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True confession: I'm not a big fan of chase scenes. If there was an
expression that was the opposite of "cut to the chase" ("cut to the
nuanced character development"?) it would be my motto.
What's more, I've gotten a little jaded about car chases. I no longer ask myself, "Whoa. How'd they pull that off?" I just kind yawn and think: Closed set, stuntmen, CGI. . . Next!
Which is why it's all the more surprising—and impressive—that the chase scenes in Premium Rush (dumb title, smart film) were my favorite parts of the movie.
Actually, not just the chase scenes—all the scenes involving our hero Wiley (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) on his trusty bicycle. As Wiley bobbed and weaved through traffic, narrowly avoiding collisions, I was mesmerized—and yes, numerous times I asked myself, "How'd they do that?"
Wiley, if you haven't already guessed, is a bike messenger in Manhattan—in other words, he's nuts. But even among the gonzos of the NYC bike messenger ranks, Wiley is the craziest. His bike is stripped bare, he tore off his brakes years ago. He has a need for speed, as a certain movie maverick once said—and he thinks braking is the most dangerous thing a bike messenger can do.
In one of the film's best conceits, Wiley uses his split-second reflexes and vision to assess the variables of any situation. He's like a running back—if that running back had to negotiate New York City cabs. We see his thought process: If he goes one way, he runs over a baby carriage; if he goes another way, he gets slammed by a car door; but the third way, if he snakes through traffic just fast enough, he'll emerge unscathed.
Because this is a movie about a bike messenger, we can already anticipate the plot: Wiley gets a package to deliver and suddenly finds himself in danger, shadowed by a threatening corrupt cop (Michael Shannon) and wanted by some sketchy figures in Chinatown's underworld. What's in the package? And how is it related to the roommate of Wiley's bike messenger girlfriend?
So much great stuff here. Twitchy, endlessly fascinating Shannon is never a bad idea as the villain and director David Koepp is smart enough to give the gloriously weird actor a couple of scenery chewing moments. There's an amusing little B-plot involving an earnest bike cop—a real Dudley-Do-Right type— who keeps chasing down Wiley and coming up short. The only slightly draggy part (relatively speaking, mind you) involves Wiley's rival (Wolé Parks), a jacked up fellow biker in spandex (Wiley's more of a baggy cargo shorts and tee kinda guy himself). It felt a bit unnecessary. There's also one suspend-your-disbelief moment, where Shannon's cop has Wiley in his clutches and inexplicably lets him go. Oh well, no script is perfect.
Gordon-Levitt, as usual, just shines as Wiley. With his hair closely cropped, he looks like a moving bullet and he brings just the right amount of swagger and cocky charm to the role. And while he may not have performed all his stunts, he's clearly extremely adept on that bike. Gotta love the skinny, smart, hipster-approved Gordon-Levitt. He's America's first indie action hero.


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"I am pleased to report another record-breaking quarter for Norfolk Southern, during which we achieved first-quarter highs in revenues, operating income, net income, and earnings per share," said CEO Wick Moorman (pictured). "The benefits of our steady focus on service and operating efficiency are reflected in our results, and we continue to position our franchise for sustained growth through strategic investments in infrastructure."
Compared with the first quarter of 2011, railway operating revenues improved 6% to $2.8 billion, primarily as the result of a 5% increase in revenue per unit; general merchandise revenues improved 13% to $1.5 billion; coal revenues declined 6% to $766 million; and intermodal revenues improved to $527 million.
Railway operating expenses were up 1% to $2 billion from first-quarter 2011. The increase was largely due to higher fuel prices, compensation costs, and materials expenses, offset in part by the absence of last year's non-cash charge. Income from railway operations for the first quarter increased 24% to $745 million.
The operating ratio improved 5% to 73.3% compared with first-quarter 2011, and equaled the first-quarter record.

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Based on recommendations from 10 expert advisers in 7 countries, the Ostoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) has recommended a set of five simple tests to assess physical function in osteoarthritis.
The focus of the tests, intended for both clinical use and research, was rising from a chair, climbing stairs, and walking. They are intended to supplement patient self-report as a measure of physical function.
The recommended measures include a "minimal core set" of tests::
• 30-second Chair Stand Test: How many times can the patient rise from a chair in 30 seconds?
• 40-meter Fast-paced Walk Test: A timed test of walking twice back and forth over a 10 m (33 ft) walkway.
• Stair Climb Test: How long does it take the patient to climb a set of stairs? When possible, a set of 9 steps with 20 cm (8 inch) risers is preferred; otherwise, the number of steps should be recorded.
and two additional recommended tests:
• Timed Up & Go Test: How many seconds does it take for the patient to rise from a chair, walk 3 m (9 ft 10 in), turn around, walk back to the chair and sit down (wearing shoes, using a walking aid if necessary).
• 6-minute Walk Test: How far can the patient walk in ordinary shoes in the course of 6 minutes? Rest periods are allowed (but are counted in the time), and encouraging prompts ("You're doing great! Keep going!") are recommended.
