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Obama kicks off historic night in St. Louis
First Fan, former presidents honor All-Stars Among Us
By Mark Newman / MLB.com
"Over the top. Unbelievable," said Tim Brosnan, Major League Baseball's executive vice president of business. "It was overwhelming. You saw history.
"No major sport has ever taken its biggest marketing platform and dedicated it to the 30 people in local communities. This is the first major sport to do it, and we did it with the cooperation of the president of the United States."
The 44th president threw out the ceremonial first pitch, something no one in office had done since Gerald Ford at the 1976 All-Star Game in Philadelphia, won by the NL at a time when it was dominating. It was important that he was part of this, because his call to public service by all Americans was the catalyst for the "Go Beyond" theme that pervaded this entire All-Star Week as well as the moving tribute to 30 winners of the All-Stars Among Us campaign.
It began with the thunderous hooves of the famous Budweiser Clydesdales roaring around the full perimeter warning track starting at the right-field foul pole. Then came the introduction of the All-Stars Among Us, the individuals who drew more than 750,000 votes by fans as those most deserving of representing their local MLB clubs due to a singular act of public service and generosity. A video shown on the giant scoreboard showed first Obama, and then the crowd was especially stirred as every other living president became involved, first George W. Bush, then Bill Clinton, then George H.W. Bush, then Jimmy Carter.
"As a sport," Obama said on the video, "baseball has always embodied the values that make America great. ... Together, let's strive to make America a model for other nations. And in the meantime, enjoy the game."
There were more than a few misty eyes in the house when those everyday heroes were celebrated by that collective Presidential video. Then the 30 winners were marched out toward home plate, then proceeding in two lines over home plate and onto the infield in front of the pitcher's mound. The 66 All-Stars and managers/coaches then left their baselines, where they had just been introduced, and thanked the All-Stars Among Us in a most unique baseball scene.
All the while, in the batting cage adjacent to the Cardinals/National League clubhouse inside the bowels of the stadium, Obama was throwing warmup pitches to Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols.
At that point, Cardinals owner Bill DeWitt was sitting in the front row adjacent to the NL dugout and asked Brosnan, who was on the field: "Are they warming up under there?" Brosnan told him that Pujols was warming him up and that Obama had just done an interview with Bob Costas for MLB Network, adding, "He wasn't briefed. He's a clever guy and knows baseball."
Then the Cardinals' living Hall of Famers were all brought out to home plate and introduced to their adoring public: Stan Musial, Ozzie Smith, Bruce Sutter, Lou Brock, Bob Gibson and Red Schoendienst. As is the case wherever this is done, it is a highly emotional moment, evoking memories for many of their youth.
"This is the national pastime," Obama would say in the second inning in the Fox broadcast booth. "To go down there and meet Stan Musial and Bob Gibson and those guys, it's such a reminder about what's great in this country. You can't beat that and it's a real treat."
It was a real treat to see Sheryl Crow -- who wowed the crowd under the Arch on Saturday night's All-Star Charity Concert presented by Pepsi -- perform the national anthem in her native state. It was a real treat to see the booming flyover, and it was especially a real treat to see that first presidential All-Star All-Star pitch in so many decades.
Obama wore jeans, a black White Sox jacket and a big smile as he popped out of the National League dugout, amid incredibly high security that had caused some gridlock within the ballpark in the previous two or three hours. The president drew a great ovation in this especially patriotic setting, then he met with the Cardinals legends and proceeded to walk to the mound.
The left-hander toed the rubber, and then let it fly toward Pujols at the plate.
That's when the NL superstar made what looked to be his best play of the night. He scooped the floating ball just before it would have hit the dirt in front of the plate. So at least technically the pitch made it all the way to the catcher.
"I picked it," Pujols said a few moments later.
Brosnan was asked about the pitch, and he said of advice that had been rendered: "I tried. I wish he'd threw it high and hard. But he made it.
"He went to the top of the mound. Stood on the rubber."
Obama also said he had practiced a little bit in the Rose Garden back in Washington.
"This is the second time," Obama said of throwing ceremonial first pitches for MLB games. "I threw it out during the [2005] American League Championship Series. The Sox ended up winning the World Series. And when you're a senator, they show you no respect, so they just hand you the ball. You don't get a chance to warm up. Now here, I was with Albert Pujols in the batting cage practicing before."
Just after Obama was whisked away back into the NL dugout tunnel, Marlins pitcher Josh Johnson, selected to his first All-Star team, stood on the top step of the NL dugout and said it was a thrill to be part of the entire pregame ceremony.
"It was amazing," Johnson said. "Not everybody gets to see that, especially the president meeting us in the clubhouse. I just told him, 'Mr. President, glad to meet you.' A lot of guys did that. Some of the guys already knew him. He's taller than I thought. Maybe he is a good basketball player."
Shane Victorino gave Obama a pair of baseball shoes with the No. 44 on them, representing the 44th president. Obama said during his second-inning chat in the FOX Sports broadcasting booth that Victorino also gave him some macadamia nuts, as they both have Hawaiian roots.
"It was tremendous on a variety of fronts," said St. Louis fan Scott Sachtleben, who was sitting along the aisle a few dozen rows behind the NL dugout. "The presentation was tremendous. It wasn't dull and there were not a lot of dead spots. It was pretty neat."
Asked for his favorite part, Sachtleben said: "That's tough. I particularly liked the four presidents. It was interesting tying baseball with things that are important in life."
Mark Newman is enterprise editor for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Ocala police, community and calendar briefs for May 14, 2013.
Man, 23, stabbed multiple times
A 23-year-old man who was stabbed multiple times Sunday night told officers he was jumped from behind and did not see who attacked him.
Jose Torrez called a friend to tell him he had been stabbed. The friend arrived at the scene and found Torrez bleeding heavily and called 911, but refused to give the dispatcher his name, according to Marion County Sheriff's Office reports.
When deputies arrived at 1765 SW 107th Lane, they found Torrez with stab wounds to his back, stomach, sides and armpit area. He was taken to Ocala Regional Medical Center, where he underwent surgery, reports state. No one in the area of the stabbing reported seeing anything. A cellphone, necklace, car key and 3-inch piece of metal were discovered near where Torrez was found. On Monday, ORMC did not have a condition available on Torrez.
Anyone with information about the case can call the Sheriff's Office at 732-9111 or Crime Stoppers at 368-STOP.
Tools worth $4,000 stolen from business
More than $4,000 worth of tools were reported stolen from a business over the weekend.
The items were found missing Sunday at Oswald Aluminum at 7821 W. State Road 40.
According to reports, someone got into the gate of the business and broke into two trucks on the property and took multiple saws and drills, as well as, miscellaneous tools. Investigators found some blood at the scene and took samples for possible DNA analysis. Anyone with information can call the Sheriff's Office at 732-9111 or Crime Stoppers at 368-STOP.
Cash stolen from Soapy's Car Wash
An undisclosed amount of cash was reported stolen from a safe at a car wash in Ocala.
Employees at Soapy's Car Wash at 1621 SW 19th Ave. arrived Sunday morning to find a glass door smashed. Inside, they noticed the previous day's cash receipts were missing from an unlocked safe, Ocala Police Department reports state.
One of the employees said she was sure she had armed the alarm system, but it was off. Several computers also were turned off, reports note.
Surveillance camera footage caught a grainy image of a man wearing what appeared to be a Soapy's hoodie and gloves in the office at just past 8:30 p.m. Saturday. The camera did not capture a better image because the lights in the office were not turned on, reports state.
Anyone with information can call the Ocala Police Department at 369-7000, Crime Line at 369-7001 or Crime Stoppers at 368-7867.
Two home fires cause significant damage
Two homes were badly damaged by fire in separate incidents in the northern part of Marion County on Monday.
The first report came in just before 4 p.m. at a home at 16710 N. County Road 329 near Reddick. When firefighters arrived, they found belching black smoke and fire coming from the roof of the single-story home. Eleven Marion County Fire Rescue units responded to that fire and had it under control by 5:14 p.m., said Jessica Greene, fire rescue spokeswoman. No one was inside the home at the time of the fire. The home received significant damage.
The second fire was reported just after 4:30 p.m. in the Salt Springs area. When firefighters arrived at 13251 NE 251st Terrace, they found a double-wide mobile home 75 percent consumed by fire, Greene said.
Ten units battled the blaze, but the mobile home suffered extensive damage. No one was in the home at the time.
Both fires were reported by neighbors. No one was injured during either fire and no other structures were ever in danger, Greene said.
The State Fire Marshal's Office is investigating the causes of the fires.
Fallen Officer Memorial Ceremony Thursday
The Ocala Police Department and Marion County Sheriff's Office will host a Fallen Officer Memorial Ceremony at 10 a.m. Thursday at the McPherson Governmental Complex, 601 SE 25th Ave., Ocala. The event is open to the public. For more information, call 438-2300.
Firearms safety course offered on June 1
Community Technical & Adult Education is offering a four-hour firearms safety course, which meets the requirements for the state of Florida Concealed Weapons application. The class will meet from 8 a.m. to noon on June 1. The minimum age is 21.
The cost is $61, which does not include a fee of $14 for a required background check that must be completed prior to registering for the course.
Students are required to provide their own operational firearm and at least 20 rounds of ammunition to complete the course.
The deadline to register is May 29 at CTAE, 1014 SW Seventh Road, Ocala. The course will be held at an off-site facility. For more information, call 671-4132.
Vendors can apply for work at county parks
Vendors offering food concessions, equipment rentals and more can apply to be a vendor with the Marion County Parks and Recreation Department.
Applications consistent with the department's business plan or master plan will be presented to the Parks and Recreation Advisory Council, which may then make a recommendation for approval by the Marion County Commission. A digital copy of each plan is available at www.marioncountyfl.org/Parks/Pr_Publications.aspx.
Interested vendors must submit a two-page application, available online at www.marioncountyfl.org/parks.htm (click "Concessionaire Application and Permit" link under "Forms" tab) or in person at 111 SE 25th Ave., Ocala.
For more information, contact Gina Peebles, Parks and Recreation director, at 671-8560 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
FWC proposal affects importation of deer
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission wants to hear from deer enthusiasts and those with deer farms or hunting preserves about a proposed rule change that would prohibit the importation of live captive deer into Florida from out of state.
The change is proposed in an effort to reduce the chances of chronic wasting disease being introduced into the state. The contagious neurological disease affects deer, elk and moose. It is always fatal, and there is no known cure or vaccine for the animals. The disease is not known to affect humans.
The rule-change proposal will go before the commission at its June 13 meeting in Lakeland. To learn more or comment, go to MyFWC.com/Deer and select "Captive Cervids."
If the proposal is passed at the meeting, it would go into effect soon after.
SCHOOL BOARD: Marion County School Board, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, 512 SE Third St., Ocala. (671-7700 or www.marion.k12.fl.us/)
GUITAR CONCERT: 7 p.m. Tuesday, West Port High School, 3733 SW 80th Ave, Ocala. $2. (291-4000)
STITCHING: Therapeutic Stitching Group, 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Stitch Niche, 20782 Walnut St., Dunnellon. (465-8000)
STRETCHING CLASS: 10 a.m. Tuesday, Forest Community Center, 777 S. County Road 314A, Ocklawaha. (438-2840)
MARION UNITED TOASTMASTERS: 4 p.m. Tuesday, United Way of Marion County, 1401 NE Second St., Ocala. (816-1264)
OCALA NOON TOASTMASTERS: Noon Tuesday, AAA Auto Club South, 3033 SW College Road, Ocala. (816-4842)
CHAIR YOGA: 12:30 Tuesday, Dunnellon Public Library, 20351 Robinson Road. (489-3761)
OCALA HARMONY: Women's barbershop chorus, 1 p.m. Tuesday, College Park Church, 3140 SW 26th St., Ocala. (875-4811)
WHITE ELEPHANT BINGO: 1 p.m. Tuesday, Forest Community Center, 777 S. County Road 314A, Ocklawaha. (438-2840)
T.O.P.S.: Taking Off Pounds Sensibly, 7 p.m. Tuesday, First United Methodist Church, 1126 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala. Weigh-in 5:45 p.m. (236-4157 or 732-6947)
NAR ANON: 12-step support group for those with a loved one suffering from addiction, 7 p.m. Tuesday, St. Marks United Methodist Church, 1839 NE Eighth Ave. Road, Ocala. Newcomers 6:30 p.m. (naranonfl.org)
BASKET WEAVING: 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, First United Methodist Church, 1126, E. Silver Spring Blvd., Ocala. (629-9657 or 817-2967)
MODEL RAILROADING: Ocala Model Railroad Historical Preservation Society, 7 p.m. Tuesday, 1247 NE Third St., Ocala. (401-0747)
HORSES AND HEROES: "At Ease: Horses and Heroes" allows veterans to relax and interact with rescue horses, 3 to 5 p.m. Tuesday and 10 a.m. to noon Thursday, 13031 SE 120th St., Ocklawaha. (239-3484 or Horseinmiracles.org)
MARTIAL ARTS: Free martial arts/self-defense class, 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, Forest Community Center, 777 S. County Road 314A, Ocklawaha. (438-2840)
AFTER SCHOOL TUTORING: 4:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, Lillian Bryant Community Center, 2200 NW 17 Place, Ocala. Free. (629-8389)
MET OPERA: Encore simulcast of Metropolitan Opera's "Giulio Cesare," 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Hollywood Stadium 16, 2801 SW 27th Ave., Ocala. $18. (861-2695)
STAMPS: General Francis Marion Stamp Club, 1 p.m. Wednesday, Bank of the Ozarks, 8375 SW State Road 200, Ocala. (www.ocalagfmstampclub.com)
WRITERS WORKSHOP: 11 a.m. Wednesday, Marion County Public Library, 2720 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala. (671-8551)
COMPUTERS: Have computer questions answered, 10 to 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, Forest Public Library, 905 S. County Road 314A, Ocklawaha. (438-2540)
FRIENDS: Friends of the Forest Public Library, 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Forest Public Library, 905 S. County Road 314A, Ocklawaha. (438-2540)
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Setting up an Android development environment can be a complex and frustrating experience. NVIDIA CodeWorks for Android simplifies this for all Android developers with a single installer that manages this complexity for you.
NVIDIA CodeWorks for Android 1R6 is a professional grade solution providing a comprehensive set of GPU and CPU tools with debugging, profiling and system trace capabilities and accompanying SDKs and libraries for Android development - not only on Tegra powered devices. Release 1R6 adds full tools, libraries, samples support for the latest Android M (Marshmallow) release.
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Don't forget — if you haven't done so already you've got til midnight tonight to submit your entry in the Nickelback Guitar Naming Contest. All you need's a great name for the new Limited Edition Les Paul Guitar — if Chad Kroeger and the boys feel it's the one that truly captures the band, you'll win yourself the axe itself PLUS VIP tix to a private show in Vegas. And all it takes is one great name in an email …so get your best entry in by midnight.
Now today, let's address the J.Lo sitch. Because I guess I have to come clean. Or at least look up the word "gullible" in the dictionary.
See last week I must have ingested some of that Fox Kool-aid. Contrary to reports, it seems the American Idol folks haven't made up their minds about anybody who may/may not be in the running for a judge's slot. And furthermore – they also haven't bailed on any celebrities for being a difficult handful of no thanks. In other words, all that talk about J.Lo being out of the race because of her demands? Apparently hogwash. With which I gargled, because I hook/lined it all and went on about how the Idol people needed to heed her demands lest they have a show that's even more doomed than it currently is. Whoops. So now I quote – and this is from Entertainment Weekly who tends to check their facts very carefully:
"A source close to the negotiations tells EW.com exclusively "no deals have fallen apart due to unreasonable demands."
And here's where it gets really fun. Their source goes on to say:
"…you'd better believe no one — male or female — has been unreasonable at the negotiating table….This may simply be a case of one diva's rep slinging mud to make another potential candidate look like a diva. There are a million agendas swirling out there".
Wow – I never even considered that angle! Oh the humanity! We are one devious species, aren't we? Moreover, one of the points I made in last week's blog was that you need someone high- profile and outrageous to keep the show in the headlines so folks will tune in out of curiosity and then – bingo – you get ratings. But you know what? They've outsmarted everyone because typically the negotiations are behind closed doors which means radio silence. That's the blackout part, when we just twiddle our thumbs. But not any more. The crafty folks behind the American Idol curtain (or their publicity types) have figured out a way to keep people guessing and therefore arguing – even now – when they're just negotiating. You know, like when they pick a new Pope – although I've never really understood how much of that transaction happens on earth as it were – they send out smoke signals to indicate that the deliberation is over? This ruse, if it is one, is sorta like that. If this story about J.Lo's demands is fake – and it was planted by a dueling diva – how genius! — because it put, and kept, the whole thing in the spotlight. Nice work, you guys.
So who's the other diva? Who wants to make J.Lo look super high-maintenance (or at least reinforce a well-known fact)? And how will this affect the already swirling rumors about Shania Twain and Paula Abdul? And who's to say the diva's a lady? When we hear that word of course that's what we think, but what if Steven Tyler is the one spinning everything? One thing is certain; this particular drama looks like it will get more embroiled before it gets resolved. I still think the show is headed for disaster and will post a poll this week to see if you all do too. But right now, let's go to something altogether different for today's poll. Todd Phillips – who directed The Hangover – is making a new movie all about the life of actor John Belushi. Voice your choice in today's featured poll and let us know who you think should play the part:
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What's something worse than being pink slipped? If you're a former Microsoft employee, it could be having some of your severance pay taken back.
According to TechCrunch, someone at Microsoft made an accounting error when calculating laid-off employees' severance pay, resulting in some checks being mailed out that were a little too generous. Now, Microsoft wants that money back.
"An inadvertent administrative error occurred that resulted in an overpayment in severance pay by Microsoft," reads a letter the company mailed out. "We ask that you repay the overpayment and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience to you."
TechCrunch reports a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed the letters but refused to give specific details, calling it an internal, private matter between the company and the employees it let go.
The spokesperson did confirm, however, that the error worked both ways: while some employees were overcompensated, others received less than what they were entitled to.
A photograph of one of these letters, provided anonymously, shows little more than a request for the money back and some important tax information, with some rather curious advice on how repayment "in a later calendar year" would affect the receiver's taxes.
CNET suggests the letter contained a "veiled threat" of monetary punishment, but given the aforementioned tax suggestion it is hard to see how the letter, in and of itself, sports teeth. There is no mentioned deadline.
On a rather humorous side note, a poll accompanying the TechCrunch article suggests that almost 75% of the 8,000 total voters would ignore the letter and keep the cash – and only 13% would immediately give the money back.
UPDATE 23-Feb-2009: Microsoft reversed its stance and is now letting the overpaid employees keep the extra money.


