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Researchers used X-ray synchrotron techniques to scan the fossils of the ancient birds Confuciusornis sanctus and Gansus yumenensis, a method which probes the remains and shows the molecular makeup of the fossils. Then they compared the distribution of metals to existing bird's feathers. That's C. sanctus in the image above, which they now think had a dark body and light wings.
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We couldn't resist the crave. We went to the Foodie Fest at Silverton on Sunday. The festival was three days, admission was $10 and you could return each day with the wristband. My brother went on Friday and only waited 20 minutes for White Castle (in the 10 or less line). In spring, the wait was four hours, they added more grills and were better organized this time around. We went in the 30 sliders or less line for a crave case. Who doesn't love a briefcase filled with sliders!?! For Frank, this was better than Christmas. The scent of grilled onions wafted in the air; after an hour wait, I admit I was hungry too. I haven't had White Castle in years, I don't miss it like Frank and many others do, but I ate two jalapeno sliders. Fortunately, I didn't regret it. These tasted like the real thing, not the crap you get in the freezer aisle. I still prefer In & Out, but these were a special treat.
There were thirty or so other trucks on hand. We avoided the local trucks (knowing we can enjoy them during StrEATS) and sought out others from California. We've had a few before at the Food Truck fest at Del Mar and at Liquid Aloha at Liberty Station. Dogzilla was one worth repeating, we tried it at Del Mar and our minds were blown. Our tastebuds jumped for joy over the Furi Dog's spicy link with savory grilled onions piled high on a sweet King's Hawaiian roll, but it was the sushi like flavors (from the spicy Japanese mayo, homemade teriyaki sauce, furikake seasoning, and kizami nori strips) that put it over the top. We had never had anything like it, whenever we've visited LA we've been on the lookout for Dogzilla and here they were, they came to us. Yes! We had the Furi Dog ($7) and a Dogzilla ($7) (the beef frank), the Furi Dog is where it's at, it's damn good.
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A great find was the California Grill Truck. They were serving up Jalapeno Bombs ($6). Think of jalapeno poppers on steroids, these poppers were stuffed with meatballs and cream cheese then topped with sushi mayo and sriracha. Frank ate half the order before I snuck a photo.
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The first robot was created in 400-350 BC, a steam-powered pigeon engineered by the mathematician Archytas. Since then, robots have captured our imagination. They embody innovation, success and progress, and they inspire our vision of the future.
National Robotics Week, now in its fourth year, helps us realize that we are already knee deep in the robotics era. Robots are cleaning floors, making cars, keeping our military safe, assisting in patient care, exploring the depths of the oceans and patrolling the skies. However, for the United States to remain a dominant force in this quickly growing industry, we will need significantly more skilled professionals in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in the future.
Companies, universities, museums, and associations across the United States are embracing National Robotics Week this week as an opportunity to capture the imaginations of children and share the exciting world of robots with all. Robots serve as a way to engage and show off the fun side of STEM in the hopes of inspiring youth to pursue technology-related fields and combat the STEM crisis in the United States
Established by the House of Representatives in 2010, National Robotics Week celebrates the strength of robotics in the United States as a symbol of American innovation. Here in Massachusetts, we are home to almost 100 robotics companies and 10 robotics research institutions.
Throughout history, the United States has earned international respect as a leader in business and industry. Much of this falls on the back of our nation's educational system and innovation in STEM. Yet our ability to produce the next generation of STEM graduates has become inadequate and is trending in the wrong direction. The World Economic Forum's 2012-2013 Global Competitiveness Report ranks the United States as 47 out of 144 countries in terms of quality of math and science education, and 7th overall in terms of global competitiveness.
If you think of our educational system as a pipeline, a very troubling picture is emerging. By the end of middle school, we have lost 79 percent of our potential STEM workforce. According to the STEMconnector's 2012 annual report, "Where are the STEM Students?", we lose more than half of those remaining in high school. Although STEM covers a tremendous number of industries and opportunities, only about 1 in 10 students graduating high school has an interest in STEM careers.
At the college level, this grim scenario gets worse. For every 100 students who graduate with a bachelor's degree, only 10 will end up working in a STEM-related job. It seems we are convincing our children and young adults that science and math are hard and scary.
According to Change the Equation, a shocking 30 percent of the population would rather clean a bathroom than solve a math problem.
So what do we do? We start with National Robotics Week. At iRobot, we organize, publicize, laud and shout about the more than 180 National Robotics Week events. There is at least one event in every single state in America. We applaud our friends in Alaska hosting student workshops. We laugh with the robot comedian in Montana. We invite you to join us at the Robot Zoo in Cambridge on April 13, where more than 40 local robot companies, teams, and researchers will gather to show off the latest and greatest in robotic innovations.