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Whitman Dean Melvin T. Stith is inaugural inductee to PhD Project Hall of Fame
Melvin T. Stith G'73 ,'77, dean of the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, is an inaugural inductee into the newly established PhD Project Hall of Fame. The PhD Project is an award-winning program that aims to increase diversity in management.
Hall of Fame inaugural inductees will be honored at the organization's annual conference in November. Starting in 2012, a new class of inductees will be selected annually, with supporters of the PhD Project and the public invited to submit nominations for each year's class.
The PhD Project established the Hall of Fame to recognize a select few who have inspired many. These individuals have sustained an unwavering commitment to the project's mission and their positive leadership has resulted in significant encouragement and impact within the project's network of minority business doctoral students and faculty. These doctoral students and faculty are role models and mentors attracting minority students to the study of business, thereby enhancing the talent pool available to corporate America.
"We are pleased to present the first inductees to the PhD Project Hall of Fame. Since our inception, these individuals have served the project as presenters, mentors and advisers," says Bernard J. Milano, president of the PhD Project and the KPMG Foundation, founder and lead funder of the project. "They have put forth great effort to create diversity in academia and through that, the business world."
"I am honored to be inducted to the PhD Project Hall of Fame and look forward to continued work with the project in addressing the severe under-representation of African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans in management and business school faculty," says Stith.
The PhD Project was created in 1994 to address the idea that a diverse faculty encourages more minorities to pursue business degrees, thereby increasing the pool of minority applicants for positions in today's multicultural corporate environment. Since its inception, the project has worked to increase the number of African American, Hispanic American and Native American business professors from 294 to 1,113.
Some of America's top companies and academic organizations support the project, including the KPMG Foundation, Graduate Management Admission Council, Citi Foundation, AACSB International, 250+ participating universities, AICPA Foundation, Diversity Inc., JPMorgan Chase Foundation, the Goldman Sachs Group, the Merck Company Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP, Rockwell Collins, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., ACT-1 Group, American Marketing Association, AT&T, John Deere Foundation, Dow Chemical Co., CIGNA, ADP, American Express, Motorola Foundation, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, California State University System, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Western Union Foundation, Corporate Executive Board, Edison International and Lincoln Financial Group.
An alumnus of the Whitman School, Stith returned to his alma mater in Jan. 2005 to become Whitman's 16th dean.


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While the annual Coachella festival built its sizeable reputation on delivering an impressive range of musical acts ranging from alt-rock legends to emerging artists, the three-day concert has become so popular that the overall experience often overshadows the music itself.
A recent sketch on Jimmy Kimmel Live! highlights that phenomenon by quizzing random Coachella concertgoers about which acts they're most excited to see, suggesting a few bands which they enthusiastically endorse. The only problem is that most of the bands they're raving about don't exist.
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, February 22, 2013, 9:36 AM
Town Square
District submits responses in bullying case
Original post made on Feb 22, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, February 22, 2013, 9:36 AM
a resident of College Terrace
on Feb 22, 2013 at 10:37 am
Why does Holly Wade's memo say that the District is going to pay for training rather than the OCR training offered for free? Was that arranged when no one knew about the settlement, to avoid ackward questions about why OCR was doing training?
a resident of Midtown
on Feb 22, 2013 at 3:48 pm
Shouldn't this settlement with the Dept of Education include the termination of Kevin Skelly? He is the biggest offender in this whole business.
a resident of Juana Briones School
on Feb 22, 2013 at 4:56 pm
School board: you need to resign or you need to take action. The action you need to take is to fire Skelly and Young. Wade should also begin her exit. Skelly's behavior has been unprofessional--hiding critical information from the board, transparency issues, and violating the civil rights of our students are unprofessional--and it has made liable we taxpayers. That you did not know about this information makes it seem that he did not want to negatively impact your re-election.
Heidi, you need to step up and show real leadership. We voted for you because you are a Juana Briones parent, but please do not attempt to shirk your duty. You need to lead the firing, clearly Camille, Dana, and Barbara have no intention of doing so, or they are simply incapable. There have been too many apologies from Skelly.
Young needs to be simply let go. This was a compliance issue and he was the compliance officer yet showed no competence during the past year and a half. March 15 is the deadline. Both of them need to be given a pink slip.
a resident of Barron Park
on Feb 22, 2013 at 4:57 pm
We are not counting the investigations done by the Santa Clara Office of Education, where they found the district out of compliance. If we go deep into this more settlements will come out. Yes they do exist, but they were kept secret.
a resident of Midtown
on Feb 22, 2013 at 6:59 pm
I agree this mess cannot be undone, it only keeps getting bigger. Time to let go all the people involved, no need to put names, you district employees know if you tried to help this child or not. Hope you have time to sit down and ask yourself: "Did I really earned the money I am getting paid for?" If you were one of those the student asked for help and you told her to go to the office and ask for help, you too need to leave and find a job that you can be better at. Yes this also includes the secretary at the middle school who would give the ugly look every time she saw the family coming to ask for help, and could not hide .
