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My mother has alzheimer's, she is under a doctor's care, unable to make decisions. Her health has deteriorated over the last 4 years with memory loss and health issues. My stepfather has guardianship over her, he is attempting to sell a family home and 14 acre property I lived in from 1995-2009. I was evicted by him in his efforts to take control of the property. I should have fought this at the time, but it was causing so much family friction that I relented and bought a house in town.
They live in a separate house and have a vacation home and property out of state in addition to the home and property in dispute.
My stepfather has posted an asking price at 65k under assessed (county tax records) value. Mom and he have a prenuptual & separate finances, she is sole owner on title to property. I am sole inheritor of home and property in her will. I have tried to reason and work with my stepfather but he is intent on selling the property. I also have suspicions that he is using her pension, savings, retirement and social security funds for purposes other than my mom's needs and her half of the bill payment.
I have been told to dispute the guardianship and file for guardianship. I have been advised that his sale of her property is in violation of her prenuptual and will that was made before her alzheimer's destroyed her mental capacities. I have been advised that my stepfather's actions are considered tortitious interference. But I need advice on what to do right now, file a motion with the court, file papers with her attorney, file papers with the real estate firm handling the sale?
I have 2 weeks to intercede or this sale will go through. I need legal advice on what I can do to prevent this sale in accordance to what standing I have as her only son vs. his guardianship and spousal standing. Please advise.
You need to consult an attorney. Nothing that you have posted here will lend itself to DIY legal help.
Ask about recording a les pendis against the home and any other titled property that she owns.. To to that, however, you will need to intitate some kind of court proceeding as a les pendis generally means that there is a law suit pending involving the property.
If there is a les pendis recording against the property, that should put the kabosh on any sale because no title company will insure "clean title" in the face of one.
1. There is no such thing in US law as "family" property. Who owns the house? That is what matters.
2. Wills mean nothing until the testator dies. You have no right in property owned by someone else simply because they intend to leave it to you when they die.
3. If there is a question about stepdad's legal ability to act on Mom's behalf get a lawyer NOW to get an injuction against the sale until the matter is resolved.


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For almost a decade, legendary Cuban music groups like Los Munequitos de Matanzas and Septeto Nacional were refused visas to perform in the United States. But that's about to change.
On Wednesday, a coalition of New York arts organizations including BAM and the Joyce Theater announced the "Si Cuba!" Festival, a joint production that will bring artists, musicians, dancers, and filmmakers from Cuba to perform and share their work at venues citywide. The festival kicks off at the end of March.
Just a few years earlier, such a festival would not have been possible. During the Bush administration, Cuban artists were not allowed to perform in the States. But when Obama took office, artists' visas began to be issued again, drawing praise from Cuban music fans and ire from some anti-Castro groups.
Cuban and American cultures have long been deeply intertwined, especially during the pre-revolutionary days when Cuban music styles like rumba and mambo were wildly popular in the U.S., and Americans flocked to Havana's casinos. Although trade with Cuba has been bared by Treasury embargo since 1960, federal policy on granting artist visas to Cubans has shifted over the years.
Cuban artists came to perform fairly frequently until Ronald Reagan issued a proclamation in 1985 asserting that all Cuban artists were employees of the Cuban government and therefore ineligible for entry to the U.S. Those restrictions were relaxed during the Clinton years, when so called "people-to-people" licenses allowed limited travel between the countries to encourage cultural exchange. After September 11, President Bush shifted policy back to the Reagan proclamation.
Since 2009, those visas have begun to be issued again, but there are still limitations."The process is still complicated by Cuba's designation as a 'State Sponsor of Terror'," says lawyer Bill Martinez, who specializes in Cuban artist visas. "Cuban artists are still required to wait for an unpredictably long time for their enhanced security clearances from the State department. The average is eight weeks."
Earlier this year, the Creole Choir of Cuba didn't receive their visas in time to perform at GlobalFest, a major world music festival in New York. But organizers of "Si Cuba!" are confident that visas for the festival's artists will be issued by the time the festival starts. "We won't really know that until it actually happens," says BAM president Karen Hopkins. "But it feels better…The level of professionalism of the companies, the easing of travel restrictions, the fact that it's a festival, we believe that all of that inures to the favorable review of these visas."
Those groups include musical legends like the nearly century-old son ensemble Septeto Nacional, as well as dance groups like the National Cuban Ballet and Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, who will be making their U.S. debuts. Other events include a performance by rapper and poet Telmary Diaz and the Havana Film Festival New York, showcasing contemporary Cuban cinema.
The idea for the festival began when Hopkins noticed that several New York City cultural institutions were programming Cuban events in the same time period. They decided to band together and promote their events as a single festival.
It's a long way from 2005, when members of the Buena Vista Social Club were denied entry to the U.S. even to take home their Grammy awards. Hopkins says it's about time. "Cuba is a completely magical place, it's five minutes from our shores and yet it's completely cut off. It has an incredible cultural history," she says.
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For about five years in the late 1970s and the early 1980s they put on a show, a soccer show, at Giants Stadium. While it lasted it was magnificent and dazzling ... and then it burnt itself out, and we were left with nothing.
What could one do after that? Was there even the possibility of an encore? Almost certainly not, but the idea itself was alluring, a will o'the wisp that has proved a fatal attraction to all sorts of soccer people -- owners, general managers, coaches, players, fans -- ever since.
