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Ross reveals a fantasy to Rachel involving a certain "Star Wars" character.
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The One with the Princess Leia Fantasy
Ross reveals a fantasy to Rachel involving a certain "Star Wars" character.
The One Where No One's Ready
Ross tries to get the gang dressed and ready for a black-tie benefit.
The One with the Jam
After breaking up with Richard, Monica considers insemination via a sperm bank.
The One with the Metaphorical Tunnel
Ross panics when he sees his son with a doll. Phoebe poses as Joey's agent.
The One with Frank Jr.
Phoebe's half-brother visits, and they have trouble bonding.
The One with the Flashback
The friends flash back to a time three years before.
The One with the Race Car Bed
Monica buys a new bed, but the wrong one is delivered.
The One with the Giant Poking Device
Joey and Monica catch Janice kissing her ex-husband.
The One with the Football
The gang plays a game of touch football on Thanksgiving.
The One Where Rachel Quits
Rachel quits her job after Gunther tells her she needs to be retrained.
The One Where Chandler Can't Remember Which Sister
A drunken Chandler fools around with one of Joey's sisters.
The One with All the Jealousy
Ross becomes jealous when he catches Rachel's new co-worker flirting with her.
The One Where Monica and Richard Are Just Friends
Monica's will power is tested when she runs into Richard at a video store.
The One with Phoebe's Ex-Partner
Phoebe is reunited with her former singing partner.
The One Where Ross and Rachel Take A Break
Ross seeks solace at a party after a bitter fight with Rachel.
The One the Morning After
When Rachel discovers that Ross slept with Chloe.
The One Without the Ski Trip
A lonely Ross visits Carol when Rachel goes on a ski trip with some friends.
The One with the Hypnosis Tape
Phoebe is distraught when her brother wants to marry a woman twice his age.
The One with the Tiny T-Shirt
Rachel goes on her first date since her breakup with Ross.
The One with the Dollhouse
Joey thinks he's found his true love. Rachel's boss dates Chandler.
The One with the Chick and the Duck
When Pete buys a restaurant, Monica must decide whether to accept his offer.
The One with the Screamer
Ross thinks that Rachel's date is crazy.
The One with Ross's Thing
Monica's boyfriend surprises her by not proposing marriage.
The One with the Ultimate Fighting Champion
Pete plans to be in an ultimate fighter. BILLY CRYSTAL and ROBIN WILLIAMS star.
The One at the Beach
The gang goes to the beach. Ross discovers that Rachel still loves him.
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Even as
the Recording
Industry Association of America (RIAA) can cheer the facts that
the U.S. government has proposed to make illegal streaming a felony, and that major
internet service providers in America have agreed to adopt a "six strikes" plan to police users,
the organization continues to hemorrhage money in its eternal battle against
Case and point is the organization's high profile battle with Jammie
Thomas-Rasset [1][2],
who endured three trials for sharing (stealing and making available) 24 songs
(approximately two CDs worth of music) with defunct
peer-to-peer client Kazaa. In what may be the final chapter in
the case U.S. District Judge Michael Davis has slashed the award from an astounding $1.5M USD, to $54,000 USD (of
course this has happened before).
Judge Davis called the original award "appalling" and abusive.
He writes [Scribd]:
The Court concludes that an award of $1.5 million for stealing and
distributing 24 songs for personal use is appalling. Such an award is so severe
and oppressive as to be wholly disproportioned to the offense and obviously
He says the new award is substantial and still very punitive, writing:
In this particular case, involving a first-time willful, consumer
infringer of limited means who committed illegal song file-sharing for her own
personal use, an award of $2,250 per song, for a total award of $54,000, is the
maximum award consistent with due process.
This reduced award is punitive and substantial. It acts as a potent deterrent.
The ruling is significant as the RIAA hired eight high profile law teams [source; Scribd] (far more than Jammie
Thomas-Rasset could afford) to represent it over the course of the three
trials. Assuming at least one full time lawyer, one can draw an estimate
from Ms. Thomas-Rasset's lawyer who claimed to be owed $130,000 USD in unpaid
legal expenses for the case.
Using a mean estimate of $150,000 per case, per law team, the case likely cost
the RIAA close to $3M USD -- 55 times what it would eventually be awarded [Ed.
- Note: This is an estimate based on previously published data. The RIAA
has never published, and likely will never publish legal fees in this case, for
obvious reasons.].
That sum isn't unusual, though -- it's roughly with 2.3 percent return on its
"investment" the media industry paid between 2006 and 2008 in direct
legal fees.
That's not to say the RIAA hasn't been lucrative for some. While the
organization only has 107 employees [source;
Scribd], 12 employees made over $200,000 USD in direct salary (and tens of
thousands more in other pay) and the organization paid $14M USD, in total to
its staff.
And the good times for RIAA staffers and affiliates weren't merely limited to
the healthy pay -- some have ascended to positions of power, such as
lawyer Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., who recently became President Barack Obama's solicitor general.
