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After riding high with 10 wins in 12 games and leading the NHL, the Wild has lost two consecutive games 5-2, the latest being an unsightly one Sunday to the Calgary Flames.
The Wild struggled in every facet — goaltending, defensively and offensively, where its forecheck was hideous.
Coach Mike Yeo joked afterward that the good news is the Wild can't play any worse.
"That game's not a question of character, it's not a question of desire or want or anything else," Yeo said. "Everybody's been talking about how we're in first place and things have been going great and we've won 10 out of 12 and lots of great stuff, but along the way, it's not like we were saying we're here and we're not going to have a road bump or two along the way.
"Tonight was a road bump. It's a pretty good indication of we're not there yet as far as understanding of what our game is, of how we have to play the game, how we have to prepare before we go into a game."
The Wild's battle level was not where it needed to be, but the last time this happened was two weeks ago in Los Angeles. The Wild was given the ability to respond 24 hours later in Anaheim and did so impressively, winning 3-2.
The Wild will have a chance to redeem itself again Monday against Tampa Bay.
NHL Team Report – Minnesota Wild – NOTES, QUOTES
–The Wild paid tribute to the late Derek Boogaard, the team's longtime enforcer, before Sunday's game against the Calgary Flames. Boogaard's family, which included father Len, mother Joanne, brothers Aaron, Ryan and Curtis, sister Krysten, grandparents Peter and Nancy and stepmother Jody, was on hand.
"I remember the first game that I was here. It was against Calgary (Oct. 5, 2005)," Len Boogaard told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "And this will probably be the last game I'll see here. And it's against Calgary."
–The Wild produced a beautiful five-minute video tribute of Boogaard that included comments from Wild players Nick Schultz and Josh Harding, former Wild players Marian Gaborik, Andrew Brunette and Brent Burns and former Rangers teammates Brian Boyle and Brandon Prust.
The Wild presented the Boogaards with a painting, added a Boogaard memorial to the main concourse of the arena and donated $10,000 to Boogaard's favorite charity, Defending The Blue Line.
"Anybody who knew Derek knew what he was like as a person," said Aaron Boogaard. "The fans only got to see him on the ice. On the ice and off the ice, he was completely different, and you loved him for both.
"Minnesota's showing a really good side of him that wasn't really shown this summer as much. It's just to see the better parts of Derek — the real parts."
Boogaard died of a toxic mix of alcohol and painkillers. He long battled with addiction and tried to beat it unsuccessfully in rehab.
"It's a disease, and sometimes it just gets a hold of you," Aaron Boogaard told the Star Tribune. "Some of the best people out there can't beat it. It's a shame."
QUOTE TO NOTE: "This can't happen again." — Wild captain Mikko Koivu after Sunday's 5-2 loss to Calgary.
NHL Team Report – Minnesota Wild – ROSTER REPORT
–D Mike Lundin, finally recovered from a back injury, might make his Wild debut Monday night against his former team, the Tampa Bay Lightning, coach Mike Yeo said after Sunday's 5-2 loss to Calgary. "I'm as ready as you can be, I guess, without playing games," said Lundin, who last saw game action with Tampa Bay in the Eastern Conference final last season. "But conditioning-wise, practice-wise and now health-wise, I feel great. Ready to go. It's been a long start to the season for me. Obviously, I'm anxious to get in there."
–D Justin Falk and D Nate Prosser, both rookies, have struggled so much lately, coach Mike Yeo indicated the coaching staff would discuss whether D Greg Zanon should return from a groin injury against the Lightning. He has missed 16 games.
–G Niklas Backstrom had a .960 save percentage in his previous six games but was starting for the first time since Nov. 17 in Sunday's loss to Calgary. He gave up three goals on eight shots and was pulled by 8:45 of the first. "He's been really good. He had an off night," coach Mike Yeo said.
–RW Cal Clutterbuck has goals in four of the last eight games.
–C Mikko Koivu has a five-game point streak.
–D Mike Lundin is back skating with the Wild after a two-game conditioning stint with Houston of the AHL. Lundin, who has missed the season with a back injury and hasn't played in an NHL game since the Eastern Conference final last season, might make his season debut Monday against his old team, Tampa Bay.
–D Greg Zanon, who has missed 16 games with a groin injury, is getting close to a return, and that could come Monday against Tampa Bay.
–LW Guillaume Latendresse is out indefinitely with a concussion.
–D Marek Zidlicky (concussion) is skating and working out but is out indefinitely.
–Niklas Backstrom
–Josh Harding
–Marco Scandella, Jared Spurgeon
–Clayton Stoner, Nick Schultz
–Justin Falk, Nate Prosser
–LW Devin Setoguchi, C Mikko Koivu, RW Dany Heatley
–LW Cal Clutterbuck, C Matt Cullen, RW Pierre-Marc Bouchard
–LW Darroll Powe, C Kyle Brodziak, RW Nick Johnson
–LW Colton Gillies, C Warren Peters, RW Brad Staubitz


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Reine-Adelaide made his first start for the club in their 1-0 win against Wolfsburg in the Emirates Cup on Sunday afternoon, with the 17-year-old attacking midfielder turning in an impressive display in north London.
However, Wenger revealed Reine-Adelaide, who the Gunners boss signed from Lens in May, would be part of Arsenal's under-21 side next season.
"He will definitely be here," said Wenger after the match. "He is 17 years old and looks very promising, but he needs to work with us now for a year with the first team, to play with the U21s and develop. There is a fantastic potential there and he will stay with us."
When pressed, though, on whether Reine-Adelaide would actually get the chance to feature for the first team, Wenger was more coy.
"I don't know," he said of the Frenchman who has featured for his country at U17 level. "Honestly, I don't know. But for me it was a good opportunity to watch him today."
Wenger was delighted with much of what he saw from Reine-Adelaide at the Emirates, adding: "In some situations, of course, he has the game of a 17 year old, but on the other hand he has shown great potential as well.
"He looks very advanced physically and I'm sure that he has learnt a lot from these two days."


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Just ask the driver what snack they'd like from the police car.
Although not particularly scientific, British TV show Fifth Gear tested stoned driving : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA7_ajF741I
Impaired drivers are easy enough to spot.
A drunk driver will run a stop sign
The stoned driver waits for it to turn green.
You just do the same thing that cops do when the driver refuses the breath test... a Field Sobriety Test.
Or just pay attention to what's happening in the rest of the world:
"Rather than blowing into a breathalyser, drivers will be asked to provide a saliva sample by placing a small absorbent pad on their tongue for a few seconds. The Securetec Drugwipe II Twin device is supposed to take about five minutes." (In Victoria, another test is mentioned in the enabling legislation, called Cozart RapiScan.)
"Saliva testing only shows up marijuana usage in the last four to five hours, but 24 hours for all the other drugs
"Saliva testing only shows up marijuana usage in the last four to five hours, but 24 hours for all the other drugs, including amphetamines (speed), opiates (heroin, morphine, codeine), cocaine, benzodiazepine (valium and so on) and THC (cannabis). The advantages of saliva over urine testing are the speed of obtaining results (10 minutes versus several days) and it is less invasive.
Or so says the sales literature.
That's absolutely not true, saliva testing is almost identical to a urine sample, meaning 2 weeks to a month to get a clean test. Only difference is that saliva testing is more accurate i believe. They already do mouth swabs for probation and stuff, why would they only want to know if the user did it in the past 5 hours? And FYI: THC is in marijuana, so i'm not quite sure how THC ends up on the 24 hour list and marijuana is on the 5 hour list. Misinformation at its best right here folks
Role of Cannabis in Motor Vehicle Crashes, Michael N. Bates and Tony A. Blakely 1999
In the study referenced there are LOTS of "conclusions" mentioned that can be taken out of context of the article. This be because the paper references many other studies and quotes their conclusions or observations. The bulk of the paper points out positive and negative aspects of previous studies. The paper itself does not present the conclusion of "a near doubling of the risk of fatal crashes" as suggested above. There may be another paper with that conclusion, but it's not this one. If that number came from one of the other studies that this paper cites, it would be interesting to see how this paper's authors address that conclusion.
http://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/2/222.full.pdf [oxfordjournals.org]
There are three points at the end of this paper:
"Overall we conclude that the weight of the evidence indicates that:"
1. No evidence that consumption of cannabis increases the risk of culpability for fatal traffic crashes and may decrease them.
