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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – UAB's volleyball team (12-6, 1-1 C-USA) will continue Conference USA play on the road this weekend. Its first stop will be at East Carolina (7-10, 0-2 C-USA) on Friday, Oct. 4 at 6 p.m. CT. Then the team will face Middle Tennessee (9-6, 1-1 C-USA) in Murfreesboro, Tenn. on Sunday at 1 p.m. CT.
The Blazers and Pirates will meet for the 22nd time in school history on Friday. UAB currently holds a 16-5 series lead and has won the last nine meetings between the two teams. Most recently, UAB defeated ECU 3-0 in Birmingham.
On Sunday, UAB and Middle Tennessee will face off for the 16th time in school history. The Blazers enter the match with an 11-4 series lead over the Blue Raiders. The teams met twice last season, splitting the matches. Middle Tennessee took the first match 3-0, while UAB defeated the Blue Raiders 3-1 in the second meeting.
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So far this season UAB has accumulated 888 kills for an average of 13.25 per set, while serving up 12.22 assists per set. The team is hitting a clip of .255, a mark that ranks second in the conference and 48th in the nation. The Blazers average of 1.36 aces per set is also second among C-USA teams. Defensively, UAB has been solid with a league-best 2.58 blocks per set, while tallying 14.37 digs per set.
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East Carolina has amassed 668 kills to average 11.41 per set, while dishing out an average of 10.81 assists per set. The Pirates are currently sixth in the conference in 15.03 digs per set and holding their opponents to just .187 hitting average. Nicole Willis leads the team in kills with 237 for an average of 4.09 per set.
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Middle Tennessee has put down a total of 665 kills for an average of 12.09 per set so far this season. The Blue Raiders rank fourth in the conference in blocks, averaging 2.48 per set. They are led by Tyler Richardson, a dual-threat, who is averaging 1.22 blocks per set while hitting a clip of .407.
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Puppy chew toys question.
I have done some searching and have not found the answer I am looking for.
I think I read somewhere about "hard" chew toys not being a good idea at some point. I don't remember when that is though. We have a 13 week old and he loves to chew. His favorite is the nylabone that is more of a hard rubber. Problem is, they don't last long. He starts on one end and keeps going until the nubb is almost gone, then we throw it out. I don't like the fact that he ends up eating the little pieces he eventually works off.
My question is, is it ok to get him the harder bones or antlers to chew on? Or is this bad for his teeth? Or is it only bad when his adult teeth start coming in? etc.
When my pup was that young and was teething I used to give him Churpi Chews, they are Himalayan chews that are made of Yak's milk and my pup loved to gnaw on it. When he got older I had to stop giving them to him because he would eat them like rock candy, lol.
I used the Nylabones that were made of the hard stuff not the rubber. I got the larger ones and mine are still in good shape and they are unable to bite pieces of it off, or let me say my two have never bit any off. It turned out to be a good investment for me. :)
I never did this but I've heard that freezing a wet cloth works well as a chew toy...
I never really provided chew toys to my pup. I guess that's why I'm several pairs short of shoes now :c I did give her frozen carrots though...
I would like to get the "hard" nylabones for him, or antlers, I just want to make sure it is ok and will not harm his teeth.
We do the carrots and frozen wash cloth that was soaked with broth, but both of those do not last long. (20 mins or so)
He likes his kong if it is "treated" but otherwise does not really have any interest in chewing on it. He loves his stuffing free toys with squeakers but most squeakers last about 10 mins and then need to be replaced.
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wot kind of mgp is everyone getting out of the 1.3 cdti corsa i recently bought one and thought it would do better than it is how meny miles are you guys getting out of a full tank?? wot can i get more miles to a gallon??
wot kind of mgp is everyone getting out of the 1.3 cdti corsa i recently bought one and thought it would do better than it is how meny miles are you guys getting out of a full tank?? wot can i get more miles to a gallon??
iirc 500-600 rings a bell
Is most of your mileage around and about town?
that'll be why then.
it seems to be better around town that on motor way
I get about 470 to a tank, i have de-restricted airbox, ITG filter and a custom map.
I think i used to get about 550 a tank standard.
you drive a 1.3 90 corsa D
weighs a bit more then the C and has more power then the C, but in saying that i got 400miles driving at 80mph in a full car on a long trip while my astra was at a stealership for a new gearbox..
But when driven sensibly i managed 140miles out a 1/4
If stupidity got me into this, it can get me out of this as wel!!! :twisted:Astra 1.9 CDTi SRi XP"Loads of torque - good for dredging canals" - My beloved C
I could get 520 ish If i drove more efficiently.
i get on average 45mpg
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If you can remove it from the car I can paint it.
I got 563 miles before the red light came on the other week... average cruising speed of 60mph... over 500 of those miles were on the motorway, the majority of the rest were dual carriage way on the way to the motorway...
I'm always getting above 50mpg though
I got 400 old of my D mostly town driving
My first tankful in the C gave me 52mpg (500miles), say 60% motorway driving. I think thats quite good considering I haven't driven a diesel before and was constantly off boost at 1000rpm having to floor it :S
This tankful should be better...
Off boost is probabaly good for your MPG. Once the turbo kicks in your mpg goes all the way down
econemy ftl
haha, i get like 400 a tank, but then my driving doesnt help, but its half and half between town driving and motorways.
Though i got 300miles to half a tank, though i was driving on motorways for all of that, except like 2miles with cruise control on.
the best ive managed to get is 78 mpg, and my god that was a boring drive
now tho im averaging about 56 mpg wiv super diesel
Who gives a monkeys chuff? Get an Industrial Diesel engine, aka the Isuzu 1.7CDTi...