Mr. Verrilli had been one of the lawyers on the RIAA retainer in both the
Thomas-Rasset case and the high profile Sony BMG v. Joel Tenenbaum case.
Meanwhile, the recording industry has been on the hook for not only the massive
legal fees, sweet salaries -- it's also poured millions it paid in lobbying federal and
state politicians to try to push its agenda.
And remember that new "six-strikes" rule? It still has to pay
(much to its chagrin) to collect the list of infringing user IPs. In
short the (perhaps) final ruling in the Capitol v. Thomas case
is a fair representation of the state of piracy policing overall -- big media
is losing tens of millions of dollars, while the RIAA and its attorney's
happily take a fair cut of that money to their bank.


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the heyday of the muscle car era, the Hemi in the Plymouth and other
Mopar muscle cars was one of the most desired power plants on the car
market. As the fuel crisis of the 70's heated up, the Hemi eventually
died out with the other gas guzzling power plants of the late 60's
and very early 70's.When Chrysler decided to revamp its image
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Hemi engine from the muscle car era), the automaker brought the Hemi
back to the market. Many will recall the commercial featuring the
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power. With the entire image of the Hemi built on power and
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name will live on in cars and trucks. Rather than the vehicles
wearing the Hemi badge and marketing, the vehicles will simply be
sold with a 5.7-liter V8.The
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being made under the new management from Fiat with more focus on fuel
economy and features making the vehicles using the V8 easier on the
wallet and environment. One of the features that will be touted is
displacement reduction that can turn off cylinders when not needed to
improve fuel economy. Unlike Chrysler, Ford is reviving
its famous performance name "5.0" for its new 2011 Mustang. The
new Mustang GT gets a potent 5.0-liter V8 engine with 412 hp and very
impressive fuel economy offering power and green features in one
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25 years old Jan Mendel lives in Kurim. He is currently unemployed and likes sports and cycling. Jan is a very good looking guy, and well built. He sits on the mats, leaning on the boxing bag for his interview. Then he begins to grope himself and feel over his body. He soon pulls a nice hard cock and his balls out of the leg of his shorts. Leaning back still he wanks, slowly, on that hard dick as he feels his chest. Those big balls look full as Jan wanks. He removes the shorts so we get a better view of him, completely naked. He leans sideways a little, putting one leg over the other, so his ass is on show, with his balls trapped tightly between the legs. He feels his ass some and then adjusts the position so his cock and balls are pushed back between the legs and his hand can spread that ass. Jan has a nice hairy hole, which we see in close-up as he spreads the ass. To give us an even better view Jan gets on his knees and bends over. Legs wide apart the cheeks are spread and he wanks his cock between his legs. Next Jan stands, so we see our first upright pose and what a splendid view it is too, with that cock so hard. Jan wanks on the cock before sitting on the boxing bag and trapping his cock on it with his fingers. He fucks in that position as his other hand feels his chest. In good time that cock is harder and harder and Jan takes it fully in hand and wanks it to a massive climax, with his cum shooting all over the bag. Then he goes off and takes a nice, refreshing, shower to clean up. Jan did a great show for us and soon came back for more.
Lukas Tvaroh is aged 21 and lives in Teplice. He works as a motor mechanic and enjoys car racing and football. Lukas is a good looking guy and has a fit, sllim body. He does a great job in this stills shoot, of getting himself naked and showing us his wares. With some very good poses we see Lukas' with his cock poking out the leg of his slipys. Then fully naked he gets his cock hard, and it grows very nicely indeed. We are also treated to some lovely shots of his ass, with the cheeks well spread to show a tight hole. Lukas' teases us with a dildo, sucking on it and then presenting it to his ass. Hopefully that is a portent of what he gets up to in his erotic video which will be online next week.


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When it comes to the debt ceiling, you blame the Republicans for not wanting to raise it, yet I've never once read where you blamed Democrats for being the driving force in getting us into this predicament. Have you ever blamed the Democratically controlled Senate for not passing a budget for four years? Have you ever criticized Nancy Pelosi for saying we have to pass it so we can see what's in it? Have you ever pointed out Al Gores hypocrisy's for selling his TV station to AL Jazeera? How about the administration's policy to kill American citizens with drone strikes? I'm pretty sure if we had a Republican administration we would never hear the end of it. The point is, a wrong is a wrong and you should point that out no matter what side of the isle they sit on.
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This extract from the sutta is sometimes taken to show that the Buddha was teaching the evolution of life on earth, I however have difficulty in this interpretation as the Buddha wouldnt take up a metaphysical view point about things such as origin of life etc, but I cannot come to another conclusion as to what the buddha meant by this teaching."There comes a time, Vasettha, when, after the lapse of a long, long period, this world died. And when this happens, beings have mostly been reborn into the Realm of Radiance [as devas]; and there they dwell, made of mind, feeding on rapture, self-luminous, traversing the air, continuing in glory; and thus they remain for a long, long period of time. There comes also a time, Vasettha, when sooner or later this world begins to re-evolve. When this happens, beings who had deceased from the World of Radiance usually come to life as humans...now at that time, all had become one world of water, dark, and of darkness that maketh blind. No moon nor sun appeared, no stars were seen, nor constellations, neither was night manifest nor day, neither months nor half-months, neither years nor seasons, neither female nor male. Beings were reckoned just as beings only. And to those beings, Vasettha, sooner or later after a long time, earth with its savours was spread out in the waters, even as a scum forms on the surface of boiled milky rice that is cooling, so did the earth appear."
