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The Ohio Republican Senate finds itself in a place Ronald Reagan called "A Time for Choosing" - the title of his famous speech. The choice before these Republicans?
Life or death.
You see, if the Senate passes the Heartbeat Bill, as the House did a year ago, it will save from abortion every child whose heartbeat can be heard - 26,000 Ohio babies each year.
Yet, the Republican-controlled Ohio Senate, which claims to be the most pro-life Senate in history, refuses to vote on the most protective bill in Ohio history.
It's a bill which will protect more babies than all of Ohio's other pro-life laws combined, a bill with more pro-life support than any other bill of it's kind.
After a series of excuses, the Ohio Republican Senate now claims it should preemptively kill the Heartbeat Bill because the court might find it unconstitutional. I heard the very same thing when I lobbied to pass Ohio's informed consent, parental consent and the nation's first ban on partial birth abortion laws - now on our books. All were challenged and later upheld. If we had followed the advice of the naysayers and done nothing, brutal partial birth abortions would still be legally practiced in our state.
But because the Ohio General Assembly was not afraid to lead, 30 states and Congress followed Ohio and the Supreme Court eventually said "yes." You see, it is Roe v. Wade that is in violation of our U.S. Constitution. And the Senate didn't swear to uphold Roe v. Wade, they swore to uphold and defend the Constitution, which contains these words in the 14th Amendment:
"... nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
That 14th Amendment is also mentioned in another prominent document: the Republican Party Platform:
"... we assert the inherent dignity and sanctity of all human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed ... and we endorse legislation to make clear that the 14th Amendment's protections apply to unborn children."
Now is the time for Ohio Senate Republicans' choosing: Either they stand by the Republican platform and call for the protection of unborn children with an immediate floor vote on the Heartbeat Bill, or admit they are Republican In Name Only and are content with merely regulating abortion.
I encourage them to choose life, stand by the Constitution, the Republican platform and their pro-life campaign promises and bring the real Heartbeat Bill to an immediate floor vote. Reagan said, "there is no cause more important." And with the Senate recess quickly approaching, there is no better time than now.
(Porter is the former legislative director of Ohio Right to Life, former Ohio Republican state central committeewoman and president of Faith2Action.)


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In this policy report, Innes writes that,
Kentucky finds itself in the national spotlight for public school testing. The reason: new "Kentucky Performance Report for Educational Progress" (K-PREP) tests in elementary and middle school reading and mathematics are the first in the nation to be fully developed around the new Common Core State Standards. Those new standards have been adopted by more than 45 states, so Americans all across the country are anxious to see how these new standards and tests based on those standards actually perform.
The math and reading scores from the K-PREP are only part of long-awaited results from Kentucky's new public school assessment and accountability programs. The results from the KPREP tests and the new "Unbridled Learning" school accountability program were long overdue when they were finally made public on November 2, 2012.
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The sourcebook also examines the serious question about performance gaps as they are reported by K-PREP as opposed to what Kentuckians used to get from the No Child Left Behind program. The sourcebook draws in part from individual blogs posted by the author in the Bluegrass Policy Blog starting on the official score release date of November 2, 2012. This will be an assessment and accountability program.


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I'm pleased to announce the release of my book, See What I Mean. Whether you're a fan of comics as a communication tool, or just looking for new ways to communicate your product, process, or ideas, I think you'll enjoy this book. The book is on sale now at Rosenfeld Media with digital, DRM-free versions also available on the site. We prefer if you bought direct, but if you are so inclined, leave a review over on Amazon, as that will help with visibility of the book!
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April 30, 2012 / Category: Fitness Advisor
The elliptical can be an effective partner when you need to give your knees a break and want a total-body workout. But most of us who are regular users know that numb-toe feeling. You're running at a steady pace, still have energy to do more, and then right around the 2 to 4 mile mark it feels like your toes are falling asleep.
This happens to everyone, on every brand in the market. But, one of the best ways to prevent or reduce numb toe is to simply make sure you pedal backwards every 20 minutes or so. Numb-toe is caused by constant pressure on the balls of your feet and toes. When you pedal backwards, the pressure moves to your heels, reducing the pressure on your little piggies.


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I have a jump rope, and my pulse sure goes up while jumping. But what am I exercising exactly?
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Jump roping can be very effective in conditioning and strength.
Jump roping is a very helpful cardiovascular exercise. You're really exercising a complex system of muscles. You're not really isolating one muscle. You're exercising your upper body, core and lower muscles all in one action. You can't get more complete than that.
If you are jumping on your toes tips then you are definetely working out your calves.
Also you can count that as a cardio if you can keep jumping for like 20 minutes. But if your heartbeat rate is going really high, no point to do that as a cardio exercise. You should be able to keep your heartbeat rate at a constant range, let's say 140-160 for most of the males.
Edit: Yep, i meant toes! :) Sorry, English is not my mother language.
I agree with the earlier answers that slow-paced jumproping can increase your cardio-respiratory endurance, but I think the primary benefit is increasing power and speed. This is why you see it used in any movie with a boxer getting ready for a fight.
Because of the rapid higher jumping required, double unders are the most effective way to use a jumprope.


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Father of Boston Bombing Suspects Keeps Faith in His Sons
Anzor Tsarnaev Describes the Night That FBI Agents Interviewed His Older Son in 2011
MOSCOW—The father of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects said he was present at the family house in Cambridge, Mass., when the FBI interviewed his older son in 2011.
