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Patricia Lynn Hough faces a potential sentence of five years in prison
An Englewood doctor was convicted this week of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service by concealing millions of dollars in assets and income in offshore bank accounts and of filing false income tax returns.
Patricia Lynn Hough faces a potential sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for a conspiracy count and three years and a $250,000 fine for filing false returns. Hough used money from the offshore accounts to buy homes in Sarasota and North Carolina and an airplane.
She owned two Caribbean-based medical schools — The Saba University School of Medicine in Saba, Netherlands Antilles, and The Medical University of the Americas in Nevis, West Indies.
Federal prosecutors accused Hough of conspiring to defraud the IRS along with her husband David Fredrick, also a doctor, by creating a foundation and other entities to hold the money in accounts at UBS and other foreign banks. The move was an effort to "conceal assets and income from the IRS," the Department of Justice said.
The couple sold both schools and associated real estate in April 2007 for more than $35 million, "all of which was deposited into undeclared accounts in the name of the nominee entities," the Justice Department said.
"The majority of the sale proceeds were not reported to the IRS on their tax returns and no tax was paid," the agency said.
Fredrick also transferred more than $1 million to his relatives, the agency previously reported.
"Dr. Hough's financial transactions were nothing more than a shell game to hide her income," said Richard Weber, chief of the IRS-Criminal Investigation. "Her earned income was placed into foreign bank accounts to advance her tax fraud."
U.S. District Court Judge John Steele scheduled Hough's sentencing for Feb. 10.


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Well, there goes another year.
The first part of the year found me building my second Class-E transmitter, and forming schemes of transmitters to come.
2008 I hope to build more of these lil' buggers..
Hopefully, I will be able to get at least a 100 watt rig on 10 meters by year's end.
The sunspot cycle will be in our favor soon for lots of cool propagation, and I want to be ready for that.
(At the rate I've been getting things done lately, I have to start now!!)
I got my ticket in 1997, which was pretty much the peak of the last cycle, and I managed to work several VK's on 10m AM with only my Rat Shack HTX-10....
That was some COOL DX !! Especially for me being so new to the hobby!
Looking forward to a great year of building.....
Hope you all have a great new year!!

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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify SEVEN things on TV to watch while you stay at home and make caramel apples, then eat all the caramel off the outside of the apple without touching the actual fruit part. LET'S GO!
DANCING WITH THE STARS – 8:00PM (ABC) Holy underwear, it's premiere night. Never thought I'd live to see the day. Tonight, there's new programming across all four majors networks all night long, starting with the return of ABC's hit reality competition. Your new contestants this go around are The Situation, Audrina Patridge and Audrina Patridge's implants, The Hoff, Carol Brady, former Super Bowl MVP Kurt Warner and Bristol Palin. ANTICIPATION: DANCEY!
HOUSE – 8:00PM (FOX) The season premiere features House and Cuddy as an official item, which is either going to give this series a shot of energy, or drag it down to the core of the Earth. The latter might be a wise bet. Careful what you wish for, Huddymaniacs. Not sure you really want to see these two get all huddly with one another. ANTICIPATION: HUDDINESS!
THE EVENT – 9:00PM (NBC), CHASE – 10:00PM (NBC) Every new NBC series this fall sounds like it was conceived in a brainstorming meeting between six executives and an intern. "People like event television, LET'S CALL ONE SHOW THE EVENT! And what about chases? People like those, right? Let's have a show called CHASE!" Of course, I kid NBC because I love it. "The Event" is going to be a big serialized drama that requires a bit of a commitment on your part, but at least someone is still trying to carry the "Lost" torch. Also, the grumpy lady with crutches from "ER" is on this show, only she can walk now. It's a miracle! And "Chase" features an attractive US marshal hunting down fugitives. She's just like Tommy Lee Jones, except I don't want to kiss Tommy Lee Jones. ANTICIPATION: EVENTY!
LONE STAR – 9:00PM (FOX) FOX's new soap is a drama about a dude who has two identities and two really smoking hot ladies he's juggling. I was stuck on a delayed JetBlue flight a couple weeks ago and all the empty seats showed a preview of this on their TV screens. I was not impressed. Though there was some full backal nudity, which goes a long way in my book. ANTICIPATION: TEXAN!
MIKE & MOLLY – 9:30PM (CBS) "Two & A Half Men" creator Chuck Lorre unveils this new sitcom about two fat cops who meet cute at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting. Will there be fat jokes? Oh, there will be fat jokes. ANTICIPATION: DONUTS!
HAWAII FIVE-O – 10:00PM (CBS) Of all the new shows out there, you'll be stunned to learn that this reboot is among many critics' favorites. Perhaps they have a dormant childhood adoration of Jack Lord. Anyway, CBS has taken that old hit, kept the theme song, added more gunplay, and given it a hot cast. Wise moves all around. And Scott Caan is here to make you larf. CAAAAAAAAN! ANTICIPATION: ALOHA, BEEYOTCH!
Monday Watch List: The Fall TV Season Officially Begins
Welcome to Watch List, where we identify SEVEN things on TV to watch while you stay at home and make caramel apples, then eat all the caramel off the outside of the apple without touching the actual fruit part. LET'S GO!