2. The evidence for the combined effect of cannabis and alcohol relative to alcohol alone is unclear.
3 It is not possible to exclude that cannabis use, with or without alcohol leads to an increase risk of road traffic crashes causing less serious injuries and vehicle damage.
Bear in mind also that the normal risk of fatal crashes is low, so doubling it is doubling a number very near zero as it is.
Contrast that with alcohol (quote from a 1991 NIH article):
"Based on driver fatalities in single-vehicle crashes, it was estimated that each 0.02 percentage increase in the BAC of a driver with non-zero BAC nearly doubles the risk of being in a fatal crash."
That is probably not quite a beer's worth of alcohol for most body weights. So to put it another way, somebody who smokes pot while driving -- not "before", but during (a thing that in my youth I did with remarkable frequency) -- is roughly as impaired as if they had had just consumed a single beer. At those levels one does have to wonder about the error bars in the study -- statistically resolving one near-zero from another near-zero is actually remarkably difficult and requires ever so many samples and a totally unbiased sampling scheme with a complete lack of confounding variables -- so your assertion that the actual risk might even go down in those that aren't smoking pot and drinking a beer (where the latter is also difficult to detect and also doubles your risk all by itself) is not without possible merit.
Again from the article here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1875701 [nih.gov]:
"At BACs in the 0.05-0.09 percent range, the likelihood of a crash was at least nine times greater than at zero BAC for all age groups. Younger drivers with BACs in the 0.05-0.09 range had higher relative risks than older drivers, and females had higher relative risks than males. At very high BACs (at or above 0.15 percent), the risk of crashing was 300 to 600 times the risk at zero or near-zero BACs."
Note that at BAC's that are still in the legal range in most states, single car fatalities are nearly an order of magnitude greater than the single "doubling" of risk for immediate use of marijuana. That strongly suggests that the best thing to do about "impairment" from marijuana is -- ignore it, or as suggested above, use a field sobriety test, not a blood or saliva test. It is more or less irrelevant to driving skill. I would say (again, based on extensive experience) that this is not entirely true -- one can eat or smoke enough, potent enough, marijuana that driving is ill-advised, but in those cases field sobriety tests would be nearly impossible to pass as well. But it is actually somewhat difficult to get that stoned, and most pot smokers that I knew didn't want to drive when they were -- too scary.
But the simplest proofs are this. Whether or not it is legal, smoking pot and driving has been nearly universal forever among those that smoke pot. Most states are utterly unable to test for it, yet estimates of prevalence of usage (almost certainly low) suggest that anywhere up to 1/3 or 1/2 of people in certain age ranges at least occasionally smoke. Yet there is no positive association with this same group being a high risk on the road, outside of its tendency to drink. Alcohol is indeed a dangerous substance when it comes to driving, for obvious reasons, even for relatively small amounts. Pot is not, not until consumption is at extreme levels.
The last thing that confounds this is age. The distribution of fatal and non-fatal accidents with age is quite scary. A stoned 40 year old -- I mean a seriously wasted 40 year old stoner -- with a risk of accident 3 times his age-linked norm -- is a safer driver than a stone cold sober 19 year old. "Silverbacks" -- drivers on the high side of 75, where one's eyesight, hearing, and brain are all breaking down -- are safer still. Why? Because they drive (sober or not) carefully, and in particular far more conservatively than younger risk taking overconfident drivers. I'm living through my own sons' driving experience -- one at age 17 has his first car, now multiply scarred from driving it a whole month. One now 22, who at 18 took his eyes off of the road
24 hours for all the other drugs, including amphetamines
Considering the fact that amphetamine (e.g. Adderall) affects a person's system for about four hours, I fail to see how this is a good thing. I also fail to see how it can be a good thing given the large number of people who use amphetamines legally, as prescribed by a doctor. Therapeutic doses of amphetamines will improve a person's ability to drive, so I have to wonder why we would even be concerned about people driving under the influence of amphetamines.
24 hours for all the other drugs,
THC is the drug in marijuana, so you must be mistaken (or this is a scam).
I have friends who train some pretty advanced Parkour and freerunning while high.. and in fact I still have decent balance these days even when I'm drunk (I can still balance fine along a half-inch wide railing after having say the equivalent of 5 beers), likewise from all the Parkour training.. so testing people's balance and such isn't a very precise measure IMO.
It's really interesting that pot is being legalised. It actually makes me think that the US political system is working as it should in some rega
I know this is going to be a really odd way to detect impared drivers as far as people think but it is quite imperical and correct. You simply have the person do a coordination test with a video game type device. Impared drivers will show up whatever the reason. This can also be determined by blink rate and by detection of eye movements. It can be done very rapidly and has been in use by some municipal bus systems for some time with quite spectacular reductions in accidents. In fact this could be built into cars and we could have the car simply park if the driver is impared. (WOW! No arrest needed!) How about this wild idea. Skipping the police and stopping filling our jails and stopping all the fines etc while achieving the goal of public safety. It detects all types of imparement and doesn't bother wasting time on any other issue. Sleepy is detected too.
This is going to get to be a moot point shortly as the cars will have things like advanced adaptive cruise control that essentially drives the car. How about Google's self driving car etc. I think we are going to ban driving of cars by humans very shortly as they simply are the most dangerous part of the car driving system. You know the NUT behind the wheel is the most dangerous part of the car.
Who cares? If you for whatever reason aren't capable of driving a vehicle, then you shouldn't be allowed to, no matter the reason. Design the test in such a way that it tests for skills needed to drive a vehicle, kind of like a field driver's exam. Then stop worrying about how much pot is too much and start concentrating on what skills are actually needed to drive. Problem solved.
if you use that as your measurement stick, probably 90% of 'moms with kids' would fail the 'are you distraction free enough to drive?' test.
we all know this is true, too. soccer moms scare me WAY more than drunks or any other intoxicated driver does. the thing is, drunks know they are drunk (usually) and so they at least try to be careful. moms, otoh, think things are perfectly fine even though little johnny is screaming his head off in the back seat and slapping his sister suzie. each time the mom turn
All three of these responses are spot-on. Remember, driving is a privilege, not a right.
If they're in a normal state for them and they're still failing an impairment test, then they quite simply shouldn't be allowed to drive. If your reactions are normally that bad, or your perception is that inadequate, you're a danger to other people on the road. Sucks to be you, but it'll reduce the number of accidents on the road.
Ah, silly beanie, video game tests won't work, not for somebody who has "practiced" playing video games high (which would very likely be everybody under the age of 30 and a lot of people older than that).
Back in the days when I used to get high daily I also used to play pinball and ping pong and other games involving nearly instantaneous reflexes in order to succeed. I was truly excellent at both, high. I played the best evening of ping pong in my life high one night, with a friend who was also high. We
Here is my personal anecdote.
I've been driving high nearly every day for almost 20 years, commuting at least 100 miles a day for 17 of those. I have never been in an accident & my last ticket (41 in a 30) was over 8 years ago.
I don't drink & drive at all, that shit is dangerous.
I'm sure as you well know.. different people are affected in different manners by THC consumption.
This is something more people need to pay attention to. I myself for example after only one or two puffs will feel seasick, dry mouth, confused, and ready to vomit (if I have one or two more, I will vomit). After that, I pretty much want to curl up, sleep and get rid of the nastiness going on in my brain. Obviously, I gave up trying it after four or five times of the same effects (friends tried to tell me that it's like that for everyone the first time, but gets more fun on subsequent uses - for me, it d
I just really hope fork lift drivers in the big box hardware stores are careful and don't use right before their shift.
