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So I see what people say and what they do in Gilmer are two different things. Now according to a posting that Mr. Davitto wrote there appears to be fault lying in why the Sabre Museum has bypassed Gilmer. I'm referring to an article in the Gilmer Mirror on the Sabre Museum. A copy of Mr. Davitto's posting is shown below from the Gilmer Mirror. Mr. Davitto points the finger at Steve Dean for causing the loss. I would like to know more about the meeting and why we loss the Sabre Museum. What did Dean say that was false? Moreover, why did Mr. Davitto feel so strongly that he traveled 1600 miles round trip to clear the name of his organization with Gilmer Officials. He clearly felt so strongly about this matter that he made a huge trip. So what did Steve Dean do and say that caused this? Mr. Davitto must have been correct when he approached City Officials as he stated he brought in two brief cases of documents. No rebuttle has been given to him nor an update by the Gilmer Mirror. Something is always smelling wrong in Gilmer and the public is starting to ask questions, whether it is our police, probabtion officers, sheriff, county judge or in this case Steve Dean. My goodness, why is it so hard to carry on normal business in Gilmer without Gilmer looking like it is run by the mob? So who can elaborate on this meeting? This would be an excellent follow-up story for the Gilmer Mirror so why have you not covered it?
« Peter B. Davitto wrote on Monday, Jul 04 at 05:57 PM »
Dear Mr. Jones,
I read your comments and I thank the Lord that we Americans are free to express our opinions and beliefs. Our incredible Military labors daily to protect and preserve this, our 1st Amendment right. Had you attended the Gilmer City Council meeting on Tuesday, June 28th, you would have heard me tell your City Officials that your local boy, Steve Dean was responsible for us leaving your fair city and he is the reason we are searching for a new location. Had you been at the May 24th City Council meeting you would have heard your Steve Dean falsify in public statements about us. Two of his false statements appear in the article above. He was untruthful in the May 24th meeting time and time again. I brought 2 brief cases of documents last Tuesday, documentary proof that what he said was false. His prevarications were wrong and, in my humble opinion, only meant to deceive your City Officials.
We were maligned by your Steve Dean and I made the 1,600 miles round trip to Gilmer to clear our good name. We believe I did that and I came home with my head held high. You sir and the good people of Gilmer have your Steve Dean to scoff at for your loss of our F-100 Museum.
On this July 4th - Happy Birthday America.
Peter B."Pete" Davitto
Clarkesville, Georgia
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« wayne jones wrote on Sunday, Jul 03 at 09:35 PM »
Looks like these Retired upper brass's like to throw their weight around to let other entities do their work for them and then wear their shiny brass to dedications to take credit for the projects. I duly respect all retires of our greatest on earth military,but some always try walking on water. I'm glad they were sent home without their ice cream and cake.
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Editor's Note: CNS staffer Mark Pattison traveled to the Holy Land in September as part of a study tour sponsored by the Catholic Near East Welfare Association and funded in part by the Catholic Communication Campaign. We will highlight his trip as the Vatican prepares for the Oct. 10-24 Synod of Bishops for the Middle East.
If you go to the Holy Land and talk to Christians in the region, you will be apt to hear a lot of talk about "Greek" Catholics.
Greek is the term that people in the region use to identify Eastern Catholics. In my recent visit to Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories, the Greek Catholics were usually Melkite Catholics, although in other parts of the Middle East, Chaldeans or Maronites might predominate. Eastern Catholics constitute a majority of Christians in the Holy Land. Melkite is just one of 22 Eastern rites in communion with Rome. More on that later.
The term "Eastern Catholic churches" is used for Catholic churches with origins in Eastern Europe, Asia or Africa that have their own distinctive liturgical and legal systems and are identified by the national or ethnic character of their region of orgin. The term "Greek Catholic" is used colloquially in the Middle East to differentiate between these Catholics and "Greek Orthodox," who constitute a majority of Christians in the Holy Land.
After the Great Schism of 1054 separating the Catholic Church and the Orthodox, the Orthodox generally organized their church around national identity. That holds true today. In addition to Greek Orthodox, you may see Russian Orthodox, Ukrainian Orthodox, Romanian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox, and a number of other Orthodox churches, each one with its own institutional autonomy.
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Roman Catholics, for instance, celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25. The Orthodox do not celebrate this feast until Jan. 7. However, many Eastern Catholics observe the feast of Theophany, when God in human form made himself manifest to other humans; this is a holy day of obligation in the Eastern Catholic calendar.
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Byzantine (often used in North America as a synonym for "Eastern"): Albanian, Belarussian, Bulgarian, Georgian, Greek, Hungarian, Italo-Albanian, Melkite, Romanian, Russian, American Ruthenian, Slovak, Ukrainian and Yugoslav churches.
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Original recipe, which I adapted from an old Bon Appétit magazine, calls for Vanilla ice cream.
I don't have an ice cream maker that is why I make deferent fillings, which are similar in texture and visually.
You might like to use large Blood or Navel oranges for the baskets or just serve this dessert in nice glass dessert dishes.
When I made this dessert, there were a lot of leftover ingredients and I decided to make two nonalcoholic cocktails, which were delicious and refreshing.
You can see them in my picture.
Serves: 6
For Grapefruit Baskets
• 6 pink grapefruits
• 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
• 3 teaspoons peeled and finely grated fresh ginger
• Fresh mint leaves for garnish
Coconut-Lime cream
• 16 ounces cream cheese room temperature
• 3 tablespoons coconut cream or coconut milk
• 3 tablespoons confectioners' sugar, plus more to taste
• Zest of 1 lime
• 2 tablespoons lime juice
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- To prepare grapefruit baskets: Cut grapefruits horizontally in half. Using paring or a grapefruit knife cut all around grapefruit halves and between membranes to release segments.
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- When ready to serve, place an ice cream scoop of coconut-lime filling in each reserved grapefruit cup. Spoon some grapefruit and ginger mixture over Coconut-Lime Filling. Garnish with mint.
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The surveillance review panel (feat. special guest James Clapper!) Obama announced on August 9th has taken shape. Four appointees have been named, and if this ends up being the totality of the panel, there's not much hope it will provide any sort of meaningful pushback on excessive or intrusive surveillance.
As the Washington Post reports, the four members of the panel are all Washington insiders.
[O]bama administration's surveillance review panel will include former intelligence and White House staffers, including Michael Morell, Richard Clarke, Cass Sunstein and Peter Swire.Morell is 33-year veteran of the CIA, who retired from his post just two weeks ago. Where he stands on privacy matters isn't exactly clear, but considering his former position as deputy director, it would stand to reason he's more aligned with the NSA's thinking than the public's.
