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Maurice (Ile)
"With you, making Mauritius safer"
Guiding Philosophy :
Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto
The well being of the people is the supreme law
Que le Salut du Peuple soit la loi suprême
In 2010, the Mauritius Police Force (MPF) undertook a reform programme aimed at transforming the "Force" to a "Service" culture, thus paving the way for a fundamentally new policing concept. The objective is to modernize the police service by taking on a new management style and policing philosophy more mindful of public concerns, needs and expectations.
The reform is based on six pillars:
- Community policing;
- Compliancy with human rights;
- Human resource management;
- Permanent strategic planning;
- Intelligence led policing;
- Enhancing reactive capability.
Under the direct command of the Commissioner of Police who is accountable to the Prime Minister, the MPF is made up of 11 specialized Police Branches with a total strength of over 12,000 men and women. The Commissioner of Police is assisted by other Deputy Commissioners and Assistant Commissioners who are responsible for each department.
INTERPOL Port Louis
The National Central Bureau (NCB) of INTERPOL for Mauritius is a unit of the Central Criminal Investigation Division (CCID) which is headed by an Assistant Commissioner of Police who is also the Head of NCB.
The CCID's main duties are to investigate serious crime cases, high-profile cases and financial crime.


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How To Rip Longer And Get Skinny At The Same Time
Oakley unveiled their new line of board shorts, "Blade" last night at The Shore restaurant in San Clemente. The new trunks reflect the Oakley motto of "technology wrapped in art" as they are seriously space age, yet something you'd still want to be seen in. In a packed private room, happy, bronzed people ate complimentary fish tacos, poke, sipped white wine and Blue Moons, and tried to wrap their heads around the beginning of Oakley's "board short revolution."
Jeff Baillargeon, Global Category Manager at Oakley broke down the science of the shorts. "The trunks come in two parts: the compression lining and the outer short, the two button together so you can opt out of the compression liner if you so wish." But why would you? As Baillargeon explains, "When you're being active your muscles fill with lactic acid, but with compression you get better blood circulation which carries away the lactic acid. This drastically prolongs the time you can be out in the water."
Note to readers: Don't worry, we had to ask what lactic acid is too. "The greatest thing about the compression liner is how tangible it is. You can feel it working," adds Baillargeon. Kauai pro surfer and Oakley team rider Sebastian Zietz pointed out another benefit of the compression liner: "Every time I come out of the water I peel the liner off and I'm cellulite free!"—Cheyenne Arnold


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James Franco Dons Thong For Ellen's 2014 Calendar?
There are an overwhelming amount of beefcake calendars slated for 2014, causing us to feel faint and reach for the smelling salts each time a new product is announced. One that would definitely be hung with care at eye-level, however, is Ellen's DIY 2014 release, starring James Franco, thongs, and a cat. (All of it doctored in a Frankenstein or AHS: Coven way to match our dreams.)
James himself shared a few images with gusto on Instagram, along with the status: #ellen #catcalendar MERRY XMAS!!!! - ELLEN MADE ME tHIS CAlENDaR
Catch the upcoming episode of Ellen featuring the James Franco calendar on November 18.
(h/t: Perez)
I have to say Very Impressive... But SDM... In AMERICA they call a G-String a THONG, so this is why there is a reference to James wearing a THONG.. Perhaps that may be the Reason for Scandalous? Ass Cheeks a Showin! :p
Well I just thought I would bring you up to speed on the International Terminology SDM..


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I did one screening interview as a freshman on campus where I was rejected without mercy. Apparently the answer to "Can you tell me what was the most difficult bug you faced while programming and what you did to resolve it?" isn't "My programs don't have bugs."There's a huge body of lore around Microsoft interview questions. This is a common one, not used exclusively at Microsoft.
As I read that post, I started wondering what would my answer be? The longer I thought about it, the more surprised I was that nothing came to mind. This could mean a few things: that I'm not a good candidate for working at Microsoft, that I haven't been programming very long, or that I'm not a very good programmer.
Anyone who knows me knows that I would never want to work at Microsoft, so let's ignore that point. I've been slinging code for about 20 years, professionally for about 15 years, so my lack of a response doesn't necessarily imply a lack of experience. On most projects, I'm one of the developers that's brought in to solve the hard problems, so I don't think a lack of response is an indication that I'm just pulling a paycheck and not doing any real work.
The point of a question like this is to see how well and how deeply a candidate relates to his code. It's an obvious trap to elicit a response like "my programs don't have bugs", which is merely an indication that the interviewee (a) hasn't been programming very long and (b) hasn't worked on any project larger than a homework assignment. But if it elicits an animated and involved response from the interviewee, it shows he has a deep and detailed knowledge about his code and the platform he uses to develop software.
Unfortunately, this particular question places the focus on bugs. I wonder if this offers some insight into software development practices at Microsoft. Could it really be that their software development regimen is simply a never-ending bug squashing expedition into an ever-increasing blob of code? It's amusing to think so, but I doubt it.
The more I thought about it, the more I realized that I don't think about my career as moving from one bug to another. Over the years, I've picked up a variety of tools and techniques for isolating and fixing bugs. Some are mundane, like peppering print statements or invoking a source level debugger like
perl -d or
gdb. Some are more complex, like using test fixtures, constructing test data, or gathering diagnostics with a profiler. The skills are important; the bugs aren't.
But I occasionally do remember the bug. One that does come to mind involves a grammar I was writing from an incomplete and contradictory spec. The operator precedence was specified one way, but the expectation was the inverse. I implemented the precedence as specified, which did not result in the desired behavior. This led to many hours of meetings over a few weeks to determine that the spec was, in fact, wrong. The solution was to twiddle a couple lines of code, maybe 5 minutes to fix. Thirty minutes if you include the obligatory stop at the coffee shop to blow of some steam.
What matters for a professional software developer is preventing bugs from occurring in the first place, or quickly isolating bugs when they do occur. On that same project, I needed to test the grammar, so I wrote a test harness to run the parser capture its output, and compare the output to an expected value. I wrote another program to generate these inputs via brute force: running through all combinations of terms and operators, hunting for both successful parses and expected failures. In the end, I had a few thousand test cases that acted as a pretty complete set of regression tests.
Since I started working in Haskell, I find that I think even less about the bugs.
In many cases, a bug is a symptom that you're working on a large system, and the assumptions made in one part of the system violate the assumptions made in another part. A classic case is a memory leak, where the library assumes the caller manages a block of memory, but the caller fails to call
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However, in a Haskell program, these kinds of problems simply don't happen, or at least don't happen with nearly the same frequency. Each function acts as its own little world. The net result is that when debugging a particular function, you can ignore the rest of the universe and focus on one small piece of the puzzle in isolation.
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head or
last. In either case, the type checker will prevent me from running a program with this kind of bug.
All of which makes it easier to focus on the problems to be solved, and the tools needed to solve these problems, and ignore mundane details like bugs.