I guarantee you, every warehouse worker that wants to be stoned on the job is already stoned on the job.
This. If you can't test for the drug, test for reactions. That's cheap, easy and relatively portable. If a person fails the test, then take a blood sample.
This. Right now if someone hits and kills a pedestrian, it's called an "accident" and they go free if they're sober - but they go to jail for many years if they had a drink. It doesn't matter that incompetent driving caused the death - the only time a driver is punished appropriately is when they had a drink.
A test for competency would also get a lot of older drivers who cannot drive safely any more off the road.
According to NORML [norml.org], what basically happens when someone is driving while on marijuana is that while they're somewhat impaired, they also drive more cautiously and leave more space around them. The net effect is that while they're annoying, they aren't all that dangerous.
By contrast, when someone is driving drunk, they tend to be both impaired and reckless. The net effect is that thousands of people each year are killed by drunk drivers.
For comparison texting is much worse, and distraction and fatigue produce similar results. We could have the computer on a car detect impairment based on driver response however. But that too raises questions.
It is the mechanization problem that has been one of the economic factors behind drug criminalization for the better part of a century, besides, of course, the prison-industrial complex being profitable and being a good place to warehouse psychopaths and feed into common racism and fear of crime.
the prison-industrial complex being profitable
That is only really an issue in the US with for-profit prison systems. In most of the rest of the world, sending someone to prison is a last, expensive resort.
While I agree that combining pot and alcohol is much more impairing than just using one or the other, when you combine almost any drug with alcohol the effect tends to be extreme impairment. A couple beers and a couple Vicoden is a lot worse than several beers, for example.
Regardless, this only highlights how BAC is a poor determinant for impairment. Like you mention, fatigue tends to be worse than drunkenness. I think if a person can't pass a field sobriety test because of fatigue they should be given the
So, instead of developing a suite of testing tools for each new and exciting drug that hits the market (black or pharmacy) why not come up with a system that tests actual impairment? I would think a simple device that tests reaction time, decision making, and coordination would be enough to consistently identify people driving impaired by anything. Then give the same tests at the DMV with more stringent requirements each time a person renews (most places every 5 years). And yes, that would catch people i
I once saw a documentary where some people did a driving test while baked, they drove exactly like every single person does in my area. Slow, hesitant, uber-cautious.
The first-ever "National Roadside Survey of Alcohol and Drug Use by Drivers", conducted by NHTSA, found that 16.3 percent of nighttime drivers were drug-positive, with marijuana (THC) at (8.6 percent) being the most commonly detected drug.
In fall 2010, six cities in California (Anaheim, Bakersfield, Eureka, Fresno, San Rafael, and Torrance) conducted nighttime weekend "voluntary" roadside surveys primarily to gather data on marijuana use among nighttime drivers. The results were that 8.4 percent of the drivers providing oral fluid were positive for marijuana and 7.6 percent of the breath tested drivers tested positive for some amount of alcohol.
These are two different surveys, but the second one shows a slightly different picture than "half them high on marijuana". 8.4% in this study showed some presence of marijuana in their saliva. From the summary, I gather that all that really means is that 8.4% had smoked pot some time in the last couple weeks. 7.6% had had some amount of alcohol still detectable in their breath, although that includes people with a trace amount, well under the legal limit. So, I'm not going to adjust my general expectations of other drivers to think that one in every 6 drivers at night is drunk and/or high.
In some places (parts of Australia for example) the law simply says you aren't allowed to drive and have any trace of THC in your hair/saliva/blood. This works because the drug is already outlawed. However, it's not fair to say that the drug is legal, but you aren't allowed to use it within a week (or whatever) of driving.
However, as with alcohol, the problem isn't the numbers, it's the impairment. With alcohol now, the law doesn't even care about impairment. If your blood alcohol level (as measured by a ma
Driving within three hours of smoking pot is associated with a near doubling of the risk of fatal crashes.
Oh dear, that's almost as dangerous as dialing a phone [vt.edu].
Given how the police have broad surveillance powers to correlate cell phone logs against the mandatory GPS units installed in our cars in order to determine if we were dialing while driving, it is not unreasonable that we demand they have similar powers over knowing when pot smokers inhale their illicitly legal drug.
Given how the police have broad surveillance powers to correlate cell phone logs against the mandatory GPS units installed in our cars in order to determine if we were dialing while driving, it is not unreasonable that we demand they have similar powers over knowing when pot smokers inhale their illicitly legal drug.
Yes it is. Instead, we should demand that they do not have those broad surveillance powers. Don't be a henchman.
Instead of worrying about tolerances and equivalent BAC levels, just come up with a field sobriety test that can detect if someone is too impaired to drive. The problem with a pot BAC is that people react differently to THC. One person might throw up and become stoned from a few good hits while another may feel little to noting at all from the same dose.
I have a friend who has two jobs, goes to school for his bachelors degree, has a wife and a new-born son. When I asked him how he copes he replied: "Copious
I have a friend who has two jobs, goes to school for his bachelors degree, has a wife and a new-born son. When I asked him how he copes he replied: "Copious amount of marijuana, bro." He smokes when he wakes up, smokes on his drive in to work, smokes during lunch, smokes on his way to night classes or his second job and a few hits at night before bed.
Similarly, I have known several people who were functioning alcoholics. What exactly does this prove?
Driving within three hours of smoking pot is associated with a near doubling of the risk of fatal crashes.
'We don't know what level of marijuana impairs a driver.'"
One of those two statements HAS to be a lie.
Personally, I have NEVER heard of a story where Marijuana "impairment" alone has been implicated as the causal factor in any traffic fatality.
And that "one week" figure is also completely bogus. Even a drugstore urine test can detect Marijuana use for around 30 days.
There have been no reputable studies that show that driving while high on pot is significantly more dangerous than driving while "sober". Any study of accidents where Marijuana use was also detected would be hard-pressed to find that the pot "impairment" was the cause. But watch the fake statistics start to pile in, by "scientists" looking for their next "Grant-Welfare" money, as the NIH helps the Federal Government "make the case against pot".
Mark my words.
I think the problem is that every time someone's been in a crash and pot was found on them or they tested positive for pot at the hospital, the authorities "associated" pot with the crash. This is a classic mix up of correlation and causation. They don't realize that pot is found on a lot of people who are involved in crashes because it's so ubiquitous, not because it actually causes people to wreck.
Colorado State Police have announced that they plan to start aggressively enforcing minimum speed limits...
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RED HOOK — The once-sleepy south Brooklyn waterfront is going hog wild.
Motorcyclists from across the region are roaring into Red Hook, seeking out a trio of custom motorcycle shops renowned for churning out chrome-laden bikes sure to make any subway-shackled New Yorker yearn for leather jackets and the open road.
The three shops — plus a tri-color motor scooter shop on Union Street — offer widely different styles of bikes. But their owners, already a close-knit community bound ever more tightly by the ravages their garages suffered during Hurricane Sandy, share a single love, one they impart to their customers.
"You can be a [guy] from Long Island, or a fashionista from Manhattan — a rider's a rider," said Carlos Dos Santos, co-owner of Brooklyn Motor Works on Pier 41.
Atop a motorcycle, "everything's tuned out. You just have that one point on the horizon that you look at. It's like meditation on steroids."
Read on for DNAinfo.com New York's guide to the treasures that can be found behind each shop's metal roll-down doors, and which garage might be right for you.
Pier 41 near Liberty Warehouse
Owners: Carlos Dos Santos, 35, and Zach Cooper, 29
Founded: December 2010
Specialty: "The excessive."
Dos Santos has a motto: "'If the end of the world is tomorrow, what do you want to be riding?' The loudest, most badass bike imaginable," he said.
That translates to Harleys: big, shining, powerful, customized hogs, each finished with intricate paintwork to match Dos Santos and Cooper's precision mechanical craftsmanship.