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Feb 22, 2013 at 7:43 pm
This is not a full response to the community about how it got this ugly, and how this will be dealt with in terms of changing leadership and so forth.
Deafening silence from those who have insisted that the recent board election was a confidence vote for Skelly, or that those against Skelly are naysayers who don't care about our schools.
Where are you Skelly supporters?
This is somehow everyone else's fault?
a resident of Midtown
on Feb 24, 2013 at 2:15 pm
Kevin Skelly is guilty of the bullying problems in our schools by OMISSION--what he did NOT do--rather than by COMMISSION. It is also called neglect. he is too wi py and indecisive for the job, so he should be replaced ASAP.
a resident of Midtown
on Feb 25, 2013 at 7:48 am
How do we start the process to remove Kevin Skelly from office. I mean, as long as he is here, my kids will not go to PAUSD schools.
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a resident of Barron Park
on Feb 25, 2013 at 8:35 am
The district's submission is fatally defective because it still fails to clearly specify that the Uniform Complaint Policy is the district's complaint policy for discriminatory harassment claims. This violates state law (Cal Government Code 234.1, CDE Regulations, Title 5, Subchater 1, 4600 et seq; Title 5, Subchater 1, 4900 et seq ("It is the intent of the State Board of Education that the Superintendent of Public Instruction assist school districts and county offices of education to recognize and eliminate unlawful discrimination that may exist within their programs or activities and to meet the requirements of this Chapter. The Superintendent shall meet this responsibility through technical assistance and ensuring compliance pursuant to Chapter 5.1 (commencing with section 4600) of this Title relating to standard complaint procedures.").
The district committed to OCR that it would now utilize the Uniform Complaint Procedure but in its submission, the district tried yet again to make up a site-based policy that allows each school to have its own separate investigation, record keeping, etc. Parents only receive the legally mandated policy if they go out of their way to elect to use it. Even then it is not clear from this submission whether they will receive the mandated policy or just get bounced back to the site.
In addition the submission sends an unfortunate message to the government that PAUSD is not taking this process seriously. For example, the submission contains a typo in the first word of the title, in 14 point all caps ("DESCRIMINATION") and having multiple different dates for the same things just generally indicating a lack of seriousness of purpose, e.g., the policy says that complaints will be resolved in 15 days, the notice says 10, the guidance memo says complaints are written, the policy says oral or written, the uniform complaint procedure specified by law says written, who can tell what is really in force).
This same lack of seriousness is reflected in the Charles Young emails to the school board in which he informs them that the district is under investigation, which he does not seem to like because students and staff were "taken away from the classroom and their work" to respond to, and in which he (incorrectly) bragged that the 35 student interviews "shed
only a positive light on the school and our support of students." The embarrassingly wrong comment by Young echoes the similar braggadocio from the school Principal who rebuffed OCR's offer of disability harassment training by telling her that PAUSD's staff was very "sophisticated" and did not need such training. The unintentionally ironic emblem in the upper right hand corner of Young's memo to the board is, of course, a lighthouse.
When Young later informed the board that maybe PAUSD was not a beacon of light unto the world after all and that OCR had found us to be illegally discriminating, he expressed concern only for the feelings of staff, but not the child -- a little disabled girl who had been repeatedly told she was stupid, retarded, no one liked her, no one would be her friend, and punched in the face while the district did nothing to intervene to stop the harassment. Rather than express a whit of concern for her, Young told the board that "The staff at [the school] will be disappointed as they felt they did a great deal of good work to ameliorate the concerns outlined in the parent's initial complaint." A more appropriate sentence would have been "the district deeply regrets the fact that this child's rights were violated and we will be reaching out to the family in order to ensure the well-being of this child. Our hearts go out to her." That lack of feeling likely also explains the fact that the family was stonewalled for 10 more months until the district's lack of concern broke in the press.
In other words, it does not appear that PAUSD has taken this case seriously from the first day the parents reported the problem until today. They just do not get it. This submission is more evidence that the district is not taking its responsibility seriously. It could not even bother to proofread its submission to ensure that it appeared to be carefully done. It does not comply with either the letter or the spirit of the complaint procedure requirements.
One of the primary problems in the OCR case was a lack of clear complaint resolution procedures. This lack of clear policies and procedures left families in a procedural black hole in which their complaints were sent back to the sites for resolution in violation of state law and in violation of the civil rights of children. This new effort only serves to muddy the waters further. The district will now have fully seven policies and four sets of administrative regulations, each claiming to be the district's policy for resolving discrimination. Only one of these is the state-required Uniform Complaint Procedure BP1312.3). All the rest merely serve to confuse parents and staff and zero out any hope of accountability.
The reason for this is that the state and federal government consider the LEA as the district, while at PAUSD the ideology of site control is preventing Dr. Skelly and the board from understanding and implementing their responsibilities under the law. Even when faced with an order from the US Department of Education instructing them to do so, and a myriad of state laws mandating that they do so, they are still trying to fudge their answers.