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Now you can buy everything from tractor parts and tools to boots and hats online from one of the nation's largest agriculture retail chains, Quality Farm & Country. The farm retailer entered a partnership with Internet Venture Works, an e-commerce company, to develop FarmandCountry.com for marketing the retailer's merchandise online.
Visitors to the site may order online or call the toll-free line to order. A tractor expert and veterinarian offer free advice online. Browsers also may click onto weather, commodity prices and general agricultural information.
Company officials plan to add many features to make both online and offline shopping easier. Soon, farmers will be able to chat online with customer service representatives while looking through the site. A customer will be able to go online and check the availability of a product at a specific Quality Farm & Country outlet and reserve it before driving to the store. Or he or she may order a product from another store and have it shipped on a company truck to a local store for convenient pickup.
This fall the company plans to install the first in-store kiosks equipped with computers for ordering products online. Then if a customer is not able to find a product in the retail outlet, he or she may order it at the store's kiosk.
Typical stores have 15,000 to 25,000 products. There are 50,000 products on the site.
Quality Farm & Country stores are located throughout the country under the names Farm & Country, Country General, Quality F&C and Country Post.
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PRO TIP: Don't put diesel fuel into a gasoline-powered car. It's a fast and effective way to completely trash your engine. But one Canadian gas station chain is having to say "I'm sorry" after an error caused gasoline tanks to be filled with diesel.
Canada's AutoGo reports that a Couche-Tard station in a small Quebec village recently encountered a fuel delivery error that put thousands of liters of diesel fuel into a filling tank that normally carries gasoline, causing an untold number of cars to receive the wrong fuel. Ouch.
Infodimanche puts the number of cars potentially affected by this mishap at 300, and said at least one customer was hit with a bill of $4,000 for repairs, towing and other costs.
The good news is that Couche-Tard is taking steps to do right by their customers, saying they would reimburse them for all repair costs and even car rental fees.
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mypillowpartner necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 71 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Our site will enable people to upload images or chose from one of our members images to produce a custom bedding. Our exclusive product is a full size body pillow. We also produce regular pillows, blankets, and shower curtains.
Check out the home page for a picture of a prototype.
The new site that is nearing completion will be structured like http://www.istockphoto.com where individuals or companies (working on licensing with Hooters, LFL, Chippendales and many more), will upload their images and be paid a royalty when downloaded for print
Our target market is a bit all over the board. Obviously the random models on the bedding would attract a certain demography of singles 18-25.
We will also be trying to appeal to people who just want a personal keep sake of a loved one who may a long distance away
One of our main targets would be the military (what we would call a Deployment Pillow) A pillow with the soldiers image to keep the children and the partner happy.
The logo can be totally creative, go crazy with it. We think we are looking for a logo that incorporates a cartoon like avatar that will also be able to help navigate around the site. Just to brainstorm ( possibly a crescent moon with an edge like mac tonight, a star wearing pajamas or lingerie, a bed that appears to be smiling.) One idea would be to encircle the cartoon with the company name (My Pillow Partner) across the top and the tag line on the bottom (Never Sleep Alone) We are here because we are not creative.
Special note **I I just found a star image on istock (File #: 6643982) that i think works well.
it would be nice to have a Male and female that look a little more sexy.
We would like the work to be done in photoshop with the cartoon done on its own layer
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Read what the teams and drivers had to say after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
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CaterhamHeikki Kovalainen - 13th
"I had a good race today. In India the balance had felt good in the race and if I hadn't had the KERS problem I'm sure I'd have had a better afternoon there. Here it was the same - the car felt good and with more performance we'd be up there in the fight. We need to keep working on the new parts we brought here to get the most out of them and we have three more days on track here to help us do that so we have several reasons to be positive about the remaining two races.
"Today I had an ok start and my pace was pretty good. After the quicker cars passed me I was really on my own for most of the race. When the safety cars came out obviously everything bunched up again but after each restart I was able to pull away easily and finished the race after probably getting as much as I could out of the car today."
Vitaly Petrov - 16th
"I made quite a good start and was side by side with Heikki. If we'd both braked at the same point we'd have probably hit so I braked a bit early and from that point I was struggling for grip. I'm not sure what the reason was but on both stints I just didn't have the pace to attack the cars ahead. I had understeer for most of the race and that really held me up. It's obviously a bit of a disappointing race, especially when you see that Heikki had good pace today, but sometimes it's like that. The car felt good on Friday afternoon but yesterday and today the grip just wasn't there. We have a bit of time now to analyse why and then make sure we get back to the pace we know we can find at the next race in Austin."
Fernando Alonso - 2nd
"I'm happy with the way this weekend turned out. It's true that with Sebastian last, there was an opportunity to reduce the gap more significantly but it's equally true that our performance and our grid position could have seen us lose points in this Grand Prix. I repeat, they have the quicker car, we have the better team. Everyone fights with the weapons they have at their disposal: we will not manage to turn our car into the quickest of the pack with a wave of a magic wand, but we will counter their performance with the perfection of our team. The simulation put us somewhere between fourth and sixth and we finished second, therefore once again this was a more than perfect race, running at the maximum from start to finish. Sure, there were a number of unexpected retirements and two neutralisation periods that did not really come at the right time or suit us, but these are things beyond our control. We just had to stay focused on our race and that's what we did. Now we go to Austin, a new circuit for everyone: we have just had a taste of it on the simulator, but the track is something else. Let's hope we can get a good result and put on a good show in an important country like the United States. Tonight I will go to sleep thinking the glass is half full rather than half empty. We must be proud of what we have done, the work of the mechanics at the track and the engineers who tried to fine tune the car. I fought from start to finish: first with Maldonado, then Jenson and, in the end I tried to go and catch Kimi. I could not relax for a single lap. The best race of the year? It's still to come..."
Felipe Massa - 7th
"It was a difficult race for me. In particular, I suffered on the Softs because of more degradation than we had expected. On Friday, the long run seemed much better: we must understand what changed compared to two days ago. I had problems with the balance: understeer in the fast corners and oversteer in the slow ones. The duel with Webber was the vital moment, as it meant I lost a lot of places at a crucial point in the race. He tried to go round the outside of me and we touched. Then he cut the chicane and came back across the track, forcing me to spin to avoid hitting him. A shame, because I could at least have finished ahead of Kobayashi. In any case, I managed to bring home some points which are important for the Constructors' championship, as we have increased our lead over McLaren. At the next race, I too will have the technical updates that Fernando had here and we hope there will also be other ones to improve the car's performance. However, it's true that the track characteristics can alter the balance of power: here we saw that McLaren and Lotus were very strong, apart from Red Bull of course, but it's not certain that elsewhere it will be the same."
Stefano Domenicali
"Yet another great race from Fernando in what is an amazing season for him. Today's second place came about mainly because of his ability to get the most and maybe even a bit more than that out of what we gave him to work with. The gap to the leader in the classification has come down to ten points and everything is still up for grabs. Of course, we must do something extra and better than what we have done to date to give him a more competitive car. If we had been offered this gap on leaving Abu Dhabi, immediately after qualifying yesterday evening, maybe we would have taken it, but it's also true that this afternoon, before the start, our prospects had changed. Definitely, the way the race played out and the incidents that occured, did not do us any favours in light of the championship, but these are circumstances over which we have no control. The important thing is we have reduced the gap in the Drivers' classification in a Grand Prix that was particularly difficult because, not only did our performance level not match that of our closest rivals, but it was actually worse than that of other teams. On top of that, we have increased our lead over our closest rival in the Constructors' championship, which is a good thing. Ten points is a lot but it can also be seen as very few. We have a duty to try right to the very last metre of the final Grand Prix and that's what we will do, you can be sure of it."
Pat Fry, technical director
"It's been a difficult and intense weekend and coming out of it having improved our situation in both championships compared to the start of it is undoubtedly positive. There's no point brooding over what happened: the Safety Cars did not come at the best times for us, but there was nothing we could do about it. We had to do our utmost and, on that front, we've got nothing to reproach ourselves for. Once again, Fernando delivered an amazing performance, getting everything he could out of the car, both in qualifying and in the race. When strategy does not allow for many variables it's always difficult to make up places but this evening and eight days ago in India, he showed what he's made of. These two second places are worth much more than the 36 points they have brought him. Felipe had a more difficult race than his team-mate, losing precious time because of the spin, as it left him in a lot of traffic. However, his six points are valuable for the Constructors' classification. Once again in this Grand Prix, our race pace was better than in qualifying: we have to make a step forward in this area to try and be in with a chance in the last two Grands Prix of the season. We had various updates at this race which, to some extent, did not work as we had expected. We must understand why and do something quickly because we no longer have much time. Furthermore, these ten days prior to the final double header will be crucial to prepare for a Grand Prix that takes place on a track that is new for everyone. Whoever is quickest at adapting their car to it could have an advantage. None of us wants to give up and everything is still possible."
Force IndiaPaul di Resta - 9th