But still, that's not enough. National Robotics Week is too short to reverse the trend by itself. Rome wasn't built in a day, nor are robots or the skills needed to build them. We need to prove to kids that science and math are cool. We need to go to classrooms with world-changing robots, explain where they come from, and educate students on how they can be a part of it all. We need to bring kids to labs and introduce them to the amazing engineers who turn these products from science fiction into reality. It's up to us to prove to kids just how important and fun STEM is.
At iRobot, the thank-you notes we get from soldiers saying that our robots have saved lives inspire us every day. We need to provide the same level of inspiration to our students — the next generation of engineers, roboticists and inventors who stand ready to change the world. The STEM gap is ours to fill.
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The Red Storm improves to 18-5 and 11-1 in league play while the Friars drop to 6-17 and 1-11 in the ig East.
St. John's set season highs in bench points with 47, total rebounds with 59 and offensive rebounds with 23, finishing plus-22 on the glass while scoring 58 points in the paint and holding a 22-5 edge in second chance points. Grant tallied 11 points on 5-of-13 shooting to go with a career-high 10 rebounds, while freshman Jade Walker netted a career-high 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting and senior Eugeneia McPherson dished out a career-high 11 assists.
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The Predatory State of California, Part 2
Due process and rule of law have been replaced with "legalized" looting and harrassment by government in America.
Yesterday's entry Welcome to the Predatory State of California--Even If You Don't Live There generated dozens of emails recounting similar stories of "we don't need no stinkin' due process" looting and "fishing expeditions" by California and other state/local governments.
Let's begin with correspondent (and Arizona resident since 2001) R.T.'s experience of his account being looted without prior notice or due process by the state of California to the tune of $1,343. R.T. finally reached an employee of the State Franchise Tax Board and received an explanation.
The state representative stated that "we don't try to contact the person involved," i.e. the taxpayer whose account is about to be looted. The rep went on to explain that the state had received a 1099 from a financial institution for the year 2006 and had promptly stolen the citizen's money in the event that tax was owed to California.
Everyone who believes the government is "here to help disadvantaged people" needs to wake up and ask what kind of government we have when due process has been replaced with "legal" looting. R.T. reported the income in question on his 2006 Federal and Arizona tax return. Wouldn't common sense, not to mention common law, suggest that the state of California should be required to ask the citizen who now resided in another state if the income in question had been reported in that state?
How about notifying the citizen of the state's claim and his/her rights to present facts relating to the state's claim?
There was no due process. How can this be legal in a nation that is nominally governed by rule of law? First the state steals the $1,343 and authorizes its parasitic predatory bag-"person" Wells Fargo Bank to steal another $100 for handling the state's theft.
A week or two later the citizen is notified of the theft as a fait accompli. Now the onus is on the law-abiding citizen to attempt to reclaim his own money from a distant, all-powerful Kafkaesque state agency. How can this be legal in a nation supposedly operating under rule of law?
Let's be very clear about what happens here in America on a daily basis:
1. The state (or other agency of government) steals citizen's money without due process.
2. Then, in a move akin to the executioner making the condemned buy his own death bullet, the state authorizes the "too big to fail" corporate bank which received billions in taxpayer bailouts to steal $100 from the citizen for the digital theft of his money by the state.
3. If the citizen needed that money to pay rent, buy medication to stay alive, etc., tough luck, Buckwheat, the state of California has your money before they notify you of the purported tax liability or provide due process or recourse and now you enter the Kafkaesque insanity of pleading for a "refund" of your own money from an agency designed to thwart transparency and the reclamation of your own money.
So if you get evicted and are living in a cardboard box and pass away due to inability to buy your meds, hey, the State of California's political class and special interests could care less: they want your money and the rule of law means nothing to them.
If you understand that a purported tax liability is one issue and due process is another far more important issue, then you understand that we now live in an authoritarian nation where "rule of law" is only invoked at the convenience of the political and financial Elites for propaganda purposes.
The state of California has three basic methods of looting law-abiding citizens:
1. The old "you didn't pay a $25 filing fee, the fine is now $499 which we took from your bank account." Never mind you have the cancelled check endorsed by the state, proving they received it and cashed it; the Board of Kafkaesque Authority claims "we didn't get the check" and loots your account for the $499 (true story.)
2. "Fishing expeditions" where companies and citizens are dunned for taxes and fees they might owe, though there is no evidence they do in fact owe fees and taxes. I received many emails describing these fishing expeditions, for example, merely having a license is "evidence" that you must have unreported income.
3. Enforce all sorts of dubious claims, most importantly:
A. That anyone collecting a pension from work performed while residing in California is liable for California taxes on that pension, regardless of where they live;
B. Any income resulting from something invented in California must be reported as income in California, regardless of where the income is derived from or where the inventor now lives.
In other words, residency has no meaning. Any income remotely connected to California--for example, you had the idea while residing in the state--obligates you to pay California income tax on that idea in perpetuity.
