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Each week, we'll ask our stable of scribes across the globe to weigh in on the three most important NBA topics of the day — and then give you a chance to step on the scale, too, in the comments below.
Dual dueling PGs in Houston | Tough Guy award | What to make of the Pelicans
Derrick Rose looks like he's back, Russell Westbrook is dunking in practice … who's the toughest, most resilient NBA player you've ever seen?
Steve Aschburner, NBA.com: Jerry Sloan was the Dick Butkus/Mike Ditka of Chicago basketball in the late '60s and early '70s. He didn't get that clenched-fist profile hoisting pretty jumpers. Long before he was a Hall of Fame coach, Sloan was a spit 'n' vinegar Bulls guard alongside also-nails-tough Norm Van Lier. Those two — and more important, their opponents — needed cut men in their corners more than coaches on their benches.
Fran Blinebury, NBA.com: Pound for pound, it's got to be Allen Iverson. The little guy was bounced off more courts than anything without "Spalding" stamped across its face and kept right on coming back for more. Runner-up: Isiah Thomas.
Jeff Caplan, NBA.com: Certainly it's impossible not to immediately think of Michael Jordan, who played in at least 78 games in a season 12 times and through all kinds of injuries and illness. Larry Bird, too, with his awful back issues and Kobe Bryant, who had seemed almost impervious to injury until his Achilles blowout. Steve Nash is another guy who took all kinds of punishment and kept on coming. But one player fresh on my mind is Rudy Tomjanovich. I recently finally read John Feinstein's book "The Punch." Tomjanovich wanted to walk right back on the court even though the punch Kermit Washington delivered caused Tomjanovich's skull to leak spinal fluid (of course he didn't quite know it at that moment). For him to come back after an injury that could have killed him and required multiple surgeries, to average 19.0 points and 7.7 rebounds a game the next season and make the All-Star team is nothing short of remarkable. Tomjanovich was always tough, but that brand of toughness stretches well beyond the imagination.
Scott Howard-Cooper, NBA.com: Kobe Bryant could have been a hockey player. Ultimate compliment. John Stockton is in the conversation. He didn't battle serious injuries, but he was a point guard constantly setting hard screens on bigs, he never missed games. Grant Hill and Zydrunas Ilgauskas defined resilient — the number of times they could have retired because of injury, refused, and built lengthy careers through determination as much as talent.
John Schuhmann, NBA.com: It's easy to recall both Jason Kidd and Steve Nash playing playoff games with one eye mostly swollen shut. I've heard stories about Chuck Hayes separating his shoulder on multiple occasions, popping it back in and getting back on the floor. But I don't think anyone tops Kobe Bryant playing through the various injuries that he's had over the years. In '09-10, he put up over 1,500 shots with a broken finger on his shooting hand!
Sekou Smith, NBA.com: That's a ridiculously tough question to answer given what passes for toughness in today's NBA. I think the toughest and most resilient player I have seen during my time as a conscientious observer of the NBA would certainly have to be two different players (I always go with Charles Oakley and Derrick Coleman as the two toughest, based solely on the eyewitness testimony of guys who played with and against them during their era). If we're talking about guys who have bounced back from significant injury to regain their status in the league or the guy who are willing to sacrifice life and limb to stay on the court, the guy willing to drag around a dangling limb if he has to in order to keep his team in a position to win, that's another story. You never really know what kind of pain threshold a particular guy might have and you certainly have no idea if they are willing to push it to the limit in this day and age, not with all of the science out there that indicates physical trauma of any kind can having a detrimental and lasting impact on an athlete's life for year and years to come. That said, Kobe Bryant and Rajon Rondo strike me as guys who have and will give it all up to compete and compete at the highest level. Kobe popped an Achilles and got up and walked down the floor and shot free throws, man. And you remember when Rondo got his arm twisted the wrong way and came back later and played, or when he tore his ACL last season and finished the game like it was no big deal. Come to think of it, I'm not sure if those things make you tough, resilient or just plain crazy.
Lang Whitaker, NBA.com's All Ball blog: Kevin Willis. Considering he started playing for the Hawks when I was a kid and then was still playing in the NBA by the time I was out of school and working covering the NBA… I mean, that's a pretty wide span. He always kept himself in tip-top condition, which is why he was able to play until he was 44 years old. I had the pleasure of being able to share a few meals with Kevin toward the end of his career, and he was always terribly careful about what he would order and what he would allow himself to eat. (I was not so careful.) There may have been guys who were "tougher," meaning guys who were ready to fight at the drop of a hat, but I don't think anyone has ever been more resilient than Kevin Willis.
Karan Madhok, NBA.com India: The player that immediately springs to mind is Allen Iverson. Perhaps the greatest pound-for-pound player ever, Iverson played much bigger than his 6-foot stature and dominated opponents on a nightly basis in his prime. He was also tougher than nails when it came to playing through injury, highlighted by the memorable 2001 season when he carried the undermanned 76ers to the Finals while also carrying various sprains, contusions and who knows what other pain in his body.
Jacopo Gerna, NBA.com Italia: I'll pick up Bill Laimbeer. Despite an ordinary body, he was a four-time All Star and a clutch player for the Detroit Pistons when they won two championships. Coaches, players, fans … when they talk about "playing hard," what does it mean? I suggest a Laimbeer DVD. Look how he was able to face down bigger centers, opening the court with his silky mid-range shot and 3-pointers, playing pick-and-pop alongside Isiah Thomas and Joe Dumars. For sure he committed many hard fouls, and sometimes he flopped to the ground after a slight brushing. But his reputation for physical play ("he's a thug", said his former teammate Dennis Rodman) overshadowed his skills. To me, he was always more than a "bad boy."
Aldo Miguel Aviñante, NBA.com Philippines: Kobe Bryant, no doubt. He has been playing through injuries throughout most of his career — mentally and physically no one can match the Mamba. He prepares himself and uses every advantage he can to take care of his body. The image of Kobe walking by himself with a ruptured Achilles is a testament of his incredible toughness and resiliency.


