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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Gov. Phil Bryant wants to make it easier for veterans to get jobs when they leave the military and for the spouses of military members to get jobs when they transfer to Mississippi.
Bryant signed a proclamation Wednesday declaring 2013 the Year to Hire Mississippi Heroes.
"We understand how difficult it is for veterans to re-enter the workforce," said Bryant, speaking at the state Capitol before veterans' groups. "More than just a handshake or a pat on the back, they deserve an opportunity."
As part of that effort, the Republican governor is backing a bill that would order licensing agencies to translate military job training to civilian credentials. For example, the state Health Department would be told to examine how much of a military medic's training should transfer for an emergency medical technician's license.
Mississippi's effort lines up with a 2011 federal law that encouraged companies to hire veterans. That law provides tax credits of $2,400 to $9,600 to employers who hire unemployed veterans and veterans with service-connected disabilities
Bryant also supports a bill that would to give temporary professional licenses to spouses of service members transferred to Mississippi. He said that in too many instances, it can take months for someone who moved into Mississippi to transfer a license, causing a break in a family's income.
The Mississippi Department of Employment Security is inviting employers to pledge to hire veterans, with Ingalls Shipbuilding and Entergy Corp. signing that pledge Wednesday at Bryant's announcement. The department will contact employers who sign the pledge at WIN Job Centers or online and help those companies find qualified veterans for open positions.
Mark Henry, the executive director of the Department of Employment Security cited figures that show the national unemployment rate for recent veterans was 10.8 percent in December, compared to 7.8 percent nationwide.
"The men and women who have been defending us are having a harder time finding jobs than those of us who stayed at home," Henry said.
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The $50 Million Innovation Challenge: Supporting Growth at Johnson
Dean's vision for Johnson as a leader in business education for the connected world
March 06, 2014
Dean Soumitra Dutta has outlined a bold vision for growth and innovation for the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University with an emphasis on launching a new MBA and physical campus at Cornell NYC Tech, enhancing the excellence of Ithaca-based programs, and expanding the school's reach in key global regions.
Energized by the dean's vision for Johnson as a leader in business education for the connected world, five alumni committed $27 million to support Johnson programs, faculty, research, and scholarships. These generous alumni have invited the Johnson community to participate in an Innovation Challenge and raise an additional $23 million, with the goal of reaching $50 million by June 30, 2015. The five alumni who have pledged substantial gifts include Dyan and John Smith, MBA '74 ($10 million); Jeff Parker '65, MEng '66, MBA '70 ($10 million); Robert R. Dyson, MBA '74, and the Dyson Foundation ($5 million); David J. Breazzano, MBA '80 ($1 million); and Peter Wright '75, MBA '76 ($1 million).
In announcing the challenge at the Johnson Alumni Awards and Recognition Dinner in New York City on January 30, 2014, Parker, co-chair of the Johnson NYC Steering Committee, enthusiastically invited alumni to be part of this exciting new era at Johnson. "This is a game changer for Johnson and Cornell," said Parker. "This is a serious opportunity to make a big difference in the world of business education."
At the event, Dutta addressed the opportunities for growth and innovation at Johnson in the years ahead. Johnson's MBA in New York City will be unique, because it is integrated with a leading technology program. Graduates of the MBA program at Cornell NYC Tech will meet the needs of businesses that are driving disruptive change through the smart leverage of technology, he said. The cadre of accepted students bring an entrepreneurial spirit and analytical approach to their work, and will graduate with an unsurpassed understanding of how technology and business intersect in the digital economy.
At the same time, innovation is continuing in Ithaca, where the school has completed a major review of the MBA curriculum. These changes, driven by a comprehensive review and informed by extensive industry input, include specialized instruction in critical thinking, a targeted, customized leadership program, and an enriched and expanded focus on data analysis and modeling. Special partnerships are also being developed with sister Cornell schools to bring the richness of Cornell's intellectual strengths to the Johnson experience.
On the global front, Johnson's Emerging Markets Institute is leading research and teaching in selected emerging markets. Johnson has partnerships with several global universities and has signed an agreement with a leading Chinese university to launch a pioneering dual-degree MBA program in Beijing. In addition, the Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA program is growing its global reach, extending its unique boardroom MBA format to new locations in Latin America and Mexico.
A new era is at hand for Johnson. Innovative advances require commitment on the part of the school and its graduates, and increased financial support from alumni is critical to launching Johnson as a leader in graduate business education on the global stage. "I am deeply grateful for the long-term support of the Johnson community and I encourage all of us to come together and contribute to make the challenge successful," said Dutta.To learn more about the Innovation Challenge or make a donation, please follow this link Innovation Challenge. All gifts to Johnson support the Innovation Challenge.
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WILMINGTON, Mass. — Just because the Bruins and Montreal Canadiens are mortal enemies doesn't mean there isn't room for some empathy between members of both organizations.
Bruins head coach Claude Julien, who is bilingual but was still once fired as coach of the Habs, can see both sides of the situation involving Randy Cunneyworth and the issue of him not speaking French. Cunneyworth was hired last month as interim head coach after the firing of Jacques Martin.
Montreal visits Boston tomorrow night.
"I feel for him a little bit because he's been picked on for not being able to speak the language. And yet at the same time, I think the most important thing right now for him is to right the ship in Montreal," said Julien after Bruins practice today at TD Garden. "I think the people, knowing them over there, will certainly appreciate him making an effort to either learn the language and do that. … And what people have to realize too, it's important for them over there to have somebody that can communicate. And I'm not saying that that's not Randy. If he makes an effort, they're open to that.
"When you look at the province, and you look at the followers, a lot of it is about French. And media-wise, as you guys know, if I came here and couldn't speak English, it'd certainly make your job pretty hard. So you've just got to reverse it a little bit. And if I had to speak French and somebody had to translate everything, it's tough for you guys to sell the product. So you've got to understand both sides of it. But for Randy, I've known him for a while. If he says he's going to learn the language, he will. I think they're going to be open to that and all he's got to do right now is right the ship for them."
In any language, Julien is always diplomatic in matters like this. The most important thing for the Bruins is to make sure that ship righting doesn't start tomorrow night at the TD Garden.


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KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Senior midfielder Chelsea Duffy and junior assistant captain Allegra Gray of the University of Delaware women's soccer team were named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA)/Continental Tire All-Mid-Atlantic Region team.
Both Duffy and Gray were named to the NSCAA All-Mid-Atlantic Region third team. The NSCAA honor marks the first time each student-athlete has earned an All-Region postseason honor in their career.
The NSCAA, which is the world's largest soccer coaches' organization, is a non-profit organization with a mission to educate coaches, encourage excellence and serve the soccer community. It is the world's largest soccer coaches' organization with members at every level of the game. The membership is primarily made up of coaches, but also includes administrators, referees and others in the soccer industry. The NSCAA provides its members ways to enhance the game of soccer by providing a national education program, interaction and networking opportunities, and membership benefits.
"It's quite and honor to have two of our University of Delaware players chosen in such an elite group," said Blue Hen head coach Scott Grzenda.