"It's very concierge, very boutique," said Dos Santos, who also described himself as "mechanical engineer meets caveman," citing Mel Gibson's post-apocalyptic "Mad Max" as one of the biggest inspirations for his designs.
The shop builds bikes from the ground-up, and it modifies pre-existing motorcycles bought elsewhere. It's also a certified DynoJet tuning facility and a big-time distributor of after-market parts, which attracts shops from across the city for high-end tuning and equipment.
"There's more here than just the performance," Cooper described. "We can go through with a fine-tooth comb."
Nevertheless, when it comes to building bikes, "A lot of what we do is the mechanized equivalent of a wild night out with the boys, doing shots all night," Dos Santos said with a laugh.
The shop, once located at 74 Verona St., was devastated by 4-feet of floodwater, which destroyed bikes, equipment and a lounge area for guests that included leather couches, a pool table, a big-screen TV and video games.
For now, Dos Santos and Cooper are working out of an unmarked garage as they await a move this summer to a larger space on Pier 41.
"It's going to blow the old spot away," Dos Santos said. " It's really going to be something that complements the community."
12 Van Dyke St.
Owner: Keino Sasaki, 39
Founded: January 2008
Specialty: No-holds-barred customization, initially for Harley Davidsons, now for bikes of all types.
It was Harleys that pulled Keino Sasaki to the United States. Born and raised in Fukuoka, Japan, he trained to be a history teacher before pursuing his dream of customizing motorcycles.
"There was a custom motorcycle scene in Japan, but it was small, and it was following the U.S.," he told DNAinfo.com New York. "Harley has a diversity of style, and the custom scene has more diversity."
The works he creates at his shop on Van Dyke Street don't adhere to one particular design. But taken together, they are at once both brash and delicate, featuring curved, colored frames that swoop upward from seat to handles.
"Anything that catches my eye, anything I'm inspired by, I just do it," he described, as soft jazz music floated from a speaker nearby. "Architecture, art, equipment, the beautiful organic look of it. I don't look for inspiration. It comes to you."
A custom bike built from the ground-up costs about $40,000, and takes six months to a year to build. A preexisting motorcycle can cost $10,000 to $20,000 to customize in about two to six months.
"You look at the guy on a motorcycle down the street. It makes crazy noise, doing wheelies. I was attracted to that image of not-normal — it's OK to be not-normal," Sasaki said. "It's cheesy, the motorcycle-rebel image. I don't want to use that, but it's still the image."
97 Union St.
Owner: Peter Boggia
Founded: 2008
Specialty: Vintage European motorcycles
A slice of Old-World Europe lives in the Brooklyn garage owned by Peter Boggia — a space he once split with Sasaki of Keino Cycles. A native New Yorker, Boggia fell in love with Italian motorcycles, traveling to New Orleans in 1998 to apprentice under what he describes as one of the most accomplished mechanics in the industry.
Forced to move back to the five boroughs following Hurricane Katrina, Boggia built a reputation after rebuilding a classic Moto Guzzi Lemans salvaged from the storm.
"We are in business because we believe in the value of machines that are designed to last forever," he writes on the shop's website. "A properly maintained vintage motorcycle can be just as fun and reliable to ride as a modern bike — and thoroughly more rewarding to own."
The shop specializes in BMW, Ducati, Laverda, Norton, Moto Guzzi and Triumph motorcycles. It posts its latest projects and sales on its blog.
65 Union St.
Owner: Robbie Rhodes, 43
Founded: The shop has been open for more than a decade, but Rhodes took over in 2008
Specialty: Vintage Vespas
Plopped amid the brick-and-metal garages of the neighborhood's mighty motorcycle shops sits Scooter Bottega, a bright, tri-color building that is Brooklyn's only motor scooter service shop.
"Vespas are a very classical way of getting around," said owner Robbie Rhodes, who moved to the United States from Shropshire, England, in 2006. "It's best for getting around a city. That's what they were designed for…. It's economical, it's cheap on gas, it's easy to get from A to B. You can get there in style."
What's more, scooters and motorcycles are not mutually exclusive, he emphasized, pointing that he, himself, owns a motorcycle.
"You don't necessarily need a big 500cc motorcycle — you can only keep up with the traffic, you got so many [stop]lights," Rhodes said.
The shop services all kinds of motor scooters, and Rhodes regularly restores and sells vintage models. Restored scooters can cost anywhere from $5,000 to $8,000, depending on the year and model.


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Aren't these people supposed to be, you know, working?
Exactly, thats what I do. The company pays people to work, not play farmville.
Shhh... hehe
if only our raises were based on slashdot karma. I'd be a millionaire!
if only our raises were based on slashdot karma. I'd be a millionaire!
And your raise would be max $50.
Slashdot has saved the place I worked more time than I've wasted reading it. I've learned how to do stuff that I would never find reading Tech Manuals and taking classes.
Practical application of practical experience is way better than theoretical classes on optimal situations.
In theory, theory and practice are the same, in practice they are not.
Slashdot has saved the place I worked more time than I've wasted reading it. I've learned how to do stuff that I would never find reading Tech Manuals and taking classes.
How so?
I've not thought of Slashdot as a tech-learning/tech-howto site for years.
I say this in all seriousness. Most everything I read on Slashdot comes from another site I've visited earlier.
I suppose there's the "Ask Slashdot" section, but let's take a look at the last few entries in that section:
- Can We Legislate Past the
One that has helped me at my work was the announcement of Microsoft dropping the requirement for hardware support of the XP mode in windows 7.
It doesn't have to be a how to or such, it just has to be informative.
It just has to be News for Nerds.
One that has helped me at my work was the announcement of Microsoft dropping the requirement for hardware support of the XP mode in windows 7.
Was Slashdot really the first place you read about it? And did it really save your place of work?
The exaggeration in the post to which I replied was my point.
You seem to be imaging a whole lot more excitement in my post than what it contains.
And where did that "save ones place of work" qualifier come in? Only needed to be useful, and yes I read about the change on Slashdot first.
I ain't exaggerating jack shit, that's just you adding more to my post than what it contains.
Oh, wait nm, the "save ones place of work" qualifier came from a post from someone else, not mine, so get things straight and bitch at someone else.
Things I've learned about on Slashdot, while waiting for old style shit to get done
I learned of RIS (WDS) on
Before I read about such things on Slashdot, I used to run around and use Windows XP CD to install XP by hand, manually typing in Product keys and what not. Four to six hours of babysitting installs. Per comput
THAT is just one example of a "how to" found within the comments of
/. Oh, BTW, this solution cannot be found anywhere in any training for any certification that I've ever seen.
Back in 2004/2005 when I was working on Linux-based clusters for a company, I got to wondering if this could be done with Win-based PCs - my curiosity came from the fact that I could easily do this with individual Linux nodes when they went bad due to hardware failure, or whatever other reason for the failure.
So I went searchin
Microsoft tells you how to add DriverPacks to RIS images?
I don't think so.
It's usually in the comments that I find gems of knowledge (or stupidity), not the stories.
For gems of stupidity I just wait until kdawson's shift.
Slashdot has saved the place I worked more time than I've wasted reading it.
In this sentence, the thing that has been saved is time.You stopped reading after:
Slashdot has saved the place I work
Which is why you're so incredulous, why you were whipped up into too much of a frenzy to re-read the OP's post, and why you wrote:
Do any of those qualify for saving a workplace?
His point was that the time saved as a result of reading Slashdot has exceeded the amount of time spent reading Slashdot.
i.e. there is a net benefit t
Other than the typical slashdot self-entitlement 'research' you're going to have to give some sort of citation to backup your claim.
I would have to say that the exact opposite has been shown.
My employees have two rules to follow: 1. Get the job done. 2. Don't embarrass the company.
Seems reasonable, but Number 2 may be harder than you think [inc.com].
There is only one moral in there: Never, ever, ever give out your real info on places you don't want linked to you.
Disclaimer: This management method looks like it would be a bitch to scale.