Hopefully OCR will reject this as insufficient and tell the district to begin again this time in the spirit of compliance rather than enact a policy of massive resistance. By the way, PAUSD is not the first school district to resist federal civil rights law.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Feb 25, 2013 at 11:13 am
We seem to have gotten into this mess because Skelly apparently learned the wrong lessons from what happened in Poway, where the district got into hot water for shuffling every special ed student into the black hole of a separate special ed program where the kids weren't getting an equal education or the services they needed. When parents balked, the district sued them to make them go into the program! The law requires districts to make accommodations so kids can get a fair education in the least restrictive environment possible.
It explains a lot about why the unspoken policy here seems to be to avoid documenting, acknowledging or realizing many kids' special needs, to the point of engaging in deception such as the assistant principal clearly did in the bullying case, in hopes that families will be deflected instead of coming under the umbrella of legal protections in these important laws. If you can't segregate special needs kids, it would seem the approach is to now simply fall all over themselves not to have them in the first place. Unfortunately, aside from being morally reprehensible and going against serving the best interests of students and schools, it's also illegal as the law requires districts to be proactive about identifying and extending protections to students who may benefit, and has them write their own procedures for complying with the law in a practical way.
How many kids in our district were denied services that would have cost less than the administrative and legal time to illegally deny them? We'll probably never know. In both of these cases, the OCR highlighted our district seeming to not know the laws, not following the laws, and certainly not apprising parents of the laws or their protections under the laws (as the law requires).
I don't see even a hint of remorse for this unspoken policy, which we now see, know is illegal, doesn't serve our kids, and leaves the district open to significant liability. These two cases are only the ones we know about. I haven't seen any evidence Skelly, Young, or the district has changed its tune.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Feb 25, 2013 at 11:54 am
"How many kids in our district were denied services that would have cost less than the administrative and legal time to illegally deny them?"
That would be the $$$$$million dollar question, and unfortunately possibly the answer as well.
I noticed an article on these threads about a program of inclusion (for special ed students) which PAUSD was working on, which now seems inconsistent with what happens behind the scenes.
The good intentions are there, but why then create this atmosphere of mistrust? Dubious answers will not be enough.
Barbara Klausner must be relieved to not be on this BOE now!
a resident of Barron Park
on Feb 25, 2013 at 12:03 pm
Inclusion is not always supported by special education advocates. Done well it can be great. Done poorly it is a way for districts to appear to be complying with the law but actually a warehouse/dumping ground for disabled children that increases social ostracism, bullying, and learning difficulties. Inclusion done on the cheap means that kids are mainstreamed without proper supports, teachers are not given proper training, and special needs children are simply plopped down for babysitting while the regular education room carries on. Perhaps there is an aide, perhaps not. The law requires that every child receive a Free Appropriate Public Education. In the case of inclusion the question is "appropriate." The districts that use inclusion as a ruse cite another provision of the law that requires that education to be delivered in the least restrictive environment. But for each child what that environment is will vary depending on the needs of the child. In every case the assessment must be individualized. I have long wondered whether or not inclusion as practiced in PAUSD will be merely a cost-cutting measure. After all, we're already paying the regular ed teachers, so it is much cheaper just to throw the special ed kids into a corner and be done with it as has happened in other districts. I don't know the answer but if the district's compliance with the disability civil rights law in these other cases is any indication, hold onto your hats.
Inclusion done well is "Sesame Street," and done badly is "Lord of the Flies." You can guess which kind we are likely to end up with.
The real problem is that we will never know whether this is really working or not because we have an administration and board more concerned with "shedding a positive light" on our wonderful schools and heaping empty praise on top of empty praise than on having good governance and accountability.
a resident of Midtown
on Feb 25, 2013 at 4:17 pm
The damage has been done. But to start the healing and prevent any more damage, Kevin Skelly should be ousted. We need to discuss how that can be done....by petition, or what?
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Feb 25, 2013 at 6:24 pm
I can't believe that a lawyer is recommending that someone admit they were in the wrong and that they apologize. Talk about opening themselves up to liability. May be this is why they haven't done so. Justice is all a game, unfortunately, at the expense of the innocent.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Feb 25, 2013 at 6:36 pm
Kevin Skelly should not be ousted, the board is in charge of his mid-year evaluation tomorrow, which would set him up for a notification of March 15 that he will not be working in PAUSD as of July 1. It is proper and just that the board votes in closed session to end this professional relationship.
Oust will be what all of us will need to do to the board members should they not report out at 6:30pm tomorrow that Skelly and Young will be moving on. I am more than happy to attend his goodbye ceremony in June and honor him for the good work that he has done, and he has done some good work, unfortunately, these latest revelations are merely the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. Dismissing Skelly and Young is easy to do, but they have a hard job in deciding what to do with Holly Wade and the middle school principal and assistant principal. Either way, concrete action is called for. If Camille, Melissa, Dana, and Barbara do not handle this, then it is they who should be ousted. Barbara Klausner had her chance in June, but despite giving the weekly a copy of her speech criticizing Skelly, governance, et al, she rewarded him with a contract extension. There should have been no reward. It will be most challenging for Heidi. Will she be able to perform in closed session or at 6:30PM or will she simply say a few words to position herself as not in agreement and yet just follow and allow the dysfunction, mediocrity, and lack of transparency to continue?