Anzor Tsarnaev, speaking with The Wall Street Journal via telephone from Makhachkala in Russia's Republic of Dagestan, said Federal Bureau of Investigation agents came to talk to his older son, Tamerlan, as a "person of interest."
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"Yes, I was there. Of course I was there," Mr. Tsarnaev said. "It was in Cambridge. 410 Norfolk Street, Cambridge."
He said U.S. authorities visited the house for what he described as "prevention" activities that involved Tamerlan. "They said: We know what sites you are on, we know where you are calling, we know everything about you. Everything," Mr. Tsarnaev recalled. "They said we are checking and watching—that's what they said."
The father of the pair said he wasn't nervous that the FBI showed up at his home. "I knew what he was doing, where he was going. I raised my children right," he said of his sons.
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He said he is sure Tamerlan and his brother Dzhokhar must have been framed for the Boston bombing. "This is all lies. These are my children. I know my children," Mr. Tsarnaev said. He said his own brother, Ruslan, called his sons "losers" in an American television interview Friday because of a family feud.
Mr. Tsarnaev said he was also on hand when Tamerlan visited Makhachkala for a few months last year. "He wasn't occupied with anything. He was just visiting relatives," he recounted. Asked if it was possible Tamerlan encountered Muslim fundamentalists while in Dagestan, he said there was no way. "There aren't even any of those here anymore," Mr. Tsarnaev said. He said his son, who married and had a child with an American named Katherine, had recently become more religious and started to pray.
He also said it was impossible that his children's alleged crimes could have been tied to radical Islam. "What kind of Islam? In Islam we have purity," he said. "We do what we're supposed to. We pray five times a day. That's it. Because people are supposed to pray—you, and us, and everyone."
He also mentioned a domestic assault that Tamerlan had carried out in his past but brushed it off as a minor incident that involved the son's first girlfriend. The father also sketched out a bit of the family history: Though he is an ethnic Chechen, Mr. Tsarnaev grew up in Kyrgyzstan because his parents were sent there under a mass deportation of Chechens during the Stalin era. He said he moved to Chechnya with his family for a year in 1992 after the fall of the Soviet Union, but quickly returned to Kyrgyzstan after disliking the situation in his ethnic homeland.
Then the family left Kyrgyzstan in 1999 to move to Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, which borders Chechnya. Ms. Tsarnaeva's family—who are Avars, one of the largest ethnic groups in Dagestan—come from Makhachkala. The family left a few years later for the U.S.
Mr. Tsarnaev said he returned to Dagestan a year ago because he is very sick. "It's a bad prognosis," he said.
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Anzor Tsarnaev said he moved to Chechnya for about a year with his family in 1992. Due to a translation error, an earlier version of this article incorrectly said the family moved in 1994.


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What is "clipping" distortion?
What causes it, and how to avoid it when recording audio?
What is "clipping" distortion?
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This question came from our site for engineers, producers, editors, and enthusiasts spanning the fields of video, and media creation.
Clipping occurs when the signal exceeds the maximum dynamic range of an audio channel. If you're recording a sine wave, clipping looks like somebody cut the top and bottom of the sound wave:
Analogue equipment will often add other artifacts along with clipping and rarely will the peaks be cut cleanly as with digital clipping. In some applications, this kind of distortion is sought after and desired with analogue equipment. Digital clipping sounds very harsh and is usually to be avoided at any cost, but artists like Björk has experimented with digital clipping as a distinct effect as well. Some genres of electronic music now use digital clipping along with bit reduction and sample frequency reduction liberally as effects alongside regular distortion, reverb, chorus, etc.
When recording, you need to adjust the gain-control of the pre-amp so that the peaks do not exceed the maximum dynamic range. This is often indicated as 0dB, or with a overload LED indicator. To prepare for the recording, make sure you receive the same kind of sound signal as the actual recording and adjust the gain until the peaks almost hit 0dB. Your goal is to get as close as possible to 0dB without exceeding it throughout the entire recording. Doing so will guarantee the maximum dynamic range and the lowest possible noise level in your recording.
Throughout mixing and post production, you also need to watch out for clipping (unless you intend to use it for effect). Again, most equipment, analogue, digital, physical or software will have indicators for clipping.
"Clipping" or "hard clipping" distortion generally refers to trying to record at a volume level that is higher than the maximum value your hardware will check for. Since it can't store this value, it simply records the highest value available. If you look at the waveform, the peaks will look flattened off, as if someone clipped them off with a set of shears.
This is different from "soft clipping" which usually refers to the often-desirable distortion introduced by analog hardware such as tube-based amplifiers.
You avoid clipping by making sure your input levels are always below the maximum. I like to pick a target value to aim for (in digital, usually -12 or -18 dB depending on where the noise floor is) and try to keep it there. A little higher is okay, but the highest value I ever record should stay lower than -0, otherwise digital clipping will occur.
Most recording software has a "peak" or "redline" indicator that lets you know when you're getting close to this level.
Any audio signal path, digital or analog, will have a maximum amplitude. If you feed it a signal, or amplify it more, you will get "clipping distortion".
You avoid it by doing something that you should always do at all times: You should make sure that at each part of your signal path the path should be as loud as possible without distortion, but no louder. This will minimize noise.
Almost everything that can clip will have some sort of clipping indicator. Turn the levels up until it clips, then turn it down until it doesn't.