Duffy (at right), who also earned the first All-Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) first team honor of her career in 2013, played her last season as a Blue Hen this fall. The very quick and agile midfielder finished her senior season ranked second on the team in points (10), scoring three goals and passing out four assists.
Gray (below), who earned her second-straight All-CAA first team honor this season, was also named to the 2013 All-CAA Academic team as an honor student majoring in statistics with a minor in economics. The junior passed out only one assist this season, but served as the heart and soul of the Delaware defensive unit. Gray aided the Blue Hens defense that only allowed 19 goals this season.
"Chelsea and Allegra are very dynamic and exciting players to watch," said Grzenda. "It once again demonstrates that the University of Delaware has the academic and athletic reputation to attract such talented players. Losing Chelsea will be difficult as she has been the heart and soul of our midfield for the past 4 years, but we're extremely happy to have Allegra back for her senior year."
Duffy and Gray were two of nine student-athletes who represented the CAA on the All-Region team. Rebecca Sparks of James Madison and Leah Galton of Hofstra were named to the NSCAA All-Mid-Atlantic Region first team while Caroline Casey of William & Mary and Emily Banes of Towson earned second team honors. Melissa Chapman of Drexel and Ashley Herdon of JMU were also named to the NSCAA All-Mid-Atlantic Region third team.
NSCAA/Continental Tire NCAA Division I Women's Soccer All-Mid-Atlantic Region Team:
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GK - Elizabeth Hoerner, Sr. (Navy); D - Jade Seabrook, Jr. (Navy); D - Caroline Dwyer, So. (Penn); D – Rebecca Sparks, Sr. (James Madison); M – Emma Clark, Sr. (Boston University); M – Caroline Brawner, Jr. (Colgate); M – Julianna Libertin, Sr. (Dayton); F – Margaret Purce, Fr. (Harvard); F – Leah Galton, So. (Hofstra); F – Morgan Dankanich, Jr. (Navy).
Second Team
GK – Caroline Casey, So. (William & Mary); D – Courtney Niemiec, Sr. (La Salle); D – Peyton Johnson, Sr. (Harvard); D – McKenzie Hollenbaugh, So. (Boston University); M – Haley Washburn, So. (Harvard); M – Renee Washington, Sr. (La Salle); M – Gabriella Guzman, Sr. (Princeton); M – Kelsey Haycock, Jr. (La Salle); F – Ashley Campbell, So. (Dayton); F – Emily Barnes, Sr. (Towson).
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GK – Kalijah Terilli, So. (Penn); D – Meredith Speck, Jr. (Yale); D – Melissa Chapman, Jr. (Drexel); D – Allegra Gray, Jr. (Delaware); M – Kaylie Davidson, So. (Navy); M – Chelsea Duffy, Sr. (Delaware); M – Meg Casscells-Hamby, Jr. (Harvard); M – Evelyn Nicinski, Jr. (Bucknell); F – Katrina Guillou, So. (UNCW); F – Beverly Leon, Sr. (Columbia); F – Erica Kosienski, Fr. (Boston University); F – Ashley Herdon, Fr. (James Madison).


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"Why do we have to fight so hard to be able to fish?" — a question we keep getting from our children, many of whom are 4th and 5th generation commercial fisherman and setnetters in Upper Cook Inlet. The Alaska Fisheries Conservation Alliance's recent statewide initiative targeting Cook Inlet Setnetters is indeed a very difficult thing to try to understand, let alone explain to our children, friends, and neighbors.
Here is the question that we keep coming back to: Why is feeding the world an abundant, natural and healthy protein — Wild Salmon — any less important than the recreational fishing that takes place in our rivers? It's not. Both fisheries have a social and economic value, and a unique place in this wonderful State of Alaska. Both are vitally important to the economy and the culture of the coastal communities that host and depend on them.
We refuse to stoop to the level of greed that Bob Penney and his myriad of "Sportfishing Organizations" and "Conservation Alliances" are exhibiting. Our children, our community, our neighbors, and our families deserve better than this. So how do we fix these "fish wars" that have been waged for years? We rise above it! We stand up and say ALL fisheries are an important part of this state, and will exist for many generations to come. We come TOGETHER for solutions to protect our diverse fishery and the resource it depends on.
The Kenai Peninsula holds the most accessible river systems in the State of Alaska. We have a large and growing number of people coming to play in our rivers, a very sensitive and limited resource. Each user group needs sensible limits — responsible management cannot allow unbridled growth on a limited resource. We must limit the number of boats we allow over the spawning grounds, we must put some limits on the ever growing dipnet fishery, and we must have limits and guidelines as to the amount of commercial activity we allow — in both the salt and fresh waters.
ADF&G has set escapement goals that are predicted to produce the highest sustained yields for each species, which benefits ALL Alaskans and fish user groups. In the past 27 years this goal has been met and more often than not exceeded for late run Kenai chinook, the strongest of the Kenai's two chinook runs and the only Kenai chinook run harvested by Cook Inlet Setnets.
Achieving these escapement goals has not been without difficulty and sacrifice. The last several seasons have been full of restrictions for all user groups in order to achieve escapement. The escapement itself has come into question, with user groups enduring restrictions only to see escapement numbers adjusted upwards post-season by ADF&G after all the data was analyzed. Interestingly, the most historic, dependable, and accurate Kenai chinook data we have is that of the Cook Inlet Setnet fishery. It shows a low (13 percent) setnet harvest of this run. This rate has remained relatively constant throughout the decades despite changes in run strength, political pressure, and market value of this great fish.
The difficulty of enumerating a minority species in a river full of other fish cannot be understated. Multiple postseason adjustments, recent escapement goal changes, and evidence of density dependent impacts due to past errors in counting have many of us thinking maybe it's time for ADF&G to spend some of the $30 million Governor Parnell issued for chinook research to fund an independent outside review of the counting systems for the Kenai River.
Alaskan chinook are experiencing a period of low productivity — that's certainly true here on the Kenai. We don't know exactly why, but we do know (due to commercial catch records) that it has happened before, and could be largely a natural, cyclical phenomenon. But maybe we should look at the habitat of these chinook salmon. How are they reproducing, what is the number and condition of the juvenile salmon, or smolt, coming from the Kenai River? How is freshwater survivability? What effects have years of increasing pressure had on the riparian habitat of these fish? These are all areas that are not being funded or studied on the most popular river in Alaska despite the millions of dollars Alaska is spending on chinook salmon research.
To all the Alaska Legislators and Board of Fish members — we ask that you take the approach that all fisheries are important to the people, communities, culture, and economy of this State and that you will fight for them all in an honorable way. Politics and money are ruining this wonderful, diverse fishery and with it many fisherman's lives. We are fathers, we are grandmothers, we are children, sons and daughters, and we are families. We are a community filled with generations of fishing families that will continue to fight for this way of life because we believe that feeding the world a natural and healthy protein — Wild Salmon — is worth it.
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Snort. Copies of Fifty Shades in the Antwerp library tested positive for herpes. No, seriously.