"Quite a hectic race for me but I'm happy to come away with some points considering the way the race unfolded. I'm not sure what happened going into turn one because I had a great launch and moved ahead of Nico, but on the exit of the corner I realised immediately that I had a puncture. That cost me a lot of ground, but the first safety car brought me back into play. We were going to try and run to the finish without stopping again and I was up to fifth place, but when the safety car came out for a second time the team called me in for fresh tyres. In the final stages our pace was strong and I moved ahead of the Toro Rossos, but I just could not get ahead of Senna. He was in the DRS zone of Massa and I just could not make the move so I had to settle for ninth."
Nico Hulkenberg - DNF
"I made quite a bad start and had a poor run going into the first corner. Then I just got sandwiched by the cars around me go. I think there was my teammate, a Sauber and a Williams around me, and there was not enough space. I tried to back out of it, but it was too late. There was contact between the cars and that was my race over."
Robert Fernley, deputy team principal
"A dramatic Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that served up plenty of incidents. Nico was out of luck at the start and it looked like a typical opening lap incident with too many cars and not enough space. Paul was also caught up in that and picked up a right rear puncture, dropping him to the back of the field. From there it was a case of damage limitation and Paul delivered the perfect recovery drive to pick up a couple of points. He battled hard and was unlucky not to finish higher up the order. In terms of our fight in the constructors' championship, our two main rivals, Sauber and Williams, both scored well today. Sauber are 29 ahead and we have 22 points advantage over Williams. It's clear the battle will go down to the wire but we will continue fighting until the last lap in Brazil."
HRTPedro de la Rosa - 17th
"I'm happy to have finished the race and because I gave it everything. But today we were unable to stay on the same level as our rivals. We had a problem at the start when a thread on one of the blankets for the rear tyres got tangled up and I had to start from the pit lane with very cold tyres. But during the race the car went well, the tyres held out perfectly on one stop and we controlled the temperature of the brakes and engine. But we need a couple of tenths to be up there and I hope we can take that step in the upcoming races. It won't be through a lack of effort or work."
Narain Karthikeyan - DNF
"Today we didn't have enough pace so I focused on setting consistent lap times and trying to get the most out of the car. But on lap 9 we had a problem with the hydraulic pressure and steering of the car went rock solid, so I had to lift my foot off the accelerator. Unfortunately, Rosberg was coming from behind and couldn't avoid me. It was tremendously unlucky but we have to leave it in the past and think about the United States Grand Prix in two weeks."
Luis Pérez-Sala, team principal
"I would have liked for both cars to finish but an unfortunate mechanical failure meant that Narain lost his steering in the worst moment and he suffered an accident with Rosberg. Luckily both of them are well and we didn't have to regret anything greater. Pedro completed a good race and was able to finish after not doing so in two consecutive races. Now we have to look ahead and be ready to take on the last two races to finish in the best way possible."
LotusKimi Raikkonen - 1st
"I'm very happy for the team, and for myself also. You never know what's going to happen during the race; the safety cars made it quite tricky, but I've had similar races many, many times this year. Today we had a clear circuit to be able to use our speed. Perhaps we were not the fastest at the end, but we were quick enough and consistent enough to win so it's great for the team. We've had some difficult races in the second half of the season so it's fantastic to come back with a win."
Romain Grosjean - DNF
"I am very happy for Kimi as it's the win we were waiting for and it's an unbelievable result for the whole team. For myself I'm disappointed as I was running pretty well. It was a tight battle with three of us in a row at turn eleven, then Sergio [Perez] went off track at turn thirteen and came back on the inside at turn fourteen leaving me with no room to go anywhere else. Mark [Webber] then came from behind and we touched; it was a big shame. A great day for the team, but an unlucky one for me."
Eric Boullier, team principal
"I have one word first of all: Great. Then there are many words such as 'relief' and 'deserved'. It's obviously a very well deserved result for the team. I'm pleased for Kimi and he did a very good job. We've been pushing very hard all season and we've nearly had it before. There's a little frustration not to have had a win sooner, and we have been waiting for it, but it's a fantastic feeling to finally take that victory and a superb reward for the team. It's great for Formula 1, it's great for Kimi and it's great for our team."
James Allison, technical director
"When you are as happy as this it is hard to avoid lapsing into cliché. Despite being tantalisingly close several times this year, we have waited a long time to return to the top step of the podium. It is a massive tribute both to a flawless drive from Kimi and to the tenacity of the entire Enstone team for never having taken their eye off the prize all year. With two races left in the season we go on to Austin with a spring in our step, invigorated to do it all over again and see what we can achieve."
MarussiaTimo Glock - 14th
"After a difficult qualifying yesterday, today went much better for us and we had good pace in the race. Unfortunately on the first lap I was behind Charles and clipped the back of his car, which lost me a bit of aero performance in the opening stint. I tried to stay with Heikki but he was a bit quicker in S1 because of the understeer I was suffering with, but at least I could open up the gap to Petrov behind me and keep him there for the whole race. We had a mega pitstop and very good top speed compared to the others; we had some of the midfield guys behind for a while and although they were able to get past, we were able to have a brief race with them. A nice fight at the end with Sergio Perez on the last lap and even with the DRS they couldn't get by. A good end to the weekend and we look forward to the next two races now."
Charles Pic - DNF
"It was a very tough but exciting race today. The opening lap was very challenging as I was fighting with Timo and the Caterhams, so there was a lot going on in the first few corners. Unfortunately I ended up going wide and dropping back behind them. From that point onwards though, I was in a good battle with Vitaly and I came close to overtaking him on several occasions. Unfortunately we couldn't quite meet the challenge of his KERS advantage. Our pitstop was not quite perfect, which is a shame as a slick stop could have helped us to jump him. Overall I am pleased that I could enjoy a good battle with one of the Caterhams; it's just unfortunate that we had to retire because of the engine problem. Generally I have to say it has been a very positive weekend, so we focus on that and look forward to the next two races at two brand new tracks for me - the next one new for everyone of course, which will be very exciting I think."
John Booth, team principal
"A nail-biting race pretty much from start to finish, although it was in the final 10 laps that we really felt the pressure. We could do little about the retirements ahead of us, so we had to simply concentrate on our own very hard-fought race with Caterham. To see Timo pulling away from Petrov, and Charles pushing him hard, gives us further encouragement for the remaining two races. It was disappointing that Timo lost his left-hand front wing end-plate on the opening lap, as I really feel we could have been much closer to Heikki had this not been the case. Our S1 performance has been good all weekend and clearly the loss of this part hurt us there and allowed Heikki to build the gap. The engineers were in quite a dilemma as to whether to change the wing, but ultimately the loss of track position that the longer pitstop would have brought meant that we just had to rely on Timo to manage the problem, which of course he did beautifully. For Charles, again an unfortunate retirement due to an engine air system problem. We are sorry he has borne the brunt of these failures this year, however the engine we will fit for the remaining two races has not shown any signs of these problems. Today has reminded us that P10 is far from 'a given' - we have to keep fighting to keep it. However, all the way through the weekend we have shown just how hard we are fighting and given the very small pace difference that exists between us and Caterham now, I'm sure we can enjoy some great racing right up until the end of the season."
McLarenLewis Hamilton - DNF
"I'm gutted; I'd had really good pace all weekend and I feel certain we could have won today. I had a fuel pressure problem - it was very sudden, I was just entering a corner and the car just died on me. The only mistake I made all weekend was having a brief moment on lap two, when my brakes weren't fully up to temperature and I locked up into Turn Eight. After that, however, everything was going really well. The car was a dream to drive - I was cruising and still pulling away when I had my problem. Nonetheless, we'll have more opportunities in Austin and Sao Paulo. I hope we can get back to the front - I'd love to take a win or two more for Vodafone McLaren Mercedes before the end of the season."
Jenson Button - 4th
"Congratulations to Kimi [Raikkonen] - he's a man of few words, but he's all about racing. He deserved this victory today. For me, it was quite a fun race. I had a few good battles out there - with Mark [Webber], Sebastian [Vettel] and Pastor [Maldonado] - and they were particularly good fun. But, unfortunately, I didn't have the pace in the car to take the fight to the leaders today. The car felt very different from how it had on Friday - I just couldn't find the grip, which was strange. And, at the end, I couldn't have kept Sebastian back - he was on newer Options [tyres], so it was impossible to get the same amount of traction from my older Primes as he was getting from his newer Options. Lewis's retirement meant we dropped more points to Ferrari in the constructors' world championship. That was a great pity, but we have two big races remaining in which to make up the balance."
Martin Whitmarsh, team principal
"From the point of view of sheer pace, Lewis totally dominated the 2012 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend - until loss of fuel pressure ended his race when he was serenely managing a comfortable lead. Until that point, he'd had the race in the bag, and it goes without saying that the entire Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team is absolutely gutted that through no fault of his own he wasn't able to win here today. Lewis, too, is understandably disappointed - but he's also as keen as mustard to give it his very best shot to win the season's final two grands prix, at Austin and Sao Paulo.
"Jenson, too, drove a gutsy and spirited race, ending up fourth, having been overtaken at the end by Seb, who was on fresher tyres [than Jenson was] and whose car had been re-geared prior to the race for better top speed.
"To Kimi, who is of course an old friend of ours, having won nine grands prix for McLaren Mercedes during his time with us [2002-2006], I want to say 'Well done'. Today we saw a great drive by a great driver.