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Mar 9, 2013 at 1:21 pm
These documents were required by the OCR Resolution by Feb 15th. The first item on the guidance memo, which is due within 30 days of receiving the OCR's approval of the draft, refers to the new bullying policy, PP and AR 5131.2. It appears these items were due March 15, 2013. Wouldn't this cause the district to be out of compliance with their own resolution agreement with the OCR?
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Mar 9, 2013 at 5:35 pm
Edmund Burke,
Elsewhere you said: "Ken Dauber and WCDB have literally nothing to do with the facts of this case."
Ken Dauber just stood in front of the board saying that he knows the child, that he knows private details about the child's case, that he knows its private resolution and then made demands of the district on the child's behalf. Michele Dauber effectively did the same online, not only saying that she was privy to private details, she shared some of them and gave legal advice that included next steps strategy:
+"aware that this child still lacks an appropriate placement and is not today obtaining a free, appropriate, public education"
+"the family should proceed with haste to obtain other legal remedies available to them [because] the requirements of the IDEA and the ADA are not being met."
+ "The school should face civil liability and it is my hope that the family will retain counsel and pursue their remedies in order to ensure that the student's needs are appropriately provided for as a result of the damage inflicted by the legal noncompliance (and almost willful negligence) in this case."
They are hardly uninvolved with the facts.
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Eventhough I haven't been around online that much over the weekend, what I have noticed since our recent little winning streak is the overall Raptors participation on various message boards and blogs. Activity is down considerably. Some places are like ghost town's compared to when the Raptors are looking like the Washington Generals (or should I say the New Jersey Nets of 2009-10) and playing miserable.
And what I've come to realize is that Raptors fans seem that they'd prefer when this team is down, because when they're doing well productivity is down ten fold. Perhaps being crap gives fans more reason to comment and criticize instead of being happy and discussing about the good things this team has done to get of out this recent funk or even during similar moments in the past.
So, are some fans just happier when the team is down and out and live for those days so they can say "I told you so" or am I off base with this observation? Do people like change that much that if a team does poorly they hope that it will results in firings and trades? Why is this?


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BAGHDAD, Jan. 12 -- Violence across Iraq killed 34 people and wounded some 94 on Sunday, while fierce clashes continued against al-Qaida militants in the country's western province of Anbar, police and officials said.
Armored vehicles and tanks backed by helicopters continued their battles for the fourth day with al-Qaida militants at the town of Khaldiyah, some 30 km east of Ramadi, the provincial capital, a police source told Xinhua.
"The troops fought the terrorists on the edge of Khaldiyah and the nearby open land area (locally named al-Jazira). The clashes resulted in the killing of three gunmen and the wounding of two others," the source.
Separately, a soldier was killed and three others were wounded in a clash that occurred around noon between the army and al-Qaida militants in al-Girtan area near Khaldiyah, the source added.
In the evening, Iraqi army artillery and helicopters pounded al- Zidan village in Abu Ghraib area, after gunmen attacked an army base in the area and withdrew to the nearby village, a local police source told Xinhua.
It was not clear how many were killed in the clashes at the military base, but reports said that all the casualties took place in the village. The source gave no further details about how many gunmen were among the casualties.
Meanwhile, Ali al-Rawi, an official in Anbar's provincial council, told reporters that some 1,000 families have left their homes in the town of Khaldiyah and the nearby areas, fleeing to other cities.
"Nearly 1,000 families, most of them are women, children and elderly, have left their homes in Khaldiyah Jazira to the cities of Heet, Rawa and Aanah, because of the clashes and the shelling on their homes," Rawi said, adding that many of the remaining families are locked in their homes by the clashes.
Insurgent attacks continued in the volatile Sunni Arab area west of Baghdad that stretches through Anbar province to Iraq's western border with Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Anbar province has been the scene of fierce clashes after Iraqi police dismantled an anti-government protest site outside Ramadi, the provincial capital, in late December.
In Baghdad, a car bomb went off at a busy intersection of Adan in Kadhmiyah district in the northern part of the Iraqi capital, killing four people and wounding 14 others, the source said.
Another car bomb detonated at a busy Alawi parking lot in downtown Baghdad, killing at least three people, wounding 12 others and setting fire to several nearby civilian cars, the source added.
Also in the capital, a roadside bomb exploded at Mansour district in western Baghdad, killing a civilian and wounding three others, he said.
Separately, seven people were killed and 27 others wounded when a car bomb and a motorcycle bomb detonated in a quick succession in the restive city of Tuz-Khurmato, some 200 km north of Baghdad, a local police source said.