Lest you think this far-fetched, please consider this report sent to me by correspondent J.J.: Will California Gamble in Las Vegas? The Stakes are High in the Gilbert Hyatt Case:
To summarize, the California FTB sued Gilbert Hyatt, an inventor of a microprocessor chip, for tax fraud. The FTB claimed that Mr. Hyatt did not file a return for the income derived from his invention. Mr. Hyatt claimed he was already a Nevada resident at the time he invented the chip; California claimed otherwise. Whether that case has merit is still to be decided and could lead to a recovery of around $50M for the FTB, including penalties and interest, which account for over 80% of the total.
The real issue, however, is the FTB's misconduct in pursuing Mr. Hyatt in Nevada. According to Bill Leonard, a member of the California State Board of Equalization, as published in his newsletter:
Tax agents rummaged through his trash without warrants, visited business partners and doctors, and shared his Social Security Number and other personal information with the media. This is outrageous behavior and I call on the FTB to rein in their agents. What really galled me is the FTB testified in open court that this level of harassment was only a typical audit. If true, then the stormtroopers are alive and well at the FTB.
Mr. Hyatt sued the FTB for torts and other misconduct. The FTB claimed it was immune from being sued under the doctrine of comity- defined by the Nevada Supreme Court as "an accommodation policy, under which the courts of one state voluntarily give effect to the laws and judicial decisions of another state out of deference and respect, to promote harmonious interstate relations."
The Nevada Supreme Court sided with Hyatt. The FTB appealed to the United States Supreme Court who ruled 9-0 against the agency.
There are two key questions that the taxpayers of California need answered: were any employees of the FTB disciplined? Will California continue to pour money in this case by appealing in what could be called a hostile environment?
Rummaging through trash without warrants and harrassment is precisely the sort of conduct that occurred when Federal agencies ran roughshod over the Constitution in the COINTELPRO campaigns of domestic spying and subversion.
What exactly is the difference between the jackboot behavior of the California Franchise Tax Board, the Federal agencies that conducted COINTELPRO and any other run-of-the-mill fascist agency doing the dirty work of the Elites and special interests by ignoring legal rights and due process?
It's very simple: either we have due process and everyone is equal under the law, or we have an authoritarian regime that is only nominally democratic for PR purposes.
Naive citizens might suggest alerting our fearless elected representatives to these systemic abuses by the state. This overlooks the fact that the agencies are conducting the looting at the behest of the elected toadies and their owners, the special interests and corporate lobbyists. Your complaint about being legally looted will go straight into the round file (or digital equivalent), and your name forwarded to the "hit squad" for harrassment and worse.
You know the dominant emotion that the government at every level generates in law-abiding, taxpaying citizens? Fear. People don't want their names used in reporting these kinds of outrageous abuses because they've heard too many stories of the COINTELPRO-like harrassment that the jackboot agencies unleash on anyone who dares to question their looting and lawlessness.
Our fearless elected representatives, meanwhile, are too busy brown-nosing their donors to care what happens to mere citizens. After all, the citizens don't fund their campaigns, the special interests do, and the special interests care about one thing: raising more revenue to fund their fiefdoms. They don't care how the state raises the revenue, and so neither do the political lackeys they fund.
What sort of government do we have when the typical response of law-abiding citizens is fear of retribution? When state looting and concerted campaigns of harrassment are "legal," then what sort of rule of law do we have?
Answer: none. The only action that will change things is to vote with your feet and leave the oppressive states where due process has been rendered meaningless and find states where rule of law and equality for all before the law still has meaning.
Are "fishing expeditions" and looting unique to California? Unfortunately not, as author/Iraq vet and midwest resident Chris Sullins reported two years ago:
Last week I received tax return forms in my name mailed to my address by a nearby city government. I've never worked in that city and as the letter states my physical address is not within that city's limits. I've lived at the address for over 10 years and this was the first time I've received such a notice.
I sent this letter in response with copies of the forms they had mailed to my address:
To Whom It May Concern:
My spouse and I recently received City of X individual tax return documents which stated a "return must be filed by April 30, 2010." This letter you are now reading serves your agency notice that we are not required to file a tax return with the City of X. I will make it clear that we do not work in the City of X. Likewise, the mailing address your agency used to contact us is not and never has been within the city limits. Therefore, you will cease and desist from attempting to collect money outside of your legal authority.
Any future attempts by your agency toward collection of taxes on person(s) employed outside the city or at this address which is outside the physical boundary of the City of X will be considered harassment. Therefore, it would be in your agency's best interests to remove our names and our address from your tax collection rolls posthaste.
Sincerely, Chris Sullins
I'm sure this overreach was done by the city due to their lower revenues, lost income and property taxes. But, to do this under the color of law is nothing short of official fraud. However, proving official misconduct is another matter. There was no official's name on the forms and I can't imagine I'm going to find a signed memo authorizing this new attempt at collection outside of the city's limits.