The Cosmos -- or a withered, emaciated version of the Cosmos -- died in 1984. Twelve years later -- yes, that's how long it took, 12 years -- they were reborn as the MetroStars. That's what happened, even though everyone involved with the new club was determined that there should be no links with the past, that this was a totally new beginning.
Nice idea, but it never had a chance. The Cosmos legend haunted the MetroStars from Day 1. It drew a huge opening day crowd of 46,800 in 1996, and when those fans saw the truth of the MetroStars, saw that they were a commonplace team, not fit for comparison with the royalty that had been the Cosmos ... most of those fans never returned.
The MetroStars quickly became the RotMasters -- a pathetically poor team, despite a succession of top coaches and top players. Not only did the Rots fail to live up to the daunting Cosmos standards, they failed to produce anything that was even halfway decent in soccer terms. And, of course, they never won anything.
What looked like a lifeline came in 2006 when the club acquired what every ambitious soccer club needs these days: a super-rich backer, the Red Bull organization from Austria. But nothing changed, Futility, as ever, reigned. The Red Bulls soon became the ThredBears. Even the USA's top coach, Bruce Arena, could not exorcize the damaging memories of Cosmos past, nor light the fuse for a brighter future.
Exit Arena, yet another coaching flop in this snake-bitten franchise. Enter Juan Carlos Osorio. And what difference has he made? As of now, not much. The ThredBears are in last place in their division, familiar territory for them.
But life at the bottom brings with it the solace of hope. As things cannot get worse, surely they must get better. And yesterday, with that resounding 4-1 over D.C. United, hope dared to raise its head slightly higher, a little more confidently, than before.
Osorio has been making changes to the NY/NJ RedBulls/ThredBears roster. No big names, but the players being added show signs of something that has not been seen before: they give an indication of style.
All of Osorio's recent signings are Latino players -- two Venezuelans, Jorge Rojas and Gabriel Cichero, an Argentine Juan Pietravallo, and a Mexican Diego Jimenez. Add in Juan Pablo Angel and you have a solid spinal column from defense to forward of Latino players.
Is this style-solidity important? I think it is. Coaches are rather fond of using terms like "we're all on the same page" and "we're all singing from the same hymn sheet" -- they're talking about the necessity of a uniform style, a quick, instinctive understanding among the players: the fundamentals of style.
Given the many false dawns of the Rots/ThredBears lifetime, I'm not about to claim that a single 4-1 win over D.C. is going to change everything. But I do think that there were aspects of that win that looked ... hopeful.
To take but one on-field aspect: No one would question that Angel is a class act. But as a forward, a goalscorer he needs help, he needs a sharp, quick-moving, quick-thinking partner up front -- and he has not had that. Now Rojas looks the part, and the symbiosis between the two will surely also benefit Mike Magee, whose time with the club has so far been stronger on promise than actual performance.
The Cosmos were always able to play with style, oodles of it, because they had superior players who responded naturally and easily to their own innate soccer impulses and to those of their teammates. Within MLS, the overall caliber of play has never reached that level. The Designated Player is a start, but fitting that one superstar into a team of lesser mortals is the tricky bit -- a question of stylistic compatibility.
I'm not suggesting that Osorio's team will quickly become the Cosmos reborn. But one of the key elements in building a team that can play well, consistently well, appears to be in place: playing style. Osorio knows the style, primarily a Latin style, that he wants his team to play. It makes total sense that the style will suit the play of the Red Bulls' DP, Angel -- a Latin player (and like Osorio, a Colombian).
With a defining style there is hope. Without it, the Red Bulls will continue to be what they have been for so long, merely a wildly varied assortment of diverse players. As it happens, that's just what the Cosmos were -- but with a level of talent that transcended the differences and allowed real team play to flourish.
For the Red Bulls, choral play will not come spontaneously because the overall talent level is not there. But with a strong nucleus of players selected -- as Osorio appears to have selected them -- for their style as well as their skill .. . yes, there is hope yet for this sad New York or New Jersey or whatever club.


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PPDRs, biofuels, risk and knowledge
I suspect that most readers returning to this blog post-Purdah will wonder what are the PPDRs of the subject line (and the PP is not 'post-Purdah'…). PPDR stands for Personal Performance and Development Review, and represents a formal annual interview of individuals with their line managers (at BBSRC and elsewhere). They are one of the mechanisms, and a very valuable one, that helps to ensure that an organisation and its people – at different places in the wider or narrow scheme of things – are working effectively. As an annual event they have a season, and this starts after Easter, such that I have conducted three this week alone. (Of course I have my own PPDR, that happens later in the summer.)
As with the previous two blogs (before Easter), my activities continue to include meetings designed to develop our thinking (and strategies and delivery) in the Bioenergy and Industrial Biotechnology space. To this end we had a useful meeting with the leaders of BP's Biofuels activities, since it is not news that they have been making major investments here. From the perspective of the Research Base, where we recognise that this needs to happen bigtime in the world of manufacturing, it is highly encouraging that such companies have already joined the party for the development of the Knowledge-Based Bio-Economy.
The Technology Strategy Board is an important partner of BBSRC (and of other Research Councils) with regard to helping to turn science and innovation into economic and social benefits, and we had a very useful meeting as part of a regular series.
