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Police are searching for a man who is suspected in several recent armed robberies and attempted robberies across Nashville, including two early Monday.
Investigators say the man attempted to rob the Mapco gas station at 4677 Trousdale Dr. before then attempting to hold up the Krispy Kreme at 408 Thompson Lane.
The same man is also suspected in robbing the Circle K at 2200 Nolensville Pike on March 13, the Phillips 66 at 801 Briley Pkwy. on March 17 and attempting to rob the Discount Tobacco at 2181 Nolensville Pike on March 17.
Police say the suspect is described as a black man, approximately 5'10" to 6' and about 190 pounds. In each of the crimes, he has worn a white cloth to cover his face and a black ball cap with a white design on the front, police said.
He may be riding in a dark green, four-door sedan - possibly a Pontiac Grand Am - with tinted windows, police said.
Anyone with information on the suspect is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 74-CRIME.
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Over the last
several seasons Amanda Carey has proven herself to be one of
America's top endurance racers. In 2012 she took big wins at the
Breck Epic Stage Race, Park City Point 2 Point, Breck 100, and Pierre's Hole 100, was 2nd in the NUE Series, and then followed up her
mountain bike season with a full cyclocross
2013 though, Carey plans to mix things up. She's joined a new team,
the Stan's NoTubes Elite Women's squad, and is focusing primarily on
stage races and shorter endurance races.
Carey was kind enough to talk to MTBRacenews recently about her new team,
why she's taking a year off from 100 milers, and the state of women's
bike racing in America.
MTBRacenews.com: You raced quite a bit of cross
this season. Can you give us a quick recap? What was the highlight of cyclocross season for you?
Amanda Carey: This past cross season was my best yet. My approach was the same
it has always been: race into shape and plan it as I go according to
how I feel and my motivation level. I just kept having fun, so I
decided to keep it going a lot longer than I originally imagined. The
caliber of cyclocross racing in the US is just getting higher and
higher. The sport has tremendous energy behind it - it's really
exciting to be a part of it all. Plus, I rode for a great regional
team (Volkswagen Boise) and the additional support from the team was
motivating and kept it fun.
I had a great
season overall, but I think my highlight came during the Cincy3
weekend. It was the first weekend that I felt like my legs had
finally come up with the speed I needed to compete rather than just
participate. I shared a podium with Katie Compton and Katarina Nash
on day 1, and was 4th and 5th the other days,
but it mostly just felt great to feel fast on the cross bike rather
than like I was just hanging on for dear life.
MTBRacenews.com: What's the most challenging
aspect of transitioning from racing 100 milers to doing 45 minute cyclocross races?
Amanda Carey: Being patient. I don't train for cross before the season
starts, so that first month of racing into shape just takes a lot of
patience to wait for my legs and brain to shift from 100-mile mode to
cross mode. It's easy to get frustrated, especially because I take
cross seriously once I start doing it and want to be racing fast
right off the bat. Racing into shape hurts a lot more, but it's
certainly effective and way more fun than grinding out intervals on
my own!
MTBRacenews.com: Thinking back to last mountain
bike season, how much of a disappointment was it to lose out on the
overall NUE Series win to Cheryl Sornson at the Fool's Gold 100 (the
final race of the series)?
Amanda Carey: I had a great season, but just had some unfortunate luck with
illness at the series opener at Cohutta and at Fool's Gold, the
finals. It was certainly disappointing, but that's racing. So much
of this sport is luck and timing and sometimes it just doesn't work
out in your favor. But, don't forget, Cheryl had a great season,
too. She rode very well and earned and deserved the win and the
overall title. I just didn't have it when it counted this year.
At Fool's Gold
I was coming off 2 hard-fought wins at the Breck Epic and then the
Park City Point 2 Point. I had great form and was feeling great on
the bike. However, the day after the P2P I came down with a nasty
stomach bug and spent most of the week before Fool's Gold
horizontal on the couch. I remember packing my bike to fly to
Georgia, taking intermittent breaks to dry heave into a trashcan in
the workshop thinking "what the hell am I doing?" I knew I had no
business boarding a plane to race, but the format of the NUE required
that I participate in the final to break a tie to compete for the
overall, so I went.
Going to the
Fool's Gold start line with a deep sense of dread, knowing I had
nothing in my tank was the hardest part. I had a good hour in me at
the start of the race, but then the lights just completely went out.
I spent the next 8 hours sick to my stomach, going backwards and just
riding around like a zombie. I won't lie - it was the worst day I
have ever spent on a bicycle. I was so out of it I actually don't
remember most of it…which I suppose is a good thing! I somehow
finished the race in 2nd but it pretty much destroyed me
both physically and emotionally.
MTBRacenews.com: Looking to 2013, what can you
tell us about your new team? What was the impetus behind the switch?
Amanda Carey: A series of events made my switch to the Stan's team a perfect
fit. I knew early on in the summer that Kenda/Felt wasn't asking me
back, so I had some thinking to do. The most important thing I
realized was that I wanted a team situation that made me feel like I
was part of something. The 2012 season was a great one for me
results-wise, but I was just incredibly lonely. I'd fly or drive to
races alone, stay in hotels alone, do all my prep work on my own,
then I'd go race around the woods for 8-11 hr races, alone. I had
good financial support to do what I needed to do, but I was doing it
all solo. It was exhausting and isolating.
The turning
point for me was at the Breck Epic. It was the most fun I had racing
all year. Yeah, it was a kick-ass event overall with incredible
terrain, but a big part of my enjoyment was that it was a very social
racing atmosphere and my husband (a mechanic for Giant) was with me
all week working as my mechanic and doing support. It was the first
time all year I had support and it felt awesome. It made the racing a
lot more fun.