Namby-Pamby 1.3 whats all that about? It's only 1248cc
Aslong as it gets you to sunday service on time It's all good in the hood?
- But for all I know it could be 64.999999999999999mpg
I love you too...
Were better than our petrol driving counterparts
But when did the Corsa C 1.3CDTi get blessed with 90hp? Does the OP have a tuning box
it never did have 90 bhp, i think hes either had his tuned or got a corsa d
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For those unfamiliar with a bootloader, it is a program that controls which applications will run when you boot up your phone. To keep the process of powering on your device the same each time, and to keep out malicious software, the bootloader is usually locked by the manufacturer. But with the large number of Android users who want to add custom software on their phone, some manufacturers have decided to allow for an unlocked bootloader on newer models and are offering tools to unlock older handsets. Of course, we should let you know that if you turn your phone into a brick once the bootloader is unlocked, your warranty becomes useless.
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posted by Z32 on .
I wanted to know how you would know that -4x^2 + 2x +90 / x-5 would be able to factor down to (x-5)(-4x-18)/x-5
By looking at -4x^2 + 2x +90 / x-5 , I would never think that it could be factored down to (x-5)(-4x-18)/x-5
How should I approach it so I know that it could be factored down to (x-5)(-4x-18)/x-5?
First you take out common factors.
-4x^2 + 2x +90 = -2(2x²-x-45)
Is it possible to find a, b such that ab=-45, 2a+b=-1 or a+2b=-1?
Look at the factors of the constant term, namely 45=5*9. Since 2*5-9=1, we can try the factors 5 and 9 in different ways to get:
rather hard to explain in detail here.
this page
gives a reasonable explanation.
I became suspicious when I saw the simple factor x-5 in the denominator, and had a sneaking suspicion that it could also be in the top.
so I subbed in x=5 into the top and sure enough, I got a zero for the result.
(recall the factor theorem, which says that if f(a) = 0 then x-a is a factor)
so I know that
-4x^2 + 2x +90
= (x - 5)(?x ± ?)
now a bit of logic,
what multiplied by x would give me -4x^2 ? , clearly -4x
what multiplied by -5 would give me +90 ? clearly -18
-4x^2 + 2x +90 = (x-5)(-4x-18)
BTW, the answer can be taken further by dividing out the x-5 and simplifying the top
= -2(2x + 9), x cannot be equal to 5


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Aha Moment: John Darnielle and Black Sabbath
Twenty years ago, just as indie rock started to be called indie rock, John Darnielle formed one of its great bands: The Mountain Goats. The New Yorker called Darnielle "America's best non-hip hop lyricist"; his songs are moody, literary, maybe a bit navel-gazey. But Darnielle's biggest influence isn't Leonard Cohen or Nick Drake. He was, and is, a metalhead.
He got hooked as a kid, listening to his babysitter's record collection. In Black Sabbath's "Iron Man," he discovered "the power of these monolithic, iceberg-sized riffs that lodge in your brain. Black Sabbath tries not to hit you in your libido. They hit you in your fists, in your skull."
Darnielle admits that his own music "stylistically couldn't really be further from heavy metal," with its emphasis on lyrics. But he says Black Sabbath inspired him to make his performances similarly visceral. "Even though I work with words," he says, "I'm always wanting to get to that level of poetry where when you say something it's actually a physical event … a single physical, bright, burning moment."
Members of Black Sabbath are reuniting at Lollapalooza this summer.
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The famously little-Englander headline "Fog in the Channel – Europe cut off" was a long time ago. But at times the Channel still seems almost as wide as the "pond", the description of the Atlantic favoured by enthusiasts for the Anglo-American "special relationship".
Certainly this is true of universities. From the rest of Europe we feel we have little to learn. Rather it is the other way round; slowly and uncertainly, other European universities are becoming more like us – more autonomous, more market-oriented and raising their academic game.
With the US, the opposite is true – uncritical, and somewhat skewed, admiration. Our admiration is uncritical because we fail to notice that, although the US has some of the world's best universities, it also has some of the worst (and the two are connected). It is skewed because we believe that the heartland of American higher education is its famous private universities – Harvard, Stanford, Princeton – when in fact it is to be found in the great state universities such as California, Michigan and Wisconsin (which, incidentally, charge lower fees to in-state students than the new £9,000 maximum set by the government here).
But back to Europe. We feel we are superior to most European universities in three ways. First, British universities are not part of state bureaucracies. They employ their own staff (although, in practice, pay and many key conditions are negotiated nationally), determine their own courses, curricula and awards (under the beady gaze of the Quality Assurance Agency) and own their buildings (and even maintain them and build new ones, when they can afford it).
Second, British universities are more enterprising, and even commercial. They have greater financial freedom – including, of course, the freedom to go bust. They have also been blown along by a pro-market wind that every UK government since 1979, including New Labour, has encouraged.
Finally, our universities are, well, just better. They feature much more prominently in global league tables of "top" universities. They are also not obliged to cram in everyone who has passed the baccalaureate, abitur or equivalent, but can choose which students to admit.
However, these supposed superiorities are frailer than they appear. They rely on outrageously anachronistic stereotypes of other European higher education systems. Most European systems have retained more vocationally directed, business-aligned and (possibly) closer-to-market institutions, like the higher professional schools in the Netherlands, a form of education that was abandoned 20 years ago in the UK when polytechnics became universities. While a binary system is not necessarily a good thing, because the comprehensive multi-faculty universities that now dominate UK higher education are probably more flexible and (potentially) entrepreneurial, it is a fact nevertheless.
