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In addition to the large number of museums, Paris has a lot of sights worth visiting. These include the Eifel Tower, which affords a magnificent view of the city, the Champs Elysées with the Arc de Triomphe and two magnificent churches: Sacré Coeur and Nôtre Dame. Romanticists wil love a romantic evening stroll along the Seine. Night owls will have a memorable time sampling the nightlife of the Quartier Latin.


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Fetal Growth Restriction Affected by Formation of Maternal Gene
Article ID: 590837
Released: 26-Jun-2012 10:30 AM EDT
Source Newsroom: Allen Press Publishing
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Pediatric and Developmental Pathology
Newswise — Pediatric and Developmental Pathology – A Japanese study has found that maternal rather than fetal factors are associated with fetal growth restriction. A comparison of maternal and fetal angiotensin-converting enzyme genotypes with the size of babies at birth found evidence of this connection. This finding lends support to the hypothesis that reduced placental blood flow leads to fetal growth restriction.
The current issue of the journal Pediatric and Developmental Pathology reports results of a study of 470 pairs of mothers and babies in Japan. Mothers and babies were genotyped using maternal and cord blood, and the weight, length, head circumference, and incidence of small-for-gestational age status were recorded for full-term newborn infants.
The renin-angiotensin system is a hormone system that regulates blood pressure and fluid balance in the body. The maternal renin-angiotensin system affects the regulation of uteroplacental blood flow. A disorder in the maternal system may contribute to reduced placental blood flow, preeclampsia, and intrauterine growth restriction.
This study focused on both maternal and fetal insertion or deletion polymorphism of the angiotensin-converting enzyme gene. Pairing of either insertion/insertion, insertion/deletion, or deletion/deletion gene alleles was identified. In adults, this insertion or deletion polymorphism is considered a marker of renin-angiotensin system function, and has been associated with cardiovascular disorders. Its role in incidents related to pregnancy has not been as clearly defined.
In this study, researchers found that the incidence of small-for-gestational age in babies whose mothers had one or two deletion alleles was greater than that in babies whose mothers had two insertion alleles. No significant differences between these groups were found when analyzing the infants' alleles.
This investigation provides evidence that the maternal renin-angiotensin system, rather than the fetal system, has a greater effect on fetal growth. Fetal growth may be restricted by reduced blood flow for a fetus whose mother has a D allele.
Full text of the article, "Maternal Deletion Allele of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Gene Is Associated with Fetal Growth Restriction," Pediatric and Developmental Pathology, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2012, is available at http://www.pedpath.org/toc/pdpa/15/2.


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v4.2.1: New: Manage Pick Lists tool and ways to edit pick list items
July 28th, 2016
- New "Manage Pick Lists" tool for editing and merging Series, Publishers, Series Groups, etc..
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- New Tools menu, with Manage Pick Lists, Field Defaults and Empty Database tools.
Recent changes
v4.11.4: Small maintenance build September 5th, 2018 v4.11.3: Moved some buttons to more logical places September 3rd, 2018 v4.11.2: Maintenance build June 22nd, 2018 v4.11: More editable fields! June 21st, 2018 v4.10.3: Bigger and easier to spot Add button! May 14th, 2018 v4.10.2: Fixed a crash in the main list March 16th, 2018 v4.10: Many new sort options and a redesigned Select Sort Order screen March 14th, 2018 v4.9.2: Fixed a quick search selection issue February 28th, 2018 v4.9: Improved search features January 24th, 2018 v4.8: Automatic CLZ Cloud syncing! December 4th, 2017 v4.5.8: Further improvements to the Add Comics screen November 21st, 2017 v4.5.7: Fixed a bug in Update from CLZ Core July 25th, 2017 v4.5.6: Fixed missing "Have/Wish" summary on tablets July 21st, 2017 v4.5.5: Improved navigation in "All Comics" folder July 18th, 2017 v4.5.4: Easier way to add series and improved navigation! July 12th, 2017 v4.5.3: Fixed focus problems with the barcode scanner May 30th, 2017 v4.5.2: Improved barcode scanning May 22nd, 2017 v4.5.1: Improved Add Comics screen May 10th, 2017 v4.3.10: Fixed an issue where "deletion changes" sometimes didn't sync February 17th, 2017 v4.3.9: Maintenance build January 18th, 2017 v4.3.8: New "split" edit screen November 17th, 2016 v4.3.7: Fixed a problem with CLZ Account registration October 27th, 2016 v4.3.6: New folder options, new out of sync mark and more! October 20th, 2016 v4.3.5: New: "Search-As-You-Type" suggestions when adding games October 5th, 2016 v4.3.4: New search engine and new way of entering dates September 22nd, 2016


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Nintendo 3DS to get battery boost
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Accessory producer Nyko has knocked up a solution for the short battery life of the Nintendo 3DS with a juice pack that attaches to the back of the console, doubling its runtime.
One of the biggest complaints overseas punters have about Nintendo's forthcoming handheld - it launched in the UK on 25 March - is the battery life of just 3-5 hours, with market research suggesting a third of us are put off buying the 3DS by this low longevity.
So, say hello to Nyko's Power Pak+. Although it looks a bit clunky, the company claims the extended battery can increase playing time by 50 per cent.
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The Power Pak + will be available in the US for the 3DS launch on 27 March. While the single unit costs $20 (£12), a bundle pack with a charging cradle thrown in will cost $30 (£18).
Unfortunately, there's no UK release date yet, but with all this bother over battery life, it can't be long before such products appear. ®


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Friends and Enemies
The Palestinians
Report and Recommendations of an Amnesty International Mission to the Government of the State of Israel, 3-7 June 1979
Arab Politics in Palestine 1917-1939: The Frustration of a National Movement
By, "the Palestinians" the British television journalist Jonathan Dimbleby means the hundreds of thousands of people in South Lebanon—what Israelis call "Fatahland"—who are the children of the refugees who fled Palestine in 1948. They are the main body of the national movement whose vanguard is the PLO. Having spent their lives in harsh camps, or working in Gulf states which denied them citizenship, the Palestinians in Lebanon are now men and women who set themselves apart from the rest of the Arab nation as people who have witnessed their own catastrophe. It is Dimbleby's unreserved sympathy for them that makes his book worth reading. Through interviews and photographs, he presents their history as they see it.
Just when (he tells us) the Turks were repressing the Palestinians' own first challenge to Ottoman rule during World War I—by ruining their traditional economy and hanging their leaders—the British army marched in. But British politicians only replaced the Ottoman empire with their own duplicitous colonialism. Notwithstanding Sir Henry McMahon's commitments to the Hashemite Sherif of Mecca in 1915 and early 1916, the secret Sykes-Picot agreement between England and France during 1916 detached Palestine from its cultural and political center in Syria, which the French sought to control. This accord prepared the ground for British administration of Palestine under the League of Nations Mandate which formally endorsed Lord Balfour's promises to the Zionists in 1920.
The imperialism of some Europeans, Dimbleby continues, thus promoted Zionism in Palestine even as the racism of other Europeans menaced Jews, driving them to Zionism. Nor were the Jews all that grateful for refuge; they barely concealed their ambition to have a state within their ancient borders. They set about dispossessing Palestinian farmers of traditional holdings, only to establish upon them farms and industries which actively discriminated against Palestinian workers. Forced from their land, vulnerable in the cities, the Palestinians thus saw their country bought up, fenced in, transformed, by swelling waves of Jewish immigrants. Peaceful political action was useless while their own desperate use of force brought on British and Zionist terror. The Zionists finally drove them out, harassing Arab families who clung to their land.
Suddenly homeless, reviled by the imperialist West, at war with Israel, the Palestinians were also misused by reactionary Arab regimes, and patronized by UN relief agencies. The writer Yahya Rabah told Dimbleby:
We came to realize that we were nothing without a homeland…. A homeland is not only land and security. It is songs and happiness. When we ate bread or drank water, our first thought was that the bread of our country was better, the water tasted more sweet.