Richard Clarke is a long-time cyberwar hawk, having served as the chairman of the Counter-Terrorism Security Group under George H.W. Bush, as well as a long stint on the National Security Counsel. Clarke has made recent pushes for more offensive cyberwar strategies and has generally contributed to the FUD surrounding these issues.
On the plus side, he was highly critical of the second Bush administration's actions during his testimony to the 9/11 Commission. That being said, he's really not in favor of scaling back surveillance efforts. Orin Kerr sums Clarke up this way in his piece on the surveillance panel.
[I]n my experience working on some similar issues as he did in the government, Clarke had a reputation for seeing everything as an extraordinarily grave national security threat. I would think Clarke is likely to bring in a pro-government perspective on the issues here.This brings us to Cass Sunstein, who's a bit of a wildcard. Sunstein's written work tends to draw together a blend of constitutional law, behavioral science and economics, often reaching some very interesting conclusions. But what's most concerning about Sunstein's appointment is the views he expressed in a 2008 paper co-authored with Adrian Vermule, where he argued that the government should be paying more attention to those spreading conspiracy theories.
"The existence of both domestic and foreign conspiracy theories, we suggest, is no trivial matter, posing real risks to the government's antiterrorism policies, whatever the latter may be." They go on to propose that, "the best response consists in cognitive infiltration of extremist groups"...Glenn Greenwald has more on Sunstein's paper in his 2010 piece for Salon.com
Sunstein advocates that the Government's stealth infiltration should be accomplished by sending covert agents into "chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups." He also proposes that the Government make secret payments to so-called "independent" credible voices to bolster the Government's messaging (on the ground that those who don't believe government sources will be more inclined to listen to those who appear independent while secretly acting on behalf of the Government). This program would target those advocating false "conspiracy theories," which they define to mean: "an attempt to explain an event or practice by reference to the machinations of powerful people, who have also managed to conceal their role."Whatever you may personally think about conspiracy theorists and the potential dangers they pose, it's hard to believe that government infiltration and propagandizing is the correct response. (It's somewhat hard to argue this sort of activity actually requires a response from the government at all.) Having someone with an inclination towards government-led espionage activities aimed at its own citizens on a surveillance review board isn't exactly a comforting thought.
This would be designed to increase citizens' faith in government officials and undermine the credibility of conspiracists.
The final name on the list, Peter Swire, may be the only appointee to take on an actively adversarial role. Swire has long been an advocate for privacy, having served as the Chief Counselor for Privacy in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during the Clinton administration.
More recently he has been very active working to achieve a global "Do Not Track" standard and has, over the past several years, written articles and given interviews critical of the agency's activities, including co-signing an amicus brief arguing that the NSA's telephone metadata program is illegal. He's also been a longtime critic of parts of the PATRIOT Act. If anyone's going to be advocating for privacy, it's probably going to be Swire. Unfortunately, this may leave him as the odd man out.
On top of that, this board, composed mainly of government and surveillance proponents, will be reporting directly to confirmed liar James Clapper (the administration phrases it "reporting through") who is or isn't directly involved with the appointment process, depending on how you define the word "establish."
I guess one (or 1.5, depending on Sunstein's contribution) out of four is better than nothing. But by selecting intelligence officials and former administration staff members, Obama is (once again) sending the message that the "debate" will be still be very tightly controlled.
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Comic 443: Far, Far Too Much Information
I do have one complaint - this is very technical and you will no doubt find it boring. So skip it. But -
The bottom line, "Relationship After Camping Trip: Strained" should not be where it is at all. It nearly ruins the flow of the joke. Here's why - the bottom line is essentially acting as a caption. It is removed from the other frames, stretches the whole width of the comic, and is at the bottom. As such, it reads like a description or title for the whole comic (for an example of this being used more or less effectively, see comic 365). The caption can probably be read either before or after the rest of the comic and it will work about equally well.
But that's not the purpose the "Relationship" line serves - it should be read last. I posit that it would noticeably dampen the humor to read that line first. The "Relationship" line is the punchline. The first four lines are the set up - they are almost like a syllogism:
1. Virginia Creeper Looks like X and can be used as a rope
2. Poison Ivy Looks Looks Like Y and grows near Virginia Creeper
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3. Girlfriend is into bondage
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4. Campfire is dark
All lead to implication [c], the punchline, namely that poison ivy was used by accident. Because we have to make that jump in our minds, it is funny. In many cases (puns being a good example, but many jokes fit) you have to make the conclusion yourself, and when you do, that's what makes it funny. Had the syllogism been spelled out, it wouldn't work as a joke, or at least, not nearly as well.
Yes, the last line is at the bottom, and so it is read last, but it would have been better to present it in the same form as the others - in a small box, and to make it clearly at the end. Yes, I know this would give you 5 boxes and maybe it would look weird, but Randall is a smart boy and I'm sure he could figure something out. A 6th box to add, or perhaps stretching out the two plant boxes.
Anyway, this just goes to show that while Randall M. can be funny, there are times when he just doesn't understand humor in the best way. Another example of this is in my long and complex thoughts on comic 398, which I have been meaning to dissect like this for a while. Sometime later (suffice it to say it's a sucky comic that would need only the tiniest of changes to be much funnier).
Anyway, that's all. Damn but I write a lot. Hope you didn't read that whole thing.
Update: A loyal reader sends in a version that uses the magic of photoshop to make this a better comic:
I find this much better. Tell me what you think, gang.
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At first I thought "come on, it's a good joke, don't nitpick too hard on one line's design," but after seeing the 5-panel layout, I completely agree. But if Munroe's only a couple limestones short of a Giza of humor, then perhaps he's due for an upward curve in quality.ReplyDelete
Don't let that slow you down, though, Carl.
Oh it was TOTALLY nitpicky though!ReplyDelete
It does unnerve me that I've liked two comics in a row (though "I Love My Own Webcomic" was more cute than funny). I'm still making up my mind on MacGuyver or however you spell it, of course, I'll post once my thoughts congeal.
Is this site actually, you know, for real?ReplyDelete
Or it just a clever parody of nerds' propensity for over-analyzing every freakin' thing?
If the latter, I salute you. It's utterly brilliant :-) If not, seek help.
I don't even know. As long as #2 makes you think I'm brilliant, let's pretend it's that. It probably is.ReplyDelete
My take on it:ReplyDelete
Maybe the final square should have a picture of a sore skin? Nah, that would be just explaining the joke. I don't know. I am not a comic genius. :-(
Oh, maybe a drawing of an emergency room? Are poison ivy really that toxic? Wikipedia says they CAN be life threatening, though I'm not sure about this idea.