An important consideration, in a world largely organised by humans on the basis of human knowledge, is the role of science in understanding human risks and how we might best choose to mitigate them within the constraints of finite resources for doing so. This is clearly a nexus of Governments and Research Councils generally, and it is hardly news on a historical or indeed geological timescale that societies are exposed to risks. Thus I much enjoyed attending the inaugural Sheffield Leonardo lecture on this topic given by Sir John Beddington, the Government's Chief Scientific Advisor. His authoritative talk partly reflected recent events and dangers such as Swine Flu, space weather, Chernobyl and Fukushima Dai'ichi, casino 'high-frequency trading', and so on. More generally, he recognised that we need collectively to think about (and thereby act on) the consequences of areas such as Prediction, Vulnerabilities, Complex Cause and Effect, Emergencies, Rational Responses, and their resultant effects on Growth. Consequently, another important theme involved rehearsing the fact that Risk and Hazard are not the same thing (roughly, risk = hazard x exposure), a fact not universally recognised in the setting of EU legislation that in some areas such as the deployment of fungicides at low concentrations that seems to be based on hazard alone.
To be clear: the effect of a large asteroid hitting the Earth constitutes a hazard in that it could happen and it would potentially be catastrophic. However, the likelihood (exposure) is low (and entirely calculable). Consequently the risk is small.
The concept of likelihood is intimately bound up with the question of how we come to believe what we do, and this is an important part of scientific reasoning. This is especially so from a Bayesian point of view, and I much enjoyed reading a clear and formal (and not so new) exposition of this. Thoroughly recommended.
I remain very interested in this question of the formalisation of scientific reasoning, and – following the original Robot Scientist paper – a new article sets down such an approach and its application to the (more or less) automated reuse of scientific knowledge.
- Howson C, Urbach P: Scientific reasoning: the Bayesian approach. Chicago: Open Court, 1989
- King RD, Whelan KE, Jones FM, Reiser PGK, Bryant CH, Muggleton SH, Kell DB, Oliver SG: Functional genomic hypothesis generation and experimentation by a robot scientist. Nature 2004; 427:247-252
- King RD, Liakata M, Lu C, Oliver SG, Soldatova LN: On the formalization and reuse of scientific research. J R Soc Interface 2011. Full free text
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Sen. Jon Tester held an open house in Missoula on October 26 to promote the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act, an innovative, collaborative piece of legislation that seeks to change public land management for the better here in Montana (see "Etc." Oct. 29, 2009). Significantly, among the information provided was the news that fellow Sen. Max Baucus would be co-sponsoring the legislation with Tester.
Montanans, I'm sure, are generally familiar with the authority and influence that the senior Sen. Baucus holds now in the U.S. Senate. It's a position that can't come easily, especially when one considers that Baucus is a Democrat in a state that tends to vote the other political direction, a fact that seems to make some sit uneasy. His accomplishments are a testament to the thought and care Baucus invests in his decision-making. Baucus doesn't provide his endorsement fickly; he recognizes that a state with a prevalent conservative inclination will show him the door if he fails to produce beneficial results on progressive legislation. It must be a trying balance to maintain, but the ultimate effect is sensible and responsive representation.
Another word for it is pragmatism, which for me having lived in this state my entire life, is a decidedly Montanan sensibility. We're less concerned here with ideology than on-the-ground results. Inevitably, such a commitment to practicality requires compromise, humility and perspective, all of which were ingredients in this legislation. If one looks toward those who oppose this bill, you'll be hard-pressed to find these qualities in abundance. Less moderate environmental organizations—many with external, national affiliations—are among the more vocal. That's because they remain dedicated to axioms that don't fit reality. The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA) is their manifestation, a land management policy that is as antiquated as it is foolhardy.
Opponents of the other persuasion along with some media outlets try to frame this legislation as a kind of wilderness advocate conspiracy. The suggestion seems to be that conservationists have something to gain by expediting the process. It is true that during Tester's open house, the details he chose to emphasize related more to stewardship contracting than they did to wilderness acreage. That's because the inclusion of wilderness in the bill is a well documented, if not excessively belabored component of the legislation, while the fact that 7,000 acres of trees will be cut every year for 10 years seems to get lost somewhere in the squabble. Once again, truth belies popular misconception: It is the wood-products industry that has the most to gain from prompt passage of this bill. Wilderness advocates, in fact, have the luxury of time with NREPA constantly looming in the background, introduced with each congressional session and gaining credence, while Montana's logging and milling operations die a slow death of attrition until Montana no longer has the harvesting infrastructure to manage its vast acreages of public land.
Before anyone had even conceived of something like the Clean Water Act on the national level, Montana wrote the commitment to such in its very state constitution. Montana has been establishing precedents in the arena of land policy and politics since it joined the union. Now we as a state have the opportunity to perpetuate that legacy once again.
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Texas governor's bloody clothes are centerpiece of JFK anniversary
By Jim Forsyth
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The Texas State Archives will display the bullet-riddled clothes worn by former Texas Governor John Connally on the day he was wounded and President John F. Kennedy was assassinated 50 years ago in Dallas.
The white cotton shirt, with faded bloodstains clearly visible, and a black business suit are the centerpiece of a display in Austin, Texas that starts October 22 to mark the Kennedy assassination in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The exhibit will run through February 14.
"I think it makes it real," Sarah Norris, the conservator for the Texas State Library and Archives Commission said of Connally's clothing. "You can read about it and you can think about it, but to actually be in the room with it certainly gives you pause."