Dimbleby wants readers to share the ideology that most Palestinians derive from this special version of their history. But he does not appreciate what he's revealed: that the galvanizing force in the lives of the Palestinians of Fatahland, of the PLO leadership, seems to be their political rage, and not the defense of some more distinct cultural tradition, as…
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For On Campus Emergencies dial 911 from any on campus phone.
203-837-9300 University Police Dispatch Center
203-837-9301 Chief of Police Roger Connor
203-837-9302 Lieutenant Richard Montefusco
203-837-9302 Patrol Sergeant
203-837-9304 Chief's Office, Midtown, Ms. Shirley Hatch
203-837-3289 University Police Parking Office, Westside 247D
Other Important FAX AND Phone Numbers
203-837-9305 University Police Fax – Midtown
203-837-3290 University Police Parking Office Fax, Westside 247D
203-837-9377 School Closing Information (Snow Line)
Chief of Police
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Police Sergeant
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The parking administration section manages the issuance of student and faculty/staff parking decals, and processes the Parking Citations issued on campus. Various administrative tasks in the support of the Parking Appeals Process is also handled by this office. The parking administration office is housed in the Classroom Building on the Westside Campus, WS247D.
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By James Regan and Michelle Nichols
PARIS/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - France said on Friday it plans to send another 400 troops to help combat a crisis in the Central African Republic as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon pleaded for more swift, robust international help to stop sectarian violence that could turn into a genocide.
French President Francois Hollande's office urged other countries to show "increased solidarity" and called on the United Nations Security Council to approve the creation of a U.N. peacekeeping force in the landlocked former French colony.
Some 838,000 people have been displaced since the mostly Muslim Seleka rebel group seized power in March last year in the majority Christian country. At least 2,000 people have been killed since December in what a U.N. official described as a wave of "ethnic-religious cleansing.
"The dark clouds of mass atrocities and sectarian cleansing loom over the Central African Republic," Ban told a U.N. Security Council meeting on cooperation between the world body and the European Union.
"We cannot claim to care about mass atrocity crimes and then shrink from what it means to actually prevent them," he said. "Our commitment to protect civilians is only as meaningful as the political, military and financial muscle deployed to defend them."
The additional troops will bring France's Central African Republic deployment to 2,000.
France sent 1,600 troops in December to help an African Union force of 6,000 peacekeepers, while the European Union has agreed to send around 500 troops.
Hollande's office said that some of the additional 400 French troops would be later transferred to the European force.
"It's essential that this European force can be swiftly deployed and that member states of the EU can mobilize to contribute towards this," French U.N. Ambassador Gerard Araud told the Security Council.
"We are at a crucial stage in managing the Central African crisis. We avoided the worst but still we need to put an end to the cycle of ethnic and religious violence and avoid the country falling back into chaos," he said.
At a "force generation" conference in Brussels on Thursday, six EU states offered "substantial" contributions of soldiers or police for Central African Republic, diplomats said, but those countries were not named.
"We have more than 500 troops. The force generation conference ... is, as my understanding, looking at double that number," European foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton told reporters after the Security Council meeting in New York. "I trust that the force will be on the ground very, very soon."
Estonia and non-EU member Georgia have already voiced readiness to offer troops, diplomats said.
Canada, Georgia, Norway, Serbia, Turkey and the United States, all non-EU countries, took part in Thursday's conference, diplomats said.
Russia voiced concern that some non-EU countries could be part of the European deployment to Central African Republic.
"We're concerned this might have an impact on the management of the EU mission in an already chaotic situation in the CAR," Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said. "We won't hide that we're somewhat surprised ... there's still no clarity on precisely which countries will provide peacekeepers.
Ban is due to report to the U.N. Security Council shortly on options for transforming the current African Union peacekeeping force into a U.N. operation. He told the council in November that a U.N. force of up to 9,000 troops and 1,700 police could be needed for Central African Republic.
Ban said on Tuesday that he had asked France and other countries to consider sending more troops to the Central African Republic because the international response to the crisis "does not yet match the gravity of the situation." He said he was gravely concerned violence could spiral into genocide.
(Aditional reporting by Adrian Croft; Writing by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Mark John, Toni Reinhold)


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Forest Service employees and activist face racketeering charges
Developers' attempt to silence critics of condo project could make history
Sandy Steers has never considered herself a mobster. The children's author and screenwriter moved to the north shore of Big Bear Lake in Southern California's San Bernardino Mountains four years ago. She wanted to escape the fast-growing south shore, and hoped that the rustic town of Fawnskin — with only 400 full-time residents, no stoplights and no chain stores — would stay quiet and rural.
But once she realized developers had their eyes on the town, she helped launch Friends of Fawnskin, a group dedicated to monitoring growth. Last May, the Friends won a court injunction to halt construction of Marina Point, a 133-unit condominium and marina project on the lake shore. "A gated condo project doesn't fit our rural setting," says Steers, the group's executive director. "Basically, it would change the whole atmosphere, ruin what we have."
Yet that victory brought a surprising counterattack from the developer, San Diego businessman Irving Okovita: In November, Marina Point Development Associates, in which Okovita is a partner, sued Steers, along with Gene Zimmerman, supervisor of the San Bernardino National Forest, and Scott and Robin Eliason, also Forest Service employees. The developers claim the four engaged in a criminal conspiracy to stop his project, and sued under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute originally written to help the government bring down the Mafia. The 1970 law makes it illegal to acquire or operate a business through racketeering activities, such as loan sharking, mail fraud, or extortion.
The developers allege that the Eliasons, who are also members of Friends of Fawnskin, used their official positions with the Forest Service to secretly rally opposition to the lakefront condo project. If the case goes to trial, says Andy Stahl, executive director of the watchdog group Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics, it could have strong implications for the free-speech rights of federal employees. Whether advocating on their own time or speaking up on the job, federal employees might "come to think there are risks in doing so," he says.
Upholding the First Amendment
One point of contention is the Forest Service's assessment of endangered bald eagles in the area. Robin Eliason, a wildlife biologist, wrote the assessment in 2002 as part of a settlement of a previous lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity. It showed that bald eagles depend on a stand of pine trees at the Marina Point property for winter habitat. Okovita sought to cut down 338 of those trees for his project.
The suit claims Eliason's report — one of several used by Friends of Fawnskin and the Center to convince the judge to halt construction — was not an official Forest Service document because it was not signed by her superiors. The developers' attorney, S. Wayne Rosenbaum of San Diego, calls it a "personal document" used by the group to tilt the scales of justice. And the Eliasons, he says, aided by Zimmerman, abused their Forest Service connections to overstate the report's importance.
The developers also allege that the Eliasons illegally used government computers and resources to fight Marina Point, and hoped to increase their own property value by doing so. "It is a criminal act for a federal employee to engage in private consulting as it concerns a project in which their opinions are also being sought in their federal employee capacity," says Rosenbaum.
The Eliasons declined to comment, and Zimmerman did not return phone calls. But Frank Fraley is the Los Angeles attorney who originally represented Zimmerman and the Eliasons — since the U.S. Department of Justice waited a month before agreeing to represent the three Forest Service employees. Fraley says that Rosenbaum's description of the eagle report "indicates an incredible ignorance of land law. We believe the case is completely frivolous." In January, the Forest Service employees were removed as defendants, with the federal government substituting itself as defendant. This is commonplace when a federal employee is sued over workplace events, but the developers may seek to have the three individuals reinstated.
According to Stahl, federal ethics policies restrict an employee's personal conduct only when there is a financial conflict of interest. "These three federal employees have a right to speak freely on the effect this marina might have on the bald eagle," he says.
Racketeering or double standard?