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who's ever had to prepare for a reinstall of their Windows OS -- be it to
prepare for an upgrade, or to try to solve technical
issues -- is familiar with the pain of slow copies, dealing with at
times confusing name collisions, and multiple cluttering Windows.
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is very aware of these issues (in recent years
it's increasingly collected remote telemetry data from volunteers to determine
what's going wrong and right in Windows). And in Windows 8, its plan is to offer a
dramatically improved file transfer experience.
In a post to the Microsoft Developer Network "Building Windows" blog and a corresponding video, Windows engineering team manager Alex Simons shows off the new
When executing multiple simultaneous copies, gone are the multiple windows of
yore. You now get a single comprehensive panel. Each transfer
element offers the option of cancelling or pausing the transfer. For
example, if you want to speed up a specific transfer, you can pause your other
transfers so the system resources will focus on the targeted transaction.
The GUI element also has an option to provide detailed information on each
transaction, including an eye-catching chart of the transfer speed. The
features in the new pane closely resemble those you find in modern browsers for
tracking downloads -- and it's a good thing.
Rounding out the improvements is a new option for handling conflicts. In
addition to the replace all and skip all categories found in Windows 7, there's
now an option "Choose the files to keep in the destination folder".
This allows for users to select the copy they most want. This
allows you to selectively replace only some files in the destination folder.
You can even double click to open files for further examination.
Microsoft says the new tools will be a valuable addition to Windows 8 as 20
percent of file transfers in previous versions of Windows take longer than 2
minutes to complete. Further, about 1 in 18 jobs fails, either due to a
network interruption or by user cancellation.
The company also acknowledges it's estimates of the remaining time to copy
haven't been the best in the past, making it the butt of some jokes in
that regard. Mr. Simons writes, "We're anticipating that many of you
are going to want to know what we've done to improve the accuracy of the
estimated time remaining for a copy to complete. (This has been the source of
some pretty funny jokes over the years)."
Microsoft says while approximate 1 out of 200 Windows users use a
dedicated copying client -- like TeraCopy, FastCopy, and Copy Handler --
whose abilities may surpass the new additions, for most this will be the
first relief from the previous hassle-prone copying.
The team is also working to reduce dialogues labeled by users as
"redundant" or "annoying", such as the confirmation of
dropping stuff in the recycling bin, or the confirmation of merging folders.
Windows 8 is set to release in late 2012 and has been called
"revolutionary" by some Microsoft team members and the company's
"riskiest" product by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The
OS will be Microsoft's first operating system to support ARM processors, the first OS to incorporate the stylish
metro look, and the first Microsoft OS streamlined for a better
tablet experience.
If for some reason you feel some of these new features sound horrible,
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next year, following in the footsteps of the tremendously successful Windows 7 beta.