I first met and
hug out with the Stan's No Tubes crew when I did the TransSylvania
Epic in 2011. My husband and I immediately fell into their fold and
just loved their positive energy, attitudes and genuine love for
mountain biking. I just remember laughing a lot! I know all the women
on the team - a few are former teammates and very close friends of
mine. They are all class and are all intelligent, interesting, fun
and incredibly inspiring women to be around. So, when Shannon Gibson
approached me this fall about joining the team it was a very easy yes
to give. I knew the team would provide the supportive and social
atmosphere that I am craving to get my passion for racing burning
brighter than ever. Yes, I am a dork, but I still can't believe I
get to be on the same team as Sue Haywood! And, I honestly feel like
I have joined a family, not a team. That's what's most important
to me at this point in my career.
MTBRacenews.com: What are your main goals for
next season? Will you be competing in the NUE Series again this
Amanda Carey: I am more excited and motivated than I have been in a very long
time! My three priority races this year will be the TransSylvania
Epic, Marathon Nationals and the Breck Epic. No more NUE. I just feel
like I need to step away from the 100-mile format for a while. I will
go to a couple Pro XCTs and XC Nats. I also have quite a few 50s on
the calendar. I think the 50-mile format will be a lot more fun for
me and really hit on that distance sweet spot for me to take
advantage of my endurance but also keep it mentally engaging,
exciting, and fun.
When I finish a
100-miler all I want to do for 3 days after is eat, sleep and slug
around. I like to ride my bike a lot, so I'm looking forward to not
having that "I feel like I've been run over by a truck" for the
majority of my season.
2013 will also
be the first time that I actually plan for a cross season, meaning I
am trying to tailor a MTB schedule that will help prepare me better
for cross. I hope to land myself on a cross-specific team for this
fall, but for now I'm just focused on having a great MTB season.
MTBRacenews.com: Have you had a chance to check
out any of the Cannondale bikes yet? Any idea what you'll be racing
on this season?
Amanda Carey: I've been fortunate to ride some great bikes in my career, but
from what I've been told by fellow racers and have read, I expect
to be blown away by the Cannondale's performance. I will be racing
on the F29 29er hardtail and the Scalpel 29. Paired with Stan's
wheels, I know I will be on the best, lightest equipment on the
MTBRacenews.com: There's seems to have been a
big effort in the last few years to bring equality to men's and
women's racing in terms of prize money, sponsorship etc. What do you
see as the state of that effort?
Amanda Carey: In the two disciplines that I race, cyclocross and endurance,
payouts are fairly equal. I only did one 100-miler this year (out of
9) that didn't pay women equally.
So, from my
personal experience the prize money situation is good. The US is
especially leading the charge towards equal payout for women in
cyclocross. Europe is lagging far behind and I think more European
women are coming to race in N. America because they recognize that
In terms of
sponsorship, it's less equal. There are fewer high-level
opportunities for women in both cross and mountain biking - very few
are making a salary and most need jobs to support their racing.
American women do so much to promote mountain biking in a positive
light that extends beyond race results, but we aren't yet equally
compensated in sponsorship terms. Most co-ed teams out there are not
balanced at all – look at most of the major factory teams in North America. They have far more spots for men than women on their
What bums me out
in the state of women's equality is that the media and industry
continues to give female athletes ample opportunity to additionally
benefit from showing off their "feminine" sides away from the
bike, field or ski slope. I get frustrated that female athletes feel
like they have to show off their bodies in calendars and photo shoots
for attention and to demonstrate that they can be strong, badass
athletes AND be sexy, that somehow these two qualities are mutually
exclusive. I think strong IS sexy. I want female athletes to be
respected and celebrated for what their bodies can do, not for what
they look like. But, until women stop putting themselves out there in
that light, it will continue. Women are contributing to this problem.
It's self-perpetuating. It won't stop until we stop it.
MTBRacenews.com: What's one race out there
that's on your bucket list to do in the next few years?
Amanda Carey: Ohhh, tough one. But, I love stage racing the most out of any
format, so I'd say the king of them all, the Cape Epic.
MTBRacenews.com: You race steadily 10 months a
year, year after year. How are you able to stay fit and motivated
through such long seasons year in and year out?
Amanda Carey: For me, it's all about doing what I love and what keeps me
happy and fresh mentally – that makes it easy. For some unknown
reason I do incredibly well on high volume, I've been that way all
my life. Each year is different, however. This year, I feel like I
want more home time and want to ski more, so I'm not heading to
Tucson to train. I'm going to stay home, take advantage of my
Jackson Hole ski pass, tele and skate ski a lot and do my favorite
thing in the entire winter world, backcounty ski. For me, nothing
beats a long tour with good friends to seek out perfect powder turns.
It just so happens to be great base training.
I think a big
part of being able to race so much is that 100-milers and cyclocross
are just 2 totally different racing worlds: different bikes,
different training, different people, venues, intensity and strategy.
Racing cross actually feels like a break for me. And, by the time
cross season is over I cannot wait to get on my mountain bike.
I am religious
about foam rolling and I own Podium Legs - that helps!
MTBRacenews.com: Having gotten to race all over
the country, what's your favorite place to ride and why?
Amanda Carey: Hmmmm, another
tough one. It's a dead heat between Park City and Pisgah. I think I
could ride in those two places for the rest of my life and never get
bored. They both have endless trail networks and the quality of the
riding in both locations pretty much defines mountain bike heaven.
All photos courtesy of Daniel Dunn Photography.