Sandy Steers, the only individual still named in the suit, is represented by the Oakland-based nonprofit First Amendment Project. The group's executive director, David Greene, says the lawsuit amounts to intimidation. "The intent isn't to win the lawsuit; it's really just to harass and to tell other people, 'This is what's going to happen to you,' " he says. "Everything Sandy did was an example of her First Amendment right to criticize her government."
Almost lost in the legal wrangling is the status of the bald eagle itself. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working to delist the eagle as an endangered species, but annual surveys by the Forest Service show that the average number of eagles seen in the Big Bear Lake region fell from 27 to 14 over the last two decades. Many once gathered on the lake's south shore, but rapid resort development in the town of Big Bear Lake may be driving the eagles north toward Fawnskin, just as it did Sandy Steers.
"For the most part, the community has gotten stronger and become even more determined than before," says Steers. During the town's annual Doo Dah Parade, one entry last summer featured an effigy of Irving Okovita. "People aren't going to come in here and walk all over us."
If nothing else, the case has inspired some head-scratching about conflicts that may exist throughout the Forest Service — and about where the boundaries ought to lie between federal employees and other organizations. Stahl notes that many Forest Service employees have close ties to the timber industry. Tom Thompson, a deputy chief of the Forest Service, for example, served simultaneously for a time as a board member of the Society of American Foresters, a group of forestry professionals that critics say often acts as a voice of the logging industry.
"I think there's a double standard here," says Karen Schambach, California coordinator of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. "When it's an affiliation of Forest Service employees with timber organizations, nobody ever seems to sue them."
The author writes from Sacramento, California.
This story was made possible by the support of the EMA Foundation.
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics Executive Director Andy Stahl, 541-484-2692, www.fseee.org
S. Wayne Rosenbaum attorney for Marina Point Development Associates, 619-685-6413


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60 Minutes has now revisited its absurd story that former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman was the victim of a Rovean conspiracy that sent him to prison for bribery and mail fraud. John Hinderaker utterly demolished the story here, documenting at great length the facts omitted from its original hit job by CBS. Rove himself recently discussed the story in his interview with GQ Magazine:
Let's talk about the last couple of scandals you've been involved in. Don Siegelman in Alabama [the Democratic governor whom Rove was recently accused of trying to sabotage by forcing U.S. attorneys to bring corruption charges against him prior to an election]. What happened?
[rolls his eyes] Will you do me a favor and go on Power Line and Google "Dana Jill Simpson" [the Republican lawyer who told 60 Minutes that Rove asked her to take a picture of Governor Siegelman cheating on his wife]? She's a complete lunatic. I've never met this woman. This woman was not involved in any campaign in which I was involved. I have yet to find anybody who knows her. And what the media has done on this


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Welcome to the Petabyte Club
It's not big, it's BI+g data
Hype alert; hype alert; Big Data is coming our way. A new volcano has blasted its way above the surface of the marketing sea, spewing out "big data" messages in enormous flows of thought leader bullshit. What the heck is this big data thing?
EMC says it's to do with handling data at the petabyte scale, where things like compression, deduplication, thin provisioning and management facilities can become much more important because they enable large savings of cash.
Big data in EMC's mind is connected with Atmos (cloud), Greenplum (business intelligence or BI) and Isilon (scale-out NAS) and with its petabyte club customers, those with more than a petabyte of storage.
In other people's minds, such as ESG's Steve Duplessie, big data is connected to BI systems and use of the phrase is a good marketing tactic drawing attention to Oracle and obstructing an Exadata marketing strategy.
The backdrop is that Oracle is trying to get more of the data warehousing/BI pie at the expense of Teradata, IBM-acquired Netezza, and others. What it's done in the usual Oracle way is to cut costs everywhere in the BI stack except for the Oracle software and so represent to customers that it saves them money. This stack, the Exadata bundle, is made of Sun servers, storage and Oracle's own software.
Duplessie has blogged that Oracle, with its complex licensing terms and conditions, is able to go to its customers, run a software audit and find they are breaking their licensing terms and conditions, and need to buy more licensed stuff. But Oracle says buy Exadata systems instead for your BI work and that licensing problem goes away. It seems amazing but is, apparently true.
Competitors like EMC, HP and IBM are now using the "big data" idea to alert potential customers to the need to think differently about petabyte-class storage applications and to persuade Oracle customers that don't have to play ball with Oracle by default; their are alternatives, such as IBM/Netezza or EMC/Greenplum.
Is BI big data different from the petabyte data seen in film post-product work and in the oil and gas industry's seismic data? In sheer size terms, no, but in data characteristic terms, yes.
BI data is held in databases and based on transactions. It is copied data, not original, and often held in storage area networks (SANs) with block access. The media and seismic-type data is not transaction based and is original data, often stored in files, in NAS (network-attached storage) arrays, typically called scale-out NAS.
Oracle does not have an offering in this space. EMC (Isilon), IBM (SONAS), and HP (Ibrix) do, as does BlueArc and DataDirect Networks. These products are often about parallel access to files.
BI big data is susceptible to being stored and analysed in a single integrated system, like Exadata, or like a vBlock Greenplum bundle. File-based big data has not been treated in the same way, there being no file-based equivalent of an Exadata box or a vBlock Greenplum system. That may be because multiple end-user systems work on the data and not a single, multi-core, multi-processor server. Also there are no single, dominating application types here in the same way as an analytics app working on BI data.
When people - suppliers - talk about big data ask if they are talking about data analytics big data (BI+g data) or file-based big data. It makes a difference in terms of the product pitches that come your way.
Oddly, no-one yet is talking much about compressing and deduplicating big data. Duplessie mentioned this in an Infosmack podcast. It's odd because such data reduction would have a huge pay-off in disk capacity purchase terms.
My presumption is that this deduplication blind spot is due to performance concerns. But Rainstor (Clearpace as was) can deduplicate and reduce databases in size. Permabit's marketing message about its Albireo software is that it can work its data reduction magic without affecting performance. BlueArc has a license for it.
Big data will only going to get bigger; transactions just accumulate and never get thrown away, being digital spoil heaps that can be mined for ever. High-definition, computer graphic-enhanced movies seem to get larger and larger too. Ways to lower the cost per petabyte of storing the stuff and managing it will surely become vastly more important.
A last thought; where is Dell in big data? It's relatively nowhere, and observers are suggesting it might buy Aster Data to stake its claim in the big data gold rush. ®


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A negative Width value??
I can hear it now:
Are you insane Mladen?? Do you want our apps going around looking ugly??
Well... of course I do! It means i can go around fixing them for big bucks :))
But joking aside, -1 and -2 width values are very usefull.
Setting the width to be -1 means that the column will have the width of the longest item in it.
Setting the width to be -2 means that the column will have the width of the column heading.
Pretty cool, no?
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As the title suggests, I am looking at changing my group 2 merits to include Winning Streak, and I am kind of wondering how much of what I should do. I merited cor well before the removal of the time element to the merits to Fold and Snake Eye.
My current merits are:
5/5 Snake Eye
4/5 Fold
1/5 Loaded Deck
0/5 Winning Streak
I am thinking of changing to:
5/5 Winning Streak
3/5 Snake Eye (Cause I like the % chance to get XI)
1/5 Fold
1/5 Loaded Deck
Is this a pretty standard merit setup, and what do you think?
Additionally, I have one more merit WS to do, and I was wondering about Last Stand and its viability. What do you guys think about last stand, is it used when you have access to Wildfire?