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text: Apparently, the MLSE have begun the process of submitting an official bid to host the 2016 all-star game to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the franchise. They can't do 2014 since it's in New Orleans and they can't do 2015 since it's probably gonna be in Brooklyn or New York. I would love it if it was here! Toronto has an amazing crowd and NBA fans that would be so utterly hyped for such an amazing event! Hell, I might have to save up some money and buy some tickets if it does happen


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In mid-August, before each cheese is tied in a burlap sack and placed in fossas dug in the porous ground (tufo), they are disinfected with fire and lined with hay. The fossas are flask shaped, about three meters deep and two meters wide. Each sack is marked with the owners' name, stacked in layers on planks of wood, and separated by sand. They are packed close together so no air can get in. The fossa is then hermetically sealed. Over the months they undergo a total re-fermentation, losing practically all the whey. On November 16th this revered cheese is "harvested" during the holiday of Santa Caterina. While some people jealously cling to their cheese, others pull it from the ground, clean it, wrap it in it's characteristic brown paper, and secure it with a string to be sold during the festivities.
Fossa has an intense and somewhat piquant flavor that makes it excellent as a table cheese with fresh fruit and honey, or grated over pasta or risotto.


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. Maria J. Clayton, 48, of Cortez. No Insurance-Owner. $120.50, *deferred sentence of 12 months probation. Defendant must maintain insurance for the next 12 months and provide proof to the court.
. Cecil Dale III, 37, of Cortez. Following Too Closely. $139.50.
. Audrey A. Tso, 31, of Flagstaff, Ariz. No Insurance-Owner. $509.50 (with additional $250 suspended imposition).
. David A. Davis, 50, of Dolores. Driving After Revocation Prohibited. (Thirty days in jail with suspended imposition), $1,216.50 (additional $3,000 with suspended imposition), community service 300 hours. Defendant may not drive without a valid driver's license. The $3,000 fine amount and jail time is suspended as long as no other charges for driving are received and UPS is completed as required.
. Geraldine Benally, 43, of Towaoc. No Insurance-Owner. $944.50 (with an additional $500 suspended imposition).
. Ezequiel A. Avila, 23, of Cortez. Careless Driving Resulting in No Injury. *Deferred sentence of 12 months probation, $95.50. Restitution is open for 90 days. Defendant must maintain insurance for the next 12 months and provide proof to the court.
. Juan A. Suarez, 51, of Hialeah, Fla. Careless Driving Resulting in Injury. $416.50. Restitution is open for 90 days.
. David Jack Anderson, 25, of Cortez. Possession of a Controlled Substance. Eighteen months probation, $2,173.50. Defendant may not drive without a valid driver's license.
. Timothy E. Farrar, 38, of Cortez. Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. $131.
. Philphina E. Nez, 26, of Kayenta, Ariz. Criminal Mischief-Under $500. *Deferred sentence of 6 months probation, $184.50. Restitution is open for 90 days.
. Benjamin A. Martinez, 33, of Casper, Wyo. Disorderly Conduct-Fighting in Public. $234.50, community service 80 hours. Defendant must obtain a drug and alcohol evaluation; proof of evaluation must be presented to the court within 30 days.


