined repair would be approximately $4300, so I just salvaged it for $600
If I had only known then what I know now. I would likely have done a 5 speed swap and changed the aux fan myself.
I can't speculate on what OP's problem is (due to my limited knowledge of the tranny internals), but I agree that a proper fluid level check is paramount, and if the fluid level is correct, then I agree with BMWFF about going to a transmission specialist rather than a BMW mechanic. Looking back, my indy mech may have just not wanted to mess with it or he may have been giving me some good fatherly advice based on his experience.
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Blaine Nay writes a confusing and self-contradictory letter ("Government weddings," Forum, July 2) about government involvement in marriage, stating it is a "religious and family affair" where government uses marriage to "unjustly give benefits" to one class (married) over another (unmarried).
He believes we need to allow religion to control marriage and government to perform civil marriages for those who don't want a church wedding (how does that get government out of marriage?) and enforce the marital contract (doesn't contract law equal government?) when churches can't.
If governments get out of marriage, there's no involvement period. There would be no "married, filing jointly," no "Social Security spousal benefits," no "consent for treatment in hospital cases," no right of inheritance, no court dissolution of a marriage, simply all people treated equally with zero regard for marital status or sexual orientation.
He ends with the silly tirade against forcing churches to perform homosexual marriages, child marriages, plural marriages (failing to realize some churches already perform child marriages and plural marriages) and marriages with animals. Homosexuals have the same rights under the law as everybody else. And, until you find animals capable of providing "informed consent," get real.
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Unusual Suspects improv troupe competes at national level
Posted by Cassie Hall '13, Brookings, South Dakota on Tuesday, Mar. 8, 2011
The University of Minnesota, Morris student-run improve troupe, Unusual Suspects, competed in the 14th annual Chicago Improv Festival National Competition on Saturday, February 26, 2011, in Chicago. Finals consisted of regional winners, with Morris representing the upper Midwest, as well as one wild card, making the Unusual Suspects one of only eleven troupes nationwide chosen to compete.
The troupe says that the experience of winning the regional division and representing Morris at its first-ever national improv competition was exhilarating.
The Unusual Suspects is comprised of co-chair Alex McGreavey, co-chair Sam Krump-Johnson, Improv Club co-chair Jessie Sherman, Michelle Bohacek, Alex Kies, Alek Sievert, Jessie Hennen, Cormac Strahan, Andrew Sletten, Will Hanson, and Isaac Deragon.
The national competition may be viewed online.


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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: See video interview of Claude Lenfant, MD, online at journal.publications.chestnet.org.
National High Blood Pressure Education Program, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health (ret.), Bethesda, MD
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Accomplished people seldom sit back and just let things happen. Throughout his career, Dr Claude Lenfant is someone who caused things to happen.
Dr Lenfant completed medical school in 1956 at the University of Paris, and with Charles Dubost, a famous cardiac surgeon, he conducted pioneering work focused on developing the artificial heart and open heart surgery.
Seeking additional training in research methods, he completed fellowships at SUNY Buffalo and Columbia University, where pulmonary medicine's intrigue provided exciting intellectual stimulation. Dr Lenfant literally traveled to the bottom of the earth and climbed the tallest mountains to investigate gas transport/exchange, respiratory function, and adaptations in a variety of animal models and in people.
In 1960, Dr Robert Petersdorf noticed his research and invited him to the University of Washington to develop a pulmonary diseases program. Rising quickly through the academic ranks, Dr Lenfant became Professor of Medicine, Physiology, and Biophysics. Shortly thereafter, Dr Ted Cooper, a cardiac surgeon and director of the National Heart Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), persuaded him to join the NIH to develop a Division of Lung Diseases. This created a career shift of sorts for Dr Lenfant, from conducting basic and clinical research to developing programs for wide-scale research to be conducted throughout the nation. His fledgling NIH division grew to include an NIH intramural program and a substantial extramural grants program.
A stellar track record led to his appointment as director of the National Heart and Lung Institute, a position he held for two decades. At the helm of the Institute he identified priorities and developed implementation plans, which included the input and participation of other NIH disciplines and professional societies—at the time a somewhat novel idea. Dr Lenfant brought the Institute into the modern era of science with initiatives including Programs of Excellence in Molecular Biology, the Proteomics Initiative, and the NIH's first gene therapy protocol. He presided over the Institute's development of a National Center on Sleep Disorders Research, and management of the Women's Health Initiative. Under his watch, large-scale multicenter landmark clinical trials were conducted that improved understanding and practice. The nation's commitment to alleviate heart, lung, and blood disorders, and to fund blood safety research, expanded as he persuaded Congress to increase the NHLBI budget from $500,000 to nearly $3 billion.