text: Original Thread: Anyone have maps of dual sport routes/gravel roads in the upstate SC? Update 12/24/2012: I will update occasionally and summarize contributions to the thread. We are a loosely organized group of dual sport adventurers who share a similar enjoyment of riding off pavement. An excellent collection of dual sport routes all over the country, including downloadable maps in GPX format is DualSportmaps.com The Upstate SC has fewer and fewer gravel roads. Those that we do have are often shared with NC and Ga. So, upstate refers to upstate SC, Ga, and NC. The major areas include: A. Sumter National Forest in Oconee and Pickens County, SC - Jim Timmerman Wilderness Area. Webpage --->https://www.dnr.sc.gov/mlands/managedland?p_id=53 ---- Area East of Lake Jocassee in and around the Horsepasture River ---- Area West of Lake Jocassee in the Bad Creek Access area. These roads are open seasonally and frequented by hunters. B. Around Saluda NC - Pearsons Falls road - Bell Mountain - Pace Mountain - Lake Summit C. Around Dupont Forest, NC Official webpage --->http://ncforestservice.gov/Contacts/dsf.htm Unofficial webpage --->http://www.dupontforest.com/ The area inside DuPont forest is closed to motor vehicles, however, there are gravel roads around the perimeter of the forest that are open. - Pinnacle Mountain - Sky Valley - Cascade lakes - Green River Road Upstate Gravel road areas by Ridingmanone, on Flickr


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Low cotton prices? No problem — U.S. producers will grow it anyway. That just one of several "destabilizing" factors currently facing the cotton industry, says Don Shurley, University of Georgia Extension economist.
"U.S. cotton acreage largely has been unresponsive to price, and this creates a potential over-supply situation," says Shurley. "We had a tremendous increase in world production and ending stocks for the 2001 crop, and that's part of the reason for such low prices."
The U.S. textile industry is another cause for concern, he adds. "Cotton use in our textile mills is down by more than 30 percent since 1997, and a lot of this is the result of plants closing down in the United States and plants opening in other countries. It's not so much that U.S. plants are cutting back, but the production capacity no longer is there."
Even if the U.S. economy improves and mills become more profitable, they never could reach their former production capacity, he says.
"This past year, our mill use was just over 7 million bales. In 1997, the textile industry used 11.2 million bales. Our textile industry is hurting, and that has serious implications for the cotton industry."
There has been a tremendous increase in cotton imports into the United States, notes the economist. "We're not talking about raw cotton. Raw cotton doesn't come into this country to a great extent due to trade restrictions. We're talking about imports either of fabric or finished goods.
"Much of this cotton may be our own, and it's coming back here in the form of finished products from China or Mexico," says Shurley.
The strength of the U.S. dollar also has had an impact on cotton markets, he says. Although the dollar has weakened in recent months, it has strengthened during the better part of the past two years. This, says Shurley, has attracted more imports to the United States and has made U.S. exports more expensive to other countries.
Another destabilizing factor has been cotton yields. "We have not seen the kind of yield increases in the late 1990s that we saw earlier in the decade. We're not sure if this is due to weather or transgenic varieties, but growers are struggling with yield issues that make their current situation even more severe."
Turning to cotton prices, Shurley says the 35 cent level seen this past crop year is the lowest since 1985. The loan rate, he adds, was at 52 cents.
"This past growing season marks the first time in the past 10 to 12 years that prices have dropped below the loan rate for any significant time."
Growers are somewhat better off in terms of price this year than last year, with current levels in the low 40s, or 7 or 8 cents more than in the fall of 2001, says Shurley. "We certainly have broken out of the floor, but we have a long way to go if we're to get back to a decent price."
Cotton acreage in Georgia, North Carolina and other Southeastern states increased significantly from 1993-95, he says, during a time of good prices.
"In the past three to four years, due to over-supply and weakening demand, prices have dropped. However, it isn't so bad when you add on the LDP. This is why our acreage hasn't been responsive to price.
"Last spring, futures were in the 40s, but no farmer who planted cotton expected to get 40 cents for his crop. Even if cotton is in the 30 cent range, you'd have a 20 to 30 cent LDP to tack onto that. No one is responding to price — they're responding either to the loan rate or the possible LDP."
Turning to the world market situation, Shurley says there's a direct correlation between weakening cotton prices and the strengthening of the U.S. dollar against other currencies. The base price for cotton in the United States and the A Index, or world price, move together, he says.
"Over the past couple of growing seasons, U.S. prices have weakened relative to the A Index. Our over-reliance on exports and our depressed mill industry have contributed to this. We're not going to get an improvement in U.S. cotton prices in the absence of a movement in the A Index.
"We can't have 60 to 70 cent U.S., cotton while, at the same time, have a world price of 40 to 50 cents. That'll never happen.
"One reason is because our mill industry is down so significantly, and we're even more reliant on exports. We can't export 10 million or 11 million bales and have New York futures in the 60s. The best medicine for U.S. cotton prices is for the world supply situation to become more balanced.
"That will pull up the A-Index and U.S. cotton prices."
Cotton growers should see an increase this year in the A-Index, says Shurley. "When the world stocks-to-use ratio comes down, and stocks get smaller relative to total supply, we'll see an improvement in prices. We're now at 40 percent stocks-to-use worldwide.
"When we look back to other years when this figure was 40 percent, we see an A Index that was significantly above current levels.
"Encouraging things are happening with the world supply-demand picture, which leads me to believe the A-Index will strengthen. We should see an improvement in our prices. But I'm not sure we'll be better off in terms of total price because LDP's are tied to the world price."
If the A Index and U.S. prices improve, farmers will see more cash in their pockets in terms of what they're getting from the market, but the LDP will do down, says Shurley.
"So, the total money may be no different than what we're already getting. Some would argue that the total money outlay will be less."
Looking at this year's cotton crop, Shurley says average yields won't be as high as in 2001, and harvest also appears to be running behind last year's average.
This year marks the first time in the past three of four years that U.S. cotton acreage has declined, he says. He says there aren't many alternatives for growers. "Even after three to four years of terrible prices, cotton acreage in the Southeast has remained fairly stable and mostly has trended upward since 1990."
Although U.S. production may be down by about 11 percent this year, total supply won't change much due to old-crop carryover from last season, he says.
"The big unknown is on the demand side. The estimate for U.S. demand is set at about 7.9 million bales — a slight improvement over last year.
"We might see some improvement in the U.S. textile industry. Although the textile industry has shown signs of making an adjustment, I don't know that we'll ever get back to a level of 10 million or 11 million bales.
"If the maximum amount of cotton the U.S. textile industry uses is 8 million or 9 million bales, we must have continued high rates of U.S. exports. The mill industry continues to trend downward, but we've been fortunate enough to pick that up in the last couple of years with exports. But it has taken 30 to 40 cent cotton to accomplish this, and that's a concern."
Total offtake, says Shurley, has been excellent, but an increasing amount of U.S. cotton must be shipped overseas, where it's placed in an increasingly competitive market.


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Pittsburg & Clarksville, NH
Of the remaining covered bridges in New Hampshire, the Pittsburg-Clarksville Bridge is located the furthest north over the Connecticut River. This structure is one of seven covered bridges built in Pittsburg and one of three that remain standing. The bridge is also known as the Bacon Road Bridge. It was closed to traffic in 1981.
Year of Construction: - 1876
Original Cost: - Unknown
South of U.S. Route 3, west of Pittsburg Village on Bacon Road over the Connecticut River connecting the towns of Pittsburg and Clarksville.
Paddleford truss with added arches. The bridge is 88'6" long with a clear span of 70'0". It has an overall width of 19'3" with a roadway width of 15'0" and a maximum vertical clearance of 12'10".
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2010 Grant Recipients
Face to Face
Face to Face is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to the needs of youth ages 11-23. Their mission is to empower youth to overcome barriers and strive toward healthy and self-sufficient lives. The organization was founded in 1972 with only a phone-in crisis counseling center. Today, Face to Face offers health care, counseling, and other programs to more than 3,200 homeless and underserved youth and young adults each year.