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I'm fairly sure most (all) of us feel parent/child incest is wrong, and for fairly obvious reasons.
However, if a brother and sister are very careful about pregnancy prevention or, better, one or both of them is unable to conceive, what would be wrong with it?
BTW, I'm NOT trying to decide whether to do it with my sister (LOL). This is just a question that came to mind while in a discussion with another person.
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I just don't think sibling rivalry necessarily introduces so much power that it's substantially different than any other sort of sexual relationship. There is almost always a dominant partner in any relationship, sexual or otherwise. If we're talking about siblings near in age, or both being grown up. I don't get the problem at all.
The parent has a custodial duty to a child that isn't there between siblings, and which a sexual interest would interfere with.
I assume you're grown up (if not, you should be obeying what you assume your parents' views would be). If you're looking for a rule between a grown up and her 13 year older brother, you don't need a rule, you just need to know whether you feel you can trust him.
Marriages are the same way. There is usually someone in a more dominant position. But some people like being dominated and some like dominating so how could one call this unhealthy?
Conversely, how could one call this always healthy for kids? I don't understand why kids keep getting excluded from this topic, by supposing that their situation is somehow equivalent to adult situations.
I missed it. WHO is calling it always healthy for kids? I can't think of anyone, can you?
WHO is calling it always healthy for kids?
THANK you for that honest statement! I could be wrong, but I imagine it felt like a difficult concession. It just seems like you're framing the debate around the assumption that somehow when kids say they "consent", it's just as credible and meaningful as when adults say it, so let's not talk about when it can go wrong.
I ask again WHO is calling it always healthy for kids to be in an incestuous relationship with a sibling. Was it me? When and where?
"Always" is a qualifier I generally shy away from.
OK, no one is calling it "always healthy" for kids. My point was an exaggeration, to counter what I think is another absurd assumption or proposition being made here by more than a couple of people, which is that somehow "consentual incest" between kids is as credible and valid as it is in adults.
For the third time, I would ask you, what is your definition of "consent" among kids? One of your non-answers was to ask me if I'm recommending a kind of department of oversight to determine such things, and that kind of non-answer is just as absurd as me implying that someone here said "it's always healthy for kids".
But I'm not even really asking you to define "consent" among kids. I'm just trying to point out that the determination of what is genuine or valid "consent" among kids is not easy to define, and is therefore a higher risk area than it would be for adults. Can you at least concede that it's more difficult to define "consent" in the context of pre-adults, and therefore incest among kids has its own, separate risk factor from adult incest?
Good question. I can't think of any reason to oppose it, as long as no offspring are produced. Gay and lesbian people who love each other are finally being accepted on the basis of their mutual love. Why not brothers and sisters, most of whom do, in fact, love each other?
From a purely logical, scientific perspective, I don't see anything wrong with it. But given that we evolved as emotional creatures (like most mammals and unlike robots), I wouldn't ignore possible emotional costs just for the sake of science and logic. I have to admit that I don't know enough about reasonable studies (if they even exist) to declare outright that there is never an extra emotional risk to kids.
Males are typically more dominant than females, leading automatically to an imbalance of power. Could you concede this as a possibility, especially if the male is significantly older? Would you draw any line at all wrt age of consent, especially for the female, or do you just automatically declare equality in such an emotional relationship? (Bringing abusive or imbalanced non-incestual relationships into this argument only highlights what the universal risks are, imho.)
So it largely depends on each situation; but that doesn't mean that reasonable studies should be avoided, or statistical generalizations aren't possible. And any taboo that remains difficult to discuss without prejudice is apt to be emotionally damaging just because of how (culturally) unresolvable it is. Perhaps someday someone will write a book about how incest affected themselves or other couples positively? Any recommendations?
I think the emotional argument is pretty good. Emotions tend to come along with sex. Two unrelated people can more easily put distance between themselves than close relatives.
At the same time, I suspect that more of this sort of incest goes on while people are in their formative years than we might suspect.
I think YOU need to explain how competing for parents' affection COULD fit into a sexual relationship between siblings, especially grown up ones (if you read the original post again, you'll see it didn't dwell on underage siblings). How do you see this rivalry for parents approval working "I want to score with my brother/sister so that I can get a pat on my head from mom & dad?" That's pretty silly, but that seems to be along the lines of what you are asserting.
Once again, your other objections would seem to apply to any relationship. You don't have to be having sex with a sibling for bonding to occur.
As to why they might be attracted to each other, it might be for the same reasons any two people are so attracted.
But in the end, I flatly object to your sibling rivalry argument as a factor sufficiently significant as to make it a taboo.
I do think there are reasons why it's a bad idea, but for me sibling rivalry doesn't even factor in. Normal couples can experience rivalry as well. For example, if both want to be the primary breadwinner.
I can feel your intensity on the matter. Your argument based on sibling rivalry just strikes me as weak since rivalry can rear its head in non-incestuous relationships as well, and often do. Also, believe it or not, there are families where siblings don't feel much rivalry, perhaps simply because their parents don't play favorites.
Some cultures encouraged in the past is my understanding. I'm not able to cite examples at this time without further research, but issues of consanguinity are largely a cultural issue. It's a frame of reference thing and therefore of subjective impropriety, even parent/child incest. And last I found myself discussing the issue with someone knowledgeable even the issue of birth defects is not as severe as it's often commonly reported. Early humans were likely to have intercourse with close relatives as the available pool of candidates was fairly tiny. The only issue is the likelihood of passing on and perpetuating existing defects rather than creating new ones (look at the European noble families of years past). What is wrong with it? Absolutely nothing inherently with it. It's an unpleasant idea for our culture and a strong taboo, but so is nudity, cannibalism, pedophilia, etc. They represent irrational fears that are strongly indoctrinated into our culture. Absolute morality is a theistic concept. There are things that are repugnant to us as a social species but that is just instinct to preserve our continuity as such. The only thing wrong with any of it depends on if you can accept going to jail, prison, or capital punishment. :D


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A comedian who once drove a New York City taxi is under fire for a video he posted online this week in which passengers were surprised by an albino Burmese python slithering in the back seat of a cab.
The city Taxi and Limousine Commission and PETA both blasted comic Jimmy Failla for the video, called "Snakes on a Cab," reports Gothamist. The video, released to promote Failla's new book, shows customers shrieking, running away and cursing when they see the 14-foot serpent in Failla's taxi.
TLC spokesman Allan Fromberg told Gothamist the agency is going to look into whether Failla, who still holds a valid taxi license, should have his privileges revoked.
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"This was monumentally poor judgment on the driver's part, and we are clearly going to actively question this person's suitability to continue holding a TLC license," Fromberg said.
A spokeswoman for PETA also came out against the video, telling Gothamist that the passengers' reactions to the snake were "extremely stressful" to the serpent.
Failla's publicist told Gothamist that a licensed handler was present for the video and made sure the snake was relaxed throughout the shoot.
"The snake was always held by the handler and neither the snake nor the passenger was in any danger," she said.
Failla is a former cabbie who uses his experiences driving a taxi in his standup routines.