In the meantime I wonder how many people who reside on the same road also received the same tax forms? How many of them are just going to fill out the forms and send checks to the city without any protest? How many of them will ignore it altogether? But the important question is out of how many households did anyone bother to write a letter of protest? How many actually told them NO? This last question is the most important when considering the extent of the local MacRib Test.
If enough people don't say No early enough, things often tend to go past the camel's nose in the tent. I can imagine the local city continuing to extend its boundaries in the future and/or performing other actions under an air of legality. I can imagine situations in which cities overreach their boundaries and authority, yet still convince judges or a state administrator (aka bureaucrat) to garnish citizens' paychecks for supposedly unpaid taxes and fines which were never owed in the first place.
This outright theft would continue until the citizen trudges through an onerous Kafkaesque process of "proving" they didn't reside within the city and that the tax wasn't ever really owed. The city/judge/administrator could then play the "oops" game and blame a computer error or some other complexity of the system which they had purposely misused. Of course, the costs for the citizen to challenge such an "error" will be designed in advance to exceed the cost of submitting to the "error" in the first place.
Citizens must box in any attempts by government to exceed its authority. They must frame and contain any acts conducted under the color of law. This does not require violence. The simple act of refusing to comply is enough. This was evident in the many peaceful revolutions that took place in 1989 when people said NO to communism across Eastern Europe. Although governments hold the threat of force in reserve to force compliance, the American government will not use it against the citizens over taxation at this time.
You know what would be refreshing? A state government which openly declared itself committed to rule of law, due process, transparency and respect for taxpayers and taxpaying enterprises. If they followed through on their commitment with action, they would quickly attract a flood of the best and brightest fleeing parastic predatory states that have long since abandoned rule of law for looting and servitude to special interests.


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Beijing, China--(Newsfile Corp. - May 11, 2012) - China Biologic Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBPO) ("China Biologic" or the "Company"), one of the leading plasma-based biopharmaceutical companies in the People's Republic of China, today announced that the Company's Board of Directors (the "Board") has appointed Chairman David (Xiaoying) Gao to the additional position of Chief Executive Officer, effective May 10, 2012. Mr. Gao succeeds Mr. Colin (Chao Ming) Zhao, who will continue to serve as the President of the Company.
By assuming the CEO position, Mr. Gao has moved from non-executive Chairman to executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. In this connection, Mr. Gao has resigned from his posts in the Company's Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Governance and Nominating Committee, effective May 10, 2012. The Company plans to fill the vacancy in the three Committees resulting from Mr. Gao's resignation.
Mr. Colin Zhao, President, stated "I am very pleased that David has agreed to take the position of Chief Executive Officer to provide hands-on leadership and execution of the Company's growth strategy. I believe he is uniquely qualified for the task and I personally look forward to working with him and helping the Company reach a higher level of performance for the benefit of all our stakeholders. Since David joined the Board as an independent director last October, he has shown great passion in helping the Company sharpen its strategic direction, corporate governance, investor relations, and other critical aspects of its business. His passion has been coupled with a strong commitment to execution and focus on achievements and accountability."
"I am deeply honored by the confidence that the Board of Directors have placed in me. I am thankful for the opportunity having been provided to take China Biologic Products up to the next level and I am excited by the substantial prospects in front of us," said Mr. David Gao, Chairman and CEO of China Biologic. "I want to personally thank Colin for his leadership and accomplishments over the last five years, and I look forward to benefit from his extensive knowledge of our business and of the health care industry in China as he continues to play an important role in our management team. China Biologic is an established leader in China's plasma protein therapeutics market thanks to the extensive talent that the Company has developed over the years. Moving forward, I will be focused on working with our management, employees and partners to execute our growth strategy and enhance shareholder value."
Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Gao served as the chief executive officer and director of BMP Sunstone Corporation, a company listed on NASDAQ, from February 2004 until its acquisition by Sanofi in February 2011. Following the acquisition, Mr. Gao served as a senior integration advisor for Sanofi from February to August 2011. From February 2002 through February 2004, Mr. Gao served as the chairman of the board of directors of Beijing Med-Pharm Co. Ltd. Between 2003 and 2004, Mr. Gao also served as the chairman and the chief executive officer of Abacus Investments Ltd, a private wealth management company. From 1989 to 2002, Mr. Gao held various executive positions at Motorola, Inc., a publicly traded company specializing in wireless, broadband, and automotive communications technologies and embedded electronic products, including as a vice president and director for the integrated electronic system sector, Asia-Pacific operation, from 1998 to 2002, a member of the management board of Motorola Asia Pacific and the management board of Motorola Japan Ltd. from 2000 to 2002, and a member of the management board of Motorola China from 1996 to 2002. Mr. Gao holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Hanover University, Germany, and a M.B.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is 61 years old.
Mr. Gao joined the Company in 2011and has served the Company in a variety of roles, including most recently as the Chairman of the Board of Directors, an independent Director, the Chairman of the Compensation Committee, and a member of the Audit and Governance and Nominating Committees.