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- Daughter says her father "basically dared me" to post the video
- The judge's ex-wife says she lived in "an environment of dysfunction"
- The judge admits he is the man seen on the video
- The judge will be temporarily relieved of his duties for two weeks
A woman who launched a firestorm by posting a 2004 video of her father, a Texas judge, beating her on the Internet said Thursday that violence was a regular occurrence in her family home.
"It did happen regularly, for a period of time, and I could tell, because of the pattern, that things were escalating again," Hillary Adams, now 23, said on NBC's "Today." She said she left her video camera on her dresser recording and covered its light with a scarf in order to capture the video.
Her father, Aransas County, Texas, Court-At-Law Judge William Adams, faces a police investigation and a judicial probe after the graphic video surfaced of him striking his then-16-year-old daughter repeatedly while cursing at her and berating her.
On Wednesday afternoon, William Adams was temporarily relieved of his duties for the next two weeks, and a visiting judge will take over his caseload while the matter is being investigated, according to the office of Aransas County Administrative Judge Burt Mills.
No court dates were scheduled this week, Mills' office said.
In an interview with KZTV outside his Rockport, Texas, home Wednesday, Adams confirmed to a reporter that he was the man beating his daughter with a belt and a board on the video.
"She's mad because I've ordered her to bring the car back, in a nutshell, but yeah, that's me. I lost my temper," Adams told the station. "Her mother was there, she wasn't hurt ... it was a long time ago ... I really don't want to get into this right now because as you can see my life's been made very difficult over this child."
Adams continued: "In my mind I have not done anything wrong other than discipline my child when she was caught stealing. I did lose my temper, I've apologized. It looks worse than it is."
Hillary Adams told television station KRIS on Wednesday her father was "making light of the situation."
"I just can't believe he would say something like he doesn't think it's a big deal."
Adams appeared on "Today" with her mother, Hallie Adams. Although the older woman participated in the videotaped beating, Hillary Adams said she has since left the marriage because of the abuse and has apologized.
"We're very close now," she said when asked if she was angry at her mother. "When I showed her the video, she started crying, hasn't stopped apologizing, and I forgive her because she knows everything that happened."
Hallie Adams, asked how she could condone or participate in the incident, acknowledged, "It's chilling," but said. "My answer to you and to the world is something that I've been hiding for a very long time. It's a family secret, and that's addiction" on her husband's part.
She did not elaborate, but said, "I lived in an environment of dysfunction and it steadily got worse." She said she left her husband when Hillary Adams was 6 months old and "he shamed me into going back."
"I was completely brainwashed and controlled," Hallie Adams said. "I did every single thing he did."
Hillary Adams said on "Today" she waited seven years to release the video because at the time it was shot, she was still a minor and living under her father's roof. She didn't know what might happen to herself, her mother or her younger sister, she said.
The 2004 beating occurred when her father was punishing her for using the Internet "to acquire music and games that were unavailable for legal purchase at the time," Hillary Adams wrote on the Internet posting. She said she released the video after being harassed by her father.
"It was the straw that broke the camel's back," she said Thursday. "It wasn't any huge happening or anything." She said she told her father she had the video, "and he didn't seem to think anything of it, and basically dared me to post it."
The video posting said, "Judge William Adams is not fit to be anywhere near the law system if he can't even exercise fit judgment as a parent himself. Do not allow this man to ever be re-elected again. His 'judgment' is a giant farce. Signed, Hillary Adams, his daughter."
Receiving an outpouring of support after posting the video has been like a form of therapy, she told KRIS, which is based in Corpus Christi, Texas.
"People are believing us now, instead of calling us liars like they have in the past," she said.
The video is punctuated by cracks of the man's belt and the girl's screams and cries.
At one point, the man says to his near-hysterical daughter, "What happened to you, Hillary? Once you were an obedient, nice little girl. Now you lie, cheat and steal."
At another point in the 7 1/2-minute video, he yells at her, "You want to put some more computer games on? You want some more?"
"Are you happy?" he asks her. "Disobeying your parents? You don't deserve to f---ing be in this house."
He also berates the girl's mother for allowing a "f---ing computer" in the house.
The older woman also strikes the girl with a belt once, and near the end of the video instructs the girl not to "touch one other thing on the computer besides your schoolwork until you are given notice otherwise."
Hillary Adams "has had ataxic cerebral palsy from birth that led her to a passion for technology, which was strictly forbidden by her father's backwards views," according to the posting on the YouTube video.
Aransas County Attorney Richard Bianchi said his office has been overwhelmed with calls and e-mails, including some from overseas, since the video went viral on the Internet.
"Just a sad day. It's unfortunate for all the people in that video. It doesn't bode well for the image of our community or our judiciary or our legal community in Aransas County," Bianchi said.
William Adams is up for re-election in three years, Mills told CNN. He was elected to a four-year term last year, said Aransas County Clerk Peggy Friebele
CNN tried repeatedly on Wednesday to reach William Adams at his Rockport, Texas, office, but received a constant busy signal.
But Adams told KRIS that the conduct is "not as bad as it looks on tape." The judge said he had contacted judicial review officials in Austin and "more will come out" in the investigation, KRIS reported.
Asked what he might mean, Hallie Adams said on "Today," "I think that the story that's going to come out ... in his mind is that he's projected his problem onto me. For the entire four years since I've left the marriage, I've been abused and harassed through texts, e-mail." She said she told William Adams in June that she would not speak to him again, and "he has threatened to file for modification and take my younger daughter away from me."
A Facebook posting on Wednesday attributed to Hallie Adams states: "I am praying for my daughters and me and my family to heal in all ways from emotional and physical abuse, for the current and continuing abuse of my children and me that has been ongoing to end -- starting now -- for my daughters to both finally be able to go to counseling both individually and as a family group with their dad's approval, encouragement, involvement and support, for him to finally make amends to all of us, talk openly with us, and take the first steps to letting our broken family heal."
A page called "Don't Re-Elect Judge William Adams" also sprang up on Facebook, attracting more than 19,800 "likes" by Thursday morning. Messages were posted by users in countries including Australia, the Netherlands and Guatemala, among others, and a Spanish-language version of the video was posted on YouTube.
"This man doesn't deserve power," said a posting on the Facebook page. "He doesn't know how to use it."
Asked whether she wants her father to lose his job, Hillary Adams said on "Today," "I think wishing anybody to lose their job is not a really good thing to do," but "his being fit for the job, that's something I really can't say that he is."
She said she believes her father has been punished enough by the video being made public, "and I just think he really needs help and rehabilitation. We need to get him counseling or something."
Asked if she regretted posting it, she said, "I regret that some of my friends and some people close to me have kind of had trouble with this, and of course I regret that it's my own father. I'm having very mixed feelings about that, but at the same time so many people are telling me I did the right thing."
A person identifying herself as Hillary Adams, on a Twitter account using the same username as the video posting, tweeted to CNN on Wednesday, "I'm not sure how much I should say, except that above all we need to help my father instead of condemning him."
The video was brought to authorities' attention about 9 p.m. Tuesday, Rockport Police Chief Tim Jayroe told CNN, and authorities are investigating to determine its authenticity.
Aransas County District Attorney Patrick Flanigan told CNN authorities are looking at numerous factors, including the child's age and the statute of limitations.
The law is complex on which charges could be brought, he said, and which statutes may apply -- which is all speculation until the video is confirmed to be authentic.
"We're in a fact-finding situation now to determine what is true," he said. His office will look at how the law has changed in the past couple of years, as there could have been different laws in effect at the time.
The possibility of an alleged abuser holding a position of authority such as a judge "doesn't matter and shouldn't matter" in the investigation, District Attorney Flanigan said, adding, "it will be a normal review."
As a judge, Adams handles misdemeanor cases, including family-related and juvenile court issues, Flanigan said. Those cases rarely move to the criminal side or cross to his purview, he said.
"We want to get to the bottom of it ... regardless of who the person is," he said.
The Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct declined comment on the matter Wednesday, but it said it was aware of the situation. A woman answering the phone said the commission has been "overwhelmed."
Police and the district attorney are taking the investigation seriously, Jayroe, the police chief, said. Investigators had not spoken with members of the Adams family as of Wednesday, he said.
Jayroe said his department has asked the Texas Department of Public Safety for assistance with an investigator. "It's the first time in 22 years we've asked for assistance," he said.

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WOODSTOCK – John Y. Cole, a historian at the Library of Congress and founding director of its Center for the Book, will visit the Woodstock Opera House on April 18 to talk about the key role the library plays in American government, scholarship and society.
The presentation is at 10 a.m. April 18. Tickets cost $24 and may be bought through the box office at 815-338-5300.
The program is part of the Creative Living Series sponsored by the Woodstock Fine Arts Association.
Attendees are invited for coffee and conversation beginning at 9 a.m. at the Stage Left Café next door to the Opera House.


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GANSEVOORT, N.Y. – For the second straight year, the North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) teamed up with Special Olympics for the conference's annual community outreach initiative, as the NEAC SAAC was involved with two separate Special Olympics events this past Sunday, April 1.
With 13 full-member schools spread out across four different states, the NEAC holds two separate community service events with its six North schools (Cazenovia College, Keuka College, Morrisville State College, SUNY Cobleskill, SUNY Institute of Technology and Wells College ) and seven South schools (College of Saint Elizabeth, Gallaudet University, Lancaster Bible College, Penn State Abington, Penn State Berks, Penn State Harrisburg and Wilson College). This year, the North held a basketball training session in partnership with Special Olympics New York, while the South volunteered at the 2012 Special Olympics Pennsylvania Eastern Bowling Sectional in Allentown, Pa.
Thirteen Special Olympics athletes from the Syracuse, N.Y., area joined 18 members of the NEAC North SAAC for the basketball training session, which was held at Cazenovia College in Cazenovia, N.Y. Run by SAAC advisors and head basketball coaches Matt Allen (SUNY Cobleskill) and Mike O'Brien (Wells), the athletes from both sides went through a variety of basketball drills involving shooting, passing and dribbling and also competed in multiple mixed scrimmages.
"The event really went well for us," said Special Olympics head basketball coach Jeff Manzo. "Having actual college coaches and athletes there really helped us out, and my athletes really enjoyed being able to compete against them and show off their skills."
"The best part for me was that both groups not only interacted well with one another but also competed hard against each other during scrimmages," said NEAC assistant commissioner Eugenio Mercurio, who oversaw the event. "Coach Manzo came into the event hoping to disprove some of the stereotypes that people have when they think about Special Olympians in regards to what they can and can't do, and I think his group was able to do that by proving that they can really play and keep up with our student-athletes."
The Eastern Bowling Sectional featured 320 Special Olympians spread out across four bowling alleys throughout Pennsylvania, with 21 members of the NEAC South SAAC group volunteering at Allentown's Mountainville Bowling Complex. The group served as lane monitors for the event, as they were split into groups of two and assigned to a specific lane to shadow the Special Olympians and ensure that they bowled in the correct order and on the right lanes, while also recording the scores of the athletes for each of their three games.
"It was a tremendous experience for our student-athletes," explained NEAC Commissioner Candice Murray, who attended the event. "It was great to see them interact with the Special Olympians and form a friendship not only for the day but one that will last well into the future."
"The (Berks) student-athletes and I had a wonderful experience on Sunday," added Penn State Berks SAAC advisor Tyler Schueck. "It was a lot of fun getting to help out a great event like that."
The NEAC also used the day to recognize National STUDENT-Athlete Day by awarding all of the student-athletes that attended the events with award certificates that were provided by the National Consortium for Academics & Sports (NCAS). National STUDENT-Athlete Day, which will be officially celebrated on Friday, April 6, was established by the NCAS 25 years ago to honor student-athletes who have achieved excellence in academics and athletics, while having made significant contributions to their schools and communities. The day is celebrated annually and has become one of America's strongest endeavors promoting the positive virtues of sport and student-athletes as a whole, and the positive affect they both have on society.
For more information on National STUDENT-Athlete Day, please visit here. Please click here for more information on Special Olympics New York or here for more information on Special Olympics Pennsylvania.
Check out pictures from both events on the NEAC Facebook page found here.
Above, members of the NEAC South SAAC pose for a picture outside of the Mountainville Bowling Complex in Allentown, Pa., which was one of four bowling alleys holding the 2012 Special Olympics Pennsylvania Eastern Bowling Sectional.
The North Eastern Athletic Conference has thirteen NCAA Division III member institutions which include: Cazenovia College, College of St. Elizabeth, Gallaudet University, Keuka College, Lancaster Bible College, Pennsylvania State University - Abington, Pennsylvania State University - Berks, Pennsylvania State University -Harrisburg, SUNY Cobleskill, SUNY Institute of Technology, SUNY Morrisville State College, Wells College, and Wilson College. Associate members are: Hilbert College (M Lacrosse), Medaille College (M&W Lacrosse) and Rutgers University - Camden (M Golf). The North Eastern Athletic Conference has partnered with the North Atlantic Conference in the sports of baseball, women's lacrosse, and men's and women's tennis.