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It's pretty obvious by now that geolocation is a heavy player in the next wave of applications and APIs. Now is the time to learn how to take advantage of this information and add context to your own applications. In this session we'll look at geolocation at every layer of the stack – from open protocols to operating system APIs, from the browser to Windows Phone 7. Building a compelling geo-enabled experience takes more than simple coordinates. In this session we will introduce the basics of determining a user's location and then delve into how to make geo data a useful addition to your application instead of a bolt-on "me too".
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Does it stil make much difference, now that we have much faster and larger HDDs? Generally I find if disk performance is getting too slow, it's probably because of too little free space, and the solution is to buy a new HDD.
It is still relevant, but since the release of Vista, Windows has automatically defragged your hard drive when the computer was sitting idle. If you leave your computer idle for long periods, this is no longer something which must be done manually.
It's not relevant on SSDs, which are hardly (if at all) affected by defragmentation (no read-heads to be moved around). And even more: SSDs have a much more limited number of times each part of the "disk" can be written to ("write endurance"; What is the lifespan of an SSD drive?), so especially for cheap SSDs it's best to use the whole disk, rather than keep using the same parts over and over again by running defragmentation tools.
For those who've partitioned their hard drive: didn't that introduce a huge fragmentation?
And though the question is tagged "windows", for those who get here given the generic title: it is not relevant for each file system. Like for a Mac (emphasis mine):
Of course, the latter would not occur when using a Defrag utility that is included with the operating system.
On my friend's PC (XP, NTFS, 80GB HD, ~750MB free), the 700MB pagefile was in 11,000 fragments, and the MFT was in 40 fragments. I cleaned up the hard drive, defragmented, and rebooted, and the difference was very noticeable.
It matters, but in Vista and Win7, it should be happening automatically as long as your machine has idle time.
Lots of good info.
The speed brought by defrag is especially visible on slower hdds, like those on laptops.
I think it's still relevant. I have a C2Duo/2Gb/250Gbx2 setup, and even with the mirrored "small" drives, defragging seems to help tremendously with startup and program load times.
I would say it still makes sense - specially on hard drives that get a lot of file activities. I run MyDefrag at work to keep my hard drive from getting too fragmented, since at work I usually work on several revision depots that can have thousands of file changes in one day - keeping it defragged really helps on open read performance of the bigger art files I work with, but also on the speed of my text searches.


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How could you adapt the Vitality and Wound Points system from Unearthed Arcana to the 4th ed rules.
What major changes would you need to make?
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What major changes would you need to make?
Quoth the SRD:
In 4e, a monster will do Level+8 damage on a hit which roughly works out to 1 healing surge of damage. Most parties have the ability to spend Players+2-4 surges per fight, depending on the leader build and how much self-healing the defender is prepared to do.
The real problem with this mod is that it will slow down the healing time significantly. It is not particularly useful to map surges to wound points, as any monster will burn through the surges as if they were not even there. Instead, we care about surges as a count of actual lethal blows someone can take. Someone's surges are a function of their class and constitution, and so can represent this to some degree.
Presuming you're not using heightened damage systems (I would be terrified of using this system with a fourthcore approach or a "level 1 scaled damage" approach) A character who is out of HP (vitality points) can take damage directly to her healing surges. For every Healing surge value (1/4 of her HP) she takes after being reduced to 0 hp, she loses 1 healing surge (read: wound damage). Every death saving throw she fails also causes 1 wound damage, though being reduced to 0 hp only induces the dazed condition on the character, instead of unconscious. Having someone's healing surge count hit 0 kills them. Instantly.
Healing surges lost in this way recover as per the wound recovery rules, not simply on an extended rest. Surges spent for "vitality point" healing are recovered normally.
What this should end up doing is providing characters with a temptation to "keep on fighting" but with reduces subsequent capacity on future days of fighting. For added "realism" reduce the amount of healing that may be gained from surge-spending. As this realism works out to "we spend more days resting" it's not particularly interesting from a game design point of view.
Still, by having surges lost on death saving throws, and making the consequence of death saving throws not simply something that go away on short rest, players (especially defenders) will feel far less sanguine about playing yo-yos during fights. (low level defenders often spend more than a quarter of any given fight unconscious. It's tremendous fun.) Characters can still die from being beaten up upon when they're "down" but so long as a dying character doesn't thrash too much, few goblins will take the time to "put the boot in."
The ultimate consequence of this change will be to make stabilization of dying characters far more of a priority and to enable far more "heroic" last stands by people willing to sacrifice their healing surges to tank that last round or two with the big bad evil guy without imposing too many external costs on the system.
With regards to monsters? Ignore this system entirely. Monsters should have HP appropriate to your game, depending what scaling you're using and what version of the Monster Manual's algorithms you choose.
Instead of the Constitution score, you could set the number of wounds a character has to their number of Healing Surges.


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Cerebral cavernous malformation
Other Names for this Disease
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- Cavernous angioma
- Cavernoma
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seizures, paralysis, hearing or vision deficiencies, and bleeding in the brain (cerebral hemorrhage). These malformations can change in size and number over time, but they do not become cancerous.[1][2] This condition can be sporadic or it can be inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern. Mutations in the KRIT1(CCM1), CCM2, and PDCD10 (CCM3) genes cause cerebral cavernous malformation.[2] Treatment depends upon the symptoms. Seizures are usually treated with antiepileptic medications or surgery.[1]Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs) are collections of small blood vessels (capillaries) in the brain that are enlarged and irregular in structure which lead to altered blood flow. Cavernous malformations can occur anywhere in the body, but usually produce serious signs and symptoms only when they occur in the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord). Cavernous malformations in the brain and/or spinal cord are called cerebral cavernous malformations. Approximately 25 percent of individuals with cerebral cavernous malformations never experience any related medical problems. Other people with cerebral cavernous malformations may experience serious symptoms such as headaches,
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- NINDS Cerebral Cavernous Malformation Information Page. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). February 2015; http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/cavernous_malformation/cavernous_malformation.htm. Accessed 12/14/2015.