About China Biologic Products, Inc.
China Biologic Products, Inc., through its indirect majority-owned subsidiaries, Shandong Taibang Biological Products Co., Ltd. and Guiyang Dalin Biologic Technologies Co., Ltd. and its equity investment in Xi'an Huitian Blood Products Co., Ltd., is one of the leading plasma-based biopharmaceutical companies in China.
China Biologic is a fully integrated biologic products company with plasma collection, production and manufacturing, research and development, and commercial operations. The Company's plasma-based biopharmaceutical products are irreplaceable during medical emergencies and are used for the prevention and treatment of various diseases. The Company sells its products to hospitals and other healthcare facilities in China. Please see the Company's website www.chinabiologic.com for additional information.
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This news release may contain certain "forward-looking statements" relating to the business of China Biologic Products, Inc. and its subsidiaries. All statements, other than statements of historical fact included herein, are "forward-looking statements." These forward-looking statements are often identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes," "expects," or similar expressions, and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, they involve assumptions, risks, and uncertainties, and these expectations may prove to be incorrect. Investors should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this news release. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors, including its potential inability to achieve the expected operating and financial performance in 2012, potential inability to find alternative sources of plasma, potential inability to increase production at permitted sites, potential inability to mitigate the financial consequences of a temporarily reduced raw plasma supply through cost cutting or other efficiencies, and potential additional regulatory restrictions on its operations and those additional risks and uncertainties discussed in the Company's periodic reports that are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available on its website (http://www.sec.gov). All forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these factors. Other than as required under the securities laws, the Company does not assume a duty to update these forward-looking statements.


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DOVER, Del. (AP) -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. can pick up his pursuit of Matt Kenseth from out front.
Earnhardt showed a rare burst of top qualifying speed, turning a track-record lap of 161.849 mph to win the pole Friday at Dover International Speedway.
Earnhardt won his second pole of the season, the first time he has multiple poles since 2002.
Chase for the Sprint Cup championship drivers filled the top four spots and eight of the top 12. Kenseth, the points leader and winner of the first two Chase races, joins Earnhardt on the front row. Ryan Newman is third and Carl Edwards fourth.
Earnhardt's run marked the 17th time this season drivers have set qualifying records in the new Gen-6 car.
Earnhardt is in 11th place in the 13-driver field. He's not out of it, but certainly not a legitimate championship contender. He needs a hot streak in the No. 88 Chevrolet -- and for Kenseth and the rest of field to considerably cool.
With that option pretty much a long shot, Earnhardt is determined to win at least one race this season.
"I'd be really disappointed if we don't win a race this season, because I think we're a better team than we were last year," he said. "We came close so many times. We'd just like to go out there and get some trophies."
No driver has been able to wrest the trophies -- or a lobster -- away from Kenseth. His series-high seven wins, including Chase victories at Chicagoland and New Hampshire, have made Kenseth the favorite to win a second Cup championship. Even Kenseth can't explain his roll since he joined Joe Gibbs Racing.
"I don't think I've ever been on one quite like this," he said. "I've been enjoying it. You never know what it's going to end."
Earnhardt and Kenseth will try and keep the rest of the Chase field behind them.
Five-time champion Jimmie Johnson starts eighth, Kurt Busch is ninth, Joey Logano 11th, Kevin Harvick 12th, Kyle Busch 14th, Jeff Gordon 16th, Greg Biffle 19th, Kasey Kahne 20th, and Clint Bowyer starts 23rd.
Bowyer got the news he wanted since the Richmond scandal when sponsor 5-Hour Energy decided to stick with embattled Michael Waltrip Racing through the 2014 season.
Martin Truex Jr., his MWR teammate, is still waiting to find out where he'll drive next season. Truex faces an uncertain future after NAPA Auto Parts yanked its sponsorship at the end of the season in the aftermath of MWR's decision to manipulate the outcome of the Sept. 9 race at Richmond.
Furniture Row Racing is in the mix for Truex after losing Kurt Busch to Stewart-Haas Racing. General manager Joe Garone said the organization had expressed interest in the veteran driver.
"We just need to be patient and see how things shake out," Garone said.
Truex, who found out he likely won't need surgery on his broken right wrist, is antsy for a resolution.
"It's a lot more complicated because of time," he said. "There's no, well, wait a few weeks and talk to these people and see what they're thinking. There is no slow-planning anything. It's, now, now, now. I need answers so I can make decisions. That's the most difficult thing, putting people in positions where they've got to make decisions they're not sure about. I imagine when something happens, it will happen quick."
NASCAR's credibility was called into question after Richmond, and chairman Brian France ordered drivers to give 100 percent in new rules prohibiting the artificial altering of events.
Drivers have poked fun at the "100 percent" edict the last two weeks.
Asked if the track was simply quick for his qualifying run, Newman laughed and said, "No, I just tried harder."
