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8 Badass Tourist Destinations for the Criminally Insane
Got a taste for adventure? Let's face it -- even skydiving and bungee jumping are pretty passe these days. Your friends have all done that shit before. If you really want a tourist experience that will make your loved ones demand "What the Christ were you thinking!?" then we have a few recommendations for you.
#8. You Can Rent a Tank in Minnesota
Paintball is for pussies. What's the point of shooting at people if there's no real potential to kill them? At Drive A Tank in Kasota, Minnesota, you can throw away the toys and live every man's dream of wrecking stuff from behind the wheel of a Vietnam-era death machine.
"Please keep maniacal laughter under 10 seconds in duration."
For a measly few hundred dollars, they will let you take a joyride in a genuine tank and wreak untold destruction in a family friendly environment. They have a 20-acre facility, an indoor range for firing machine guns and loads of mechanized artillery to choose from to satisfy your lust for destruction.
There are packages to fit every budget, too. For the right price, you can even take that bad boy over a car or two, monster truck style. Unfortunately, they choose the car, so you can't just pick the asshole who cut you off in traffic this morning.
Drive a Tank
"Sorry, I was texting."
That's just the beginning -- the car-crushing feature proved so popular that the company now lets you upgrade to crushing mobile homes. Sure, there are no people in there, but who's to stop you from pretending there are?
"The Johnsons sit down to dinner as one big happy family. By the time they feel the rumble, it's too late."
#7. Swim With Crocodiles in Australia
Crocodiles are terrifying throwbacks to the dinosaur age, with one of the strongest bites in the animal kingdom. So, for the intrepid death-seeker, it's not enough to just see them in the zoo -- you want to climb into the water and laugh right in their ugly faces. That's why Crocosaurus Cove in Darwin, Australia, built what they quite honestly bill as the Cage of Death, in which you can spend 15 minutes eye-to-eye with a 19-foot, 2,000-pound killing machine.
The Daily Mail
"We decided that 'Cage of Death' looked better on brochures than 'Crocodile-Assisted Suicide'."
And the best part is that the cages are sturdy, transparent plexiglass, which increases the realism for both the participants and the giant territorial reptiles whose home you are invading.
The Daily Mail
"Mi estomago es su casa."
The guides at Crocosaurus Cove freely admit that the crocs don't like it when people are dunked into their tanks and feel obliged to attack, as shown here.
And just in case the animals fail to associate the cage and its contents with food, the operators of this ride will sometimes dangle chunks of meat off the edge.
NT News
"Pavlov's dog ain't got shit on me."
But not to worry, the last time the cable broke and the cage sunk to the bottom, the plexiglass hardly shattered at all. Oh wait, does that happen often or something? Because they sure responded quickly with that press release.
NT News
"Hey guys, can you put me in a tank that isn't named Titanic?"
#6. Ride a Lion (and Other Dangerous Animals)
OK, so what if that thin layer of plexiglass is still too much separation from the dangerous predators of the world? Lucky for you there is the Lujan Zoo near Buenos Aires, Argentina. For a small fee and a signed release form that absolves the facility of any and all wrongdoing, you can ride a full-size lion!
The Daily Mail
"Come on, honey, really dig those spurs in!"
If that's not really your thing, you can play with tigers, cuddle with cheetahs or get chewed on by bears, or whatever dangerous beasts they've got available (seasonal restrictions may apply). They pretty much open the cages to people and let them do whatever. And bring your kids, too! What can conceivably go wrong?
The Daily Mail
"Awww, he just wants to get a taste of human flesh."
But those animals are all broken-spirited shells of the majestic beasts they once were. If you want to actually participate in the nightmarish brutality of nature, head on down to the Harbin Siberian Tiger Park in China, where you can purchase live animals, tie them to the top of your glass-covered SUV and drive through a pride of ravenous murder engines. The fact that someone gets dragged off now and then only adds to the excitement.
The Thirsty Pig
Finally, all the thrill of Jurassic Park without those pesky "fences" and "safety precautions."
#5. Throw Yourself Down a Hill in a Plastic Ball
People do all kinds of crazy things to try to induce the body's natural shit-itself response. So it was only a matter of time before someone looked at a steep hill, scratched their chin and thought, "I would like to encase myself in a giant transparent ball and throw myself down this." That was the day zorbing was born.
In zorbing, the latest adrenaline sport to come out of New Zealand, they strap you inside a gigantic inflatable hamster ball and push you down a slope at speeds of up to 30 mph. That doesn't sound fast, but remember that you spend the whole time tumbling head over ass in a centrifuge likely filled with your own vomit.
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"Don't worry, the ball will just spin-dry it out."
It's the perfect sport for anyone whose idea of adventure is careening down a slope in a screaming pile of dislocated limbs. And these things don't come with anything remotely resembling brakes or steering, so if you see yourself rolling toward a cliff or oncoming traffic, you have an unstoppable 30 mph drift toward doom to say whatever prayers might come to mind under the circumstances.
Cube Farm Escape
"Don't worry, babe, your life insurance policy covers death by misadventure. I'll be fine!"


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Even behind bars, they can leave their mark on streets
He gets excited. His arms move to emphasize points, a smile testing the elasticity of his cheeks. His shaved head shines in the fluorescent lights.
Barneburg is working to shed pounds from his big frame and build endurance — something he needs to play defense in this blood sport that terrorizes prisons and urban streets alike.
The IGI is tasked with combating prison gangs by monitoring and thwarting communications and identifying the players within California's most notorious criminal organizations. It also helps to keep men locked away in Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit for years.
Almost 60 percent of all "validated" prison gang members in California are housed at Pelican Bay — for some gangs all of its leadership is here, court documents say.
The SHU used to be where gang leaders ran affairs with a certain impunity. That changed when the IGI switched strategies, starting in 2004.
The IGI is reviled by SHU inmates, their families and prisoner rights advocates, who say prison gang investigators are "vindictive" with a "class A personality," walking around with a "rooster chest."
"The IGI tends to draw that personality in," says lifer Antonio Guillen, a San Jose native who has been identified by investigators as a leader in Nuestra Familia ("Our Family"), a Northern California Hispanic prison gang. He denies having gang connections.
"Not all correctional officers are bad. A lot here are cool," says Guillen. "The IGI ... they're like a little gang. They're listening right now. Every time I get a visit they're on me."
There's an 8-inch brick-colored barrier painted on the bottom portion of the glass to prevent hand signals sneaking by a surveillance camera peering down from the visitor's side of the glass. And, yes, the conversations are recorded.
SHU inmates are afforded 2-hour visits on Saturdays and Sundays — a vulnerability in the IGI's security measures that otherwise keep them under closer scrutiny than those in the prison's general population.
A recent indictment by the U.S. Attorney's Office highlights ways inmates use visitation to their gang's advantage. Pelican Bay SHUâinmate Danny Roman was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in a case involving the arrests of 29 people linked to the Harpys street gang in southern Los Angeles. He was accused of passing coded messages during visits from his daughter and son-in-law to give directives to the gang.
Barneburg and the IGI worked with the U.S. Attorney's Office in decoding messages and providing evidence for the case.
"The Mexican Mafia's control over street gangs, in California, particularly Southern California, is very powerful," says Ben Barron, assistant U.S. attorney in California's Central District. "For their security, they pay tax up the chain to the Mexican Mafia. Danny Roman received profits from drug sales from prison and the streets, which guaranteed the safety of the Harpys."
Inmate mail is another vulnerability.
Prison gang leaders use veiled language in an attempt to bypass IGI monitoring and get orders, hits and drug trades to street gangs under their control, Barneburg says.
My Grandma has let her yard get out of control. Send a gardener over to clean it for her.
But Grandma has nothing to do with it, Barneburg says. It might actually mean:
One of the street crews in L.A. is subpar. Deal with the members who are running afoul.
Another hypothetical: The Dodgers are struggling because of the manager. They should think about replacing that guy.