Dr Lenfant has authored or co-authored 310 publications and has editorial responsibilities for 11 journals and monographs. He holds honorary professorships and degrees from eight universities and is recognized by 48 prestigious organizations for his exceptional leadership and achievements. It is noteworthy that the first honorees for lifetime achievement recognized by the Russian Academy of Sciences were Dr Michael DeBakey, Dr Albert Sabin, and Dr Claude Lenfant. Yet he reminds us that research, publications, and awards are insufficient; knowledge must be applied to improve the health and well-being of people. Accordingly, he forged collaborations with scientific and clinical leaders to develop national education programs for the public, patients, and busy clinicians. He supported production of science-based guidelines for preventing and treating hypertension, asthma, elevated blood cholesterol, and obesity, which became the basis for national performance standards.
In his research, Dr Lenfant believed ZIP codes were as important as genetic codes. He has published papers describing racial and regional variations in hypertension, pointing to the inordinately high stroke mortality in the southeast United States, particularly among African Americans. He followed up by igniting community action/education programs in churches, barbershops, and other venues. His quest for social justice and fairness improved population health.
During his tenure as director, the public's awareness, treatment, and subsequent control of hypertension and elevated blood cholesterol improved dramatically. Mean arterial blood pressure and blood cholesterol levels declined significantly, and age-adjusted stroke and heart disease mortality decreased by 70% and 55%, respectively. Population studies over that period revealed that more Americans were alive than had been predicted to die of cardiovascular disease. The mortality declines are real, seen in both sexes and all races in the United States.
The improvements in the U.S. cardiovascular disease profile prompted other nations to seek his help. He led U.S. scientific exchanges to the Soviet Union/Russia, China, Vietnam, Germany, Brazil, Egypt, and South Africa. The World Hypertension League elected him president; thereafter the League emerged as a respected global voice. He served as the chair of the awareness/dissemination working group on the Global Alliance Against Chronic Respiratory Diseases of the World Health Organization, executive director of the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease, the Global Initiative for Asthma, and the International Coalition on COPD. These organizations were productive and helpful. It seemed everything he touched was made better.
For those of us privileged to work with him, Dr Lenfant set a very high bar. With his special brand of elegance and style, he showed how applying whatever talents we were given, with more importantly hard work and determination, would take us to the top of our game. For some he is a mentor, colleague, and friend. To me Claude is surely that, and my hero. I encourage all to listen to Dr Lenfant's words of wisdom expressed during a videotaped interview that can be found in Video 1.
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Initially an R&B act, the group soon embraced the garage sound that dominated the charts in the early noughties to become one of the biggest girl groups in the U.K. All five singles from their platinum debut album, Lickin' on Both Sides, reached the Top Ten and the band was nominated for both Brit and MOBO awards. With her photogenic appearance and quickfire MC skills, Dixon became the unofficial frontwoman of the group and earned a reputation as one of Britain's most exciting pop stars. In 2004, Pharrell Williams personally asked her to be the female lead in N.E.R.D.'s "She Wants to Move" video after spotting her on the cover of Arena magazine. Second album Eye Candy spawned their biggest hit, "Scandalous," but the group broke up in 2005 amidst financial problems with the Telstar label.
Alesha soon signed a £500,000 deal with Polydor Records and started work on her debut album, Fired Up, with some of the U.K.'s most illustrious songwriters, including Richard X and Xenomania. Debut single "Lipstick" reached number 14 but follow-up "Knockdown" failed to reach the Top 40, and she soon parted company with her label. Dixon retained the rights to Fired Up and eventually released it in Japan in 2008. Her inclusion on the hugely popular BBC show Strictly Come Dancing at the end of 2007 managed to steer her career back on track. A favorite with judges and fans throughout the series, she was crowned the winner alongside partner Matthew Cutler. This led to several high-profile gigs, including recording a song for a new Ford Focus promo, presenting a BBC documentary on airbrushing, and working with Solange Knowles and Marsha Ambrosius from Floetry on her second album. ~ Jon O'Brien, Rovi


text: The world of classical music suffered a great loss this past Sunday, 9 December 2012. Charles Rosen — concert pianist, musicologist, teacher, critic, brilliant polymath, and author of several hugely enlightening books in the domain of classical music, one of which, The Classical Style, has become a bona fide classic — died of cancer in Manhattan at age 85. We considered (and consider) Mr. Rosen a latter day Sir Donald Francis Tovey and his absence will be deeply felt both by the classical music world generally and by us personally as we owe him much. For more details on Mr. Rosen's life and work than we can provide, the New York Times obituary can be read here, and the Guardian obituary, here. Atque in perpetuum, Charles, ave atque vale.