When I say "my take" I really mean "my tiny cut and tiny paste tiny adjustment of Kristen's take"ReplyDelete
Maybe this is how they use photoshop on tiny islands? (tiny tweaks)
- AnonymousApril 27, 2009 at 11:39 PM
My beef with this comic is that he felt the need to qualify "bondage" with "light". As in, "Oh dear no, we're not any of those *heavy* bondage freaks. We're totally normal!"ReplyDelete
As far as I'm concerned, the only time "light" has been successfully used to modify a dubious activity was in Arrested Development: "A little light treason."
that is an excellent point, and a great George Bluth quote.ReplyDelete
though i guess maybe you could say that it has to be "light" because otherwise it would require some stuff that you can't always fake out of vines. You could say that. but i'm not going to.
- AnonymousMay 7, 2009 at 2:41 AM
light bondage *is* normal, and it is *certainly* different than SM or dom bondage.ReplyDelete
I assume you would know that if you ever had sex....
That said, carry on. I enjoy the humor critiques, just not the willful ignorance that seems to plague your posts on his better comics. It's ok to just say that "X was wrong with this one, I did have to google Y however..."
It's at the bottom. The rules of the ENGLISH FUCKING LANGUAGE dictate it is to be read last.ReplyDelete
Right, but design and placement depend on where your eye is drawn upon reading the comic.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 28, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Light bondage equals dangerous sexual deviancey? The Fuck?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 22, 2010 at 8:42 AM
I think the real problem with the comic is not where he includes "Relationship After Camping Trip: Strained" but rather -that- he includes "Relationship After Camping Trip: Strained." The implication of the use of the wrong vine is heavy handed enough in the fourth panel that the further explanation is utterly unnecessary.ReplyDelete
i dunno - that would have been awfully subtle. Maybe I am too dumb, but I think it's better as is. an interesting idea though.ReplyDelete


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I would like to make a sincere apology to the MGoBlog community. When I started my "A Few Interesting Recruiting Notes", my aim was just to update you guys on the comings and goings of recruits around the country. I'd also post what my friends were hearing about the Michigan recruits, because I thought you'd like to hear it. I had no idea, however, that it would turn into something as far reraching as it has become. These threads are being referenced on 247/Scout/ and even on the Bama and SEC boards. While I stand by EVERYTHING I've written, I'm bound to be wrong about something, because my friends can be wrong. I'm not very thick skinned truth be told, and I really don't want the backlash that will result from it.
I do this for fun, and I want it to continue being fun for me. With that being said, I'm no longer going to be doing these recruiting updates. I love this board, and I enjoy being a member of the community, so I will remain and be happy to share my thoughts on all things Alabama.


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Received Funding From Tca, Positive Experience
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Tech Coast Angels led two rounds of funding for my company, AIRSIS, Inc. The process in both cases was fair, efficient, and in our case, resulted in $2M in funding at attractive terms ($1M in each of 2 rounds). I have read some of the negative reviews, and it seems like many come from entrepreneurs who may not have the right expectations of what an angel investment group is all about. Here are my 2 cents:
1. You have to go into the process realizing that you are not pitching to a VC fund - you are pitching to a group of angel investors who have been conveniently assembled to allow you to make a single pitch to 40+ accredited investors. Some of these investors can invest $500K+ in your deal. Most will likely invest $25K to $50K.
2. If you get the attention of a TCA member to lead your deal, he/she will do much of the heavy lifting to rally others into the deal. You will also have an opportunity to present in other regions. While this takes more time, you have the advantage that you have already been vetted by existing members. In both of my investment rounds, we received funding by members in San Diego, Orange County, LA, and Santa Barbara.
3. The closing and funding process was professionally handled (by a TCA-hired attorney), and the term sheet gave us a mechanism to bring our own non-TCA contacts into the deal, with these contacts knowing that terms were set in an arms-length manner (as opposed to friends-and-family deals).
4. Since our funding in '05 and '07, TCA investors have loaned my Company additional funds when we needed it (over $400K), and have provided strategic counsel and even access to customers, partners, and related business development. I have 30 TCA investors, and without exception all have been patient and entrepreneur-friendly. I have done my part in this by keeping all investors informed on the Company's progress through quarterly investor updates and annual audited financials.
The bottom line: It is extremely difficult to raise $500K to $2M from any source. It is usually too big for friends and family (or a single angel investor), and too small for VC. Thus, for my company (raising $2M), TCA was a VERY good fit.
If you have questions about my experiences with TCA, feel free to contact me at:
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Penny Press needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 93 designs submitted by 26 freelance designers.
Basically we are launching a new, up-start discount print house operation in teh next few months and need a logo image that is clean, professional and expresses what we are offering.
We are going to be offering discount printing that will cost pennies (hence the name) per product. We really want to focus on the low cost and all pricing will be in cents per units (7 cents per card or 15 cents per cost card etc.). So we choose the brand title Penny Press.
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US President Barack Obama's visit to Israel was widely seen as a success, given that the primary goal was to win over the hearts of an Israeli public that had been, at best, suspicious of the American leader.
But behind all the praise and admiration Obama heaped upon Israel, there was a gentle chiding that showed he still views the lack of peace in the region as primarily the fault of the Jewish state.
Zionism is great and is the unprecedented culmination of a millennia-old dream, but Israel must surrender part of the vision for the sake of peace and justice. That was the thrust of Obama's overall message to Israelis.
Obama's approach revealed three important truths:
It demonstrated that despite being a "Christian" nation, the government of the US doesn't see the biblical significance of Israel's rebirth.
It showed a clear lack on Obama's part to take even recent history into account. The Jews have in fact surrendered part of the Zionist vision, numerous times. The Jews did not protest when in 1922 the British lopped off two-thirds of their promised homeland to create Jordan, or in 1947 when the UN partitioned what was left of that homeland. In 1993, the Jews agreed to again relinquish those lands, and in 2005, tired of waiting for an agreement to be signed, Israel unilaterally surrendered Gaza.
Lastly, Obama showed that 10 serious misconceptions continue to undergird the international community's approach to the peace process.
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FamilySearch has been adding more records to its database. When you visit their website, a red star will be next to those newly added or updated records. One example of an updated record is the Illinois, Cook County, Birth Registers, 1871-1915. When I last reported on FamilySearch Records updates, they only had these records at 43% completed; today it is 100%.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Oct. 8, 2013) – A capacity crowd of over 200 people packed the Carnegie Hotel's Grand Soldiers Ballroom Tuesday night to take part in the inaugural "Holding Court" preseason basketball event featuring ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas.
The gathering, which was presented by Johnson City Honda, also featured former college head coaches Bobby Cremins, Les Robinson and Sonny Smith. In addition, current coaches such as Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski, Kentucky head coach John Calipari and Gonzaga head coach Mark Few joined in the discussion via live video conferencing from their respective campuses.