- Cerebral cavernous malformation. Genetics Home Reference. November 2012; http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/cerebral-cavernous-malformation. Accessed 12/14/2015.
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$p$ is an odd prime and $k$ is a positive integer. Let $n=k \cdot p^2+1$. If $2^k \not\equiv 1 \pmod n$ and $2^{n-1} \equiv 1 \pmod n$, is $n$ prime? If it is, why?
Is $n = k \cdot p^2 + 1$ necessarily prime if $2^k \not\equiv 1 \pmod{n}$ and $2^{n-1} \equiv 1 \pmod{n}$?
Not necessarily. Let $p = 3$ and $k = 154$. Then $n = 3^2 * 154 + 1 = 1387$, $2^{154} \equiv 1024 \not\equiv 1 \pmod{1387}$, and $2^{1386} \equiv 1 \pmod{1387}$. But $n = 1387 = 19 * 73$ is not prime.
I'm able to find a proof of the $k=2$ case, which is the first non-trivial case.
Result: Let $p$ be an odd prime and $n=2p^2+1$ such that $2^{n-1} \equiv 1 \pmod n$. Then $n$ is prime.
This proof splits into four steps:
Lemma: Let $p$ be a prime and $n=2p^2+1$. If $p$ divides $\varphi(n)$, then $n$ is prime.
Proof: Since $\varphi(n)$ is multiplicative and $p$ is prime, $p$ divides $\varphi(q^t)$ for some prime power divisor $q^t$ of $n$. Since $\varphi(q^t)=q^{t-1}(q-1)$, and $q$ divides $n$ while $p$ does not divide $n$, we must have that $p$ divides $q-1$.
Since $q$ divides $n$, we know $n=bq$ for some $b \geq 1$. Since $p$ divides $q-1$, we know $q=cp+1$ for some $c \geq 1$.
Hence $$n=b(cp+1)=bcp+b$$ and from before $$n=2p^2+1.$$ By taking these equations modulo $p$, we must have that $b \equiv 1 \pmod p$.
Case I: $b \geq 2p+1$. Then $n=bcp+b>2p^2+1$, giving a contradiction.
Case II: $b=p+1$. Then $n=cp(p+1)+p+1=cp^2+2cp+1$. Since $n$ is odd, we must have that $c$ is even, and thus $n>2p^2+1$, giving a contradiction.
Thus $b=1$, and hence $c=2p$, and hence $q=2p^2+1=n$. Hence $n$ is prime (since $q$ is a prime divisor of $n$). End proof.


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IngredientsIngredients 1 1/4 cups olive oil 1 lb. ground venison ½ lb. of green onion sausage 3 carrots, cut into 1/4-inch rounds 2 cups Guidrys Creole Seasoning Mix (or 1 large yellow onion, 4 garlic pods, 2 stalks of celery, ½ green bell pepper and ½ cup of parsley, chopped) 1 cup frozen tiny butter beans (or limas) 1 ½ cups low sodium beef stock ¼ cup all purpose flour ¼ cup dry, red wine 1 tsp. Savoies Flavoring and Browning liquid Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper 1 1/2 pounds russet potatoes, peeled and cut into 2 1/2-inch rounds 5 tablespoons unsalted butter 1/4 cup milk, plus more if needed 2 tablespoons freshly grated horseradish 2 ounces Vigo bread crumbs 2 ounces Parmesan, grated (1/2 cup)
Cooking InstructionsDirections In a large skillet over medium heat, add flour and ¼ cup of oil and blend into a medium dark roux. Add half of the Creole seasoning mix. Let the onions, garlic, bell pepper, celery and parsley sweat until the roux turns a rich brown color. Add the beef stock and wine. Bring to a boil and let simmer uncovered until it reduces to about 1 /12 cups. Add browning sauce. This is your gravy base. Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Add venison and green onion sausage mixture. Cook until browned, about 8 minutes. Transfer meat to a bowl and set aside. In same skillet, add a little more oil, carrots, and the remainder o the Creole seasoning mix and cook until softened, about 5 minutes. Stir in peas, gravy, and meat. Season with salt and pepper. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook until heated through, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and cover. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. In a large pot over high heat, bring potatoes and enough salted water to cover to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and simmer until potatoes are tender, about 20 minutes. Drain potatoes and return to pot. Add 3 tablespoons butter and mash potatoes. Stir in milk and season with salt. If potatoes are too stiff, add up to 2 tablespoons more milk. Stir in horseradish. Transfer meat mixture to an 11-inch deep-dish pie plate. Spread mashed potatoes over the venison and sausage mixture. Sprinkle crumbs and Parmesan on potatoes. Dot with remaining butter. Bake until tops are lightly browned, about 20 minutes.


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Enbridge proposed reversal of its Line 9 pipeline to move crude oil to Eastern Canada is a key element in keeping Quebec's two remaining refineries competitive. The Line 9 project is controversial in the province; critics say the risk of spills is too high and many Quebeckers are
opposed to importing crude from the allegedly dirty Alberta oil sands.
By BERTRAND MAROTTE
TORONTO -- Enbridge proposed reversal of its Line 9 pipeline
to move crude oil to Eastern Canada is a key element in keeping
Quebec's two remaining refineries competitive, says the
company's CEO.