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Ever wondered what diseases library books carry? You shouldn't, because your local libraries need your help. Still, that didn't stop two Belgian professors from running tests on the 10 most borrowed books in the Antwerp library and finding out what horrors lie between their spines.
The professors ran each book under a gamut of bacteriology and toxicology tests and found that in addition to all of them testing positive for cocaine (because what doesn't test positive for cocaine?), copies of the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' tested positive for herpes.
On the plus side — before you go screaming to the nearest doctor to get tested — books cannot pass on sexually transmitted diseases. Which is something we never thought we'd have to type.
The profs said that the traces of herpes were so tiny that they did not pose a health risk and that it would be impossible to get herpes merely by reading a book with herpes.
Still, makes you wonder how those copies got herpes in the first place. Wait, nope, nevermind. Don't want to know.
Yup, that's right, Fifty Shades has an STD. Amaaaaazing.


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AUBURN, Kan. (WIBW) - The Auburn Fair had a good showing despite the cold weather.
Families bundled up, but said they wouldn't miss the fair for a minute. "It's my favorite," four-year-old Gavin Hartman said.
Washburn Rural High and Middle school marching bands participated in the parade on Saturday. Organizers say the fair is oldest in Shawnee County - this year marked it's 103rd iteration.
The fair is sponsored by the Auburn Lions Club and put on almost entirely by volunteers.


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Our teacher had given us a project, this project has something to do with geometry so I posted here. This is the project that our teacher had given to us.
You are a newly hired designer of the packaging department of DSDS Company. You are tasked by your immediate supervisor to create a packaging model from a 15 inches by 20 inches cardboard which will be used for the new powdered milk product. You have to minimize the volume of the design where in the base area of the rectangular model is limited too 200 sq. inches. Your model must be creative and attractive to invite the consumers. Your design will be presented to the senior office of the company for approval. Aside from your design, you have to provide a written report with computation, short explanation and illustration of the model.
I'm already done making the box but I'm having a hard time making a written report because I needed to include the computation to the written report. I didn't know how to make the computation.
The length of the box that I made is 11 inches
The width of the box that I made is 7 inches
The height of the box that I made 2 inches
Can you please teach me how to make the computation for this problem? Please guys, I only needed the computation so I'll have a higher grade in my project.


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When we saw Scott's Tuesday strip over at PvP, I must tell you - we were overjoyed. A couple months ago, I told Scott that we were waiting with much enthusiasm for the day he would act against us, and he has not disappointed in the slightest. We've always felt that Scott is at his best when he is at his most aggressive, and we relish this opportunity to return fire in what we hope will be a long-lived feud. Scott is the only one we ever let draw Penny Arcade, so having a foe we can actually respect is a real thrill. Also, we hope he enjoys the traffic. Helping out the little guy just feels good.
I said that I would talk about PGR2 in Wednesday's post, and it is now my pleasure to do so. Gabe enjoyed Links, we both enjoyed Top Spin, but if I could have taken one of the games home with me that day I would certainly have made it Project Gotham Racing 2.
Gabe could not bring himself to like it, and having been like him once I understand where he was coming from. I might never have played the first one if it had not been given to me as a gift, as I did not routinely procure games in the racing genre, and also, I thought it had a stupid name - but the original Project Gotham invested me with an affection for racing games that remains to this day. It was a beautiful game, with real-time reflections and sensuously modeled automobiles - to put it plainly, you won't be disappointed with the sequel in this regard, either. Each manifestation of racing for a console re-invents the control scheme, and while I wouldn't call PGR2 simmy, manipulating these vehicles presents a rewarding challenge. You earn points - a.k.a. "Kudos" - for flashy driving and not hitting things. Think of it like a Combo in Tony Hawk, for example: from the first fancy thing you do, might be a nice turn or something, you'll start to rack up Kudos. You can use them to unlock new classes of car. In the first one, you'd lose all the Kudos in the current "combo" if you suffered a collision, whereas in the sequel you're simply docked a percentage based on how badly you screwed up. Considering how hard I typically hit a wall, I have a feeling I won't be keeping a lot of Kudos - benevolent new system or no. Let's just move on.
Project Gotham Racing 2 isn't a part of the XSN, Online Sportsy thing. I thought it was, but it's not. They're sort of doing it on their own, with a lot of features that are of interest to a casual racer like myself - features I think will be a fascination for more serious drivers. Obviously, you'll be able to compete against seven other people online, either for Kudos or in a regular-old timed race. You can determine anything you want to about the race you set up, maybe you want only muscle cars or something, time of day, weather, whatever. You can determine whether or not you want collisions on. If somebody decides they want to ruin the race for everybody and drive backwards through the track, collisions for that car are automatically turned off - that's a good idea! The ten best times for every track in the game - every track - are stored as Ghosts on the server, and you can grab one of these Ghosts any time you want to and learn from it by racing against it. I saw a guy racing an online ghost in his first lap, and then in his second lap he was racing against his ghost from the first lap and the ghost he downloaded, so on and so forth. Even when you're playing on your own, it's uploading your best times and Kudos rankings to a server, expanding even the single player portion out just a bit into the online realm. Unique challenges presented online every couple weeks will allow people to compete, perhaps racing through cones on this particular track with this particular car, with the scores updated in real time. Also, same as Top Spin and Links, two people can race online using the same account - one just joins as a guest. That's how it should work.
It basically does everything a sequel should do. Then, after it does all that stuff, it does some more.
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Pontiac >> Police are searching for a man that they say sexually assaulted a woman and three children — possibly on more than one occasion.
Deputies from the Oakland County Sheriff's Office were called at 1:51 p.m. Saturday to the 500 block of Montana Avenue in Pontiac. Deputies spoke to a 32-year-old Pontiac resident who said she had only lived in the house for three weeks.
The woman said she woke up in her bedroom when she felt a finger penetrate her. When she opened her eyes she saw a man in her room.
The victim said that the man fled her room and left. When she searched the house, she did not find anyone.
The woman said her two daughters and her niece told her that during the night a black male also entered their room and touched their private parts.
The children, 7, 12 and 13 years old, also told her that this had happened three times before since they moved in. They did not tell their mother about the incidents.
A kitchen window was found partially opened and it had previously been shut.
Police are searching for a black man with a medium build and dreadlocks. He wore a gray hoodie with "DUKE" in blue across the front.


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You know I'm almost never ceasing to be amazed by the effort and dedication of people who bootleg.
So much hard work. So much time spent working out how to design, construct, and replicate just close enough to make the sale and in some places even make a 'moderately' working replica.
If only the bootleggers could be recruited to actually create and sell your product!
On another thought you have to wonder on a component standpoint some of the bootleggers/replicators (wow sounds like I'm talking about some robot race) throw it all together with all that effort and sell it so cheap when a suitably crappy real version can cost quadruple or more!
The same could be said of all sophisticated criminals. For those that run large bot nets. Why so much effort into a crime? If you put the same effort into releasing good software you could make a very very good living.
You could make a "very good" living being honest or make a fucking butt ton of money being dishonest.
So much time spent working out how to design, construct, and replicate just close enough to make the sale...