Even the higher academic quality of UK universities may be exaggerated. League tables measure the effectiveness of global "brands" – and have a marked anglophone bias. But detailed subject-by-subject citation indices often show that our fellow Europeans are our equals and sometimes our superiors in high-quality scientific production.
As for student entry in practice, there is little difference. UK higher education, with 2.5 million students, is a mass system with higher participation rates than many European countries. Three out of four applicants find a place in the first Ucas round; many more do so eventually. In some key subjects, nearly every applicant is admitted. And, of course, there are highly selective institutions in Europe – notably the French grandes écoles.
If a gap does still exist between the UK and other European universities, it is narrowing rapidly. Across the Channel the Bologna process (which aims to create compatibility of degrees throughout Europe), now in its 12th year, has stimulated far-reaching reforms. And the Exzellenz initiative in Germany, which rewards high-achieving institutions with more funding, is probably just as effective as our over-complex research excellence framework. It is certainly lighter-touch. We should not forget, too, that many central and eastern European countries have been much more open to private higher education than the UK.
The Bologna process has also been used to create a powerful European higher education "brand". This model, which attempts to strike a balance between market responsiveness and the public good, is an attractive alternative to the US model. I even once heard the state commissioner for education in Wisconsin ask, only half in jest, how Wisconsin could join the Bologna process. Here we still tend to treat Bologna as a dry-as-dust administrative process concerned solely with course structures, diploma supplements (ie course transcripts) and harmonisation of quality assurance regimes. But we are in danger of missing the plot.
Perhaps we should recognise that we always have been and always will be Europeans and join in what is rapidly becoming a dynamic process. After all, the university was a European invention. Maybe we should participate more wholeheartedly in its reinvention, to which the UK has so much to contribute.
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|November 3rd, 2009, 09:50 AM
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Support for Bundy Hill November 10th, 2009 "Your all Invited to attend!"
There will be a Planning Commission Meeting for Somerset Township on November 10th, 2009. @ 7:00pm
The purpose of this meeting is to hear public comment in regards to the newly drafted ORV Park Ordnance that will allow Bundy Hill Off Road Park to obtain it's permanent operating permit. The results of this meeting will influence the Boards decision on adopting that Ordinance.
Currently, Bundy Hill is operating with a Temporary Permit for the rest of the season.
We are inviting you to attend this meeting, as a show of support for the park. We need to convince the Township Board that by passing this ordinance, it will be good for the community of Somerset Township. They need to be assured that we have a setting to ride that is professionally operated, safe, and family oriented. The Township Board also needs to understand that this park is not only good for the Township, but for the States of Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana also. Numbers will speak volumes on this one!
We would love to see the parking lot of the Township Hall full of Jeeps, Crawlers, and Buggies as the Board Members arrive for the meeting.
This cannot and will not be a Lynch Mob type meeting. It is for public comment only. That means if someone opposes it, they have that right to do so, and they move on.
We will have the opportunity to speak, and when we get the floor, we state our positives in support of the park, and we move on.
There are going to be neighbors that are going to speak out in opposition of the park, so don't take offense to it.
There are neighbors that are also going to speak up in support as well!
If you think you would like to speak on behalf of your Club or Organization in support of the issue, please contact me (PM) and I will add you to the list that we will be giving the Board. We have lined up folks from several Off Road Organizations, to speak on our behalf. After the all of our scheduled speakers have presented there support, then we will have time for the floor to speak were you (The 4x4 community) can make your statements and be heard as well.
Please understand that we need to keep this orderly, and professional at all times.
We would like to thank everyone that has been out to the park, and attended the meetings in the past.
As well, we would like to say a huge Thank You, if you can attend the meeting on November 10th. @ 7:00pm.
We understand that Somerset Township is not right around the corner from most of you, and we really appreciate your support and commitment to the park.
Please look for updates about the meeting on our web site: www.bundyhilloffroad.com
Owners & Staff of Bundy Hill Off Road Park.
12715 E. Chicago Rd.,
Somerset Center, MI
Meeting Time:
7:00pm, but we would like to see everyone there at 6:30pm if possible.
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I'll try to see if I can make it out again. Thanks for a weeks heads up this time.
I want to see this park stay open. It's so nice to have a great park only an hour from the house! That and the area can use this added flow of traffic.
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I will see if i can/ Kids have a full slate after school on Tue's. and it is hard for me on those days. But feel free to give them my number if you feel a call can help. The community acceptance we have recieved may be worth shareing with them.
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I cannot make it, but do everything you can to get any and all local business owners in support of the park to attend and speak. Having the business owners themselves speaking on behalf of the park to the board is huge.
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|November 4th, 2009, 01:31 PM
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Somerset Township Supervisor Contact info.
If anyone would like to drop the Somerset Township Supervisor a line, and tell him you're in Support of the New ORV Ordinance, here is his contact info.
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|November 4th, 2009, 01:39 PM
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|November 9th, 2009, 09:55 AM
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Board Members Show Up at the Park on Sunday!
A couple of the Board Members of the Somerset Township Planning Commission came out to the Park yesterday. They were given Jeep tours of the whole place. It was a great day for them to visit, because they had the biggest crowd to date to observe. It was a good sample of what the Park has to offer, and how everyone uses it.
I think they were impressed on how well it's being used by everyone, and how safe people were being. We took them around to show them what impact the Park was having on our neighbors and what we have done to help solve issues that have been brought up. (Noise, and Dust ect..) We also had the opportunity to show them the economic impact that we have made on Somerset Township.
I thank them for taking the time to come out and really see what goes on.
Hopefully they vote accordingly on Tuesday, based on what they witnessed on Sunday.
Meeting Tuesday Evening 7:00pm, be there at 6:30pm for the Jeep Parade into the parking lot of Somerset Township Hall!