Good point; it may be worth considering that if your company is so big that treating people like human beings doesn't scale, it's time to break up into smaller, more manageable units.
I read somewhere that 3M Corp actually does that, breaking off independent business units for each product line. As soon as a particular unit gets to be above 300 people, they figure, they can safely be split in two. If one of the two parts can't survive on its own, they let it die, as it was probably a drain on the bottom line anyway.
See Dunbar's number [wikipedia.org]. This is a concept covered, as my Anonymous sibling is correct to believe, in The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.
"My employees have two rules to follow: 1. Get the job done. 2. Don't embarrass the company."
Generally a good thing, but this indicates that you're not in one of the "highly regulated" industries to which the article refers. It's a very different game.
Then the company is stupid. We have decades' worth of scientific and anecdotal evidence that putting human monkeys in tight little boxes is Not A Good Thing, both for the monkey and the maker of the box.
The only thing we need to do to get a proper perspective on this problem to change the headline slightly:
Businesses Struggle to Control Their Staff
Suddenly, it becomes crystal clear that this is an administrative issue more than it is a technical one. Yes, compliance with federal regulation is a daunt
Disclaimer: This management method looks like it would be a bitch to scale. Not my fucking problem, thank Cthulu.
Best. Disclaimer. Ever.
You managed to get profanity, apathy and your undying love for the Great Old Ones combined into one golden nugget. Hats off to you, sir!
Disclaimer: This management method looks like it would be a bitch to scale.
hehe that's kind of what what I posted 2 hours ago but thanks to a
Short story: I agree with you but I went a little farther and my concern wasn't really if people were working or not but if information leaked through those sites. Bear in mind that people can still leak clues about sensitive information at night, when off their working hours...
My solution might seem
Aren't these people supposed to be, you know, working?
There exist lines of work that both require access to social media sites, and require capture/reporting of said access.
RFTA. It is quite interesting.
There are those who not only like the idea of turning every waking second (and sleeping, if they can manage it) of your life into an opportunity for you to absorb advertising and propaganda, but have contracted with others to be paid very large amounts of money to ensure such a world becomes inevitable.
We are.
What's the matter? Doesn't your job revolve around social networking sites and virtual worlds? No? Maybe you should get a cooler job..
First, the only social networking site you're allowed to have a profi
For some people, posting on social networking sites is their work. Three quarters of the users here are Microsoft shills, and the other two thirds are Applostles.
ssh -D 1080 me@myhouse
Firefox, socks proxy, localhost 1080.
marketing there are lot of people on face book that they can sell to.
Why not block them entirely?
Well, for one thing, because between iphones, blackberries, androids, and windows mobiles, pretty much everyone and their dog can trivially bypass any corporate controls.
What's the solution? Prevent employees from bringing their cellphone to work? Except in isolated scenarios that just isn't going to be enforceable, or even practical.
This is what they did for us. Except the forgot to think the plan thru and when our department (WEB) had three clients needing FB and Twitter integration, we had to get an firewall exception.
From TFA:
Social networking sites have proved valuable for sales-lead generation, marketing and general broker-client relations, but regulators have been quick to take notice and to offer the same warnings they did more than a decade ago when e-mail and instant messaging (IM) became common.
Seriously. What idiot wants his financial transactions posted on FaceBook?
Someone hoping to manipulate the market in some small way? Even if its a few percent you can make loads
like I did with P&G the other day.
Someone hoping to manipulate the market in some small way?
The problem with that is that you're only scamming the people who have already "friended" you.
And you're scam has to be visible to them. So if they "friend" anyone who asks, your message will probably be lost in the regular flood of messages.
I think this article is just badly written.
There's rules about what financial advisers can and can't advertise with. Basically, everything they put out to the customers usually has to be put through their broker dealer's compliance department. "Offering the same warning they did more than a decade ago" just means reminding them that if you're using Facebook or Twitter to communicate with your clients you better be putting it through compliance first.
Seriously. What idiot wants his financial transactions posted on FaceBook?
Twitter is clearly the place for all of your financial transactions [blippy.com].
I mean there are enough almost trivial ways to hide information in pretty much any channel when the 2 parties get to meet up before hand to agree a protocol.
I'd almost ask why the even try.
"hi, mike, what time's the meeting today" or "Morning,how're the kids" can carry enough information to let someone game the system.
Social networking just adds a few bands.
20 degree tangent here, but speaking of gaming the system, some marketers are wheeling out the line "Hi, I have $Boss 's cell number but I just don't have it with me. Can you give it to me?" They're trying to game the "OMG you blocked a call to $Boss" pressure.
However, I drill back the reply "Great, so you can look his number up in your records can call him on his cell. Have a nice day."
I've been getting the same thing but "oops, I misdialed your extension instead of $whomever. Could you just transfer me?"
Considering my extension is the same digit 3 times, I can't see how they possibly misdialed.
Actually, that reminds me... I have paperwork I should be doing.
Good old personal responsibility... sigh.
The problem is that in a regulated industry (in all industries, actually), there is no such thing as a communication that is not "official." If one of your agents makes a representation, and one of your stakeholders acts on that representation, then you are responsible for it. It doesn't matter how that representation was communicated. Whether or not the document was stamped "official" or not is irrelevant.
What's happening now is that firms are given the tools for rapid and wide communication, and they a
The problem is that in a regulated industry (in all industries, actually), there is no such thing as a communication that is not "official." If one of your agents makes a representation, and one of your stakeholders acts on that representation, then you are responsible for it. It doesn't matter how that representation was communicated. Whether or not the document was stamped "official" or not is irrelevant.
Of course this isn't so. If you decide to sue the company I work for based on something I said on Sla
I can't help but be reminded of the whole, "we had lots of valuable meetings" followed by "What was captured from those meetings?" from a consultant, followed by (blank stare) from workers the consultant was brought in to help.
Moving stuff onto social networks is actually a leap forward in this regard. It's a lot easier to parse logs from social networks than it is to search audio-visual records of meetings, at least with present technology. Perhaps in the future, you'll be able to enter a simple text sea
Stockbrokers with smartphones. Ain't going to stop 'em.
To paraphrase Process Leia, The more you tighten your grip, the more slips thru your fingers.
Where I work (the stuff I do when not commenting on Slashdot), they're in the process of trying to harness LinkedIn to increase sales, however, alot of people have difficulty with the concept. The old model consisted of cold calls and "walking the streets". The new hustle is e-mails and add me as your friend.
Trying to teach a fifty year old salesman what his granddaughter does with ease is almost baffling.
The reason for the documention (and control that such requires) is to keep the company on the right side of the law.
Being able to show the EXACT communication that took place can save a lot of money in fines.
Trying to teach a fifty year old salesman what his granddaughter does with ease is almost baffling.
I'm fifty years old you insensitive clod. But I'm a software developer, not a sales drone.
I'm sure there some 50 year olds out there with grandchildren. I'm not one of them. Yes, I'm sure.
I had a laugh the other day when I told my daughter (recent uni. grad), and her friends who she was skyping with, about snakes, baby chicks, and chatroulette.
Go figure.
Oh, please tell me that it involved feeding one of those animals to the other and and thus horrifying chatroulette users in a way that won't put you on an offender list.
tell you? Or don't tell you?
Yes, it involves the threat of feeding the chick to the snake.
No, I don't know this from firsthand experience.
It is alleged to be an effective tactic.
I hope I don't need to explain any more than I already have.
Websense can suck it.
If you think you're special because you can do that to get around a block then you are confused. If you can use this sort of workaround then your admins are either idiots or don't actually want to stop you, they just want you to go out of your way enough that its obvious you were breaking the rules.
Either way, you aren't special.
He might not be special, but there's really no way to prevent tunneling short of blocking all potential addresses and protocols, which is pretty much all of them in either case. So there's really no way. Hell, I've used www-over-email. Is that an administrative oversight too?
Meh, when done right, it just looks like a long ssl and/or vpn tunnel session.