I doubt there was little if any NRE (Non-Reoccurring Engineering) costs involved in the construction of these iPhonies. The price alone strongly suggests the most likely explanation is that the Chinese manufactures making the genuine iPhone, are running their production lines on the side, without Apple's consent.
Apple has handed them the specifications and all the manufacturer has to do is build a few thousand more than what Apple orders. The bootleg manufacturers don't even have to pay for things like molds or automation setup costs. They then fill in any missing pieces (such as software or mute slider switches) with the cheapest thing they can get.
You probably would be surprised at how often this happens with consumer goods built in China.
I doubt that very much. The dual sim tells me it's not at all Apple electronics and most likely made by SCI. Sci makes cheap knockoffs using an OS they skin to make the front screen look like whatever OS they are mimicking. Slap an Apple look alike case and home screen and it's an iphone. Slap a t mobile g1 case on it and it's Android.
I actually own one. I needed a cheap phone fast and their G1 knockoff was cheaper than even low end phones around here. It wasn't bad for the price but I wish they woul
Dual sim means dual sim slots and two recievers so the phone can connect to two networks at once if you don't mind a shorter battery life.
It's a particularly Chinese innovation and not just a small tweak of an Apple design.
Its called the 3rd shift. You have Chinese factories that just keep the assembly line running for a third unoffical shift. The local assembler, nor the US company really cares enough to stop them. Not to mention the incentives from the under the table dealings.
Why doesn't the US company stop them? Cause the markets that they really care about and make profit in (US and Europe) have heavy enough disincentives to make bootlegging insignificant in comparison to the costs of further stopping them. Plus, the majority of the bootlegging sector can't or won't afford your product anyway. They aren't a customer to begin with, so why stop them from subsidizing your purchasing costs to the 3 shift vendor.
Now when politics hits the fan or someone gets greedy under the table, all Ell breaks loose.... for a week and then freezes over again. As to address gmack's post further down, most mass produced hardware is like lego blocks. You just need a smart enough individual in electrical engineering to put things together in the right order (trust me, that's not a scarcity in most of the world). So its not too hard to put an extra solid disk chip, sim reader, flash light, or even add a FM component when you are already the assembler who has access to the _expensive_ specs, the assemblers, AND the manufactures behind them. Not to mention, most hardware will automatically support the additional stuff as its already built in, but for high, profitable yield ratios, those features are disabled or not used (See AMD Phenom II X series for an excellent example). This is why the third shift stuff is such a hit or miss, its doesn't have proper QC to minimize the defects. If they did, it would be VERY expensive... more so than the original.
As a user of the real iPhoney [marketcircle.com] I'm offended you would say that.
Why? How is buying something in a bar different from buying it off (say) craigslist?
MichaelSmith, age 5: "But what was the underlying cause? Was he in search of food? Was he being pursued by a predator? Was there a potential mate on the other side of the road?!?"
MichaelSmith, age 10: "Technically they never found any parts of the astronauts washed up on the beach, which makes that a single entendre!!"
MichaelSmith, age 15: "All mammal meat is RED!! Plus the anatomies are completely different. OJ wouldn't necessarily be any better at cutting a turkey than anyone else just because he allegedly murdered someone."
MichaelSmith, present day: "That doesn't even make sense! There were eight years between the Challenger disaster and the OJ Simpson trial, and supposedly I only aged FIVE years?!?!"
So its a cheap softcore porn device? I could see a market for this thing in bars everywhere!
This thing is far more useful than an iPhone!
And it only costs $40?
The article fails to note if there are any bad traits to this phone...
Ashens did a review of one of these a while ago [youtube.com] (the menu does not look identical, but the resolution of the screen + font seems similar).
Sharing purely because I found it fairly amusing (especially the call dropping feature...)
A guy I work with has one of these he bought in China. If it has a removable battery and Java it might be a good thing to own.
I'd be scared to try to use this for anything but maybe passing some idle time playing games.
I mean, think about it. The OS and core apps are developed in China. I'd be afraid if I use Chinzilla to read my e-mail on this thing, even if by WiFi, it would be "phoning home" to the people who installed the software to let them know where I'm going, what I'm doing, and oh, here are his passwords. Good luck reporting or prosecuting that identity theft.
They are standard fare from DealExtreme [dealextreme.com]. I don't know why this is even news.
Actually some of the phones they have look pretty decent. I wouldn't mind getting my hands on one of the watch phones that they sell.
This is exactly what the new 'Anti-counterfeiting Treaty' currently being negotiated in secret is meant to protect us from!
Moral of this story - Don't buy a smart phone after you've been drinking all night and especially not one from said bar! I mean, come-on, everyone knows bars don't sell phones they sell hookers and blow!
I doubt it will protect us really, afterall I have my own views on how well 'anti-counterfeiting' will work in countries that have repeatedly basically said "We'll do something about it!" then obviously not done anything.
As for moral of the story we can take another from it...
"There is a strong market for cheap thrill devices in bars!"
Moral of this story - Don't buy a smart phone after you've been drinking all night and especially not one from said bar!
I seriously thought, for a moment or two, you said "especially not one from the salad bar!"
It's even better than the iPhone:
- two SIMs
- user-changeable battery
- unlocked
but here's my favorite:
- "drag and drop files through USB port of computer (No Software Required)"
No mandatory iTunes. Eat that, Steve!
Strange the person may've bought an actual semi useful thing..once they get some of the junk off of it!
Perhaps the bootleggers in this example have actually produced something with some degree of quality/usefulness that surpasses the real one...well at least to the Apple haters out there of course.
What leaves me speechless is that the SciPhone must represent more work and more value – and more capability – than its £25 asking price, just in terms of cost of development and production. Just about the only way to be stupider than incurring Apple's wrath with a forgery, is to grossly undervalue the technology you use as part of that forgery. It's a bit like making a forged pound coin by melting down gold sovereigns
It actually seems to be a very useful device, sold dirt cheap only because the manufacturer couldn't get over the guilt that they're selling counterfeiting iPhone. Now, I only wish they would design and market a legitimate brand to compete with Apple.
I can speak from experience that Chinese no-name dual-SIM touchscreen phones are way better than their price point and reputation would suggest.
600RMB (~60 EUR) would get you a touchscreen phone from ChangHong with integrated stylus and character recognition (Chinese and Latin, but it's error prone), high resolution display (480*x?), two SIMs, music player, straight mini USB interface, driverless USB mass storage interface, 8GB integrated, up to 32gb via SDHC micro and a 2.5Mpixel camera. And the phone can be set to English (with some Engrish in the mix of course). Bluetooth yes, but no 3G, no WiFi.