In other words: The leader of the street gang isn't putting in enough work. Kill him.
A mention of "Giants" would be used by Northern Hispanic gang members, like the Nuestra Familia or its subordinate gang, the Northern Structure, Barneburg says.
And when the author is questioned by the IGI, his response is: "What are you talking about? I'm just talking about baseball," says Barneburg.
The IGI reads all mail that flows from the SHU on a daily basis. The result delays delivery, and in some cases mail privileges are revoked. This is a major gripe of inmates.
A letter sent to Guillen by his sister was confiscated in 2010. It mentioned a man named "Beto," who was initially identified as a gang member. Also included were several news articles regarding Nuestra Familia-related arrests in the Bay Area and information posted on the Internet about Guillen.
Guillen unsuccessfully appealed confiscation of the mail through Pelican Bay's internal process, then took the matter to Del Norte Superior Court in 2011, when he asked Judge William Follett to order the IGI to deliver the letter and articles. Before the conclusion of the case, it was deemed by IGI that "Beto" was not the person originally suspected and the letter did not contain gang information, so it was delivered. However, Follett ruled that the news articles could still be withheld.
Inmates can manipulate the mail several ways.
To get the contents of a boomeranged letter past IGI, inmates may use "ghost writing," in which ink is removed from a pen and secret indentations are made on a seemingly innocuous message. Later the recipient can color over the indentations with a pencil to read the secret message.
Inmates also boomerang ghost writings through the prison's internal administrative appeals process. A simple appeal that will likely be rejected without much thought from a correctional officer is returned to the "sender," actually the intended recipient.
Mail drops are another method. Veiled or coded messages are sent to a person on the outside, a friend or family member, who then copies the letter — possibly without understanding the ultimate intent — and resending it to another inmate.
Mail pertaining to inmates' legal matters poses the biggest vulnerability. Legal mail is considered confidential and while the IGI can open the envelope to check for contraband, it isn't allowed to read the contents.
An inmate may label an envelope as legal mail, put an attorney's name on it, but send it to another address on the outside.
Or an attorney might willingly pass along messages.
In 2003, the sister of a Mexican Mafia member was admitted to the California State Bar. She began receiving legal mail from her brother and other members and associates. The attorney was relaying messages of operations, orders and instructions that led to three dozen murders, including gang members and other people, investigators said. When authorities caught on, they launched "Operation Jokers Wild," resulting in more than 100 arrests in L.A. The attorney was disbarred.
Investigators say the author of some of these letters was Pelican Bay SHU inmate Arturo Castellanos. He has been validated as a Mexican Mafia member, and investigators say he is the leader of the Florencia-13 street gang based in the Florence-Firestone neighborhood north of Watts.
Two members of the Short Corridor Collective, including Antonio Guillen, agreed to talk with the Triplicate for this series. Castellanos did not respond to an interview request.
In a report that concluded a four-year investigation into his mail and trust account, the IGI calls Castellanos the "kingpin" behind the crimes.
Castellanos was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in "Operation Jokers Wild."
The following are excerpts of a confiscated letter that investigators say was written by Castellanos in August 2004 to the attorney to be passed to another Mexican Mafia member. The letter is contained in a prison rule violations report against Castellanos found in court documents.
The first part addresses how money should be divided among street crews and gang members. Another part deals with how to approach unaffiliated street gangs in Castellanos' territory, investigators say:
"All the crews are to always conduct themselves as businessmen with a lot of finesse when dealing with anyone in the District. There's no need for threats. If they refuse to participate while in our Districts, they are to be calmly told that they have 10 days to think it over. At the end of that time, they are either to participate or leave the district for good, no in-betweens."
The final part talks about local businesses and plans for the future:
"Also, all legit businesses are to be left alone in our district, no taxing — This includes bars, etc ... Also, some of our feria (money), ... is going to be used by us to open legitimate businesses in the Districts for family and homesters. All those in the crews are welcome to do the same with theirs. This is for future plans so all can come together."
Investigators documented dozens of letters to and from Castellanos. His inmate trust account was frozen after the IGI concluded he was using it to launder money. It also led to a severe mail restriction that allowed only his sister to correspond with him. He has since had several other relatives added to the list. His visits were restricted, but they were also loosened.
After Castellanos' mail was restricted, he began stuffing notes in clothes to be washed in the hopes they would get to an inmate who worked in laundry to pass on to others in the general population and ultimately to the streets, investigators claimed in their 87-page report.
Then there's communication within the SHU, a place designed to prevent it. Inmates escorted through a pod past another man's cell may blink or gesture to pass messages. In the law library, where inmates are in two rows of small cells, they can speak or gesture to each other.
They can also yell to each other through the drain pipes snaking underneath the SHU.
Barneburg pulls out folders of material the IGI has intercepted through the years. One is a legal document with micro-writing (tiny-lettered messages) of the Nuestra Familia Constitution: the rules and guidelines its members must follow.
Other kites are long slivers of paper about two fingers wide with micro-writing. Their contents have lists of inmates, their aliases, their CDCR number, their standing with the gang, jails and prisons in which they've lived. Some of the inmates are "green-lighted," giving permission to any other members of the gang to kill them.
Kites might include population counts of members on a specific yard in a certain prison, information about which prisons are lax on security measures and details about rival gangs on yards. Kites are often smuggled from prisons through an inmate's orifice; an inmate transferring prisons will be given the kite to pass on to the member who runs the yard to which he is being sent.
"They take everything out of their 'suitcase' and give it to their chain of command," says Barneburg.
In Administrative Segregation Units, inmates awaiting placement in the SHU have more leeway in communicating. An inmate might commit an assault or other rule violation that will land him in the SHU for a determinate sentence just to pass on information once he gets there.
"Ad-seg is a big hub of communications," says Barneburg. "They filter it up from Ad-seg to security housing."
Ad-seg is where he got interested in gangs, Barneburg says. It provided him a firsthand look at the underworld of "the Bay." He began spotting the nexus between inmates' criminal activity and gangs. The more time he spent there, the better he was able to identify the players.
"We kind of grew up in the department together," says Barneburg. "I promoted and so did they."
Barneburg went from working in Ad-seg to one of the Bay's two general population yards. Then he could see the men in action.
"It's kind of where I cut my teeth," says Barneburg. "When I came down here to SHU you could see gang influence on a state level. Back here, the influence these guys have, they can affect neighborhoods."
Each prison gang was started to provide protection against other inmates, Barneburg says, but "they rapidly became something that preyed on other people as well."
The Nuestra Familia developed after the Mexican Mafia began victimizing northern Hispanic inmates in the 1960s, but it has since adopted the vices of its enemy: murder, extortion, drug trafficking, prostitution.
"To this day, that war is still going on," says Barneburg.
The two major Hispanic prison gangs are the most powerful and pose the greatest threat inside the prison walls and on the streets due to their structure, discipline and numbers, Barneburg says.
The Nuestra Familia has a structure ranging from soldier to general.
"Coming into the adult system, inmates get wrapped up into these gang hierarchies," says Barneburg. "It's very, very paramilitary."
New inmates on the yard are going to be immediately challenged, Barneburg says. Some will steer clear of gangs, others won't. But if a race riot breaks out, the inmate just trying to do his time may have to join in or face consequences.
A yard leader for a specific gang will approach a Hispanic inmate and ask questions.
"They do a background check," says Barneburg. "They take that new arrival questionnaire and cross-reference it with the Bad News List."
The latter is produced through kites and inmates keeping track of each other, with information eventually passed up to leaders in the SHU. One Bad News List the IGI confiscated had information on 1,400 inmates at Pelican Bay and elsewhere, Barneburg says.
Inmates will be cleared or "instead of being embraced by the gang you will be stabbed by the gang," says Barneburg.
Once an inmate is cleared, he then will be assigned a teacher who will indoctrinate him on code of conduct, history of the organization, weaponry and communications, as well as physical training, Barneburg says.