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Quinolones/Corticosteroids Interactions
This information is generalized and not intended as specific medical advice. Consult your healthcare professional before taking or discontinuing any drug or commencing any course of treatment.
Medical warning:
Moderate. These medicines may cause some risk when taken together. Contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) for more information.
How the interaction occurs:
How this interaction occurs is not known.
What might happen:
Taking these medicines together may increase your risk of tendon problems, especially if you are 60 years of age or older; if you already have problems with your joints (such as rheumatoid arthritis); if you have had a kidney, heart, or lung transplant; have kidney problems; or if participate in strenuous physical activity.
What you should do about this interaction:
Let your healthcare professionals (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) know that you are taking these medicines together. If you have joint, muscle, or tendon pain or swelling, contact your doctor right away. Rest and refrain from exercise until you see your doctor.Your healthcare professionals may already be aware of this interaction and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.
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Reducing emissions and improving fuel economy is a huge area of investment for many carmakers. Most people equate this type of technology with hybrid or electric vehicles, but Bosch has a system that helps improve fuel economy and reduce emissions on diesel and gasoline motors as well.
The system is called the Bosch Stop-Start System. Bosch and Fiat announced recently that the Fiat 500 would use the systems and Bosch went so far as to claim that 50% of European vehicles would have the Stop-Start system by 2012.
Bosch has been making the system since 2007 and reports it has already delivered 500,000 of the special starters to BMW and Mini. In the Fiat 500, Bosch says the Stop-Start system would be available with the Dualogic automated manual transmission and the 1.2-liter engine. Fiat does say it plans to install the system on other vehicles as early as 2009.
The Fiat 500 will also use a Bosch engine control unit including Bosch software that analyzes the sensor data to start and stop the engine of the vehicle. Stefan Asenkerschbaumer, president of Bosch Starter Motors and Generators division said, "In 2008, roughly five percent of all new vehicles in Europe are equipped with a start/stop system. By 2012, we estimate this will be every second newly registered vehicle—most of them with Bosch technology."
The Bosch Stop-Start system works by turning the motor of the vehicle off when the vehicle is stationary. An example is if a driver pulled up to a stop light, the Stop-Start system would turn the motor off while at rest. When the driver put a foot on the clutch pedal to put the car back in gear, the engine would start back up.
Bosch says that the system reduces fuel consumption and CO2 emissions in the urban component of the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC) by up to 8%. To ensure that the starter lasts with the significantly increased stop/start cycles, critical components of the special starter have been strengthened. Bosch says it increased the service life of starters used in the Stop-Start system compared to a normal starter. The bearings in the new starter were strengthened, the commutator is strengthened, and the planetary gear was improved as well.
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is steaming mad, and the U.S. government is directly in its crosshairs. The suicide of Aaron Swartz, an internet activist and co-creator of Reddit and the RSS standard, was the final straw which caused Anonymous to come out of hiding and attack the U.S. Department of Justice with all its might.
I. Aaron Swartz Find Himself in Legal Trouble, Eventually Commits Suicide
Swartz came under fire after he accessed JSTOR database with a personal laptop in 2011. Using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) data network, Swartz downloaded over 4 million academic journals in an effort to make them freely available to the public.
While Swartz had indeed compromised MIT's network and the JSTOR database, the Middlesex County district court decided that he wouldn't face jail time for his actions. The matter would have been closed and Swartz would have been "off the hook" so to speak, but United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz took up the case and things decidedly took a turn for the worse.
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Ortiz decided to hit Swartz with 13 felony charges that could have sent him to jail for up to 35 years. Swartz would also be on the hook for a $1 million fine for his actions. In a
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, Ortiz declared that, "Stealing is stealing whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars. It is equally harmful to the victim whether you sell what you have stolen or give it away."
With the U.S. Government breathing down his neck and with no outlet and no amicable resolution in sight to "humanely" resolve his legal woes, Swartz took his own life on January 11, 2013.
After Swartz committed suicide, Ortiz acknowledged that, "There was no evidence against Mr. Swartz indicating that he committed his acts for personal gain" and that his conduct "did not warrant the severe punishments authorized by Congress."
Aaron Swartz's family released a statement shortly after his death that placed the blame for his suicide on MIT and the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney's office:
Aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney's office and at MIT contributed to his death. The US Attorney's office pursued an exceptionally harsh array of charges, carrying potentially over 30 years in prison, to punish an alleged crime that had no victims. Meanwhile, unlike JSTOR, MIT refused to stand up for Aaron and its own community's most cherished principles.