"Last, here are two brand-new McLaren-related milestones for all you train-spotters out there. First, until Lewis's race came to an end on lap 20, he'd taken McLaren's aggregate of kilometres spent in the lead of world championship grands prix past the 50,000km mark. And, second, in scoring 12 world championship points for fourth place, Jenson established a new benchmark in Formula 1: 56 points-scoring grands prix on the trot for Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, eclipsing the previous record which had been held hitherto by Ferrari. Neither of those stats provides much comfort today for anyone at Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, but they certainly both bear witness to a truly impressive magnum opus of on-track McLaren achievement in Formula 1, going back all the way to 1966, and I salute all the many men and women whose sterling efforts have contributed to that. Next we go to Austin, a new venue for our sport. Lewis won the last United States Grand Prix - at Indianapolis in 2007 - and you may be well sure that he, Jenson and everyone else in our team will be aiming to make it two United States Grand Prix victories on the trot for Vodafone McLaren Mercedes."
MercedesNico Rosberg - DNF
"My car felt competitive today so it's a real shame not to have finished the race and scored some points. Unfortunately that chance was gone after the first lap incident with Romain, after which I had to come into the pits for a new nose. Then there was the accident which put me out of the race. Narain told me that his steering broke and he needed to brake which I didn't expect in that high-speed corner. There was no time for me to react, and I'm very thankful that we are both fine. I went to the medical centre for a precautionary check but everything is good. I will look forward now and hope for a better two races to end the season."
Michael Schumacher - 11th
"Unfortunately we have to say that again we suffered bad luck today. Due to the puncture I had to do another pit stop very late in the race which lost me a points scoring position. Of course this is part of the game and you cannot do anything about it but it was a real pity as we had reasonable pace and could have taken some points. Towards the end of the race I was hoping to close the gap to the top ten, and we were making good progress, but it just didn't work out."
Ross Brawn, team principal
"We had a reasonable car today so it's disappointing not to have picked up any points. Nico's front wing was damaged on the first lap which meant an early stop but he was going well after that. His accident on lap seven was fairly dramatic and we obviously need to have a look at what happened. Karthikeyan reported a problem with his car and certainly it looked very unusual. Thankfully both drivers were fine afterwards. Michael drove a strong race and we had a good strategy but unfortunately he picked up a puncture in the debris left from the various accidents which made the end of his race very difficult. The dice just aren't falling for us at the moment but the positive is that the car was better this weekend so we just need to keep working hard."
Norbert Haug, Mercedes head of motorsport
"Nico's race lasted only seven laps today, and thankfully his accident ended without any serious consequences. Before that, his front wing change on the first lap after a collision with another car put him back to the back of the field. Michael was in seventh position when he picked up debris, and subsequently a puncture, during the safety car period which dropped him back to 11th place after his additional pit stop which is where he finished."
Red BullSebastian Vettel - 3rd
"It was a good race for us today, a big chance for Ferrari and Fernando, but we didn't allow it. I enjoyed it a lot today, more than anything. I damaged the front wing pretty early with Bruno, which was not ideal, but we were able to carry on and not lose too much. Then, during the safety car, maybe I didn't pay enough attention. Daniel was slowing down, just as I was warming the tyres and I got surprised. I had to move to the right and hit the DRS board, which damaged the front wing. It was the worst time to have to pit from P13 and start again at the back of the field, then I had to do it all over again, passing everyone from the back. In the end, to finish third on the podium is just fantastic."
Mark Webber - DNF
"Nothing really worked out for us today. I think we were strong, but we never got free air and it's difficult here with traffic; we saw quite a few incidents where people were trying to pass. Ultimately, in the incident that ended my race, I tried to go down the inside when the cars ahead made contact, I thought there was an opportunity, but then Grosjean made contact with my car and that was the end for us. Whatever we tried today, it just wasn't working out."
Christian Horner, team principal
"After the problems of yesterday, it was a remarkable comeback from Sebastian to finish on the podium. We elected to start from the pit lane, so we could make some set up changes to the car. After a promising start, despite picking up some damage to the front wing after an incident with Bruno Senna, Sebastian had another incident under the first safety car when Daniel Ricciardo caught him unawares and he finished off the front wing on the DRS marker. That necessitated a nose change and a change to our strategy. Seb was at the back of the field and once again had to work his way through. He drove an unbelievable race today and his final move on Jenson was quite exceptional. To go from pit lane to podium was something we could only dream of before the race. For Mark, unfortunately after not a great start, he got involved in an incident with Maldonado that spun him around and cost him time, just as he was looking to come back at Fernando Alonso. He recovered well and we made our stop, which was the fastest of the day and got him ahead of Maldonado who he was racing at that stage. Then, as he was closing down on the cars ahead, an incident with Perez, Grosjean and Di Resta left him with no where to go and unfortunately he was a victim of their actions. Nonetheless we leave with important points for the Constructors' and Drivers' titles today and everything still to play for in two weeks time."
SauberSergio Pérez - 15th
"We were looking really good in the race, and I had the feeling even a podium would have been possible. But then after my pit stop I got stuck behind Romain Grosjean and Paul di Resta, and could not get by them because I didn't have enough straight-line speed. I had to risk a lot to get by, but then unfortunately collided with the Lotus and my race was over. It is a real shame because our race pace was very good."
Kamui Kobayashi - 6th
"It was a very tough race and I am really happy I was able to get those eight points for the team. To fight for fifth place in the constructors' championship in the remaining two races will be very exciting. Unfortunately today I could not use the full performance of the car. There was a problem with downshifting, which meant I could not recharge the KERS properly and didn't have full boost. Otherwise my race went well. I had a good start, while the team did a great job in terms of timing, strategy and the pit stop."
Monisha Kaltenborn, team principal
"I am very happy because these points are extremely valuable for us in the constructors' championship and they allow us to fight for a better position. Kamui put in a fantastic performance despite his issues. With Sergio it was unfortunate as we were in a very good position to score a lot of points today, but nevertheless we now look forward to the last two races and we shall do all we can to fight."
Giampaolo Dall'Ara, head of track engineering
"The race was shaping up to be an easy one, but eventually it wasn't. At the start both drivers got away well and were eighth and ninth at the end of lap one. Also some of our immediate opposition was behind us, so by lap ten we were looking good. Then we had the first safety car, which reset the gaps we had built up. We went for one stop, which was planned, and both drivers did a good job climbing up the field. Then there was Sergio's accident, but the upside was while we lost positions with one car we were able to gain some with the other. We did have some issues with Kamui, which cost a bit of performance, but we were in control. His problem was a downshift issue, which didn't allow the proper recharging of the KERS, so he could not use full boost. It is regrettable we have missed some points but that's racing and, as the pace of our cars was strong, we shall keep fighting."
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Daniel Ricciardo - 10th
"I got a good start, although I had to avoid an accident shortly after. My initial pace was quite good and I could stay with Schumacher who was on the Prime, while like most people I was on the Option, but I could not get close enough to pass him. Then, in my second stint, on the Prime, I don't feel we got up to speed quickly enough and I was struggling a bit with braking. When the second Safety Car came out, we pitted again, which was a good call - originally we had considered a one stop - took on new Options and the fresher tyre meant I had a better pace towards the end. I'm pretty happy with tenth as I was not expecting points after the early part of the race, but I never gave up and kept fighting to the end. In the final laps, Schumacher was closing in on me again, but I managed to hold him off. Vettel behind me during the Safety Car? I looked in my mirrors and saw him go through one of the polystyrene boards, but I have no idea what happened."
Jean-Eric Vergne - 12th
"I started the race from one place behind my team-mate on the grid and finished two behind him. I am disappointed with the way this Grand Prix panned out for me. I got a good start and with some help from others having problems, I went up five places from seventeenth when the lights went out to twelfth at the end of the opening lap. The call from the pit wall to make my first tyre change earlier than planned when the first Safety Car came out was the right one. However, the second Safety Car did not play in my favour so that at the end, Daniel on fresher tyres was able to run at a faster pace. It's good for the team that he got another point at the end of what has been a tough weekend for us."
Franz Tost, team principal
"Both our drivers got a good start, making up five places each, relative to their grid positions, partly down to an accident on the opening lap. From then on, both drivers did a good job and the team's strategy choices worked well, making the most of the Safety Car opportunities, bringing Vergne in during the first one and Ricciardo at the second. In the end, we scored a point with Daniel, who managed to get past his team mate, as he was on newer tyres for the closing stages and Jev was not that far behind at the flag. It is good to have picked up another point, as it means we have finished in the top ten in five of the last seven races. It is especially gratifying as this is something of a second home race for us, with many of our major sponsors here to watch us perform well come the end of what has been a tough weekend."
WilliamsPastor Maldonado - 5th
"We missed the opportunity to finish on the podium today after we lost the use of KERS following the first safety car period. For sure there was more in the car. The pace was good and at the beginning I was closing the gap to Kimi but we still collected some good points today and it was a great race. I feel very motivated within the team. We now need to keep the car at the top and I am looking forward to the last two races."
Bruno Senna - 8th
"It was a very tough weekend but it had a sweet taste in the end. I had a good start getting myself into a good position for Turn 1 but then a few cars tangled ahead and hit me. I had to start from zero again but I kept my cool. There was a lot going on but we had good pace when we needed it and scored some solid points for the team. It is what we are here for and we never give up. There is a good energy and feeling now going into the final two races in Austin and Brazil."
Mark Gillan, chief operations engineer
"Whilst we are very pleased to have brought both cars home in the points we know we could have had an even better result. Pastor lost KERS in the race which left him open to attack from the chasing pack. He kept focused and pushed hard to keep the gap from Kobayashi finishing in a hard earned fifth. Bruno also did well, following heavy contact from Hulkenberg. He also fought his way through the pack to end in eighth, with both drivers collecting a total of 14 valuable points for the team. We now go to Austin looking to capitalise on our continuing improved performance."