It looks like this (I don't know if that is the model I played with, it looks only vaguely similar)
http://img.alibaba.com/photo/263983686/ChangHong-F8-mobile-phone.jpg [alibaba.com]
An interesting feature is text-to-speech for names stored in the address book: it actually read the name of a caller in understandable English. Caller not in the adressbook with CLIP enabled had their numbers spelled aloud. In Chinese only of course
One feature I was very content with is the battery time: it has a 4000mAh battery - NiMH, not Li-Ion but still. A solid two weeks of battery power with medium amounts of talking time in between is more than impressive. Within the 600 RMB package was a second identical battery, a charging station, a 5V USB charger that could be substituted with any other 5V USB charger that exists. That way, you could always keep one battery charged and switch as soon as the other battery got low. Memory effect shmemory effect - you'll get a brandnew original battery for 5 EUR, so it's no problem charging the thing whenever you need to. Maybe Li-Ion is overrated and the situation where a memory effect would be noticeable isn't that common. I mean, who recharges their phone daily?
Measured in value-per-dollar, this thing was great. Downsides and eventual deal-breakers were some Engrish remains in the menu but the worst was some menus that were in Chinese only, no translation available. The games for example, but also some SMS sub-menus.
When (not if!) ChangHong gets around to translate the firmware with all submenus and iron out the last kinks, this will devastate the lower end cellphone market.
touchscreen phone from ChangHong with integrated stylus and character recognition (Chinese and Latin, but it's error prone)
Who sends text messages in Latin these days? The Pope?
This comment is using Latin characters. Thanks for asking.
In english Slashdot, latin fatur vos!
600RMB (~60 EUR) would get you a touchscreen phone from ChangHong with integrated stylus and character recognition (Chinese and Latin, but it's error prone), high resolution display (480*x?), two SIMs, music player, straight mini USB interface, driverless USB mass storage interface, 8GB integrated, up to 32gb via SDHC micro and a 2.5Mpixel camera. And the phone can be set to English (with some Engrish in the mix of course). Bluetooth yes, but no 3G, no WiFi.
Hmm, so it has less space than a Nomad, and no wireless...
Better than a Zune at least.
Indeed, and this is nothing new - the Iphones have long being playing catchup to what's available in cheap bog standard phones (e.g., 3G, copy/paste, video recording, Java, MMS, ability to run apps from anywhere, tethering). Sure, it has better hardware (you'd hope so, for the price), but it's also had gaps that have taken Apple years to fix (and in some cases, they're still not available), and it is hardly the be all and end all of phones, nor is it clear why it deserves the "smartphone" label when other p
I recently spotted a waiter with an iPhone in a third-world country so I went over to ask him about it. But it quickly became obvious that it was a fake. The sad thing is, I don't think the guy knew it. He said his mom paid $120 for it but it was basically unusable. You had to press real hard on the screen and the location calibration was way off (I'd played with another fake iPhone when I was in Laos and it was much better than this one). I showed him mine and the way it's supposed to work, with just a light flick of the finger.
Once I'd convinced him it was a fake, he asked me how much fakes like his go for in the U.S. I told him we don't have the fakes because you can get a new real one for $99 (with two-year contract). I ended up talking to the guy for a half-hour and it was a learning experience for both of us. But I felt bad for the guy, having spent several months' salary on a phone that barely worked (and possibly thinking that Apple makes such poor products)
How much is "$99 (with a two year contract)"?
Not that I want to dispute your overall point of that's what you're counting, but a contract that binds you to another $1700 outlay over 2 years isn't much of a "technicality".
Should have put quotes, it was meant as sarcasm. Personally, I think such lock-in contracts are just evil.
That's the can do spirit that has made America what it is today!
The US may not have "Iphone fakes", but obviously there is a market for $120 or similar phones, without contract. The Iphone fake things sounds more a property of fashion than technicality - people are engulfed by the RDF, and think they look hip if they have an Iphone.
I showed him mine and the way it's supposed to work, with just a light flick of the finger.
So his had a resistive screen - try using your phone with gloves sometime, and see how well that works for you.
When you buy a name-brand item from someone you don't know on the street or in a bar, you get a cheap knock-off.
Film at eleven.
Well, you could take the time to get to know them. But they'd probably still sell you the cheap knock-off.
And all this time I thought if I were to buy a name-brand product for dirt cheap at a bar that it would be stolen property.
Probably in the states its more likely to be stolen at least rather than a knock-off. Knock-offs are more likely at the flea markets in the states rather than at bars.
On one hand, what possible use is a phone that actually doesn't work?
On the other hand, what fun is it to play with an obvious iPhone knockoff?
See? I could have been an economist... ''other hand' [quotationsbook.com]... In fact,
I might actually be one now...
Be prepared for a poor web browsing experience.
Pages will show up in Chinese.
You won't be able to access some pages that require you to log in.
. . . a bizarre auxiliary battery festooned with warnings about not pressing a button mounted on the front of the top-up device.
What happened when you pressed the button?
the universe was completely destroyed and replaced by another universe, identical to the first except it was one in which the button had not been pressed.
A notice comes up saying "Please Do Not Press This Button Again"
Well, I got the reference even if no mods did.
I initially bought one of these as a joke.
At first I hated it, but it really grew on me. Having an unlocked iPhone form-factor phone, that I can transfer anything I want to it, pictures, music, movies, all over usb, is really nice. I took it traveling and really liked having two batteries, especially after I started reading books on it. Say what you want about the new eBook readers, but I love having a backlit screen that can fit in my pocket, fit hundreds of books on microSD cards, and has a backup batt
The one thing which would make me seriously consider buying one (or more) of these phones - even though I'm in an all-CDMA area - is the ability to run Linux on them - Maemo/Moblin/Android or similar.
So, I have to wonder: why hasn't anyone put Linux on any of these, and why isn't there an extensive modding community? Do they have DRM or some such thing preventing such a thing, or are so many corners taken that booting anything but the stock ROM will fail? A new $50 ARM computer with decent specs and a usabl
Oh yeah, I thought I might add: if the asking price in a Chinese market is $40, you know they'll part with the device for a fraction of that. They probably get them for $10-15 each and are pleased if they make $25 each.
Odd how they decided to rip off some icons for the interface but not others. And some of the ones they did rip off were used for unrelated apps like the Safari browser icon for an app named "Compass." Strange.
I am a computer. I am dumber than any human and smarter than any administrator.


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Skip to comments.Nation needs a new agenda on guns
Posted on 01/01/2013 8:33:50 PM PST by EveningStar
Link only per agreement with Gannett.
Reader comments
Repeal the 2nd Amendment.
Declare the NRA a terrorist organization and make a crime to be a member.
Make ownership of rifles a felony and kill all of those who dont hand them in.
Drag Mitch McConnell and John Boehner behind a truck in a parking lot until they agree to pass the above legislation.
Mr Kaul: Without looking, can you name any of the kids that were shot at Sandy Hook?
Maybe you should shut your face Mr Kaul.
Bring a lunch. It's going to be a long, hot day. Even this time of year.
Oh... earplugs. Don't forget earplugs.
Advocating violence to get your way? What if conservatives were to do that? Never mind....
Not only that, this fool whines about the deaths of our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Now, he'd gladly let our sons and daughters be killed in going door-to-door...in addition to killing you of course.
Donald Kaul is so bad that he got got fired from the Des Moines Register for being so illogically liberal, and that takes a lot of stupid.