II. Anonymous Breaks Its Silence, Fights for Justice by Attacking the U.S. Department of Justice
This morning, Anonymous revealed its massive attack on the U.S. Government, culminating with the hacking and defacement of the website for the United States Sentencing Commission (for obvious reasons). Anonymous made it clear that Swartz's death was the reason for its latest actions:
Two weeks ago today, a line was crossed. Two weeks ago today, Aaron Swartz was killed. Killed because he faced an impossible choice. Killed because he was forced into playing a game he could not win -- a twisted and distorted perversion of justice -- a game where the only winning move was not to play.
And with that, Anonymous laid out its plans to turn the tables on the government and in essence, give it a taste of its own medicine. In the letter, Anonymous declared, "The time has come to show the United States Department of Justice and its affiliates the true meaning of infiltration. The time has come for them to feel the helplessness and fear that comes with being forced into a game where the odds are stacked against them."
Anonymous has spent the last few weeks infiltrating government sites using injection code to gather a wealth of information that it intends to leak to news organizations. Although the hacktivists didn't detail what's included with the information they've gleaned so far, they note, "Everyone has secrets, and some things are not meant to be public."
We have enough fissile material for multiple warheads. Today we are launching the first of these. Operation Last Resort has begun...
We have not taken this action lightly, nor without consideration of the possible consequences. Should we be forced to reveal the trigger-key to this warhead, we understand that there will be collateral damage. We appreciate that many who work within the justice system believe in those principles that it has lost, corrupted, or abandoned, that they do not bear the full responsibility for the damages caused by their occupation.
It is our hope that this warhead need never be detonated.
The first weapon is a file called US-DOJ-LEA-2013.aes256, which contains multiple "warheads" named after current U.S. Supreme Court Justices:
Anonymous plans to detonate its warhead if its demands aren't met.
The contents of these files has not yet been decimated, but we're sure that over the course of the next few days that we'll be privy to what Anonymous wants the world to learn about the U.S. Government.
III. What Does Anonymous Hope to Gain from These Actions?
Anonymous knows that its actions will bring forth a hellstorm from the U.S. Government; Richard McFeely, executive assistant director of the FBI's Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch, has already stated today that it is "handling it as a criminal investigation." But Anonymous feels that changes have to be made to the way sentences are handed down for crimes that essentially are a "violation of terms of service". It calls for "reform of mandatory minimum sentencing" and "a return to proportionality of punishment with respect to actual harm caused, and consideration of motive."
The inalienable right to a presumption of innocence and the recourse to trial and possibility of exoneration must be returned to its sacred status, and not gambled away by pre-trial bargaining in the face of overwhelming sentences, unaffordable justice and disfavourable odds. Laws must be upheld unselectively, and not used as a weapon of government to make examples of those it deems threatening to its power.
Anonymous ended its diatribe by simply stating, "This time there will be change, or there will be chaos…"
We doubt that the U.S. Government will simply roll over and bow down to the demands of Anonymous, so it will be interesting to see how many warhead detonations we'll see as we move on to another round of "WarGames".
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Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 1998: [United States] (ICPSR 2979)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics
The objective of the Survey of Jails in Indian Country is to gather data on all adult and juvenile jail facilities and detention centers in Indian country, which is defined for purposes of this collection as reservations, pueblos, rancherias, and other Native American and Alaska Native communities throughout the United States. The survey, a complete enumeration of all 69 confinement facilities operated by tribal authorities or by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), provides data on number of inmates, staffing, and facility characteristics and needs. Variables describe each facility, including who operated it, facility age, facility function, rated capacity, authority to house juveniles, number of juveniles held, number of admission and discharges in last 30 days, number of inmate deaths, peak population during June, number of inmates held by sex and conviction status on June 30, number of facility staff by sex and function, facility crowding, renovation and building plans, types of programs available to inmates, and overview of facility and staffing needs.
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U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. ANNUAL SURVEY OF JAILS IN INDIAN COUNTRY, 1998: [UNITED STATES]. Conducted by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2001. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02979.v1
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American Housing Survey 2007: Metropolitan Survey (ICPSR 24501)
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United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. American Housing Survey 2007: Metropolitan Survey. ICPSR24501-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR24501.v1
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Subject Terms: commuting (travel), energy assistance, energy conservation, home ownership, housing, housing conditions, housing costs, housing occupancy, housing units, income, living arrangements, metropolitan statistical areas, municipal services, neighborhood conditions, property insurance, property taxes, property values, relocation, rental housing, transportation, utility rates
Geographic Coverage: Baltimore, Boston, District of Columbia, Florida, Houston, Maryland, Massachusetts, Miami, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tampa, Texas, United States
- 2007
- 2007-04-17--2007-09-30
Universe: Housing units among 13 metropolitan areas, most of which are consistent with the 1993 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) definition of a metropolitan statistical area (MSA), consolidated metropolitan statistical area (CMSA), or primary metropolitan statistical area (PMSA), in the United States.