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Cancer Research Highlights
Bone Drugs Do Not Appear to Increase Esophageal or Gastric Cancer Risk
Contrary to previous reports, researchers in the United Kingdom and at NCI have found no significant link at any level of use between oral bisphosphonates, drugs used to treat or prevent osteoporosis and bone-density loss, and esophageal or gastric cancer. The findings were published online August 10 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Dr. Chris Cardwell of Queen's University Belfast and his colleagues analyzed medical data from more than 80,000 patients listed in the UK General Practice Research Database, half of who had been treated with bisphosphonates between 1996 and 2006 and half who had not used bisphosphonates. The patients were predominantly female (81 percent), with an average age of 70, and the follow-up time was 4.5 years for the bisphosphonate group and 4.4 years for the control group.
The rates of esophageal and gastric cancer were similar in both groups. Among the 41,826 people who took oral bisphosphonates, 116 developed gastric or esophageal cancer, compared with 115 people in the control group.
In January 2009, Dr. Diane Wysowski of the FDA urged caution when prescribing oral bisphosphonates to patients with preneoplastic lesions in the esophagus and called for studies of the association between bisphosphonates and esophageal cancer. However, in view of the new findings, "these drugs should not be withheld, on the basis of possible esophageal cancer risk, from patients with a genuine clinical indication for their use," the researchers wrote.
Immune Cells' Anticancer Abilities May Be Hampered by High Lipid Levels
In both mice and humans with cancer, dendritic cells, which are important components of the immune system, tend to have high lipid levels that significantly hamper their ability to direct other immune cells to attack cancer cells, a team of U.S. researchers reported. The research team also showed that a drug that interferes with the synthesis of these fat molecules restores dendritic cells' ability to stimulate an antitumor response. The study was published in the August 2010 Nature Medicine.
Dendritic cells take up and process proteins and other molecules made by cancer cells (as well as viruses, bacteria, and other foreign bodies) and "present" them as antigens to other immune cells, so they can elicit an attack. Dr. Dmitry Gabrilovich from the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues showed that dendritic cells in both mouse models of cancer and human tumor samples had significantly higher lipid levels—specifically triglycerides—than those from healthy mice and humans.
Dendritic cells with normal lipid levels generated a robust immune response, whereas the response generated by dendritic cells with elevated lipid levels was much weaker. Further experiments demonstrated that dendritic cells with elevated lipid levels had "profound defects" in their ability to take up and process antigen material, the researchers wrote.
In mice, treatment with a drug that interferes with the synthesis of fatty acids, called TOFA, "decreased the presence of lipid-laden dendritic cells" and restored their ability to "stimulate allogeneic T cells," they reported. Combining a cancer vaccine with TOFA significantly shrank tumors, whereas the vaccines given alone had very little antitumor effect.
The findings suggest a new potential avenue for cancer immunotherapy, wrote Drs. Laurence Zitvogel and Guido Kroemer in an accompanying editorial. "Interfering with triglyceride accumulation in [dendritic cells] might constitute a promising strategy to restore anticancer immune responses and improve the efficacy of therapeutic vaccinations and conventional chemotherapies," they concluded.
microRNA May Regulate Growth of Tumor Blood Vessels
The growth of blood vessels that supply tumors with essential nutrients may be regulated in endothelial cells by a small RNA molecule, or microRNA, a new study suggests. Researchers identified a microRNA called miR-132 that appears to act as a molecular switch for endothelial cell growth, causing the cells to transition out of their normal resting state and form new blood vessels (angiogenesis). The study, which could lead to a strategy for preventing angiogenesis and potentially for treating cancer, was published online by Dr. David Cheresh of the University of California, San Diego, and his colleagues August 1 in Nature Medicine.
Endothelial cells are among the least proliferative types of cells in adults, but they can be activated in response to certain cues, such as growth factors. Suspecting that microRNAs, which are known to regulate genes, might play a role, the researchers profiled microRNAs in a stem cell model of human vascular development and identified miR-132 as highly upregulated during the development of blood vessels. They then confirmed that miR-132 expression was also highly elevated in benign lesions of blood vessels, or hemangiomas, and in the blood vessels of human tumors, but was not detectable in normal blood vessels.
A molecular pathway analysis revealed that miR-132 suppresses the expression of a gene that encodes the protein p120RasGAP, which is a negative regulator of the protein Ras. Ras is frequently altered in cancer, so targeting miR-132 could be a way to intervene in an important pathway, the researchers said. And because miR-132 is found primarily in endothelial cells, these strategies would likely be specific to these cells, they noted.
As a proof of principle, the researchers used nanoparticle technologies they have developed to deliver an inhibitor of miR-132 directly to the vasculature of tumor-bearing mice. This treatment resulted in the blockade of tumor angiogenesis and tumor growth. Moreover, in mice with retinal disease that featured the growth of new blood vessels, direct injection of the anti-miR-132 into the eye was able to suppress angiogenesis in the retina.
"We essentially turned off the angiogenic switch during angiogenesis," said Dr. Cheresh. The preponderance of growth in these cells was reduced, making it feasible to apply this kind of approach to patients with cancer and retinal diseases characterized by extensive angiogenesis, he added.
Many U.S. and Canadian Oncologists Unprepared to Use Cost-effectiveness Data in Practice
Despite broad differences between their nation's health care systems, Canadian and U.S. oncologists have similar opinions about how drug costs and comparative effectiveness should factor into decisions about patient care, report the authors of a recent survey. (The Canadian government funds health care, whereas the U.S. government does not.) The survey also revealed that oncologists in both countries do not feel adequately prepared to discuss treatment costs or comparative effectiveness with their patients. The results appeared online August 9 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Nearly 800 randomly selected members of the American Society of Clinical Oncology took part in the survey, which was funded in part by the California HealthCare Foundation. In Canada, surveys were offered to members of national medical and oncology organizations, and 138 responses were received.