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Just got back, so here' s my quick report.
Thank you very much to everybody who attended, and especially those who spoke up with their comments. The comments lasted an entire hour straight. Had more people shown up, I don't know that there would have been time to hear them all. There were very strong feels and comments from both sides.
I think the positive opinions representing the ORV / ATV community were very well voiced and all aspects that needed to be considered were mentioned. The committee certainly has a lot to consider now.
Those opposed cited noise as their #1 reason, and honestly, they didn't have much else. I think the supporting side did a great job of answering their concerns for the noise.
I did what I could and spoke my peace, and hopefully it did some good. I was even surprised when my wife stood up and said a few words.
I could write for 2 pages straight with more details, but it probably doesn't matter at this point in the game. This battle is far from over. If I recall correctly, this was simply the planning committee, and they only have the power to forward these comments to a board of directors, that will ultimately issue or not issue the zoning ordinance.
I'll be there to support whatever happens in the near future. The board has my number if they wish to contact me for further support.
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Rita showed that evacuating a sprawling metro area is at best slow and difficult, and that sometimes an evacuation can rival its cause as a source of misery.
"The traffic looked worse than the storm," said Jennifer Powell, a University of Houston student who reluctantly stayed in her second-floor Galveston apartment after deciding it would take too long to flee.
But George Friedman, chairman of Stratfor, a private intelligence firm based in Austin, summed up expert opinion: The evacuation went about as well as could be expected. "There was substantial inconvenience," he said. "But if you move 3 million people, you're going to cause a lot of inconvenience."
In a nation with a rich history of earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, blizzards, volcanoes and terrorist attacks, there are more potential disasters than can be planned or prepared for.
"You don't have the resources to childproof the entire country," Friedman said.
If a hurricane that took a week to reach the Gulf Coast could provoke such chaos, what would happen in case of a terrorist's radiological or chemical strike?
"The nightmare that we all have is that, God forbid, there's a terrorist attack of some kind on a major American city that requires evacuation without warning," Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said Sunday on CNN.
Rita struck Saturday morning near the Texas-Louisiana border with top winds of 120 mph but inflicted far less damage than feared, especially in Houston and other heavily populated areas. It quickly weakened to a minimal hurricane and then a tropical storm.
Hence the recrimination over why so many fled Houston. Those sitting on the highway had plenty of time to ponder.
"It caught (Texas officials) off-guard. I think they were so involved in being generous to Louisiana (after Hurricane Katrina), they didn't work out a plan for gas or anything here," said Christine Leu, who spent 16 hours in traffic.
Houston Mayor Bill White expressed no regrets about evacuating for a storm that went elsewhere. "You can't predict the weather. Hurricanes can move in any direction. If you evacuate two or three times and it saves your life only once, that once is enough."
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said that most people "did a great job of listening to the officials and moving out in a relatively orderly (fashion). I know 15 hours in your car is a frustrating thing, but getting them out of that storm's path was the mission, and they did it."
A massive exodus
If too few people evacuated for Hurricane Katrina, too many evacuated for Rita. Prompted by officials' broad, forceful orders and memories of how Katrina flooded New Orleans last month, nearly 3 million Texans fled on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
In the island city of Galveston, which was destroyed by a hurricane in 1900, about 90% cleared out.
The later you left, the longer you sat. Danny Hart, 37, co-owner of a restaurant-nightclub in Galveston, fled Wednesday and spent 12 hours on the road. His wife, who left earlier, made the same trip in four hours; his partner, who left later, spent 24 hours traveling 60 miles. "The evacuation plan was good for Galveston," Hart said. "The problem was, everyone in Houston left."
"They should have evacuated by ZIP code," said Monica Hackett, who was stuck in her car for 13 hours with her six children, her mother, a cousin and two dogs — and never got out of Houston.
But Friedman, the intelligence analyst, argued that it's impossible to plan truly large-scale evacuations, or to break them into stages: "Do you want to be the person with the last ticket to leave?" he asked. "You can't evacuate a population of 2 to 3 million and control when they're going to evacuate."
Some saw room for modest improvement, such as faster conversion of two-way streets and highways into one-way evacuation routes. In New Orleans and Houston, half the highway lanes went virtually unused until the end of the evacuation.
"We need to fine-tune the planning so that contra-lanes are open earlier so that all the outgoing traffic can go on both sides of a freeway earlier than was done in Rita," said Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, on ABC's This Week.
Perry, the governor, said he was proud that both directions of Interstate 45 eventually were opened to handle people flowing north from Houston: "You don't just go out and plug up an interstate on one side and shift it over in an hour or two. I mean, it takes some time. It takes some personnel."
Such measures can improve the flow of traffic by 66%, according to a 2001 Louisiana State University study. But such steps also can cause an increase in accidents, restrict the flow of emergency vehicles and make it hard for drivers to exit for fuel and food.
In general, Perry said, the evacuation taught valuable lessons.
"We will learn from this one," he said. "I think that's really important that we're sharing that information, so when this happens — it may not be a hurricane, it may be some other event that occurs — a city like Los Angeles or Miami can use some of the things that we've learned in Katrina and in Rita."
Hurricane Rita smashed into a region that is wealthier, more mobile and less densely populated than the one devastated by Hurricane Katrina. According to an Associated Press analysis of Census data, most of Rita's evacuees were less likely to live in poverty, more likely to own a car and less likely to be a member of a minority group than were Katrina's victims.
Experts said the mobility of people in Rita's path — combined with a new sense of urgency after Katrina — led to a more thorough evacuation.
"They have cars," said Carnot Nelson, a psychology professor at the University of South Florida. "They have a way to leave. It's as simple as that."