"If those two refineries aren't there, you can bet there is
going to be an economic impact," Enbridge CEO Al Monaco said
after a presentation to the Board of Trade of Greater
"It's crucial that the Suncor and Valero refineries get
better access to cheaper crude, and the ideal solution is
reversing Line 9 to obtain it from Western Canada and the
United States Bakken region," said Mr. Monaco.
Creating thousands of new jobs in the province's petrochemical industry is not the
goal, he added. "I look at the project as really allowing the
sustainability of the existing refinery base, the two refineries
that are left in Quebec," he said.
The cost of reversing the 38 year old pipeline would be
about $110 million, said Mr. Monaco, who spoke at a news
conference with a pro-pipeline coalition that includes
business, oil industry and union representatives from
The Line 9 project is controversial in the
province; critics say the risk of spills is too high and many
Quebeckers are opposed to importing crude from the allegedly
dirty Alberta oil sands.
Mr. Monaco said it's important at this point to move quickly
to save the two refineries, which currently employ about 4,000
"Over the last thirty years, five refineries in Montreal
have closed. Thousands of well paying direct and indirect jobs
were lost. We can't let that happen again," he said in his
Securing more domestic oil would also help reduce Quebec's
dependence on imported oil, he added.
"Today, more than a third of Quebec's total energy demands
are met by imported oil, a massive outflow of wealth estimated
at $14 billion annually," he said.
"Access to reliable western supply would serve to make the
two remaining refineries, Suncor in Montreal East and Valero in
Levis, more competitive," said Mr. Monaco, who took over as CEO
of Enbridge last year."
Quebec Premier Pauline Marois has said she views the
proposed pipeline reversal favourably but that a formal
assessment of the project is necessary before it gets
a green light.
The National Energy Board is set to conduct public hearings
on the proposal next month and a decision is expected in
It's critical to win over public opinion, especially in
light of the deadly rail crash and explosion of tankers
carrying crude in Lac Megantic, Quebec, Mr. Monaco said in his
"If the energy industry has learned anything in recent
years, it's that economic benefits alone are not enough to
achieve public support. The pipelines and facilities we operate require public
trust and confidence that we are transporting our energy
resources responsibly. Frankly, that trust is being tested," he
TransCanada is also proposing a west-east pipeline project called Energy East to
transport Alberta crude to refineries and export terminals in
New Brunswick.
Keith Stewart, climate campaigner for Greenpeace Canada, is
equally dismissive of the Energy East jobs promise. "We would
create more jobs and build a better economy if we spent $12
billion on public transit and greener vehicles that reduce our
oil consumption, rather than on building a pipeline that fuels
climate change by deepening the world's addiction to dirty
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6 Badass Kids Who Ran Away from Home With a Vengeance
Most of you probably thought about doing it at some point: hopping on your Big Wheel and putting plastic to the pavement, throwing off those oppressive kid shackles and jumping headlong into the grownup game -- running away. Maybe you pulled some lightweight stunt and hid out in a treehouse for a day, or headed over to a friend's house a few blocks away, where the people finally understood you.
But there have been a few kids who took running away and made it into an extreme sport you would never want to play.
#6. Barbara McVay Stows Away on a Submarine
The Adorable:
In 1966, 17-year-old Barbara McVay decided she really needed to get to the U.K. The only problem? She lived in Maryland, which was tragically not in any way connected to the U.K. In her mind, there was only one option: to run away from home.
"Life isn't worth living without soggy French fries and obscenely expensive cigarettes."
So why'd she do it? And what was her chosen mode of transportation?
The Badass:
Let's see ... it's 1966. The Beatles have achieved a certain amount of success with the teenage girl demographic ... the song "Yellow Submarine" has just come out ... ah, yes, it all makes sense.
It was a long and winding road, so being a day tripper, she got a ticket to ride. (Hey Jude).
"I like English boys," she would later tell police when asked her motive for stowing away inside a 1,600 ton British submarine. "I couldn't go legally, so I had to do it illegally."
She had slipped past officers guarding the sub, which was docked in Baltimore on a goodwill visit, tucking herself away inside a conning tower compartment of the HMS Walrus (yes, even reality couldn't resist adding bad Beatles references to the mix). She stayed in her spot for 12 hours before making her presence known, and then it was only due to the fact that she was on the edge of fainting from carbon monoxide fumes.
English boys prefer the rosy, deoxygenated look.
And it's a good thing she came out, too, because the compartment would have slowly filled with water when the sub fully submerged. As it was, the sub was only four hours into its trip across the Atlantic, heading for Scotland, when the crew found out they had a stowaway. Rather than make the kid swim back, they turned the sub around and dropped her back off at Baltimore.
They apparently couldn't come up with a worse punishment.
For its part, the British Navy was characteristically dry and sarcastic about it all, with Captain Douglas Scobie telling the press:
"Certainly, we can't have that sort of nonsense going on in the British navy. Taking away one of Baltimore's citizens is rather overextending our appreciation of their hospitality."
"Especially one who is already crazier than a cat lady at the age of 17."
#5. Semaj Booker Grand Theft Autos His Way Across the Country
NOTE: DO NOT TRY THIS. Especially if you're a kid.
The Adorable:
According to 9-years-old-at-the-time Semaj Booker, he just really wanted to see his grandpa, who lived in Texas. Semaj was in Tacoma, Washington.
There were probably several ways to accomplish this that would not involve stealing a car and leading police on a high-speed chase. Semaj did not choose any of them.