The survey showed that most physicians in both countries believe that patients should have access to effective cancer treatments only if the treatments provide a "good value for [the] money," though significantly more Canadians felt this way than Americans (75 percent versus 58 percent, respectively). The threshold for a "good value" was higher for Canadians than for Americans, but most oncologists in both countries believe that a ratio of less than $100,000 per life-year gained was appropriate. However, less than half of the oncologists (42 percent of the Americans and 49 percent of the Canadians) felt prepared to factor cost-effectiveness into their treatment decisions.
Clinicians in both countries did not favor government or insurance companies making decisions about whether specific drugs provide good value, but they did favor physicians and nonprofits doing so; and the majority in both countries felt that more government price controls for cancer drugs are needed, though this opinion was less common in the United States (57 percent) than in Canada (68 percent).
The authors noted the possibility of biases in their results due to different survey methods used in each country. But they concluded that because the opinions of the two groups were so similar, and because oncologists in both countries face rapidly rising costs of new cancer medications that may or may not be covered by health insurers, oncologists in the United States and Canada should collaborate on strategies to face the challenges ahead.


text: Hi got a forester s turbo 2001 74k it's ran faultless for the past 10,000 k. Now over the last few months I'm getting a loss of power and what feels like a misfire under load . The car accelerates normal upto around 2800 rpm but if you step on the gas heavily at this point it feels like some one is turning the fuel on and off and surgers back and forth and loses power as a result of this. Any help would be great. I've changed the plugs leads coilpack and O2 sensor to no affect :-(


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Update: You might also want to check out the Amon_RA recovery image which will automatically partition your SD card.
This article is for people with rooted Android phones. Everyone else please ignore. There are dozens of ways to partition your SD card and I would like to share the one that has worked for me every time. I prefer to manually partition my SD card because it gives me complete control.
Requirements before getting started:
- Cyanogen Recovery Image v1.4 or greater (Easy to install with the 1-click hack)
- SD Card (Class 6 suggested): A-DATA has good prices on Amazon (4GB, 8GB, 16GB)
- Android Device Bridge(ADB): Comes with the Android SDK.
- Android build that supports Apps2SD: I suggest Cyanogen's latest stable release (Does Apps2SD automatically)
These instructions apply to both the Windows command prompt and the Mac terminal. As you can see from my screens, I was using Windows Vista. You can partition your SD card at any time, but you might as well do it before you flash a new build of Android. As always, back up your data when performing any hacks. Partitioning your SD card will erase all data on it. I split this guide into 9 steps, but it is not as difficult as it looks. Read the whole thing before starting.
All commands you need to type are in bold (my comments are in parenthesis). If you do not know how to use ADB, leave a comment for help or read ADB for Dummies over at XDA.
Step 1: Connect your phone to your computer via USB. Reboot into recovery mode.
- Command: adb shell reboot recovery (this will reboot your phone into Cyanogen's recovery image. Or power on phone when holding home button)
- Command: adb shell (type this after your phone has booted and on the recovery screen. it should take you to a # prompt)
Step 2: Open parted to partition your SD card.
- Command: parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 (opens parted and mounts your SD card)
Step 3: Check the size and partitions of your SD card. The print command will display this info. You can see the size of my SD card is 7969 MB (8 GB). I have 1 partition which is fat32. If your SD card is blank and no partitions are listed, you can skip to Step 5.
- Command: print (displays SD card information)
Step 4: Remove all existing partitions. If you have multiple partitions, remove each one at a time.
- Command: rm 1 (deletes partition number 1)
- Command: rm 2 (if needed. keep going till all partitions are removed)
- Command: print (check when you are done to make sure all partitions are removed)
Step 5: Create your new partitions. You can make these any size, but the most common setup is 32 MB linux-swap partition, 512 MB ext2 partition, and remaining free space as a fat32 partition. In order to work properly, the partitions must be created in this order: fat32, ext2, linux-swap.
The linux-swap partition is used for a swap file on some builds. Not all builds use linux-swap, but I create one just in case I ever need it.
The ext2 partition is where your apps will be installed. I use 512 MB which gives me plenty of room but you can go larger like 1024 MB if you want. Parted only creates ext2 partitions and we can convert them to ext3 or ext4 later.
When using the Linux command mkpartfs, you must tell it where to start and and end each partition. This can be done by taking the total SD card size and subtracting the linux-swap then ext2 partition sizes. See the following example for my 8 GB card.
- Command: mkpartfs primary fat32 0 7425 (start is 0 and end is Total C)
- Command: mkpartfs primary ext2 7425 7937 (start is Total C and end is Total B)
- Command: mkpartfs primary linux-swap 7937 7969 (start is Total B and end is Total A)
Step 6: Check the sizes of your partitions. Use the command print again to display the partition sizes. If you made any mistakes you can return to Step 4 and remove them.
- command: print (displays your partition information)
Step 7: Exit parted and upgrade your ext2 file system to ext3. For most users this is the final step. We suggest all users upgrade to ext3. Its main advantage over ext2 is journaling which improves reliability and eliminates the need to check the file system after an unclean shutdown.
- command: quit (exit parted and return to # prompt)
- command: upgrade_fs (script to upgrade from ext2 to ext3)
Step 8 (Optional): If you wish, you can upgrade your ext3 partition to ext4. Skip to Step 9 is you wish to use ext3. I asked Cyanogen what file system he uses and he tweeted ext4. The file system offers enhancements like delayed allocation. See Wikipedia for more info on ext4.
- command: tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 (enter this command from the # prompt)
- command: e2fsck -fpDC0 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 (run e2fsck after tune2fs. wait for the file check to finish)
Step 9: Finished. Check your work with print.