I realize that this information is public but I think it's wrong to post it here. It reminds me too much of Clown Posse.
I wonder if he wants to go to the range with me tomorrow?
If Adolf Hitler had a son...
I read it. BTW, the comments aren't mine. I stole them from a good friend on Facebook.
I'm glad that this old fool was stupid enough to blurt out what the leftists actually think.
Please do not quote directly from this article. Gannett does not permit FR to make direct quotes from their publications.
FR does not need any more lawsuits.
The logic here is when a person has a rifle or handgun, someone dies. If we take rifles and handguns away from cops, less people will die. If we take rifles and handguns away from good people, less people will die. If we take rifles and handguns away from criminals,...shucks, this logic won't work - no one knows where all the criminals' guns are and they aren't giving them up.
In that case, shoot to kill every criminal that threatens someone's life - that's more like it - that's the ticket, kill gun carrying criminals and less good people die. The author of this crap can be the first one to chase down the first criminal, kill him and take that gun.
And I sure the Justice Department's going to be all over that threat. /sarc
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Weekly Event Announcements for the City of Alexandria: May 2 – 8, 2009
For Immediate Release: May 1, 2009
Saturday, May 2 – Spring Clean-Up 2009
Citizens who receive the City of Alexandria's refuse services are invited to participate in Spring Clean-Up 2009. Scheduled pickups will be held each consecutive Saturday throughout the month of April and first weekend in May. Please check the Spring Clean-Up map at www.alexandriava.gov/tes/solidwaste to determine your assigned collection area and date of collection. For more information, call 703.519.3486.
Saturday, May 2 – Spring for Alexandria Event, Lemonaide Day
Spring for Alexandria's three-day celebration of giving and service concludes with Lemonaide Day. Alexandria youth will be selling lemonade at stands stationed throughout the City to raise money for Coats for Kids and the Alexandrians Involved Ecumenically (ALIVE!) children's program. The community is encouraged to support the cause by getting out and purchasing lemonade at a stand in their neighborhood. For more information, visit www.springforalexandria.org.
Saturday, May 2 - Invasive Species Plant Garlic Mustard Pull
The City of Alexandria seeks volunteers to take part in the statewide Garlic Mustard pull. As part of the City's Eco-City Alexandria initiative, this event focuses on hand-pulling and bagging the invasive Garlic Mustard along the paths of Holmes Run from the western end of the City at Dora Kelly Park east to the Duke Street Bridge. For more information on volunteer meetup locations and times, contact Claudia Hamblin-Katnik at 703.519.3400, ext. 219.
Sunday, May 3 - City Announces the Opening of the West End Farmers' Market
The public is invited to the opening of the West End Farmers' Market at 9 am on Sunday, May 3 at Ben Brenman Park, located at 4800 Brenman Park Drive. The West End Farmers' Market is open to the public on Sundays beginning May 3 through November 22 from 9 am to 1 pm. The market features fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetables, fresh-baked breads, cheeses, jams, jellies, coffee, local honey, and free-range, grass-fed beef and chicken. For additional information, visit www.alexandriava.gov/recreation.
Monday, May 4 – Tavern Toddlers
Join us for a special program for toddlers (walkers through 36 months) and their caregivers at Gadsby's Tavern Museum, 134 N. Royal St. Tavern Toddlers features a weekly open playtime in Gadsby's historic ballroom Mondays, excluding Federal holidays, any time between 10:30 a.m. and noon. New themes each month! Cost is $7 for a group of three, which must include one adult, or $30 for purchase of a five-week pass. For more information, please visit www.gadsbystavern.org or call 703.838.4242.
Monday, May 4 – Thursday, May 7 – "Lunch Bunch" Concerts at Market Square
The City's Departments of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities and General Services are sponsoring the "Lunch Bunch" concerts at Market Square, 301 King St. The concerts, which feature students from local and visiting schools, are free and open to the public. All concerts begin at 12:15 p.m. Please note that in case of inclement weather, concerts may be canceled. To check the status of concerts, please call the Special Events Hotline at 703.883.4686. Scheduled performances this week includes:
May 4 John Adams Elementary School Chorus & Drum Ensemble (Alexandria, VA)
May 5 St. Rita School Band (Alexandria, VA)
May 6 Episcopal High School Jazz Ensemble (Alexandria, VA)
May 7 St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School 5th Grade Saints Choir (Alexandria, VA)
Tuesday, May 5 – Alexandria Election for Mayor, City Council, and School Board
The elections for Mayor, City Council, and School Board are on May 5; polling hours are 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. The deadline for in-person absentee voting is May 2. Check www.alexandriavoter.org or call 703.838.4050 for complete information.
Tuesday, May 5 – Lecture by Dr. Anne Kendall, Children's Mental Health Awareness Week
Psychologist Anne Kendall, Ph.D., co-author of Effective Parenting for the Hard-to-Manage Child, will give a presentation from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St. Dr. Kendall will share practical strategies for parents of infants, children and teens who exhibit emotional and behavioral issues such as difficulty adapting to change, inability to self-calm, intense behavior and over-reaction to stimulation. There is no charge to attend and child care will be provided. The event is sponsored by the Alexandria Community Services Board's System of Care Project in recognition of Children's Mental Health Awareness Week.
Thursday, May 7 – Youth Voices for Unity Art Exhibition
Alexandria's Youth Voices for Unity is hosting a reception to unveil its artwork exhibition, "We Are More Than What You See," from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Del Ray Artisans Gallery, 2704 Mt. Vernon Ave. Youth Voices for Unity brought together a diverse group of Alexandria's youth to meet with professional artists and create artwork that focused on the themes of race, ethnicity, identity, prejudice, and discrimination. For more information, contact Karen Parker-Thompson at 703.8246639 or JoAnn Maldonado at 703.838.0709.
Friday, May 8 – Parent Leadership Training Institute 2009 Graduation Ceremony
The Parent Leadership Training Institute will host its 2009 graduation ceremony at 7 p.m. in City Council Chambers, Alexandria City Hall, 301 King Street. During the past few months, participants in this program have attended 20 sessions to become trained in community and political involvement and leadership. They created an ongoing community project as the capstone of their coursework. For more information, contact Fay Slotnick at 703.739.0233.
Coming Soon!
Saturday, May 9 & Thursday, May 21 - Confident City Bicycling Classes
The City of Alexandria is partnering with the Washington Area Bicyclist Association to teach residents how to ride safely and skillfully through city traffic. Residents may attend one of two free workshops: Saturday, May 9, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., at Cora Kelly Recreation Center, 25 West Reed Avenue or Thursday, May 21 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., at Mount Vernon Community Recreation Center, 27011 Commonwealth Avenue. For more information, contact Yon Lambert at 703.519.3400, ext. 183, or visit alexandriava.gov/localmotion. To register, visit www.waba.org.