Beginning in 1997, the methods of collecting and processing American Housing Survey (AHS) data were redesigned. All interviews are conducted using computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) software, allowing new responses to some questions. Rather than existing as a single file, this collection consists of seven parts, each containing data pertaining to a specific subject matter. In addition, data for building and neighborhood questions ceased to be collected through interviewer observation. Rather, these questions have been reworded for the respondents. Due to these changes, users are asked to use caution when comparing data prior to 1997 with data from 1997 forward. For further information about the redesign, please refer to DOCUMENTATION OF CHANGES IN THE 1997 AMERICAN HOUSING SURVEY included with AMERICAN HOUSING SURVEY, 1997: NATIONAL MICRODATA (ICPSR 2912).
Beginning with 2001, three datasets: Part 2, Housing Unit Record (Main Record), Part 9, Recodes (One per Housing Unit), and Part 10, Weights, have been combined into one dataset: Part 4, Housing Unit Record (Main Record), Recodes (One Record per Housing Unit), and Weights.
Additional information about the American Housing Survey can be found on the HUD USER Web site and on the United States Census Bureau Web site.
Sample: For more information about sampling, please see Appendix B in CURRENT HOUSING REPORTS, 2004, for each metropolitan area sampled, which is included with this collection.
Weight: Please review the "Sample Status, Weights, Interview Status" section in the ICPSR codebook for this American Housing Survey study, as well as Appendix B in CURRENT HOUSING REPORTS, 2007, included with this collection.
Mode of Data Collection: computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI)
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:
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
Original ICPSR Release: 2009-10-13
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Compassion is caring for the safety and well-being of others. People who work in law enforcement definitely fit that definition. The hours are long and the pay is moderate at best. The deputy whom John McHenry is accused of assaulting was at his assigned post, charged with the responsibility of maintaining the safety of homeowners and preventing looters from taking or destroying the property of people who had evacuated their homes.
Common sense would dictate that you do not run into a fire. If Mr. McHenry had been allowed to go home, it is possible that rescue personnel could have faced injury or death in an effort to rescue him. A home can be replaced. A life cannot.
Mr. McHenrys home did not burn. If he had controlled his temper, he would not be facing the problems he has now. Mr. McHenry made the choice to assault a police officer. that is a serious crime. Now he must face the consequences for his action.
Other people were faced with the same situation as Mr. McHenry. They did not make the same choice that he made. Assaulting a police officer was not the correct solution to the problem, but apparently it was Mr. McHenrys. Is that the solution that our community finds acceptable?
It is easy to second-guess the actions of others, especially when you were not there. The deputy acted to protect Mr. McHenry in a potentially life-threatening situation. I am sure the letters written by Mr. Baer, Mr. Sanford and Mr. Larson would have been different if Mr. McHenry had been allowed to go to his home and then died as a result!
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Rally victims 'hit like skittles'
An eyewitness to a rally car crash that killed three spectators said the vehicle ploughed into the crowd like a ''bowling ball hitting skittles''.
The two men and one woman were killed in what was the second of two crashes during the Jim Clark Rally in the Scottish Borders on Saturday afternoon.
They were identified by Police Scotland as Iain John Provan, 64, and Elizabeth Allan, 63, from Barrhead, near Glasgow, and 71-year-old John Leonard Stern, known as Len, from Bearsden, also near Glasgow.
Two other injured men, both 61, remained in hospital - one in a stable condition and one in a critical but stable condition in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
The fatal accident took place at about 4pm at Little Swinton, near Coldstream.
Colin Gracey has watched the rally for years from the same spot close to where the crashed happened.
The 46-year-old teacher, who lives in nearby Swinton, was there with his family, including three children, and described the incident as "traumatic".
He said: "We went down there, as we've been doing for about 17 years, to the same place we watch it from just up from the bridge.
"I think it was the seventh car coming through and it just veered very sharply after taking the bridge and it went right into the field hitting the people who were stood there. It was shocking.
"I was there with my family, my three children, and we go to the same place every year and always watch it from there. It was very traumatic.
"It was like a bowling ball hitting skittles.
"It was awful, absolutely awful."
Officers from Police Scotland worked through the day at the site. Tents were erected and forensic specialists were seen filming the area.
A cordon was in place and flowers were left beside a tree in tribute to those who died.
Mr Gracey said a safety car passed through the area before the rally to tell people to stand at a safe distance.
"A marshall car came through before the stage started and told people to move away from the area. I think people moved but came back," he said.
"There were at least a dozen people standing there and when it happened I thought 'my god'.
"It was horrendous, I've never seen anything like it in my life.
"The tape marking the course was next to the hedge where normally the tape is 30 metres either side of the road into the field and effectively no one is allowed down there unless you're a steward.
"We wouldn't even stand in the field. We always go a bit further up the road which is safer."