"Everyone finds their own niche," says Barneburg, such as specializing in coded messages or weapon-making.
Then come the missions.
"As you are willing to do tasks, you're naturally going to rise through the organization," says Barneburg. "Gang members who go along to get along won't go as far."
As an organization grows on prison yards, its leaders begin thinking about taking control, taxing for drug sales, running gambling rings and controlling contraband.
"They're taking young men and breaking them down mentally and physically," says Barneburg. "They're a very predatory organization."
Young inmates who become errand boys for gangs — smuggling drugs or assaulting other inmates on the gang's behalf — begin accruing more prison time, Barneburg says.
"A relatively short term could turn into a life sentence because they have been exploited by the gangs."
Inmate Todd Ashker, a validated Aryan Brotherhood member and a representative for white inmates in the Short Corridor Collective, was first sent to prison on a six-year term in 1985 after he pleaded guilty to burglary. He was originally placed in a SHU in 1986 for a determinate term for rule violations. In 1987, Ashker was charged with the first-degree murder of another white inmate.
In 1990, Ashker was found guilty of second-degree murder with use of a knife and special allegations of having committed two previous felonies. He was sentenced to a term of 21 years to life. The following month he was sent to Pelican Bay's SHU, where, aside from a few temporary transfers for medical reasons and civil court proceedings, he remains.
His 2009 lawsuit caught the attention of prisoner rights attorneys after the 2011 hunger strikes, and it has since been amended, with other SHU inmates added.
Ashker did not respond to a request for an interview.
Being a current or former Pelican Bay SHU inmate establishes credibility in the streets. Its gang leaders are housed there, and it's considered the hardest of all California prisons. One court document said Nuestra Familia members refer to it as the "White House," where inmates looking to become leaders need to live.
It's that credibility that allows gang leaders to control neighborhoods hundreds of miles away through smuggled-out orders and directives. A Mexican Mafia member or associate working on behalf of inmates locked in the Bay can approach a street crew and begin demanding a tax to operate in the neighborhood. In exchange, the crew gains protection backed by other Mexican Mafia crews and members.
"These guys are doing it to control street crews. Street crews are important for the Mexican Mafia," says Barneburg. "That name holds power. It holds authority."
The protection also extends to street crew members when they land in prison. Those who refuse to pay taxes are either run out of the neighborhood or killed. And if they escape the ordered hit on the street, they could still face consequences if imprisoned.
SHU inmate Javier Zubiate was validated as a Nuestra Familia member in 1995. Last October, he began debriefing: the process of dropping out of a gang and turning over gang information to investigators for the chance to get out of the SHU.
The 40-year-old Peruvian native grew up in Santa Rosa. He has a slim, athletic build and until recently a shaved head. He's now growing his hair out for Locks of Love. His body is covered with gang tattoos.
Speaking about his previous life, Zubiate is matter-of-fact.
"If you want to move through the organization you're thinking, 'I've got to get sent to the Bay because that's where it's at. And then once you get here you've got to get to the Short Corridor ... by the time you get here the streets aren't even a question. We didn't need the streets. It's not an issue. We can do everything from here."
He started gangbanging in his early teens and had his eyes on Nuestra Familia by age 16.
"I just loved the game," says Zubiate. "I got a rush thinking every day, 'I'm going to go out banging or I could be killed.'"
He learned about the history of the gang, that it was protecting northern Hispanics. He "couldn't wait to get here" — to Pelican Bay.
"As soon as I got an opportunity to get a murder for the NF I did it."
And that's when he caught a life sentence for second-degree murder and attempted murder.
The orders came from the Bay. One of Zubiate's friends needed to be murdered because he kept socializing with one of his cousins who had a falling out with the gang.
"He was a good friend of mine," says Zubiate.
He figured if anyone was going to kill his friend, it should be him, out of respect.
"It was a weird way of thinking. I felt I was doing the right thing."
Zubiate began earning his "bones," working to move up within the gang. In prison he spotted someone he thought was a southerner, reported it to his chain of command, volunteered to do the hit and got the green light.
"I ended up cutting a guy's throat and they put me in the hole," says Zubiate. "I didn't kill him, but it wasn't because of a lack of effort."
The blade was dull.
When he was promoted to a regiment leader, he was conducting street business from Pelican Bay's SHU through the mail. At his peak, he says, he was earning thousands of dollars a month. The Nuestra Familia was getting 25 percent of the take, and the rest was divvied up how Zubiate saw fit: cars and guns for his crews, and funding visits.
Then the IGI flipped the switch.
By the early 2000s the SHU units had turned into minihubs for prison gangs. Validated gang members had manipulated cell transfers and special diets to begin building pods full of their crews. Florencia-13, the Avenues, Border Brothers, Aryan Brotherhood, San Diego Crew — they all situated members near each other.
The leaders surrounded themselves with subordinates who could write letters on their behalf, says Barneburg. Seven inmates write similar letters and maybe one would get past the IGI, all the while leaving no physical evidence linking the leaders to gang activity.
In 2006, the IGI came up with another idea, and the gang members weren't expecting the outcome. The prison relocated all of the "alpha dogs" to the SHU's Short Corridor. It limited cell transfers. It broke up the concentrations of gang members. Leaders were separated from subordinates.
"Once we concentrated the power in one area we really started to scrutinize their communications," says Barneburg. "We isolated them as much as possible."
There were some initial concerns about what would happen next. Then all of a sudden, "all the subordinates go quiet."
"Some people didn't like that," says Zubiate. "It was almost impossible to communicate with my people in the streets ... I don't think anyone expected the pressure they put on us. Every single one of my avenues got shut down."
For Zubiate, at least, the flow of money slowed to a trickle.
Pelican Bay Warden Greg Lewis arrived after the Short Corridor was implemented.
"I think it was one of the most forward-thinking, proactive steps taken," says Lewis. "I've heard it called cutting the head off the snake."
The intense monitoring of communications led to large indictments and the busting up of street gangs around the state, Lewis says.
With indictments and arrests raining down on foot soldiers and validated gang members starved of street communication, long-warring inmates found some common causes.
The Short Corridor Collective was formed, and soon its members were planning hunger strikes.


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I used iPad 2 a long time before getting iPhone 4S so all my music is on there. Now I cannot get the music from iPad to iPhone. How can I do it?
It depends on where you got the music from.
One thing to note: you cannot transfer songs from your iPad to your computer with iTunes (unless it was purchased from iTunes, and the computer is authorized). So, in other words, if you no longer have the computer that had all your songs on it, and just your iPad does, you will want to look for third party software (maybe like this? I haven't used it, but just did a Google search) to transfer your media to your computer, then to your phone.
It depends on your country, more here. For me, it is not possible without OSx and iTunes.
If you have iPad and iPhone in less-supported country, you can make your life million-times easier if you buy some OSx -device such as laptop or old desktop. I really-really hate this feature but in order to use iOS -devices well, you should really consider investing in OSx.


text: Here is the second character that is from the Xiaolin Showdown series. Here is "how to draw Kimiko", step by step. Kimiko Tohomiko is the Xiaolin Dragon of Fire. She is the only girl on her team and is also the only one that has a changing look. Kimiko is from Japan which is pretty evident since she knows so much about technology. Even though I have never watched the show, I did enjoy drawing Kimiko with every stroke I made. I do hope you have fun with this tut too. If there are other characters from Xiaolin that you would like to see just let me know.


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Recent and archived news articles by Heather Timmons of The New York Times.
India Scrambles to Reassure Tourists Shaken by Recent Attacks on Women
Several high-profile rape cases involving foreign women are keeping tourists away from India, with one trade group reporting that visits by women are down 35 percent.
June 11, 2013, Tuesday
MORE ON: India , Travel and Vacations , Women and Girls , Sex Crimes , Sexual Harassment
Should Manmohan Singh Resign?