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Cierre Wood and George Atkinson III gave Notre Dame its first 100-yard rushing duo in a decade, and Everett Golson came off the bench to lead the No. 9 Irish to a 41-3 victory over Miami on Saturday night in what was a very tame sequel to the famed "Catholics vs. Convicts" rivalry.
Wood rushed for 118 yards and two touchdowns, and Atkinson added 123 yards and another score. Golson, who sat the first series as punishment for violating team rules, completed his first six passes and finished 17 of 22 as Notre Dame improved to 5-0 for the first time since 2002.
The loss snapped a three-game winning streak for Miami, which was held to just 285 yards after piling up 1,260 yards and 86 points in its previous two games. The Hurricanes (4-2) were hurt by at least a half-dozen drops by their receivers, including two certain touchdowns by Phillip Dorsett on Miami's very first drive.
Miami's only points came on Jake Wieclaw's 28-yard field goal in the first quarter. The Hurricanes got to the Notre Dame 7 late in the fourth quarter only to turn the ball over on downs.
Notre Dame has yet to trail this year, the first Irish team to do so through the first five games since the 1947 that won a second straight national championship. Notre Dame has only allowed three touchdowns, none on the ground.
Back in the 1980s, Notre Dame-Miami was perhaps the nastiest, most hotly contested rivalry in college football. Most entertaining, too.
Both teams were ranked in the top 10 when they met in 1987, '88, '89 and '90, and from 1987 through 1989 the winner went on to win the national title. The teams didn't like each other, either, and made no secret of it. Police actually had to be called in to break up a pushing and shoving match as the teams were leaving the field after pregame warmups at Notre Dame Stadium in 1988.
In a video posted on Notre Dame's website, former Irish coach Lou Holtz said he urged his team to avoid any on-field incidents against Miami.
"After we win the game, if Miami wants to fight, fine, we'll meet 'em in the alley," Holtz, on the video, recalled saying to his team. "And if they do, you save Jimmy Johnson's (butt) for me."
The Irish stormed out of the locker room and beat Miami 31-30. Many still consider it the best home win in Notre Dame history, and it propelled the Irish to their eighth — and most recent — national title.
The teams played the next two years before the rivalry was discontinued, with Notre Dame officials feeling "it brought out the worst sides of fans." (Considering it was Notre Dame fans who came up with the "Catholics vs. Convicts" moniker, it's hard to argue with them.) It would be 20 years before the teams would meet again, in the 2010 Sun Bowl.
But that old chippiness was nowhere to be found at Soldier Field. Most of the Irish and Hurricanes weren't even born in 1988, and it's hard to nurse a grudge when the history is so ancient.
Hard when the game is such a mismatch, too.
Miami should have been up 7-0 after its first series, but Dorsett dropped two surefire touchdowns, the second going through his hands on the goal line. Instead of making the Irish play catch-up, the Hurricanes were forced to punt.
Then, after chasing Tommy Rees off the field in three plays, the Hurricanes gave them a second chance when Gabriel Terry was called for roughing the kicker. Golson replaced Rees and, six plays later rushed for what looked like a touchdown. He was ruled down at the 1 upon review, but Theo Riddick scored on the next play and Notre Dame was off and running.
After a missed field goal just before halftime left the Irish with a slim 13-3 lead, they broke the game open on the first series of the second half. Taking off from the Miami 39, Wood ripped off a long run up the right sideline that looked like it was good for a touchdown. But reviews showed he stepped out at the 2. No matter. He rumbled right up the middle on the next play to give Notre Dame a 20-3 lead with just under 12 minutes left in the third.
The Irish chewed up 86 yards, all on the ground, on their next drive, capping it with a 3-yard run by Wood. That gave Notre Dame a 27-3 lead, and the game was all but out of reach.


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Abstract:By the use of a state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamic (CFD) method to model nonlinear steady and unsteady transonic flows in conjunction with a linear structural model, an investigation is made into how nonlinear aerodynamics can effect the divergence, flutter, and limit-cycle oscillation (LCO) characteristics of a transonic airfoil configuration. A single-degree-of-freedom (DOF) model is studied for divergence, and one- and two-DOF models are studied for flutter and LCO. A harmonic balance method in conjunction with the CFD solver is used to determine the aerodynamics for finite amplitude unsteady excitations of a prescribed frequency. A procedure for determining the LCO solution is also presented. For the configuration investigated, nonlinear aerodynamic effects are found to produce a favorable transonic divergence trend and unstable and stable LCO solutions, respectively, for the one- and two-DOF flutter models.
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The Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci was one of the unlikely heroes of twentieth century. Though I object to his overly Stalinistic activism, he never waivered in his own intellectual explorations which make his letters and notebooks a testament to innovative political analysis and thought. During eleven years of incarceration by the Italian government he developed interesting critiques of power and hierarchy that make him much more than a simple Marxist. And he held on through his years of prison writing and though I don't always agree with him, his determination is a great inspiration. One of the things for which Gramsci is famous for is his often quoted dictum "I have pessimism of the intellect, but optimism of the will." I would love to say that I live up to this important tenet but I confess that I almost always fall short. Though, in my early years, I was even blessed with an optimism of the intellect, that faded sometime in my twenties, and I have maintained an optimism of the will whenever I have been able, I feel that my life has been a gradual deterioration of optimism, and I am struck by Nietzsche's words that honesty "leads to nausea and suicide." (Honesty, that is, with oneself about the terrible realities of our condition) Sometimes I am not sure how much longer I can hold it together and when I laugh it is only diabolically in the face of a certain hopelessness. Unfortunately, (again quoting Nietzsche) "there are no experiences other than moral ones" and the more one knows this the more clear it is that the centre will not hold. I long to be a cartoon character like Bugs Bunny, adequately cynical but irreverently full of my own sense of pleasure. But if I am a cartoon character I can only be Ignatz the mouse in George Herriman's Krazy Kat, senselessly throwing bricks in a surreal world that I cannot understand.
Poor pale pitiable form
That I follow in a storm
Iron tears & groans of lead
Bind around my akeing head
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Mock on Mock on! tis all in vain!
You throw the sand against the wind
And the wind blows it back again
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I am no more than the Ghost of a Flea. Good luck to all.