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IMO Bargnani is not going to do well in this fast paced offense we're trying to implement. On top of that his defense is back to its horrible ways, not rotating, being a lazy POS!
J Smoove is just the man we need. Electric 4 man who can play some 3 in bigger lineups. Runs the floor like a boss, Defends, blocks the shit out of guys, nice offensive game with a decent mid range shot. Oh and he posterized the shit out of ibaka:
In this trade we get rid of primo pasta and LK for J Smoove. We could also throw in a 2nd round pick to sweeten things up a bit.
Kyle Lowry
DeMar DeRozan
J Smoove
J Val
now thats a really nice lineup right there!


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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Missing Data in the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), 1977-2000 [United States] (ICPSR 32061)
Principal Investigator(s): Targonski, Joseph, University of Illinois-Chicago
This study reexamined and recoded missing data in the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) for the years 1977 to 2000 for all police agencies in the United States. The principal investigator conducted a data cleaning of 20,067 Originating Agency Identifiers (ORIs) contained within the Offenses-Known UCR data from 1977 to 2000. Data cleaning involved performing agency name checks and creating new numerical codes for different types of missing data including missing data codes that identify whether a record was aggregated to a particular month, whether no data were reported (true missing), if more than one index crime was missing, if a particular index crime (motor vehicle theft, larceny, burglary, assault, robbery, rape, murder) was missing, researcher assigned missing value codes according to the "rule of 20", outlier values, whether an ORI was covered by another agency, and whether an agency did not exist during a particular time period.
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Targonski, Joseph. Missing Data in the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), 1977-2000 [United States]. ICPSR32061-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-11-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR32061.v1
Persistent URL: https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR32061.v1
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This study was funded by:
- United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (2004-IJ-CX-0006)
Scope of Study
Subject Terms: assault, auto theft, burglary, crime rates, crime reporting, crime statistics, larceny, law enforcement, murder, offenses, police, police departments, police records, police reports, rape, records management, robbery, Uniform Crime Reports
Smallest Geographic Unit: county
Geographic Coverage: United States
- 1977--2000
- 1977--2000
Universe: All police agencies in the United States between 1977 and 2000.
The principal investigator submitted data for this project in Microsoft Excel format. ICPSR is distributing the Microsoft Excel data so that secondary users can view the color codes developed by the principal investigator for the various forms of missing data. Additionally, ICPSR converted the original Microsoft Excel data into a full suite of formats for preservation and dissemination, including SAS, SPSS, and Stata formats.
More detailed information about imputation methodologies in the Offenses-Known Uniform Crime Reports, data cleaning, and the creation and testing of simulation datasets is available in the project's report (Targonski, 2011; NCJ 235152).
Study Purpose: The purpose of this study was to reexamine and recode missing data in the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) for the years 1977 to 2000 for all police agencies in the United States.
The principal investigator performed a data cleaning of 20,067 Originating Agency Identifiers (ORIs) based on the Offenses-Known Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program Data from 1977 to 2000. The UCR Offenses-Known data collection assembles monthly crime tabulations on what is known as the "Return A" form, which is submitted monthly by police agencies. This includes the crime index, which encompasses murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft.
The agency-level files from 1977-2000 were merged by the principal investigator using the ORI as the key variable to create a single longitudinal dataset. The longitudinal dataset was further prepared and cleaned by the principal investigator to create the final version that is being distributed as part of this data collection. Data cleaning entailed performing agency name checks, identifying "true missing" values, creating monthly aggregation missing value codes, identifying agencies that are "covered by" another agency, flagging non-existent agencies, creating researcher assigned missing values according to the "rule of 20", and accounting for negative values as well as outlier values. Specifically, the principal investigator performed the following data cleaning tasks:
- Agency name checks were performed to ensure the ORI code for each year refers to one and only one agency and to determine the years in which the ORI existed.
- Any month with a missing value for the Return A variable DATE LAST UPDATE was recoded as a "true missing" value (-99).
- To accurately account for the number of months reported, months that were flagged as missing by the DATE LAST UPDATE were recoded using distinct monthly aggregation missing value codes (-112 through -102).
- Some smaller agencies choose to report their UCR data through a larger neighboring agency, rather than report directly themselves to the FBI or state-reporting agency. This is a "covered by" situation, whereby the larger agency acts as the "covering" agency. For the analysis of missing data when an agency's data was "covered by" another agency, a missing value code (-85) was assigned to months in which the agency was covered by another agency.
- For the years that an ORI was not in existence between 1977 and 2000, another missing value code (-80) was also assigned to the months in which that particular agency did not exist.
- A missing value code (-90) was assigned according to a "rule of 20". The "rule of 20" established that an ORI with an average of 20 or more index crimes per month could not have zero index crimes in a month, if the DATE LAST UPDATE flagged the Return A as being submitted.
- For the purpose of screening outliers in the negative values, -4 was determined as the cutoff for legitimate values. Any values less than -4 were recoded as missing values (-99), since they were most likely data entry errors.
- To identify additional outlier values, as part of the data screening process, each agency's trend was examined graphically. In the process, outliers were detected for the crime index. The outlier values were also recoded as -90.
- For the crimes of motor vehicle theft, larceny, burglary, assault, robbery, rape, and murder, missing data codes (-97 through -91) were assigned if a particular index crime was missing. Additionally, if more than one index crime was missing, it was assigned a separate missing data code (-98).
Sample: The sample consists of 20,067 police agencies in the United States, as identified by all Originating Agency Identifiers (ORIs) in the Offenses-Known Uniform Crime Reporting data from 1977 to 2000.
Mode of Data Collection: record abstracts
Description of Variables: This study contains a total of 410 variables including an Originating Agency Identifier (ORI) name and code, population totals by year, covering agency by year, statistical metropolitan area by year, county code by year, FBI group by year, and FBI crime index totals by month and year.
Response Rates: Not applicable.
Presence of Common Scales: None.
Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Created variable labels and/or value labels.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
Original ICPSR Release: 2012-11-26
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The latest scuffle over online privacy is brewing up in Georgia. An aggressive new law is set to take effect today which will force sex offenders to hand over their internet passwords, screen names, and e-mail addresses to the government for monitoring purposes. Several other states also have efforts that track sex offender's email and screen names. However, Georgia, which has 16,000 registered offenders, will be the first state to demand the sex offenders' passwords as well.
A similar law in Utah was already struck down by a federal judge, who ruled that it violated the privacy rights of an offender who challenged it. However, that ruling was rather narrow as it applied to an offender tried on a military conviction who had never been in Utah's court or prison system.
Critics of the Georgian law say that it not only violates the privacy rights of offenders, but it also places undue stress on the already tight-for-cash Georgian law enforcement. Sara Totonchi of the Atlanta-based Southern Center for Human Rights states, "There's certainly a privacy concern. This essentially will give law enforcement the ability to read e-mails between family members, between employers."
State Sen. Cecil Staton (R.) who wrote the bill argues that it is necessary to strip the rights of some citizens to protect the rights to life and liberty of others, particularly children. He states that the benefits of the bill, which will allow law enforcement to detect stalking by predators sooner "outweighs a lot of the rights of these individuals."
He states, "We limit where they can live, we make their information available on the Internet. To some degree, we do invade their privacy. But the feeling is, they have forfeited, to some degree, some privacy rights."
Most states do compromise sex offenders' privacy to some extent by making their addresses available online in registries. However, Georgia and Utah are the only states to propose legislation to take offenders passwords, according to civil rights researchers. Others argue the bill isn't tough enough. While the bill threatens violators with a possible return to prison, some believe this won't deter many.
Says State Sen. Staton, "My hunch is, where there's a will, there's a way. If people are intent on violating this law, there are many different ways. What's important is we have given law enforcement a tool."
One critical issue at stake with the Georgian law is lack of specificity. While the law is clearly meant to target offenders seeking to exploit children, it does not differentiate by crime. Thus those found guilty of underage consensual sex, public indecency, or other sex crimes will likely be forced to turn over their passwords as well, bringing into question whether the law is targeting who it intends to.