As corruption allegations again engulf the scandal-tainted Congress Party, calls for India's prime minister to step down are increasing.
May 13, 2013, Monday
Chinese and Indian Soldiers Withdraw From Disputed Territory, India Says
Official statements from the Ministry of External Affairs.
May 6, 2013, Monday
MORE ON: Li Keqiang , China , India , Twitter
In China-India Border Battle, Some Echoes of Run-Up to 1962 War
Just as in the years before the 1962 war, India's Congress Party's response is restrained.
May 3, 2013, Friday
India Considers Banning Pornography as Reported Sexual Assault Rises
The Supreme Court is considering a petition that would make even watching pornographic material a non-bailable offense.
April 22, 2013, Monday
MORE ON: India , New Delhi (India) , Google Inc , Supreme Court of India , Computers and the Internet , Men and Boys , Pornography , Sex Crimes , Women and Girls
Goofus and Gallant Come to India
Indian versions of the American children's magazine Highlights unveiled in New Delhi on Thursday.
April 18, 2013, Thursday
What Are 'Pressure Cooker' Bombs and Why Do Terrorists Use Them?
An ordinary kitchen tool, filled with shrapnel and expolsives, becomes a dangerous, easy-to-make bomb.
April 17, 2013, Wednesday
MORE ON: India , Bombs and Explosives , Boston Marathon Bombings (2013) , Terrorism
Before Gujarat Riots Raged, Warning Bells Ignored, Petition Alleges
A legal petition filed by the widow of a man killed in the 2002 Gujarat riots uses police control room documents to build a case.
April 16, 2013, Tuesday
MORE ON: Modi, Narendra , Gujarat State (India) , India , Supreme Court of India , Hinduism
A Conversation With: Ravi Venkatesan, Former Chairman of Microsoft India
A veteran executive's advice on surviving, and thriving, in Indian business.
April 12, 2013, Friday
Poor Nations Fight, Rich Nations Pay
Recent deaths of five Indians in South Sudan highlight the bifurcated nature of the United Nations peacekeeping force.
April 10, 2013, Wednesday
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I spent two days this week at the Coach K Leadership Conference at Duke. It's always good to get above the trees for a few days, and this experience was exactly that kind of opportunity. Jonathan Opp did a nice summary post on the conference here and you can see the live Twitter stream here.


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Unlike Callisto, Jupiter's moon Europa has very few craters, which adds to the evidence that the moon is geologically active and possibly has a liquid ocean not far beneath its icy surface. Imagine breaking ice cubes out of an ice tray. Any liquid water in the tray will try to fill in the cracks as it seeps out. The surface of Europa is very similar. If a crack forms in the ice, or a meteor punches a hole in it, the liquid underneath will quickly fill in the gap. This is why Europa has an almost uniform surface, marked by very few craters.
Fun Fact: Where there is water, there could be life. If life does exist on Europa, it is probably supported by undersea volcanic vents much like the ones that help life exist at extreme ocean depths of Earth.
Next: Ganymede
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When the rains subside – Flickr pic of the day
This image of a tranquil morning over Table Bay was captured by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group member Djed Ryan.
Djed says: "When the rains subside, it's a favourite time to be out taking photos of our beautiful city.
"This is a view of a becalmed Table Bay as seen from one of the lookout points on Lion's Head with the sun barely touching Big Bay in the distance and the rain and clouds still sweeping the West Coast beyond."
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i will be targeting my app to all the android devices, what is the best way of doing it? so far i will be targeting Android phone and Kindle-fire and here is my thoughts.
android phone and its working as expected with images,font size etc... so i thought to test my app for kindle-fire:
create AVD emulator for kindle-fire with the below specification but i have few problems testing on the kindle-fire:
- the images are stretched out (not sure if the images size should be increased for kindle-fire?)
- font size is smaller then android phone (which i have tested)
- i have no back button in my activity so i assume the user will be able to use the back arrow button in kindle-fire but in the emulator there is none showing.
Here are the specs of the Kindle Fire
- Width: 600px
- Height: 1024px
- Abstracted LCD Density: 169
- Target: Android 2.3.3 - API Level 10
what do i need to do in order to look and feel on both android phone and amazon kindle-fire?
should i create two separate projects and target font-size and image-size?
i am not sure what else i need to consider.


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Police said upon discovering the death of Mr. and Mrs. Griffin Sunday afternoon, officers did receive information from a nearby resident of hearing a sound that could have been gunshots at approximately 3:00 - 3:30am.
Officers did locate evidence of multiple gun shots being fired inside of the home, and a firearm was recovered from the scene.
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I ran across the word somewhere in my reading, but I can't find it. It is a word that has the idea that it is not right to assume that an answer to any given question is right because it is assumed to be the most glorifying to God. While the actual answer, supported by the text, to any exegetical question does give God glory, this word has the idea that it is illogical to use God receiving more glory from a given thing as a support for an interpretation.
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A word for the fallacy of assuming whatever brings God the most glory is the correct interpretation a text?
Normal (or plain) dispensationalism posits that the glory of God is the all-encompassing purpose of God above and beyond His saving purpose. Ryrie states that
He continues and shows from Scripture that the glory of God is the all-encompassing, total purpose of God above (and beyond) His saving purposes, notwithstanding that "His saving purposes are one of the principal means employed in bringing to pass the greatest demonstration of His own glory." Thus the glory of God becomes the underlying hermeneutical assumption when interpreting the Scriptural texts.
Thus in plain, normal dispensationalism, the emphasis is on the plain, or normal interpretation of Scripture (which some also call the "grammatical-historical" form of interpretation). Thus the glory of God is the unifying principle or hermeneutic by which the dispensationalist interprets the Bible. Critics of dispensationalism cite this approach as a fallacy, and posit instead that God's soteriological purpose is His all-encompassing plan to bring Him glory.
In other words, whether God's ultimate, all-encompassing purpose is to save sinners, or that purpose is His self-glorification (by which saving sinners is part of that self-glorification), will necessarily affect how one interprets the Bible. At this particular point of hermeneutical interpretation is where dispensationalism and covenant theology part ways.
I'm not sure what the answer to this is. However, I think it would help to define some terms clearly. What we mean by the word glory or the idea of "bringing glory to God" is critical to getting to a clear answer here. Even for man, having the admonition and praise of other people is not an objective worth pursuing. Receiving recognition and praise from sinful people could not be what bringing God glory means. Man, having a distorted view of God, make Him into their image. Then they may applaud God when circumstances please them and curse Him when they don't. They act as if they are God with a self entitlement issue self centered world view. Sinful man applauding God does not equal bringing God glory. Even, myself, a believer in Christ, filled with the Holy Spirit, find myself ignoring God and forgetting His goodness. That leads to me trying to live the Christian life by my will. Then everything I do, including my attempts to worship Him are futile. I believe even a believer's attempts to worship God do not always result in "bring Him glory." So what does bring God glory. Christ living in and through man is how God gets glory out of man. So what does it mean to interpret His Word in a way that brings Him the most glory?


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BOUNTIFUL — Ten years ago, Bob and Kathi Garff, having arrived at that enviable stage in life where they could stop worrying about making money and start worrying about spending it, summoned their five grown children to the kitchen table in their home in Bountiful and spelled out what they wanted to do with their inheritance.
They wanted to give away cars.
But not to their kids. To other people's kids.
Thus was born a program that has evolved into the Success in Education Foundation, a remarkably successful public charity with widespread public sector support that a decade later is used by more than 300 Utah schools to motivate their students to reach for the stars or at least the car keys.
If the words "Garff" and "cars" ring a bell, then you have not spent the past century in a Utah cave. Few automobile dealerships have been around longer than the one Kendall D. Garff started in 1932 in downtown Salt Lake City when he was 26 years old. At first he sold used cars, but as the Great Depression shifted into World War II he acquired an Oldsmobile franchise, and the Ken Garff empire was begun. Eighty-one years later, there are more than 80 branches of the Ken Garff Automotive Group in eight states, making it the fifth-largest private car business in the country.