Connally, then-governor of Texas, was riding with his wife, Nellie, in the jumpseat of the open-topped limousine while Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, were in the back seat driving through Dallas when Lee Harvey Oswald opened fire.
The Warren Commission set up to investigate the assassination concluded that Connally was hit by the same bullet that first hit Kennedy.
"There are bullet holes both in the back and the front of the suit jacket," she said. "There is one bullet hole in the wearer's right cuff, and there is another in the left leg, on the front."
John Anderson, who as preservation Officer for the Commission is responsible for taking care of the items of clothing, said it was only by accident that the clothing survived that day.
"The governor was in extreme pain as they were trying to remove his trousers at the hospital, and he said something to the effect of 'just cut the damn things off,' but then he lost consciousness," he said. Continued...


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Knife-Wielding Man Shuts Down Sacramento Light Rail
A knife wielding man was shot and killed by police on a light rail passenger train in Sacramento on Saturday night.
Emergency calls brought two Sacramento police officers to the train, which was stopped at the 13th Street station at 9:15 p.m.
Once on board, officers confronted a man in his 50's who was reportedly suicidal according to Sgt. Michelle Gigante.
After officers tased the man, he lunged at them with a knife, so they we're forced to shoot the man multiple times. He was rushed to the U.C. Davis Medical Center where he later died.
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Dr Browning named President at Ohlone College
Wednesday, April 30, 2008—Reprinted from India Post.
Fremont, CA: Ohlone College's Board of Trustees has appointed Dr Gari Browning as the new President/Superintendent at Ohlone College. Dr Browning has a wealth of experience as a senior community college official. She comes to Ohlone from the College of the Desert where she currently serves as their Vice President of Instruction.
Prior to her current assignment, she served with the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). She earned a Bachelors degree in Linguistics from UC Irvine, a Masters degree in Teaching English as a Second Language from UCLA, and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from UCLA. "Although the Board felt that all three finalists were highly qualified, the Board believes that Dr Browning is the best fit for Ohlone College at this time," said Board of Trustees President, Garrett Yee.
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I am running Observer NMS on a FreeBSD 6.4 Machine.
And it is reading m0n0wall interfaces like xl0, xl1, fxp0, enc0, lo0
I could not get to read ng0 interface which holds the IP assigned by the ISP
In observer config
### Interface name strings to ignore
$config['bad_if'] = array("null", "virtual-", "unrouted", "eobc", "mpls",
"sl0", "lp0", "faith0",
"-atm layer", "-atm subif", "-shdsl", "-adsl", "-aal5", "-atm",
"async", "plip", "-physical", "-signalling", "control plane",
"bri", "-bearer", "bluetooth", "isatap", "ras", "qos",
"miniport", "lo0", "enc0");
There was "ng" and I removed it ,
It did not work, I tried removing "virtual-" nothing happened ,
Then I told observer to ignore nothing
But I could not manage to read ng0 interface
Although it is up and holds the IP assigned by ISP
Am I missing some thing here?
It is important because I need to get syslog-NG to work, and I cannot unless
I know the WAN IP for each m0n0wall on observer. Which is not assigned to
physical interface on m0n0wall because my WAN connection is set to PPPoE
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Hello everyone! I'm Josephine, single, but I am a happy foster mother to a 2 year-old girl. I am interested to generate some answers to my query regarding, when is the right age for a woman to be physically mature to be able to conceived a baby of her own. I heard of some friends say that there is this definite "range" of early adult age that could be the best time to get pregnant and surely conceived a healthy baby. Thanks everyone.


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Oklahoma Star
|Oklahoma Star P-6
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|Dennis Reed (TB)

Grandsire:	Lobos (TB)

Maternal grandsire:	Gulliver

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|Tommy Moore
|Tommy Moore, Ronald Mason
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For many years, Oklahoma Star was known simply as the 'Tommy Moore Horse', after his breeder, owner, trainer and race jockey.[1] He was an influential Quarter Horse stallion in the early days of the breed.