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For two and a half years, the black market bazaar known as the Silk Road tempted thousands of drug dealers and customers with promises of anonymous commerce—as well as at least two corrupt law enforcement agents who tried to profit from the dark-web-based business they were meant to be investigating. Now the defense team of the site's creator says it's found signs of a third rogue cop tied to the Silk Road's drug money. And this one, they say, remains at large.
In a press conference today, lawyers representing Silk Road's convicted founder, Ross Ulbricht, announced that they've dug up private chat logs from the site's user forum that shed light on a mysterious figure known only as "alpacino." In chats with the Dread Pirate Roberts, the pseudonym Ulbricht used on the site, alpacino offered information about the law enforcement investigation into Silk Road in exchange for weekly payments. According to the defense team, those chats didn't appear in earlier versions of the forum logs shared by the prosecution and defense, suggesting that someone in law enforcement tampered with evidence to cover up those conversations. The defense team discovered the chats in a newly unearthed copy of the user forums backed up to an obscure subdirectory on the site's server.
The revelation follows the convictions last year of two Silk Road investigators: a Secret Service agent and a Drug Enforcement Administration agent who used pseudonyms to steal bitcoins from the site, attempted to extort money from Ulbricht, and also sold him law enforcement information. As Ulbricht's lawyers continue to appeal their client's conviction on charges including narcotics trafficking and money laundering—as well as the life sentence he received—the defense cites the signs of a third rogue agent with potential access to evidence as an indication that Ulbricht's trial was flawed and unjust.
"We find this to be a significant discovery, considering that we've always believed that there was other corruption that we didn't know about and the government didn't know about either," says Lindsay Lewis, one of Ulbricht's attorneys. "It further calls into question the integrity of the entire Silk Road investigation."
For those who have followed the Silk Road saga, the existence of alpacino isn't exactly a secret. A diary that Ulbricht kept on his laptop, which was introduced as evidence in Ulbricht's 2015 trial, noted that "'alpacino' from DEA has been leaking info to me" and credited the mole with helping him prevent one of the site's drug dealers from being arrested. A text file Ulbricht stored on his computer and labeled as "counter intelligence" also included lengthy messages from alpacino offering his services as a double agent. "There are really tons of useful nuggets that I do have to offer," states one message from alpacino. "And what my birdie doesn't know, he can probably find out."
Until now, alpacino was widely believed to be one of the pseudonyms used by DEA agent Carl Mark Force, who late last year was convicted of money laundering and obstruction of justice and sentenced to six and a half years in prison. Ulbricht's defense team argues that alpacino is, in fact, a different law enforcement official, or at least someone with connections to law enforcement. They point to the fact that the initial court filing that accused Carl Mark Force of corruption listed alpacino as one of his pseudonyms but that the alias was dropped from Force's criminal complaint, indictment and all subsequent court documents. And they note that the $500 a week alpacino demanded from Ulbricht is strangely small compared to the $50,000 lump sum of bitcoins that Force was paid.
Ulbricht's defense says that it's filed a demand that the government turn over any additional information it has about the alpacino figure. It made the filing as part of the pretrial proceedings for a pending set of charges Ulbricht still faces in Maryland.
Even if defense lawyers manage to prove the existence of a third corrupt agent, Ulbricht's appeal of his conviction in the New York trial—the 32-year-old's last chance to escape a life sentence—isn't likely to be affected. A panel of appellate judges reviewing the case is legally barred from considering new evidence not raised at trial or in the appellate arguments Ulbricht's lawyers have filed over the last year. And one of those judges, Gerald Lynch, dismissed arguments about the corrupt agents in an appeal hearing last month. "How is this material exculpatory?" he asked pointedly when the defense described the interference of the two convicted rogue agents in the Silk Road investigation.
The same judge also argued that nothing indicated the two agents had actually tampered with evidence against Ulbricht. Defense attorney Lewis says that indication of evidence tampering may be exactly what the defense has now uncovered. She notes that four different copies of the server's data all either ended before the date when the Dread Pirate Roberts' conversations with alpacino began in the summer of 2013, or seemed to have the specific conversation deleted. Only the newly discovered backup, apparently made by a Silk Road staffer, includes it. The defense team hasn't released the newly uncovered chat logs, and says that rules of evidence in the Maryland case prevent them from doing so.
The clues of tainted evidence are hardly enough to change Ulbricht's legal fate. But Lewis says the defense intends to keep digging. "This is just what we have. It begs the question of what don't we have," she says. "We don't yet know what we don't know."