Understanding that background is essential to know not only how Bob Garff, Ken's son and current chairman of Ken Garff Automotive Group, and his family were able to provide funding to start something as ambitious as the Success in Education programs, but why Bob Garff's initial brainstorm was to entice students with cars.
All his life — he started working in his dad's dealership in 1945 when he was 13 — he has appreciated the one ingredient that never fails to get results in the car business: incentives.
Dangle something in front of a salesman or customer that they find appealing — a bonus, a trip to Hawaii, higher commissions, zero percent interest, leather at no added cost — and it's amazing how many cars you sell.
In dealership lingo: "That which you reward gets done."
If the goal was to motivate students to pay attention in class, get better grades and move on to college, it only made sense to Bob Garff to dangle something that would pique their interest.
What better motivation than a car?
And what better cause than education?
Like all married couples, Bob and Kathi Garff don't agree on everything. But there are two things they agree on unequivocally. One, education is vitally important for everyone, and two, education in Utah could use some help.
They came to these views independently while traversing parallel paths within the system, as it were, Bob as a state legislator who served as speaker of the house in the 1980s and Kathi as a member of the State Board of Education, where she served a term as chairman, and later as a member of the State Board of Regents, the body that oversees higher education.
From these respective perches, the Garffs became intimately acquainted with the realities of public education in Utah. They saw what was working and what wasn't in a unique place that ranks last in the nation in money spent per student yet ranks first in money spent per family.
The biggest problem, as far as they could see, was that there were far too many programs with good intentions that were accomplishing next to nothing.
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Keeping Your Diet on Track During the Holidays
Fourth of July
Think fun-filled barbecues with your friends and busting out your summer attire. It's about soaking up the sun and being comfortable in your body, not feeling bloated and so heavy that you'd rather cover up and stay inside. The best way to keep yourself looking good and feeling groovy is to cut down on those heavy, high-fat foods and splurge on the fresh fruits and veggies that are in season. The traditional menu has a whopping 2,099 calories and 116 grams of fat, but the healthier menu has 985 fewer calories and 40 percent of the fat—so you can say good-bye to that beer gut and greet some great abs without feeling the least bit deprived.
Traditional Meal
- Grilled hamburgers and hot dogs on buns
- Cold fried chicken
- Potato salad
- Macaroni salad
- Cole slaw
- Potato chips
- Brownies
- Watermelon
- Ice cream bars
Nutrition Information
- Calories: 2,099
- Total fat: 116 grams
- Saturated fat: 40 grams
- Cholesterol: 381 mg
- Sodium: 3,741 mg
- Dietary fiber: 10 grams
- Protein: 72 grams
Healthier Meal
- Turkey or veggie burgers on buns
- Grilled tuna, salmon, or chicken filets
- Pasta salad with tomato basil vinaigrette
- Grilled vegetables
- Health salad
- Baked potato chips
- Low-fat brownies
- Watermelon
- Frozen fruit pops
Nutrition Information
- Calories: 1,411
- Total fat: 55 grams
- Saturated fat: 10 grams
- Cholesterol: 110 mg
- Sodium: 1,640 mg
- Dietary fiber: 14 grams
- Protein: 47 grams
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The journey home begins. . . .
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When the group reaches a shadowy island covered in mountains and ice, Kallik is sure they re almost back to the Frozen Sea. But a terrifying accident leads them into a maze of abandoned tunnels, unlike anything they ve ever seen before making them question their path once again.
The bears grow desperate for a sign to guide them, and when they meet a cub who has lost his whole family, Toklo believes the cub has been sent by Ujurak. But the others are unsure. Can they trust their new companion? Or could he be hiding something that will endanger them all?
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Why are insects so energy-efficient while flying? Is it because of their light weight and aerodynamics or due to very efficient biochemical transformations (food->energy)?
Insect flight muscle is capable of achieving the highest metabolic rate of all animal tissues, and this tissue may be considered an exquisite example of biochemical adaptation.
Locusts, for example, may (almost instantaneously) increase their oxygen consumption up to 70-fold when starting to fly. In humans, excercise can increase O2 consumption a maximum of 20-fold, and for birds in flight the figure is about 10-fold (Wegener, 1996; Sacktor, 1976).
As Wegener (1996) has put it (in his definitive paper):
Flight is powered by ATP hydrolysis, and these impressive metabolic rates are achieved by very effective control of ATP hydrolysis and regeneration.
Wegener, G. (1996) Flying insects: model systems exercise physiology Experientia May 15;52(5):404-12. (See here)
Sacktor B. (1976) Biochemical adaptations for flight in the insect. Biochem Soc Symp. 1976;(41):111-31. (See here)
The smaller an animal is the easier it becomes for it to fly. That is because surface area increases to the second power of the diameter of the animal whereas mass increases to the third. So the larger a thing is the more mass per surface are it has.
And since insects tend to be small they tend to be good at flying.
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Can you define these popular missing words?
just another term for "whats going on?"
meeting someone in the street...hey wa gwaan ?
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Derivied from the English phrase 'Whats going on, old boy?'. Now typically and commonly used in 'The ghettos' both stateside and in the UK. Can also be variated to 'Gwaanin' when used as a response to the question 'Wagwaan'.
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The embryo seen from above now has a subtle groove (the primitive groove) and a small central depression (the primitive node), both seen here in white. These changes start at what will become the base of the spine and progress toward the head.
Until you have an ultrasound in a few weeks' time, your baby's due date will be calculated by counting 280 days from the first day of your last menstrual period. At the dating scan (see It's really happening!), your baby will be measured and his age calculated. The scan date will then be used since it is considered to be accurate.
While you're bound to want to know the due date, try not to get too fixated on it. Most babies are born within about two weeks of their due dates but your baby will be considered to be born at term if you give birth between 37 and 42 weeks. So your estimated delivery date is just that, an estimate; your baby may be born earlier or later.
To figure out your expected date of delivery (EDD)-also known as the due date-you need to know when you started your last menstrual period (LMP) (see This is Day 1 of your Menstrual Cycle). Enter your LMP date here to discover when your baby is expected. For example, if your last LMP was January 13, then your baby will be due on October 20.
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Is there a PDF reader that supports bookmarks? I'm reading a book and it would be great to bookmark where I left off. I can't seem to find a PDF reader that does this very simple thing.
Evince doesn't support bookmarks, but does keep your location in the file. IE if you open a pdf, scroll down to page 42, then close evince, next time you open that pdf, it will start on page 42.
evince is the default pdf viewer for most versions of Ubuntu.
Is there any special reason why you don't want to use the Adobe Reader for Unix (Linux)? link
Evince 3.4 supports Bookmarks, (under Ubuntu 12.04) but they aren't the same as what Foxit Reader works with. Foxit's bookmarks will show up under the "Index" list in Evince.
KDE's Okular will also allow you to create bookmarks, but not the standard pdf bookmarks. It manages them through a remote Okular profile file.
I'm also looking for one. I use a lot of large texts, and frequently need to jump back and forth through a dozen references or so. I used to manage a personal table of contents through pdf bookmarks in Foxit Reader on Windows. I can't get Foxit to run on Ubuntu now, though.


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4th Circuit rules against Massey in Mammoth case, upholds Goodwin decision ordering Massey to hire UMWA miners
July 2, 2009
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit issued a ruling yesterday that upheld a temporary order issued by U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin requiring Massey Energy to hire members of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) at its Mammoth mine, formerly the Cannelton mine, in Kanawha County, W. Va.
"We are pleased with the 4th Circuit's decision," UMWA International President Cecil E. Roberts said today. "We look forward to the day when miners who were illegally discriminated against get their rightful jobs back, and to all the miners at the Mammoth mine having the benefit and protection of working under a UMWA contract."