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Curves holding 24-hour event to help find a cure
Curves of St. Marys is inviting the public to a 24-hour event that will help raise funds for the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. The fitness center's "Purple Power" Relay team is sponsoring the event and will participate in this summer's annual walk to support funding for cancer research, raise awareness of the disease, honor survivors and remember those who have lost their battle. Peggi Yeager, owner/manager of the fitness center, said the event will run from noon on Friday, March 18 to noon on Friday, March 19. "Every one of us has lost people to cancer. You know, it's a dreadful disease. If there's something we can do to eradicate it, that's great," Yeager said. Lunch will be served on Friday, March 18 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to anyone in the community who stops in; a $5 donation is requested. Featured activities include movies and popcorn; facials, makeup tips, and demonstrations of products for the face and body; a presentation on posture and relaxation techniques; and 50/50s throughout the day. Area residents will have the opportunity to try the Curves exercise circuit and Zumba, an exercise that features Latin dance moves; enter a salad-eating contest and win a prize; and take chances on over 70 beautiful and interesting items donated by local merchants and individuals for a Chinese auction.


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Do you suppose in your efforts to help others, you end up hurting still others? Do you think that your stole would be offensive to friends of Jesse Dirkhising? Is what you feel more important than the feelings of others? Do the rules and demands that you impose on others apply to you? You say that you are not patient with those who disagree with your feelings...yet you demand that others be patient with your disagreement. Is that right?
There are people who truly, really, LOVE children and have "always" lusted for them. These people try to live a normal life; they do not want to be physically attracted to children; and they grieve because they are. But, they can not change. Would you say that "God made them this way"? How about those who really, truly are attracted to dead bodies; to animals; desire bondage and rape; or only find pleasure in pornography? Is that the way God made them? Why would homosexual deviancy be different in the eyes of God than the others I mentioned? Why would God limit his love and understanding to only the deviancy of homosexuality? Many people feel that they were not "made" to be monogamous. They can not be faithful. They NEED many sexual partners. They were "made that way". Yet God clearly says Adultery is a sin. Why? Is God really glorified in homosexual and other "preferences"? Really? Prov.14:14 and 16:25. The truth is; "For all that is of the world---the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life--is NOT of the Father, but is of the world." 1Jn2:16 God made man perfect and good, and provided him with a wife/a woman as the perfect companion. Lust is a part of our fallen nature--not good. I ran a daycare. You are a mother; you and I know that naturally we are sinners. I never had to teach a child to BE selfish--TO hit; TO grab toys or TO throw a fit when they want thing their way! Their natural nature was NOT good. As a loving parent, we must guide them away from these natural ways. Just as God does not want us to steal, kill or lie to get our own way; he doesn't want us to commit sexual sin either. You may get all the world to agree and participate in your sin; but in the end, God says you will pay in your soul..Romans 1:27. It isn't cruel punishment, but truth that if you stick your hand in a flame, you will hurt and be burned. A loving father warns and puts a barrier around the flame to protect his children. Our society has been the barrier. You are trying to remove that barrier, to your hurt, and to burn all our children.
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What a tragic story of Jesse Dirkhising, and I'm so sorry if this was a friend of yours. I presume, rather, that you are offended by the coverage that was lacking when he died, and you think that because he was murdered by two gay men, that it was BECAUSE they were gay. No, they were violent rapists, murderers. How awful.


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Submission + - Five Planes That Almost Didn't Take Off (marketwatch.com)
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner is grounded until Boeing can show it's safe to fly following a series of technical problems. This isn't the first time aeronautical engineers have been up against system glitches or even major design flaws in new aircraft. Many in the industry offhandedly refer to them as teething problems. Now Marketwatch takes a look at four other planes whose careers got off to rough starts: the Airbus 380, the McDonnell-Douglas DC-10, the De Haviland Comet, and the Lockheed Constellation."


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Tonight Waterloo Officers took thirty-year-old Deshaun Cortez Harmon into custody on arrest warrants stemming from an incident that occurred on October 24, 2011. Officers with the Waterloo Police Department's Violent Crimes Apprehension Team (VCAT) were conducting an investigation on that date when they came into contact with Harmon at a liquor store located at 919 W. 5th St. Harmon observed Officers in the area and attempted to conceal a loaded .32 caliber revolver inside a beer cooler at the store when approached by Officers. Officers discovered the firearm during the investigation and located Harmon in the area shortly after he left the store. During the investigation Officers learned Harmon was carrying the gun in the area as he had made arrangements to sell it to another subject. VCAT Officers later obtained warrants for Harmon for possession of a firearm as a felon and carrying weapons. Harmon is currently being held at the Black Hawk County Jail.
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A 25-year-old man was shot early Sunday morning and hospitalized for injuries to his face that are not life-threatening, according to a Volusia County sheriff's spokesman.
A 24-year-old Daytona Beach man is accused of shooting a friend in the face early Sunday outside a Nova Road bottle club as he fired a handgun into the air, according to a Volusia County sheriff's spokesman.
Eric Walker was arrested later Sunday after investigators determined he fired the shot that hit Kenneth Bailey, 25, in the face, sending him to the hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening, spokesman Brandon Haught said.
Bailey and a cousin were leaving Papi's Bottle Club, 1376 N. Nova Road, about 4:30 a.m. and got caught up in a fray involving Walker that spilled into the parking lot, a sheriff's report states.
Walker walked out to his car, grabbed a handgun and walked back toward the club while firing several shots into the air. Bailey was driving nearby when Walker lowered the gun, but he was still firing, and a bullet hit Bailey in the face.
Bailey's cousin took over driving and brought him immediately to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach, Haught said. Sheriff's Investigator James Moore was called in to track down the shooter. No other injuries were reported.
Moore spoke to Papi's' owner, Haught said, and reviewed the surveillance video, which showed a man later determined to be Walker going into the parking lot.
"He got the gun and could be seen on video firing it into the air and finally sending one bullet into the victim's nearby car," Haught said.
Once he was tracked down, Walker initially told Moore he "only heard gunfire at the club and fled," the report states.
He later admitted he got the handgun because he was upset about an argument that just happened. Walker said he fired the gun because he was trying "to get other people to stop shooting their guns," according to the report.
"Walker admitted that he didn't actually see anyone else firing a gun," Haught said. "Walker said that Bailey was his close friend and that the shot (he) took to the face was accidental."
Walker was charged with aggravated battery on a person while using a deadly weapon, firing a weapon into a vehicle, carrying a concealed firearm and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
He was booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail and was being held on $13,500 bail Sunday night.


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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Family Milestones: September 15th
My maternal great-grandaunt, Mary Elsie LeMASTERS, married on this date in 1894 in Jay County, Indiana to Matthias J. ATKINSON. Mary was the daughter of Luman Walker and Mary Keziah (CHEW) LeMASTERS, and the younger sister of my Luman Cooper LeMASTERS. Mary was born April 26, 1872 in Rose Hill, Darke County, Ohio. Matthias was born November 23, 1863. They had 1 child. Matthias died August 24, 1923. Mary died June 5, 1942. Both are buried in the Salamonia Cemetery, Jay County, Indiana.
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Historical Materialism Conference London November 8-11
Date(s) - 09/11/2012
All Day
Historical Materialism Conference London November 8-11 2012, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornaugh St, WC1 (Russell Sq. tube)
++++ Ninth Annual Historical Materialism conference ++++
Weighs Like a Nightmare
Has Marx been reanimated once again? From mainstream media to academia, this question hangs in the air. The old ghosts of revolution appear to be shaking off their shackles and getting agitated. What is this spirit? Who are the militants haunting this ramshackle capitalism? Are these new spectres – stalking the streets of Syria, Tunisia and Egypt, Athens, Spain and Wall Street and beyond – direct descendants of socialist and communist ones? How does the past haunt the present? How might the present spook the future?
Whatever answers crop up, the old questions refuse to go away: What type of organisation is needed to sharpen the conflicts, if any? Who is the agent of history and change? Is the scope of political action national or international? What is the political value of alliances and fronts? Does history cunningly work a progressive path through and around the contingencies of struggle? Are the same mistakes to be made, the same failures repeated?
The ninth HM annual conference focuses on the returns and the persistence of political forms and theoretical problems, on the uses and abuses of the history of Marxism in this turbulent present and on the ways and forms in which an inheritance of various Marxist traditions can help us to organise and to act in this turbulent present.
The conference is self-funded and we will depend on voluntary donations by attendants and participants to support the organisation and running of the event. The suggested donation on the door is £75 for waged and £35 for unwaged.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Silvia Federici, Lynne Segal, Leo Panitch, Werner Bonefeld, Hilary Wainwright, David Mcnally, Peter Hudis, Sergio Bologna, George Caffentzsis, Tariq Ali, Chris Knight, Owen Hatherley, Chris Arthur, Loren Goldner, Alex Callinicos, Ronaldo Munck and many more.
MEETINGS ON: Middle East Revolutions, philosophy, utopia, self-management, technology, media, art, anti-capitalism, Marxism, feminism, war, South Africa, migration, financial crisis, workers struggles amd much more.
Here's a link to the HM website and conference programme