"Grand theft auto is way cheaper than a Greyhound."
The Badass:
This kid really wanted to see Grandpa. We have no idea what the hell this kid's grandpa had going on, but it must have been a lot more than a Werther's Original or 50 birthday bucks, because little Semaj Booker crushed just about every societal obstacle facing the average grandpa-bound 9-year-old beneath his mighty Heelys.
In January 2007, having tired of fourth grade life in his Tacoma suburb, Semaj Booker decided it was time to take matters into his own Elmer's-stained hands and get himself to Dallas by any means possible. He knew he needed to get to the airport. His first obstacle: Mom wouldn't drive him. So, he stole a car and took off for the airport himself, using the skills he'd learned from video games to speed down State Highway 512.
"We've got a report of a car doing sweet stunt jumps off bridges. Get that daredevil a trophy."
It wasn't too long before the police noticed, and a 90 MPH chase ensued. Luckily for everyone, Semaj must have remembered that in video games, high-speed chases start with police cruisers, escalate to helicopters and end with armored vehicles and the FBI buzzing around like angry hornets, and so he eventually pulled over for the cops. Then he remembered that all those things magically disappear if you drive fast and long enough, and so he took off again, kicking off another high-speed chase, which eventually ended in a miraculously non-fatal way when his engine blew.
Someone mixed up the oil with the coolant again, the little scamp.
The very next day, having been derailed but not deterred, the kid decided the quest for Grandpa's house was still on and hopped a bus to Seattle's airport. He soon hit his second great Kid Wall: He didn't have a plane ticket, nor had he existed long enough to fly unaccompanied without a note from Mom. But right at that moment an airline employee made an announcement over the PA system concerning a lost ticket belonging to a "Frank Williams." Semaj thought fast, approached a ticket agent and told him his last name was Williams. "Frank Williams?" the agent asked.
"... yup."
It worked.
Ticket in hand, Semaj -- all nine years of him -- got through security and boarded a plane bound for Phoenix. He then transferred over to a plane headed for San Antonio. Grandpa was getting close. He then tried to con his way aboard a third plane headed for the promised land of Dallas, before Southwest employees noticed something was up and contacted Mom.
The grownup world may have put an end to that Grandpa crusade, but not for long: Over the next two years, police ended up having to bring Semaj Booker home another 12 times.
Grandpa must have been watching his war movies lying on a hooker mattress.
#4. The Boy With No Name Sets Up House in an Elevator Shaft
The (Mysteriously) Adorable:
Only so much is known about this little fella. His story appeared in The Milwaukee Journal and The Telegraph Herald in 1982. He ran away at the age of 13, and two years later, he decided he'd had enough of being on the road and wanted to go home to Mom.
The papers refused to name him on account of his age, so we've taken the liberty of just making one up:
Lil' Theodore Putin-MacGyver.
"My teacher says I'm bear-taming at a 12th grade level."
Trust us. It's appropriate.
The Badass:
Most of us had the dream, at some point in our childhoods: setting up camp in some kind of hideaway. Just decking the place out with all manner of cool tricked-out kid conveniences. This kid did that, except he was on the run for two years, and he converted a 5-foot pit at the bottom of a Connecticut apartment complex's elevator shaft into his very own Runaway Kid Bat Cave.
His father had reported the boy missing in 1980, and when they found him two years later, it was as a result of phone calls to the police from suspicious residents in the Crown Court apartment complex in New Haven, Connecticut. There had been reports of petty thefts, a quirky elevator and the mysterious aroma of hot dogs wafting through the air.
The calling card of Lil' Bat-Hobo.
Those residents who didn't realize that all of these things can add up only to a badass runaway kid soon learned their lesson when the police raided the Kid Cave and discovered he'd furnished his elevator pit with, among other things, a bed, lights, a stereo, a tape deck and a CB radio.
The hot dog aroma that the residents noticed? The kid had set up a propane stove, too. How'd he power all this awesomeness, you may be wondering? He'd tapped into the building's emergency power system. "What an irresponsible little brat," you may be saying, "the kid could have burned the entire apartment complex down." Well, he also smuggled a fire extinguisher into the lair.
Responsibly removing it from the burning room in apartment 14.
The malfunctioning elevator the residents were complaining about? Three years before the first episode of MacGyver even aired, this kid had that shit down, rewiring the apartment's elevator so as to be able to control it from his room.
The thefts the residents had been reporting came as a result of the kid having picked the deadbolt locks to the building's parking garage, along with his artful activation and deactivation of alarms so as to avoid detection. This kid operated like a runaway ninja shadow in the night; even the Children and Youth Services officials were impressed by it all, with Department Director Robert L. Budney stating:
"He appeals to the Robin Hood in all of us, I think. He's obviously very street wise, very crafty, very intelligent."
Very arrested.


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NEWELL - The sale of Newell Memorial Field began quietly enough at a June meeting of the Hancock County Board of Education, but it didn't take long for people to take up sides on the issue.
How should the property be sold? To whom should it be sold? For how much? What should it be used for?
As the school board wrestled with those questions, it also found itself in the middle of a battle for public support. While some people praised the board for its circumspect handling of the sale, others questioned the board's motives and methods - especially its reluctance to deal with the Chester Volunteer Fire Department and the City of Chester.