- command: parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 (open parted again)
- command: print (check all your system partitions and their sizes)
- command: quit (exit parted)
- command: reboot (reboot your system to the operating system)
Need more help?: Visit our forums or leave a comment.
[I used the guide from 51dusty to write this tutorial. He also has a utility for SD card partitioning]


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By Joe Wojtas
Publication: TheDay.com
Stonington — Police were able to track an alleged drunk driver involved in a crash on Liberty Street early this morning to a hit and run crash with a Route 1 fire hydrant 12 minutes earlier because the first crash tore off his front license plate and left it next to the hydrant.
Erick E. Delacruz, 22, of 26 Moss St., Apt. 1, Pawcatuck was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, evading responsibility, failure to obey a stop sign, driving without a license, failure to have insurance and failure to drive right. He was released on a $600 bond and is scheduled to appear in New London Superior Court Feb. 25.
A 12:48 a.m., police said that Delacruz was driving a 1997 BMW that ran a stop sign on Morton Street and turned on to Route 2 where he struck a van. There were no injuries.
An officer on the way to the crash, noticed debris next to the fire hydrant from a crash including the license plate that was issued to Delacruz's car.
In the first crash, police said it appears Delacruz was driving east on Route 1 near Rutman's Furniture when he crossed into the westbound lane, struck the hydrant and left the scene.
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22 U.S. Code § 8213 - Investigations of violations of international humanitarian law
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The President, with the assistance of the Secretary, the Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, and the Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, shall collect information regarding incidents that may constitute crimes against humanity, genocide, slavery, or other violations of international humanitarian law.
(b) Accountability
The President shall consider what actions can be taken to ensure that any government of a country or the leaders or senior officials of such government who are responsible for crimes against humanity, genocide, slavery, or other violations of international humanitarian law identified under subsection (a) are brought to account for such crimes in an appropriately constituted tribunal.
Source(Pub. L. 110–53, title XXI, § 2113,Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 531.)
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By Ben Klayman
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co
Tim Lee, who has led the international operations unit for almost four years, was named chairman of GM China and retains his position as global chief of manufacturing.
The moves will allow the company to focus more on China, the world's largest automotive market, as well as other fast-growing, emerging markets, GM said.
"It will put us in a better position to take on the competition and take even greater advantage of all the opportunities that exist in the international market," GM spokeswoman Katie McBride said.
GM said Stefan Jacoby, a former head of Volvo
Jacoby, 55, starts his job Monday and will report to GM Chief Executive Dan Akerson.
Jacoby left Volvo in October 2012 after the company fell short of its sales targets, including aggressive growth plans in China. Sources said at the time that Jacoby had clashed with the deputy chairman on Volvo's board over a key appointment and strategy.
Jacoby suffered a mild stroke in September 2012, but GM officials said he is fit to run the company's international operations and declined to discuss his health further. Volvo said when Jacoby left, his illness had nothing to do with the decision to remove him.
Jacoby is the latest former VW executive to join GM.
In January, GM named VW's Karl-Thomas Neumann to head its money-losing Opel unit in Europe. Five months later, GM tapped Tim Mahoney, a former VW executive, as head of global marketing. Last summer, the U.S. automaker hired Michael Lohscheller from VW to be Opel's chief financial officer.
Akerson wants Lee to focus on China, where GM is the market leader, and on the company's aggressive product launch plans.
GM has more than 60 vehicle launches globally this year and in 2014, including the recently introduced Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra full-size pickup trucks, which are key profit generators.
Bob Socia, president of GM China, will continue to report to Lee, who will have responsibility for 12 joint ventures, two wholly owned foreign enterprises and more than 55,000 employees in China.
"Tim is critical to building on our success in China and to ensuring flawless vehicle launches around the globe," Akerson said.
China will still be included in GM's international operations when it comes to financial reporting, however, McBride said.
(Additional reporting by Norihiko Shirouzu in Beijing; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)


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Education is approaching a change where it will never turn back, but what will we find around that corner?
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As a high school graduate: Would you be willing to self-teach yourself to the point where you had marketable skills and an impressive self-made portfolio while risking not having a degree?
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Feb 13 2013: I attended college for the last 3 years of my life and currently I am taking time off. While in college I did more than most. I was a collegiate runner, president of two business clubs that managed 150 plus people with over 11 projects dealing with real community issues and global problems like blindness and lack of clean water. I learned that one can achieve anything if the right conditions present it's self all you have to do is recognize it and grasp the opportunity.
For me college classes were only a commitment to a piece of paper that will make my family happy. I wasn't doing for me, I was just checking in and checking out everyday to reach a goal. After Freshman year I realized there is more to life than corporate accounting and logic class. There is a bubble created in a crucial time of discovery that you can easily get trapped in.
When you buy into college your buying into a business that is growing at an unsustainable rate, over 10% last I looked. Like all bubbles, it will pop. When I saw Rhode Island College tuition price jump from $40,000 a year to $54,0000 in one year I was disgusted with the system of over valuation of a product that people can't prove is working. You only learn with experience and after starting two businesses in a year Eco Pedicab and Velocity Crepes, I say go to college to learn a trade but take a lower financial risk and fight for a cause or research a problem and solve it! I higher only based on experience and talent not a piece of paper.
Inovation comes from experimenting with ideas. College shuts you off from the world and keeps you there. Sorry I bought into a lie bigger than the housing bubble. Companies are getting plenty of free labor out of it though...
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ATLANTA (AP) - Kevin Durant set a season high with 41 points, and the Oklahoma City Thunder held off the Atlanta Hawks 100-92 on Wednesday night for their 12th straight win.