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We know something else with 90%+ certainty: (at least some) folks at Harvard were almost certainly aware that she identified as a minority law professor, though they may not have known which ethnic group she claimed to be belong to, and it may not have played any role in her hiring.
But it gets even more interesting: once Warren joined the Harvard faculty, she dropped off the list of minority law faculty. Now that's passing strange. When the AALS directory form came around before Warren arrived at Harvard, she was proud enough of her Native American ancestry to ask that she be listed among the minority law professors.... Once she arrived at Harvard, however, she no longer chose to be listed as a minority law professor.If those are the facts, what should we infer? Being on the list of minority law professors served her interest in advancement, but the claim was weak and potentially embarrassing, so it was deleted... after she achieved what was the ultimate advancement (to Harvard Law School)? I'm just guessing. Do you have a more apt inference? In any event, it's a question that goes to honesty.


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Player of the Year Recipient
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Days after winning the Ivy League Player of the Year award, junior Sam Bernstein has been elected to captain the Yale men's golf team in 2013-14.
Bernstein's election was announced Tuesday night at the team's end of year banquet at Mory's. Several other players received awards at the banquet to recognize performance throughout the course of the season. Senior captain Bradley Kushner received the Widdy Neale Award while sophomore Thomas Greenhalgh was named Most Improved Player.
"I have been very fortunate to have had a succession of marvelous captains: Colby Moore '09, Ben Wescoe '10, Tom McCarthy '11, Jeff Hatten '12 and Brad Kushner '13," said head coach Colin Sheehan '97. "I know for certain that Sam will continue that tradition of leading his teammates in a way that maximizes their potential on the golf course, along with providing a camaraderie that brings them so close together as a team."
Bernstein will take the helm of a strong team that just finished second at the Apr. 26-28 Ivy League Championship. There, Bernstein finished in sixth place and earned second team All-Ivy honors.
His season included several stunning performances: he took home the tournament medal at the Sept. 17-18 Adams Cup, tied for third at the Apr. 20-21 Century Intercollegiate and finished in fourth at the Apr. 13-14 Princeton Invitational.
For his efforts this season, he was unanimously voted Ivy League Player of the Year by the Ancient Eight coaches. That recognition followed a several other Ivy League awards in past years.
As a freshman, he was voted the Ivy League Rookie of the Year by the Ancient Eight coaches and made the second team All-Ivy. Then, in his sophomore year, he earned first-team All-Ivy honors after finishing in outright third at the Ivy League Championship.
Bernstein will succeed Kushner, who led the Elis to victory at the Sept. 29-30 Macdonald Cup, Princeton Invitational and Century Intercollegiate.
Report filed by James Lu '14, Yale Sports Publicity.


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After a rainstorm, the sun comes out and Sid spots a big rainbow in the sky. He races inside to tell his parents, but by the time he brings them outside to see it, the rainbow is gone. Sid and his friends investigate rainbows at school where they discover that rainbows can only form when light passes through water droplets. (Educational objective - Rainbows)
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DETROIT — Marcus Semien's seventh-inning grand slam lifted the Chicago White Sox over the Detroit Tigers 6-4 today.
Jose Abreu hit another long home run for the White Sox, but it was Semien's first career slam that turned around the game. Detroit starter Drew Smyly allowed two runs in six innings, but Evan Reed (0-1) gave up two singles and a walk, and Ian Krol allowed the home run to Semien.
Andre Rienzo (1-0) gave up four runs in the fourth inning but kept the Tigers quiet otherwise in his first start this season. He allowed five hits and two walks in 6 1-3 innings, striking out three.
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The lights are on
As I mentioned last night, we had some major slow down issues yesterday, which we addressed and so today should go much smoother (fingers crossed).
We are having some troubles on the testing environment, but I still hope to have that patch today, which should fix pagination in the forums and some other forum issues.
I just upped the size of the signatures, so it should be easier to fit in your fav signatures. Let me know if it isn't enough.
We are still working hard here, and looking for solutions to make everything better. Hang in there!
Andy McNamara
Editor-In-Chief, Game Informer
Was it slow yesterday, because pages loaded really fast for me yesterday. Unless you're talking about something else.
I don't wanna be one of those folks that are a negative Nancy but I miss the simplicity of the old format. Maybe I just need more time.
I understand. I can't bring the old site back, but I can work to try and make this site's forums what the community wants. That's my job. =)
Good work so far! The site is easy to navigate, looks delicious, and from what I've read from six days of forum posts, this has the makings of a great gaming community.
So keep it up! As an avid fan of Rob Schneider, YOU CAN DO IT!!!!
When can we finally be able to access older threads past the first page on a given forum?
Also, since the sigs were enlarged, can that be done to avatars to at the very least match the old site's size?
Also, Andy, could you reply to my PM? :)
I'm not back! P.S. Blade still sucks. Also, Gamefreaks cannot compete with my love for Zelda!
Yeah, yesterday was really slow in loading; but today seems much better : )
Pboy, the old site was definitely simpler, but there is SO much more to the new site. Have you tried putting up your Hero Image, joining groups, reading the blogs, etc? As far as the Forums go, yes there is more navigation to go through, but I think you'll definitely get used to it if you give it more time.
Thanks for the signature extension!! It kept telling me my signature was too big, so this should be way better.
"Welcome to Tangares base. You're just in time for the dance party. I've arranged a dancing partner for you. DANCE TO THE DEATH!" -Time Crisis
When can we finally be able to access older threads past the first page on a given forum?
This. Also, I think the "quote post" option should be readily available instead of having to go under advanced reply. I think you guys are doing a great job, btw. Keep up the good work!
Its been alot better today. It took about twenty minutes to load up the registration page yesterday, lol.
I notice the site was running slow but thanks for fixing it!
The site was slow yesterday? It's faster today? I would say I am having the opposite experience. Yesterday seemed far faster.
Anyway, keep up the good work guys! It's nice to actually see that ideas the community suggests are being actively implemented. I'm starting to sound like a broken record now, but I'll say it again: Everything is an improvement, EXCEPT the Forums. We need more of the old there.
It is indeed a lot faster, if i encounter any other bugs Ill post it here!
It seems faster today, yesterday blah.


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Exclusive Walid Shoebat Bombshell
Barack Obama's claim to election fame – that Al-Qaeda has been destroyed – needs a reality check, according to a group of anti-Al Qaeda Libyans in exile. "We beg to differ," they exclaimed. "Obama gift-wrapped Libya, handed it over to Al-Qaeda, and we can prove it."
The group stated they have come into possession of some highly classified documents that in their view, "will bring the Obama Administration down." They were not bluffing; they provided the first installments of official classified documents which we provided in some of our previous reporting. "The rest," they say, "will be provided when Mitt Romney is in office. His election is our only hope for humanity," they said.
These documents include evidence of highly sophisticated weaponry provided to jihadists which leads them to doubt that any solutions will take place under what they called "The Obama regime".
We have come into the possession of an array of records obtained from top-level sources inside the Libyan government. They include passports of Al-Qaeda operatives and identifications of terrorists from many nations—Chad, Egypt and Pakistan to name a few—which are now all camped in Libya as they enter by crossing borders guarded and managed officially by what they called "government appointed Al-Qaeda leaders."
This explains why the drafts of two letters on September 11th expressing worry that the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was under 'troubling' surveillance and that the Libyan government failed to fulfill requests for additional security. "It wasn't failure," these pro-U.S. agents said, "but the Libyan government's mafia-like system, subordinate to Al-Qaeda and installed with the blessings of the Obama administration that is responsible for the deaths of Americans in Benghazi," they said.
The wealth of intelligence includes countless documents, which we will soon turn over to the National Center For Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism. They show evidence of bribes [see image to left] by the government to top-officials, weapons dealing, and bank siphoning by al-Qaeda operatives, to include copies of bank transactions that illustrate the subordination of the newly established Libyan government to Al-Qaeda. These included Bin Laden's personal driver Sufyan Gammou and Abdul Wahhab Hassan Qayed, the brother of the recently assassinated Abu Yahya al-Libi. Qayed was officially put in charge of Libyan border control. This arrangement is responsible for the passage of large amounts of Al-Qaeda operatives into Libya.
In one classified document (see image to right) it stated that, "…it was commissioned that Fadlallah Haran Musa is to head the centers of the National Security Fares in Barqa [east of Libya] and to also commission Khalid Atiyeh to be his assistant." These two, according to our sources, are "Islamist operatives connected to Al-Qaeda."
Sufyan Gammu of Ansar Al-Sharia in Darnah (white cap and long beard) is one of the most wanted men from Al-Qaeda. He used to be the special driver for Usama Bin Laden and is now roaming free in Libya, protected by the government.
Salem Al-Barrani Dirbi of Al-Qaeda is now the leader of Abu Salim Martyrs Brigade, which was kept in check by the previous regime, spoke openly in this video (wearing blue), telling his story about how he is now free from the previous regime after having lived in hiding in the mountains since 1996; he boasts about living freely in Benghazi today.
Also noteworthy is Abdul Baset Azzouz. Known for his vicious and cunning abilities, he was the first adviser to Ayman Al-Zawahiri and became the leader of Al-Qaeda in Darnah, Libya. He can be seen in this video, giving his testimony from Libya (wearing yellow). Azzouz can even be seen recruiting entire communities in Libya to join the jihadists.
Go to Shoebat.com for the rest of this explosive report