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BOARD OKS SALE — On Friday, the Hancock County Board of Education agreed to sell both Newell Memorial Field and the old Jimmy Carey Stadium in Weirton to the Hancock County Commission. The commission reportedly plans to work with the Business Development Corp. of the Northern Panhandle to market both properties for future business development. -- Warren Scott
"Despite what people think, all five of us (board members) are concerned about what happens to the community," Board President Jerry Durante said Friday after the board accepted the Hancock County Commission's offer of $400,000 for the Newell and Weirton stadium properties.
The pending sale to the commission means the Newell property will likely be steered away from recreational uses and toward economic development - an outcome that community leaders say they could not have anticipated but that could have been a lot worse.
Beverly Enochs, president of the Newell Community Improvement Coalition, said her organization wanted the school board to consider ways of disposing of the property other than a public auction.
"We wanted to do what was right to protect the field from something unknown coming in or something we would have no control over," Enochs said. "We don't have any government here Newell. We're not trying to act as government, but we are concerned. This was a big concern for the community."
Coalition Treasurer Sue Thompson attended board meetings throughout the summer, advocating for options other than an auction. The coalition wanted Chester Fire Chief John Hissam to succeed in his efforts to buy the property.
"We worked closely with Chief Hissam, hoping they could make it work. We knew what their intentions were for the field," Enochs said.
The fire department wanted to develop the stadium for community use and for use by its annual Fall Bash fundraiser.
Now that the fire department is out of the running, "we are very happy that our county commissioners stepped in to help our community," Enochs said. "We will be working with them too. Everybody could use the development. I don't want to see our town die."
Enochs said she's confident the commissioners won't do anything to harm the community.
The lesson, she said, is to be actively involved in community issues. "Don't sit back and complain. Find out the laws, find out the rules, find out the situation. If you're not involved in it, things'll pass right by you," she said.
In the fire department's five attempts since July to acquire the property, Hissam said he learned that "you have to have politics, money and influence on your side to do much of anything. Without one of the three, you're in trouble. We had the money and the influence, but we didn't have the politics."
Hissam said he has no regrets about the fire department's involvement or his $50,000 bid, on Oct. 25, that the school board rejected as too low. He said he has done "not one bit" of second guessing about that bid, the only one placed at the auction.
"People are saying we could have got it in the auction, ... but with no one else bidding, why would I spend $250,000 when I didn't need to? I was the only bidder there," he said. "No one else bothered to take the trip to New Cumberland. I drove to New Cumberland in 20 minutes, and they could have done the same thing. They chose to sit it out. Now I'm the bad guy? Because I wouldn't bid against myself?"
Regardless, Hissam said he is grateful for all the community support he received, and he holds no ill will toward the county commissioners.
"I hope it works for them. We need jobs," he said. "But I also think it's important for the community to have public land."
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- Date: October 19, 2012
- PIO Number: 12-10-20
- The Broward Sheriff's Office teamed up with local, state and federal partners to conduct a large-scale, countywide operation that nabbed 231 criminals in two days.
- The crime crackdown, which took place October 17 and 18, included street-level narcotic sales, prostitution stings, fugitive warrant sweeps, parcel interdiction, an unlicensed contractor sting and an Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force operation aimed at identifying and arresting sexual predators.
- "These crackdowns are about saturating the county with law enforcement presence and taking criminals off the streets," Sheriff Al Lamberti said. "This approach is consistently successful and we couldn't do it without the multi-agency participation."
- Participating agencies included the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Metro Broward Drug Task Force, State Probation and Parole, the Federal Bureau of Investigations, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, U.S. Customs and Border Protection/ICE, FDLE, South Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, the U.S. Postal Service and the U.S. Marshals Office, as well as the Hallandale, Ft. Lauderdale, Lauderhill, Margate, Sunrise and Coral Springs police departments.
- In addition to the dozens of felony arrests, the operation led to the confiscation of illegal weapons, drugs and thousands of dollars used in the commission of crimes.
***MEDIA NOTE: A few photographs of the operation are attached to his news release on our website, www.sheriff.org.
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Posted At: 10/19/2012 01:57 PM
- 12-10-20 Multi-Agency Sweep - The Metro Broward Drug Task Force seized more than 90 plants of marijuana from a Ft. Lauderdale grow house
- 12-10-20 Multi-Agency Sweep - The Metro Broward Drug Task Force seized more than 90 plants of marijuana from a Ft. Lauderdale grow house
- 12-10-20 Multi-Agency Sweep - 19 Unlicensed Contractors were arrested during the two-day sting.
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Fluoroquinolones, including LEVAQUIN® , are associated with an increased risk of tendinitis and tendon rupture in all ages. This risk is further increased in older patients usually over 60 years of age, in patients taking corticosteroid drugs, and in patients with kidney, heart or lung transplants [See WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS].
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LEVAQUIN® is a synthetic broad-spectrum antibacterial agent for oral and intravenous administration. Chemically, levofloxacin, a chiral fluorinated carboxyquinolone, is the pure (-)(S)-enantiomer of the racemic drug substance ofloxacin. The chemical name is (-)-(S)-9-fluoro- 2,3-dihydro-3-methyl-10-(4-methyl-1-piperazinyl)-7-oxo-7H-pyrido[1,2,3-de]-1,4benzoxazine-6-carboxylic acid hemihydrate.
Figure 1 : The Chemical Structure of Levofloxacin
The empirical formula is C18H20FN3O4 • ½ H2O and the molecular weight is 370.38. Levofloxacin is a light yellowish-white to yellow-white crystal or crystalline powder. The molecule exists as a zwitterion at the pH conditions in the small intestine.
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Pink Lightsabers are freaking awesome, and the +33 to [Stat] isn't bad either. However, these crystals seem to be incredibly rare - one just sold on my server for two million credits!