But will those who evacuated last week do the same when the next storm comes blowing?
Hurricane Floyd redux
That issue was raised in 1999 by Hurricane Floyd, which also introduced the problem of people who shouldn't flee a storm but do.
Floyd, the largest peacetime evacuation in American history, was really the largest over-evacuation; more than 3 million people hit the roads, jamming traffic from South Florida to South Carolina.
People living inland who had not been ordered to evacuate saw images of the 600-mile-wide monster on television and started their engines. Also, Floyd (like Rita) was the second hurricane in a one-two punch. Hurricane Dennis had come ashore in North Carolina as a tropical storm about a week earlier.
The result was familiar to anyone in Houston last week. Lines of cars stretched for hundreds of miles on several interstates. Many motorists could not find gas, food or a bathroom.
The storm eventually weakened and didn't turn inland until it reached North Carolina. But if people had waited longer to evacuate, and if Floyd had picked up speed and turned left, the result could have been disastrous. That, however, was not the lesson many coastal residents drew from the evacuation experience; many told reporters they'd never do it again.
Here's what some Texans endured last week as they tried to get away from Rita:
Solie Jimenez left the Houston suburb of Pasadena at 4 a.m. Thursday with her 6-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son heading for Lufkin, more than 100 miles northeast. But 24 hours later, they were still in their car — and still not out of Houston.
"We were in the contra-flow lane," Jimenez, 29, an accountant, said of the plan that reversed the highway's southbound lanes for northbound traffic to ease congestion. "That was a huge mistake. It was worse than on the other side. It just stopped. We sat there forever. It took us nine hours to go 10 miles.
"I finally called my mother and said, 'I can't take this anymore. We have to get out of here.' "
Finally she jumped the curb, got off the highway and wound up at a shelter around 4 a.m. Friday. In 24 hours, they had traveled 40 miles.
Christine Leu was trying to drive the 100 miles from her Houston suburb to College Station with two kids and a sick sister. She thought it would take three hours.
After a dozen hours on the highway, fatigue and thirst took their toll on her driving ability, she recalled. "How do you mess up bumper-to-bumper? I bumped the people in front of me. I rolled back into the people behind me."
She pulled off the highway and knocked on a front door. The residents helped find a hospital for Leu's sister; she and the children wound up in a shelter.
Monica Hackett said that on Highway 290 in Houston, "People were wrecking into each other, not paying attention. They were so tired, cussing, rude. I heard on the radio, people saying, 'Everybody's being so nice on the road.' They were not. They were flipping people off, cutting around you. I was so worn out."
The evacuation of the sick and elderly proved to be a major challenge in the evacuation, just as it had in New Orleans before and after Katrina hit.
Otis Patterson, 44, a cross-country truck driver, said the story of the seniors killed in the bus fire resonated with him. His father, Ozan Patterson, 80, a dialysis patient and stroke victim, needs supplementary oxygen 24 hours a day. Patterson's sister, Lorraine Nelson, drove their father from his home in Port Arthur, Texas, to a cousin's house in Austin. They were stuck in traffic from 11 p.m. Wednesday until 2:30 p.m. Thursday. His father ran out of bottled oxygen.
"There was nothing they could do except keep the air (conditioning) burning as high as they could. My sister called ahead from Houston to set up dialysis treatment for Friday afternoon."
Their father survived. "It was pretty scary," Patterson said.
They were lucky — this time
Amid the confusion, some Houstonians decided not to go.
Laura Van Ness stayed in her apartment on the eighth floor of a sturdy, 1927 building in Houston that sits 50 feet above sea lea level. She was prepared with extra water, food, flashlights and batteries. She'd taped her windows and moved the furniture and oriental rugs into the hallway. But Rita provided so little excitement that Van Ness went to bed during the storm. "We never heard loud rain or even lightning," she said. Her building never lost electricity.
Despite her relatively happy experience staying put, Van Ness said she hoped other people won't be complacent: "You shouldn't decide to stay because the hurricane didn't hit you last time."
The television images of gridlock, abandoned vehicles and exhausted families left some residents of Galveston swearing they would not go through it again.
"Next time, a lot of people aren't leaving. I know I'm not," said Mary Garza, co-owner with her husband Willie of Mary's Place, a nightclub near the historic Strand district. They had driven 22 hours last week to get to Lake Livingston, normally a two-hour drive.
Others were more open to evacuating the next time a Category 3, 4 or 5 hurricane bears down on their part of coastal Texas.
Jacob Safada drove for 16 hours Wednesday and early Thursday to get to Lufkin, a trip that usually takes 2 1/2 hours. "What can you do sometimes? That's life," he said Sunday while sprucing up his T-shirt shop on the Strand. "No complaints — absolutely not."
O'Driscoll reported from Houston; Wolf from Galveston; Hampson from New Jersey.
Contributing: Dennis Cauchon in Columbus, Ohio; Larry Copeland in Port Arthur, Texas; Edward Iwata in Houston; The Associated Press


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Denver-based Next Great Place, an online travel startup, said today that it has scored $1M in seed capital and is launching its online travel service. The firm, which says it was co-founded by Tom Filippini and Erik Mitisek, said the site will streamline the process of planning unique, complex vacations, via a membership-only service. The firm said its service is in beat, and will officially launch in Q1 of last year. Fillippini is founder of destination travel club Exclusive Resorts. More information »


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Question: One of the funniest sitcoms on TV had to be "Laverne & Shirley." I've been watching reruns lately, and I'm now wondering why Shirley was written off the show. — L.G., Kokomo, Ind.
Answer: "Laverne & Shirley" premiered in January 1976 and was a spin-off of "Happy Days."