Oklahoma Star foaled in 1915 in Oklahoma and raced in match races for many years throughout Oklahoma.[2] He was bred by Tommy Moore of Oklahoma.[3] Eventually, he was registered with the American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA), as number 6 in the stud book. His stud book entry gives his breeding as being sired by Dennis Reed, a Thoroughbred, with a first dam being Cutthroat by Gulliver by Missouri Rondo. The second dam was given as OK by Dan Tucker. However, this is a corrected entry. The original entry had the same sire and dam, but the original entry had Cutthroat by Bonnie Joe, a Thoroughbred and out of Big Em by Rocky Mountain Tom.[4] Cutthroat's breeding still remains somewhat murky, as Moore was evasive about her exact breeding.[5][1][6][7]
Moore raced Star all over Oklahoma, matching him against all comers, usually riding Star himself because of fears that the opposing side would bribe the jockey. Because Moore was almost fifty years old and weighed about 150 pounds, this meant that Star didn't always win every race, but he won enough. Ronald Mason, who later owned Star, later told Robert Denhardt that the best race distance for Star was an eighth of a mile.[3] Oklahoma Star was a mahogany bay in color, with just a white star on his forehead, a small white spot on his left foreleg, and a white sock on his left hind leg.[7]
Eventually, Moore was forced to sell Star, and after passing through a few other owners, eventually Star was sold to Ronald Mason of Nowata, Oklahoma, who registered him with the AQHA.[2][4][7] He died in the ownership of Ronald Mason on February 14, 1943.[1]
Among his famous offspring were Nowata Star, Star Deck, Oklahoma Star Jr and Sizzler.[1] Two of his foals earned Race Register of Merits with the AQHA - M's Grey Lady and Sizzler.[8] Many of his daughters went on to produce racehorses or show horses.[9][8]
He was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame.[10]
|=Bend Or (TB)
|*Golden Garter (TB)
|=Sandal (TB)
|Lobos (TB)
|*Cheviot (TB)
|Temblor (TB)
|Vibrate (TB)
|Dennis Reed (TB)
|Pardee (TB)
|Proteinol (TB)
|*Clara (TB)
|Bess Chitman (TB)
|Euchre (TB)
|Chickweed (TB)
|Chickwick (TB)
|Oklahoma Star P-6
|Missouri Mike
|Missouri Rondo
|Barney Owens
|Dan Tucker
|Lady Bug (Butt Cut)
|Belle K
|Sleepy Kate
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Short The First Twenty Quarter Horses p. 70-75
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Close Legends 2 p. 77-78
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Denhardt "Foundation Sire Oklahoma Star P-6" Quarter Horse Journal December 1963 p. 26-27, 70, 72, 402
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 AQHA Official Stud Book and Registry Combined 1-5 p. 79
- ↑ Denhardt Foundation Dams p. 113
- ↑ All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Oklahoma Star retrieved on June 23, 2007
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Beckman "The Tommy Moore Horse" Quarter Horse Journal May 1991 p. 36-37
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Wagoner Quarter Racing Digest p. 878
- ↑ Wagoner Quarter Horse Reference 1974 Edition p. 502
- ↑ AQHA Hall of Fame accessed on February 3, 2008
- All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Oklahoma Star retrieved on June 23, 2007
- AQHA Hall of Fame accessed on February 3, 2008
- Beckman, Bruce "The Tommy Moore Horse" Quarter Horse Journal May 1991 p. 36-37
- Close, Pat ed. Legends 2: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares Colorado Springs:Western Horseman 1994 ISBN 0-911647-30-9
- Denhardt, Robert M. Foundation Dams of the American Quarter Horse Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press 1982
- Denhardt, Robert M. " Foundation Sire Oklahoma Star P-6" Quarter Horse Journal December 1963 p. 26-27, 70, 72, 402
- Short, Victoria The First Twenty Quarter Horses:Their Lives and Legacies Wamego, KS:Premier Publishing 1996
- Wagoner, Dan Quarter Horse Reference 1974 Edition Grapevine, Texas:Equine Research 1974
- Wagoner, Dan Quarter Racing Digest: 1940 to 1976 Grapevine, Texas:Equine Research 1976
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Flash on Android: It sucks, but it works (sometimes)
August 31st, 2010
Flash's much-heralded, much-delayed appearance on Android with Froyo has received its share of attention, from both overly optimistic and relentlessly critical sources, and it's difficult to give it a clear assessment at this point. A variety of videos have shown Flash running reasonably well, while others show it with its pants down around its ankles. The best verdict you can give it right now is, it depends on what you're trying to do.
Apple's argument has long been that Flash's performance is not up to snuff on mobile devices, and there's plenty of evidence to support that position. Even with the 10.1 update, many Flash-based sites run poorly, especially when playing video. Errors, choppy playback, failure to load and other problems are common. GigaOM's Ryan Lawler, cutting to the chase as he presents a video by Kevin Tofel struggling with several different video sites on his Nexus One, concludes:
While in theory Flash video might be a competitive advantage for Android users, in practice it's difficult to imagine anyone actually trying to watch non-optimized web video on an Android handset, all of which makes one believe that maybe Steve Jobs was right to eschew Flash in lieu of HTML5 on the iPhone and iPad.
However, I had another sort of experience with Flash on Android this weekend, which proves (at least to me) that there's another side to the story.
I had recently shown my Web Foundation class the nifty Flash-based interactive video for "Sleepeater" by the New Zealand band Shihad. The song got stuck in my head, and I wanted to download it; and it happened, as these things often do these days, while I was in my car. (No, I wasn't driving at the time.) However, the band's latest album won't be released for a few weeks, and a search on iTunes via my iPhone turned up nothing. (The song is actually available in the New Zealand iTunes store, but a kiwi I am not.)
So, I turned to the most logical source in a situation like this: MySpace. As luck would have it, Shihad's MySpace page had the song in its music player, and it didn't care what country I'm in. The MySpace music player, as you are probably aware, is Flash-based. I loaded their page on my Dolphin HD browser, scrolled over to the player, and tapped it to download the Flash piece, which went relatively smoothly. After it appeared, I tapped the song in the playlist, and after a bit more non-Flash-related fumbling to turn on the sound, my car filled with the song I would otherwise be unable to hear.
Now, the experience was not fantastic — the player is slow, it's not very responsive, and of course the sound quality is fairly mediocre. But it worked. And the reason why that's relevant should, I hope, be obvious: there's an awful lot of content on the Web that's locked up (or set free, depending on your point of view) in Flash, and many people will want to get to it, sooner or later, on a mobile device.