One hundred percent?
"Actually, I was 118 percent that time," he said.


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MONTREAL — Sept. 25, 2013 — Matrox Graphics Inc. today announced a distribution agreement that adds Matrox Mura™ video wall controller boards, Matrox Avio™ KVM extenders, Matrox DualHead2Go® and TripleHead2Go™ multi-monitor adapters and Matrox Maevex™ video over IP encoders/decoders to the Crambo Visuales product line-up.
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"As one of Spain's leading AV distributors, Crambo Visuales is now in the unique position of being a one-stop shop for AV integrators and resellers looking for complete video wall control solutions," said Cecilia Wills, country manager, Matrox Graphics. "They will strengthen our presence in the region by offering the complete Matrox Graphics portfolio."
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When I was a little kid, I always look forward to the ice-cream man with the ringing chimes at my housing area. I still remember a single scoop cone was only 20 cents back then. Nowadays, we are spoil with premium choices ranging from Ben & Jerry, Baskin Robbins to Häagen-Dazs. Though these brands are not cheap, the taste is really irresistible.
When I saw iscream at Tropicana City a while back, I was curious to see how their ice-cream fares.
Apparently, their ice-cream is locally made but rest assured, the quality is on par with some of the better brands out there.
I can't remember which flavour I choose (apart from the obvious chocolate flavour) but I enjoyed eating them.
The junior scoop costs RM 3.50 which is also quite reasonable.
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If you only have one night and don't want to travel too far, then this Reading Stag Do is possibly your best solution. For £95 per person* you get 1 night in a city centre 4 Star Hotel with breakfast, Hovercraft Racing, Paintball, Clay Pigeon Shooting and entry into Reading's biggest nightclubs. All for under £100, this certainly is an incredible Stag Do deal.
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Toyota Motor Corp. planned to announce preliminary findings of its investigation into a customer's report of a runaway Prius at a news conference Monday in San Diego.
Meanwhile, a federal investigation has cast doubt upon the owner's version of events.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a statement that it continues to investigate but "we may never know exactly what happened with this car."
The agency said its engineers are reviewing data from the Prius owned by James Sikes to try to understand what happened with his hybrid. But so far, NHTSA says it has not been able to find anything to explain the incident that Sikes reported.
James Sikes called 911on March 8 saying his Toyota Prius was accelerating out of control on Interstate 8 and going 94 mph.
Investigators drove the car for two hours but could not duplicate the experience that James Sikes said he had on Monday, according to Kurt Bardella, a spokesman for Congressman Darrell Issa's office. Issa is on the House Oversight Committee that is looking into the incident. "There was no way logistically that it could happen," said Bardella.
John Gomez, an attorney for Sikes said the failure to repeat the incident is insignificant and not surprising. "They have never been able to replicate an incident of sudden acceleration. Mr. Sikes never had a problem in the three years he owned this vehicle," he said Sunday.
U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa said the failure to duplicate the stuck accelerator, along with a vehicle design to prevent such occurrences, raises questions about Sikes' story. "It doesn't mean it didn't happen, but let's understand, it doesn't mean it did happen," Issa said on CBS' "Early Show."
A California Highway Patrol officer drove alongside the hybrid car and directed Sikes on how to control the car. After applying the emergency brake and the brake pedal at the same time, Sikes said the car slowed down, according to officers.
CHP Officer Todd Neibert told Sikes to try and put the vehicle in neutral and try to shut it off. Sikes shook his head in response which Neibert took to indicate that that was not successful.
The officer was able to drive along the Prius' driver's side. Using the loudspeaker, Neibert instructed Sikes to apply the brake pedal and the emergency brake at the same time.
Neibert moved his patrol car in front of the Prius and tried to match the speed when he noticed the vehicle slowed down to 50 – 55 mph.
The Prius finally came to a stop in the number one lane with the engine shut off, Neibert said.
He placed his patrol car in front of the vehicle in case it tried to take off again. The Prius engine was shut down at that point.
"He was visibly shaken and seemed to be in shock on an adrenaline rush having to deal with the situation," said Neibert.
Neibert said he checked the accelerator and brake pedal and they both appeared to be in the normal resting position as if the vehicle was parked. The floor mat, a non-rubber mat, appeared to be in its normal position, he said.
Officer Neibert said he not only could smell the brakes from the Prius but also witnessed Sikes physically lifting his body to apply pressure on the brakes.
Skes said he was standing on the brake pedal, trying to slow down.
Sentiment has been growing doubting the man's story. The Wall Street Journal reported that the brakes on Sikes' Prius did not show the wear consistent with his story.
Commentator and attorney Michael Fumento said Sikes' story has many holes, beginning with the gas pedal.
"He said it was fully depressed. He couldn't yank it back, and yet when the police officer looked, it was in the normal undepressed position," he said. Fumento also questions Sikes' reasons for not shifting the car into neutral.