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- Due to the need to inspect baggage for explosives, you are not permitted to lock your hold baggage unless with a TSA approved lock. You can buy these locks at many suitcase stores.
When booking your flight
The 'Secure Flight policy' of the United States government requires airlines to register some personal data at the moment of booking your flight. This 'Secure Flight data' includes your gender, date of birth and your first and family name exactly as stated in your passport.
We are required to pass this information of all our passengers to the United States' Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at least 72 hours before departure. If you book your flight within 72 hours before departure, we will send the 'Secure Flight' information at the time of booking.
To prevent additional costs and to make sure that you are allowed to board your flight, we ask you to provide this 'Secure Flight' information to us in time. If you book your flight via a travel agent, be sure to provide this information to your travel agent in time. We also need to have your 'Secure Flight' data if you want to check in online, or at a self-service kiosk at the airport.
You might need to request electronic travel authorisation (ESTA), and you will have to supply Advance Passenger Information (API). Please find out more below.
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Residents of countries Under the Visa Waiver Programme may travel to the United States without having to request a visa. However, they will need to apply for a supplementary travel authorisation (ESTA). Without ESTA travel authorisation, these travellers will not be allowed to board their flight to the United States.
Passengers from all countries need to have ESTA travel authorization to be able to check in online or at a kiosk at the airport for their flight to the United States.
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Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS): The Criminal Justice Co-Occurring Disorder Screening Instrument (CJ-CODSI), 2002-2008 [United States] (ICPSR 27963)
Principal Investigator(s): Sacks, Stanley, NDRI Rocky Mountain Research Center; Melnick, Gerald, NDRI Rocky Mountain Research Center
Currently, there exists an inadequacy in mental and substance use disorder screening instruments. This inadequacy stems from two reasons. First, the instruments are untested for widespread use with criminal justice populations. Second, most test for only one disorder at a time. The Criminal Justice Co-Occurring Disorder Screening Instrument (CODSI) study addresses this issue, investigating new methods by which to quickly, accurately, and easily evaluate individuals in the criminal justice population for COD (Co-Occurring Disorders). After determining that the Texas Christian University Drug Screen (TCUDS) would be the appropriate substance abuse screening component for a COD screen, researchers tested three possible mental disorder screening components: the Global Appraisal of Individual Needs (GSS, version 1.0); the Mental Health Screening Form (MHSF); and the Modified MINI Screen (MMS). The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID), generally accepted as an accurate measure of mental disorder, was used as a reference by which to evaluate the three different screeners. Researchers also used items from the three different screeners to create two additional instruments: the CODSI-MD for any mental disorder and the CODSI-SMD for severe mental disorder. Actual testing was conducted at four different sites, taking a total of 280 new admissions to prison-based substance abuse treatment programs. Instruments were evaluated based on their sensitivity (ability to correctly identify those with COD), specificity (ability to correctly identify those without COD), and overall accuracy (percentage of correct identification across all people). Researchers also conducted a study using a sample comprised of a greater proportion of Latinos and African Americans, in order to evaluate the effect of race on the results of the instruments.
Series: Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS) Series
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Sacks, Stanley, and Gerald Melnick. Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS): The Criminal Justice Co-Occurring Disorder Screening Instrument (CJ-CODSI), 2002-2008 [United States]. ICPSR27963-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-07-19. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR27963.v1
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Scope of Study
Subject Terms: correctional facilities, drug abuse, inmate populations, mental disorders, substance abuse treatment, treatment programs
Geographic Coverage: California, Colorado, Rhode Island, Texas, United States
- 2002--2008
Unit of Observation: individual
Universe: Substance-abusing populations incarcerated in the criminal justice system.
Collaborating research centers on this study were:
- Texas Christian University (TCU). Southwest Research Center
- University of California-Los Angeles. Pacific Coast Research Center
- Rhode Island Research Center
- Lifespan/Rhode Island Hospital
Study Purpose: The purpose of the CODSI study was to investigate methods of evaluating the co-occurrence of substance abuse and mental disorders (COD) in criminal justice populations. The researchers hoped to remedy the fact that existing screening instruments usually test only one disorder or the other. Criteria for new methods included adherence to accepted psychometric standards, ability to correctly detect COD, and ability to correctly detect the absence of COD. The ultimate goal of the findings is to improve the design of appropriate treatment for individuals with COD in the criminal justice system. In addition to the core CODSI study, researchers also conducted a similar study with a sample comprised of a higher proportion of African Americans and Latinos in order to provide for analysis of ethnic subgroups.
Study Design: After appropriate mental and substance abuse screening instruments were selected through literature search and stakeholder (researchers, criminal justice system representatives, treatment providers) input, researchers collected data by interviewing subjects with a variety of surveys. All individuals were subjected to a battery consisting of three different mental disorder screening instruments (GSS, MHSF, and MMS). Stakeholders had already determined that the Texas Christian University Drug Screen (TCUDS) would be the appropriate substance abuse screening component for a COD screen. Researchers also collected background and demographic information from subjects with the CJ-DATS Intake Interview. Using the widely-accepted SCID as a basis for comparison, researchers conducted statistical analyses of each test's sensitivity, specificity, and overall accuracy. This study design was repeated with the sample comprised of a higher proportion of African Americans and Latinos.
Sample: For the core CODSI study, 280 new admissions to prison-based substance abuse treatment programs were subjected to testing. Admissions were selected from four different locations: NDRI Rocky Mountain in Colorado, Lifespan at Brown University in Rhode Island, the Institute for Behavioral Research at Texas Christian University in Texas, and the Integrated Substance Abuse Programs at UCLA in California. For the supplemental study of African Americans and Latinos, 353 new admissions were used, most being present in the core study as well. This sample was comprised of 137 Whites, 96 African Americans, and 120 Latinos.
Mode of Data Collection: face-to-face interview
Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Created variable labels and/or value labels.
- Standardized missing values.
- Created online analysis version with question text.
- Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
Original ICPSR Release: 2011-07-19
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Rainout Information
Rain Delays and Updates
The right to postpone the playing of a game is controlled by the home club with the exception of the final series (that begins on or after June 1) between two clubs, at which time the responsibility shifts to the Umpire-in-Chief. Once a game has started, the Umpire-in-Chief determines if a game should be suspended, when it can be resumed or if it should be terminated because of bad weather or unfit playing conditions. The Official Playing Rules provide that when a game has been temporarily suspended, umpires must wait at least 30 minutes before calling the game. On days when inclement weather is in the forecast, tune to 700 WLW or check back with reds.com for updates on the game status.
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Amir Johnson's energy despite being sick.
Rudy Gay and his star qualities being proven tonight.
Demar Derozan being the biggest beneficiary of Gay on the floor. Plus his defense is amazing on Crawford. 2 strips and a block on him.
Kyle Lowry and his play-making ability.
Valanciunas jumpy.
Fields hits a 3.
Ross still getting the minutes, and defense looking good.


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Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 10:26 AM
Nicki Minaj Nominated for "Best Female Hip-Hop...
The 2012 BET Awards nominees have been announced and the categories feature a wealth of hip-hop and R&B artists that have commanded radio play, graced stages around the world and been featured extensively at events over the last year. Nicki Minaj, who is confirmed to perform at the ceremony, landed a spot in the Best Female Hip-Hop Artist category. Tune into BET Sunday July 1st @ 8pm Est. to see if Nicki wins.