Apple's approach is to try to convince the world it doesn't need Flash content, because people can download an app to do the same thing; but that only works for the content someone has decided to put into an app. The same is true of HTML5 content. Howling reports of atrocious Flash video performance aside, there is a valid reason for wanting to use Flash on a phone, even if the experience is poor. Video and games may not be ideal candidates, admittedly. But the next time you just have to see or hear something on your phone and it happens to be in Flash, Android at least gives you a chance of success that is greater than zero.
That may be faint praise, it may not be a selling point for everyone, but it's difficult to accept the idea that you should be glad your iPhone and iPad are absolutely, unequivocally unable to play Flash. Rocking out to "Sleepeater" in my car the past few days, I was certainly glad not to be stuck with Apple's decision.
Apple grabs 48% of mobile profit with 3% of the handsets
August 19th, 2010
Android fans have been crowing over a Nielsen report that Android phones outsold the iPhone in the first six months of 2010, and it is likely a harbinger of things to come. Android's carrier ubiquity and choice of hardware almost guarantee its eventual rise to smartphone OS marketshare leader.
However, the real story for Apple continues to be profit, as a recent report reminds us: Apple earned 48% of mobile hardware revenue in Q2 (you know, where the revenue actually comes from) despite selling only 3% of the units that quarter. The numbers echo its position in the PC market, where it commands 35% of the operating profit with 7% of the market share.
Make no mistake: Apple has enjoyed its position as the king of the smartphone era, and it will certainly not fade quietly. While we haven't heard any rumblings on the patent lawsuit front in a while, we probably haven't heard the last of it; like a mama grizzly, Apple is known to aggressively defend its creations when threatened. With the antenna drama mostly behind it, Apple should be able to focus on 7″ iPads or magic levitating iPhones or whatever else it's cooking up next (my vote is for streaming your iTunes library via LaLa technology, but I'm not holding my breath).
However, even when iOS is no longer the dominant smartphone platform, Apple will still sit at the top of the profit heap, which will give them the capital to thrive even without controlling the market. And the iPhone shares the sheen of attainable luxury with the rest of Apple's product line, which will likely keep it in the hands of the hip and influential for some time to come.
» Apple Snags 48% of Mobile Profit Pie (GigaOM)
iPhone 4. Where is the iPhone 4? I need an iPhone 4.
June 29th, 2010
(Note: NSFW language)
This video, which I can only assume is making the rounds, beautifully encapsulates both the myopic allegiance of some iPhone users to their favorite device, and the unshakable belief among the tech geek set that simply listing another device's set of superior-on-paper features constitutes an ironclad repudiation of the device in question. (Plus it's just pleasantly weird in its execution, thanks to Xtra Normal.)
As I've pointed out before, for the average user, experience trumps features. "It's better because it's better" is a perfectly sound argument, and I believe it's the primary reason most people buy the iPhone (or most things, really). Like the iPad, it's an emotional purchase more than a rational one — it simply feels right to the people who love it — and Apple's deep understanding of this type of purchasing behavior is what keeps them on top.
(Full disclosure: I own an Evo, and will probably also be buying an iPhone 4 before long.)
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Square will now take your money
May 11th, 2010
Sci-fi convention vendors, street mimes and hot dog cart owners, rejoice! Square, the mobile credit-card-swiping system announced late last year by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, is now open for business. The rare company whose name, logo and product are all the same thing, Square offers a slick and simple method for accepting credit cards through an iPhone, iPad or Android phone, no merchant account or confusing accounting scheme required. That's right, you can now accept credit cards as a buy-in at your weekly poker game, and when someone says, "Dude, I'll give you twenty bucks for that t-shirt," you can say, "Visa or Mastercard?"
Everything about Square screams simplicity, from the cute little card reader you plug into the headphone jack, to the service itself, which sports a beautiful and incredibly straightforward user experience, to the fee system — 2.75% + 15¢ per transaction for swiped cards, period. It also does lots of things the traditional credit card process should do, like email receipts and show the merchant a photo of the card holder for verification. You'll want to get one just to try it out, and there's really no reason not to — the reader, app and setup are all free, and available today. Now you just have to come up with something worth buying.
» Square Web site (and Fast Company, via Gizmodo)
Pot, Meet Kettle: Steve Jobs on "closed," "proprietary" Flash
April 29th, 2010
In a case of selective fact-picking reminiscent of the most bitter divorce battles, Steve Jobs posted an open letter today about Apple's ongoing hate-hate relationship with Flash. Among the juiciest tidbits is this statement about Flash's openness:
Adobe's Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Adobe's Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe and available only from Adobe. By almost any definition, Flash is a closed system.
Substitute "Apple's iPhone" for "Adobe's Flash," and you'll have a similarly true statement. More funtastic highlights after the break.
Well played, Apple
April 20th, 2010
Only one thing is definitely true about the headline-grabbing melodrama going on over at Gizmodo: it's all good news for Apple. It doesn't even matter whether the alleged iPhone 4.0 prototype really was left in a bar by an overserved young Apple engineer — they've garnered a huge amount of attention throughout an entire news cycle, without actually revealing anything definitive (only a new piece of hardware that may or may not be the actual iPhone 4-HD-whatever), while sowing just enough doubt to keep some of the wavering faithful from leaving the fold for one of the sexy new Android phones like the Droid Incredible (arguably worth a few lost sales between now and June). And there's still plenty left to reveal in June, including the actual screen resolution, front-facing camera (or not), and whatever else Gizmodo didn't uncover. And they get valuable early feedback on the design — whether or not they could or would ever tweak it based on such feedback — while still being able to claim it's not the final unit. And, hell, they could probably still even sue Gizmodo if they wanted, if the whole thing started to look too perfect.