"This was a great way to start talking about the upcoming college basketball season, and I'm very grateful to everyone that agreed to be part of it," said ETSU head coach Murry Bartow, whose relationships with each coach helped secure their participation for the evening. "To have this event for the first time and to have a sellout crowd was fantastic, and it wouldn't have been possible without the help of Jay Bilas and the six coaches who were so gracious to be here."
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The rumors are true! Google Maps for iPhone is now available in the App Store. One of the biggest things it offers that Apple Maps doesn't (other than not getting you lost in Australia), is public transit directions by train, bus, or subway.
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Personally, I'm having issues installing Google Maps and keep getting a "this item is no longer available" error, but others are able to download it fine. We've heard installing through iTunes on your computer might be a good work around as well.
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I was talking with a friend of mine two days ago and he mentioned that his son had played it. Apparently there is an online rating system that shows how fast people solve each area. He had done an area in 9 seconds!!
The developers contacted him to find out how he did it. Its repeatable.
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It's a little strange how your perspective changes when you are a parent. Something about the power of visualizing your child in the position of any other child who meets with an accident or untimely demise makes the emotional impact of images and thoughts of that type an order of magnitude more potent. The interesting thing is that I find it is not just limited to cases where there is a simple parallel between my kids and the victims. For example, I've been literally sickened by the carnage in Iraq and in Lebanon for quite a while. But I find that my empathy has extended even to the adults. Particularly the adults who are being kidnapped, tortured and murdered in massive numbers. I can rationalize the death of a soldier in a firefight -- the act of kidnapping an unarmed, helpless civilian and toruring him to death seems inhuman to an incomprehensible degree. I feel sick when I think about it, and it's because I am empathizing with the victims. I don't think I would have viewed it the same way before I had kids. I was a lot more dispassionate in my outlook then.
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Having a child brings your soul to the surface.ReplyDelete
I think my experience has been similar. It started with children. I couldn't watch a movie with a kid my son or daughter's age suffering. But I think you are right, it spreads to other humans as well.ReplyDelete
So, so true. The things I could watch before I had kids and since I've had them are remarkably different. And feelings regarding news coverage are are similar too - I just can't watch it anymore, hurts too much.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10/24/2006 5:06 PM
I'm an intern in family medicine and I've had a similar experience lately but more locally. I'm on a pediatrics rotation and almost every day a kid comes with something that breaks your heart. Sexual abuse, anoxic brain injury their uncle caused, trying to commit suicide at the age of ten, high on cocaine at the age of one. Every day I go home and hug my daughter harder then the day before.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10/25/2006 3:56 PM
Great post. I feel this way often as a pediatrician. I used to do the ER thing but am now in urgent care and the stuff that comes in is heart breaking. We also have close friends that had to move back to Isreal, their native home, and the images shown in Time and Newsweek hit me in my core - and I hope my own kids don't find copies ever.ReplyDelete


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NVIDIA Quadro K4000 in Review
May 6, 2013 11:23 pm
Tags: 3D, Autodesk, Maya, NVIDIA, Quadro
The NVIDIA Quadro K4000 is a new high performance graphics card fromNVIDIA. It retails for around $800 USD making it a freaking steal! (More on exactly why later.) For many real-world applications you get performance very close to its bigger brother the NVIDIA Quadro K5000, but for less than half the price. (Performance wise it's approximately akin to a Quadro 5000 Fermi, but sleeker and more power efficient utilizing the new Kepler core.)
The NVIDIA Quadro K4000 I received just prior to testing. Yes, it also looked like this after testing. These Kepler cards run pretty cool.
Admittedly the Quadro 4000 was slower than its bigger brother in every single test I ran however for 3D content creation software like Maya, the relative real-world performance difference for all but the densest of scenes was negligible. (CUDA intensive tasks, offline hardware rendering and extremely heavy textures are the exception.) If you're looking for a great performing Quadro card but can't drop $1800-$2000 for a Quadro K5000, the Quadro K4000is a viable option. Well, it's more than viable - it's a great option! First, a little about quadro in general.
The Quadro product lineup is targeted toward professional Workstation graphics and extremely high resolution multi-device displays. If your daily routine involves Maya, SolidWorks, CATIA, AutoCad, medical imaging, gas, etc with millions of polygons, gigabytes of textures - a Quadro card makes life easier. (And in some cases possible at all.) For Adobe users, including Photoshop CS6 and many other programs in the CS6 lineup, they can also benefit from the improved compute performance of the NVIDIA Quadro K4000 as can users of many high end compositing applications such as Nuke and Nukex by The Foundry.
Unlike its bigger brother, the Quadro K5000, the smaller Quadro K4000 is a single slot card. The video outs are 2x Display Port connectors and one DVI-I connector. The DVI-D connector, as is visible on the Quadro K5000, is now gone. On the next generation of Quadro cards I wouldn't be surprised of all DVI connectors vanished in favor of Display Port:
Quadro K4000 on top, Quadro K5000 on bottom.
Even compared to its bigger brother, the smaller K4000 still boasts some pretty impressive specs:
|GPU Spec
|Quadro K4000
|Quadro K5000
|CUDA Cores
|Gigaflops (single precision)
|Memory Bandwidth (GB/s)
|134 GB/s
|173 GB/s
|Max Power Consumption
|80 watts
|122 watts
|Max supported displays
|OpenGL Version
|Slots Occupied
Power Efficiency
Just like its bigger brother, the Quadro K4000 also employs the new Kepler core. The payoff is greater thermal efficiency over the previous Fermi core designs. Not surprisingly the Quadro K4000 is a touch more efficient than its faster, bigger brother the Quadro K5000. Both of which are considerably more efficient than cards from the preceding Fermi generation:
The result is more number crunching awesome and less waste heat. I experienced a case temperature drop of about 10 degrees over the Fermi cores. In a well vented case, the heat sink shroud of the card itself runs at around 44 Celsius (112 Fahrenheit). This is an improvement over the Fermi core cards that regularly hit 54 Celsius (130 Fahrenheit). That's heatsink shroud temperature not core temperature!
Synthetic Benchmarks
I benchmarked the Quadro K4000 in SPECviewperf® 11:
I did an average of 3 test iterations. For those more familiar with theGeForce lineup, SPECviewperf® is the workstation analog of 3DMark. It'spretty much the industry standard benchmark for workstation graphics cards. One must keep in mind however, SPECviewperf® 11 is a synthetic benchmark. The reported performance numbers will vary from one machine to another even with identical graphics cards. This is not unexpected. The best test of performance is with a real-world data that the end-user will actually be working with.