Monday, May 11 - Eco-City Action Plan Open House
The City of Alexandria and the Environmental Policy Commission (EPC) invite you to attend the Eco-City Action Plan Open House from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Charles Houston Recreation Center, 901 Wythe St. This will be an opportunity for residents, the EPC and the City to review and discuss the draft Phase II Environmental Action Plan, which focuses on long-term actions the City and residents can do during the next twenty years to make Alexandria an Eco-City. For more information, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com or the Office of Environmental Quality, Department of Transportation & Environmental Services, at 703.838.4334.
Friday, May 15 - Bike to Work Day
In recognition of national Bike to Work Day, the DC area celebrates and promotes bicycle commuting as an affordable, efficient, and environmentally-friendly way of getting to work. The City of Alexandria's pit stop will take place from 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., Market Square, 301 King Street. Commuter cyclists are invited to enjoy free food, beverages, and services provided by local businesses and sponsors. For more information or to register, contact Yon Lambert at 703.519.3400, ext. 183, or visit www.alexandriava.gov/LocalMotion.
Alexandria Park and Recreation Commission Seeks Nominations for the 2009 CIVIC Awards
The Alexandria Park and Recreation Commission is seeking nominations for the 2009 CIVIC Awards. The annual awards program recognizes the unsung volunteer efforts of Alexandrians who are involved in their communities and who have provided a valuable service to Alexandria in meeting recreation, park, or cultural needs. Deadline to submit a nomination is Thursday, June 11, 2009. For additional information, call 703.838.4343 or visit www.alexandriava.gov/recreation.
April through May – All Alexandria Reads 2009
The Alexandria Library presents All Alexandria Reads 2009, a community-based reading cooperative program designed to create a dialog through reading. This year's book is Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver. Kingsolver is a Virginia author who chronicles her family's attempt to eat home-grown and locally produced food. From April to May, the Alexandria Library will hold numerous community events that relate to the themes of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. This week's events feature "Mini Herb Garden Workshop" at Barrett Branch Library on May 2, and "Grow Your Own Pizza" workshops on Saturday, May 2 at the Burke Branch Library and Wednesday, May 6, at the Barrett Branch Library. For more information about All Alexandria Reads events, visit www.alexandria.lib.va.us.
For more information, contact Jennifer Harris, Communications Officer, Office of Communications, at 703.838.5078 or firstname.lastname@example.com


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Submission + - The Facebook privacy conundrum: When less is more (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: "A look at the history of a select portion of Facebook users from 2005 thorough 2011 finds a contrast in privacy — on one hand the group sought greater privacy controls but actually disclosed more personal data over time. A seven year study of 5,076 Facebook members by Carnegie Mellon University Researchers found that from 2005-2009, the social site users displayed more privacy-seeking behavior, progressively decreasing the amount of personal data shared with the public. But the trend abruptly reversed between 2009 and 2010"


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But the invitation from North Korea's National Defense Commission, the powerful governing body led by leader Kim Jong Un, comes with caveats: No preconditions and no demands that Pyongyang give up its prized nuclear assets unless Washington is willing to do the same -- ground rules that make it hard for the Americans to accept.
Washington responded by saying that it is open to talks -- but only if North Korea shows it will comply with U.N. Security Council resolutions and live up to its international obligations.
"As we have made clear, our desire is to have credible negotiations with the North Koreans, but those talks must involve North Korea living up to its obligations to the world, including compliance with U.N. Security Council resolutions, and ultimately result in denuclearization," U.S. National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said in a statement. "We will judge North Korea by its actions, and not its words and look forward to seeing steps that show North Korea is ready to abide by its commitments and obligations."
North Korea's call for "senior-level" talks between the Korean War foes signals a shift in policy in Pyongyang after months of acrimony.
Pyongyang ramped up the anti-American rhetoric early this year after its launch of a long-range rocket in December and a nuclear test in February drew tightened U.N. and U.S. sanctions. Posters went up across the North Korean capital calling on citizens to "wipe away the American imperialist aggressors," slogans that hadn't been seen on city streets in years.
The U.S. and ally South Korea countered the provocations and threats by stepping up annual springtime military exercises, which prompted North Korea to warn of a "nuclear war" on the Korean Peninsula.
But as tensions began subsiding in May and June, Pyongyang began making tentative, if unsuccessful, overtures to re-establish dialogue with Seoul and Washington.
Earlier this month, it proposed high-level talks with South Korea -- the first in six years. But plans for two days of meetings last week in Seoul dramatically fell apart even before they began amid bickering over who would lead the two delegations.
Meanwhile, the virulent anti-American billboards plastered across the city were taken down. And Sunday, as scores of people fanned out across Pyongyang to help carry out the latest urban renewal projects in the capital -- landscaping and construction -- the National Defense Commission issued a statement through state media proposing talks with the U.S. to ease tensions and discuss a peace treaty formally ending the Korean War.
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Notes: Logical partitions do not work. This is because of grub sending the wrong data to the second boot loader
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rootnoverify (Drive,Partition)
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Hi, I want to install the latest version of sabayon without having to burn it to a DVD.
Would it be possible?
I'm currently using Sabayon miniEdition and I want to upgrade to the full version (beta if possible)


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Our GT5 review will be little while, though. Our review copy only arrived yesterday. That allowed just enough time to get it installed before the holiday break. For a game that's had so much go into it, and presents such a wide swath of content, we're going to give it a thorough playing before weighing in. In the meantime, here's the GT5 launch trailer which includes several new scenes of racing action in everything from sexy exotics to go-karts.
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9-29-04 - A teenage girl from Bonham, Texas is still recovering from a two-car accident, more than one month after it happened. Brittany Comeans was one of three people in a car that turned in front of a Suburban on Labor Day weekend – two of those people died: 14-year-old Wonnie Callahan and 6-year-old Brazos Baker.
Brittany suffered life-threatening injuries when she was thrown from the vehicle. She had fractures to her legs, a lacerated liver and a ruptured spleen. Her father told First News on Wednesday that despite the injuries, she's making an amazing recovery.
But the young girl is also coping with the death of her friend Wonnie, as well as Wonnie's young brother. The only survivor of the accident was Wonnie's mother.
Four people in the other vehicle, two adults and two children, are also recovering. No charges have been filed in this case but the accident is still under investigation.


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The reward for information leading to an arrest in the I-96 shootings could go up soon.
It's at $12,000 right now, but investigators told News 10 they wouldn't be surprised to see it increase if the shooter isn't caught soon.
There have been 24 shootings across Ingham, Oakland, and Livingston Counties, and lab results released Friday confirm they're all from the same handgun. But investigators aren't calling this a break in the case.
"It confirms our original thought, that it is one shooter," Lt. Vern Elliott of the Ingham County's Sheriff's Office said. "If it had come back with multiple different guns, then we got the potential for multiple different shooters. By coming back to one gun, one shooter, it helps us narrow our focus and move forward."
They hope to find the male suspect believed to be in 30's who matches the sketch the task force released. They're still searching for him throughout Mid-Michigan, though there hasn't been a shooting since Oct. 18.
"This is someone who obviously doesn't care about other people's safety," Lt. Elliott said. "There's nothing to say that he won't decide to do something like this in the future and other similar events. It's not somebody we want driving around on our highways."