The FINNEGANS Community Fund will help support the operations of the SafeZone program specifically to help provide emergency assistance in the areas of food, housing, education, and transportation to the homeless and at-risk youth that are part of the SafeZone program.
A Minnesota Without Poverty
A Minnesota Without Poverty is a statewide movement to end poverty in Minnesota by 2020. The organization started in 2001, and recently has joined forces with the Half In Ten Campaign – a national effort to cut poverty in half in ten years. A Minnesota Without Poverty seeks to engage all sectors of society – faith communities, government, business, people experiencing poverty, education, communities of color, non-profits, and foundations. They believe that everyone can play a role in ending poverty in our state and beyond, as it affects us all, no matter what walk of life we come from or what our economic situation may be.
Funds from the FINNEGANS Community Fund will help support the development of their Allyship Training Model that will help facilitate a micro-lending process with immigrants and people experiencing poverty who need capitalization for small business development.
House of Charity
House of Charity was founded in 1952 as a place for individuals to find food and shelter in Minneapolis. The overriding goal of House of Charity is to help struggling individuals meet their basic needs of food and shelter and reduce barriers to their long-term self-sufficiency so they can become engaged members of the community. Today, House of Charity operates a Food Centre, serving over 300 homeless and impoverished individuals every day of the year. They also provide transitional housing to 119 adult men and women who have experiences long-term homelessness. Along with providing food and shelter, House of Charity provides mental health counseling, chemical dependency treatment, case management, life skills training and individual workforce development for residents and other clients.
The grant awarded to House of Charity will provide 2000 public meals at the Food Centre.
Teenworks d.b.a The A-List
Founded in 2008, The A-List was established with the purpose of establishing a teen-run snack and apparel shop in Brooklyn Park, MN to would employ at-risk youth and serve as a location for positive afterschool programs such as tutoring and college prep courses. Their Mission is to provide a platform for all youth to achieve their dreams in the fields of entrepreneurship, education, and personal growth by serving as a catalyst between youth, the business community, and post-secondary opportunities.
Funds from the FINNEGANS Community Fund will be used to support the teen director program which creates a unique business leadership opportunity for at-risk youth. These positions will allow teens to gain experience in management and operations while developing their interpersonal skills, teamwork, communication, leadership, analytical skills, decision making, problem solving, and planning and organization.
Kinship of Morrison County
Kinship is a mentoring program serving youth from single parent home, ages 6-17. Their mission is to help the youth served grow by bringing a positive adult role model into their lives. Through the ongoing interaction, the youth foster friendships and improve social skills.Funds from the FINNEGANS Community Fund will help cover costs associated with activities organized in order to provide no-cost activities that help foster positive and quality interactions.
Rebuild Resources
Rebuild Resources operates under the mission of helping addicts and alcoholics be sober, self-sufficient and of service by providing meaningful, transitional employment in business enterprises that they operate. The businesses provide a safe, sober, secure, supportive, non-enabling environment for recovery. Since it's start, over 1,000 men and women have successfully graduated from Rebuild Resources.
The FINNEGANS Community Fund grant will help support the Transition-to-Work training classes in order to help program participants job seeking and job-keeping skills.
Mesabi Early Childhood Coalition
The Mesabi Early Childhood Coalition (MECC) has been coordinating and assisting families of pre-school children will all of the services in the area. Many of the families in the area served struggle to provide basic needs for themselves and their children. One of the ways in which, the MECC helps connect families to the available community resources is through the Fun Fair. Funds from the FINNEGANS Community Fund will help support the low income families participation in the fair.
St. Stephen's Human Services
St. Stephen's Human Services is a non-profit who carries out their mission to end homelessness by serving over 6200 people yearly through such services as homelessness prevention, street outreach, shelter, transitional and permanent housing and employment programming. These programs, aided further by working with local police, business and other non profits, help people grow increasingly self-sufficient in order to not return to homelessness. The FINNEGANS Community Fund supports the Street Outreach program, which assists long-term homeless people in order to help them off the streets and give them access to safe, secure housing.
The Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans
The Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans has been serving veterans in St Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and Mankato for 18 years through homes for transitional housing, permanent housing for disabled veterans and rental and mortgage assistance to prevent homelessness. Their mission is to "positively motivate veterans and their families who are homeless or experiencing other life crises." The FINNEGANS Community Fund grant supports job training and skill development so that at-risk veterans can become self-reliant, economically independent, thriving members of the community.
Employment Action Center
Employment Action Center is a Twin Cities based nonprofit whose mission is to empower people to achieve greater personal, social and economic success through comprehensive education, employment and family support services to low-income youth, adults and families. The FINNEGANS Community Fund grant supports the WAND program, Women Achieving New Directions, a program that provides employment and personal development services to low-income women in the metro area. WAND works with single mothers on the brink of poverty to help them secure higher wage employment, advance in their current careers and improve their financial stability.
Boys and Girls Club of Rochester
Boys and Girls Club of Rochester strives to empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring community members. They are known as "the positive place for kids" as they provide a broad range of programs in five core areas: Character and Leadership development, Education and Career development, Health and Life skills, Sports, Fitness and Recreation and The Arts. The FINNEGANS Community Fund grant supports the services at the Northwest site, which otherwise would have lost its primary source of funding.
Plymouth Foundation
The Plymouth Foundation is a non-profit housing organization which creates homes for those in need, building community for all by collaborating with congregations and social service agencies to transform the lives of those who have been homeless. The FINNEGANS Community Fund grant supports Creekside Commons, a 30 unit workforce housing building in SW Minneapolis, providing a computer resource lab and a playground, which will be volunteer built and operated.
Lutheran Social Service of MN
Lutheran Social Service of MN is a non-profit corporation that responds to human needs across the state including but not limited to mental health counseling, strength based truancy and delinquency programs, therapeutic foster care, refugee and employment services and personal support for those with disabilities. They believe in the worth of each person and pursue social and economic justice through service and advocacy. The FINNEGANS Community Fund grant supports the Parent Tip Line, which seeks to improve the quality of family life, increase access to services and maximize the potential of families, children and community.
Emerge Community Development is a non profit seeking to create jobs for hard to employ adults through their mission of "investing in people through social enterprise." Their current goals include eliminating chronic homelessness, promoting self-sufficiency and creating jobs as they serve 3500 inner-city residents in St. Paul and Minneapolis. The FINNEGANS Community Fund grant supports the Emerge Link Program's Summer Adventure Day camps that offer a highly structured week day camp experience at each supportive housing facility, engaging a total of 48 youth.
Conservation Corps Minnesota
Conservation Corps Minnesota provides hands-on environmental stewardship and service-learning opportunities to youth and young adults. Their goal is to help young people from diverse backgrounds become involved in the community and prepared for future employment. The FINNEGANS Community Fund grant supports the Youth Outdoors program, which engages high school students from low-income St. Paul neighborhoods to focus on neighborhood revitalization, leadership and job training which demonstrates to students how to create and sustain long-term change.
Admission Possible
Admission Possible is a non-profit organization "helping to make college admission possible for promising, low-income students" which they accomplish by providing ACT and SAT test preparation services and admissions and financial aid counseling, all at no cost for students or their families as all participating students perform at least 8 hours of community service yearly. Over 98% of the students they assist have been admitted to college. The FINNEGANS Community Fund grant supports college access programming for low-income students in the Greater Twin Cities area.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Planned talks this week between Iran and six world powers, including the United States, will show how serious Tehran is about resolving issues around its nuclear program, a senior State Department official said on Monday.
"In all the meetings with the Europeans, there was a clear sense that this opportunity with the Iranian foreign minister will give our ministers a sense of their level of seriousness and whether they are coming with concrete new proposals and whether this charm offensive actually has substance (under it)," a senior U.S. State Department official told reporters.
The official was referring to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's meetings with European counterparts, including British Foreign Secretary William Hague on Monday.