You really cannot do much to filter/firewall this sort of bypass for the technical user. Unless you allow whitelist-only access to https/ssl sites and/or force corporate-only machine access with corporate-installed SSL CAs that decrypt SSL traffic and re-encrypted (putting the corporate proxy as a man-in-the-middle) you have no way to stop this.
The real trick is blocking all "leaking" dns and apps. Socks leaks badly, as does fla
The DoD has been struggling with this same issues as well, they recently issued guidance that opened up social media on their networks.
http://socialmedia.defense.gov/index.php/2010/02/26/dod-official-policy-on-newsocial-media/ [defense.gov]
That's just a statement that the DoD unclassified Internet won't block social networking sites. Anybody on there can already send email, etc., so it's not really a security issue.
Interestingly, DoD has a policy that all email with attachments on the unclassified net must be digitally signed by the sender. This doesn't guarantee that the attachments don't contain hostile code, but it makes it easy to track where the hostile code came from. DoD already has a large-scale public key infrastructure, and th
Only Marketing/PR has access to Facebook and Twitter. Even our public wireless access points don't have it. What's funny is that every once in a while they have a drawing or promotion to get employees to follow or friend the company's accounts. The links to the Facebook and Twitter accounts are on the default home page for all the internal browsers.
What with the library of congress archiving every twit and facebook allowing private data access to 3rd party companies, it seems like data retention is already being done for you.
FaceBook Enterprise Edition
Twitter Pro
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A service where your company opens an account with the social networking site, you submit the IP addresses of your DNS servers, or reconfigure your proxy to point to their 'corporate access IP'.
All Employees accessing the site through the enterprise intranet get a special version of the site that archives exactly all activities that are performed from the enterprise.
A flag controls what type of access they have to the medium at
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DENOMINATION: Episcopal Church
SIZE: About 325 regular attendees
SUNDAY MASS: 8 a.m., 10 a.m., 12:15 p.m. (Spanish) & 6:30 p.m. (Celtic Mass)
Cuffy Sullivan was getting frustrated with the vacation Bible school kits she was finding in Christian bookstores and websites.
"They're just obviously written with a different denomination in mind," said Sullivan, a mother of three young children. "We don't have altar calls in the Episcopal faith."
So this year, she and fellow church member, Nichole Breton, created their own curriculum.
Their "Chronicles of Narnia"-themed vacation Bible school uses characters and scenes from the popular C.S. Lewis books to teach Bible lessons as well as liturgy of the Episcopal Church.
Up to 40 children this week participated in crafts, games, singing and performances.
The program ended Thursday.
Some of the kids and volunteers dressed up in character, including one parent who played the White Witch.
"She came in with this long fur stole, and she sat down and said, 'Hello, sons of Adam and daughters of Eve,'" Sullivan said. "They were spellbound."
Sullivan and Breton are already planning next year's program, which they've tentatively titled, "Life in a Monastery."
"We're engaging their interest and imagination that, in a way, is still showing them the truths of our faith," Sullivan said.
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Recent COE graduate highlighted in Men's Fitness magazine04/26/2013
Corwyn Collier, a veteran of the war in Iraq and an alumnus of the College of Education, has an inspiring story to tell that is making headlines! He was recently interviewed for Men's Fitness magazine. Collier is a Social Studies teacher from Stow, Ohio.


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Apple announced its best e-books of the year Thursday. The company has come up with a best-of list at years' end since the launch of the iBookstore in 2010.
This year marks the debut of the interactive category "Best Multi-Touch Book," specifically for e-books designed using the iBooks Author tool. The interactive e-book Apple selected as the best of 2012 is "Fashion" by DK Publishing, created in conjunction with the Smithsonian. Apple cites the "photos, videos and virtual style tours" exploring 3,000 years of fashion history as what makes the e-book outstanding. In print, it's a hefty 480 pages long.
Other books the editors singled out are Katherine Boo's "Behind the Beautiful Forevers," which won the National Book Award, and popular YA author John Green's "The Fault in Our Stars." In fiction, Peter Heller's "The Dog Stars," a bestseller, was the editor's favorite selection of the year.
Apple has posted its top 10 books in each category beside its bestsellers; while there is some overlap, it's interesting to see that there are also gaps. In fiction, E.L. James holds the top three bestselling spots, with "Fifty Shades of Grey" at No. 1, "Fifty Shades Darker" at No. 2 and "Fifty Shades Freed" at No. 3. The first book not by E.L. James on the list is Gillian Flynn's "Gone Girl," a top 10 editorial choice in Mysteries and Thrillers.
Another interesting aspect of Apple's year-end highlight are its top free downloads. The Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" was the most-downloaded of the year (and yes, it looks fantastic). While the top 10 is peppered with instruction manuals and self-help books, there are also some classics: Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" and "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle.
In addition to its top books of the year, Apple has announced its top apps, music, podcasts and movies of the year, in case you do something other than read books.
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Intelligence spokesman Shafiqullha Tahiri said Friday that intelligence agents also killed five suspected suicide bombers and arrested two others during a raid early Wednesday when the truck was seized.
He says all were suspected members of the militant Haqqani network, which is closely allied with the Taliban.
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I'm not sure what you're asking... Is this about nap schedules or how to turn down an invite at the last minute because you didn't mention anything about whether or not the host had an issue with it. This is normal stuff that happens with kids that age and other parents do understand usually, but it doesn't sound like anyone had an issue with this either.
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This research investigates trust-building strategies that may influence transactions between individuals and unknown Internet firms, focusing on three influential components that mediate the relationship between online shoppers and online vendors. Results indicate significant direct effects for trust in the Internet infrastructure, susceptibility to the social influence of media, and the presence of influential site characteristics on user willingness to provide personal information to unknown Internet firms. This study extends the research on trust in electronic commerce by providing a prediction model that is demonstrated to calculate the probability of user willingness to provide information. The utility of the model for identifying the relative importance of factors and predicting outcomes lends insight into important issues in online trust formation. Knowledge of effective trust-building strategies guide organizations that use the Internet for selling, marketing, or servicing customers to gain maximum benefits from investments in e-commerce applications.
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Fed policymakers appeared to move closer to a decision to add more stimulus to the economy. That's according to minutes released of the Federal Open Market Committee's meeting. The minutes didn't say what the Fed is likely to do next, but indicated many officials supported keeping the federal funds rate at "exceptionally low levels" at least through late 2014.


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It was an otherwise quiet Monday afternoon for Doug Wyatt who pulled into Jay's Kountry Kookin' looking to get a quick bite to eat. However, seconds later, he saw a couple of teenagers get into his SUV. He ran outside and tried to stop it.
"The owner grabbed hold of the door and they backed out with the owner holding on to the door and it dragged him to the ground," says Corbin Patrolman Rusty Hedrick.
The victim in this story didn't want to talk on camera, but he says he's learned his lesson as he says he's never going to chase anyone trying to steal his car ever again.
A woman inside the restaurant called police and the chase was on.
Patrolman Rusty Hedrick knew very little about the carjackers. "I just tried to stay calm and stay back because I didn't know what that vehicle, that person was going to do," he said.
Several other police cars joined in as the chase went from Corbin along Highways 26, 3041 to Archer Street in Woodbine.
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Well here's Willard Romney's, the presumptive nominee, record. And it is all about gun control and limitations [which I agree with].
I'm curious how the gun lovers and NRA will deal with this issue. Will they accuse Willard of "taking away our rights!" as they have knee-jerkedly accused Mr. Obama? Or will they pretend that Willard's past support of gun control and limitations doesn't matter?
Washington Post:"He was never endorsed by the NRA, and didn't have their official support during his 2002 gubernatorial campaign... Mitt Romney as a candidate received a respectable B grade rating from the NRA, ... Romney's Democratic opponent in the governor's race, Shannon O'Brien, was given a more than respectable "A" grade by the NRA, according to its website.
"The issue of guns has repeatedly dogged Romney, who as a U.S. Senate candidate in 1996 was in favor of several gun control measures."