Fumento said Sikes gave multiple reasons for not switching to neutral such as fearing the car would flip or being unfamiliar with the car that he owned for two years. Fumento also refused to believe Sikes' when he wanted to keep both hands on the wheel. "This is a guy that for most of the ride had one hand on the wheel and the other hand holding a cell phone," said Fumento.
"I was on the brakes pretty healthy," Sikes said the day of the incident. "It wasn't stopping, it wasn't doing anything to it, just kept speeding up, just kept going, and I called 911 right away, and they were trying to tell me what to do, but I couldn't hold the phone and the steering wheel properly at the same time, so I just kept trying my methods, dropped the phone and it just kept going faster. I just stayed on the brakes as much as I could until finally they started smelling really bad and I had metal sounds coming in the car."
Sikes said the CHP officer arrived shortly afterward and told him to use the emergency brake. He also tried to shut off the car, which it finally did, then he rolled to a stop near the La Posta Bridge in the area of the Golden Acorn Casino.
He said he had visited Toyota of El Cajon to get the vehicle serviced and to take care of a recall notice on the acceleration. He said that the dealership told him that his was not a model covered by the recall and he was turned away.


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With Carbon Dioxide Emissions at Record High, Worries on How to Slow Warming
Global emissions of carbon dioxide were at a record high in 2011 and are likely to take a similar jump in 2012, scientists reported Sunday - the latest indication that efforts to limit such emissions are failing.
Emissions continue to grow so rapidly that an international goal of limiting the ultimate warming of the planet to 3.6 degrees, established three years ago, is on the verge of becoming unattainable, said researchers affiliated with the Global Carbon Project.
Josep G. Canadell, a scientist in Australia who leads that tracking program, said Sunday in a statement that salvaging the goal, if it can be done at all, "requires an immediate, large and sustained global mitigation effort."
Yet nations around the world, despite a formal treaty pledging to limit warming - and 20 years of negotiations aimed at putting it into effect - have shown little appetite for the kinds of controls required to accomplish those stated aims.
Delegates from nearly 200 nations are meeting in Doha, Qatar, for the latest round of talks under the treaty, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Their agenda is modest this year, with no new emissions targets and little progress expected on a protocol that is supposed to be concluded in 2015 and take effect in 2020.


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Hi Hungry Girl, I typically buy regular ground coffee beans to brew at home. Yesterday at the grocery store, I discovered EVERY flavor of coffee imaginable! Blueberry, butter toffee, vanilla crème... You name it, they had it. I checked the ingredients: coffee beans and natural and artificial flavors. But what about calories? Please help a coffee-lovin' sista out! Coffee Crazed
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I have good news! When it comes to ground coffee and coffee beans that you brew yourself, pretty much every kind out there is virtually calorie-free, especially if there are no nutritionals listed on the bag (that's usually an indication that the stats are negligible). So go wild and try 'em all. I really love the kinds by Millstone, and there's a company called Boca Java that makes crazy flavors like chocolate cherry and bananas Foster. You do need to watch out for flavored instant coffee, the kind you dissolve in hot water. It's sometimes sweetened and can have as much as 100 calories a serving. As for flavored coffee you order at a restaurant or coffee shop, this stuff isn't necessarily guilt-free -- there's a chance that the flavor comes from sugary syrup added after the coffee is brewed, and that can add a lot of calories. So you have to ask if the coffee is flavored with syrup; if it is, see if sugar-free syrup is available -- many places have it, and that stuff is calorie-free. And one last thing: Keep in mind that even if you start with calorie-free coffee, things like creamer, sugar, and whipped cream can really cause calorie counts to skyrocket. Click here for a whole bunch of guilt-free coffee tips! P.S. For DIY flavored coffee at home, add a sprinkle of pumpkin pie spice or cinnamon to the grounds before you brew. Happy sipping!
Hi HG, I need some ideas for guilt-free lunches that don't need to be kept refrigerated or frozen -- stuff I can fit in my backpack and eat in between classes. There is a microwave in the dining center, but I don't want to eat microwave meals all the time. Help! On-the-Go Eater
Hi On-the-Go Eater,
I can definitely relate! When I'm traveling, I often need to throw together guilt-free meals on the go. It's not that hard -- you just have to get creative...
Pouches of salmon or tuna packed in water are perfect for backpack lunches -- there's no can opener or draining required. You can even find some that come pre-seasoned, like the Tuna Creations line from StarKist. Just remember to pack a fork! You can eat these on their own, or pile 'em on top of rice cakes or large high-fiber crackers. Filling and easy!
Microwave-ready containers of soup are a great option -- satisfying and delicious. Progresso makes some fantastic ones, and the Campbell's Soup at Hand line is made for portable eating. Just check the stats for the low-fat varieties. Also look for microwave-ready containers of chili -- perfect for wrapping in a high-fiber tortilla (pack the tortilla separately, and assemble at lunchtime).