A National Labor Relations Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ruled in Nov. 2007 that Massey discriminated against employees of the former Cannelton mine when Massey took over operation of the mine in 2004 by refusing to hire them "on the basis of their membership in the predecessor's bargaining unit and their prounion sentiments."
As a remedy, the ALJ ordered Massey Energy to "notify the Union (UMWA) in writing that they recognize the Union as the exclusive representative of the bargaining unit employees under Section 9(a) of the Act and that they will bargain with the Union concerning terms and conditions of employment for employees" at the Mammoth mine.
The ALJ ordered Massey to offer employment to 85 former employees at Cannelton who were refused employment because of their pro-union sentiments.
Massey appealed that decision to the full National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). In the meantime, the NLRB sought a temporary order from Judge Goodwin to put the miners back to work. Goodwin issued such an order last August, which Massey appealed to the 4th Circuit.
However, Goodwin's temporary order did not fully implement the ALJ's decision, in that it did not require Massey to recognize the union nor to implement the terms and conditions of employment that were in place at the Cannelton mine at the time Massey bought it. Goodwin only ordered that Massey rehire the miners under existing, nonunion conditions at the mine.
"We fully expect the ALJ's decision to be upheld by the NLRB," Roberts said. "Not only will that mean the miners will get their rightful jobs back, but they will also receive back pay going back to the time Massey bought the mine and reopened it in 2004. And it will mean that, once again, the miners at that mine will be represented by the UMWA."
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I need to insert a hidden HTML input tag into any form tag within a bunch of HTML files. I assume this is possible with sed, but need help forming the command.
My idea is to search for any instance of
and if found, insert a line below it that contains:
<input type="hidden" name="csrf_token" value="$csrf_token" />
What's the best way to tackle this? I'm close with
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For a project I am currently working on I need individual midi files of single piano notes as though the note was held for 4 seconds before release. I have found a few toy online midi keyboards that can generate the exact notes desired, but there is no output option. What software (Windows or linux) would allow me to generate a specific piano key and output that note as a file? I have played around with rosegarden and been unsuccessful, and I do not have access to a physical synthesizer or keyboard.
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Rosegarden should do the job.
If you have programming skills, it is extremely easy to generate MIDI files like this with python or perl and the appropriate MIDI library.
Along similar lines, I wrote some tiny Pure Data patches for holding long, droning notes. You can get them at the Pure Data forum (you have to sign in to see the attached files).
Update - here are the Pure Data patches on github.
I thought that rosegarden could export to .midi files...
Nevertheless here you have a list
Some of them GPL.


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I see the usage of "MiB" as measure to represent the size in Ubuntu. What does MiB stand for? In particular the "i"?
There are two ways (in common use) of denoting orders of magnitude to make large numbers easier to read, first you can use a power of 10.
Or powers of two
Using these series as a base we arrive at the numbers 1000 and 1024 (10³ and 2¹⁰) for a kilo.
There are eight bits to a byte. So one kilobyte is 8×10³ = 8000 bits. Hard drive manufacturers use this method. In computer science, people usually use powers of two, so one kibibyte is 8×2¹⁰ = 8192 bits.
The difference only gets larger as the numbers get larger. Some have even mixed those two systems to get nice numbers to put on their packaging. This is why a 1.44MB floppy disk has neither 1.44 megabytes nor 1.44 mebibytes (they use 1024×1000).
The logic behind the i is that the terms are derived from the original si prefixes, kilo, mega, giga, but with the word binary put in in. So the i is the second letter of binary. The mnemonic for the kibibyte is "kilo binary byte", and "KiB" is pronounced "Kibibyte".
All of this is defined in the IEC_80000 Standard.
Note that a mebibyte is not defined as 2²⁰, but as (210)2, although they are equal. A gibibyte is (210)3, a tebibyte is (210)4 and so on.
Keep in mind that, very often, the term kilobyte is used when the author means kibibyte. The binary unit was only introduced around 1999, as Randy Orrison points out.
As nealmcb found out in the comments, there is an official policy on this:
In summary, this policy reminds developers to either use SI or IEC prefixes, but to never mix them. It goes on to say:
it's an IEC standard prefix it means "by power of two"
2^10 = 1024 = Ki-
2^20 = 1048576 = Me- (or Mi-, but incorrect)
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Since no one else answered this exactly: "MiB" stands for "megabinary byte", which can be abbreviated to "mebibyte" (though this sounds kind of stupid, and I'd rather just stick with saying "megabinary"). See the NIST explanation.
So the "i" comes from the word "binary".
There were other proposals to abbreviate these units in the past, but they all failed to gain traction:
They are binary prefixes, corresponding to the more common decimal prefixes. (That's a good article which explains the rationale well.)


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Logan Marchi completed 18 of 20 passes for 192 yards and four touchdowns as the Falcons improved to 3-1 with a 46-14 win over Kennedy on Saturday at Municipal Stadium.
Marchi threw scoring passes of 9 and 11 yards to Reid Morin, 5 yards to Eli Parks and 5 yards to Daija Fitzpatrick. Morin had five catches for 46 yards and two TDs, while Parks, who ran 10 times for 60 yards, also scored on runs of 16 and 9 yards.
Tyler Saunders scored on a 1-yard run for Kennedy (0-4), while Elijha Benjamin had a 3-yard TD run. Benjamin had 44 yards on 10 carries.
Gilbert-Northwestern 44, Lewis Mills 12: Middle linebacker Ryan Ott recorded 13 tackles to lead Gilbert-Northwestern to its third win in four games in Winsted.
Tony Otiz had 190 rushing yards and scored on runs of 59, 12 and 5 yards for the Yellowjackets, and Seth Dayton returned a fumble 55 yards for a score.
Lucas Lanning had a 2-yard TD run for the Spartans (0-3) and also threw an 11-yard TD pass to Dustin Pease.
Wilcox Tech 48, Wolcott Tech 40: In Torrington, quarterback Mickey Ross rushed for three touchdowns, including runs of 60 and 54 yards, and finished with 225 yards on the ground for the Wildcats.
Ross also threw a TD pass to Christian Moriello of 40 yards for Wolcott Tech (0-3). Asante Maldon had 180 rushing yards and two TDs, and scored two 2-point conversions. Defensively, Maldon intercepted a pass for the Wildcats and Brent Rainville recorded three sacks. Christian Berti had five sacks.
Trinity-Pawling 61, Taft 47: In Pawling, N.Y., Quinton Harris threw for 363 yards and three TDs and ran for two TDs for Taft (0-3).
Alex Huard caught nine passes for 197 yards and a TD for Taft (0-3) and Mick Pernell of Naugatuck ran for 79 yards.
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Having e.g. a system for booking flights, during UAT it is not being tested by real users (customers who will buy tickets) rather than people from the client side who will just simulate this. Are there any more specific terms to distinquish between real users (like end user) and users doing the UAT?
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The customers who are going to buy ticket are not the real users of the application.
Customers will just be requesting for the ticket, mentioning their details (not filling any of the details at their own). The employees of the company will be operating the application, filling the details mentioned by the customer and filling other requirements.
So, the employees will be the real users. They participate in testing, as they need to customize the application as per their requirements.
The distinction doesn't matter. Your acceptance testing should encompass all of the functionality that is exposed to the end user. You absolutely should test it as if you were the end user, as well as testing edge cases and unusual scenarios that may only affect a handful of end users.
Where I work, we are building an internal application and use the terms 'the business' (which are the real end users) and 'testers' (those who do the UATs).


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While it's not updated as regularly as it once was, Grig Gheorgiu's Python Testing Tools Taxonomy is considered by Pythonistas to be an excellent reference point for tools. It covers the following kinds of testing tools:
I had only one experience of automation testing for Qt apps on Linux. The tool I used is Squish, and it supports Java, Web and Mobile testing as well. The test scripts are written in python. Just FYI. It's a commercial product, you need to buy the license.