Fake? Leaked? Stolen? Red herring? It doesn't even matter. Apple wins.
PhoneGap is kosher, says Apple — whither Titanium?
April 15th, 2010
Engadget is reporting (based on a post on PhoneGap developer Jesse Macfayden's blog) that Apple has confirmed that apps created with cross-platform dev tool PhoneGap will not be rejected based solely on their use of the tool.
Apple's recent change to the iPhone OS 4.0 SDK agreement has had the development community in a tizzy for the past week — tools such as Adobe's Flash-based Packager for iPhone, Novell's C#-based MonoTouch and 3D game development tool Unity all seem to be forbidden under the new terms.
However, the fate of other tools such as PhoneGap and Appcelerator's Titanium has been unclear, since they use Javascript, HTML and CSS to create native code. PhoneGap now appears to be in the clear, but Titanium functions differently, and the differences could be a problem for Appcelerator.
Why you shouldn't fear the iAdpocalypse
April 12th, 2010
Amidst the excitement over multitasking, the Game Center, folders and the other new features announced for the iPhone OS 4.0 on Thursday, there has been an undercurrent of dread among some over another new iPhone initiative — Apple's new iAd advertising program:
As far as I'm concerned, that particular ad is sucking away 1/8th of my experience, jamming its nose in my portal to a device that I paid (a lot) to own and use. 1/8th is too much in my book, and it infuriates me that the guy who sold me this phone is the same guy selling someone a means to take part of that phone from me.
» Apple Wants 1/8th of Your iPhone Back—Don't Give It to Them
(Mark Wilson, Gizmodo)
Without addressing all of his points — and his argument makes some sense — Wilson is really trying to push back the tide when it comes to mobile advertising. Though mobile is a minuscule portion of overall digital advertising, and though display advertising is itself a tiny percentage of overall mobile advertising spending (some numbers and analysis from TechCrunch here), in-app mobile ads are here to stay, and are only going to get bigger. (Literally.)
The Apple-Adobe Street Fight Continues
April 11th, 2010
The hubbub over the changes in the iPhone 4.0 SDK agreement continues to spin out of control across the Interwebs, with bloggers, the commentariat, Adobe developers and even Steve Jobs himself jumping in to take a swing. Oh, it's getting exciting! Tune in after the break for a blow-by-blow recap.
Ruh roh — Apple bans Flash-to-iPhone
April 8th, 2010
As reported on Daring Fireball, Apple's new iPhone SDK 4.0 appears to explicitly ban apps made using cross-compilers (tools that allow you to create iPhone apps using other languages, APIs and third-party tools). This includes not only Adobe's upcoming Flash-based Packager for iPhone tool, a central gem in the Flash CS5 crown, but also up-and-coming third-party tools like Titanium:
My reading of this new language is that cross-compilers, such as the Flash-to-iPhone compiler in Adobe's upcoming Flash Professional CS5 release, are prohibited. This also bans apps compiled using MonoTouch — a tool that compiles C# and .NET apps to the iPhone. It's unclear what this means for tools like Titanium and PhoneGap, which let developers write JavaScript code that runs in WebKit inside a native iPhone app wrapper. They might be OK. This tweet from the PhoneGap Twitter account suggests they're not worried. The folks at Appcelerator realize, though, that they might be out of bounds with Titanium. Ansca's Corona SDK, which lets you write iPhone apps using Lua, strikes me as out of bounds.
While Apple is certainly within their rights to decide how developers create iPhone apps — and developer enthusiasm for the iPhone OS is likely to only get stronger with the iPad in the mix — it's another example of Apple's tendency to wield its godlike power over the platform with a heavy hand. Oops, did we forget to mention we just invalidated a bunch of companies' business models while you were all marveling over the new multitasking features? But then, it has always struck me as insanely dangerous to hang one's fortunes on the grace of such a fickle overlord in the first place.
» New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone Compiler (Daring Fireball)
Update: Jon Gruber follows up with a very well-reasoned examination of the likely thinking behind Apple's decision. The quick summary: it's good for everyone but producers of third-party app-building software (and, of course, the developers who use it). For those who were hoping for a shortcut: time to crack open Objective-C for Dummies.


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Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 428270, 13 pages
Dynamic Fuzzy Logic-Ant Colony System-Based Route Selection System
1Department of Electrical Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman 76169-133, Iran
2International Center for Science, High Technology, and Environmental Sciences, Kerman, Iran
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Route selection in metropolises based on specific desires is a major problem for city travelers as well as a challenging demand of car navigation systems. This paper introduces a multiparameter route selection system which employs fuzzy logic (FL) for local pheromone updating of an ant colony system (ACS) in detection of optimum multiparameter direction between two desired points, origin and destination (O/D). The importance rates of parameters such as path length and traffic are adjustable by the user. In this system, online traffic data are supplied directly by a traffic control center (TCC) and further minutes traffic data are predicted by employing artificial neural networks (ANNs). The proposed system is simulated on a region of London, United Kingdom, and the results are evaluated.