In March 1982, Cindy Williams, who played Shirley Feeney, became pregnant. She and her manager/husband Bill Hudson presented a list of demands to Paramount. The studio rejected the list. Two episodes into the season, Williams left the show and filed a $20 million lawsuit against Paramount. The case was settled out of court, and Williams was released from her contract.
ABC canceled the show in May 1983 after 178 episodes.
DID YOU KNOW? Laverne and Shirley's apartment was originally used on "The Odd Couple."
Question: Is there a soundtrack available from the 1983 movie "Eddie and the Cruisers"? — J.R., Cheboygan, Mich.
Answer: I found the original soundtrack at Amazon.com, but I'm sure your local music store can order one for you if it does not have it available.
Question: When I was a kid growing up in the 1960s, I received as a gift an animal-shaped bar of soap that grew "hair" when it was wet. I've asked several people my age, and they never heard of it. Are you familiar with it? — E.B., Saugus, Mass.
Answer: Fuzzy Wuzzy Bath Soap grew fur made of soap. After letting the fur grow, you could use it as a regular bar of soap. The best part: There was a toy inside. The soap came in five animal shapes.
I've seen Fuzzy Wuzzy soaps available at online auction sites — I saw the cat with a price of $40. That's a lot of money for a piece of hairy soap.
Question: I love the TV show "Monk." When did it premiere, and when was the last episode? What can you tell me about the actor who played Adrian Monk? — P.L., Owosso, Mich.
Answer: "Monk" premiered July 12, 2002, and the last episode aired Dec. 4, 2009.
Tony Shalhoub played Adrian Monk. He was born in Green Bay, Wis. on Oct. 9, 1953, and became involved in school theater at age 6. After high school, Shalhoub received his bachelor's degree in drama from the University of Southern Maine and later his master's from the Yale School of Drama. He starred on Broadway where he met his future wife, Brooke Adams; the two married in 1992 and have two adopted daughters. The call from Hollywood took the couple to California, where he landed several movie roles and finally the big break when he was selected for the role of Monk. He was nominated for five Emmys and won three times.
Question: The first lines of the "Marines' Hymn" go:
From the Halls of Montezuma
To the shores of Tripoli;
We fight our country's battles
In the air, on land and sea.
Where are the Halls of Montezuma? — G.L.M., San Francisco
Answer: The Halls of Montezuma refer to the 1847 Battle of Chapultepec, which took place during the Mexican-American War. A force of marines stormed the Chapultepec Castle and occupied Mexico City.
Send your questions to Mr. Know-It-All at firstname.lastname@example.com or c/o Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.


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Standard Sport brings you all the latest talk and gossip as the transfer window slams shut in England.
English clubs have until 18:00 BST to conclude their transfer business for the summer after two-months of turmoil, excitement and trepidation.
With less than 12 hours before the window slams shut in England, will any of the Premier League's elite seal one final mega-deal?
West Ham have already completed the day's first deal; Alex Song will be returning to Upton Park on another year's loan.
And Arsene Wenger will be taking his transfer dealings down to the wire; the Arsenal manager is in Paris as he attempts to thrash out a deal with PSG for Edinson Cavani and Adrien Rabiot.
What to expect on transfer deadline day
What to expect on transfer deadline day
1/10 Arsenal will buy a player they don't need
Andre Santos. Kim Kallstrom. Maybe even Mesut Ozil. A tough start and the pressure on Arsene Wenger to break open the war chest grows intolerable. But he doesn't always buy the player he needs. Last summer there were gaping holes at centre-back and defensive midfield. Who did Arsenal end up with? Danny Welbeck.
2/10 David Gold won't let you go to bed
West Ham leave their transfer business late. Very late. So late that in January club co-chairman David Gold told fans: "Don't go to bed". Would he sign Emmanuel Adebayor? Or someone more shocking. No, a last minute deal fell through. The window might run until 18:00 but the Hammers are likely to carry on right up to the wire.
3/10 Tottenham take it to the last second
Yes Mauricio Pochettino has been keen on Victor Wanyama for months. But Daniel Levy will not pay a penny more than he has to for a transfer target, expect any Spurs deal to go down to the wire. And a few hours beyond.
4/10 Shock transfers at the Sky Sports New desk
For years Natalie Sawyer was the established choice to share presenting duties with the bizarre Scottish man who spends the dying hours of deadline day interrupting his colleagues to take phone calls live on air. Kate Abdo made the shock move up in January, will she be a permanent replacement?
5/10 Everyone has a friend at Heathrow
Yes, a lot of people work at London's airports. But it's hard to believe that they all have access to the travel details of Edinson Cavani, Kaka, Falcao and Nikica Jelavic. And yet anonymous workers across the country will suddenly decide to email in with who they've spotted landing from Europe.
6/10 Mass loan departures from Chelsea
Nathaniel Chalobah, Marko Marin and Mohamed Salah have all been cleared out but there's surely still a cupboard in Carrington filled with once-bright European prospects ready to be farmed out to Vitesse Arnhem, Nottingham Forest and, if they're really good, Milan.
7/10 Someone get Harry Redknapp a car
We don't care that he's out of the management game. Deadline day just won't be the same without the former Spurs boss, and a deal for a highly-rated English prospect.
8/10 A high-profile deal will take too long to complete, failed medical rumours will swirl
You may already know who your club is going to sign. But where is that confirmation tweet, maybe with #WelcomeKarim (if only you were so lucky Arsenal fans). As the deadline ticks ever closer an "ITK" former football agent will tweet about a medical being failed. Suddenly panic will strike supporters. The player's arrival will be confirmed an hour later.
9/10 A Championship striker costs how much?