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This week, Evernote for Mac (3.2) gets Activity Stream, a feature that keeps you updated on all the goings-on in your account. We've also upgraded all graphical elements to make them look gorgeous on the new MacBook Retina displays. Plus, lots of other improvements. Let's take a closer look.
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Activity Stream
Evernote is great for working with your friends and colleagues. To keep you in the loop on all the things that are happening in the notebooks you share and the ones that you have access to, we've added Activity Stream.
Click the new satellite dish icon in the toolbar to view your Activity Stream. You'll see a bunch of useful information:
- Usernames or email addresses of new people that join your shared notebooks
- Updates relating to added, edited and deleted notes
- A record of individual notes that you share
If there's a new notification, you'll see a badge appear on the icon.
It's important to keep in mind that the Activity View displays the most recent change that has occurred since the last time Evernote synched. This means that if you have a note which was updated 10 times since the last sync, only the most recent change will appear in the Activity View.
To make notebook sharing a seamless experience, we now automatically sync notebooks that you join to your Mac, eliminating the several clicks it used to take to see your friends' notes.
Discover and learn
The Activity Stream popup also includes Evernote tips geared at all types of users. The tips will disappear once you've clicked on them. New items will periodically appear including information about newly added features.
Our design team has been hard at work upgrading every button, texture, shadow, and image inside of Evernote for Mac to look sharp and beautiful on the new drool-worthy MacBook Retina displays.
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This update also includes a host of bug fixes and improvements, including more reliable sync, faster sharing and a number of stability enhancements.


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Image Comics, 24 pages plus extra material, $3.50
Writer: Ed Brubaker
Artist: Sean Phillips
Colorist: Dave Stewart
"The past haunts, things you kept inside come out to make things worse, and it all ends in tears," Ed Brubaker told me about what he called "the heart of noir" in the context of a 2007 interview. "I think that's why I love it, because within that structure, you can tell almost any story."
And boy, does the past haunt in Fatale. Just take a look at the very first panel of the very first issue.
Someone—a guy by the cheerful name of Dominic Raines—is being put in the ground. Who was Dominic Raines? Why is Dominic Raines dead? We don't know, but something in that picture tells you the narrator won't like the answers, even before you read that first line of narration: "So here's how my entire life went off the tracks in one day." When it rains, it pours in Fatale, and the protagonist starts losing well before the story gets properly underway.
His name is Nicolas Lash, and—perhaps somewhat unsurprisingly, given that first panel—he won't make it through the 10-page prologue in one piece. In the course of the prologue we learn, among other things, that his father has "been in an institution for over a decade," that Nicolas is the executor of Raines' estate, and that there's a manuscript of an unpublished novel evidently written by Raines in 1957, years before his writing career started officially. And then Things Get Worse for Nicolas Lash, just before the story skips to its proper first chapter, set in 1956.
Unless you've been living under a rock for the last 10 years, you're probably aware of Brubaker and Phillips' previous collaborations, Sleeper, Criminal and Incognito. They've worked together on other comics before and since, but those are the ones that put them on the map as the go-to writer/artist team for well-crafted noir stories.
And once you've done your share of superhero noir (Sleeper, Incognito) and plain-vanilla crime noir (Criminal), I guess the horror noir of Fatale is a perfectly logical next step. As Brubaker says, within the particular structure of noir narratives, "you can tell almost any story."
Indeed, much of Fatale reads like a textbook illustration of how to do a noir story with the trappings of the horror genre. Basically, Brubaker and Phillips' approach here is to put a face on those things that come back from the past to haunt the characters. In Fatale, they don't manifest as crimes or superhuman powers, but in the types of visuals, characters and creatures known from horror stories.
To those genre tropes, the creators apply the logic of noir: The further back the story reaches, the more horrific the manifestations become. In the present-day prologue, the horror consists of a couple of creepy-looking identical guys with black hats, coats and glasses. In the 1956 section, it's a graphic murder scene right out of a Poe story. And in a flashback to events that occurred in World War II, it's a Nazi cult led by a creature from the Lovecraft playbook.
Once again, as with most of their previous work, it would be an understatement to say that Brubaker and Phillips "know what they are doing" here. On a craft level, Fatale is as good as anything you're likely to find in North American genre comics right now. The creators' page-to-page storytelling is top-notch, and their firm conceptual grasp of the material is evident in every aspect of the work.
As with some of Criminal and Incognito, though, the characters and events in this debut issue aren't as immediately fascinating as in the creators' most effective work. The cast consists of well-rendered archetypes rather than genuinely three-dimensional people, and nothing particularly surprising or insightful is happening yet.
Intellectually and esthetically, Fatale #1 is exciting. It lays the tonal and structural groundwork for the story in a solid and appealing fashion. Ultimately, though, when all ends once again in tears, the payoff will hinge on whether readers are left with a sense that there's anything worth crying about.
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Macon Police Plan to Buy 60 Tasers | News
Macon Police Chief Mike Burns says they plan to buy 60 tasers for sergeants this year at a cost of around $94,000.
After a police officer shot and killed a man outside a supermarket in December, council members discussed why more officers don't have tasers. They say having tasers might reduce the need to use deadly force.
RELATED | Budget Issues Keep Most Macon Officers Without Tasers
"It's good to have a second choice just prior to lethal force," says council member Henry Gibson. "Lethal force is permanent. If you tase someone in good faith and it causes problems, you know, that's the best that you could do as long as you are not abusing it."
Burns says a taser is just one tool for officers to use.
"Just like the pepper spray is," he adds. "There's a certain range for it to be effective. Just like if you're too close, the taser isn't going to work, pepper spray isn't going to work. If you're too far away, neither one of them will work like they should."
He says 25 tasers were approved in last year's budget, but a lack of SPLOST funds pushed them down the priority list.
In a council committee meeting Thursday afternoon, Burns said they'll discuss how to gradually buy more tasers for the entire force.
A Macon Council committee will discuss the taser purchase next week.
The GBI is still investigating the fatal shooting of Sammie Davis, Jr., by officer Clayton Sutton.
Burns says it could be a few more weeks before the GBI releases their results.
When asked about Councilman Henry Gibson's questions regarding the length of the investigation, police spokesperson Jami Gaudet responded, "When the investigation was turned over to the GBI at the request of Bibb County District Attorney David Cooke, the MPD was asked not to discuss the case. We have respectfully abided by D.A. Cooke's wishes. As Chief Burns told the media last week when interviewed at the start of our annual retreat, there will be a time for the MPD to respond to the incident. We will continue to honor the D.A.'s request until the investigation is complete and the findings are revealed."
Meanwhile, Sutton remains on administrative leave. That's standard practice when an officer is involved in a shooting.


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hi walter thanks for the kind replies, ive used 2 motor drivers. but i dont know if i am using the right ic to put pwm on my program to work on,.. pls i need some expert advice.,. im still a newbie, anyways deadline was pushed till 2nd week of march.and i hope to fininsh this the soonest,.i dont know about about speed controllers and how to manipulate them, but if i can put speed controller on my sumobot w.o using pwm and the hassle of programing it, then i thinks its already been done,. or im done with the project.i was thinking of voltage divider if it is possible to drive as speed controller,.i will post here my schematics and my ckt on sensors. as i have used 2n222a for my sensors and 555 timer to produce 38khz of fixed frequency to detect my object.looking forward to chat with you again man,.cheers,DON
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Sweater & Jeans Shorts by WeSC
Blazer by H&M
Shoes by Topshop
Necklace by Need Supply Co.
Bracelets gift from sister
Bag by Melie Bianco
Watch by Casio
lisa just fucking always looks great!
love her style....and the beautiful jewellery she is wearing!
i love the bag, it's kinda quirkyReplyDelete
Wow ein sehr hübsches Mädchen,tolle Schuhe und Uhr.ReplyDelete
Woah! Love it!ReplyDelete
loving the jewelry!
jess s//
Love the necklace and the shoes. The general color palette is so calming. I also like how the texture in the necklace is repeated in her bag.ReplyDelete
I just love her hair <3ReplyDelete
I love the necklace!ReplyDelete
wow love her accessories, the watch, the necklace!!
+ that haircut is beautiful
wow how nice necklace, goes very well with the outfit. wish here was still enough warm to wear shorts too ;/ReplyDelete
She reminds me of Natalie Portman somehow. So pretty.ReplyDelete
The nude palette is gorgeous and I'm really loving the necklace, plus I want to steal her hair!
hi pascal, i've added your lovely blog to my link list, hope thats ok!ReplyDelete
wow,she's really pretty!
I love her shoes... !
j'aime la montre.ReplyDelete
bezaubernd und sie hat die perfekten haare.ReplyDelete
She looks stunning and the necklace is to die for!ReplyDelete
What camera and lens did you use for ? Amazing !ReplyDelete
canon 500D + 50/1.4 lens as usual :)ReplyDelete
Well, her legs are to die for. I also enjoyed the palette of colours.ReplyDelete