First my SPECviewperf® 11 results:
These are somewhat lower than the official NVIDIA results (as my machine is not the same behemoth as theirs) but they are still surprisingly good. In fact, as we'll see in a moment these results are precisely why this card is such a great deal. First, the specs of the test machine I used for the results displayed above, are shown below:
|AMD Phenom II x4 @ 3,200 MHz
|12,288 MB DDR3 @ 800 Mhz
|Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.
|NVIDIA Quadro K4000
So why are these results so good? Because look how the card stacks up (theK4000 is pink in the graph below):
So you basically get a Quadro 5000 (fermi) for half the price and much greater performance per watt. The card runs cooler but still delivers about the same performance as its previous generation bigger brother. Still, it does loose out to its current generation bigger brother the Quadro K5000 (kepler) in ever single test, as expected.
You can also see the GeForce GTX 480 (fermi) for comparison. This is why a Quadro card is so critical to high performance in engineering, medical, gas, geospatial, and digital content creation applications. Just look at theMAYA-03 result. While this doesn't directly translate to real-world performance it does provide insight.
Quadro vs. GeForce
I get asked this all the time! I always get great feedback for my Quadro reviews. (Thanks guys!) The questions are generally the same. People wonder if they really need, or could benefit from, a Quadro card. They ask questions like:
"Are they [Quadro cards] really that much faster [than GeForce]?"
"Can you also play games on a Quadro card?"
Unfortunately the real answer isn't as simple as 'yes' or 'no'. While you can play games on a Quadro card, and they do generally perform very well, that's not the whole story. I know what you're thinking though:
"Who cares, does it work?!"
Yes, but keep reading: Your wallet should care in two ways. First, for pure gaming you will get more bang-for-buck out of a GeForce card - A lot more. This can save you some significant mad-money, like $1500-2000. Add that to your Vegas jar. While saving money always sounds great, there's more to think about...
The Quadro lineup is geared toward graphics professionals, engineers, medical imaging, geospatial, or anyone who needs very heavy computational performance. By "heavy" we're not talking photographs and web graphics. Think more along the lines of a 3D model that accurately describes every thread of every bolt in your whole damn car - and all the other parts. Think programs likeAutodesk Maya, The Foundry's Nuke and Nukex, Catia, SolidWorks. For certain video encoders that don't already make use of onboard NVENC (the on-card dedicated hardware encoder for H.264 video) the added CUDA cores of a Quadro can really help. In these cases a Quadro can save you significant dough! We're talking reduced production times here where $2000 is peanuts.
I can attest that for certain programs, including Autodesk Maya, there is an immense difference in real-world performance between a Quadro and a GeForcecard. This is in-viewport performance where I can pan and dolly 1,000 square miles of detailed terrain without breaking a sweat. (The software rendering performance i.e. mentalray is identical.) When the system requirements say "Requires professional graphics card," they mean it!
So does that make Quadro cards faster at gaming? Surprisingly no. They'll be on-par with an equivalent GeForce card, sometimes a touch slower sometimes faster but by no significant margin. Remember, game engines are written with GeForce in mind. Technically, you can play games with a Quadro with pretty-settings cranked up on your workstation, but it's not nirvana.
Just for fun (and these results are not official as 3D Mark 11 is largely unaware of Quadro cards) here's the results of running 3D Mark 11 on theQuadro K4000 vs. a GeForce GTX 480 (Fermi):
|Quadro K4000
|GeForce GTX 480
|graphics score
|physics score
|combined score
As you can see for gaming GeForce is the way to go. However for digital content creation and engineering apps, don't forget that embarrassing SPECviewperf®11 result I showed earlier where the Quadro sends the GeForce packing. Pick the right tool for the job!
Final Thoughts
The Quadro K4000 really is a great card and retails for around $800 USD. For the price/performance it delivers relative to its siblings, that makes it asteal. If I was a freelance artist looking to spend money out of my own pocket, this is probably be the card I'd buy.
The only negative point I could find was the paintFX brush outline in Autodesk Maya 2013 didn't follow the cursor. That, and there was a flicker when you pan the camera in a paintFX panel. Maya paintFX is pretty well known for being finicky when it comes to GPUs. I wouldn't be surprised if this gets fixed with a future driver update. Fortunately, it was only a minor annoyance and not enough to affect workflow. Still, bang-for-buck the Quadro K4000 is five stars all the way!
You can find out more about these cards at the NVIDIA website, as well as more about the performance test suite SPECviewperf® 11 at the following links:
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The Mocho Loop is another Big Sur Classic combining spectacular coastal views, a magical walk through a lush river canyon, and a rarely seen waterfall on the main stem of the South Fork Big Sur River. I started the loop with an always-inspiring hike up Boronda Ridge and then ran down the Coast Ridge Road with more marvelous coastal vistas all the way to the top of the Terrace Creek trail. Terrace Creek descends into an old growth redwood grove with a cascading stream along the way. At the bottom of Terrace Creek I took the Pine Ridge Trail to Sykes Hot Springs. The Pine Ridge trail is in awesome condition; the best I have seen it personally. The Pine Ridge Trail is also very runnable with excellent views of the Big Sur River canyon. When the Pine Ridge Trail crosses the Big Sur River, instead of going downstream to the springs I went upstream to the confluence of the North and South Forks of the Big Sur River. This mile-long stretch to the confluence is very pretty with cliffs walls on both sides of the river. At the confluence I went right onto the South Fork Big Sur River. For about 3 miles from the confluence I made my way up the South Fork fairly efficiently as a combination of flood channels, sand bars and rock hopping meant I only had to be in the stream part of the time. Higher flow on the river would make this a more arduous trek as I as continuously crossing the stream. GPS route here.After a major tributary, the canyon walls along the South Fork Big Sur River narrow into a gorge and I could sense a waterfall was coming. Indeed around a cliffy corner the lower section of Mocho Falls appeared. Since the falls is on the main stem of the river, the volume is impressive and the pool beneath the falls is big and deep. Perhaps most impressive is the amphitheater of smooth rock surrounding the falls and pool. The vertical walls around the falls meant I had to backtrack to find a route above the falls to continue upstream. A weakness in the cliffs allows one to ascend a very steep slope above the gorge and then traverse steep, sometimes loose slopes above the waterfall gorge. Mocho Falls has two distinct steps, but what was most fascinating about the falls was a twisty chasm of elegantly sculpted and polished rock separating the two steps. The depth of the chasm was such that it was impossible to see both steps of the falls at the same time cleanly (at least without a wetsuit and ropes). Nonetheless, what is visible is an amazing sight and it was a treat to experience this rarely seen falls. I can only imagine what Mocho Falls would look and sound like after a heavy rain when the water is squeezed through the chasm. In fact, after such rains the roaring sound of the falls is so great that it can be easily heard from the Devils Staircase climb up the Big Sur Trail.