In Iraq's Salahudin province, a police officer and a policeman were killed in a drive-by shooting when gunmen opened fire from their assault rifles on the victims' car while driving in the city of Baiji, some 200 km north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, a provincial police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
In a separate incident, Salah Nazal, a cameraman, and his driver were critically wounded when a sticky bomb attached to their car detonated inside the campus of Mosul University in the city of Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, a local police source anonymously told Xinhua.
In a statement posted on its website, the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate condemned the attack and demanded the Iraqi security forces to bring those behind the attack to justice.
According to Muaiyad al-Lami, head of the syndicate, more than 390 journalists have been killed in Iraq since 2003, and up to 17 were killed in 2013, the highest toll since 2008.
Also in Salahudin, gunmen opened fire on a car carrying deputy commander of a police commando force, known as Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT), killing the officer and his driver, the source said.
In northern Iraq, a cleric of a Sunni mosque was shot dead by gunmen in western the city of Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, while the police found a body of a young man with bullet holes in his head and chest in eastern the city, a local police source said.
Also in the city, seven policemen were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion near their patrol in the northern part of Mosul, the source added.
In Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a civilian was killed and seven people, including three policemen, were wounded in separate bombings and shootings across the province, a provincial police source said.
Tensions and violence have been escalating between the Sunni and Shiite communities since late December 2012, when the Sunni Muslims started their protests against the Shiite-led government in six of Iraq's predominantly Sunni provinces and the Sunni districts in Baghdad.
Iraq is witnessing its worst violence in recent years. According to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, a total of 8,868 Iraqis, including 7,818 civilians and civilian police personnel, were killed in 2013, which is the highest annual death toll for years.


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South Carolina Foal Confirmed EEE-Positive
- Jul 2, 2013
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A viral disease, EEE affects the central nervous system and is transmitted to horses by infected mosquitoes.
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A South Carolina foal tested positive for Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) last week, marking that state's first case of 2013.
In a June 28 statement, Boyd Parr, DVM, South Carolina state veterinarian and director of the Clemson University Livestock Poultry Health, announced that a foal from Sumter County (located in central South Carolina) that died recently tested positive for the disease. Two adult horses that died at the same farm around the same time are suspected of also having EEE, the statement indicated.
"This diagnosis is a vivid reminder of the threat that mosquito-borne diseases represent to horses in our state," Parr said in the statement. "Maintaining protection by vaccinating horses is important again this year."
During 2012 there were 14 confirmed EEE cases and seven WNV cases in South Carolina.
A viral disease, EEE affects the central nervous system and is transmitted to horses by infected mosquitoes. The fatality rate for EEE-affected horses is 75-95%. The course of EEE can be swift, with death occurring two to three days after onset of clinical signs despite intensive care. Horses that survive might have long-lasting impairments and neurologic problems.
Clinical signs for EEE include moderate to high fever, depression, lack of appetite, cranial nerve deficits (facial paralysis, tongue weakness, difficulty swallowing), behavioral changes (aggression, self-mutilation, or drowsiness), gait abnormalities, or severe central nervous system signs, such as head-pressing, circling, blindness, and seizures.
The American Association of Equine Practitioners recommends all horses be vaccinated against EEE at least annually.
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A multi-jurisdictional task force has released a sketch to help identity a suspect in a rash of shootings.
There have been multiple reports of shots fired at vehicles in Livingston, Oakland and Ingham counties since October 16th. The incidents happened in the area of the I-96 corridor.
Victims say a man fired shots while driving toward them. Vehicles have been hit, but no one has been injured, Wixom police said.
The sketch reflects a description from a victim in one of the Ingham County incidents. The suspect's vehicle is described a black four-door sedan.
Multiple tips are being investigated, according to the Wixom Police Department.
If you have any information, call 1-800-SPEAK-UP.
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Hey guys,
So I wanna stream stuff wirelessly to my TV. I wanna do it on the cheap. I've been looking at a few options but I don't really know where to start. HTPC's seem cool, but a little pricey considering the alternatives. The android IPTV options look pretty sweet but don't have very good reviews. Roku's seem like another option, but they may be too centered around popular services and not stream MKVs or other codecs. The SFF atom machines have abysmal reviews, so they don't look attractive.
My price range is 50-150 but maybe up to 300 if it's got basically full PC functionality. I'd really prefer to stick to the lower price range for now, as I want to get these:
http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdet ... er=300-702
so I need to pinch my pennies.
Money is tight right now, just bought a new house, trying to make it more enjoyable for guests.


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By Amanda Wicks
Puff Daddy wants to premiere his forthcoming documentary, Can't Stop, Won't Stop: The Bad Boy Story, in style.
Related: Diddy, Brooklyn Nets Honor Notorious B.I.G. During Halftime
Puff announced a special one-night only concert to set the stage for the record label's story, which will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April. The concert will feature Puff, naturally, but also enlist Faith Evans, Lil' Kim and Mase.