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20 U.S. Code § 1087i - Authority to sell loans
The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, is authorized to sell loans made under this part on such terms as the Secretary determines are in the best interest of the United States, except that any such sale shall not result in any cost to the Federal Government. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the proceeds of any such sale may be used by the Secretary to offer reductions in the interest rate paid by a borrower of a loan made under this part as the Secretary determines appropriate to encourage on-time repayment in accordance with section 1087e(b)(7) of this title. Such reductions may be offered only if the Secretary determines the reductions are in the best financial interests of the Federal Government.
A prior section 1087i, Pub. L. 89–329, title IV, § 459, as added Pub. L. 102–325, title IV, § 451, July 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 575, which related to schedule of regulatory activities by Secretary under Federal direct loan demonstration program, was omitted in the general amendment of this part by Pub. L. 103–66.
Section effective Oct. 1, 1998, except as otherwise provided in Pub. L. 105–244, see section 3 of Pub. L. 105–244, set out as an Effective Date of 1998 Amendment note under section 1001 of this title.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Sept. 16, 2008) - The ETSU volleyball team rallied to come back and defeat Appalachian State in a thriller Tuesday night at Brooks Gym ending a six-game losing streak, 3-2 (29-31, 16-25, 25-14, 26-24, 15-10) .
The Bucs dropped the first two sets to the Mountaineers, but pulled out three straight sets in front of a charged crowd. In the fourth set, ETSU fell behind 11-17, but big kills by freshman Jamie Stancliff (Advance, N.C.) propelled the Bucs to make the come back and take the set and eventually win the match.
"Everyone contributed in some way to get this win," said head coach Lindsey Devine. "Between games two and three I had to look to some players to do a little more, and those individuals stepped up and came through for us. We have been always talking about composure, and how keeping our composure limits us from making errors. It was nice to see our players keep their composure at keys times to pull out the win."
The Bucs (3-7, 0-3 A-Sun) were led offensively by junior Amanda Youell (Middleburg, Fla.) who had a double-double with 12 kills and 29 assists, while collecting six digs and four blocks. Whitney Cogburn (Kingsport, Tenn.) also had a double-double in the match tallying 19 assists, 13 digs and nine kills.
"I have a lot of confidence in both Amanda and Whitney to make good decisions and get the ball into our hitters' hands," Devine said. "Offensively they are both a threat, and they create a really good flow. Tonight they both did a good job of finding a hot hitter when we needed it."
Freshmen McKayla Barber (Columbus, Ind.) and Stancliff stepped up for ETSU as Barber had 11 kills and seven blocks, while Stancliff had nine kills. Defensively Jen Neice (Allen, Texas) had 19 digs for the Bucs in the back row.
"Jamie had a good night tonight," Devine said. "Jamie is a very energetic player, and our setters were able to thrive off of that and put the ball in her hand. McKayla has been working hard taking extra reps in practice, and tonight those reps paid off."
"We are very fortunate to have good crowds like we have had the past two games." Devine added. "I am happy to see the students and student-athletes coming out to support us. They really got behind us and showed their ETSU pride, and we wanted to make sure we pulled out the win for them."
ETSU is back in action this weekend, as the Bucs host conference opponents Jacksonville on Friday at 7 p.m. and North Florida on Saturday at 3 p.m. in Brooks Gym. Please visit www.ETSUBucs.com for more information on ETSU volleyball and all other Buccaneer athletic news.


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Over the past year, Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have worked closely on controversial issues, seemingly partnering on Syrian chemical weapons disarmament, bringing the two sides in the Syrian conflict together in Geneva and working in tandem to persuade Iran to make concessions over its nuclear program.
But on Friday, after hours of conversation at a negotiating table and during sun-splashed walks on a manicured lawn, the two men emerged with a bleak message: They couldn't reach common ground on the future of Ukraine. There was simply no wiggle room in either's position to ease the worsening crisis.
Kerry's starting point was an intact and independent Ukraine; Lavrov's was a Ukraine without Crimea. Their positions were so far apart that Kerry didn't even get to fully brief his counterpart on all his deal-sweetening ideas – Lavrov made it clear that the only person who could change Crimea policy was President Vladimir Putin.
Both men looked visibly dejected when the talks ended.
"We were prepared to float them on Ukraine's behalf – to test market them, if you will, with the Russians – and we started down that path today," a senior State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity so as to freely discuss diplomacy, said of a variety of proposals. "But it very quickly became clear that Foreign Minister Lavrov was not empowered to discuss any aspect of any proposal that might have an impact in Crimea."
The failure of the London talks sets in motion a chain of events that veteran diplomats and analysts fear could inflame Europe: Crimea will vote Sunday to join Russia, the United States and its allies will impose sharper sanctions against Moscow in retaliation, and thus begins a cycle of tit-for-tat maneuvers that could torpedo other joint U.S.-Russian projects and stoke fears among Russia's neighbors.
Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said Friday that six U.S. warplanes had arrived Thursday in Poland for a beefed-up U.S. role in NATO military exercises and six more of the F-16 fighter jets would land there Friday.
A C-17 transport plane brought 150 U.S. Air Force and other military personnel to Poland to support the increased flight training exercises with Polish airmen, and a C-130 cargo aircraft carried 25,000 meal rations, Warren said.
The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, accompanied by two guided-missile destroyers and a guided-missile cruiser, would remain in the Mediterranean Sea "for several days," Warren said, on what he described as part of a previously scheduled exercise.
Warren added that "anything could happen" to alter the U.S. warships' itinerary, but for now they were not expected to remain in the Mediterranean beyond the first part of next week.
"A lot of what we're doing there now is an effort to reassure our allies," Warren told reporters at the Pentagon.
Kerry's meeting with Lavrov capped a week that saw the United States and Europe turbocharging diplomacy in hopes of stopping the referendum Sunday, in which Crimea residents will vote on whether to join Russia or become independent; remaining with Ukraine is not an option. Kerry and others in the administration have said plainly that Russia would face sanctions, even as early as Monday, if the vote proceeds as planned.
"There will be consequences if Russia does not find a way to change course," Kerry told reporters after the meeting with Lavrov. "And we don't say that as a threat. We say that as a direct consequence of the choices that Russia may or may not choose to make here."
So far, neither overtures nor threats have swayed Putin. He shows no sign of taking what the Obama administration calls the "offramp" option: sending Russian troops in Crimea back to their barracks and opening direct talks with Ukraine's provisional government.
Instead, U.S. officials say, Putin is massing thousands of troops along the border in a snap exercise that Western observers fear is a signal of broader incursion, perhaps into eastern Ukraine. That would nudge the conflict into an even more dangerous period, with the prospect of shooting between Russians and Ukrainians and a NATO buildup in Ukraine's neighbors.
"We also remain deeply concerned about the large deployments of Russian forces in Crimea and along the eastern border with Russia, as well as the continuing provocations and some of the hooliganism of young people who've been attracted to cross the border and come into the east," Kerry said.
Western observers worry that the land grab in Crimea is only the beginning of a campaign by Putin to reconstitute the Soviet Union. Putin, who famously lamented the breakup of the Soviet Union, says he's merely protecting ethnic Russians in the power vacuum left by the ouster of Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych, who was close to Moscow.
Putin has refused to open direct talks with Yanukovych's successor, the Western-friendly interim government that will rule until after presidential elections that are scheduled for May. Interim Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk was in Washington earlier this week on a high-profile trip that read as a show of U.S.-Ukrainian solidarity in the face of Russian aggression – hardly a reassuring move for Putin, who's loathe to see a Kiev that isn't aligned with Moscow, its traditional patron.
However, in remarks at the White House and at the Atlantic Council, Yatsenyuk also offered some conciliatory words for Putin. He said that the interim leadership seeks to preserve ties with Russia, but in a normal bilateral relationship and not an "incursion."