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Trying to streamline my code to make it a standalone sample, I changed a bit the "alarm" criteria from $queuelen <= $throttle->pending() to a non-blocking semaphore decrement $throttle->down_nb().
It now works as expected without need for sleep(), nor yield().
However, my demo code shows a bug which is (apparently) not present in production code: one of the threads is silently terminated (without intentional error injection) and I can't find why.
Code example:
When run as is, it reports that a (randomly selected) thread is already terminated, before trying to process even its first job.
If I wrote something wrong, it might happen in the production code
Note: to cause threads to error out, uncomment the lines in "Inoculate a bug" block
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Hey there avantasians !!
As I have mentionned in other posts on the Avantasia forum, I am lucky to sing in an Avantasia Cover
Here is our version of Breaking Away ! Sound has been taken during a rehearsal in Geneva. Then we mixed all the tracks together to make a lil demo song !
Hope you enjoy !! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPZ8daKez80


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Zoo bullies: Throwing their weight around
Q. What four-legged zoo favorite outsizes an 800-pound gorilla by plenty, has a reputation for squashing humans, and sports built-in jogging shoes? R. O'Donnell
A. In Diatoms to Dinosaurs, Chris McGowan reports on a recurring theme among elephant keepers: No matter how friendly and cooperative the animals, chances are they'll eventually try to kill their handler.
Zoologist McGowan says he always assumed this was an accident of their size, but then he met a keeper who said they do it on purpose. "He told me about an elephant who used to gather up pieces of bread with his trunk and make a trail for birds to follow. When an unsuspecting bird strayed too close, the elephant would bring down his foot and squash it flat!"
Accounts from Africa tell of elephants attacking lions and trampling them to death.
The downside of being six-tons at the top of the bully chain is the plodding way an elephant moves, on stiff fat legs that must be held straight at all times, and every movement– e.g., rearing up on hind legs to reach branches– must be with great caution. Its thick short neck supports a ton of head; balloon-like footpads can be seen to pop out whenever a foot is lifted, designed to absorb the shock of such weighty footfalls like well-cushioned jogging shoes.
Q. If truth in advertising were required of matrimony, what statistical disclaimer might accompany the vow of love? Blackbeard
A. The high of passionate love may be sustained for a few months, even a couple of years, but soon the giddy floatings on a cloud will fade, says David G. Myers in Social Psychology. After four years, look out!
Worldwide, notes anthropologist Helen Fisher, the fourth year of marriage is the peak divorce year. If the relationship is to last beyond that, it must settle into a steadier "companionate love."
Like any drug, romance first delivers a big kick, then tolerance develops. "Stopping the substance, however, does not return you to where you started," says Myers. "Rather, it triggers withdrawal symptoms– malaise, depression, the blahs." And countless mournful Country Western songs.
Is there another way? When Usha Gupta and Pushpa Singh compared love-based and arranged marriages in India, they found the former holding steady at a 7-out-of-10 self-rating for two to five years, then sinking to 5 from 5-10 years, to below 4 after 10 years, whereas arranged marriages started at 5.5, hit 7 by the end of 10 years and tended to stay there.
Sounding rather Eastern on the subject, Mark Twain wrote: "Nobody really knows what love is until they've been married a quarter of a century."
Q. If you tossed a penny off the top of the Empire State Building and it hit somebody on the sidewalk below, could it bore right through the skull? F. Wray
A. Ignoring air resistance, a penny falling 1250 feet would reach a speed of 193 mph by the time it hit the street, much less than a bullet's speed but still dangerous, says UVA's Louis A. Bloomfield in How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life.
"Terminal velocity" for a falling object is where air drag balances weight and so no further acceleration occurs. For an aerodynamically poor penny, this would be early in its descent, probably at less than 100 mph. So if you could see the penny coming, you might catch it in your hand and suffer little more than a bruise!
A dropped object to worry about would be a ballpoint pen. It's heavier, and instead of tumbling like a penny it pierces through the air more like a falling arrow, faster and deadlier. Not at all theoretical is what happens to a bullet fired up into the air and then falling thousands of feet. "This can definitely kill," says Bloomfield, "and a relative of mine died this way at a Mardi Gras years ago."
Q. Through what exquisite design did Nature bring together malleus, incus and stapes–trio of bones making up the human middle ear–in a keen organ for survival fitness? Prince Charles
A. Didn't work that way, say V.S. Ramachandran et al. in Phantoms in the Brain. Circuitousness and ad hoc evolutionary adaptation were more like it. For two of these bones– the malleus and incus– started out as jaw bones in ancient reptiles, hinging mouths wide to gobble huge prey.
Then as mammals evolved from reptiles, emphasis shifted to a single rugged chewing bone for chomping insects and other tough meaty prey, which just happened to free up the two other bones for co-option into the improved hearing system. This became all the more important for the new mammalian night-roamers.
So bizarre a solution was this that it couldn't have been guessed from considering the functional needs of the organism but required comparative anatomy studies and numerous fossil finds to sleuth it out. Any big lesson here? Mother Nature is "not an engineer, but a hacker."
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"These people" (the libtards hate that) are just insane...
Cooley dude can tell over the phone if you're a Fox News person!!! Is that cool and "special"??? :biggrin-new:Quote:
Mon Dec 23, 2013, 07:29 PM
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Dear Fox News; thank you for making Christmas SUCK!
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I work in Medical Software and speak to my clients on a daily basis. Clients who are of different religions and ethnic backgrounds. Because of this, and because I'm respectful, I wish all who I speak to on the phone a "Happy Holiday" this time of year.
Well, some intolerant Fox News watcher, when I wished them this all-encompassing greeting, YELLED at me on the phone today, "It's Christmas!!" Yeah... actually fucking YELLED at me! Stunned, I said, "um, and you too." I hung up, dejected and saddened.
Happy Holidays has been an accepted greeting for as long as I can remember. We had some silly paper thing that hung on our front door throughout the 60's and 70's that said "Happy Holidays" and, for the life of me NO one ever objected to it! Fast-forward 40 years and NOW silly assholes who watch this God-awful, intolerant cable news network now ATTACK those who offer this greeting.
Fox News, you just plain suck for ruining this time of year with your divisive bullshit. You are NOT "champions of Christmas". You are helping destroy it.
So...in dipshits mind, Fox is ruining Christmas!!! And people yell at him on the phone! Pretty cooley!!!


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No, I didn't forget to put in possible answers to the Hink Pinks, but yours may be better. They are at the end of this article. If you had fun trying to figure them out, you experienced some good education in your background.
The general purpose of education is not always what we think. Education allows us to learn how to learn, not just learn facts. Education teaches us processes and skills of thinking, evaluating, problem solving, applying principles to situations and much more.
If you are in a position to influence children and help them do well in school, or in any area of life that children pursue here are a few ideas to keep in mind: Strive for a loving home atmosphere.
Tim Kimmel in Little House on the Freeway says, "Secure and loving homes don't just happen. The competition for time and concentration is too intense. If parents want their children to be raised in an environment that produces calm and confidence, they're going to have to work overtime to make it happen."
Create an attitude that life is a joint project with everyone we come in contact. Help create a balanced student — academic, cultural, sports, leisure, relaxation, band, vocal, plays, etc. Give your child parent(s) who listen, but remain parents, not friends (that comes after they are grown).
If you are privileged to influence other people's children, help their parents out once in a while with chauffeuring, baking goodies for various groups, and attending events to show support. It is important to strive to have preventive tactics for failure, by encouraging success in failure. It is not realistic to succeed at everything we try. In fact if we do, we probably aren't challenging ourselves.
I believe it is important to discourage children from complaining. Teach them to act on realistic complaints, but be positive which of course is best learned for example. It is definitely true that we either see the glass half empty or half full.
Have you thanked a teacher in your life? A few I have thanked was a seventh grade teacher who I detested — she was so mean; she kept telling me that I could figure out grammar and she stuck with me until I did. Then there was my speech teacher who said I not only could create a speech, but could give it — even after I passed out.
There was my Sunday School teacher, who sadly had a monotone voice, but he taught me many principles of faith because he cared for me which helped me listen. Then there is my husband who has taught me many facts I thought useless at the time, that I later used over and over.
Also, there are my four children who taught me — no, not patience, I haven't achieved that yet — many new ways of thinking. I could go on and on and so could you. How many teachers in your life have you taken the time to thank? If they are still living take the opportunity. It's not too late.
Ghosts and goblins are funny if you don't take them seriously. Yet, a large part of our population does and says they don't. I've watched students go to extremes not to walk under a ladder as workmen worked on the school.
October is a superstitious month if it brings to mind witches, black cats, and weird creatures. We feel much more contented if we think of bountiful harvests, snuggle days, and cute black kittens. Christians often celebrate All Hallowed Eve to keep the focus on good and not evil.
Anyway some concepts to think about are: Learn to laugh with others and at yourself; learn to seek things you can praise, rather than things you can criticize; learn to be specific as you deal with people rather than general, because you honor each person's individuality; learn to set the pattern in your life and not let "fate" do it.
Until next week — Christine Pauley