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Sabaupan-Andriyanto clash 4/17
By Ray Wheatley–World of Boxing
Unbeaten Filipino lightweight Al Sabaupan (10-0, 7 KOs) will be in action on April 17 when he will clash with Indonesian lightweight champion Heri Andriyanto (14-9-1, 6 KOs) over twelve rounds at the Ynares Arena in Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Sabaupan scored his best win in October 2009 when he outworked former world title challenger Josafat Perez (12-2, 7 KOs) of Mexico over ten action packed rounds.
Perez captured the Mexican lightweight title in 2008 and went eight rounds in the WBA 130 pound title bout against Jorge Linares in June 2009.
Sabaupan's manager Elmer Anuran said, "I am confident Al Sabaupan has the skills and power to reach the top in boxing. His win over Josafat Perez in 2009 stamped him as an outstanding prospect."
Andriyanto lost a twelve round decision to world rated lightweight Prawett Singwancha but defeated Ramdan Munth and Michael Speed Siglarkaki in 2009.


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Name: Sarah Beeny.
Born: January 9, 1972.
Occupation: Endeavours to steer amateur property developers in the right direction as presenter of Channel 4's Property Ladder.
College: Queen Mary's Sixth Form College, Basingstoke.
Course: Hampshire foundation course in theatre and A-levels in art and English.
Attended: 1987-1989.
Tutor Dr John Bennett recalls: "Sarah was very personable and quite confident without being pushy. There were some fairly loud personalities in the group, but she was never over-the-top. She had a confidence, a presence and a great smile. She was always in demand for group work. At the time she seemed to be serious about the performing arts. Academically she was good as well. I've not seen much of Property Ladder but of the bits I have seen that's the real Sarah Beeny, that approachability. She was great to work with then and must be great to work with now."


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R. KELLY: Transgender Daughter
R. Kelly's 13-year-old daughter is coming out as a transgender boy.
According to Perez Hilton, Jay, formerly known as Jaya, made the announcement on Instagram, saying that he's identified as a boy since he was five or six. Jay adds that his mother Andrea Kelly is fine with his decision. He writes, "[My mom] was like, 'Baby, you know I love you if you were bi, gay, [lesbian], you name it and I would still love you so much.' She was very proud of me, I was like, 'Thank you, mum, for accepting the fact that I'm a transgender.'"
Jay adds that when he's older he plans to get transgender surgery. "I believe I am a boy and want surgery, and the medication to help me who I was supposed to be."


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Film and television stars gathered in Pasadena, California, for the 31st annual People's Choice Awards on Sunday. Actor and director Mel Gibson collected the best film drama award for his movie The Passion of the Christ.
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After documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 was named best film, director Michael Moore dedicated the trophy to soldiers in Iraq.
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Ex-Friends star Matt LeBlanc picked up a People's Choice Award after spin-off series Joey was named favourite new television comedy series.
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Will and Grace stars Eric McCormack (left), Debra Messing, Megan Mullally and Sean Hayes took the prize for best television comedy series.
Shrek 2 took three awards - favourite comedy, top animated movie and favourite sequel. Its prizes were collected by voice actor and Austin Powers star Mike Myers.
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Long-running show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation was named top television drama series, with members of its cast and crew collecting the prize.
Musician Prince, who became North America's most lucrative live performer of 2004, was one of numerous celebrities to present awards.
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Citation: Thompson, M.L., Casey, F.X., Fan, Z., Hakk, H., Larsen, G.L. 2005. In situ subsurface soil studies on the occurrence, persistence, and pathways of 17beta-estradiol. Meeting Abstract. 2005 ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meetings, Salt Lake City, UT, Nov. 6-10, 2005. Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: Hormones, such as 17beta-estradiol (E2), have the potential of causing widespread physiological and reproductive disorders in numerous species due to their potency and presence in the environment. The occurrence of E2 in the unsaturated zone (0.60 m depth) was determined with wick lysimeters and compared with water flux rates and the transport of known tracers at a hog (Sus scrofa domesticus) farm. Also, a reconnaissance of subsurface water was done at this farmstead using strategically placed wells and lysimeters. Lysimeter plot studies were used to develop water balances; identify the transport of conservative, non-sorbing tracers; and to identify the occurrence of E2 in subsurface water under corn-cropped soil that had swine manure mixtures applied. These lysimeter plot experiments were also compared to laboratory experiment results on the fate and transport of E2, and compared with E2 measurements from the farmstead reconnaissance. In the first year of this study, the lysimeters collected 50% – 100% of expected percolation per plot, and also 1–12% of pentafluorobenzoic acid tracer was collected. Significant concentrations of E2 (128 ng L-1) were found in the first lysimeter sample set and E2 continued to leach in variable amounts throughout the season. The highest cumulative mass of E2 was recovered in the control plot, which had no manure applied. Results indicated that it was likely that E2 was antecedently present at high concentrations in the soil. Also, the results suggested that manures had some influence on the persistence of E2 in the test plots.