Above Mocho Falls the lovely scenery continues with slick rock pools with fern and moss-covered cliffs a constant. At the junction with Mocho Creek I ate lunch under a lovely canopy of Santa Lucia Firs, incense cedars and redwoods – a rare occasion to have all three of these amazing tree species living side-by-side – yet another wonder of Big Sur! After lunch I went up Mocho Creek a short distance to see Mocho Creek Falls, which is a pretty falls in a lush setting – well worth the visit. Instead of continuing up Mocho Creek to intersect the Big Sur Trail I decided to backtrack to the South Fork Big Sur River to take the river all the way to Rainbow Camp. It was so beautiful I didn't want it to end and I also wanted to do the Devils Staircase climb a little later in the day when it would be shaded. This turned out to be a good decision with more beautiful pools and cascades along the river lined with Santa Lucia Firs. At Rainbow Camp I turned onto the Big Sur Trail for the climb up to Cold Springs and Coast Ridge, known as the Devils Staircase due to the relentless switchbacks and substantial elevation gain. In all, it took me about 1.5 hours to go from Rainbow Camp to Cold Springs up the Devils Staircase, hardly "impassable" as some have commented (although a big pack would certainly slow things down). Bright green flagging marks the trickiest spots in the riparian zones. There are blowdowns along the climb and the brush is thick at times, but progress is reasonable. Back on the Coast Ridge Road I knew I was setting myself up for another awesome descent down Boronda Ridge in evening light. Going down this special ridge is always a fantastic way to end an adventure run, particularly a classic like the Mocho Loop! GPS route here.


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by Tom Utescher
As the softball infielders for visiting Springside Chestnut Hill Academy warmed up for the bottom of the seventh inning, senior catcher Aly Markey called out to her classmates, shortstop Alexis Giovinazzo and first baseman Resnya Hughes.
"Hey, this is our last inning of high school softball!"
That might have been tempting fate, but the Lions took care of business in that final half-inning and didn't allow any inroads into their 6-3 lead by the host Quakers of Penn Charter.
With the victory, SCH closed out the 2012 season with an overall record of 13-6, and finished second to Agnes Irwin within the Girls Inter-Ac League, with a mark of 9-3. The Lions lost both of their games with Irwin (11-1), split with Episcopal Academy, and swept the other four Inter-Ac teams. Irwin's league loss, surprisingly, came against last-place Baldwin.
Longtime coach Steph Mill related, "At one point we knew that we weren't going to take the league [title], and I said to the team that our goal now is to finish in second place, and be there by ourselves. The team never gave up all season, and that carried through to today, when we fell behind a couple times but battled back.
"I kept telling them just come to play every day and don't assume anything," she went on, "and when Baldwin beat Agnes Irwin it made me look like I knew what I was talking about."
Last Wednesday's outcome meant a fourth-place Inter-Ac finish for Penn Charter (6-6), one spot behind Episcopal (7-5). The next day, Charter closed out its season in the semifinals of the Pa. Independent Schools Tournament, with a 6-3 loss to eventual champ Mercersburg Academy giving the Quakers a final record of 12-12.
Charter was the early leader in the league finale against Springside Chestnut Hill. Leading off the bottom of the first for PC, freshman Kayla Quinn walked, moved ahead two bases on deep fly balls, and then scored on a strange little hit by senior Emily Kurtz. When it came off the bat it looked like a little bloop that might roll foul, but the ball was nowhere near the baselines. Indecisive SCH looked at it until both runners were safe, with Quinn scoring the game's opening run.
The Lions quickly matched that point at the top of the second. Eighth-grader Ashley Lubisky walked on, then made it to third base with a slide on a hit by sophomore Jenna Moriarty. Moriarty stole second, but a pop-out followed and then Charter got a force at the plate on a ball put in play by Hughes.
Freshman Bridget McDermott walked to tie the bases, then junior Michelle Cybularz batted up a slow roller to the left of the pitcher's circle. The Lions were safe all around and the score was tied 1-1. PC got the last out when senior shortstop Danielle Sienko turned and dashed back into left field for a great diving catch on a shallow fly ball.
The visitors got their first lead when Giovinazzo led off the third with a solo home run over the fence in left center. The Quakers quickly countered with a pair of runs in the bottom half. Sophomore Kristina Kubach started out with a walk and then scored on a hit by Sienko that dropped into right field, although the senior was tagged out trying to reach third base. Kurtz was hit by a pitch and then came home on a double deep down the left field line by junior Molly Mornhinweg, making 3-2 for the home team.
There was a break in the scoring in the fourth inning, as both teams went down one-two-three.
Springside Chestnut Hill went ahead for good in the fifth. With one out, Giovinazzo got on base through an error and then Markey walked on. After that, the Penn Charter battery broke down and there was a combination of three wild pitches and passed balls, along with another walk. The Lions scored twice to go up 4-3.
In the bottom half, SCH shortstop Giovinazzo helped quash a threat by the Quakers, who led off with a single to right center by Kubach. Giovinazzo scooped up a grounder hit by Sienko, stepped on second for the force out, and threw to first in time to nab Sienko, her longtime club softball teammate.
The visitors added their two insurance runs in the sixth frame. Hughes got on with a dropped fly ball, then went to second on a ground-out by McDermott. Cybularz hit to centerfield and wound up on second while Hughes came home to make it 5-3. Before PC struck out the next batter, a wild pitch sent Cybularz to third, and when Giovinazzo walked on, the two engineered a double to steal to put up the final run of the afternoon.
The Quakers were unable to get a runner past first base in the bottom of the sixth, and they went down in order in the seventh.
That was, indeed, the last inning of high school softball for Giovinazzo and Markey, who will play for Muhlenberg College and Albright College, respectively, and for Hughes, who will attend Drew University.
"The seniors set the example day-in and day-out, and that was crucial for our very young team," said Mill, referring to the fact that five current seniors and juniors from the 2011 roster did not come out for softball this spring.
"Alexis has been a rock for us – so solid with her bat and with her defense," Mill commented. "She's a multi-year captain and a leader who's going to be hard to replace. She's passionate about the sport and she's always the first one thinking softball.
"We had an eighth-grade pitcher, so Aly's experience as a catcher was really important," the coach continued. "She worked with Madi Salztman [the middle school hurler] and took her under her wing, helping her stay focused. She also calls her own pitches, which is a plus."