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In the toughest fight of his career to date, Xtreme Couture MMA fighter Ryan Couture (3-1 MMA, 3-1 SF) got a visceral taste of Eddie Bravo's grappling system three years ago as an amateur.
Couture's next opponent, Conor Heun (9-4 MMA, 1-2 SF), is one of Bravo's prized students and should be an even bigger threat on the mat.
But the Strikeforce welterweight is nothing like he was in his early days and looks forward to testing his skills against his more experienced opponent.
Couture and Heun meet on the preliminary card of "Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey," which takes place Saturday at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. The fight airs live on Showtime Extreme while main-card bouts air on Showtime.
"He's somebody I've had a lot of respect for for a long time," Couture said of Heun. "He shows up to fight every time; he's as tough as they come. It's a good step for me and a good opportunity to prove that I belong in Strikeforce.'"
Couture did just that in his most recent performance, which came after the first professional loss of his career. Three months after Matt Ricehouse outpointed him at Strikeforce Challengers 16, he defeated Maka Watson at Strikeforce Challengers 19, which halted a further slide.
No stranger to the submission game, Couture has forced a tap from seven of his 11 amateur and professional opponents.
Heun, however, represents a steep upswing in competition for the 29-year-old son of UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture. Despite his championship pedigree, Ryan Couture has built up his resume against competitors with a comparable number of fights. Heun, who's a black belt under Bravo, not only has more fights on his resume but more high-profile appearances and high-profile opponents.
Add to that a preternaturally tough disposition in the cage – in his most recent fight, Heun's arm was gruesomely twisted by submission artist Mango Almeida, but he refused to tap – and you have a challenge that many might say is premature.
Heun also hasn't been shy about his desire to "destroy" Couture in competition. The laid-back Couture hasn't paid too much attention to his opponent's public musings, though he did catch one interview.
"He was pretty much what I expected of him," Couture said. "He's real intense, and I know what his approach is to the game. So I'm looking forward to getting in the cage and seeing what it's like face to face."
Three years ago, Couture was choked out at the conclusion of a second round in a fight with Bravo student Sean Bollinger at a Tuff-N-Uff event in Las Vegas. He somehow rebounded and fought his way to a draw, but the experience taught him a valuable lesson in letting his guard down.
But it also may come in handy against Heun.
"I think that experience gave me some insight into their system and how they're going to try and play me if I do end up in Connor's guard," Couture said. "I feel like I have a little better idea of what to expect.
"But you can't take too much from that. Connor is a completely different fighter than Shawn is, and I'm a completely different fighter than I was three years ago."
Thus far, Couture said he's been winging it when it comes to his long-term career aspirations. A deep love for the sport has kept him in the game long enough to dispel notions that he's piggybacking off his father's success. Now it's about how he continues to evolve and how far he can go.
After his radio appearance, Couture was off to practice to rehearse scenarios he might encounter in the fight. It's a sure bet that training partners locked him up in Bravo's rubber guard.
That may not be what he encounters, but it's best to be prepared, anyway.
When he steps into Nationwide Arena, it will be almost three years to the day since his father Randy Couture beat Tim Sylvia to recapture the heavyweight title at UFC 68. Back then, the younger Couture was just having his first grappling match with the challenges inherent to the sport. On Saturday, he'll enter the cage a far more seasoned competitor.
But make no mistake about it – this challenge may be his toughest.
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"We decided to scrap the old RPG since it was drifting to far from what makes it unique, Lego!"
Ah, I see now.
I think getting rid of the old roleplay is a good plan, last I looked in there things were getting really crazy.
"..we started up a new RPG using a map made by Formendacil. The new RPG uses official Lego castle factions, from the Classic Castle factions, all the way up to the new Castle 07 factions."
Sounds excellent, I signed myself up a character earlier, and should be contributing soon!
I love the idea of there being a map to begin with (I also just love the map in general-very nice!), the last two roleplays lacked a good base like that, and got pretty confusing.
Had nothing to do today, so I decided to play around with Paint.Net. Not sure if this would be useful 'round here or not, but I had fun with it: 'Link'
Credit goes to Formendacil of course, for creating this brilliant map.
I like the idea of putting a picture in the RP, though I do think it should be something that is done sparingly, we wouldn't want a bunch of pictures in one post, and should have to keep them at a fairly small size.
I'm sure we would some some beautiful MOCs turn out this way, and it may even bring more people into the gaming forum to either read, or participate in the Roleplay.