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Marie Curie was a wife, a mother, a scientist, and a self-sacrificing, public-spirited patriot. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the only person in history to be awarded Nobel Prizes in two scientific fields. It really goes without saying that the woman was a badass of the highest order, but sometimes, it pays to say it anyway — and what better way to do that than with finger puppets?
In this installment of SciShow, Hank Green gives us a cheeky (albeit thorough and compelling) account of the life and times of one of history's most remarkable scientists. [SciShow via Skepchick]


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In the rush-to-tomorrow generation we now live in, Wednesday brought a ponder-and-cherish-yesterday respite.
The presence of Steve Fisher as the appropriate keynoter of that was rich with coincidence and time-healing.
When Fisher took his turn to speak at the annual Los Angeles Athletic Club preseason luncheon for Southern California's major college basketball coaches — from San Luis Obispo to San Diego — he was one of the old hands. This will be his 14th season as San Diego State's coach. At 67, he has not only found happiness and job security, but life perspective.
Several coaches sent assistants instead of themselves. On each table was a picture of the reason they should never do that, barring emergency. The photo was of the late John Wooden, godfather of college basketball, certainly of Southern California college basketball. This luncheon is a tipoff to a season that will end with an award given, in Wooden's name, to the nation's top player.
Bob Williams of UC Santa Barbara, also a veteran of this event, took a nice jab at his no-show colleagues.
"My assistant coaches send their regrets that they couldn't be here today," Williams said.
UCLA's Ben Howland and USC's Kevin O'Neill also gave proper nods to Wooden. But it was Fisher, with a fascinating back story and reason to do less than embrace the college basketball world in which he has existed much of his adult life, who was especially passionate about the luncheon's significance.