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CleanMail is a complete SMTP/POP3 email security solution that fights against spam and viruses. It works with any mail server like Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007/2010, Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) 2003/2008, Lotus Notes/Domino, or IMail. CleanMail includes a comprehensive set of filters, including an attachment blocker, remote blacklist filter (DNSBL), and a complete build of SpamAssassin.
Clement is an email server application. Its main function is to block unwanted mail (spam) as soon as possible in the email exchange process. It accepts or rejects email while the SMTP session, initiated by the email sender, is still pending, accepting legitimate email messages without the need to return an error status to non-existent or "borrowed" return address later. Clement can operate in two modes, either as a standard MTA (as sendmail, Postfix, Exim, Exchange, etc.) to store email in the recipient's own area, or to transmit the mail to an another SMTP server acting as smart spam filtering device. Each email domain name Clement knows about can be treated in one of these two modes depending on the group to which the domain name has been set. Each message is verified by a virus scanner (ClamAV) while the SMTP connection is still open, but the refusal of mail and the reason for refusal is notified to the actual sender. Mail management is done via a Web interface and can be delegated to three administrative levels (Root-Admin, Group-Admin, Domain-Admin). Standard users can access their own logs (sent email status, email rejected, quarantined email, etc.). With this interface, the user can handle the rejection and acceptance of mail. Users who are level "Admin" can access the session logs (via the Web interface). Clement uses a SQL database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) to store and manage logs, user profiles, and dynamic management of directives concerning the sender-receiver relationship.
DavMail is a POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP exchange gateway allowing users to use any email/calendar client (e.g. Thunderbird with Lightning or Apple iCal) with an Exchange server, even from the Internet or behind a firewall through Outlook Web Access. DavMail now includes an LDAP gateway to Exchange global address book and user personal contacts to allow recipient address completion in the mail compose window, and full calendar support with attendees free/busy display.
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RCBS Case Forming Dies are used to create brass cases for very hard to find or expensive cartridges out of readily available brass. They are designed to change the case in small steps to eliminate excessive stress on the brass. After forming and trimming, the cases must be full length sized for final forming.
- Case forming dies are for the reloader interested in forming cases from one caliber to another. This is done either because the case needed is prohibitively expensive or it is otherwise unavailable.
- The specific steps necessary to form cases will vary greatly depending on what changes must be made to the parent case and may include initial forming, separate base forming, annealing the brass, making the neck larger or smaller, cutting the cartridge rim and fireforming the case in the firearm's chamber to obtain the finished caliber.
- Case forming dies are designed to reduce the case by steps to eliminate case stress or collapse and to prolong case life. There will be one or more form dies for each caliber. After forming and trimming, cases must then be full length sized, using the full length sizer in the reloading die set for the finished caliber. RCBS does not recommend using full length sizer dies for the actual case forming process.
- Case forming dies (threaded standard 7/8 x 14 unless otherwise noted) will withstand the normal case forming pressures encountered but are not intended to swage the base of the case. When that is required, a special Base Form die is needed. Base Form dies are unthreaded and require the use of a 3-ton arbor press.
- Some cases will need to be shortened after initial forming. A Trim Die is designed so that a mill type file can be used to trim the case to the correct overall length without damaging the surface of the die.
- Frequently, changes to a case will result in brass that is too thick at the case's neck. A Neck Reamer, if needed, may be chucked in a tap wrench or in a hand drill. A drill press is not recommended.
- A search of MidwayUSA's product offering using "RCBS" followed by the name of the specific finished caliber needed will give a listing of all the RCBS dies available and may help to show what will be needed in that specific case- forming process.
- Caliber-specific information and general instructions on case forming can be found in "The Handloader's Manual of Cartridge Conversions" by John J. Donnelly, product number 815626, and in "Designing and Forming Custom Cartridges" by Ken Howell, product number 942114.
- RCBS is also available at 800-533-5000 between 6:30 AM and 3:00 PM Pacific time Monday through Friday for questions about what will be needed to form cases.


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The death knells of the Earth's dwindling fossil fuel supply
have helped to prompt a growing push for alternative fuels. Whether it be
ethanol powering the next
generation of hybrid vehicles or microbial
hydrogen driving advanced
fuel cells, America's top technology corporations are making massive
investments in alternative energy. Basically, alternative energy
advocates remain split about what is the best solution -- solar
power, wind
power, biofuels,
hydrogen, and nuclear power are seen as the best bets.
Not holding out much hope for
an exotic solution, many have turned in the last few years to seriously
considering nuclear as a potential replacement to fossil fuel demand. The
result has been resurgence in nuclear efforts. In the U.S. an application
has been filed by NRG Energy for the first
new nuclear plant in 30 years. In Canada, a nuclear research reactor
taken temporarily offline was quickly
brought online after swift legislative action.
However, despite the growing enthusiasm there has already been one major
hiccup. The record drought that has been plaguing the U.S. Southeast is
threatening to cripple
the nuclear industry in this region, as many of the plants require large
amounts of water.
Now, a new research study, conducted by Physicist Joshua Pearce of Clarion
University of Pennsylvania puts another dent in nuclear efforts.
Professor Pearce's research, published in Inderscience's International Journal
of Nuclear Governance, Economy and Ecology, indicates that while nuclear
research and small-scale growth remain promising, large scale growth remains
Professor Pearce is actually an advocate for nuclear power. He warns that
his research should not be misinterpreted. Professor Pearce suggests that
the nuclear power industry focuses its efforts on improving
efficiency. He gives two easy ways to accomplish this. The
first is to utilize only the highest grade ores, saving on refining energy
costs. Secondly, he suggests the industry adopt gas centrifuge technology
for ore enrichment, which is considerably more efficient than the currently
used gaseous diffusion methods.
Professor Pearce feels that plants must also adopt technology for capturing and
distributing their waste heat. He points out that nuclear plants dump
large amounts of heat into their surroundings, a practice which both wastes energy
and can cause significant harm to the environment. Professor Pearce believes
that current nuclear
weapon stockpiles worldwide should be dismantled and their nuclear fuel
"down-blended". He points out that this could produce a bounty
of nuclear fuel.
The not-so-good news which Professor Pearce points out is that nuclear is
simply not a viable candidate for large-scale growth. In order for
nuclear power to maintain growing future power demands and the shrinking fossil
fuel power supplies, between 2010 and 2050 a growth rate of over 10 percent a
year would be necessary according to Professor Pearce. This, he says, is
simply not possible.
Professor Pearce points out that such a growth program would simply cannibalize
older plant's power output to provide the power needed to maintain the
processes involved with building the new plants and refining ore for them,
leaving no power for human needs. Large-scale growth would require
massive power investment in terms of plant construction, plant operation,
mining infrastructure expansion, and energy investments to refine ore.
Professor Pearce says the books simply don't balance -- these power needs could
not be met by the energy produced from the refined ore.
He points to a significant problem with large scale growth. Large-scale
growth, barring the discovery of new reserves would necessitate the use of
lower grade uranium. This sets an additional limit on growth. As
Professor Pearce points out, "The limit of uranium ore grade to offset
greenhouse gas emissions is significantly higher than the purely thermodynamic
limit set by the energy payback time."
Professor Pearce also points out to environmentalists and global warming
skeptics alike that nuclear power is hardly an "emission-free
panacea", as he puts it. All aspects of plant operation, including
plant construction, mining/milling of uranium ores, fuel conversion, enrichment,
fabrication, operation, decommissioning, and long-term and short-term waste
disposal, require massive amounts of energy provided by fossil fuels. The
burning of these fossil fuels will create large
amounts of greenhouse emissions, a criticism oft-leveled against the solar
and wind power industries by nuclear advocates.
While emissions are certainly troublesome, the simple energy requirements
infeasibility, if accurate, would almost certainly nix the large scale
expansion of nuclear power in its current form. If Professor Pearce's
research withstands the test of review then it offers little choice but to
pursue his suggested strategies -- develop more
advanced nuclear power on a smaller scale and pursue other alternative
energy solutions as a major source of capacity.