Yatsenyuk welcomed international monitors to help protect ethnic Russians and other minorities, and he added that the Ukrainian Parliament was open to discussing in a more constitutional way options for Crimea's future.
Had Putin played his cards right, the Americans suggest, he could've had a Crimea that was annexed in all but name. The interim government, they say, was prepared to give Crimea near-total autonomy, but Putin rejected it.
Lavrov and Kerry agreed to remain in touch in the uncertain days ahead.
"Both guys wanted to keep the door open, although we don't know what'll be on the other side," the senior State Department official said.James Rosen in Washington contributed to this report.


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Distance from Imler, PA to Kimberton, PA
Driving distance between Imler, PA and Kimberton, PA is 188.59 miles (or 303.51 kilometers). If you drove an average car (using about 3.6 gallons of gas per mile), the gas would cost you around $, since you would need about gallons of fuel.
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Backed by the Oleg Maddox team, Pacific Fighters allows players to participate in the most compelling Pacific air war experience ever created. Fly planes on either the side of the conflict, including U.S., Japan, Great Britain, or Australia. There are more than 40 flyable aircraft, including the F6F Hellcat, the deadly Japanese Zero, and the UK's Supermarine Seafire. In addition, for the first time in the 1C: Maddox game series, players will have the option to take-off and land on aircraft carriers during combat.
"We're extremely proud and excited to bring Pacific Fighters to the combat flight sim audience because we know they're going to be very pleased with improvements to the award-winning IL-2 game engine and enjoy the new Pacific war setting," said Ilya Shevchenko, producer. "Players will appreciate the
variety of famous fighters, however, in this title more than any previous Maddox sim, we're emphasizing flyable bombers such as the SBD Dauntless, Aichi Val, Mitsubishi G4M Betty, and at least four versions of the North American B-25 Mitchell."
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Time Machine: The Yates Head Bows Out – Finally
(Editor's note: Time Machine is a semi-regular feature from RacinToday which looks back at important moments in auto racing history.)
By Jonathan Ingram | Senior Writer
When Speed Weeks begin in Daytona Beach next February, it will mark the beginning of the first full season for the Ford FR9 engine. It will also mark the end of the Robert Yates-designed cylinder heads era that began in 1991.
Part of NASCAR's "engine of tomorrow" initiative, the FR9 is the last among the participating manufacturers' new engines to arrive, in part because its predecessor was able to match all the new technology and horsepower introduced over the past three seasons by GM, Toyota and Dodge.
"The new engine's biggest challenge is that the current engine is so very, very good," said Brian Wolfe, the director of Ford North America Motorsports, during the introduction of the FR9 earlier this year.
Much of that was down to the Yates cylinder head design, which became the standard for Fords in 1992, along with the company's approved intake manifold and engine block. All three were universally available as well as mandatory in NASCAR's premier series for Ford participants. Pontiac and Chevy, meanwhile, had their own standard equipment.
"The first part of my career, and most NASCAR engine builders, we were given a block and heads and manifold and we'd take that and develop it and improve on it," said Doug Yates, who eventually succeeded his father Robert as a team owner and engine builder. "From the time I started in 1990 until now, these engines have gained about 250 horsepower in the format they're in."
There are other signs that underscore the effectiveness of the cylinder head introduced by Yates in 1991. The Roush Yates Racing Engines company is an extension of Robert Yates' profound understanding of how to produce power from a pushrod V-8. After years of trying to beat the horsepower of rival engine builder and team owner Yates, Jack Roush decided to join him in a partnership formed by Roush's investment.
When Yates first introduced his cylinder head in 1991, it created a sudden jump in horsepower for his Fords and soon, the other Ford engine builders who gained access to it through the Special Vehicle Operations. Yates himself reluctantly shared his concept, but had little choice because NASCAR mandated for 1992 an "out of the box" cylinder head for each manufacturer to help cut costs by not allowing any modifications.
If Yates wanted to continue using his own head, he would have to share it as the cylinder head designated for use by all Ford teams. Preston Miller, the chief field engineer for SVO at the time, nominated the Yates head for NASCAR's new "out of the box" rule versus those of Roush, Junior Johnson or Ernie Elliott.
The Yates cylinder head was radically different. It had smaller valves and a smaller cylinder chamber which used flat pistons versus the domed versions. The key concept was getting the air and fuel mixture to combine and ignite more efficiently.
"Jack and Ernie and Junior Johnson at that time were absolutely convinced that the heads they wanted to get had the biggest valves, they wanted canted valves and I was just watching all this going on," said Miller.
It was the simplicity as well as the effectiveness of the Yates head that so impressed Miller. "Robert was making life simpler," said Miller. "He was making small chambers so that he didn't have a piston dome to make compression, it was a flat top, and the flame travel had no obstruction."
The Yates head eventually helped the increase of horsepower in the NASCAR Ford V-8's because it could sustain higher compression. A new Ford cylinder head was introduced in 2004, but it picked up right where the Yates head left off. The key change was NASCAR allowed the movement of the intake valves from the production location, which was forbidden in the early 1990's. But the original Yates concept remained mostly intact while newer material technology and manufacturing techniques were introduced.
Key developments powered by the Yates head included the championship season by Thunderbird driver Alan Kulwicki in 1992. The first full year it was nominated as the standard Ford cylinder head for the Sprint Cup, that same season, Ford won the manufacturer's championship for the first time since 1969.
In general, the Yates head design and its horsepower helped give the Ford team owners who were born and bred in NASCAR's premier series a new lease on life versus the onslaught of team owners who were successful businessmen outside of racing. That was part of the design of NASCAR president Bill France Jr., who mandated the rule.
With NASCAR's "out of the box" cylinder heads, the wealthy team owners could not simply outspend their brethren on new metalurgy and designs in the cylinder heads to find more horsepower. Each team had to start with the same equipment designated by the manufacturer without modifications to the ports, which often necessitated new material technology.
The rule applied to Pontiac, Chevy and Ford teams, the three competing manufacturers at the time. The successful launch of the Yates head was aided in part by the decision of Chevrolet's racing division to choose a cylinder head favored by drag racers with an 18-degree high port design. The Chevy teams in NASCAR rebelled against that choice and it was soon replaced.
The group of Ford legacy team owners who benefited from what would be a longterm run of excellent horsepower from the Yates head included Yates himself, the Wood Brothers, Johnson and Kulwicki, later succeeded by Geoff Bodine.
Perhaps the new FR9 will help breathe more life into the dwindling legacy teams, which now includes the recent merger between the Yates Racing team, co-owned by Doug Yates and Max Jones, with Richard Petty Motorsports.
In any event, the FR9 means the end of an era as well as the beginning of a new one.
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from the anonymous-cowards-in-the-winners-circle dept
Good luck with that...Coming in second place was Atkray, responding to the head of the Directors Guild of America, Taylor Hackford, who claimed that Wikipedia going dark (though, easily circumventable) for 12 hours "robbed the public." Atkray put that into perspective:
As long as there are governments that consider "information" or "content" to be dangerous, we'll be dealing with this.
That includes (but not limited to) the following:
Terrorist communication
National security secrets
Child pornography
Religious beliefs
Hate speech
Anti-government speech
Copyrighted material
Bomb and weapon-making information
If you stand for unfettered freedom-of-speech and information sharing, you must also be capable of accepting much of the above.
Personally, I think the above examples of information are not nearly as dangerous as some make them out to be - I'd rather live in a world where global transparency and honesty is more important than my personal safety - we stand a better chance of surviving the future that way.
How is it that if a site like Wikipedia is taken offline for a day by it's owners people are robbed, but if ICE takes sites without any due process it is acceptable?I'd guess it's because the sites they take down are sites Hackford doesn't like. So in his world view, it's fine.