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NCAA Letter to Chancellor Jimmy Cheek
NCAA Notice of Allegations
Statement from Chancellor Jimmy Cheek
Statement from Athletics Director Mike Hamilton
Statement from Men's Basketball Coach Bruce Pearl
The University of Tennessee yesterday received a Notice of Allegations from the NCAA regarding the school's men's basketball and football programs.
This Notice results from a 22-month investigation by the NCAA and the University of Tennessee in response to reports of alleged violations reported by the University and from external sources. The University and its Athletics Department have cooperated fully with the NCAA in this matter, and the receipt of the Notice of Allegations signifies the end of the initial review and fact-finding period.
While an examination into potential rules violations by the University of Tennessee baseball program was referenced in the initial Letter of Inquiry from the NCAA, there are no alleged violations by the baseball program listed in this Notice.
The Notice contains the following allegations of violation of NCAA rules against the men's basketball program:
- Impermissible contact with prospective student-athletes resulting from a cumulative total of 96 impermissible phone calls over a 24-month period (Aug. 1, 2007 through July 29, 2009).
- By the head men's basketball coach: impermissible contact with prospective student-athletes during an unofficial visit, acting contrary to the principles of ethical conduct, failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance, and failure to monitor the activities regarding compliance of all assistant coaches within the men's basketball program.
- By the head men's basketball coach and associate head coach: impermissible contact with a prospective student-athlete at his high school.
- By the three members of the men's basketball assistant coaching staff: failure to furnish full and complete information relevant to the investigation.
- By former members of the football coaching staff: impermissible telephone contact (16 total calls) with prospective student-athletes from Jan. 3-9, 2010.
- By a former assistant football coach: allegations relating to impermissible contacts with prospective student-athletes.
- By a former head football coach: failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance within the football program and failure to monitor the activities regarding compliance of several assistant coaches have also been made against a former head football coach, and permitting a football recruiting intern to make impermissible contact with high school staff during a recruiting visit.
The University has a deadline of May 21, 2011 to formulate and submit a response to this Notice of Allegations to the NCAA. It is anticipated that the University's appearance before the Committee on Infractions will be during the committee's meeting on June 10-11, 2011.
Because the University and Athletic Department are now in the response phase of this process, there will be no further public comments regarding this matter by any University official until this process is complete.


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I must confess to having a soft spot for Anne Sofie Madsen. Though her Copenhagen fashion week (CFW) shows never seem to deviate too much from those that have gone before, that's less a matter of repetition and more like she's built up such an impressive futuristic universe that it would be a shame to move outside it. And so, each of her collections seem to exist in that same world, evolutions of the one epic story.
For fall / winter 2013 Madsen brings back those ghastly yet beautiful visions of monster-like faces, one looking yeti-ish in baby blue-grey fur, another formed by applique that then draws the eyes down into multi-toned fringing. Adding a new layer of intrigue are Madsen's 3-dimensional details – this time intricately constructed in origami folds like a feat of futurist architecture.
You can see all of the Anne Sofie Madsen autumn (fall) / winter 2013 runway collection by clicking on a thumbnail on the left. From there you can browse through each of the pictures from the fashion show.
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Really struggling with pup who won't respond to scolding
I don't know if I'm doing this right, but I feel like I MUST be doing something wrong.
My darling little boy, will absolutely not listen to me when I scold him. There are a couple of things in particular he is doing - rough playing with the cat, nipping hands/feet/clothes/hair/, jumping up on people and furniture, attempting to eat tissues, power cords, furniture, you name it. All normal puppy behavior, and I'm not concerned about that. I am concerned though that he will flat out ignore me when I yell "No" or "Ow".
He is particularly rough with the cat, but the cat is just as bad in return. They play fight and pin each other to the ground, but they are usually making all kind of crazy noises when doing so. I have been trying like **** to get them to stop, but whenever I yell "No" the dog just goes right on like I don't even exist. I've tried stomping, clapping, giving him treats when he sort-of obeys (which is almost never). He just will not respond unless I am going absolutely crazy screaming "no" and making a big scene about it. And even then he hardly stops for 15 seconds and continues one. I have tried redirecting his attention, giving him toys to chew on, etc. But when he gets his mind set on something that he shouldn't be doing, he's 100% dedicated to doing it.