"New York is home," Combs said in a statement. "This is where Bad Boy began, where the movement started. There was never a question in my mind that this film would premiere right here where it all started. This is the story of our family — the biggest names in hip-hop history — and what happens when we came together for the first time in two decades. There were ups and downs, a lot of hard work and sacrifice — and more than anything, you see that love that only exists in a family."
Can't Stop, Won't Stop oscillates between the label's rise in Harlem and Brooklyn and its 20th anniversary Bad Boy Reunion Tour. It culminates in the tour's two-night stint at Brooklyn's Barclay's Center, which featured Puffy Daddy, Lil' Kim, Mase, Faith Evans, Mario Winans, 112, Total, Carl Thomas and The Lox.
The concert will take place at the Beacon Theatre on April 27th. Tickets go on sale March 21st via Tribeca Film Festival's website and Ticketmaster.


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Fernando Leon/Getty ImagesThese dashing youths are not only attractive, but as the children of the world's wealthiest people, they are also devastatingly rich.
Having billionaire parents has its perks, from $60 million weddings to private yachts.
But while some of these heirs have become famous in their own rights as models and businessmen, others have have stayed out of the spotlight, focusing on charity or private work.


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Gospel music will be played from 7-9 p.m. today at the Red Barn in Moreland. Special guest will be Lee Mountain Boys. A $2 donation will be taken at the door. The group is also accepting canned food items to donate to a local church.
ARVAC commodities to be issued today
ARVAC will issue commodities from 8 a.m. to noon today at the Pope County fairgrounds, 519 S. Knoxville Ave. in Russellville, for all eligible households. Applicants will need to bring total household income, number in household and a social security card. All persons that have a "Blue Card" must bring it to receive commodities. Listed are the income guidelines, family size and monthly income below:
1 — $1,211; 2 — $1,640; 3 — $2,069; 4 — $2,498; 5 — $2,927; 6 — $3,356; 7 — $3,785; 8 — $4,214
Add $429 for each additional family member. Persons are asked to bring a sack to carry commodities in. Applicants cannot pick up commodities for more than two households. Giving this information is voluntary. Rules for acceptance and participation in the program are the same for everyone without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex or handicap.
River Valley blood donors rock
Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center and the American Red Cross invite all donors to Rock and Roll Up Your Sleeve this summer to give blood or platelets.
Visit Saint Mary's between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. today in cafes 2 and 3 as all donors will be eligible to win a Gibson guitar, courtesy of The Gibson Foundation. The Red Cross will award multiple guitars. In addition, all donors will receive a rock and roll themed T-shirt.
For more information, call 968-2841.


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Allen Iverson would make perfect sense if $ was the key issue. SIGN IVERSON NOW!
Allen Iverson would make perfect sense if $ was the key issue. SIGN IVERSON NOW!
Devin Harris won't be signing with the mavs cause of a toe injury. I don't see why we can't offer em a mle or min. And have em play for us. At this point his options are slim and his are slim and he can control tempo a former allstar. I'm all for it.
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Was Nolan Smith ex-Trail Blazer signed by Boston or just invited to Summer League??? This kid can ball, and could be a solid steal for third string...
I don't think we'll be able to afford Undrih either. I still haven't heard Darius Morris's name anywhere. We should be able to get him fro the min and he may even have some long term upside. Nolan Smith wouldn't be bad either. A third name is Toure Murry in the Summer league. He's listed as a Forward on the D-League site but they actually let him play point in the playoffs last year and he played great. I think he had a triple double in one game or close to it. Tommy Dee was pimping him a little on his site also...might be the sleeper.
a sign and trade for Brandon Jennings would be nice.....offer either Felton or Prig and pick/s.....they want to move him
We're unable to perform any sign and trades that would bring a player in. We can only sign and trade players out such as Q-Rich
Brooks is still one of the fastest guys in the league, I'm going with him just as an energy guard that can take it to the hole.
DJ Augustin vet min/1 yr deal with the Raps. The new CBA has put the clamps on teams spending, we should be able to get an experienced PG for the vet min.
Mo Williams! Call em and offer him what we can. Hopefully a player like melo, chandler etc can excite him to want to play for us
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I mentioned in my music post (http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/sho...l=1#post640141) about Epik High, a hip-hop group in Korea. I also mention that one of its members, Tablo graduated from Stanford.
What I didn't tell you, however, that Tablo went through what some here in the U.S. would consider unfathomable an Internet group that tried to convince the world that this young man did not have a degree from Stanford. This smear campaign would lead to death threats and nearly destroyed this young man's musical career. This hell went on for more than a year, even after Tablo (known as Dan Lee) showed transcripts and even filmed a television special of him visiting Stanford.
Anyway, I bring it up because Wired had an interesting piece on the subject today:
This story is an extreme example of how when you are famous everyone is on you and will set all sorts of claims for and against you. It explains a lot why Yuna Kim felt so pressured in competitions.