Turning to Hughes, Mill pointed out, "Resnya was another five-year varsity player for us, like Alexis. With her height (5'11") at first base she was able to make difficult throws from third base or short look easy. It looks like the ball is going to go flying out of play and she tippy-toes it and makes the catch. She's a hardworking player, and I think she only had two errors in each of the last two seasons."


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It comes as no surprise to anyone keeping a finger on the pulse of our culture that a dramatically high number of young people are leaving the church.
Secular geologists attribute cluster of dinosaur tracks to a "dinosaur disco" and that sauropods spent time in the water. But what does the evidence say?
We know death and suffering aren't God's fault—they are the result of living in a sin-cursed world. And Bible believing Christians have hope in midst of pain.
Morality in the secular worldview changes with each generation, but Christians have an unchanging standard and can consistently call actions right or wrong.
Geologists claim their work with the fossil Dicynodon shows that the supposed terrestrial mass extinction happened before the marine extinction.
That's why Richard Dawkins despises young-earth creationists—he recognizes the incredible threat they are to his atheistic religion.
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According to conservative Rabbi Dov Lior, not every sperm is sacred. Indeed, he believes that some sperm is racially superior to others and claims, "Gentile sperm leads to barbaric offspring." Really? I wonder if Rabbi Dov Lior took part in a tasting test would he know the difference?
The Rabbi says, in a news article on ynetnews.com, that Jewish Law prohibits sterile couples from conceiving using non-Jew's sperm, as it causes adverse traits. While on the subject of single mothers he states their children, "cannot be 100% normal."
Rabbi Dov Lior, a senior authority on Jewish law in the Religious Zionism movement, asserted recently that a Jewish woman should never get pregnant using sperm donated by a non-Jewish man – even if it is the last option available.
According to Lior, a baby born through such an insemination will have the "negative genetic traits that characterize non-Jews." Instead, he advised sterile couples to adopt.
After years of loneliness and failed dates, as yearning for child becomes intolerable, increasing number of national-religious women decide to take their fate in their hands, start family as single mothers while maintaining religious way of life. New phenomenon already dividing sector, irking rabbis.
Lior addressed the issue during a women's health conference held recently at the Puah Institute, a fertility clinic. His conservative stance negated a ruling widely accepted by rabbis, which states that sperm donated by a non-Jew is preferable to that of an anonymous Jew, who might pose a genealogical risk.
"Sefer HaChinuch (a book of Jewish law) states that the character traits of the father pass on to the son," he said in the lecture. "If the father in not Jewish, what character traits could he have? Traits of cruelty, of barbarism! These are not traits that characterize the people of Israel."
Lior added identified Jews as merciful, shy and charitable – qualities that he claimed could be inherited. "A person born to Jewish parents, even if they weren't raised on the Torah – there are things that are passed on (to him) in the blood, it's genetic," he explained. "If the father is a gentile, then the child is deprived of these things.
"I even read in books that sometimes the crime, the difficult traits, the bitterness – a child that comes from these traits, it's no surprise that he won't have the qualities that characterize the people of Israel," he added.
Lior condemned artificial insemination and sperm donation in general, saying that they lead to waste of sperm, unclear genealogy and other Jewish law offenses. He warned against undergoing intrauterine insemination at hospitals, where the workers may mix sperm samples for one reason or another - a major halachic violation.
On the subject of women who freeze their eggs to use at a later date, the rabbi asserted that instead they should concentrate their efforts on getting married younger.
"Our public has been influenced by a part of the Western culture in which every woman, instead of becoming a mother, needs to get a Masters Degree," he lamented. "The role of women – child rearing – is not less important than an academic degree." Lior noted that there is nothing wrong with attaining a profession, but it should not be a priority.
Moreover, the rabbi spoke against single women getting pregnant.
"We can understand the desire of every woman to have a child, but according to our Torah it is impossible to address the demand of a certain woman when it can cause someone else suffering," he said.
"If a child is born without a father, he cannot be 100% normal." He stated that rabbinical literature defines these kids as "criminals and subjects of other negative phenomena."
This rabbi's comments are wrong and deeply offensive. His words once again confirm that all Religious belief is a form of mental illness; a destructive social ill fueled by bigotry, hatred, misogyny, homophobia and racism; and its capacity to devalue human life, to undermine the individual and to destroy the community is truly terrifying.
Previously on Dangerous Minds
Of Lies and Echoes: Documenting Israeli Dissent


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- World rankings
Nadal plays down top-four chances
Rafael Nadal insists it is too early to say when he will be ready to compete with the likes of Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Andy Murray following his comeback from injury.
The 11-time grand slam champion claimed his first title in just his second tournament since returning to the sport, beating David Nalbandian to lift the Brasil Open on Sunday.
But while the Spaniard is buoyed by success in South America after spending seven months on the sidelines, he has admitted that the knee injury is still not fully healed and refuses to set goals beyond his next tournament.
"I'll definitely enjoy this one because of all the problems that I've gone through with the knee," said Nadal, who claimed the second title of his career in Sao Paulo in 2005. "When I won for the first time here I was just starting and hopefully this will mark a new beginning.
"When the knee is feeling better like today I feel like that I can do more of the things that I used to do my entire life," he said. "If the pain is bearable like it was today, then it's fine."
Asked if he was ready to compete with the world's top four once more, Nadal said: "We are going to see how the knee responds and then take stock.
"I don't have any problem playing against better rivals because I accept that I can lose. Losing is not a problem for me. I just need time to continue improving and return to a more competitive level."
Men's rankings: 1. Novak Djokovic (SRB), 2. Roger Federer (SUI), 3. Andy Murray (GBR), 4. David Ferrer (ESP), 5. Rafael Nadal (ESP), 6. Tomas Berdych (CZE), 7. Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG), 8. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA), 9. Janko Tipsarevic (SRB), 10. Richard Gasquet (FRA)
Women's rankings: 1. Serena Williams (USA), 2. Victoria Azarenka (BLR), 3. Maria Sharapova (RUS), 4. Agnieszka Radwanska (POL), 5. Li Na (CHN), 6. Angelique Kerber (GER), 7. Sara Errani (ITA), 8. Petra Kvitova (CZE), 9. Samantha Stosur (AUS), 10. Caroline Wozniacki (DEN)


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You Have Heard of 'Movie Love', But What About 'Movie Trailer Love'? [VIDEO]
We've seen some really cool marriage proposals over the years, but this is a new one that is pretty impressive, and arguably one of our favorites.
This video is posted at Vimeo and it is awesome. David Pogue took his girlfriend to a movie screening at a resort. He got the people at the theater to play a "Fake Movie Trailer" that he had made about how they had met, got together, and eventually fell in love.