The task force has received more than 400 tips. Those helped lead them to two suspects who were questioned, but then ruled out. Lt. Elliott said every little bit of information helps.
"We're still gathering evidence," Lt. Elliott said. "Every time we get a new tip, new information, sometimes we do find some more ballistic evidence or other items that help us gather what we need to find our suspect."
A suspect that could be anywhere.
"He could very well be locked up, and we just don't know it," Lt. Elliott said. "That's why the shootings have stopped. He could be under arrest for another crime, and we just don't know that that's happened at this time."
Police said the shootings appear to be random at this point.
Anyone with information is encouraged to call 911 or 1-800-SPEAK-UP.
Investigators no longer think the shooting in Shiawasee County is connected to this case. They believe it was a separate incident.


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July 5, 2013
The Yacht Club beach is closed through the holiday weekend due to high levels of bacteria in the water....
Keep those Lake O water releases coming. Whooosh there goes another swirl from the toilet bowl.
Now let's wait for the dead sea vegetation and fish kills to begin washing ashore on the local beaches.
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Efforts to form a coalition government collapsed on Sunday after the Italian president rejected a eurosceptic pick for the key economy ministry, triggering a possible constitutional crisis and opening the prospect of fresh elections. Source Reuters
UK activist and English Defence Leage founder Tommy Robinson was arrested on Friday outside of Leeds Crown Court for reporting on a pedophile grooming trial. Within six hours of his arrest, Robinson was handed a 13 month prison term for violating a prior suspended sentence for a similar offense, while media outlets were banned from covering the incident by the court – with several removing reports which had already been published. Source ZeroHedge
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Put it in the rally trailer, and hauled it up to the offroad park just north of here for the day today.....had a couple problems.
Battery was dead, ok, no surprise, the thing's been sitting for awhile. Jumped it, and headed out. Over the course of the few hours that we were out on the trails, I discovered that the volt gauge fluctuates quite a bit with the engine speed. In fact, it would peg all the way to 18v if I didn't have any accessories on (headlights and heat on kept it below 14v the whole time).
So, the alternator is charging...
But the battery wasn't being charged. Thought it might have been the battery, so we swapped batteries with one in a buddy's Jeep. It charged just fine in his rig....
The volt gauge is reading the voltage coming off the alternator. And it responds when jumper cables are hooked up directly to the battery terminals. Sooooo.....theoretically they are connected.
Any ideas?
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Golfer OK after sinkhole swallows him
Golfer OK after sinkhole swallows him
WATERLOO, Ill. —
A golfer got the surprise of his life on the 14th hole when instead of sinking a putt he sunk into the ground.
Mark Mihal was playing at the Annbriar Golf Course in Waterloo, Ill., last week when a sinkhole suddenly opened underneath him and he fell below the ground, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Mihal's golfing buddies called for help, and the pro shop's manager came out with a ladder and a rope. It took about 20 minutes to get Mihal back above ground.
Mihal ended up unscathed except for a dislocated shoulder. And while he told the Post-Dispatch Annbriar is one of his favorite courses, it's unlikely he'll be playing there anytime soon.
"It would be strange playing that hole again, for sure," Mihal told the Post-Dispatch.


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Lloyd H. Palmer, 74, of Jackson died April 1, 2010 at Jackson Medical Center.
He was born April 15, 1935. He was a member of McCanns United Methodist Church where he served as a trustee. He was a member of Santa Fe Lodge #226 F&AM in Jackson in August of 2005 and was a past member of Tentalpha Lodge #804 in Saraland. He was Past Master of the Robertsdale Lodge #821. He was also a member of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rites, 32nd degree on March 26, 1977. He was a retired scale operator with Scott Paper Company.
Survivors include his wife, Gloria Payne Palmer, Jackson; one son, Mark F. Palmer, Dyess Air Force Base, Abilene, TX; one sister, Mae Anderson, Van Buren, AR; one grandchild; several nephews and nieces.
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P.P.S Keep an eye on those stocks. I just made Franklin 40g but forgot I had invested with Michael too, The stock went down and I missed out on 70g.
The Bawsaq one seems to be broken, it seems to be down alot and all my stocks I bought throuh that are sitting at a 100% loss, so im thinking they are fixing it. I will give you a hypothetical idea of how to play the market. You are Trevor and you take a job to blow up the coca cola factory. Put all your money into Pepsi. Once the job is done you will see the Pepsi stock sky rocket. Imagine you make your money back plus sixty grand. Then buy up Coca Cola shares with the 60 grand and they will go back up.
Im still getting used to the market but I am keeping notes on it as I go along.
You can sort the market by price so pretty much anything under two dollers is going to eventually climb.
Good thing is I've got a PS3 in the living room as well as a PS3 in the home theater/man cave so I can play in both places and approach the game differently...and equally as crappily haha.
Why do all the best games come out during football season? Now I have to choose between sleep, football, and GTAV. :\
Bethesda registers new domain
Lots of rumor/speculation that it's Fallout 4 - there is a countdown to 12/11/13 -
Spike's VGX awards are on 12/7/13 - hoping they release a teaser on 12/7, maybe an actual announcement on 12/11?
Edit: PLEASE BE FALLOUT 4
Fishooked....are you on gta5 ps3 or xbox?
And if its ps3, do you have a crew?
Sounds like they'll announce it 12/7 but it won't come out for a year or two.
Right now I'm waiting for this game - looks like a cross between Halo, Call of Duty and Fallout:
Spring 2014
Anybody get a Playstation 4? I've had one since launch. Its a sick console. Need for Speed Rivals and Resogun are great games. Blacklight Retribution and Warframe (two free to play games) are also really good. Warframe's graphics are really sharp.
But Battlefield 4 is buggy as sh*t. The game crashes very often. The 64 player multiplayer maps don't work. I haven't been able to get into any Rush game mode games. Hopefully EA fixes it in the next week or two.
Also, being able to view video game streams from other PS4 users directly from your PS4 is awesome.
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I can't see Youtube links at work - what is it?
Also there is some more news that Bethesda trademarked Fallout 4 within the last few days -
I'm hoping there will be some sort of teaser on 12/7, then an actual announcement on 12/11, as the countdown on their site suggests.
Mine is supposed to be delivered today...so I guess I'll be be sleeping on the couch tonight.
Didn't buy any titles yet since I'm not sure if I'm going to keep it, or sell it.
There aren't any games that are a 'must play' for me at the moment - if there was a TESO or Fallout4 at launch, totally different story.
It doesn't look like there are any shortages on consoles (real or not) that Im aware of like in years past.


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I don't understand why you couldn't say no to her demands, however, if you really wanted to buy the place. Who cares what her situation is? Her childcare issues are not yours to solve. If she tried to do a drop and run I would make sure she knew I was calling CPS as soon as she left.
Keep in mind that the children will not be small forever, and things may change quickly for the better in a few years.
Hey OP why not suggest the house to your Ex? Sounds like a great house for a good deal and he sounds (from your other thread) like someone who could use a big dose of being the one asked for unreasonable contributions and support for other people's lifestyles!
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