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Toronto Argonauts sign slotback Chad Owens, centre Jeff Keeping to contract extensions
TORONTO — The Toronto Argonauts have extended the contracts of international slotback/kick returner Chad Owens and national centre Jeff Keeping through the 2015 season.
Owens led the CFL in both combined yards (2,298) and receptions (94) last season and was named an East Division all-star.
He was named the league's most outstanding player in 2012 when he broke Argos legend Michael (Pinball) Clemons' record for most all-purpose yards in a single season with 3,863 and helped Toronto win the Grey Cup.
He returned a punt 83 yards for a touchdown in Toronto's season-opening 45-21 loss to Winnipeg on Thursday.
Keeping had his best season as an Argonaut in 2013, when he was named the East Division's outstanding offensive lineman. The Uxbridge, Ont., native was selected in the second round (18th overall) by the Argos in the 2005 CFL draft and was named the Argos' nominee for most outstanding rookie.
Keeping has played 131 games for Toronto, as well as nine playoff games, and was the team's staring centre for their 100th Grey Cup win at home.
"Chad and Jeff represent two key members of our football club," Argos general manager Jim Barker said in a statement. "They have both performed at a very high level for us on the field, and both have exhibited rarely found leadership qualities that are crucial to maintaining a positive culture within our locker-room. We are very happy they have committed to being Argonauts for the foreseeable future."


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March 21, 2014 - Lucca (Italien) und Stamford, CT (USA)
Tagetik Positioned as a Visionary Vendor in the Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management Suites by Gartner
Tagetik's 5th consecutive year as a visionary CPM vendor
Tagetik, a global provider of enterprise software solutions for Performance Management, Disclosure Management, Financial Governance and Business Intelligence, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries quadrant of the 'Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management [CPM] Suites'[1] . This annual report evaluates software vendors on their completeness of vision and ability to execute.
"Tagetik continues to achieve strong year over year growth and profitability. We added over 100 new customers, increased our global revenue by 25%, and established great traction with our cloud offerings," says Manuel Vellutini – Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer at Tagetik. "Our customers recognize the power and practicality of having all their corporate performance management processes in one unified platform and the flexibility to deploy on-premises, single or multi-tenant public cloud, or private cloud. No matter the deployment option our customers choose, they have a single Financial Performance Platform™ that meets their specific needs yet is easily extended to address their needs of the future."
"We agree with Gartner that the future of CPM is on the cloud but research shows that only 20% of finance organizations will be moving their CPM to the cloud in the next two years. That is why we felt it was important for our cloud strategy to allow our on-premises customers to move to the cloud on their terms. It's the same product so moving from on-premises to the cloud (or vice versa) requires no re-implementation at all," adds Marco Pierallini – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer at Tagetik. "In-memory technology is also the future of CPM and will take it to the next level enabling detailed operational planning, real-time consolidations, sophisticated predictive analytics and more. That is why we established an OEM partnership with SAP and will be supporting SAP HANA, along with SQL Server and Oracle, as an underlying database for Tagetik in 2014. Our customers depend on the extensive built-in financial intelligence that setscTagetik apart from other CPM vendors and now we are taking advantage of the cutting-edge in-memory technology of SAP HANA to deliver even more innovative capabilities for the office of finance and beyond."
"We are very proud of our placement as a visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant but even more so of the great things our customers are accomplishing with our product every day. That is our true measure of success," explains Dave Kasabian – Corporate Vice President of Product Marketing at Tagetik.
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Andre Armstrong scored 22 points to help Coppin State avenge a Feb. 18 double-overtime defeat, beating Maryland-Eastern Shore 63-60 Monday night.
Michael Murray and Collin Johnson both added nine points for Coppin State (7-23, 4-11 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference).
After Kevin Mays' layup got Maryland-Eastern Shore within 59-58, Brandon St. Louis made a pair of free throws with 1:05 left to extend Coppin State's lead to 61-58.
Ishaq Pitt hit a jumper with 19 seconds left to get the Hawks back within one, 61-60, but Armstrong answered just a second later with two free throws to go up 63-60. Mays missed a jumper and layup in the final 9 seconds.
Armstrong made 10 of 11 free throws, as the Eagles held a 19-8 advantage from the foul line.
Louis Bell and Troy Snider scored 17 points apiece for the Hawks (2-24, 2-13), who have now lost four straight games.


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Surgical Enhancement: Using Electrical Bioimpedance to Improve Clinical Practice
Ryan Halter Th'06, Assistant Professor, Thayer School of Engineering
Friday, April 12, 2013, 3:30pm
Spanos Auditorium
This seminar is part of the Jones Seminars on Science, Technology, and Society series.
Newly developed sensing and imaging technologies are revolutionizing how clinicians treat a variety of diseases and medical conditions ranging from cancer to traumatic brain injury. Augmenting a clinician's senses through use of these technologies enables them to more effectively treat patients and ultimately improve clinical outcomes. We develop these technologies in our lab with a focus on creating usable devices that have the potential to be adopted by clinical practitioners. This talk will focus on devices that we have designed to sense and image a particular novel biophysical property that provides significant contrast between benign and diseased tissue states – electrical bioimpedance. Development and design of devices that leverage these properties will be presented in the context of prostate cancer applications. An extensive assessment of the electrical properties of the prostate has demonstrated significant contrasts exceeding 100% between cancer and benign tissues. Based on these findings, a number of technologies are being developed and explored in a pre-clinical setting. The types of devices explored here also have the potential to be extended to organs and pathologies other than the prostate.
About the Speaker
Ryan Halter's research focuses on developing medical devices and technologies to enable clinicians to better detect, diagnose, stage, treat, and monitor patients with a variety of pathologies. More narrowly, the technologies he is interested in developing take advantage of the inherent electrical property (bioimpedance) contrast between different tissue types and pathologies. His research activities include designing devices, evaluating these devices in bench-top and ex vivo settings, and deploying these technologies in human feasibility trials. Ryan received his B.S. and M.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Penn State University and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering. He spent the majority of his post-doctoral training clinically immersed in the Urology Department at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. He is currently a Research Assistant Professor at Thayer School.