Russell Westbrook had 27 points - 21 in the first half - and 11 assists. Durant, who had 18 points in the fourth period, had 13 rebounds.
No other Oklahoma City player scored in double figures.
Oklahoma City (21-4) improved the NBA's best record and atoned for a 104-95 home loss to the Hawks on Nov. 4. That loss left Oklahoma City 1-2; it is 20-2 since then and hasn't lost since Nov. 23 at Boston.
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- Don Anderson
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I need help with a dilemma: What does it mean to be American? And Why does it work?
Up-date to thread's scope: (July 10th)
Thanks for all the comments, they have been very helpful.
I have sorted out my feeling on being American, it maybe a jumbled mess but it is working for me. And to avoid rehashing what has been said I'll leave it at that.
But the large diversity of views here, and within America's culture, politics, values, heritages, etc. I have to ask;
Why does it work?
By most standards we are a highly dysfunctional group, and should be a failed society.
But here we are a great nation, and by most logic that should not be the case.
Yes we are the home of the free and the brave, but also home of tyrants, cowards, passive, aggressive, moral and immoral and I could go on and on forever.
Americans are often labeled as racist and intolerant, if that was true we would not have more nationalities and different cultures than any other country in the world.
Being American is a lessen tolerance and that is something we can't experience in heaven, but I feel the lessen goes deeper than that.
Is American where you live, or is American a belief in freedom and liberty for all?
Firstly let me state I believe we are here to learn from experience that we can't have in heaven. And recently I have had two events in my life that have me confused as to the lesion I should be learning from them.
My Background: I'm just an average lower-middleclass Midwest American.
Experience 1: I have been researching my ancestry for about a year now, and I feel pride with my findings. So far my ancestors range from English noble that came to America in 1633, to peasant framer and serving maid from Prussia (Germany) in 1820. No slave owners, only union army soldiers, fought for America in the war for independence, etc.
Experience 2: Many people throughout the world, now are fighting and/or protesting for freedom and libe
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I just noticed that when I added the up-date at the top it cutoff some at the bottom.
Basically Experience 2 was feeling shame for the current America and how all the founding values gone, and asked how to address the confecting feelings.
I have concluded that I can feel pride for upholding the founding values of America, and as I witness its fail I should feel sadness instead of shame. And find comfort in that like the Roman Empire it values will live on thought out the world, even though it exists in name only.
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Jul 5 2013: I live in Surinam, and on the first of juli, this year, the vice president of the Netherlands said that they were sorry for what happened during slavery in Surinam......after 150 years...It was no breaking news, because no one cared...The world is not waiting for sorry-feelers, the world is looking for people who care enough to " be the change you want to see in the world" (Ghandi) For you as an American it means that you are privileged the be an example, as countries like mine look up to you, learn from your ancesters and learn from their mistakes and the way they lived, but mostly learn from their norms and values....acts speak louder than words. Be proud of who you are, inspire other American to feel the same. I wish you a lot of inspiration and new vision / revalation about this issue.
Jul 5 2013: keep up your advantageous trade relations (under the gun of the imf) with elites who double their wealth every 7.4 years for every 10% advantage... while the disadvantaged wealth decreases similarly. Much easier to motivate 100 plebs with the Promise of promotion that maybe one will get while the immigrants to the usa and exiles from other countries are ecstatic on burger and fries. Tis Good to be The Empire. Who wants to stand up? Saudi democratic republicans...Bahraini tea party?
Jul 7 2013: Thx WBlakes, you know, i was an immigrant first from surinam to the netherlands, not for the burgers and fries but to study...after 20 years i moved back to surinam, now working as a full time volunteer on commynity projects with help and support from friends in the netherlands. I feel sorry that al lot of funds from IMF did not work out..but i am proud to be one of the few who try to make the best of everything they have...even if it is just a little bit. I can not help thousands, but I know for shure that for that one person i can make a diffrence. do you?
Jul 8 2013: Best wishes. I guess it's not easy. the last Surinamese(?) I spoke with was telling me how fast life was in the usa and how things were still slow there, that appeals to me. Me, i help where I can but my path is not the same as most people around me... there's a parable about a monkey saying to a fish, "You'll be safe Now!" as he put him in a tree. i'm afraid my advice would be dangerous for many... it's just i expected more at TED than simple shibboleths. I'm surrounded by cubans here, not very philosophic people for the most part, genocide in Guatemala... El Salvador, Nicaragua was materially supported by many here. I finally decided to study cuban history and have been astonished at how mendacious our immigrants are. Otoh, I can understand how many fleeing terrible hardship from home Love Love Love the usa, and hamburgers... and FOX 'news'. But they are not seeing things from a free, balanced, mature perspective. I reckon Holland has some skeletons in her closet too so maybe you can understand. Good luck again.
Jul 8 2013: i see your point, you see this all over the world...people suffering themself for a better live, in surinam we have lots of chineese immigrants, they work 24 hours a day for this better live. you know when you miss something terrible, like eatin' a delicious burger, is a dream come true when you have been supressed for years not to be able to eat what ever you wish for......that is also freedom. Climbing a boat for that big mac! So if you are willing to make hudge sacrifices to fullfill that wish, it is also freedom if you do so...after a while maybe you realise the meaningless value of that wish, but in that process you gained a lot of understanding and experiences about what realy means a lot to you....think of maslov.....you are a courages person.