Mechanize is quite powerful request-based tool to test web apps. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/
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Bowling Green has experienced four murders, just since June 9 this year.
Police continue to work to find answers in the unsolved crimes.
For some it's a son.
"It's hard on all of us. It's just senseless. If we could get just a little closure as to what happened and I know somebody out there knows something," said Pearlie Jones, who's son was murdered in August.
For others it's affected their home life.
"I didn't feel too good. It's just a shame that it happened, and it's a shame that we don't know who done it, why they done it. Why did the car end up out here?", said Rhonda Harrod, a Greenwood Villa Apartments resident.
Bowling Green's first murder in 2012 was on June 9, when Tyreese Huffman, 21, was found stabbed to death on Stonehenge Ave.
This has been solved, and police have said they don't believe it was random act.
August 23,Terence Jones, 33, was shot in the Hands Club on Beech St..
Police say evidence is leading them to believe this also was not random.
October 11, police responded to another murder.
Demarcus Elliot, 34, was shot to death.
And, the body of Joey Smith, 31, was found in his own trunk last week.
"Our detectives are reviewing information from all of the recent homicides that we've had, and following up on every possible lead that we can. So right at this point, we're doing everything possible, that's within our power, to try and figure out who did these crimes," said BGPD Public Information Officer Ronnie Ward.
Police say Bowling Green averages three murders each year.
While this year is above the average, it's not the worst it's been.
In 2009, seven people were murdered.
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Trojans Sweep Final Regular-Season Doubleheader with CokerApril 18, 2014
AU Clinches Share of SAC Regular-Season Title
HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Senior first baseman Danielle Swygert homered twice and drove in five runs, while sophomore Molly Child added four hits on the afternoon to help lead the Anderson softball team to a doubleheader sweep of Coker, 2-1 and 8-5, in the Trojans' final regular-season South Atlantic Conference doubleheader, Friday afternoon at Saleeby-Stokes Field.
Anderson (38-10, 16-6 SAC) has won 14 of its last 15 outings and 17 of its last 20 contests en route to setting a new school record for regular-season victories. Coupled with Lenoir-Rhyne's split at Tusculum, the Trojans have earned at least a share of the South Atlantic Conference regular-season championship.
If Wingate sweeps Lincoln Memorial Saturday afternoon, the Bulldogs would earn a share of the title, along with AU and Lenoir-Rhyne.
Coker (16-27, 5-17 SAC) ended its season by dropping six consecutive decisions and 11 of its final 12 contests.
Game #1
Anderson 2, Coker 1
Swygert blasted a pair of solo home runs – her eighth and ninth round-trippers of the campaign – while driving in two runs and scoring twice. Junior second baseman Jessica Neidigh and sophomore Courtney Czentnar each posted a single in the opener.
Junior Katelynn Howser (15-5) earned the win in the circle with her ninth complete game of the season. The right-hander surrendered one unearned run on just three hits, while walking three and striking out two.
Swygert's led off the second inning with her eighth homer of the season and added her second solo shot with one out in the fourth inning to give Anderson a 2-0 advantage. The Cobras answered by capitalizing on a pair of defensive lapses by the Trojans to trim the AU lead to 2-1 in the bottom of the fourth frame.
Coker threatened again in the bottom of the sixth, but the Trojans escaped unharmed and Howser retired the Cobras in order in the bottom of the seventh inning, as AU held on for the win.
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Anderson 8, Coker 5
Molly Child was 4-for-5, with four singles, an RBI and scored three times in the nightcap, while Swygert extended her hitting streak to eight games by adding a double, a single, a pair of walks and three RBI. Czentnar was 2-for-4 with two RBI and junior Bri Cason tallied a pair of singles. Senior Abby Child finished with two singles and a run scored.
Freshman Augie Pena started the nightcap and allowed three earned runs on four hits in 1 1/3 innings of work. Fellow freshman Lauren Rudesheim (16-4) earned the win by tossing 5 2/3 innings of relief. She surrendered two runs (one earned) on seven hits, while striking out three and walking one.
Coker jumped out to a 3-1 lead after two innings, but the Trojans began to rally, plating a of runs to even the score in the third inning on Swygert's two-out, two-run double to right-center. However, Coker answered quickly with a solo run in the bottom of the third frame to briefly regain a 4-3 edge.
But Anderson countered by batting around in the fourth inning, as the Trojans capitalized on three singles, a pair of walks and a double to push four runs across the plate and claim a 7-4 lead.
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5 Myths About the Military You Believe (Thanks to Movies)
Hopefully, if you're reading this article, your upbringing was relatively free of war. If that's the case, you probably got all of your information about the military from movies. But even accounting for what you already assumed was Hollywood bullshit (obviously war is not a nonstop action explosion festival), if you're like most people, you still have a grossly skewed idea about what life in the military is like. For instance, many of you think ...
#5. Boot Camp Is Like Full Metal Jacket
I'll be blunt: Everything about boot camp in movies is wrong. At least, it's wrong today. What you find out in boot camp is that the heart of military life isn't killing bad guys, fulfilling your potential or being all you can be. It's uniform inspections.
And they almost never let us draw skulls on anything.
When it comes to this, it doesn't matter what service you join. For approximately the first two weeks of boot camp, you will do nothing but learn how to wear your uniform, iron your uniform, fold your uniform, stow your uniform and, if you're lucky, take out your uniform and iron it again.
How is it even possible to spend so much time on uniforms? Well, given that it's the heart of military life, letting your uniform deviate from the standard by a quantum measurement is basically like punching America in the face. When I was at boot camp, a drill sergeant there would use one of those laser pointers as a level to make sure that medals were mounted on our uniforms straight. It takes time and effort to learn to compete with lasers. We'd also learn stuff like how to repeatedly iron and starch between the buttonholes on our shirts. Apparently, some almost-noticeable lines tend to form there, and the rest of the world doesn't even know about it, but in the military, they could clearly cause a devastating loss of morale.
Look at this guy's ruffled lapels. No wonder he lost the war.
After those weeks, even when you think you're moving on to learning other things, you are still constantly preparing for the most important part: daily uniform inspections. But between those, you do get to learn other things. For example, how to stand at attention, which you wouldn't think would take that long. It's just standing, right? Well, I was failed once because one of my thumbs was resting slightly in front of the crease of my pants instead of behind it. Also rack inspections, where you learn how to make your bed again, and again, and again, and then one more time.
But what about the other shit, like the crazy drill sergeants who will drive you to suicide? Fortunately, these days at least, that position isn't staffed with people who have personality disorders. They're also much more limited in what they can do to correct recruits -- physical abuse, working people out too long, swearing and anything else you can imagine any self-respecting drill sergeant doing simply aren't allowed anymore. Of course, being drill sergeants, they find imaginative ways to correct you anyway, but it's going to be more along the lines of making you stand out in the middle of a field saluting squirrels.
"Just a few more hours and Sarge will let me pray for death."
#4. War = Combat
When Maverick hops into his F-14, or Will Smith goes after a giant alien flying saucer in his F-18, what never makes it onto screen is the absolute shitload of tedious maintenance that goes on to make that possible. An older aircraft needs a mind-boggling 40 to 60 man-hours of maintenance per hour of flight. A newer aircraft like an F/A-18 will have "only" about six hours for every flight hour ... but that number goes up as the fleet ages.
Better join quick!
Try to picture a video game or an old G.I. Joe play set from your childhood that featured this (real) maintenance schedule: You wash the plane every 14 days and take the panels off and hand-wipe interior of the plane every 28 days. You do flight control maintenance every 56 days, and take everything apart once a year. And don't forget phase inspections for metal fatigue, the independent inspections by military higher-ups, the conditional inspections after the plane has had a hard landing, the engine inspections after every 150 and 300 flight hours, inspections of the flight recorder after every 10 flight hours ... and that's on a plane that's working perfectly. This isn't even touching on the time spent fixing shit that breaks.