I am concerned for two reasons. The first being that, it can't be healthy for me to yell at him like that? I don't want to have to scream at him, it feels like I am being a bad owner. The second reason I am concerned is that my neighbors must think I am absolutely out of mind and a terrible owner by now :(. It is causing me quite a bit of stress.
I don't know what to do. Can anyone please shed some light on this? I don't want to give up trying to scold him, obviously, because I want him to be well behaved. But I just don't know what to do to make him listen. He is absolutely fearless and doesn't seem very preoccupied with pleasing me.
In other news, he is doing a wonderful job training! Catching on super fast and is willing to please AS LONG as there is a treat involved. He is also 100% crate trained and I often catch him sleeping in there on his own. He really is a good dog overall, but when he is bad he is BAD and doesn't care what anyone has to say about it.
Crate. Learn to LOVE it! LOL
Get the dvd Crate Games and teach him that. When he won't redirect to a toy, simply pick him up and put him in his crate with a chew bone or filled kong to give everyone a break.
Here is an excellent blog
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leash the puppy so you have control over him
feed him by hand
teach him sit
bond with him
The word no generally carries more weight when it is swiftly followed by a consequence the pup finds unpleasant.
"Scold"??? Why not just try redirecting? I suspect that dogs just think we are a little unhinged when we go off on a scolding rant.
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Tether the puppy.
If you don't want to do that, then you need to actually give a consequence to "no", standing there yelling it is meaningless. Maybe a squirt gun with water? A can filled coins to shake?but honestly, the cat thing would probably get a scruff shake from me. Not the other stuff, that's redirectable, but the cat, that's a big deal.
"Redirecting" a puppy that's rolling around on the floor making weird noises with the cat is NOT going to work. There is probably nothing better than that.
That kind of behavior is going to get your cat killed. Seriously.
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Thank you so much for the advice! This morning he of course went after the cat immediately, and I tried giving him a scruff shake and boy did that work fantastically. I did it maybe 3 times and he was definitely NOT enjoying that. After about the third time I noticed that when he got near the cat he would stop himself and sit and look at me. When he sat by the cat quietly or was acting acceptably around the cat I praised him. I can't believe how quickly he caught on to that!! I think it is exceptionally hard for him because the cat antagonizes him.
Dogs will naturally fall to behaviours that are rewarded rather then punished (self rewarding behaviours like having fun chasing the cat count), shaping harnesses that drive and allows you to show him behaviours that will be rewarded. So you have a fantastic oppertunity now, he realizes now that chasing the cat gets him scolded and he's looking to you to see what to do. Be ready to praise heavily whenever he looks at you rather then the cat, soon you should see him realize that looking at you gets him praises and treats and he'll offer it often just to see if you'll praise him once more. You can use a leash as others have said in the meantime to keep the dog and cat seperated until they learn to play appropriately
I always had treats and a toy on me, all my dogs learned that I was the best thing in his life and pleasing me meant mega rewards every time. It took time but the rewards of building that bond exceed words.
Right. Now that you closed the door of chasing cats you should open another door for him in the form of chasing a ball or a bait pole or whatever.
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As you may well have gathered by now, I am a bit of a purist about food. But when it comes to coffee, I'm not only a purist, I am a fanatic.
Then again, I am from Italy, where coffee's treated with almost as much reverence and pomp as religion, and everyone has one very strong espresso every morning, to put their mind straight for the day ahead. As you travel through the country, you'll come across a torrefazione, or roaster, in just about every region, and the grade of roasting will vary from area to area depending on the air's humidity. Anyway, the secret to a perfect coffee is to have the water at 90C as it runs through the machine, so you get a beautiful crema (the "cream" on top of a proper espresso).
The coffee we use in the restaurant is Illy. That's because their coffee is 100% arabica, a bean that contains half the caffeine found in robusta, the cheapest and most widely used bean, which means you really can top up throughout the day without feeling any ill-effects.
The reason I mention this is that I spent last week on La Gomera, in the Canary Islands. One morning I wandered into a bar full of workers in their vests, where just about everyone ordered this weird drink - a small glass with very defined stripes of brown and cream. It was the extraordinary cortado leche y leche, which is made with two teaspoonfuls of sweetened, condensed milk topped with full-fat milk and then a shot of espresso. People were leaving their cars running outside, rushing in, knocking back one of these and then returning to their cars, high on an intense sugar and caffeine rush. Some of them even added a dash of cognac, too.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University of Akron (21-20, 9-8 MAC) baseball team fell to the University at Buffalo (19-16, 10-6 MAC) by a final score of 6-3 on Saturday in game two of the three-game Mid-American Conference series at Amherst Audubon Field.