The three-day rally, which was due to finish today, was immediately abandoned after the fatal crash.
Mr Gracey said there was stunned silence among the crowd but emergency services were quickly on the scene.
"The road sits slightly higher up so we couldn't see all the people, it was like slow motion, it was unbelievable.
"There was a silence initially and then the ambulance for the rally came and then 10 minutes after that the emergency services started to arrive and they took over."
About 250 competitors had been taking part in the event, which is said to be one of the largest in the UK, with thousands of spectators watching the action.
Two hours before the fatal crash another car in the rally left the road and hit five people, one woman and four men, near Crosshall Farm on the Eccles stage of the competition.
Three of the men were taken to Borders General Hospital but one was then moved to an intensive care unit in Edinburgh. The remaining two spectators were treated for minor injuries.
Superintendent Phil O'Kane, of Police Scotland, said he thought the rally organising committee ''would have considered it was safe to move on to the next rally stage'' after the first accident.
"Although safety barriers are put in place there are not stewarding positions along the whole route," he said.
''It's a high energy and a high adrenaline sport and people want to take the best positions.''
In a statement, the organisers of the Jim Clark Rally offered their ''heartfelt condolences and sympathy'' to all those affected by the ''tragic events''.
They added: ''Our thoughts are especially with those who have lost family members and to the families of the injured spectators.
''All members of the organising team are in shock and are co-operating fully with Police Scotland to establish the facts.''
The rally is named after Scottish Formula One driver Jim Clark, who grew up in the area and was killed in a motor racing accident in Hockenheim, Germany, in 1968.
Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond spoke of the ''desperately sad and difficult news from the Borders of the tragic circumstances that have occurred at the Jim Clark Rally''.
He added: ''My thoughts are with all of those involved and the families and loved ones of those who have lost their lives.''
Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill and Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland, the top prosecutor, will receive a briefing from police in Kelso tomorrow.
Mr MacAskill is also expected to make a statement in the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday.
He said: " This incident will have come as a tremendous shock to the local community and wider motoring family.
"All across Scotland people are sharing the sadness of this tragic event and stand ready to support the local community.
"Above all, our thoughts are with the family and friends of those affected."
Local councillor Michael Cook said: "This is an event which has been taking place here for many, many years. It's been going without incident for over 40 years now and to have this happen has really rocked the community. It's a black day, there is no getting away from that fact."
On the future of the rally, he said: "I think its far too easy to speculate, really what we need to do today is reflect on what's happened and this is a tragedy for families and loved ones impacted."
Flowers were left in Swinton village green. One bunch has a card which reads: "The sport that we all love is very cruel at times.
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Ambassadors of hope for the Congo
World Vision's Child Ambassadors are a network of volunteers and sponsors who go out into their communities as advocates for child sponsorship. This year, they're aiming to maximize their impact by focusing their efforts on a new sponsorship community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo called Ledia. Read why!
Of the 187 countries listed in the U.N.'s Human Development Index, which measures a population's well-being, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is at the very bottom: #187.
For the past 17 years, a near-continuous civil war has devastated the nation, displacing almost 1.4 million people and killing over 5 million. Those that remain face a low life expectancy (55), a malnutrition rate among children 3 times higher than the rest of the world, and an unbelievably high under-5 mortality rate of almost 20%; 9 out of 10 mothers lose a child younger than five.
World Vision is in the process of establishing a brand new development program with a community near the city of Gemena in northwestern DRC. 380,000 people live there in mud and thatch houses, with no paved roads, running water, or electricity.
Families in Gemena average a daily income of US$1; 3 of 10 children don't attend primary school, and more than 70% don't finish high school. The dropout rate is even higher for girls. And with poorly equipped hospitals, many children die from preventable diseases like malaria and malnutrition.
World Vision is in the early phases of our partnership with this community, aptly called "Ledia," which means, "A new thing is coming to the village." As our staff builds relationships in the community, alongside local leaders they have identified clean water and infrastructure as the primary starting needs. They are also beginning to register children for sponsorship.
The funds raised through child sponsorship will support WASH (water, hygiene, and sanitation), education, child protection education programs, and advocacy for child rights by encouraging children and the community to participate in capacity building programs. We're very excited to be starting this work!
4,000 children in Ledia are being registered for sponsorship. And that's why World Vision's Child Ambassadors program is focusing their efforts on this new community.
The Child Ambassadors program empowers a network of our child sponsors – who already know the joys of sponsorship – to go out into their communities and help us spread the word about children in need around the world. An integral part of World Vision's team, Child Ambassadors connect children in countries like the DRC with new sponsors.
Ambassadors Stu and Celeste in Connecticut describe their experience: "We are letting the world know about these forgotten kids."
With such a dynamic and powerful group of passionate volunteers mobilized and focused on a single community, the Child Ambassadors have a real opportunity to make a significant difference in one of the most difficult parts of the world.
You can help!
Your monthly gift when you sponsor a child in the Ledia community will directly help provide clean water and infrastructure – and more, as the program grows – in northwestern DRC.