"We need a president who will stand up for the rights of hunters, sportsmen, and those seeking to protect their homes and their families. President Obama has not; I will," Romney said. "And if we are going to safeguard our Second Amendment, it is time to elect a president who will defend the rights President Obama ignores or minimizes. I will." --Willard (Mitt) Romney
Romney is a blatant liar on this issue. He has a record of supporting and voting for gun control and gun limits. Although PBO did support gun control and limits while an Illinois state senator, [something I agree with] he has done NOTHING to curtail gun rights since becoming POTUS. What he supported and proposed in Illinois was a state issue [don't the conservatives revere "states rights"]? But since taking office, Mr. Obama has not proposed any legislation on gun issues for the country. But that doesn't stop Willard from pandering to the ignorant who haven't the inclination or the ability to seek out the truth.
President Obama's record on the Second Amendment:
Lasting Effect of Obama Administration
"While the final chapter of the Obama administration's impact on gun rights will not be written until the president leaves office in 2013 or 2017, the story through much of his first term in office was a neutral one. Congress did not take up serious consideration of new gun control laws, nor did Obama ask them to. When Republicans regained control of the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterm, chances of far-reaching gun control laws being enacted were essentially squashed."
Wayne LaPierre, NRA president:
"Either we defeat Barack Obama and retain all the benefits of our pro-gun victories over the past 30 years-from the Firearms Owners' Protection Act and the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, to the Right-to-Carry revolution, Castle Doctrine, hunter protection and landmark victories in the U.S. Supreme Court-or we lose this election and lose it all," LaPierre wrote. "Everything you and I, and gun owners across America have fought to achieve over the past three decades could be lost as a result of just one presidential election."
Obama Record: Not Gun Rights Restricting
"But the president's record offers scant evidence to support such ominous rhetoric. Obama has not moved to restrict gun rights, despite suggestions that he would tackle the issue after a shooting rampage in Tucson, Arizona during which former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ari., was shot in the head."
Obama also signed a bill with an amendment permitting people to carry firearms in national parks."
So what's happening here? The head of the NRA is going after PBO who has not proposed any legislation, as president, to restrict or overturn any gun rights. But LaPierre is supporting Willard Romney who has a solid record of being in favor of gun control legislation.
Are the conservatives so deranged in their hatred of Mr. Obama that they don't see the what is in front of their noses?
Further reading from "The Liberty Zone," a pro-gun rights post, about Romney vs. Obama on gun control issues:
"Whom does Mittens think he's fooling?
Sh*t, Obama has assailed gun rights less than Romney has in recent years.
"Governor Romney has a solid record of pursuing gun control measures to control crime and increase safety. He is vocally supportive of the assault weapons ban, supported a waiting period, and supports registration. While Governor he continued Massachusetts's history of gun control advocacy.
In 2002, Mitt Romney stated in a debate that he supported the tough gun laws in Massachusetts and that he believed they help protect us and keep us safe. He vowed not to chip away at those laws.
While in office, Governor Romney supported the Brady bill and a waiting period because it was necessary to complete a background check. More recently, he has stated that with the advent of instant background checks, a waiting period is no longer required."
More recently, eh? Would that "more recently" be when he decided he needed the endorsement of the NRA?
Will conservatives make excuses for Romney by saying he supported gun control and limits when he was an unformed "young man" of only 55 years [and seeking to be a leader in traditionally liberal Massachusetts]? LOL! Or will they acknowledge his flip-flopping and pandering to the NRA and unlimited gun ownership advocates?
What does his record show?


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Editor's note: We asked Joey Lott, the author of ActionScript Cookbook, to select some recipes from his book to showcase here on the Web DevCenter. He came up with quite a diverse slate. Today, you'll find recipes that deal with currency formatting, how to use a unique depth when creating a new movie clip, and how to perform actions at set intervals as well as create a clock showing the absolute time. Next Friday, we'll conclude this series with recipes on pausing and resuming a sound, saving a local shared object, and searching XML. This diversity of offerings reflects the sheer volume of solutions to common ActionScript problems that you'll find in Joey's book.
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Well, I'd have kicked up a fuss the minute he laid hands on me - and I would have run away when I saw him heading my way on the street!Sorry, I don't see what is "sweet" about being grabbed, lectured and chased. I think you were very polite and calm, but you may have engaged the crazy and personally I would feel quite uncomfortable visiting that place again.
I have to disagree. You are asking women to accept being hit on in an aggressive way, on the grounds that "it makes obnoxious drunks feel good". It's the epitome of the idea that "nice" women put other people's feelings ahead of their own.Eventually, the OP is going to run out of places to go, if she has to always act thrilled by strangers rudely accosting her, then never go back to that location for fear that she's encouraged them.
I totally get what others are saying. But i have a slightly different perspective.I used to hang out at "an old man bar". It was the divey-est of dives. A few young folks hung out there, and lots of older ones. I even worked there for a while. So I got to know the old guys. And they did look rough around the edges and kind of creepy I guess. But I knew they were just sad old men. They are a particular type of functional alcoholic, and really not to be frightened of. They always enjoyed the company of pretty younger women in the bar, not in a sexual way though, just in a life affirming way and in the way anyone can appreciate general beauty and vitality. That the other regulars in the bar, and even the bartender, didn't seem alarmed he grabbed your arm makes me think he was one of these old guys - harmless and just a sad old drunk who saw the errors of his life way too late and through the bottom of a glass.
If he was that kind of guy, the flowers were more for him then for you; the act of giving them to you, probably gave him great joy. he got that feeling of being young and romantic and gentlemanly, even if for only a moment, by giving them to you. he got to feel for a moment as though all the rough times he'd been through were worth it because he got to impart what he considered long, hard earned wisdom upon you. Of course being an old drunk, its not elusive wisdom or anything, but to him it was.So please enjoy those flowers and think of them as a gift you gave a lonely old man, you probably smiled at him and said "thank you" and that probably made his day, heck his week....And just don't go back there!
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HANOVER, N.H. — Dartmouth head coach Paul Cormier shook up his starting lineup and got the result he was looking for as the Big Green defeated Yale on Saturday night at Leede Arena for their first Ivy win of the year, 71-62. Sophomore Gabas Maldunas came off the bench to score 16 points on 8-of-10 shooting and grab eight rebounds to help Dartmouth (5-13, 1-3 Ivy) end a personal seven-game skid against the Bulldogs dating back to the 2008-09 season.
Yale (7-14, 1-3 Ivy) got a game-high 20 points from point guard Austin Morgan, though he was just 2-of-10 on three-pointers, and 16 more from Matt Townsend. Armani Cotton led the Bulldogs with eight rebounds as Yale won the battle of the boards, 30-26.
Maldunas was not the only reserve to provide a lift as freshman Malik Gill dished out four assists and hit all of his three field goals and both free throws to contribute eight points. The starters also carried their weight with three more putting up double figures — freshman Alex Mitola with 12 points, sophomore John Golden with 11 and freshman Connor Boehm with 10.
Both teams were on target at the line as Dartmouth converted 22-of-24 (a season-high .917) and Yale 21-of-24 (.875), but the Big Green drained more than half of their field goals (23-of-45, .511) compared to just 35.3 percent (18-of-51) for the Bulldogs.
|Tyler Melville drives for an easy bucket in the first half against the Bulldogs.
Although Yale jumped out to an early 5-0 lead on a Townsend layup and a three-pointer by Morgan, the Big Green matched those with a Melville triple and a layup by rookie Tommy Carpenter. The two teams were not separated by more than two points for the next several minutes with Yale taking the lead for what would turn out to be the final time all night, 14-12.
Dartmouth then ripped off 11 straight points over more than six minutes, beginning with a layup by Maldunas to knot the game at 14. Melville put the Green on top by hitting 1-of-2 at the line, then extended the lead with a layup before Maldunas stole the ball near midcourt and took it home for the dunk. Following a Bulldog timeout, Maldunas scored on a putback and Mitola canned a pair of free throws to cap the spurt with Dartmouth on top, 23-14.