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One of the many animal talent fairies, Beck, wonders what else is in the world besides Pixie Hollow. She gets help from another fairy and a flock of birds that travel with her until she realizes where she is really needed.
I have said this before but I love the Disney fairies series more than Disney Princesses. The fairies find what their purpose is by finding their talent. Princesses kind of wait for fate to decide what their lives may be.
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....obviously wanted to die at the hands of police.
I hope they slam him hard with criminal charges.
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Man shot after pulling gun in police station
He points weapon at officer, gets hit in arm, cops say
January 23, 2007
BY ANNIE SWEENEY Crime Reporter
Chicago Police shot a man in the arm Monday afternoon after he walked into a police station and pointed a gun at officers, authorities said.
The man, whose name was not released, walked into the Grand Crossing station, 7040 S. Cottage Grove, about 4:30 p.m., approached an officer who was on the phone and said, 'Can I have a word with you?''' District Cmdr. John Franklin said. The officer responded by telling him yes, but to wait until he was off the phone, Franklin said.
'He didn't say a word'
After the officer hung up -- within a couple of minutes -- he turned to the man and asked what he wanted. The man reached into his pants pocket and pulled out a gun, according to Franklin.
"He didn't say a word, he just pulled out his weapon,'' Franklin said.
An officer behind the desk fired his weapon at the man after he refused to drop the weapon, which was cocked, Franklin said. He did not know whether it was loaded.
The man was shot in the upper left arm and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
Franklin had been at the desk just seconds before the man walked into the station. He heard the shooting from his office. "I heard, 'Gun, gun! He's got a gun,''' he said. "I heard pow, pow, pow. And I could see a cloud of gun powder.''
Franklin said one of the bullets shattered his window, and he used a side door to get back to the front desk.
At that point the man was on the ground. He appeared upset, but never indicated about what, Franklin said.
Franklin said there were civilians in the station at the time, but none was in the line of fire. Charges were pending.
OK, I'll be the first to say it. See, cops CAN just shoot people in the arm!
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....obviously wanted to die at the hands of police.
I hope they slam him hard with criminal charges.
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suicide by cop, gone wrong ?
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To quote Steve Irwin - ''Crikey" - - - that could have gone down a whole lot different .
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Cloud of gunpowder??!!??
Did someone have a flintlock or something? What the heck!
...He suggested that "every American citizen" should own a rifle and train with it on firing ranges "at every courthouse." -Chesty Puller
That guy shoulda known that handguns are illegal in Chicago, and he can't have them there. Maybe he was just trying to turn it in like a good law abiding criminal...
Ok, I'm done being sarcastic. Either he was drugged up on something, or wanted to have suicide by cop.
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Wow....I can't imagine wanting to die that badly.
"Do not fear those who disagree with you; fear those that do and are too cowardly to admit it" - Napoleon
He obviously had a death wish. It's just like people that intentionally drive head on into a tractor-trailer. Mike Z
"fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen.'' Warren vs District of Columbia
At that point the man was on the ground. He appeared upset, but never indicated about what, Franklin said.
Now, I'm just guessin', here, but I'm gonna say, ". . . upset about being SHOT! That'd get to anybody!
I'm wondering . . . One guy, who sounds like he was just calmly standing there, did not fire, did not aim his gun at the cops . . . Why did a shot go so wild that it broke the other officer's office window? How many shots were fired, by how many officers, and how many hit the subject? That other cop is lucky he wasn't hit, I suppose.
BG lived to misbehave another day. Officers need some more range time.
Looks like an attempted "suicide by cop"! Glad that there isn't someone that now has to have that on their mind.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Twilight" has quickly become the biggest home-video release of the year, selling 5.6 million units during its first eight days, according to trade publication Home Media Magazine.
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Quantifying axial deformations of core shear walls using modal parameters
Moragaspitiya, Praveen, Thambiratnam, David, Perera, Nimal, & Chan, Tommy H.T. (2011) Quantifying axial deformations of core shear walls using modal parameters. In The First International Postgraduate Conference on Engineering, Designing and Developing the Built Environment for Sustainable Wellbeing, 27-29 April 2011, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld.
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Differential axial deformation between column elements and shear wall elements of cores increase with building height and geometric complexity. Adverse effects due to the differential axial deformation reduce building performance and life time serviceability. Quantifying axial deformations using ambient measurements from vibrating wire, external mechanical and electronic strain gauges in order to acquire adequate provisions to mitigate the adverse effects is well established method. However, these gauges require installing in or on elements to acquire continuous measurements and hence use of these gauges is uneconomical and inconvenient. This motivates to develop a method to quantify the axial deformations. This paper proposes an innovative method based on modal parameters to quantify axial deformations of shear wall elements in cores of buildings. Capabilities of the method are presented though an illustrative example.
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Kendall Jenner Scores Spot on Givenchy Campaign
Her sister Kim Kardashian is tight with Riccardo Tisci, so it's no wonder Kendall Jenner got connected with the new Givenchy ad spread.
The "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" cutie appears in a new image from the Fall 2014 campaign alongside Peter Brant, Jamie Bouchert and Mariacarla Boscono.
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Each year, AA-ISP recognizes 25 individuals who display the following characteristics across the organization's 37 chapters in the U.S., Canada, Europe and India:
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The rest of us at ZoomInfo congratulate Mark and the rest of his team on their remarkable achievements.