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Joe Flaccos football camp cancelled
Posted by Darin Gantt on July 6, 2012, 9:36 AM EDT
The next two weeks are the last chance for anyone involved in the NFL to squeeze in any vacation, before the long grind of the season begins.
Ravens quarterback Joe Flaccos going to have a little extra time off.
The Joe Flacco Passing Academy, which was originally scheduled for today and tomorrow, has been cancelled according to Ravens officials.
They cited unresolved student-athlete compliance and NFL guideline details, according to Aaron Wilson of the Carroll County Times.
Flacco was going to be there, along with backup Tyrod Taylor, offensive coordinator Cam Cameron and quarterbacks coach Jim Caldwell. Now, theyll all have the weekend off, giving Flacco the chance to rest what could be the strongest arm in the league.


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Staring in a reality TV show seems liked a good idea to seventeen year old Claire. It means an apartment in New York, a starring role in a Broadway hit opposite this year's teen idol, and the chance of getting to know a sister she's only just discovered she has. Once the cameras start to role, however, she realizes that reality on TV is nothing like real life...though which one is the more complicated, takes her a while to figure out....


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redsfaithful needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 105 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
Looking for a logo for starsareblind.com, a website centered around celebrity gossip, fashion, and pop culture.
Stars Are Blind
Stars are Blind is a pretty standard pop culture / celebrity gossip site. Logo should reflect the audience and subject matter, i.e. not too serious, playful, happy.
- Should fit in this theme header: http://diythemes.com/thesis/
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- Focus on the word "star", as in heavenly body star.
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Griffin RoadDock straps Sony PSP to car seat
Make car journeys like long-haul flights
Want to give your kids and other car passengers that airline TV-in-the-back-of-the-seat experience on long journeys? Thanks to Griffin Technology, you'll soon be able to do just that. The company will next month ship RoadDock, a rig for attaching a Sony PlayStation Portable to the back of a car seat.
The $39 accessory provides a 2in-wide elasticated band to strap the dock to the seat. Fitted to the strap is a docking unit for the PSP that allows the handheld console to be rotated through 360° and tilted for the best view.
Alas, the unit doesn't appear to include a power connector - though you probably don't want wires strewn about the cabin - so you're still reliant on the PSP's battery to keep the wee ones distracted through the journey.
The RoadDock is set to ship next month, but Griffin is already taking orders at its website. ®


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Rogge Lecturer: Democracy A Tough Sellby Howard W. Hewitt • September 28, 2007 Share:
Michael Mandelbaum, a leading authority on international affairs believes Russia, China and the Arab world are areas where democracy could grow. But the Director of the American Foreign Policy Program at Johns Hopkins University thinks the Arab world and Iraq present the biggest challenges.
Mandelbaum delivered the 2007 Benjamin A. Rogge Memorial Lecture Friday night. The noted political scientist and author titled his speech same as his current book, Democracy's Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World's Most Popular Form of Government.
"The prospects are distinctly poor for a number of reasons in the Arab world," Mandelbaum said. He cited historical, cultural, and religious reasons as why Arab countries are poor choices for democracy. "And there is a distrust and history of anti-western sentiment."
He said in picking Iraq the U.S. eliminated obstacles to democracy ousting dictator Saddam Hussein, but otherwise didn't choose an easy target. He added that when countries have such strong ethnic, natural and religious reasons plus the distrust of the west, it's unusual to have any form of government. Instead, he suggested, they have civil war. He cited not just Iraq but similar scenarios in Bosnia and Kosovo.
Democracy can be imported but not exported, Mandelbaum suggested. "I think the United States government now would settle for stability (in Iraq), for them to quit shooting their neighbors, and not be a host for terrorism."
The only other option is to occupy Iraq similar to what the British did in India while building institutions. "And that's just not politically feasible," he said.
Conversely, he holds hope that Russia and China could one day be democracies. He doesn't believe Russian President Vladimir Putin's hard-line policies will have a long term impact. With an improving free market economy and growing middle class, democracy is likely to grow.
China is a more interesting case provoking the adage of irresistible force versus the immovable object, Mandelbaum said. The irresistible force is the country's economic growth versus its communist form of government.
Mandelbaum spent the first half of his lecture talking about democracy and its two primary components, as he's found in his research. He described sovereignty or free elections and liberty or freedom as the two most important attributes.
While free elections might be made possible through changing the form of government, liberty doesn't come as easily. "Liberty has to be homegrown," he said. "It has to be adopted. Democracy is not like a pizza – it can't be ordered elsewhere and delivered."
He said his look at history indicates it takes at least a full generation to establish liberty.
Free elections are no guarantee of democracy. Mandelbaum used Hamas' victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections as an example. But Hamas "certainly doesn't favor liberty when it comes to religion."
Despite the struggles of exporting democracy, Mandelbaum noted its growth. In 1900 there were 10 democracies in the world, 30 such forms of government in 1950 and in 2005 there were 119 democracies.
The new democracies of the last century elected to build such forms of government, he suggested, because democracies won the world wars and had the strongest economies.
"The United States has promoted democracies by being an example – which is exactly what the founding fathers had in mind."


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Karen Kelley, a canine behavioral consultant, to teach locals
Karen Kelley, a canine behavioral consultant, will be at the Stuttgart Animal Shelter Monday, May 6, at 6 p.m. to assist dog owners with a variety of services in order to provide a unique balance for them and their dogs.
Balance through understanding is what Kelley teaches dog owners, meaning that by understanding their dogs people are better able to find balance both in themselves and in their relationship with their dogs.
"My approach is based in the belief that no dog is born with issues, therefore I believe that with a committed owner a dog can overcome most issues," she said. "While some dog owners do struggle with problematic behaviors in their dogs, other dog owners may simply want their dog to have a little extra interaction while they are at work. I am here to provide all dog owners with options for their dogs."
As a dog owner she realizes that everyone cannot afford to have a professional behaviorist come to their home, therefore she is offering a dog behavior workshop at the Stuttgart City Shelter.
"I have created this seminar to reach out to dedicated dog owners, rescues and pet foster parents in the community in an effort to provide a basic understanding of our dogs and why they do what they do," Kelley said.
The seminar will cover such topics as:
• How to be the leader your dog needs
• How dogs really think
• How to best communicate with your dog
• What influences your dog's behavior
• How to live happily in a multi dog household
• And how to deal with problematic behaviors
There will be a special demonstration by Kelley using her dog Sammy.
The seminar price is $45 per person. Those interested can pre-register by calling (501) 297-2346 or visit www.alphadogk9consultants.com or contact Paw Pals of the Stuttgart Shelter.