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A picture that was on this blog earlier this week went absolutely viral on the Daily Item Facebook page – making it possibly the most popular image yet on the page.
This is the photo:
Posted on 9/11, it got 430 likes and 74 shares. That's pretty amazing for a small newspaper.
Other topics heating up on the page:
- People in the Valley are talking about the coming 10-digit dialing. This was a surprise hit, garnering 60 comments. Here's a sample: Christina Ayala "I don't think it is that big of a deal, i have it stored in my phone book that way anyways, and when i taught my kids their phone number i always gave them the area code when teaching them, bc honestly if they got lost or kidnapped and used the phone who knows where they would be and if they would need it!"
- And the Bean Soup Festival is hot – and we're not just talking about the food. The festival has a lot of support from fans on the Facebook page, professing their love for the old-time recipe.


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The U.S. Land Survey System is a way of dividing up land to describe locations. The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is used in most states in the U.S. and is based on a grid system computed from survey records.
Unlike latitude and longitude, which measures points at the intersections of grid lines, the PLSS system describes squares in the grid. The grid starts with a baseline and a principal line of longitude in the region.
A township is a row of land generally six miles wide and measured as North or South of the baseline. Land in the seventh Township North is in row seven counting North of the baseline.
A range is a tier of land measured East or West from the line of longitude. Since a new range is measured approximately every six miles, it divides the Townships into six mile by six mile squares.
The township is further divided into one-mile sections and numbered from 1 through 36. The counting starts in the upper right hand corner, then continues to the left, drops down a row, and goes to the right, changing directions whenever it drops down a row. The numbers form a chain of land, snaking back and forth across the grid.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) quarter quad system is a system of organizing squares of land into tiles on a map. As the USGS explains, "The USGS scans photos, almost exclusively from the National Aerial Photography Program (NAPP), an interagency effort coordinated by the USGS for map revision and a variety of other purposes. Each of these photos covers an area a little more than 5 miles on a side, representing about one-fourth of a standard, 7.5-minute USGS topographic quadrangle map. (Thus the occasional reference to quarter quad.)"
The Lake Region Classification System breaks Florida into 47 numbered lake regions grouped together based on similarities in physical geography, geology, chemistry, vegetation, climate, and other properties of surface water and soil. Lake management personnel use these regions to make comparisons among similar lakes and to predict effects of management techniques.
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or, "Let's Build a Canon"
I'm a big fan of the 33 1/3 series of music-crit books published by Continuum Books. I appreciate the diversity of authors and approaches they've published, from book-length interviews to song-by-song analyses to New Journalistic anecdotes to short fiction to essays in aesthetics, written by everyone from Douglas Wolk to John Darnielle to Colin Meloy to Chris Weingarten to Dan Kois.
Boing Boing commenter "Jack" has a great point:
…the concept has potential since in the MP3 world we live in it's hard to have a physical connection with an album.
We really are physically disconnected from our media — not just music, but TV, video games, news, blogs, webcomics. If you're like me, most of the stuff you consume is in digital form, and even that which isn't ephemeral (a dwindling amount, as our media shift from our hard drives to the cloud) is still untouchable.
This is the appeal of the webcomic T-shirt — it's a way to substantiate an insubstantial thing that we love. You can't cuddle with your favorite characters, but you can have the next best thing. I've never actually owned a physical copy of Low, but I own Hugo Wilcken's 33 1/3 book on Low, and that makes me feel — however irrationally — like I own it more than I would otherwise. I've demonstrated a commitment to it.
(I think of this as part of a larger pattern of active consumption, i.e. the set of actions that readers take in response to a work, as a way of "claiming" it. Fanfiction, mounted art & posters, cosplay, cover songs, claiming communities, shoutboxes, etc)
At any rate. Offworld linked to these sweet mock book covers by Olly Moss. They're inspired by the staggeringly design-y design history of Penguin Books. I wish they were real.
And it got me thinking: why aren't there little books, critical retrospectives, for video games? The potential audience is in the millions, and they're eager for a tangible connection to the ephemeral electronic entertainments of their youth. You don't need permission from the copyright holders.
The critical turf is a little different — as I understand it, video game history seems to be about a few gigantically popular games that become cultural touchstones for a generation, and then a second tier of considerably less popular games, and then the recognition level drops even more steeply. That's probably changed somewhat as the industry has matured and widened, but this enterprise inherently needs a little distance — at least ten years since release. So you're either facing the challenge of writing the definitive book on Mario 3, or you're writing about Ghouls 'n Ghosts and trying to sell enough copies to break even.
There's an additional challenge, of course, because old games are generally "out of print" in a way that albums aren't. Thank God that emulation is starting to make some older titles legally available via programs like Nintendo's Virtual Console, but it's not the same, is it? And for computer games… God help you if you want to play Warcraft II on a modern machine.
Still. I want a half-dozen 100-page books on my favorite half-dozen games. Call it D-Pad Books. Come on, world. Make it happen.
For that matter, where are the books on great movies? I know there are hundreds of books on Citizen Kane, but where is the 33 1/3 series for films? Hmm… a quick search reveals that Macmillan is doing it, with the BFI Film Classics series. And, uh, they have been for years, without me noticing. Whoops. Anybody have any experience with those?
(By the way, Olly's also done some sweet vintage movie posters of modern movies.)


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As one of the nation's premiere ventriloquists, David Pendleton will make you believe that anything can talk!
Many of you met David at Prison Ministry events around the nation! Here is Mr. Pendleton in Maximum Security woman's prison in Fresno, CA.
A 20-year veteran entertainer, David's humor and stellar technique keep audiences audiences laughing from start to finish. David Pendleton brings to his show a wide variety of comedic characters including lovable, but blunt Aunt Tilly, a 94 year old spinster; quick-witted trouble-maker, Mack Elroy with his laid-back sidekick; Buford the Beagle; and rounding out the cast, Vern, a slightly misguided albino Vulture.
Be prepared for a few surprise appearances from members of the audience. Throughout all his high-energy entertainment, David Pendleton mixes in humorous truths of God's plan for our lives. As comedy delights your heart, let the truths that are communicated change your life!
David Pendleton is a good friend of INPM, he appeared on numerous Prison Ministry events around the country. Inmates love him, teammates tresuere David, as he breaks the ice to start conversation with those in chains.