The mechanics do the work, and the pilots get laid.
It's not just planes -- it's every piece of equipment. It all needs constant upkeep and babysitting. In the Navy, out of the 250 to 300 ships in the fleet, only a hundred are up and working at any one time. The rest are in maintenance. Generally, that's one year off for every six months of use. Our guns, too, are notorious for getting jammed easily in sand and need constant attention (good thing none of our wars are fought in deserts these days), and tank crews spend more time maintaining their vehicles than anything else.
"Jesus guys, did anyone not spill their drink in here? Slurpee Friday was the worst idea ever."
So even if servicemen and women are 1) serving during a war and 2) getting deployed to combat zones, the majority are in support roles. Not just fixing the aforementioned machinery, but cooking meals, driving trucks, trying to use the computers, trying to fix the computers, trying to put in orders for new computers and so forth.
In a combat zone like Iraq, for every one soldier whose job description includes combat, 2.5 people are in support positions doing all of the tedious but lifesaving work that makes his job possible. So if you're like the vast majority of those who serve, the rest of your life will most likely not be spent telling war stories, but rather explaining to that 15-year-old punk in Starbucks that you got the scar on your face from tripping over an unsecured air conditioning cable on the way to your bunk.
#3. War Vets Are Burned-Out Ticking Time Bombs
If First Blood, The Deer Hunter, Jarhead and countless other movies have taught us one thing, it's that every serviceman who has ever set foot in a war zone is just one combat flashback away from suicide, homelessness or violent murder. If you're lucky, he will just quietly drink himself to death. If you're not, he's gonna lay a beat-down on your ass, because he's having a violent flashback and thinks that you're the 'Cong.
Oh, with a C? Man, we got that war all wrong.
I understand that out-of-control people make for better drama. And it's not always even played for tragedy -- everybody loves the idea of a hero like Rambo who can flip out, wreck half a town and yet still be totally justified in doing so because of where he's been and what he's seen.
But while the public understands that most trips to Vegas do not end in wacky accidental marriages and that most FBI employees do not face off against hyperintelligent serial killers on a weekly basis, it's somehow become general knowledge that this movie image of veterans is pretty much spot-on. Maybe because when veterans groups try to raise awareness of post traumatic stress disorder, people think they're talking about the thing in the movie with the hallucinations and shooting sprees. They're not.
They almost never let us check out rocket launchers anyway.
First, let's get one thing out of the way right now -- PTSD is real, mental illness is a serious issue that should never be downplayed, and even one suicide is a tragedy. No one here is trying to say otherwise. But let's take a look at what doctors, not Hollywood, say about PTSD: The most common symptoms are disturbed sleep, memory problems and depression, not "violent rampages against the uncaring system that created you."
Do a small number of sufferers respond with violence or lawbreaking? Yes, but some people respond to getting cut off in traffic in the same way. Neither is common. PTSD might ruin your life, but chances are it won't make you a badass.
"Mitch, you've been a mess ever since you got back from the war. Please, if not for yourself, then for the people who love you, go on a cathartic homicidal rampage."
But here's the part that really crushes the Hollywood fantasy: In general, soldiers are actually as healthy mentally as the general population, and in some ways even healthier. In a recent article about military suicide, Army officials expressed worry over the fact that, after soldiers had endured a decade of grueling war and separation from their families, their suicide rate had reached that of the general population. That is, soldiers were in danger of committing suicide at the same rate as the general population which includes babies, loving grandmothers, the double-rainbow guy and others who are not generally known for their tendencies toward self-harm.
If you consider that the military is disproportionately made up of demographics that have always correlated with suicide -- young, male, and with easy access to guns -- the military actually comes out ahead. Then there's the fact that a recent Army study showed that 79 percent of Army suicides occurred when the soldier had either been deployed just once or not at all. In other words, repeated visits to combat zones somehow make you less likely to kill yourself.
"Hey, if I survived this ..."
"But wait," you say. "These are Gulf War vets! What about Vietnam vets like Rambo? Everybody knows that war was extra-traumatic and that they were horribly excluded from society." Well, the fact is that Vietnam vets are actually doing pretty well. If you're a Vietnam vet, you're less likely to be unemployed, more likely to have finished college and better off economically than the average nonveteran.
"Thanks, stolen communist gold!"
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Transformers have been toys, cartoons and fodder for Michael Bay's CGI money cannon, but the basic premise remained: These were robots in disguise.
Sadly, some Transformers didn't live up to their potential. They never forgot to be alien space robots. That part always came pretty naturally. But when deciding what to transform into, some went with disguises that were about as inconspicuous as, well, an alien space robot.
#8. Cosmos
When choosing a vehicle to avoid attention, "alien spaceship" ranks somewhere below "mobile fireworks factory" and "giant mobile fireworks factory that's on fire and being driven by a bear in a tuxedo." Tell people you saw a giant robot and they'll think you're crazy. Tell them you saw a UFO and they'll still think you're crazy, but point you towards the huge network of radio talk show conspiracy nuts dedicated to believing your story.
They occasionally tried to justify Cosmos by having him do a space mission. This was only slightly undermined by the fact that both sides had spaceships and in fact, depending on who was writing that day, every single Transformer could just stand up and fly into fucking space anyway.
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Look at him. He'd not only have to wait until spaceships are invented, but until cheap budget-model economy spaceships are developed, and then pose as a novelty toy of one of those.
#7. Nightscream
Nightscream appeared in the Beast Wars series--where all the Transformers returned to Cybertron to fight each other, while transforming into animals from Earth. He turns into a bat that was apparently designed by a person who has never seen a bat before. We almost wonder if anyone looked over the designer's shoulder, concerned and a tiny bit confused.
Executive: And you're sure you've seen a bat before?
Designer: Yeah, man, I got this. They're sort of like rabbits, but with gorilla arms, right?
Executive: It's just that I'd feel a lot more comfortable if you'd at least look at this picture of a ba-
Designer: Guy, I am on this, OK? I know what bats look like. Long fingers. Giant orange backpack. This is a homerun for me, now get outta my office.
Executive: Uh... OK.
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Nightscream would feel right at home in whatever zoo his designer attended in his nightmares as a child. Absolutely nowhere else though.
#6. Metroplex
Metroplex turned into an entire city, which made him slightly harder to hide than the law of gravity. While it's conceivable that a brand new, unrecorded metropolis could escape notice if everyone on Earth was retarded--and if there's one thing the plots of 80s cartoons told us, it's that they were--once you get within the borders the illusion breaks down. Maybe you'll notice that every building is a solid, primary-colored block with no features, or maybe the total lack of inhabitants will be the clue that tips you off.
Of course, this assumes that he's not a real city where people go to work and live. If he is, that brings up a much more troubling question ...
What happens to the people who are still in the city when he transforms?!
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We're going to assume he was a fake city, based on the fact that he still has some cars stuck to his shin guards up there. In that case, his only real option is background work on the set of a Hollywood film. Just as long as it's not being directed by Michael Bay, whose not very fond of cities that aren't on fire.
#5. Omega Supreme
Omega Supreme transformed into a giant rocket, linked to 100-meter rail track that went nowhere, on which was stationed a tank the size of a city block. The Autobots realized he was difficult to hide, and when the guys who dress up as giant, idiotic microscope robots recognize how conspicuous you are, you might have a pretty profound problem.
They stuck Omega in the middle of a wilderness where no one could ever see him, and where his ability to disguise himself would surely come in handy. They also tended to forget that he was the size of every Decepticon in the universe put together, and could have ended the war in one metal-mashing minute had anyone ever bothered to roll out and ask him to.
Perceptor! Come with us to fight Megatron! Omega! Go hide in a field! Autobots! Transform and roll out like retards!
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Wherever the other giant-rockets-and-tracks are kept on Earth. What's that? There aren't needlessly long miles of race track attached to an enormous rocket? Well, then he's just retarded everywhere, isn't he?