Once you're a World Vision sponsor, consider applying to become a Child Ambassador. Join our volunteer network and work alongside us to bring hope and joy to children around the world.


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Businesses Eye Backing Away from Obamacare: Study
More mid-size employers say stepping back from health care reform would greatly improve their economic forecasts for the next year, according to a study by Deloitte Development L.L.C.
In fact, 41% of employers agree with this sentiment, up from 33% in 2012 and 23% in 2011.
"Rolling back health care reform ranked a very close second to reducing corporate tax rates as the most popular initiative the U.S. government could implement to help middle-market companies grow in the coming year," the study said.
Larger companies appear to be more resigned to implementation of the Affordable Care Act than smaller companies, the study found, with only 38% of companies with 1,000 to 3,000 employees ranking health care rollback as one of their top two government priorities, compared to 53% of companies with 50 to 99 employees that ranked it as a top priority.
Compliance costs are especially of concern. While 71% of respondents believe compliance costs will rise, 41% of respondents anticipate high growth that exceeds other regulatory requirements.
Overall, reductions have been seen when it comes to year-over-year health care cost increases; however, 60% of mid-size employers report that medical costs are the biggest barriers to their economic growth. This is up from 51% in 2012 and 33% in 2011.
As part of health care reform, employers with more than 50 full-time workers must offer qualified, affordable group health plans to their employees in 2014 or pay a penalty.
More than a quarter of respondents say they plan to hire more part-time and contract workers in 2013 and 2014, and of the employers expecting to bring in more part-time and contract workers, 38% say they anticipate doing so specifically because of health care reform.
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By Takahiro "Horitaka" Kitamura It's already August, and the tattoo convention I throw with Roman Enriquez (Strong Tattoo/45s Forever) is coming up soon! This year the convention in scheduled for October 21-23 and we are returning to the SFO Hyatt Regency. Even with last year's power outage on Sunday, the hotel is perfect for us and we look forward to a great weekend. Here are some highlights of this year's show… Read More »
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'Foreign fighters' threat focus of INTERPOL counterterrorism meeting
LYON, France – The threat posed by transnational fighters travelling to conflict zones in the Middle East to gain combat experience and training was the focus of an operational working group meeting at the INTERPOL General Secretariat headquarters.
Organized by INTERPOL's Fusion Task Force (FTF) at the request of European member countries, 25 specialist counterterrorism officers from 13 countries met to exchange information on current and recently closed cases, threat assessments, suspect profiles, recruitment networks, travel routes and the process of radicalization and incitement.
With an increasing number of transnational or 'foreign' fighters joining terrorist-affiliated factions in Middle East conflict zones, the two-day (2 and 3 July) meeting enabled participants to gain a better understanding and overview of this developing threat and the required multilateral response.
Among the recommendations from the meeting was the production of analytical reports by INTERPOL studying the scope of transnational fighter activity in Middle Eastern conflict zones, facilitating factors, incitement and recruitment.
Project members also agreed to share threat information about imminent travel by transnational fighters, with information exchange and distribution to 'at risk' countries supported by the FTF.
Increased use of INTERPOL's global tools and services, such as diffusions and Notices – in particular Blue Notices which request information about an individual's location and activities – was also recommended by participants.
Created in 2002 and composed of experienced counterterrorism officers, INTERPOL's FTF offers a multidisciplinary approach to assisting member countries in investigations related to terrorism working collectively through regional and threat-based projects.
Countries represented at the meeting were Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the USA.


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Does anyone remember the pre-draft workout video released of Biyombo? He'd miss jump hook after jump hook. It was a great instructional video on how to strip paint off rims. Biyombo's got as much offensive skill as Reggie Evans. He just scores a few more baskets because he can dunk.
I think it should be mentioned that JV is still just 19. He'll be 20 in May. Biyombo will be 20 in August.
I appreciate your opinion but the high opinion of JV around here is certainly warranted based on his play, accolades, and press.
Lietuvos Rytas 65:72 Spartak
Pretty terrible game today for Rytas, they have managed to lose second half by 21 and waste all the advantage made in first half. Coach Dzikic also made some stupid decisions as I watched the game. I know he's a mate of Casey's, but I'd really like them to get a new coach.
The game wasn't an exception for Valančiūnas, not one of his finest moments, missed a couple freethrows, got flopped by the Russians a bit.
27:58 minutes
6 pts
5 reb
1 block
1 steal
2 turnovers
3 fouls
3/6 fg
0/2 ft
I know that a lot of JV talk is prospect pron but he's putting up numbers in Europe that say he's more than a middling centre prospect. We'll have to see when he gets here but, for me at least, there is no question he's got a much higher ceiling than Biyombo simply because he can actually shoot, pass and play on the offensive end of the floor. Biyombo really hasn't shown anything suggesting he can do that. Yet, at least.
Biyombo is a larger stronger Pops Mensah Bonsou
If I had to put my money on who's going to be better in 3-4 years it'd be Bismack.