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Tesla Motors is probably most notable
all-electric Roadster. The $100,000+ sports car, which is based
on the Lotus Elise chassis, has a driving range of 244 miles – one
Tesla Roadster, however, was able to travel
313 miles on a single charge -- and can zip to 60 mph in less
than four seconds. However, Tesla is looking to take its electric
car-building prowess to a somewhat more mainstream audience with its
four-door Model S electric sedan.
This is where the federal government
steps in to work its magic. According
to the Detroit News, Tesla Motors today closed on a
deal to secure $465 million in low-cost loans from the Energy
Department. The funds will be used to build manufacturing plants in
California for the Model S and its powertrain.
The company was originally approved
for the loan back in June of 2009. The $465 million will come
from the Advanced
Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program which is providing a
total of $25 billion to automakers that develop new fuel efficient
vehicles. Other notable names to get in on the loans include Nissan
($1.6 billion) and Ford ($5.9 billion).
"This is an investment in our
clean energy future that will create jobs and reduce our dependence
on foreign oil," said Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
"It will help build a customer
base and begin laying the foundation for American leadership in the
growing electric vehicles industry. This is part of a sustained
effort to develop and commercialize technologies that will be broadly
deployed throughout the American auto industry."
As previously reported by DailyTech,
the Model S will have a driving
range of up to 300 miles and can dash to 60 mph in 5.5 seconds.
The fetching sedan weighs in at a portly 4,000 pounds (1,200 pounds of
which comes from its lithium-ion battery pack). If all goes according
to plan, the base Model S will cost around $50,000 after a
government-backed $7,500 tax credit is taken into consideration. For
comparison, the Chevrolet Volt is expected to cost
in the "low 30s" after the $7,500 tax credit is applied. At
that price point, GM still contends that it can make a profit.
The Model S is scheduled to go into
production in 2012 and yearly output is pegged at 20,000 units per


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The majority of reporting on the topic acknowledges ACTA to be a minor note
in the overall G8 agenda, and the official G8 summit web site seems to include
intellectual property rights as a minor note in its discussions on the World
Economy. Other higher-profile topics set for discussion include global warming,
the progress of African development, and nuclear nonproliferation talks
targeted for North Korea and Iran.
ACTA, first
unveiled after being leaked to the public via Wikileaks, has sometimes been
lauded by its supporters as "The Pirate Bay-killer," due to its measures to
criminalize the facilitation of copyright infringement on the internet – text
arguably written specifically to beat pirate BitTorrent trackers. The accord
will place add internet copyright enforcement to international law and force
national ISPs to respond to international information requests, and subjects iPods
and other electronic devices to ex parte searches at international
The G8 summit runs from Monday, July 7 to Wednesday, July 9. Thus far little
news has emerged on ACTA's progress in the summit, although most expect the
treaty's details to be ironed out before the summit's end.


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Each week our friends at Radio.com Top 10 bring us a hot new list from the web. This week they found the 10 Greatest Pop Songs That Glee Should Cover.
Last week, we told you what songs we thought Glee ruined by covering. This week, we are going with a much more positive spin and telling you what songs we would love for Glee to perform. To add some spice, we thought up hypothetical plot situations that we would write into the script to go with each our Top Ten Songs We Wish Glee Would Cover.
10. [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Estelle[/lastfm]-"American Boy"
Our Imaginary Glee Scene:
The Warblers go to New York for a field trip to Broadway and to compete with other all boy's schools. Kurt meets a handsome British foreign exchange student and sparks fly. Kurt finally gets a boyfriend, albeit a long distance one.Vodpod videos no longer available.
PAGE 2 They should get Bulletproof!
9. [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]La Roux[/lastfm]-"Bulletproof"
Our Imaginary Glee Scene:
Word has it that Jesse St. James i.e. Rachel's brief boyfriend is coming back to Glee. Jesse tries to woo Rachel back into a relationship and tells him no, learning from her past mistakes with both him and Finn. Plus, it would be a nice break from all of Rachel's overwrought Broadway songs.
PAGE 3 The ladies of Glee need to find their She Wolf!
8. [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Shakira[/lastfm]-"She Wolf"
Our Imaginary Glee Scene:
After Santana confessed to Brittany that she was in love with her, we'd like to see Santana go through an almost wolf like transformation exploring her sexuality. Maybe she will decide to dress up and hit the town looking for a love who won't disregard her, dancing provocatively like Shakira in the "She Wolf" video.
PAGE 4 Tonight, Glee will be lovin' you!
7. [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Enrique Iglesias[/lastfm]-"Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)"
Our Imaginary Glee Scene:
Mr. Schue and Holly Holiday are gonna hook up and it's not going to be creepy like we think it would be with Emma. The two go out on their first date to a night club and Will Schuester sings "Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)" to her before he takes her home to meet his bedroom.
PAGE 5 Glee should fly, like a G-6!
6.[lastfm link_type="artist_info"] Far East Movement[/lastfm]-"Like A G-6"
Our Imaginary Glee Scene:
Puck hasn't done anything bad in a long time, so we think he needs to be naughty. Lauren and him are always talking about their relationship, but we haven't seen anything on the show that even indicates they are together. We'd like to see them song together while they are out on a date and maybe even kiss.
PAGE 6 Glee's fame doesn't come with a Price Tag!
5. [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Jessie J[/lastfm]-"Price Tag"
Our Imaginary Glee Scene:
Quinn has come to a poignant point of self-discovery in her life. Maybe New Directions needs money and Quinn is there to remind them that their love for music is "not about the money."
PAGE 7 The cast of Glee doesn't need Kanye's Workout Plan, but we'd like to see it!
4. [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Kanye West[/lastfm]-The New Work-Out Plan
Our Imaginary Glee Scene:
We'd love to see the Cheerios do this song at the behest of a brutal brand new work-out plan from Sue Sylvester.
PAGE 8 We want the cast of Glee to Say My Name!
3. [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Destiny's Child[/lastfm]-"Say My Name"
Our Imaginary Glee Scene:
After Mr. Schue has hooked up with Holly Holiday, he also tries to date newly-single Emma and ends up being shady and evasive, therefore prompting Emma to sing "Say My Name" when he won't call her baby.
PAGE 9 It's not always about Pretty Girl Rock, but it should be!
2.[lastfm link_type="artist_info"] Keri Hilson[/lastfm]-"Pretty Girl Rock"
Our Imaginary Glee Scene:
We never see enough of Tina and we think she is gorgeous and deserves more stage time. It would awesome if a modeling scout came to the school and while all the other girls tried to do the "Pretty Girl Rock," Tina came out on top, despite her alternative looks.
PAGE 10 We want to see Glee Dancing On My Own!
1. [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Robyn[/lastfm]-"Dancing On My Own"
Our Imaginary Glee Scene: Mercedes, we didn't forget you girl. We'd like to see Mercedes get a crush on older guy that she can't have and she can't help watch and "Dance On Her Own."
- Do you agree with our picks? What song would you like to see Glee cover? Let us know in the comments!
Tune in to "Glee" each Tuesday (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. For more info on "GLEE" The Music visit: http://www.gleethemusic.com. In the mean time, catch up on all the greatest "Glee" hits on "Glee" Radio.


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NBA.com12 It's funny that the Chris Bosh trade rumors got out of control with the Raptors playing their best ball of the season. Before Sunday's loss to the Celtics, they had won eight of their last nine, and they're still within a half game of the Heat for fifth in the East.
SI.com14 Toronto Raptors
Last Week: 15
Toronto Raptors (19-19)
The Raptors have been a better team with Jarrett Jack in the starting lineup (9-7) than Jose Calderon (9-13). Jack, one of the league's foremost iron men, who has appeared in 206 straight games, is averaging 12.9 points and 5.9 assists while shooting 51.8 percent (71-for-137) as a starter.
ESPN.com15 (15) Raptors 19-19 Jim from Chicago wrote in to ask why we haven't been trotting out our trusty Leastern Conference references. And he certainly has a point when the Raps needed an 8-2 surge just to give the East six .500 teams.
CBSSports.com15 Raptors · Trends 13
Welcome back: Jose Calderon returns, contributes to wins over Magic, 76ers. ... Loss at Indiana is first bad defeat in more than a month.
FoxSports.com17 Until Monday's collapse in Indy, the Raps hadn't lost to anyone besides the Celtics since mid-December.