Ross McCormack. Andre Gray. Striker valuations in the second division of English football are becoming ever more spectacular. Who will be the latest goal-getter to attract a big money deal. Charlie Austin could be off for £15 million. And how much for former Arsenal striker Benik Afobe, currently firing them in at Wolves?
10/10 Time to gamble on a mercurial playmaker
In one window alone Hull City's Steve Bruce took all his eggs and placed them in baskets marked "Robert Snodgrass", "Gaston Ramirez" and, most eerily of all, "Hatem Ben Arfa". Hull were relegated that season. But that won't stop managers at the bottom of the league convincing themselves they'll be the ones to find the hidden potential in an Erik Lamela, Morgan Amalfitano or Scott Sinclair.
Elsewhere the David de Gea story rumbles on past the Spanish deadline. His move to Real Madrid finally seemed to be completed late last night but the goalkeeper's paperwork was not submitted before the deadline. Now it's down to the authorities to decide the future of the Manchester United keeper.
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He's a better option than Frazier at either 3rd or LF.
He's a better option than Frazier at either 3rd or LF.
"When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch." - Ty Cobb
Maybe Daniel Corcino could get it done. They need young pitching
"When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch." - Ty Cobb
I don't think he's better than Frazier at 3rd at all.
CoachBombay (12-10-2013),jwertz (12-10-2013),RedlegJake (12-11-2013)
Because he's not a very good player?
Barry On Baseball Also blogging at Banished to the Pen.
CoachBombay (12-10-2013),jwertz (12-10-2013)
1) He isn't as good a player as what the Angels are seeking for him and
2) Daniel Corcino would probably not get it done when (per the rumor mill) the Angels were balking at a one-for-one with the DBacks for Tyler Skaggs. Skaggs is a much better pitching prospect than anything we could realistically offer up. WAY higher stock than Corcino, anyway.
Would you be willing to give the Angels Leake and Stephenson? Because that is the type of package that the Diamondbacks are rumored to be giving up. That is a huge overpay for a guy that swings and misses and can't get on base. Say no to Trumbo.
CoachBombay (12-10-2013)
8 games at 3rd with the range of a lawn ornament, a lifetime .299 OB%.
What's not to love?
CoachBombay (12-10-2013),jwertz (12-10-2013),Mike Honcho (12-10-2013),Reds&BuckeyeGuy (12-10-2013)
Well Now he is a D'back.
Trumbo has terrible OBP, we have enough players like that
He's Carlos Pena without the walks. Wouldn't want any part of that sweepstakes.
The guy will hit some mammoth dingers that trick you into thinking he is more valuable than he really is.
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It has been over a year since Islamic fundamentalists launched a coordinated attack on the Indian city of Mumbai which resulted in extensive casualties. One fall out of the attack was for India to halt any further attempts to enter into negotiations with Pakistan which it believed was behind the assault. Last week, the government of India finally reached out to Pakistan in order to resume discussions on important issues that separate both countries. Yesterday, a bomber set off explosions in a popular restaurant known as The German Bakery and the result was nine dead and 57 wounded. Within hours of the bombing, conservatives in the Indian Parliament called for the end of any possible discussions with Pakistan.
It is rather simple, just set off a bomb and it is certainly going to result in the bombing out of any talks between India and Pakistan.


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Submitted to: Soil Science Society of America Journal
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/1/2006
Publication Date: 4/3/2006
Citation: Gaur, A., Horton, R., Jaynes, D.B., Baker, J.L. 2006. Measured and predicted solute transport in a tile drained field. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 70:872-881. Interpretive Summary: Most methods for measuring the movement of agrichemicals in soil are difficult and require extensive soil excavation. We developed a new technique that uses easily measured changes in surface soil properties during irrigation to estimate chemical movement below the crop root zone of soil. The method involves applying a common chloride salt to the soil surface and leaching it through the soil with a single irrigation. Easily made measurements of changes in the electrical conductivity of the surface soil combined with a simple two-dimensional model of chemical transport in soil provide an estimate of the travel time of agrichemicals from the soil surface to below the root zone. We were able to show good agreement between the estimated rate of chloride movement and the measured appearance of the chloride in tile drainage. The findings suggest that solute transport properties of field soils can be determined from easily made surface measurements combined with a simple model. This finding will be useful to soil scientists and other environmental scientists interested in the movement of chemicals through soil and their possible contamination of water resources.
Technical Abstract: Most solute transport measurement techniques are tedious and require extensive soil excavation. A field experiment was conducted to evaluate whether surface transport properties determined by a non-destructive time domain reflectometry (TDR) technique could be used to accurately predict tile flux concentrations. A plot 14 by 14 m above a tile drain buried at a depth of 1.1 m was selected for the study. After reaching a steady-state condition, a pulse of calcium chloride solution (16.3 cm) with an electrical conductivity (EC) of 23 dS m-1 was applied through sprinklers. TDR equipment was used to record the change in EC of surface (top 2-cm) soil at 45 locations. The EC of the tile drainage flow was measured continuously with an EC probe. The surface convective lognormal transfer (CLT) function parameters, log mean irrigation depth, uI, and its standard deviation, oI, were found to be 3.44 and 0.94 (ln(cm)), respectively for a reference depth of 110 cm. These surface parameters were used in a 1-D CLT model and in a 2-D model (CLT vertical function combined with exponential horizontal transfer function) to predict the tile flux concentrations. The 1-D CLT model predicted an earlier arrival time of chemicals to the tile drain than observed values. The root mean square error, RMSE, of the 1-D CLT predictions was 0.123 and coefficient of efficiency, E, was -0.47. The 2-D model predictions of tile flux concentrations were similar to the observed values. The RMSE was 0.023, and the E was 0.94. The findings suggest than in this field soil, the surface solute transport properties determined by TDR could be combined with a 2-D transport model to make reasonable predictions of tile flux concentrations.