Over the final 3:32 of the half, Yale knocked down six free throws, but Mitola countered with a pair of layups, leaving the Green up by seven at the break, 27-20. The Bulldogs managed just six field goals on 26 attempts (.231) and a woeful 1-of-14 (.071) behind the arc over the first 20 minutes of action.
Early in the second half, Yale finally ended an 0-for-12 stretch from three-point range when Morgan ripped the net to bring the Bulldogs within five, 31-26. But Maldunas went to work down low with three layups in the span of one minute, boosting Dartmouth's lead into double figures for the first time at 37-26. Golden added a pair of free throws to make it a 13-point game with 13:39 to go.
Yale battled back with a nine-point run of its own, highlighted by a Sam Martin trifecta, over a 2:15 span, only to have the Big Green explode on a 13-3 spurt, starting with a Golden triple from the corner. Maldunas picked up a steal and flushed it home on the one-man break, and Golden drained two more freebies after being intentionally fouled while going to the rim on another break for the largest Dartmouth lead of the night at 52-37 with 7:41 on the clock.
|John Golden thrills the crowd — and his teammates — with his aerial assault on the basket.
Dartmouth hits the road next weekend, beginning at Columbia (9-9, 1-3 Ivy) on Friday night at 7 p.m. Yale continues its stretch of five of six games on the road to open league play when it plays Penn (4-16, 1-2 Ivy) at The Palestra on Friday at 7 p.m. as well.
Notes: Dartmouth has shot at least 50 percent from the floor in three of its last four games ... the last Big Green victory in the series came on Feb. 7, 2009 at Leede Arena, 57-54. Dartmouth is now 96-105 all-time against the Bulldogs ... the Green have matched their win total overall and in Ivy play from each of the past three seasons.


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An 11-year-old boy will be granted his wish and heading to Disney World.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation was in Greenville Tuesday for Dontayvion Dalbertoill, who suffers from Leukemia.
Dalbertoill has two other brothers who also have life threatening diseases. Each of them are also on the wish granting list.
Dalbertoill's brother, Bubba, already got his wish when he went to see Chris Paul of the LA Clippers.
The third brother, Tabian Jr., will see his wish granted early next year.
Dalbertoill had a grand reception Tuesday afternoon with Sheriff Neil Elks, deputies, and Greenville Police officers, as he met the Make-A-Wish members.
That is where Dontayvion will meet with Wish-Granters at a send-off party as he heads toward his wish come true.
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Over the July 19-21st weekend, the Santa Clara Sporting 97 boys team won the inaugural Force Adidas Premier Showcase in Cupertino by outscoring their opponents with a combined score of 13-1; the only goal against coming on a penalty kick. The Sporting 97's won the first three games 4-0, 3-0, and 4-0 including victories over the Diablo and Mustang teams.
The championship match against Turlock was a much tougher game with Sporting jumping out to a 1-0 lead, only to give up a penalty kick shortly before halftime. The boys rallied with a goal by forward Cristian Loza in the last 4 minutes, then held on for the victory. Midfielders Angel Farias, Anthony Orendain-Holguin, and Jordan Juarez each netted 3 goals over the weekend with defender Justin Yee-Sparkman, and forwards Tony Sierra and Josiah Romero rounding out the scoring. Congratulations to the team and coaches.


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RADNOR — Back in April, Tony Chennault was at a crossroads.
Does he stay at Villanova or transfer for the second time in his career?
Chennault knew the score. With Ryan Arcidiacono, Darrun Hilliard and James Bell returning, and Dylan Ennis, a transfer from Rice, and highly touted freshman Josh Hart coming in, Chennault knew playing time in the Villanova backcourt was going to be at a premium.
And so in mid-April, the then 6-2 junior from Neumann-Goretti by way of Wake Forest, told Villanova coach Jay Wright that he wanted to transfer.
"I was trying to figure out what I really wanted," Chennault said after the Wildcats rolled over Mount St. Mary's Wednesday night at the Pavilion, 90-59. "I was going through a lot of personal issues and stuff like that."
Three weeks later, Chennault had a change of heart and told Wright that he wanted to stay. Wright welcomed Chennault back with open arms.
"We never wanted him to leave," Wright said.
"I realized that I wasn't going to find a brotherhood somewhere else that we have here," Chennault said. "When I go through my personal battles, they're always there for me. That's sincere. That means much more to me than basketball. These relationships are going to last a lifetime."
With Villanova struggling with vastly undermanned Mount St. Mary's Wednesday night, Wright turned to Chennault to pump some life into the Wildcats and he delivered for the teammates he thinks of as brothers.
Despite playing with six stitches in his upper lip, courtesy of an errant elbow from teammate James Bell the day before, Chennault triggered a 16-point run that turned a one-point deficit into the laugher everyone expected.
Chennault entered the game with 15 minutes, 41 seconds left in the first half and the Wildcats trailing, 8-7. He immediately made his presence felt.
Chennault made a steal and fed JayVaughn Pinkston for a layup. Then, he helped to force another turnover and found freshman Josh Hart under the hoop and the Wildcats were off and running.
By the time the run ended, Villanova (2-0) had a 23-8 lead and the Mountaineers (0-2) had no hope of victory. And it took all of 4:47 to make that happen.
When Chennault came into the game, Villanova had three turnovers and was shooting 33.3 percent from the field (3-for-9). By the next TV timeout, the Wildcats had two more turnovers, but were shooting 62.5 percent (10-for-16) from the field and the offense was running smoothly.
Chennault had four assists and two steals in that stretch. He finished the half with three points, four assists and two steals in 13 minutes, and wound up with five points, six assists and two steals in 23 minutes overall.
"I just try to bring energy off the bench, doing all the little things," Chennault said. "We already have a lot of great scorers. I just try to get those guys shots where they can be effective on the floor."
Villanova does have scorers aplenty. Pinkston topped the 20-point mark for the second straight game with a game-high 21 points in just 28 minutes of work. He was one of four Wildcats in double figures.
Fellow junior Darrun Hilliard added 18 points and two assists. Senior James Bell chipped in with 12 points, eight boards and four assists despite getting the wind knocked out of him in the second half. He eventually returned to the game.
The upperclassmen weren't the only ones to shine. Hart had a breakout game. The 6-5 freshman guard had career highs in both points (17) and rebounds (11) for the first double-double of his career. He made his first seven shots from the field and finished 7-for-8.
"I thought he handed the ball well against pressure.
"He's just getting better every day," Wright said of Hart. "He had a little setback for a few weeks with a concussion. He was playing ground and then he was out for about 2˝ weeks. As he came back it was kind of like he was starting over again, but he's getting better every day and I think that's what we're seeing."
And Villanova fans, and a national TV audience, got a chance to see what it truly means to be a teammate.
"That's one of the roles I embrace," Chennault said. "I want to be the ultimate (team) guy, get my teammates shots and be a leader for the younger guys."
NOTES: Two games into the season and sophomore guard Ryan Arcidiacono has yet to reach double figures. He had three points in last Friday's season-opener victory over Lafayette and had nine points against the Mountaineers. … Earlier in the day, Great Valley senior Mikal Bridges made good on his verbal commitment and signed a letter of intent with the Wildcats Wednesday. Guard Phil Booth of Mount St. Jospeh's High School in Baltimore is expected to sign a letter of intent with the Wildcats Thursday.


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pretty fly 88
Okay, I realize that I have made enemies of supposedly the kindest people on the forums. I see that the moderators are calling me idiots, and that's not good. Go ahead. If you don't want me to ever post again, just say so. I don't think I'm really that bad, but I know some of you do. If Yes wins, I'll just remove myself from these forums and you'll never see me again. Because I know that in real life, the only people that have ever really hated me have moved away. Most people in school think I'm a genius. So what do you think
just like the Clash song, Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
just like the Clash song, Should I Stay Or Should I Go?