For editor's choice we've got blaktron with his response to the fear mongering in Congress about why we need cybersecurity legislation due to "threats to air traffic safety."
I'm pretty sure the most egregious threat to air traffic safety is putting the TSA in charge of it.Short, sweet and to the point. For the final editor's choice, we've got jupiterkansas explaining how the RIAA and MPAA work:
The RIAA and MPAA cannot exist unless they push for more and more legislation. That is their purpose.Enough seriousness... let's move on to the funny. Coming in at the top of the pile was a mock (I hope) trolling from an Anonymous Coward that was pretty spot on for the type of trolling we get these days:
Elected officials can't get campaign funds from Hollywood unless they also push for more and more legislation. That is how they get re-elected.
The only way they keep going is to keep making more rules. It doesn't matter if they're good or bad or necessary, but that you just keep pushing for more. That's how the system works. Lots of people are getting paid a lot of money to just keep pushing.
Hollywood learned its lesson in the 1950's witch hunts - pay the government off and you can do whatever you want. This is the result.
At this point any new law is probably bad or unnecessary, but there is no payout for repealing laws, no payout for easing off the legislation. There is only money for more laws.
Once again Mike criticizes and offers no solution.Coming in second was Josef Anvil for his response to the government taking down JotForm:
So, tell us, Mike, who is better qualified to write legislation to benefit Hollywood?
Damned pirate sympathizerFor editor's choice, we'll start with another faux-troll, this time Prisoner 201, who responds to Peter Sunde's recent article about corruption in the Swedish judicial system by explaining why it's really all Peter's fault:
Piracy is a fuckin' problem and just to prove the point, wait til you see the drop in piracy now that we took down jotform.com.
It is really Peter Sundes fault all of it.Amusingly, that comment got a lot of "report" clicks as well, so apparently it was so good that many people thought it was real.
If he hadn't stolen those mp3's, then WB would not have been forced to corrupt Sweden.
You have to be blind to not see it (or a pirate apologist) - it's the pirates own fault that major media companies have to corrupt law enforcement and politicians worldwide. They have no other choice if they want to keep their business models alive.
It's typical Mike McThief Masnick double-talk to point the blame anywhere but on himself and his fellow apologists that spearhead the destruction of culture.
The Wild West is ending, chubbies. Soon y'all have to get real jobs.
And, my final editor's choice comment (and the one that did make me laugh out loud) was Rikuo, also responding to the Taylor Hackford story:
Every time Hollywood Accounting occurs, a math teacher dies.And that, ladies and gentleman, is why Hollywood Accounting is bad.


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And they don't like it.
Linebacker Ernie Sims called the new rules "crazy" and was among several defenders who said they don't intend to change their styles of play. He said he can't go out thinking about exactly how to hit a ball carrier.
"I can't play like that. The moment I play like that, an offensive player is going to take my head off," he said. "I believe every other football player in this league is going to do the same thing."
Sims said he believes the hit on Jackson was a clean one.
Tight end Brent Celek said he understands the league's intention, but as a pass catcher, often left vulnerable to a big hit as he reaches and watches a pass, "I knew what I was getting into," since second grade, when he began playing football.
Linebacker Omar Gaither was one of the few players who said he expects defenders to change their style, out of necessity.
"If you want to play this game, you have to adapt," he said, citing the possibility of suspensions and heavy fines. Gaither added that he doesn't have $75,000 to give away.
On the field, head coach Andy Reid said Kevin Kolb will start this week, with Michael Vick playing an unspecified back up role (it's not clear if he will be the second or third quarterback). DeSean Jackson will not play.
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The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued its "2011 Internet Crime Report," which serves up statistics on crimes reported to the center and gives details on how a lot of those scams are carried out.
ICS, a joint project of the National White Collar Crime Center, the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the FBI, fielded more than 300,000 complaints during the year, representing a 3.4 percent increase over 2010, though below the peak year of 2009. The report says "only" 36.9 percent (115,903) of those complaints involved financial loss, though they still totaled $485.3 million for the year.
The top five states for reported crimes, in order, were California, Florida, Texas, New York and Ohio, according to the report, which is not surprising considering their large populations. Per capita, the top five for online crimes were Alaska, the District of Columbia, New Jersey, Nevada and Colorado.
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IC3 originally was started to give victims an easy way to report online crimes, the report states, but has since developed into a powerful resource for both law enforcement and victims. One thing the center can do for the public is help people avoid online scams by educating them on the types of crimes being committed.
The report categorizes the five most common types of online crime as: FBI-related scams, identity theft, advance fee fraud, non-auction/non-delivery of merchandise and overpayment fraud. But it also goes offers details on how those scams are carried out.
A quick rundown on common scams to look out for:
FBI impersonation e-mail scams
These are scams in which a criminal poses as the FBI to defraud victims, although criminals also will pose as representatives of other government agencies, such as the IRS or law enforcement. IC3 received about 39 complaints a day about spam e-mails supposedly from the FBI demanding payment for one thing or another, the report states, with loses totaling more than $9,600 — or $245 per complaint — per day. As the report points out, government agencies don't send unsolicited e-mails.
Auto-auction fraud.
This is what it sounds like: Criminals advertise a vehicle at a great price, claim they must sell fast because they're moving or being deployed by the military, and try to rush the sale, asking for partial or full payment right away through a third party. Of course, there is no vehicle, and if the victim makes a payment, the money is gone for good.
IC3 received a complaint about this type of scam about every two hours during 2011. Each complaint resulted in an average loss of $2,000, about $8.2 million for the year.
Romance scams.
Swindlers have always preyed on loneliness, and the Internet has only made it easier for them. IC3 received more than 5,600 complaints of romance scams last year, with victim losses totaling $50.4 million, or an average loss of $8,900.
Romance scammers troll social networking sites, dating sites and chat rooms looking for victims and then pour on the charm, using flowers, poetry and other gifts to declare their "undying love," the report states. They'll tell stories of their own tragedies, family problems, personal injuries and other hardships, and then ask for financial help. And then, of course, they disappear. Although women between the ages of 40 and 59 were the largest group of victims, the report shows that people of either sex and any age are vulnerable.
Work-from-home scams.
This is a double-whammy scam, since it not only can steal money from the victims but also can make them into criminals. Cyber criminals often use these scams to move and launder their ill-gotten money. They advertise jobs through newspapers, online job sites, e-mails and social networking sites, and recruit victims as "mules" to move money through their own accounts. In the process the scammers could steal the victims' identities and money, to the tune of $20 million from complaints filed in 2011. And the other shoe that can drop: "Regrettably, due to their participation, these individuals may face criminal charges," the report states.
Loan intimidation scams.
This is a fairly complex scam, in which fraudsters use personal information on the victims — including Social Security numbers, employer information and bank account numbers — and pretend to be from the FBI or another federal agency, a law firm or an official-sounding institution. They tell the victims they are delinquent in a payday loan and threaten legal action if they don't pay up.
IV3 says it's not clear how the criminals obtain the victims' personal info, but many of the victims had filled out online applications for credit cards or loans before they were swindled. These scams netted more than $8 million last year, IC3 said, with complaints coming in at an average of 27 per day.
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I have been contacted by a man who has declared undying love for me. He does not want money but asked me to send him an iPad to a John Parker in Ghana. The man who has contacted me calls himself Jean Scott
As a long-time anti-scam activist and member of scamsurvivors.com, I would just like to add that the figures given to news agencies by IC3 are very understated. It's estimated that up to 70% of victims do not report this crime. The best 'guestimate' we have is that scam is a $4 billion a year industry.
As mentioned in this article, the best defense against scam is public education. Thank you GCN and others like you for giving this crime the attention it needs.
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Albert has been seeking a long-term contract, but the two sides have been far apart. So the Chiefs placed the franchise tag on Albert and he signed the tender for about $9.3 million this season, yet chose to stay away from the team.
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