It's great. He got actors to play all of the parts, so it took a little bit for his girlfriend to realize it was a story about them, but when she did, she started crying, and you can tell they are the good kind of tears.
When the trailer ended, the lights came up, and he proposes… she says YES!
Pogue's Proposal from david pogue on Vimeo.
We are going to make sure to keep following David's Vimeo channel for the "Wedding".


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High Speed Chase Suspect Appears In Missoula Justice Court [AUDIO] [DOCUMENT]
20 year-old Michael McVey, of Great Falls, appeared in Missoula justice court Wednesday charged with two felonies and numerous misdemeanors after a high-speed chase that ranged from Great Falls to Missoula on Tuesday.
Deputy Missoula County Attorney Shaun Donovan says McVey allegedly stole a Nissan Maxima in Great Falls, ran the Cascade County Sheriff off the road in an attempt to escape, and led Montana Highway Patrol and Sheriff's deputies on a chase at speeds well over 100 miles per hour all the way to Missoula, where he eventually crashed the car and was apprehended.
Donovan says McVey is being charged with felony theft and criminal endangerment, along with misdemeanors ranging from three counts of fleeing from a police officer and being an habitual traffic offender.
Donovan says the two felonies each carry a maximum 10 year sentence, and fines of $50,000, while the misdemeanors have sentences of about one year each, with more fines attached.
Donovan says McVey has been arrested 16 times in the past two years.
McVey is in jail on $50,000 bond for each of the felonies.
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From tomorrow's London Sunday Times Magazine, the case against Kofi Annan:
Srebrenica is rarely mentioned nowadays in Annan's offices on the 38th floor of the UN secretariat building in New York. He steps down in December after a decade as secretary-general. His retirement will be marked by plaudits. But behind the honorifics and the accolades lies a darker story: of incompetence, mismanagement and worse. Annan was the head of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) between March 1993 and December 1996. The Srebrenica massacre of up to 8,000 men and boys and the slaughter of 800,000 people in Rwanda happened on his watch. In Bosnia and Rwanda, UN officials directed peacekeepers to stand back from the killing, their concern apparently to guard the UN's status as a neutral observer. This was a shock to those who believed the UN was there to help them.
Annan's term has also been marked by scandal: from the sexual abuse of women and children in the Congo by UN peacekeepers to the greatest financial scam in history, the UN-administered oil-for-food programme. Arguably, a trial of the UN would be more apt than a leaving party.
The charge sheet would include guarding its own interests over those it supposedly protects; endemic opacity and lack of accountability; obstructing investigations, promoting the inept and marginalising the dedicated. Such accusations can be made against many organisations. But the UN is different. It has a moral mission.
Read it all; it is a sad story. It seems to me that the United Nations is not a unique phenomenon; rather, it is typical of much of the modern world in its preference for fine words over hard action; its valuing of intentions over achievements; and the world-weary cynicism that lies behind its purportedly noble ideals.


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Just in case you managed to stay away from windows or the TV (gasp!) all day, here's what you may have missed going on in the weather.
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1999 4x4 of the Year: IntroductionPosted in Project Vehicles on February 1, 1999
Well, we jinxed it. Back in our 1996 4x4 of the Year competition, we promised that was the biggest ever comparo of new 4x4s. It was, but for the '99 model year, manufacturers spewed out new models and competitive upgrades like it was a bodily function, bringing this year's test to a record-setting 12 pickups and sport/utilities.
If you've been living in a hole for the last 16 years, then you're probably wondering what exactly our 4x4 of the Year test is. We like to say it's an annual invitation to all auto makers with new 4x4 models or existing ones with significant mechanical changes over the previous model to let us put their vehicles to the test on the highway and off road. What we like to do, however, is to have the opportunity to derby the wee out of machinery that costs more than two staffers' combined yearly salaries and to find out why the manufacturers claim their stuff is better than the other guy's. But either way, our real job is to find the 4x4 that not only is the best performer off road, but the one that gives a cushy ride both on dirt and highway and is best priced for what you get. In other words, the best all-around 4x4 for the given model year.
The categories that the vehicles are judged by are Ride & Drive (30 percent of the total score), Empirical (25 percent), Mechanical (15 percent), Interior (15 percent), and Exterior (15 percent). Each of these headings is broken down into subcategories by which we rank the vehicles. This test involved 12 trucks, so 12 points was the most one vehicle could get in any said subcategory (although ties were present this year), with 1 point being dead-last. Confused? Elsewhere in this story is a full interpretation of what this all means.
However, just to get your juices going, we'll let you know that Ride & Drive includes a comparo of ride quality-both urban and highway-and how the vehicle rates in sand, at hillclimbing, and at high-speed dirt and gravel. For Mechanical, we rank the vehicles by our seat-of-the-boxers impression of such things as the engine's available power, four-wheel-drive engagement, fit and finish, and driveline performance. Interior and Exterior are rated by what we think is comfortable, functional, and easy on the eyeballs. The final section is Empirical, which we don't vote on but rather let the numbers speak; it includes braking and acceleration data we gather at the racetrack and how much the vehicle would set a buyer back.
This year's vehicle lineup was the Chevrolet Silverado, the Dodge Ram Quad Cab, the Ford F-150, the Ford F-350 Super Duty, the Isuzu Amigo, the Jeep Grand Cherokee, the Kia Sportage, the Lexus LX 470, the Mercedes ML430, the Nissan Frontier, the Suzuki Grand Vitara, and the Toyota Land Cruiser. Each spanking-new truck logged hundreds of miles and layers of dirt as it was run throughout California, including the Hungry Valley SVRA training facility in Gorman, the rock-heavy trails in Lake Arrowhead, and the sand, hills, nachos, and fireroads of Ocotillo Wells SVRA in the Anza-Borrego Desert.
Those casting their two-pennies' worth were Editor Cole Quinnell, Executive Editor Tori Tellem, Technical Editor Trenton McGee, Staff Writer Travis Noack, and Editorial Directors Steve Campbell and Drew Hardin. Those not voting but helping out with the driving, tire changing, and all the other good and evil were 4-Wheel & Off-Road Publisher Joe Sebergandio, 4-Wheel Art Director Alan Huber, former 4-Wheel staffers David Freiburger and Rick Péwé, ad guys Brian Cox and Jeff Nasi, Hot Rod Bikes' main dude Frank Kaisler, Kit Car's Jim Youngs, and Sport Truck's Matt King.
We couldn't have pulled any of this off without the help of Ranger Bill Stewart at Hungry Valley SVRA, Betty Hartenstine in Lake Arrowhead, and Christine Faubel at Palm Canyon Resort in Borrego Springs.
And now, enough with the filler-read on for the year's surprises, the disappointments, and, most importantly, the winner.