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Auburn controls BCS fate
AUBURN, Ala. -- In a span of three weeks, college football's oldest rivalry will be followed by one of its fiercest.
And No. 7 Auburn will be right in the middle of both.
The Tigers will host two of the biggest football games of the 2013 college football season beginning Saturday when they host No. 25 Georgia in the 117th edition of the game known famously as the "Deep South's Oldest Rivalry."
"Obviously, we have a big challenge for us this weekend. We are playing what was one of the top teams in the country at the first of the year before they had injuries. They are getting healthy. They have 16 returning starters from a team that almost won the SEC Championship last year. They have one of the better quarterbacks to ever play in the SEC," Auburn coach Gus Malzahn said. "It will be a huge challenge for our guys."
Two weeks later, the challenge only gets greater.
Provided Auburn (9-1 overall, 5-1 in the SEC) survives Georgia (6-3, 4-2) -- which is no easy task, considering the Bulldogs have won six of the last seven meetings, including a 38-0 romp last year -- awaiting the Tigers in the annual Iron Bowl on Nov. 30 will be No. 1 Alabama (9-0, 6-0), which will also have to come to Jordan-Hare Stadium. That would set up a showdown for the SEC West title and trip in the conference championship game.
The winner of that game, of course, has historically gone on to play for the BCS national title. Although, with one blemish on its record already (vs. LSU on Sept. 21), Auburn may still need help in the form of a loss by any of the other teams ahead of the Tigers to slip into the back door of the national championship game.
These scenarios, however, don't concern Malzahn and Auburn with the Bulldogs and SEC record-setting quarterback Aaron Murray bearing down this weekend.
"No, we have not said anything (to the team about what's at stake). We have not even gone there," said Malzahn, the Tigers' first-year coach who is widely believed to be the leading candidate for college football's 2013 Coach of the Year award after turning last year's 3-9 Auburn team completely around in one season. "All we have talked about is we have our hands full with Georgia, playing at home, and that is the only thing on our mind. At the end of the season, we will look back and deal with all that stuff."
First, the Tigers will have to deal with Murray, the Bulldogs' star senior who broke his third SEC record of the season last week in UGA's 45-6 rout of FCS program Appalachian State. He's now the all-time SEC leader in touchdowns (115), total offense (12,896 yards) and passing yards (12,568), and Murray will bring a personal two-game win streak into Saturday's game.
Although, with UGA star running back Todd Gurley finally healthy, the Bulldogs may take to the ground more in this one after Auburn's run defense was gutted for more than 200 yards in each of its last two wins against Arkansas and Tennessee. Georgia is 5-1 when Gurley starts, and he's already projected to be the top running back taken in the 2015 NFL Draft.
It's no secret running the ball is what Auburn plans to do. With quarterback Nick Marshall -- a former UGA recruit who was booted from the team in February of 2012 -- still trying to heal his ailing shoulder, the Tigers have attempted just 15 passes in the last two games while piling up 677 combined rushing yards, including 214 by Marshall last week against the Vols.
Auburn's rushing attack is so dynamic, it's not only the most improved in the nation from a year ago, it's now one of the best.
Thanks to the SEC's second-leading rusher Tre Mason (1,038 yards, 16 touchdowns) and Marshall (734 yards, seven TDs), the Tigers have improved 104 spots (from 118th to 14th) in the NCAA's total offense rankings, the biggest improvement in the nation in that category. Auburn is averaging 320 yards a game on the ground -- third-best in FBS -- and 38.6 points per game this season.
"I'm very impressed with Auburn and what they're doing," UGA coach Mark Richt said. "They are the team with the greatest turnaround of anybody from last year to this year. It's super impressive what coach Malzahn has done. Everywhere he has gone he's won."
Malzahn's 10th win of his coaching career at Auburn would be a huge one considering what's at stake. It would also break a 54-54-8 tie in the Deep South's Oldest Rivalry.


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In a BBC Horizon video, a researcher interacts with Namibian Himba tribesmen participating in a fascinating experiment. The researcher shows them a circle of 12 colored squares. In the first example, all the squares are green, with one a very slightly different shade. It's extremely difficult to spot the different one. The Himba, however, find it almost instantly.
The next circle of colors is also green, except for one that's a glaringly obvious bright blue. The Himba participants stare. And stare. One gives up entirely trying to spot the different color. The other cocks his head in puzzlement.
Why does this happen? Well, it turns out the Himba have fewer words to differentiate color than English speakers. Weird as it may seem, the fact that different frequencies of light are entering our eyeballs apparently makes less difference to perception than does the overlay of words that artificially divide the spectrum for different languages.
This odd phenomenon raises an unavoidable and mystifying question: what does the world look like if you have a different set of color divisions in your vocabulary? Do the Himba look at a tree against the sky and find it hard to distinguish? It's the sort of thing that, it seems, acquiring a second language doesn't confer.
Talk to people who are labelled color blind and you may find yourself equally stymied. It seems that being color blind does not always mean seeing the same thing. Some varieties of color blindness make the world appear rather monochrome; others make two colors appear to be approximately the same. When it comes to language, research suggests that visual perception may be altered in some similarly surprising ways by language.
At a website called Empirical Zeal, Rutgers University Ph.D. student Aatish Bhatia covers a grab bag of scientific subjects with a remarkable clarity and sharpness of prose. In a recent pair of articles, Bhatia covered the strange matter of languages and colors at length. His work is peppered with academic references, and offers a great jumping-off point for further reading and research.
What Bhatia uncovers in the research is nothing less than fascinating. Studies reveal that languages not only have a varying number of words for colors, but most follow a well-worn path from simplicity to complexity, dividing the spectrum in largely similar ways as they go. These divisions are applied to the same set of human visual perceptions as a starting point, so perhaps that's not so surprising.
What's more mind-boggling yet is some of what's covered in that Horizon video. Dr. Anna Franklin, of the University of Sussex in the U.K., has studied the differences in color perception between children who've acquired language and those who haven't. Her research indicates that non-speaking infants do have some color distinction, though they don't have words for the colors. The main difference in color pereception for children who've learned to speak is where in the brain they process color. For infants, it's a visual thing, occurring in the right hemisphere. When those same infants learn the words for colors well enough, the processing seems to become a function of language, primarily happening all the way over on the opposite hemisphere of the brain.
We can, of course, only guess what someone else sees, even if it can be approximated in film. The resonances go well beyond language and physical differences. In large part, art education is about learning to see the world differently, to divorce perception from the meaning or labelling of an object. A kid's drawing of a person, for instance, is likely to have all the right parts, regardless of real resemblance to the subject. A trained artist has learned to see something else: the patterns of light and dark, the contours of the lines that separate figure and ground. It's easy to imagine that a painter would indeed fare better on researchers' tests on color differentiation.
Such things are easy to take for granted, but differences in how we see the world are almost certainly more pronounced than at first they might appear. And, lest we get too cocky or self-absorbed from our perch atop the food chain, Bhatia points out how wildly different our world might be if our physical accoutrements were slightly otherwise. The lowly mantis shrimp, it turns out, can see many thousands of shades, including plenty that are beyond our visual spectrum, well into the ultraviolet. Which makes us pretty much color blind compared to a shrimp.
For Bhatia's articles and the BBC video, visit http://www.empiricalzeal.com.