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The lawsuit filed by the Denver Health and Hospital Authority against the Montezuma County Sheriff's Office for the cost of treating a man shot by police appears to be heading toward a settlement.
After Zachary Sullivan was shot several times by police in March 2011 he was airlifted to a Denver Hospital where he was treated for his wounds; afterward, the county was hit with a $158,000 lawsuit to cover the treatment costs.
In a brief telephonic conference on Friday with attorneys for both sides, the attorney representing the Denver Health and Hospital Authority, told District Court Judge Todd Plewe that a mediation schedule has been arranged with the county for Dec. 7.
The county's attorney told Plewe that a few other things had changed since their last court appearance in September.
The county once considered bringing in the city of Cortez as a third party to the lawsuit since a Cortez Police officer was among the two officers who shot Sullivan after he pointed a gun at them.
The attorney for the county told Plewe that they have been advised by their client to not bring in the city as a third party, which is something the Montezuma County Commission addressed a few months ago.
The attorney also said a cross complaint had been filed against Sullivan but had not heard back from him and asked for a default judgment against him, which Plewe granted.
Plewe set the trial between the county and the hospital authority for April 22 in case a settlement or agreement had not been reached by then.
Plewe said both sides needed to submit the case managements and scheduled a readiness conference for the trial for Feb. 28.
"It sounds like things are moving forward with the attorneys," Plewe said.
Sullivan was recently sentenced to 48 years in prison after being convicted of attempted murder and several other crimes related to the March 2011 incident.


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International law enforcement collaboration focus of visit by Norway's crime investigation chief to INTERPOL
LYON, France - A visit to INTERPOL's General Secretariat headquarters today by Norway's Director of National Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS), Odd Reidar Humlegaard, provided an opportunity in meetings with INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble and senior INTERPOL officials to review on-going law enforcement collaborative efforts and areas for enhanced co-operation between Norway and INTERPOL.
Norway's NCIS Chief was updated on INTERPOL's global tools and services, including its Command and Co-ordination Centre, cyber crime and organized crime units, the INTERPOL Global Complex due to open in Singapore by 2014, as well as on initiatives against human trafficking and on blocking internet sites where child abuse images are shown.
Police Training and Development (PTD) also featured high on the agenda, with INTERPOL's PTD directorate launching an I-24/7 secure police communications e-learning course developed by INTERPOL and the Canadian Police Knowledge Network, and sponsored by both Norway and Canada.
Secretary General Noble also praised Norway for its leadership in taking part in a range of transnational law enforcement initiatives, including in Operation Pangea III, an international week of action co-ordinated by INTERPOL in October 2010 targeting the online sale of counterfeit and illegal medicines to raise awareness of the associated health risks, resulting in arrests across the globe and the seizure of thousands of potentially harmful medicines.
Norway's NCIS delegation included Ingrid Dagestad, Head of INTERPOL's National Central Bureau in Oslo; Rune Floisbonn, Director, Head of High Tech Crime Department; Dag Storksen, Assistant Chief of Police, Head of Forensic Science Department; and Petter Dyhre, INTERPOL Executive Committee Delegate and Assistant Chief of Police, International and Operational Communications Department.


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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Criminal Victimization and Perceptions of Community Safety in 12 United States Cities, 1998 (ICPSR 2743)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics
This collection presents survey data from 12 cities in the United States regarding criminal victimization, perceptions of community safety, and satisfaction with local police. Participating cities included Chicago, IL, Kansas City, MO, Knoxville, TN, Los Angeles, CA, Madison, WI, New York, NY, San Diego, CA, Savannah, GA, Spokane, WA, Springfield, MA, Tucson, AZ, and Washington, DC. The survey used the current National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) questionnaire with a series of supplemental questions measuring the attitudes in each city. Respondents were asked about incidents that occurred within the past 12 months. Information on the following crimes was collected: violent crimes of rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault, personal crimes of theft, and household crimes of burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft. Part 1, Household-Level Data, covers the number of household respondents, their ages, type of housing, size of residence, number of telephone lines and numbers, and language spoken in the household. Part 2, Person-Level Data, includes information on respondents' sex, relationship to householder, age, marital status, education, race, time spent in the housing unit, personal crime and victimization experiences, perceptions of neighborhood crime, job and professional demographics, and experience and satisfaction with local police. Variables in Part 3, Incident-Level Data, concern the details of crimes in which the respondents were involved, and the police response to the crimes.
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Study Description
United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Criminal Victimization and Perceptions of Community Safety in 12 United States Cities, 1998. ICPSR02743-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02743.v1
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Subject Terms: assault, attitudes, burglary, fear of crime, neighborhoods, perceptions, petty theft, police performance, public safety, rape, robbery, victimization
Geographic Coverage: Arizona, California, Chicago, District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas City (Missouri), Knoxville, Los Angeles, Madison, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York (state), New York City, San Diego, Savannah, Spokane, Springfield (Massachusetts), Tennessee, Tucson, United States, Washington, Wisconsin
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Universe: Individuals aged 12 and older in 12 cities of the United States that had police departments representing varying stages in the development of community policing. The 12 cities chosen were Chicago, IL, Kansas City, MO, Knoxville, TN, Los Angeles, CA, Madison, WI, New York, NY, San Diego, CA, Savannah, GA, Spokane, WA, Springfield, MA, Tucson, AZ, and Washington, DC.
Sample: Approximately 800 households in each of the 12 cities were contacted through random-digit dialing (RDD). The findings from this survey are not intended to represent national estimates.
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Lawsuits from
Apple? No problem! Google is looking at a dynamite couple of
months with some high profile Android releases on the
horizon. Leading the way is the HTC
Incredible. DailyTech spoke
with sources at Verizon, who confirmed that the HTC Incredible was
supposed to begin to arrive at Verizon Wireless stores in two weeks.
That would make sense as Verizon just announced that it was beginning
a test
deployment of Android 2.1 to the Motorola Droid smart
phones, the same OS that would presumably be powering the
Incredible. Android 2.1 brings improved
pinch-to-zoom in the browser, better voice-to-text support, animated
wallpapers, and tweaks to Google Maps. Droid launched with
Android 2.0 last November and in December received a minor bump to
Android 2.0.1 via an over-the-air update.The Verizon-carried
HTC Incredible could steal the show, though, perhaps being the
slickest Android handset to date. According to reports, the
phone will have a 1 GHz Qualcomm QSD 8250 Snapdragon ARM CPU and 512
MB of DRAM, just like the Nexus One. Unlike the Nexus One,
however, the CPU will be underclocked to 768 MHz (watch out for an
Apple patent on that one). While that may sound like
a bad thing, it should be more than enough speed to run most apps,
while helping to providing longer talk time than the Nexus One.The
phone also has a better camera than the Nexus
One -- an 8-megapixel camera with a noticeably larger lens.
The camera makes it just slightly thicker than the Nexus One,
measuring in at 117.5 x 58.5 x 11.9 mm. It is rumored to
come packed with a 6 GB of flash (much more than the 512 MB on the
Nexus One), a microSD expansion slot, and an FM tuner. The
battery is a pretty run-of-the-mill 1300 mAh.Big Red's
decision to carry the new HTC Incredible could indicate that it's
considering waiting on the Nexus One for the time being (though other
reports indicate that it might not be long before it jumps
on board as well). Sprint, on the other hand is racing
to deploy the Nexus One on its powerful 3G network.The
Nexus One handset is the result of a close collaboration from Google
and HTC, which goes beyond Google's standard Android involvement.
The handset is currently available on T-Mobile
and AT&T, direct from Google.Sprint aired that it
would soon be announcing official release dates and pricing.
Fared Adib, Sprint vice president of product development states,
"Nexus One is a powerful device that belongs on a powerful
network. This is another step in our continued partnership of
innovation with Google. Sprint customers already have the
option of two amazing Android devices with Samsung Moment(TM) and HTC
Hero(TM). It is a natural fit for us to add Nexus One to the list of
choices available for Sprint customers who want the best value in
wireless with the best in Android." He adds, "While
a pricing plan has not yet been determined for Nexus One, we are
confident that it will be consistent with Sprint's commitment to
deliver more value than our competitors and keep pricing
simple. Right now, our Sprint Everything Data 450 plan
with Any Mobile, Anytime(SM) gives
customers unlimited calling with any mobile phone in America,
unlimited text and unlimited Web for just $69.99 per month - the same
price AT&T and Verizon charge for just unlimited talk. Our
Everything Data plans include unlimited GPS Navigation at no extra
charge and annual phone upgrades with Sprint Premier."It
looks like the major U.S. networks besides AT&T have largely
given up on the Apple iPhone and are aggressively moving ahead on the
deployment of new Android headsets. The next
iPhone, set to air this summer, could see a substantial challenge
from the Nexus One on Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile; and the HTC
Incredible on Verizon.