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Bellhousing Alignment - Alignment Issues
Few People Are Aware That An Improperly Aligned Bellhousing Can Cause Serious Drivetrain Problems. Thankfully, The Fix Is Easy
For many racers, the bellhousing isn't considered any more often than Christmas in July. Out of sight, out of mind after all. But the bellhousing is more than just the place where the clutch resides. It is also the connection between the engine and the transmission. That's no big deal if you think it only connects the engine block to the transmission housing, but the critical connection is between the crankshaft and the transmission's input shaft.
If the bellhousing isn't properly aligned, that also means there will be a misalignment between the crankshaft and the input shaft on the transmission. In many cases the misalignment is slight, and everything can still be bolted up. Improper alignment can cause serious damage to the engine as well as premature wear to the clutch and tranny bearings.
"If guys aren't careful when they install their bellhousings and their transmissions, it can really cause some problems," explains engine builder Chris Lafferty of Lafferty Performance. "If the alignment isn't correct between the transmission input shaft and clutch, which is bolted to the crank, then the only way to get it in is to force it. When you do that you are also pushing the crank forward against the face of the thrust bearing. Now the crank is constantly rubbing against the face of the thrust bearing, and when that wears down, the shoulders of the mains start getting into all the main bearings, and you've got a lot of trash floating around in the engine. Too often, engine builders get blamed for doing a poor job with the engine, but the real fault lies with whoever bolted the bellhousing in place."
Lafferty also cautions that improper alignment can also lead to early clutch failure as well as bearing problems in the transmission. It also causes drag in the drivetrain that can be quite significant-especially in lower horsepower classes. That's why many of his customers have him install the clutch and the bellhousing when he builds a race engine for them. Of course, many race teams don't have a bellhousing dedicated for each engine in their inventory and must swap housings regularly. Fortunately, the process for checking bellhousing alignment is straightforward and generally requires less than 45 minutes to complete. It also requires one tool most teams will need to add to the toolbox, but the benefits-in terms of longer part life and possibly even better track times-are worth it.
Alignment problems can come from several sources. Core shift is a major culprit. If your engine has been align-honed, the honing process may move the centerline of the crankshaft while correcting alignment issues between all the main bearing housing bores. Finally, there is the simple explanation that few things in life are perfect. Yes, it's a catch-all explanation, but it's still true.
Checking bellhousing alignment is relatively easy. There are different tools available from different manufacturers for this purpose, but they all work on the same principle. Lafferty prefers (and sells) one that uses a dial indicator mated to a shaft that fits in the ID bore of the clutch (where the transmission input shaft goes). Make sure the flywheel's register bore (the hole in the center) is clean and set the dial indicator to ride the ID of that bore. It should be set up so that the dial indicator spins around the bellhousing's register bore when the crank is turned.
Lafferty recommends marking the bore housing in four quadrants-12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock-and measuring at the four locations. Spin the crank until the dial indicator is pointed at your 12 o'clock mark and set the indicator to 0.050. This is the same thing as calibrating the gauge, but setting it to 0.050 makes it easier to do your math later.
Now spin the crank 180 degrees so the dial indicator points at the 6 o'clock mark. A reading less than 0.050 means the bottom of the register bore is closer to the crank centerline than the top of the bore. To correct this, move the bellhousing down by a distance equal to half the difference between the two readings. For example, if the 12 o'clock reading is 0.050 and the 6 o'clock reading is 0.010, then the bellhousing should be moved down by 0.020 inch. (The difference between 0.050 and 0.010 is 0.040, and half of that is 0.020.) If the number is larger, the bellhousing should be moved up. Everything else in the process remains the same.
Instead of making the change immediately, Lafferty simply writes on the bellhousing how much it must be moved and in which direction. Then, he repeats the process by setting the dial indicator at 0.050 at the 3 o'clock position and measuring the change at the 9 o'clock position. Once that is done you can begin adjusting the bellhousing location. Ideally, you want the register bore on the bellhousing to be centered over the crank centerline within 0.005 inch in both directions. If the necessary change is small, you may be able to simply loosen the bolts holding the bellhousing to the block and give it a few small taps with a dead-blow hammer. If that doesn't work, you can either use a grinder to open the dowel pinholes in the bellhousing or use offset dowel pins, which are available from most bellhousing manufacturers.
Once you have the location you want, torque down the bellhousing bolts, pull the dial indicator, and get on with your life with the assurance that you aren't losing horsepower to something as silly as a misaligned bellhousing. Just remember, if you ever have to pull the bellhousing from the block for any reason, this process should be repeated again.