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Tips for campers
Bears come out any time of day. Store food in car trunks, hard-sided canister if backcountry camping (required) or in food storage lockers if provided. If food is not stored properly, campers could receive a citation.
Fireworks are strictly prohibited.
Check pet requirements for parks and leash requirements.
Respect quiet hours.
Leave campsites clean.
Bring the right equipment and enough layers of clothing — it gets cold at night.
Never bring wood from another state — it could spread invasive species.
State parks only allow 3.2 percent alcoholic beverages.
Build rings of rocks around fires.
Sources: Jennifer Churchill, Colorado Parks and Wildlife; Grant Pardington, Arapahoe and Roosevelt National Forests; and Kyle Patterson, Rocky Mountain National Park.
Campgrounds at Rocky Mountain National Park, Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and at the 42 Colorado state parks are full for the July Fourth weekend, and have been for months, with a few exceptions.
According to U.S. Forest Service Public Information Officer Reghan Cloudman, all of the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests' reservable sites are filled, and while some of the first-come-first-serve sites have availability, she expects those to be filling up Thursday. One option is Jacks Gulch campground on Pingree Park Road, which has about 60 available campsites. Cloudman said because it's not right off of Colo. 14 or by Red Feather Lakes, it might have a little more availability than the other sites.
The other option for campers is dispersed camping off of Pingree Park Road as well as off Crown Point Road and along Laramie River Road.
"You can park on the side of the road ... All you have to do is make sure your car stays within 300 feet of the road," Grant Pardington, a summer intern at the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests' information services, said.
Pardington said because there are no fire bans in effect right now in Colorado, campers can build fires as long as they are 200 feet from any road, trail or body of water.
For more specific information on the campsites at Arapaho and Roosevelt Forests, go to fs.usda.gov/arp.
At Rocky Mountain National Park, campers have two options, backcountry camping and frontcountry camping. Frontcountry camping is camping in areas that are more easily accessible by car.
Crystal Brindle, visitor use assistant at the backcountry office, said space is tight on the east side of the park because the Dunraven Trailhead is closed due to flooding, so campsites filled up fast.
"We are very, very busy this summer, more than other summers," Brindle said.
Kyle Patterson, Rocky Mountain National Park public information officer, said three of the five frontcountry campgrounds are by reservation, and those are filled for the weekend. The other two first-come-first-serve are at Longs Peak — tent only — and Timber Creek. But Patterson said she thinks Longs Peak will be full by the end of Wednesday with only three sites left and Timber Creek could be filled shortly after.
When the holiday falls on a weekend or close to the weekend and when the weather is expected to be nice, Patterson said the spots fill up fast.
"We always encourage folks to start booking in February ... We know that particularly since the Fourth falls on a Friday, a lot of folks usually com up the day before so that they can get a campsite," she said. "Usually they're booked by March or April."
For more information on Rocky Mountain National Park camping, go to nps.giv.
The same is the case for the 42 state parks, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife Information Office Jennifer Churchill.
For more information on particular state parks, campers can visit cpw.state.co.us.
Contact Reporter-Herald Staff Writer Saja Hindi at 970-669-5050, ext. 521, on Twitter at @SajaHindiRH or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Farrell explains what he seeks in coaching staff
New manager embraces biomechanics, open to having two hitting coaches
By Evan Drellich / MLB.com | 11/05/12 7:05 PM ET
MLB Tonight on Red Sox, Farrell00:04:52
MLB Tonight insider Nick Cafardo joins the program to talk about the Red Sox signing John Farrell as their new manager
BOSTON -- The Red Sox are close to naming a pitching coach, and they hope to start interviewing candidates for hitting coach by the end of the week as well.
At the end of his time with the Blue Jays, new manager John Farrell dropped hints as to what he might favor in a pitching and hitting coach -- or hitting coaches.
Farrell has long employed the use of biomechanics analysis with pitchers. One of the four candidates for pitching coach the team is known to have interviewed, the Orioles' Rick Peterson, happens to be a biomechanics guru. That could be a contributing factor.
"When in Cleveland, I [used biomechanic analysis] for four straight years," Farrell said in September at Fenway Park, while he was still with the Blue Jays. "So yeah, it's another tool for evaluation. It's not a cure-all, and we had discussions recently internally [with Toronto] about looking to incorporate that more than it's been."
The Blue Jays weren't huge on biomechanics analysis, Farrell said. "I can't that say that [in] previous years there's been any usage of that tool."
The Red Sox believe in those techniques enough, though, that they're able to do some analyses in-house already.
"We've done it -- we've done it both externally and internally," general manager Ben Cherington said on Monday. "We've sent guys to the Andrews [Institute], for example, over the years. We've done some things internally, too, with our own equipment and technology, probably a little bit more on the pitching side than the hitting side, but yeah, that's something we've done."
Dr. James Andrews, the famed surgeon, and Peterson have long collaborated and worked as business partners. Of course, hooking up a pitcher to a machine and getting a readout's not a complete solution. But Farrell believes that knowing how to analyze that information is helpful.
"Ultimately, the bottom line is, when you get the information, how do you use it?" Farrell said. "That's the biggest key, because in and of itself, it can be useless if it's not interpreted correctly and ultimately applied at the field level."
Farrell noted that using biomechanics isn't exactly new any more, it just depends on an organization's philosophy.
"It's been going on quite a while," he said. "Depends upon how forward-thinking organizations want to get and what nontraditional methods they want to incorporate. ... Sometimes people might fear the unknown or not be fully understanding of what it can do. And they shy away from it. But it can be very useful when used in the right setting.
"The thing that you have to be really careful of, if you go to have this evaluation done and there are some red flags that are determined or identified, if you look to make delivery changes, does it take away the effectiveness of the pitcher? That's a catch-22. You may pitch longer, but you may pitch in Double-A for the rest of your life."
During his time in Toronto, Farrell also considered adopting a growing trend: having not one but two hitting coaches. Even if the Red Sox don't go in that direction this year, Farrell could be inclined to do so in the future.
"Yes, even before you finish it, yes," Farrell said when asked in September if that were possible. "You know we talk about it internally, we talked about how the structure would work, the fact -- if this were to play out -- [that] the people involved have a rapport, they have a relationship already from the Major Leagues to the Triple-A staff, Spring Training involvement and the familiarity with one another. That's paramount, because the message can't be conflicting, and yet everybody has individual strengths."
The thought that Toronto's Triple-A hitting coach, Chad Mottola, could be paired with big league hitting coach Dwayne Murphy came up in 2011 and 2012. The Royals adopted a two-coach system this season, following in the footsteps of such teams as the Cardinals.
It's a matter of making the workload manageable, and sometimes a matter of having a message communicated differently.
"Let's face it, even we see on the pitching side: Certain guys will hear ... the same message as described by two different people, and it may click because the way one person says it toward the other," Farrell said. "This isn't to be pointing the finger at anyone saying they're not doing well, it's, how do you provide the best resources for players to be consistent?"
Cherington said that a pitching coach would not be official before he gets on a plane on Tuesday morning for the General Managers Meetings in Palm Springs, Calif. But it shouldn't be long.
Marlins pitching coach Randy St. Claire, Royals special assistant Steve Foster and White Sox bullpen coach Juan Nieves have also interviewed for the job.
Then comes the interview for hitting coach. There's already a list of candidates.
"We want to get the pitching coach position filled first," Cherington said on Monday at Fenway Park after David Ortiz's news conference. "We've got some names in mind for hitting coach, and then, I think, the rest of the staff -- once those two positions are in place -- I think the rest of the staff will come together more quickly. And we haven't ruled out having someone from last year's staff on the staff."
A deadline for an option in bullpen coach Gary Tuck's contract to the picked up is approaching, Cherington said.
"I've told some [of last year's coaches] that I don't see a scenario where they can be on the staff," he said. "And others where there's still a chance, [we're] continuing to talk to those guys."


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Sailing Takes 13th at Truxtun Umsted
By ODU Athletics
March 17, 2013
NORFOLK, Va. – The Old Dominion University sailing teams completed a busy weekend on the water with a 13th place finish in the Truxtun Umsted and a 15th place finish for the Lady Monarchs in the St. Mary's Women's Regatta wile ODU placed third out of six teams in the Pirate 3-on-3 team race.
After the opening day with limited sailing opportunities due to a lack of wind, Yale won the prestigious Truxtun Umsted on Sunday with 327 points. ODU took 13th with 536 points in the 20-team race in Annapolis. In the A-Division race, senior skipper Dillon Paiva and junior crew Chloe Constants placed 11th with 126 points. Also taking 11th in the B-Division race was freshman skipper Esteban Forrer and junior Julia Wiesner with 122 points. Freshman Joe David took 19th in the C-Division race while senior Zachary Runci finished eighth with 117 points in the D-Division race.
The 15th ranked Lady Monarchs took 15th at the St. Mary's Women's Regatta with a score of 272. In the A-Division race, junior skipper Corina Radtke along with senior crew Shannon Wilkins and junior crew Rachel Austin took 16th with 150 points while sophomore skipper Andrea Luna and junior skipper Rachel Austin coupled with junior crew Alexa Cavalieri and freshman crew Grace Mason took 10th in the B-Division race with 122 points.
In the Pirate 3-on-3 team race, Old Dominion finished third, going 7-8 on the day while St. Mary's won, going 14-1 and Cornell took second, going 12-3.
Old Dominion returns home to host the Aaron Szambecki Team Race in Norfolk next weekend.
Follow ODU Sailing on Twitter @ODUSailing and check them out on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ODUSailing.


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ROME (AP) - Recently retired cyclist Leonardo Bertagnolli has been called in for a hearing with the Italian Olympic Committee's anti-doping prosecutor after revealing details of banned drug use supervised by Lance Armstrong's former doctor.
Bertagnolli's testimony before Padua prosecutor Benedetto Roberti in May 2011 was included in the United States Anti-Doping Association's report against Armstrong.
Bertagnolli says he began working with banned physician Dr. Michele Ferrari in 2007 after getting permission from Liquigas team manager Roberto Amadio and team doctor Roberto Corsetti, and that he paid Ferrari $15,500 per year. He says several teammates also saw Ferrari.
Bertagnolli retired in June after the UCI opened disciplinary action against him for suspected blood doping.
CONI's anti-doping prosecutor is seeking a three-year ban for Bertagnolli.
Liquigas says it was not involved.