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By Chris Moore
Winching in North Atlanta was something to be laughed about in the past. It's almost been a curse for most locals. And its not even the fact that the police are ridiculous here, its the lack of usable terrain. Lately that has been changing for us. At this point if I am winching you can guarantee Russell Brightwell is involved. He is the one behind most of the locations being revealed, including this one. This spot was actually one of his and Edgar Perez's hangouts from when they were kids. One of those things that just pops in your head, "dude, remember that place we used to hide out at? Let's hit that".
This particular day the crew was Russell, Edgar, Vinny Knapp, my brother Blake Moore and myself. We ventured out to this "dock" Russell had sent me a few hardly justifying pics of. I expected the dock to be maybe 30 feet long with an again maybe 2-foot ollie. Nope. The dock itself is about 60 feet long with an ollie a little under waist high. The only modification to anything we had to make was cutting down the bushes at the end of the dock. Vinny and I plowed through them a couple times before cutting them down completely, although Vinny got the worst of it going first. The whole dock was trexs so it slide perfect except for some sand runoff from the floods.
We went back a few days after when the water had risen a little and built an incline rail. Russell hit it 3 times before two ladies from the neighborhood association came down checking on the flood damage and asked us not to swim in the water, very cool about everything though. They were more worried about us getting sick in the water then the fact we were shredding their dock. Unfortunately for the nice ladies they told us they never go back there and it was a pure coincidence we ran into them. Overall the location was sick and we will be back.
You look like a blow fish! Chris great work… We are all proud of you! Wish you would come back to the NW where we call your HOME… Loves from Oregon…


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In an effort to expand the Maryland Educational Solar Array (MESA), Project Director and ECE staff member Bryan Quinn, applied for a Sustainability Fund grant in 2011-2012. His proposed lab, The Sustainable Energy Teaching Initiatives Lab (SETIL) was awarded a $12,500 grant to develop wind-based power generation. The grant will allow Quinn to add two vertical axis wind turbines to the existing MESA lab. The facility's goal is to provide students with hands-on experience in the design and use of alternative energy generation and utilization.
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Barney and Betty Rubble go to the Grand Canyon and send a postcard back to Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Fred and Wilma aren't too impressed by the canyon but think the notion of a 'postcard' is a pretty neat idea. (I read this in a poem long ago. Unfortunately I can't find the source. Send me a postcard if you know.)
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Join me, if you will, in shedding a tear for the plight of Big Oil, which earned so much money in 2004 — the 10 largest companies had sales of more than $1 trillion, with profits of more than $100 billion — that they can't find enough places to invest it.
So, some are disposing of part of it in the form of dividends to their shareholders and in buybacks of their stock (it goes without saying that company moguls will reap handsome bonuses).
The figures are staggering, even for a business accustomed to big numbers.
While you've been paying through the nose for diesel to run your tractors, combines, cotton pickers, and irrigation pumps, British Petroleum, Europe's largest oil company, was racking up a profit of $16.2 billion. Exxon Mobil earned $25 billion-plus. Royal Dutch-Shell reported record profits, as did state oil companies in Australia, Norway, Canada, and Venezuela, the latter up 88 percent over 2003.
Amid charges that the profits were "obscene" and that the companies aren't investing enough in exploration and infrastructure, oil industry leaders defended their jackpot by lamenting that the easy oil has already been found and it's harder and more costly to find new supplies.
Interestingly, in their zeal to justify their profits, not one announcement was made about spending some of the windfall on alleviating one of the major shortcomings of the industry — inadequate refining capacity.
Not since 1976, almost 40 years ago, has a major new refining facility been built in the United States. That ain't all: As best anyone can tell, no new refineries are on the drawing board in this country. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
In 1980, there were over 300 refineries in the United States; at the start of 2004, that number had dropped more than 50 percent to 149. In most cases, the companies said, the closed facilities weren't profitable.
Which wasn't the case for 2004, when profits from refining and marketing operations were a significant part of the overall gains by the major companies.
Because U.S. refining capacity is woefully inadequate to meet demand that has skyrocketed with the mass exodus out of passenger cars into SUVs over the last decade, gas imported from offshore refineries has increased from just 4 percent 10 years ago to nearly 10 percent now.
Even if a company wanted to put up a multi-billion dollar refinery somewhere in the United States, it would face an environmental/legal/regulatory quagmire that would add millions to the cost and years in delays. "Not in my backyard" is the outcry from a public less than enthusiastic about a host of potential problems, from pollution to terrorism.
Companies have spent billions in upgrading their equipment to comply with environmental regulations and have minimally increased output at existing facilities.
But, regulatory and public obstacles aside, they are less than aggressive in pushing for new refineries for another very good reason: money. When supplies are tight and prices high, they make a lot more money from the limited number of facilities they have.
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|View from my parents front yard Christmas Eve. Spectacular.
Well here we are, the day after Christmas. Aftermath. Here. Now.
The button popped off my jeans when I crouched over the other day. That would be one too many Christmas cookies. One too many glasses of wine.
I went with J for a bike ride this afternoon, I was silent because of this deep yet shallow breathing/gasping for breath I was doing. I was sore from an hour and half bike ride. Frustrated as I was I reminded myself that I will just see drastic improvement from here on out. I told J thanks for sticking with me on the ride, he told me to tell him that in 50 years.
Here is a nice perspective from a woman who feels close but is far away. We are here now. here. now.
This is what I want to give to people for New Year's. No really it is what I want for New Year's.
Pretty sure my Dad makes the best apple pie, Mom peeled the apples. He also made black berry and a peanut butter pie for our Christmas Eve celebration. And pork ribs, which I learned how to make including his special sauce that he has been using since I was teenager.
Photos of food that I can get lost in for hours.
The other day I heard Dr. Andrew Weil discuss his new book, Spontaneous Happiness, where he talked about how inner contentment can lift depression:
"I was very surprised in writing this to discover how much scientific evidence we have for the power of gratitude to improve mood. There's two aspects to this. It's feeling grateful and expressing it. And the good thing here, there's nothing in the way of doing it. All you have to do is remember to do it. You know, forgiveness also has great power, but that's tricky. There's a whole lot in the way of being forgiving.
But there's nothing in the way of expressing gratitude. There's a simple exercise from positive psychology called keeping a gratitude journal. You get a little notebook, keep it by your bed; during the day, make mental notes of things you have to be grateful for, jot them down when you go to bed. Doing that for one week can cause improvement of mood for up to six months. And that's pretty dramatic."