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Home > News & Events > News > Press Releases > Homeland Defense Report Issued by Kennedy School Researcher
CAMBRIDGE, MA – A new report authored by Kennedy School of Government lecturer Elaine C. Kamarck recommends a series of specific reform measures and approaches – utilizing both government and non-government actors – in response to the looming threat of global terrorism. The report, titled "Applying 21st Century Government to the Challenge of Homeland Security," was supported by a grant from The PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for the Business of Government.
Calling homeland defense "a problem that knows no borders and that crosses every aspect of society and every part of government" Kamarck's report concludes that in addition to the creation of a single agency to coordinate homeland defense strategy, a multi-faceted approach to tackling the problem is necessary.
Among the report's recommendations:
· Create a National Terrorism Intelligence Center within the FBI to fuse intelligence gathering capabilities of national security agencies with investigative resources of law enforcement;
· Increase protection at the borders with the establishment of a Border Patrol Agency, combining the resources of the U.S. Customs Service with those of the INS and other agencies;
· Provide market incentives for the development of vaccines or drug treatments that could be utilized in response to bio-terror attacks;
· Establish guidelines which allow for the use of "racial profiling" by law enforcement to isolate potential terrorist suspects;
· Develop protocols allowing law enforcement access to data contained in the vast databases of the private sector to protect the nation from terrorists;
· Grant consular officials access to international crime and terrorist databases;
· Deputize state and local officials so they can arrest illegal aliens;
· Grant FEMA additional resources and allow it to act as the lead agency for preparing and coordinating federal, state, and local government response to terrorist events;
· Require all medium-to-large size American cities to develop an "all hazard" approach to emergency response.
Kamarck teaches Twenty-first Century Government and Public Management Reform at the Kennedy School. She previously served as senior policy advisor to Vice-President Gore at the White House, where she also created and managed the Reinventing Government project undertaken by the Clinton Administration.
Through grants for Research and Thought Leadership Forums, The PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for the Business of Government stimulates research and facilitates discussion on new approaches to improving the effectiveness of government and the federal, state, and local levels.
Kamarck's report is accessible via the World Wide Web at: http://endowment.pwcglobal.com/pdfs/KamarckReport.pdf


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Officials named for Provodnikov-Algieri/Andrade-Rose
WBO president Francisco "Paco" Valcarcel announced today the officials who will work this Saturday, June 14, in the defenses of the world champions Ruslan Provodnikov and Demetrius Andrade against Chris Algieri and Brian Rose, respectively, to be held in Brooklyn, New York.
For the first defense of the WBO junior welterweight champion, Ruslan Provodnikov (23-2, 16 KOs), who is going to face the 13th ranked Chris Algieri (19-0, 8 KOs), the New York State Athletic Commission (NYSAC) named Harvey Dock (New Jersey) as the referee. The judges will be Donald Trella (Connecticut), Tom Schreck (New York) and Max DeLuca (California). The WBO supervisor for this fight will be Jose R. Izquierdo.
Also in this show, the WBO junior middleweight champion Demetrius Andrade (20-0, 13 KOs) will defend for the first time his belt against the #1 ranked Brian Rose (25-1-1, 7 KOs), from United Kingdom. For this bout the referee will be Michael Griffin, from Canada. The judges for this fight are Julie Lederman (New York), John Poturaj (New Jersey) and Alan Rubenstein (Pennsylvania). The WBO supervisor for this fight will be Rafael Lopez Santos.


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Cuomo, Christie Work Together to Secure Federal Funding for Sandy Recovery
New York's Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo said he's working with New Jersey's Republican Governor Chris Christie to make the case for federal aid to the region.
"I will stand with anyone who will stand with me," Cuomo said. "If it will help get support for the people of this state. I'm not about politics, I'm not about political posturing. I want to get funding for the people of this state and however I can do that I will."
Cuomo said Christie is still assessing the damage in the Garden State. "He'll have that in the next couple of days, and we said that we're going to work together," Cuomo explained.
Cuomo has estimated that New York's recovery will cost $42 billion. Christie's estimate for Sandy damage came in at about $30 billion. Christie did say the number could rise as the state finalizes its request.


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You looked like ants to me, with your strangely segmented bodies and horrid mandibles.
She laughs when she recalls how he served her cereal from a box so old, there were ants in it.
Brazilians much on ants, either covered in chocolate or, again, fried.
ants crawl everywhere, forcing visitors to watch their step.
I did have boxes of snails, aquariums with ants and flies and all that.
At last he said to himself: 'Men are sociable creatures, like bees or ants.
There it lay dead—a proof at least that there were no ants in the room.
The life of ants, as well as that of bees, as far as we are concerned, is an unintelligible enigma.
The ants were found in the warm grass and on the warm rocks adjacent.
These discoveries explain some hitherto inexplicable phenomena in the domestic economy of the ants.
c.1500, from Middle English ampte (late 14c.), from Old English æmette "ant," from West Germanic *amaitjo (cf. Old High German ameiza, German Ameise) from a compound of bases *ai- "off, away" + *mai- "cut," from PIE *mai- "to cut" (cf. maim). Thus the insect's name is, etymologically, "the biter off."
As þycke as ameten crepeþ in an amete hulle [chronicle of Robert of Gloucester, 1297]Emmet survived into 20c. as an alternative form. White ant "termite" is from 1729. To have ants in one's pants "be nervous and fidgety" is from 1934, made current by a popular song; antsy embodies the same notion.
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