Sophomore JT Brubaker made the start for the Zips, and got into a bit of trouble in his first inning of work. In the bottom of the first, Brubaker allowed four walks and two runs – on a two-run single by Thomas Richards – to put UA in an early 2-0 hole.
Akron went scoreless in the second, but Brubaker settled the Bulls offense to post a zero in the bottom half.
Down two runs, the Zips staged a three-run rally in the top of the third. Sophomore Billy Salem and redshirt junior Devan Ahart recorded back-to-back RBI singles to right field to bring in a pair of runs and tie the game. Junior Matt Rembielak capped off the rally with an RBI hit-by-pitch with the bases loaded, giving Akron a 3-2 advantage.
The 3-2 Akron lead remained until the bottom of the fourth when Buffalo evened the score on a Matt Pollock RBI single to right-center. The Bulls regained the lead at 4-3 in the bottom of the fifth when Jimmy Topps reached on a fielder's choice, which allowed Kyle Figgins to score from third.
Both teams went scoreless in the sixth and seventh inning, but Buffalo added two insurance runs in the eighth off of Akron reliever Zach Beaver. Beaver finished the afternoon with 3.1 innings, six hits, three runs allowed and two strikeouts. Freshman Evan Jensen came out of the bullpen to relieve Beaver, recording two outs with a strikeout to end the frame.
Akron went scoreless in the ninth inning to make it a 6-3 Buffalo win. Brubaker was handed the loss, dropping his season record to 3-4. He tossed 4.0 innings with six hits, three runs, six walks and five strikeouts.
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What conditions occur to make it so you cannot make anymore adjustments to Alignment settings? My passenger side right rear is red at -1.1 and cannot be adjusted anymore. If the Left rear is green at -1.7 that would mean the RR is about .5 degree off. What suspension piece is responsible for Camber? Would that need to be replaced in order to get adjustment abilities back?
The front right seems to be having issues as well. Both Caster and Camber is yellow 2/10 a degree on both. What suspension pieces are responsible for Camber and Caster?
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Alignment won't cause your vehicle to vibrate. If you are starting to get vibrations at high speeds I would suspect either a tire imbalance or a bent wheel is the culprit. I typically get my tires balanced every 3-5k miles depending on the severity of the vibrations and it will usually clear that right up. If you can feel the vibrations in your steering wheel that would be your front wheels, if they are coming from your seat its the rears.
Vibration issues could also be caused by worn control arm or stabilizer arm bushings and worn hub bearings. If it was bushings or bearing though, you would likely feel it at lower speeds as well.
As far as alignment, Toe and Camber are adjustable with tie rods and control arms respectively. Caster is typically not going to be adjustable.
Also, there is a lot of confusion about a "roadforce balance". There is a roadforce test, which can help with "match mounting" the imperfections of the tire with the imperfections of the wheel to reduce corrective weight and help eliminate balance issues inherently since it applies a force to the tire assembly and reads the amount of force pushed back against the rolling pressure. If there is a section of tire that is harder or denser and there for springier than the rest of the tire, that can be measured. If it is severe enough, then the tire can usually be replaced with the manufacturer as defective if it is new. That requires new tires (since worn tires cannot be accurately tested, they can be tested, just not accurately for roadforce) to be mounted, inflated properly, tested, deflated and rotated on the rim for matching, then retested. Balancing is the last step, and isn't actually part of the roadforce process, its a regular spin balance. Any good computer spin balance should get your wheel assembly rolling smooth, unless you have unevenly worn tires, bent wheels, or an inconsistent tread build which seems to happen primarily with less expensive tires, but could happen to any tire.
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Thanks Phillip. The put new Michelin super on my refinished rims. At this point I can only suspect the refinishing wasn't done right. They sure do look good though. I guess the only thing left is to see if anyone can let me borrow their front wheels for me to test out.
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There are a lot of bent bmw wheels out there, and depending on how it was refinished or where the damage may have been at could still cause some problems at high speeds. If you haven't had it rebalanced at a reputable shop (or just a different shop from where the tires were installed) you may want to have that looked at. There are also different types of balance. A lot of shops with newer equipment are using a "smart balance" that determines the minimum amount of weight to correct a balance issue, it's not perfectly balanced but usually good enough and it saves the shop on lead weight costs. Then there is a zero balance that will call for more weight, sometimes in a counterbalance configuration, but will give a better dynamic balance (correcting up and down imbalance as well as side to side).
Also, you may want to watch the wheels spin on the balancer, to see if they are out of balance and also to see if there is any movement on the inner edge of the wheel that would indicate an out of round wheel.