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The Associated Press first reported this developing and completely predictable problem earlier in the week. What happens when you pass a law that (a) causes the health-insurance cancellation for millions and then (b) forces them and millions more to use a disastrously-built web portal as a middeman to replace that coverage? Answer: You end up with millions of people flooding into providers without any idea whether they have coverage or whether their doctor will accept it.
The New York Times confirmed this issue … for its Saturday edition, of course:
In addition to the difficulties many face in proving they have coverage, patients are also having a hard time figuring out whether particular doctors are affiliated with their health insurance plan. Doctors themselves often do not know if they are in the network of providers for plans sold on the exchange.
But interviews with doctors, hospital executives, pharmacists and newly insured people around the country suggest that the biggest challenge so far has been verifying coverage. A surge of enrollments in late December, just before the deadline for coverage to take effect, created backlogs at many state and federal exchanges and insurance companies in processing applications. As a result, many of those who enrolled have yet to receive an insurance card, policy number or bill.
Many are also having trouble reaching exchanges and insurance companies to confirm their enrollment or pay their first month's premium. Doctors' offices and pharmacies, too, are spending hours on the phone trying to verify patients' coverage, sometimes to no avail.
"The system wasn't really built to handle this kind of glut of new patients," said Dr. Curtis Miyamoto, a radiation oncologist at Temple University Hospital who is president of the Philadelphia County Medical Society. "So it's resulting in us having some delays in getting people verified, and therefore delays in their care."
That's leading to decisions like this being forced on the once-insured:
In Langley, Wash., north of Seattle, Erin Waterman was able to see a primary care doctor on Jan. 3 with a temporary identification card printed from the website of her new insurer, LifeWise Health Plan of Washington. But when Ms. Waterman, 47, tried to fill a prescription for a new asthma inhaler, the pharmacy could not verify her coverage even though she had paid her first month's premium on Dec. 23.
Ms. Waterman was given the option of paying full price — $187, instead of the $50 co-payment required under her new plan — and eventually being reimbursed. But she decided to wait, and hope that she does not have an asthma attack in the meantime.
By the way, asthma attacks can kill. In 2010, asthma attacks killed over 3400 Americans, according to the CDC.
Be sure to read it all. This issue extends well beyond whether an enrollment has been successfully concluded. As mentioned above, providers themselves aren't even sure whether they're in network on which plans, which means that their ability to get reimbursement is under question on every patient that comes through on anything other than a group plan. And even if they know that, providers aren't sure which procedures and treatments will be covered, thanks to a massive amount of confusion over the mandates in ObamaCare.
This, of course, is just the appetizer. When the employer mandate hits this fall, it will similarly scramble the coverage of tens of millions of Americans who end up in the ObamaCare exchanges when their employers simply decide to opt out of subsidizing the rapidly-escalating premiums in health insurance, and we'll get a crisis orders of magnitude larger one year from now.
With that in mind, Sen. Thad Cochran called for a New Year resolution to repeal ObamaCare in the GOP's weekly address to the nation yesterday, and questioned the honesty and integrity of the White House and its statistics on "enrollments":
"The Affordable Care Act was supposed to be fully operational by January 1 of this year, but here we are two weeks into 2014, and the administration continues to struggle to implement the law's burdensome mandates," Cochran said in theweekly Republican address. "The law is not living up to the promises made by its supporters, and it is questionable whether the law will meet its fundamental purpose – to significantly expand health insurance coverage."
The administration and congressional Democrats have recently been touting the law's expansion of coverage to roughly nine million Americans – three million young adults who have been able to stay on their parents' plan, two million consumers who have enrolled in the private insurance exchanges and four million low-income consumers who have been inducted into an expanded Medicaid program.
Cochran, however, argued there may be less to those figures than meets the eye.
"The administration's enrollment numbers don't paint a pretty picture," he said. "They don't tell us how many of the enrollees have actually lost existing coverage and were forced into the exchanges; and the numbers don't tell us whether applicants have actually paid their premiums and received coverage. There is ample reason to be skeptical that those numbers will improve substantially."
Cochran's other complaints about the law had a familiar ring: that it's booting people off of health plans they liked despite the president's promise that people could keep their current insurance; that it's forcing people to change doctors; that many consumers are finding their prices going up under Obamacare.
"If the law can't keep its most basic promise, it should be repealed," he concluded. "We should go back to the drawing board and draft commonsense, bipartisan legislation that will work better for all Americans, without spending billions of taxpayer dollars to support these failing policies."
Let's hope we don't have to make this New Year's resolution again for 2015.


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Wie bereits angekündigt, hat Maria Mena einen Song für den norwegischen Film "Home til jul" beigesteuert. Jetzt steht fest: Am 12. November 2010 erscheint in Deutschland dieser weihnachtliche Song mit dem Titel "Home For Christmas" als Download.
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Maria has contributed a song for a Norwegian feature film. Here you can listen to the song in the trailer. It begins at approximately 45 sec:
"Hjem til Jul" (Eng.: "Home for Christmas") celebrated its worldwide premiere already at the beginning of September at the film festival in Toronto. It is scheduled to be released to Norwegian cinemas on Nov 12th.
The script is based on a series of novels "Bare mjuke pakker under treet" (only gentle presents under the Christmas tree) by the Norwegian writer Levi Henriksen and tells the story about the last hours before the exchanging of gifts on Christmas eve. It is set in the little village of "Skogli" where everyday life of people in different life situations is portrayed. Here the state of emotion of the characters stretches from deep conciliation to the point of despair and strong frustration. Thus the movie balances between deeply tragic as well as melancholic moments and humorous and easygoing moments.


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Fake reporter calling prep female athletes
Numerous school districts affected, including Verona
MILWAUKEE — Police say a man posing as a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter and photographer has been calling high school female athletes at home and asking to take their pictures and interview them.
Journal Sentinel security chief Robert Maldonado said reports about the impostor have been filed with law enforcement officials in Milwaukee and several suburbs, including Franklin, Cedarburg and Germantown, as well as Verona in Dane County. Police said other school districts may also be affected.
Journal Sentinel prep editor Mark Stewart said staff reporters and photographers work with athletic directors and coaches and wouldn't contact athletes directly. He said a call from a stranger to an athlete at home is a red flag.
Students who've been targeted seem to be female athletic standouts who have already had their pictures in newspapers or other publications, according to Stewart.


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See What Would Happen If Disney Villains Won
Artist and Mouse House fan Justin McTwisp thought it would be interesting to see what it would look like if the bad guys won at the end of a few Disney movies. We have to admit, that's a pretty banging coat Cruella DeVille winds up with (except for the whole puppy thing). And, truth be told, the fairies in 'Sleeping Beauty' *were* a little annoying. Check out our favorites below and check out the rest of McTwisp's art here.


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