Jul 8 2013: I've been wondering about your project in Surinam. There are so many pitfalls in trying to honestly and truly help, seems one needs to understand so much of life-economics, psychology, philosophy... deeply and broadly or risk doing real harm... even with everything it seems a gamble. You say you work with a project so hopefully there are wise people to support each other- I wish you the best, really do (both my parents were teachers so I have had a struggle balancing certain errrr, problems, high low, medium, good, bad cultures, lies misunderstandings etc etc; dad was greek, mom texas bible belt but liberal, school in uk. High ideals makes me seem snobby and impractical to some types, stupid to others and helpless for too many of the ones who ask for needed help. But I am serious and I have studied rather deeply). On a long shot... let me know about your work, i might have something to add to a team. Many usaers aren't far from dirt floored shacks though it can be unwise to Not pretend they are Succesful. Is there a way to do private messages here? I'll send you an email if so, or do you have a web site? Do you know of Danilo Dolci or Mondragon for instance? The problem of culture in the villages? And thanks.
Jul 8 2013: my email adres is email@example.com, I don't know of Danillo Dolci or Mondragon. It is truly facinating to work with diffrent cultures, but i learned to accept them who they are...They spend money on hair extensions, nails and cellphone cards... while their children don't have a pen or writing notebook for school...the first thing I learned in my community: only children and disabeled people are depended...the rest chooses to be depended and that makes them realy poor people....
Don Anderson 50+Jul 7 2013: Thanks for insight Jennifer,
I have always believed in leading by example, and I fight to live up to being a good example.
As to "as an American it means that you are privileged the be an example, as countries like mine", I say it is our responsibility. American is going through its "dark-ages" since the 1950s, god willing it will end with the boomers. Your words give me encouragement to keep the pre-boomer American values alive in my heart and to pass them alone to the next generation.
Again thanks.
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A church in Spartanburg was shot more than 16 times during the weekend - and the pastor is responding to potential shooters with a message.
Legacy Outreach Church in the Pauline community was found riddled with bullets just before the church's Sunday service.
After the pastor discovered the damage he changed the sign on the front of the church to say, "16 bullet holes in our building, 3 bullets found in sanctuary, please aim other way."
"Somebody told me Sunday was the first day of deer season, so I'm just thinking somebody was down there in the woods shooting," Legacy Outreach's pastor Manning Strickland said. "They loaded their gun, but didn't load their brain."
But deputies don't believe this is a hunting accident and they are investigating it as a case of vandalism.
While the bullet holes were found in various locations around the church, Strickland said none of their equipment was damaged. He said there was debris found covering some chairs and the floor.
"I guarantee they're probably not going to want you to go to jail for it, but they just need some restitution to repair the damages," said Lt. Tony Ivey with the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office.
There has been no word on how much the damage will fix to cost at this time.
Strickland would like for people to heed the sign's warning. And he said they could drop by the church.
"I'll give them their bullets back if they come see us," Strickland said.
Spartanburg County deputies are still trying to find out who is responsible for the shooting. Anyone with information is asked to call 888-CRIME-SC.
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In Haiti, a Focus on Friendship
Inspired by the spirituality of Mother Teresa, the Divinity School's spring break retreat in Haiti was devoted to praying, breaking bread, and visiting orphanages and hospitals. But there was also time for simple fun, including making and flying kites.
"Kite making and kite flying are very big in Haiti," said Chaplain Sally Bates, who led the March 5-13, 2011, spiritual retreat, the school's first following the January 2010 earthquake. "We made and decorated kites from scratch and went up on the rooftop of the Trinity House, where we were staying," said Bates. "Only a few of us could speak Kreyol, but the kites did all the talking for us."
In less than an hour, there were several dozen kites flying like crazy from the rooftop overlooking the Caribbean Sea, said Miriam Sauls, who helped lead the retreat. A frequent visitor to Haiti, Sauls is a documentary filmmaker and director of theater and communications in Duke's Department of Theater Studies. "The sea breeze taking the kites hundreds of feet in the air was like a breath of confirmation of the entire trip, and the joy on the kids' faces made our spirits soar as well."
Meeting Local Pastors
On the morning of March 9, the 15-member group spent a morning with 15 Haitian pastors who spoke little or no English. With help from interpreters, they studied Scripture, sang hymns and prayed, and explored and compared their faith journeys.
"Our corporate participation in the liturgy with local pastors did not, nor did it intend to, run roughshod over the very real differences between a group of Haitian pastors and this group of American pastors-in-training," wrote Cullen McKenney D'11 in the students' blog, Duke Divinity in Haiti.
"Yet our corporate participation in the Eucharist included a participation in a story that we do share in common. Along with our sharing of this larger story, we each received an invitation to participate in new friendships."
Small Things with Great Love
The goal of the retreat, said Chaplain Bates, was to see the world through the theological lens of Mother Teresa, who "encountered Christ in the faces of the poor and suffering." The enormity of Haiti's needs, which were huge prior to the earthquake, made clear, she added, that the group was there not there to fix problems, but to make friends.
"One thing we do know is that we are here to love," blogged first-year M.Div. student Jason Villegas on March 6. "We reject the notion of being missionaries who see a mission and not people. Through the exchanging of the Jesus in us with the Jesus in the people here we will, as Mother Teresa says, 'do no great things, only small things with great love.'"
Missionaries of Charity
The group visited two of the Mother Teresa Missionaries of Charity homes in Haiti—a hospital for babies and a hospice for the destitute and dying. Bates, who led a similar spring break retreat to Haiti in 2009, describes the visits as "intense and moving. We offered massages, shaves, and nail polishing. Many of the people we encountered will not leave the hospice alive; it was very humbling."
Colleen Bookter, a first-year M.Div. student, spent most of the morning at the hospital on her knees massaging women's legs and feet and painting their toenails.
"I knelt there and was reminded of Christ's presence within each one of us," she wrote. "And as Mother Teresa reminded us … in befriending those on the margins … we truly come face-to-face with God."