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Explicit Modelling of Session Variability for Speaker Verification
Vogt, Robert J. & Sridharan, Sridha (2008) Explicit Modelling of Session Variability for Speaker Verification. Computer Speech & Language, 22(1), pp. 17-38.
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This article describes a general and powerful approach to modelling mismatch in speaker recognition by including an explicit session term in the Gaussian mixture speaker modelling framework. Under this approach, the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) that best represents the observations of a particular recording is the combination of the true speaker model with an additional session-dependent offset constrained to lie in a low-dimensional subspace representing session variability.
A novel and efficient model training procedure is proposed in this work to perform the simultaneous optimisation of the speaker model and session variables required for speaker training. Using a similar iterative approach to the Gauss–Seidel method for solving linear systems, this procedure greatly reduces the memory and computational resources required by a direct solution.
Extensive experimentation demonstrates that the explicit session modelling provides up to a 68% reduction in detection cost over a standard GMM-based system and significant improvements over a system utilising feature mapping, and is shown to be effective on the corpora of recent National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Speaker Recognition Evaluations, exhibiting different session mismatch conditions.
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The Range where this was shot is the range where I work part time and the instructor who is barely interviewed, Chip Holland, is our Head Instructor and one heck of a nice guy. Great sense of humor too. They did an obvious edit hack job on his interview. I have not had the chance to talk to him yet but I will Saturday and I'll let you all know what he thought of the piece.
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Meanwhile, Christina recently returned from a girl's getaway to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico along with her friends Nikki Cole Irving and Lizzie Morris.
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LONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - China's power engineers have become world leaders in ultra-high-voltage transmission systems connecting far-off power sources with cities hungry for electricity.
China already has seven ultra-high-voltage (UHV) lines in operation, more than any other country, carrying power over thousands of kilometres at around 800,000 or even 1 million volts.
In April, the government gave the go-ahead to build another line operating at 1 million volts between rural Anhui province and the cities of Nanjing and Shanghai.
The National Energy Administration, which is part of the powerful National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic regulator, has ambitious plans for as many as 12 inter-regional ultra-high-voltage transmission corridors spanning the country.
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Up till now, we've never been fans of moths. In fact, we've tended to find their general night-time flutteriness rather annoying. Today, though, the little critters have gone way up in our estimation. For it turns out that for all the millennia they've been around, the cheeky little chaps have been sitting on a secret that has the potential to revolutionise TV technology.
You see, to help them avoid detection in the dark, moths have developed eyes featuring tiny filtering nodules that help them become ultra-efficient absorbers of light. And it's occurred to some clever bod at Philips that if you could replicate this moth-eye design on a TV, the impact on its contrast performance could be extreme.
The currently unique result of this innovative thinking is the Philips 46PFL9706: a 46in TV that's been causing shockwaves with its picture quality at every technology show it's appeared at for the past few months.
Hard experience has shown on more than one occasion, though, that what can look giddily brilliant on a crowded, bright show floor doesn't always translate to a domestic/test environment. So today, now that we've finally (months later than expected) got a 46PFL9706 in our sweaty palms, the simple question is: is it really as good as we hope it is?
Before answering that question, though, we should point out that sweaty palms really aren't a good idea when handling the 46PFL9706. For the moth-eye filter hates being touched, to the point where any finger or palm contact makes so much mess that it will have to be dealt with by the application of some special cleaning fluid that Philips supplies with the TV.
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The Spiritual Path focuses on themes important for those dealing with fundamental life questions in their own lives, or in their professions as spiritual caregivers, psychologists or psychotherapists. Using an interreligious approach, Han de Wit offers psychological insights from the world's spiritual traditions to show how spiritual practices serve to cultivate our fundamental humanity. De Wit asks essential questions concerning that "fundamental humanity": Why is it that some people experience and radiate an increasing measure of joy in their lives, while others become increasingly anxious and fearful? And why do some people become wiser and more compassionate as a result of their experience of suffering, while others break down under that same suffering? How can these two such differing psychological manifestations occur under similar circumstances? And can individuals influence these psychological outcomes, or does this lie beyond human control? The Spiritual Path describes an "inner flourishing"—an awakening in the human person that is specifically spiritual—and the life's journey that is taken in light of such an awakening. By taking such a journey, de Wit argues, and living this "contemplative life"—a way of life for all times and all cultures—individuals can foster their own "inner flourishing" that may result in greater clarity of mind and joy in life. In this way, The Spiritual Path is both theoretical and practical. By acknowledging and utilizing the psychological insights found in spirituality, we are able to seek and find the spiritual path even as we live in the everyday world.
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