How do I get one?
Pink Lightsabers are freaking awesome, and the +33 to [Stat] isn't bad either. However, these crystals seem to be incredibly rare - one just sold on my server for two million credits!
How do I get one?
Step One: Get the Pattern.
This step is primarily for people who have Artificing as one of their crew skills. Others will need to find someone who can do the craft on commission for them (this is exceptionally difficult and will cost you a tidy sum, for reasons that will be detailed), or get an artificing friend to help them out with this step.
In order to learn to craft a Magenta crystal, you'll first need to get an Ops group together to take down a world boss (possibly a few times since the drops are not guaranteed):
+16 Stat Crystals
+33 Stat Crystals
+41 Stat Crystals
You may be best off buying the schematics from the GTN, especially the last two since they are extremely rare drops.
Step Two: Get Wet.
Most of the materials for the Magenta crystals are 'easy' to get — standard crafting components provided by the Archaeology and Treasure Hunting tradeskills, and easily availiable from the GTN if you have the credits but not the skills.
The Magenta Adegan Crystal, however, is not so simple. The first step to acquiring it is to head to Tatooine where you'll want to look for a Moisture Vaporator. These are big metal tower lookin' things. There are many in the Jundland region, marked on the map below:
At the base of some of these towers, you'll find a clickable Water Access Panel. Clicking on this will give you the buff Refreshed and Sustained.
Note: Not all Vaporators have a clickable panel. If you can't find one, keep looking. There are clickable panels all over Tatooine, but in the experience of my guildmates, Jundland was the most dense.
Step Three: Get Cold.
(Alternate: Step Three: Get High.)
Now that you've gotten water from Tattooine, it's time to go freeze it on Hoth.
Specifically, you'll want to head to the Highmount Ridge region, just north of the Imperial base at Leth Outpost. I've marked it below:
What you want to do here is climb the mountain. Once you've reached a certain height, your water buff from Tattooine will be removed, and replaced with a new one — Extreme Altitude.
More importantly, you'll now have Pure Shockfrozen Water in your inventory.
Step Four: Who You Gonna Call?
Now that you've got your Ice, it's time to kill a ghost.
From Hoth, we head to Ilum, where you'll want to visit the Eastern Ice Shelf, located to the west of the Imperial and Republic Waystations. Again, you can see the map below, along with both waystations marked for convenience:
At the Ice Shelf, what you're looking for is a Depleted White Adegan Crystal. It looks like a typical crystal gathering node, and when you click on it will summon a Force Ghost. This is a level 50 boss mob, with about 200k HP — and it hits fairly hard. You'll probably need a full group including both a tank and healer. If you can handle level 50 Flashpoints, you should be able to handle this ghost. Once he's defeated, anyone in your group with the Pure Shockfrozen Water in their inventory should be able to click on the corpse to turn it into a Magenta Adegan Crystal.
That's enough for the +33 stat crystals. The +16 crystals added in Patch 1.2 use Pristine Adegan Crystals instead, and the +41 crystal require both. See Where and what are the "unusual crystal formations" on Alderaan? for how to get the Pristine crystals (it's less involved!).
Step Five: Get Pink!
Now it's just a matter of crafting the crystal! There's one notable catch here though — that Magenta Adegan Crystal you just went to all that trouble to produce? It's unique. So the person crafting your new Fabulous Pink Saber Crystal can only be working on one job at a time — he can't set a few and log off overnight. And being a high level epic craft skill, it takes a fairly long time to craft each one. So make sure that you either trust your crafter completely, or are able to craft it yourself. Thankfully, a crafter can have a dozen of the base crystals sitting in his mailbox waiting to craft, so setting up a queue is possible. But given the inconvenience involved for the crafter, I'd strongly advise that you compensate them well.
Or you could skip everything and buy one off the GTN....
This guide seems to provide a fairly straightforward walkthrough (if a total pain to actually do).


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KILLEEN (November 1, 2012)—Over two days in October Killeen police investigated two separate reports of residents being attacked with stun guns and officers are looking for suspects.
In the most recent, on Oct. 22, police were sent just after 10 p.m. to the 6700 block of Taree Loop after someone reported an assault.
When officers arrived they met with a man and a woman who said they had been walking in the 4500 block of Auburn Dr., when they were approached by two men who were jogging.
As the runners came closer, the victims moved aside to allow the joggers to pass.
But as the joggers got closer, one of the victims noticed one of the joggers was carrying something in his hands with a red light on it.
The victims described their attackers as black men, both 5-feet, 10-inches to 6-feet tall with a thin builds.
The suspects were last seen driving off in a silver Ford Fusion.
The day before Killeen police were sent just before 8 p.m. to the 1600 block of Stan Schlueter where officers met with two women who told officers that while they were walking two black men approached them from behind.
One of the men grabbed one of the victims and attempted to use a stun gun on her but she was able to free herself.
The other man assaulted the second woman with a stun gun.
When both women began running and screaming for help, the attackers fled on foot.
The first suspect is described as a black man, approximately 6-feet, 1-inch tall and 150 pounds.
He was wearing a purple hat, baggy jean shorts and no shirt.
The second suspect is described as approximately 6-feet, 1-inch tall and 150 pounds.
He was wearing baggy jean shorts and had a black hood over his head.
Both suspects are described as having a thin build.
Detectives believe that there have been more assaults involving these suspects.
Investigators are asking anyone with information to call Killeen Crime Stoppers at (254) 526-TIPS.
Tips may also be submitted online.