The Rev. Lisa Yebuah D'04, associate pastor of Edenton St. United Methodist Church in Raleigh, N.C. and a co-leader for the retreat, saw "glimmers of hope" in the midst of Haiti's destruction.
As she rubbed lotion on a woman at the home for the destitute and dying, Yebuah realized she was humming the tune to a Kreyol song that translates "The cross before me, the road behind me."
As she sang the words, a nearby woman began weeping. "I realized that the mat the woman lay upon was her final resting place—until she met the Good Shepherd face-to-face.
"Death is very real there," said Yebuah, who prayed with the woman. "I realized that I have to remember that death isn't the end."
Nouvo Vi Bakery
For most of the group, the trip to Haiti was their first. For Bates, Yebuah, and Sauls, Haiti has become a second home. They are supporters of the St. Joseph Family, which operates three homes for abandoned and orphaned children, and Bates was instrumental in getting commercial baking equipment from the port in Port-au-Prince to its destination at the Trinity Home for Boys in Jacmel following the earthquake (see "Miracles beyond Miracles," in Spring 2010 Divinity magazine).
At Trinity House in Jacmel, the group was treated to freshly baked sweet rolls as they toured the new bakery—Nouvo Vi, or New Life. The bakery has begun selling baked goods to hotels and guest houses in the area, and now roasts and sells its own brand of locally grown coffee, St. Joe's Java.
"Once the commercial electric ovens are up and running, they can easily expand their production to meet client demand," said Bates.
Amid the Ruins, Some Rebuilding Begins
Bates, who visited Haiti the summer following the earthquake, noticed significant progress in debris removal, but says much remains to be done. "Many buildings are still in ruins, but there seems to be less collateral rubble around, and some rebuilding is beginning."
Construction is underway at the site of the original St. Joseph Home for Boys, which was completely destroyed by the quake. While the boys and their leaders live in temporary housing next door, a new six-level building for 24 children is rising from the foundation of their former home. When that construction is completed in December, phase two calls for adding a guest house, chapel, and dance theater next door. Architect Lionel Allen, whose buildings all survived the earthquake, has designed the new facilities.
As the recovery continues, Bates said that the Kreyol expression for "making do"—degaje ((DAY-gah-ZHEE)—provides perspective. On Easter morning, Haitians traditionally fly kites they've made of colored tissue paper and crepe paper. But more often, kites are much simpler—made in the spirit of degaje from black plastic trash bags.
And Bates said the arts continue to flourish despite many obstacles. The Duke group attended a performance by the Trinity Dancers, the St. Joseph's Family's popular dance troupe, and visited Croix des Bouquets, where metalworkers transform old oil drums into intricate works of art.
Markets selling beautiful fresh fruits and vegetables belie the need for clean water and shelter among those still living in tent cities, said Bates. "But it was wonderful to see so many little babies being carried into the 7:30 a.m. church service we attended."


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If they were smarter, they would have pounced on it when they were trading in high 90s and COH was at 33. They're still on time to make a good deal, but the stocks are starting to converge.
COH is a major brand and KORS would be foolish not to pick up that company while it's at its weakest. COH is a very valuable brand.
Hey management... start buying out major competitors like like Coach, while your share price still allows you to do so! Or you could wait until your stock price goes down to 60 and you can always WISH you could have used your higher stock price to buy out your biggest competitor while their stock was depressed and yours was still OK. When opportunity knocks, gotta grab it!
KORS would virtually have a monopoly in the sector if they took over COH! This would be a natural merger as Men's Warehouse and Joseph A. Bank. Merger between KORS and COH will eventually happen.
I can't wait for the close... I'd like to see a close around 6.40-6.50
Sentiment: Strong Buy
I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!
Last time the stock popped 30% on update of clean audit. Any news of a clean 20F and you'll see an overnight double.
It's only 2000 shares. It won't break me. Consider it a lottery ticket. ;-)
I look at it as a long dated option at this point.
Somebody will be looking to make the deal of a lifetime here. Coach would be smart to take the offer.
Is there a set date?
Option traders are betting on a huge move to the upside from here. The short dated options call for a huge upswing in the next few days.
NQ Mobile options active on wide price movement
NQ Mobile on total call volume of 13K contracts (6K puts) according to Track Data. Active options volume suggests traders taking positions for large price movement.
Investors Vote On NQ Mobile, Results Are Overwhelming!
Market Wrap For June 4: Markets Slightly Higher On Light Volume, Beige Book
The investing community thinks shares of NQ Mobile (NYSE: NQ) have significantly more upside, according to a survey conducted by Benzinga.
The company's stock took a big hit after Muddy Waters published research very critical of the company. NQ Mobile responded by forming an independent committee that ultimately released a report rejecting Muddy Waters's claims.
One concern with "independent" committee investigations is their trustworthiness. Problems regarding the committees can range from data access to incentive alignments. In this case, a vast majority of readers trust the committee. Only nine percent disregard it while 83 percent trust its findings.
In addition, an outstanding amount of readers believe Muddy Waters should be punished if the research firm's claims can be proven false.
Most important, price. Only nine percent of voters think shares will be lower than their current level one year from now (last trading at $9.84). The weighted average price prediction is $28.10, (using midpoints and assuming $50 for the $45+ category). That's 186 percent higher than Thursday's close!
Read more: http://www.benzinga.com/top-stories/14/06/4614115/investors-vote-on-nq-mobile-results-are-overwhelming#ixzz349daW2kr
MS increased its stake in NQ to 6.3%. You don't bet against MS. Period.
It's just a matter of time... GTAT will be part of AAPL.
NVDQ is a natural fit for ISRG.


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