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This article from the Greenfield, Massachusetts, Recorder reports the impact of Russian atomic testing on Japan. A member of the Japanese Diet, or Parliament, reports that "radioactive ash" from a Russian blast in Siberia had fallen on the country. Japan was (and is) the only country to experience atomic attack, having been bombed twice by nuclear weapons at the end of the Second World War. Atomic tests in the Pacific region caused great concern in Japan. An American test in Pacific on March 1, 1954 caused radiation burns to Japanese fisherman. Relatively little was known in the early 1950s about the indirect impacts of nuclear testing, particularly so-called "nuclear fallout."
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September 22, 2010
Freshman golfer Seth Hensley scored a hole in one Sunday in the final round of the Anderson Invitational.
Hensley's drive on the 140-yard, par-three seventh hole at the Anderson Country Club settled into the cup for an ace. He was playing in his first collegiate tournament.
Sam Russell '10 carded the last hole in one by a Wabash golfer. Russell made an ace in the final round of the 2009 DePauw Small College Golf Tournament at the Deer Creek Golf Club.
Hensley (above left) went on to shoot an 86 for the round, giving him a two-day total of 171.
Senior Luke Moton led the Little Giant team, shooting a 152 for the event. Moton shot a 73 on the final day after scoring a 79 on day one. Charlie Kelly finished with a 159 (75-84), while Jordan Koch fired a 165 (85-80). Jake German completed the team scoring with a 168 (87-81).
Wabash finished 11th out of 13 teams with a total of 642 strokes.
The Little Giants return to action this weekend, playing in the Franklin Invitational on Saturday and Sunday.


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Documentary Won 2013 Sundance Editing Award
In 1961, Clarence Earl Gideon was arrested for stealing soda and a few dollars from a pool hall. Unable to afford an attorney, he was convicted after representing himself at trial. Gideon appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court, which ruled unanimously that the right to counsel in a criminal case is fundamental to the American system of justice.
More than 12 million people are arrested in the United States each year. Fifty years after the landmark Gideon v. Wainwright case, most of them will be represented by one of the United States' 15,000 public defenders.
Directed by attorney Dawn Porter and winner of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival Editing Award for U.S. Documentary Competition, GIDEON'S ARMY follows a group of idealistic young public defenders in the Deep South, where lawyers face particularly difficult challenges due to high bonds, minimum mandatory sentencing and a culture that is traditionally "tough on crime." The thought-provoking film debuts MONDAY, JULY 1 (9:00-10:45 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.
Other HBO playdates: July 1 (5:20 a.m.), 7 (1:05 p.m.), 9 (4:00 p.m., 12:15 a.m.), 13 (9:45 a.m.) and 19 (8:15 a.m.)
HBO2 playdate: July 3 (11:15 a.m., 8:00 p.m.)
HBO Documentary Films presents another weekly series this summer, debuting provocative new specials every Monday through August 12. Other July films include: "Gasland Part II" (July 8); "The Crash Reel" (July 15); "The Cheshire Murders" (July 24); and "First Comes Love" (July 29).
Brandy Alexander, Travis Williams and June Hardwick have dedicated themselves to defending those who otherwise would not receive representation, contending with a day-to-day life of low pay, long hours and staggering caseloads. Despite these obstacles, with the help of the Southern Public Defender Training Center (SPDTC), these young professionals are inspired to take on this unique challenge in the name of public service.
Travis Williams is a Gainesville, Ga. lawyer whose client, Branden Lee Mullin, has been accused of armed robbery and faces a minimum of ten years to a maximum of life in prison. Brandy Alexander has served as a public defender in both Georgia and Florida and is preparing to go to trial on behalf of her client, Demontes Regary Wright, a young man also charged with armed robbery.
The demands on these public defenders can be overwhelming: The average caseload for a public defender in Miami Dade County, Fla. is 500 felonies and 225 misdemeanors. Not surprisingly, many public defender offices across the nation have an incredibly high turnover rate. The pace is exhausting, and the legal wrangling intense, but these young public defenders persevere. Knowing the stakes are high - and their clients' lives will be deeply affected by what they do, or fail to do - they push themselves to the limit over and over again.
Does their work have to be this difficult? Experts cite the nation's approach to criminal justice to explain the dire state of indigent defense. In many southern states, bonds for misdemeanor crimes are exorbitantly high, as much as $40,000 for misdemeanor crimes like shoplifting, which most defendants cannot afford. This leads to a high rate of pretrial detention for indigent clients, with many serving months or even years in prison without a trial. Another factor is the rate of plea bargaining intended simply to end pretrial detention. Notes Brett Willis, a senior public defender featured in the film, "The reality is 90% or 95% of the people who get charged with something plead guilty...because the system is designed to force them to plead guilty and it punishes their failure to comply."
In addition to lengthy prison sentences, clients found guilty can face severe civil sanctions, which can result in such extreme punishments as: losing eligibility for public benefits, such as federal student loans; losing the ability to live in public housing with one's family; losing the right to vote; and, in some regions, losing the right to hold a driver's license, which can be a severe obstacle to finding post-incarceration employment.
Along with the perilous circumstances facing the accused, public defenders typically face a multitude of trying professional and personal circumstances, for which no amount of training can prepare them. Notes Travis Williams, "I have huge student loan debt. After I pay my student loans and my rent, all I have left is probably $300 a month to pay extra bills like gas and the car, all that kind of stuff, groceries. But I don't see how you can do this work for any period of time and not begin to love it. If you don't, then it'll just drive you insane."
These committed attorneys are backed by mentor Jonathan Rapping,the dynamic leader of the Atlanta-based Southern Public Defender Training Center (SPDTC), designed to fill a void in the training currently available to young public defenders. The center offers a comprehensive curriculum designed specifically for public defenders and geared toward the improvement of indigent defense representation and raising the standard of practice in jurisdictions nationwide. The group often provides emotional support, in addition to practical instruction, as the young public defenders talk about their work and empathize over similar situations.
As Rapping states in one of their seminars, "This will be a battle that will be won, and your children will look back on this struggle to save people from this unjust, cruel, inhumane criminal justice system. And you all will be the foot soldiers, you will be the ones who brought that about."
The U.S. incarcerates more citizens annually than any other industrialized nation. At the beginning of 2008, 2.3 million Americans were behind bars, followed by China with 1.5 million. Director Dawn Porter explains, "Americans are fascinated with crime, and yet few know the truth about how the criminal justice system really works. GIDEON'S ARMY presents a rare true look at the criminal justice system from the vantage point of the accused. I wanted to be sure the inspiring, challenging nature of the work these public defenders do, which involves a tremendous amount of personal sacrifice in service to our constitutional rights, was given the attention it deserved."
The film is produced in association with the Ford Foundation.
For more information on the documentary, visit: Facebook: facebook.com/hbodocs; and Twitter: @HBODocs #GideonsArmy.
GIDEON'S ARMY is directed and produced by Dawn Porter; producer, Julie Goldman; editor, Matthew Hamachek; co-producer, Summer Damon; original music, Paul Brill. For HBO: senior producers, Nancy Abraham and Jacqueline Glover; executive producer, Sheila Nevins.


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