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Source: NBA.comRubio showed that a delayed arrival from Draft (2009) until NBA debut (2011) can deliver a huge payoff. The Raptors have asked for the same patience with Jonas Valanciunas as fans suffer through 13-28 in the post-Chris Bosh construction efforts.
Valanciunas is somewhere in the distance. Rubio is proof that this can work out.
Valanciunas was an investment pick at No. 5, saddled with a straightjacket of a contract in his native Lithuania that had no buyout provision. Only after the Draft -- after the Cavaliers used the first selection on Kyrie Irving, the Timberwolves took Derrick Williams, the Jazz chose Enes Kanter and the Cavs came back with Tristan Thompson -- was agreement reached on a new deal that included a $2.4 million buyout.
Every indication is that he will be a Raptor coached by Dwane Casey next season, after a 2011-12 season during which he is improving his strength and shooting with Lietuvos Rytas. His team is coached by Aleksandar Dzikic, by coincidence a former Casey assistant with the Timberwolves. And Valanciunas figures to have a successful career -- "a future franchise center," one non-Toronto executive predicted before the Draft.
"I have no doubt that is the right pick or was the right pick for us," said Bryan Colangelo, the president and general manager. "But it certainly wasn't one that would gather instant gratification. There were other players on the board ... that our fans and perhaps the media wanted us to take because they might come in and be an immediate-impact pick, if you will. But we made a long-term decision. We drafted a 19-year-old center prospect and despite the pressure of picking a so-called sexy pick or someone that might be a more-popular pick, we made the pick that we felt was the best decision, long term and short term, for the franchise because it fit right into this building process that we're going through right now."
It's the pick the Cavaliers should have made at No. 4, instead of power forward Tristan Thompson. They would have had, as it turned out, Irving streaking to Rookie of the Year in 2011-12 and an additional substantial pay out later in Valanciunas.
Instead, the Raptors gladly stepped into the Valanciunas predicament, willing to trade what at the time most teams expected would be a one-season holding pattern for eight or 10 seasons of standout center play. Colangelo just doesn't like the Rubio analogy.
But it's true. Even in an abbreviated rookie season, Rubio showed that patience can be worth it.
"I don't like to make comparisons like that," Colangelo said. "Clearly the situation is one that you've drafted a young player, he's playing professional basketball somewhere else, it's not at the NBA level but he is continuing the process of growing and maturing as an individual and as a basketball player.
"He's playing minutes. I think all of that was favorable in Ricky's situation. Ricky probably got to the point where it was counter-productive because that last year in Spain he was really, if anything, going the opposite direction. It's almost like there was a disinterest, if you will, or he had a lot less impact. I'm sure that extra time in Europe was beneficial for him, but in his case, maybe it lasted just one season too long."
That, the Raptors hope, will not be the case for the improving Valanciunas. When he finally makes it to the NBA, he'll be ready. And Toronto will be ready for him.
As Matt said many much more intelligent and informed people have said that JV is a FRANCHISE CENTER. I haven't heard anything close to that about biyombo. Biyombo is a more athletic Reggie Evans with longer arms
That $2.4M buyout is obscene. The Raps can only contribute $500K. JV is paying $1.9M to come to Toronto next year.
If a club wants a player under contract with another club they need to negotiate a transfer fee; there isn't a trade system comparable to the nba system (even though sometimes a trade is part of the deal). In general the player also has to agree to the trade. You could see the transfer fee as a buy-out, but paid for by the club. (For fun: In 2009 Ronaldo changed clubs for aobut 100 million dollars; the asking price for Messi is set at about 330 million dollar (meaning they don't want to sell him...)).
It's a lot because the Raptors can only pay for 500k of it; but that's a choice of the nba, not the Lithuanian club.
In football, in Europe, a club who develops a player gets a percentage of every transfer of this player later on. This is to stop the big clubs from parasitizing (?) on the smaller clubs by letting them pay for the development from youth player to senior player and picking up all the talent without rewardings for the club which has paid for the development of this player. In Europe, unlike nba teams, (almost) all the teams, in basketbal and football, have youth training programs. These programs of course cost (a lot of) money. If all players would just leave after completing their training, a lot of those clubs would not be able to sustain these training programs. They need to profit either from the talent by having (some of) these self-trained players play in their senior team or they need to get compensation for the investments they made.
Also: this isn't anywhere near as obscene as e.g. being able to franchise tag a player meaning he can never leave on his own accord for another nba club. 2.4 million won't do the trick with that kind of rules instituted.
Last edited by Soft Euro; Tue Mar 13th, 2012 at 06:20 PM.
Amortization of that sum over say a ten yr. period is about 200k/. No big deal for someone who should be a high end player/earner going forward. Besides the financial consultant anecdote mentioned above I am sure his agent/s can put their heads together and work out some form of creative payback scheme for who will be a lucrative client. And lets not forget endorsements. All in all we need not feel too badly for JV.
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