All of these things would be great paired with a basic salad (no dressing, croutons, or cheese) from the dining center or a drive-thru. Stash a few single-serving packets of light or fat-free dressing in your backpack -- click here for a very cool site that sells them.
If you're really in a hurry and don't have time for any assembly, try putting together a makeshift lunch of filling snacks: a stick of light string cheese or a Mini Babybel Light, a 100-calorie pack of nuts, some jerky, and a piece of fruit. Click here for a slew of emergency snack ideas.
BTW, you may want to consider investing in an insulated lunch tote -- there are some really cute ones out there, and it'll expand your on-the-go lunch options BIGTIME. Good luck with the guilt-free eating and your studies!
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According to reports dating back to around the time "The War on Terror" first began nearly 13 years ago in 2001, more than one million soldiers have been diagnosed with some form of mental illness, half of those with multiple illnesses.
It was also reported that veterans have been committing suicide at an alarming rate since the war began, at nearly 22 self-inflicted deaths occurring each day. That is more suicide-related deaths than from those lost in combat, according to an ABC report.
While the longest war in the history of American is still underway, with no end in visible sight, the fight expands to address these growing problems on the home front.
This week, the Veterans Benefits Administration issued over $30 billion in tuition and education programs to nearly 1 million veterans, service members and families, as well as a number of related colleges and trade schools; a good sign that veterans haven't gone completely forgotten.
At a time when the city's unemployment rate is at a staggering 8.7 percent, nearly one percent higher than the state and national averages, 10 percent of those are unemployed veterans.
Now more than ever we need to find a way to keep these vets off the streets and at the same time fill the job market with hard-working, disciplined and dedicated employers.
The city took some initial steps with a new expansion of the Veterans Entrepreneurship Program, a partnership with SUNY Levin Institute and The Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University, to provide interactive business seminars for veteran entrepreneurs.
It has been reported that the program has helped a little over one thousand service men and women find jobs since implementation in 2012, however more needs to be done to put them back to work.
At the upcoming "veterans summit" in Albany next month, there will be a proposed tax benefit program for businesses who higher unemployed veterans. A proposal like this is sure to reduce the growing veteran unemployment rate.
Governor Andrew Cuomo should pass and expand the proposal and take a "no man left behind" approach for those who gave their lives for this country.


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For the new 5:4 mixtape, i've turned to that which is closest to us all: the human body. Not a particularly promising theme, you might think, but once i began digging through my music library the sheer quantity of body references quickly became overwhelming (take your pick whether that says something about music in general or my collection in particular). i've structured the mix in four sections, each begun with a track concerning the whole body: part one rises from the feet up to the waist and hips, part two moves up the arms from the fingertips to the shoulders and chest, then there's an interlude focusing on the heart (the only part of the mix to delve inside the body), and finally part three ascends from the chin to the top of the head. Appropriately enough for a body-oriented mix, it's a little tongue-in-cheek from time to time, and because of what i wanted to include i've relaxed my usual rule of only featuring an artist once.
The range of music encountered on the journey is as broad as you've come to expect from these mixes, encompassing electronica and dance (Above & Beyond, Goldfrapp, Art Of Noise, Sunken Foal, Freezepop, Peaches, Venetian Snares, Depeche Mode, Erotic Market, Ryoji Ikeda, Bloodgroup, Gazelle Twin, Prurient, Body Sculptures, Man Without Country, Purity Ring, The Flashbulb, Björk, Kate Wax), film and TV scores (John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Cliff Martinez, Joseph Trapanese, Aria Prayogi & Fajar Yuskemal, tomandandy, Jay Chattaway, Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch, Howard Shore, Jim Williams, Jed Kurzel, James Newton Howard, Mica Levi, Jerry Goldsmith), light music (Paddy Kingsland, Bass Communion, Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble, The Real Tuesday Weld), pop of various chamber, rock, lyrical and plastic hues (Belle and Sebastian, Transvision Vamp, Chromatics, Björk, Anna Madsen, OY, Lene Alexandra, Chvrches, Goldfrapp, Sleep Party People, Kate Havnevik, Braids, CocoRosie), ambient (Venetian Snares, Chubby Wolf, Nordvargr, Not, Pinkcourtesyphone, David Wenngren & Christopher Bissonnette, Moss Covered Technology), leftfield and experimental (Frank Zappa, Squarepusher, Waldron, Stapleton, Sigmarsson, Haynes & Faulhaber, Grutronic, irr. app. (ext.)), and electronic (Aranos, Andrew Liles, Pauline Oliveros, Hecq, The Hafler Trio, The Caretaker, John Zorn, Indignant Senility, Daniel W J Mackenzie).
Four hours of bodily bits and bobs; here's the tracklisting in full, including links to get hold of the music. Once again, the mix can be downloaded or streamed via MixCloud. Read more


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