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I do a lot of riding in 100+ temps and under 15% humidity, and have crossed the Mojave many times during summer months. The cooling vests work wonderfully in these conditions, and will stay wet/damp for about 90 minutes, IF you restrict airflow a little, as others have said. I always wear a heavy jacket (not mesh), but one which has ARM ZIPPERS -- an absolute MUST for hot weather riding. Chest zips (IMHO) usually sit behind a windscreen, but arms/elbows are out in the breeze. Not sure why more manufacturers don't catch on to this trick.
Each to her/his own on using mesh riding gear, but if you use it, you must drink a lot of water to compensate for skin evaporation. Those guys who live in the Sahara and ride camels? No mesh gear there -- ATGATT, head-to-toe, and their lives depend on it, as do ours.
THE most important thing, as previously mentioned, is to STAY HYDRATED. In the west, this means a Camelbak or equivalent. You cannot stay hydrated in high heat and low humidity unless you are drinking small amounts every 15-30 minutes. You will get dehydrated if you rely on drinking at gas stops only, and many Western roads have 50+ mile stretches between gas, anyway.
The first thing that goes away when you get 10% dry is the "higher" thinking part, as in "making decisions," and you might find yourself trying to recall which lever is for stopping, and which for shifting. . .and why is my hand moving sooooo slow???
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Howard biggest 'Piece' in Phils' puzzle
Plenty of sluggers, but 2006 NL MVP is club's go-to guy
By Todd Zolecki / MLB.com
Howard is the force in the middle of the Phils' lineup. He is the run producer.
Philadelphia certainly has other talented run producers. Chase Utley is on pace for 35 home runs and 102 RBIs, Raul Ibanez is on pace for 35 homers and 98 RBIs and Jayson Werth is on pace for 38 homers and 96 RBIs. But Howard is on pace for 43 homers and 135 RBIs, numbers he has been putting up for years.
Howard is the fastest player in baseball history to hit 200 home runs and the fastest to reach 600 RBIs since Ted Williams in 1946.
"That's why I call him the Big Piece," Manuel said.
Others just marvel at his power. Howard hit two home runs in a 6-2 victory over the Mets at Citi Field on Aug. 24: a three-run homer to left field in the first inning and a two-run homer to right field in the third.
The three-run homer could not have been more impressive. He kept his hands in and simply muscled the ball to left field. Or as Mets broadcaster Keith Hernandez said to Ron Darling as he watched the replay on SNY: "This is an inside-out, Ronny! He inside-outed this ball and hit it out in this ballpark. That's impressive."
Howard crushed the two-run homer in the third over the Subway sign in right. Or as Hernandez said: "He turns on this one and he knew he got it. Inside-out to the opposite field, the exact opposite here."
Howard has had four consecutive 30-home run/100-RBI seasons to join Hall of Fame outfielder Chuck Klein as the only players in franchise history to accomplish the feat. (Hall of Fame third baseman Mike Schmidt has a franchise-record nine 30-homer/100-RBI seasons, but never in more than two consecutive years.)
Since becoming an everyday player July 1, 2005, Howard leads the Majors in home runs (212) and RBIs (610) entering Wednesday.
The next closest is Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols, who has 186 homers and 535 RBIs.
But Howard also seems to play his best when it matters most. He enters Wednesday's game against the Nationals hitting .307 (42-for-137) with 12 home runs and 39 RBIs in his past 35 games. He entered the season a career .313 hitter with 43 homers and 104 RBIs in September, his best marks in any month.
The Phillies will be counting on him again in October. He hit .300 with two RBIs in last year's National League Championship Series against the Dodgers, and .286 with three homers and six RBIs in the World Series against the Rays.
Todd Zolecki is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Bare Naked Bakery & Cafe
2572 Merrick Rd. Bellmore , NY 516-809-7370
Bridget Brennan knew she was on to something from the comments she overheard at her newly opened gluten-free bakery-cafe: "Omigod, mommy. Can I really have everything?" gushed one child. An older patron sighed, "I haven't had a Reuben in years."
Local restaurants have become increasingly accommodating to patrons with gluten sensitivity and celiac disease -- a disorder that renders the sufferer unable to digest gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. But to Brennan, that wasn't enough. "When you're on a special diet," she said, "eating out can feel awkward, even humiliating. It creates emotional issues that go beyond the digestive tract."
Brennan's gluten-free journey began in 2005, when her sister was put on a wheat-free diet. Because gluten intolerance runs in families, Brennan herself stopped eating wheat about three years ago and found that her own symptoms of bloating and fatigue quickly vanished.
In July 2010, she opened Long Island's first gluten-free eatery. Bare Naked's menu offers sandwiches and panini, salads, pizzas, pizza rolls, bagels, pretzels, muffins and pastries. Everything is made on the premises, and everything is 100-percent gluten free.
Brennan had no desire to open a little, out-of-the-way sort of establishment which, she felt, would only reinforce the idea that gluten-free patrons are living on the fringe of culinary society. Accordingly, Bare Naked occupies a free-standing structure on Merrick Road - with parking. The dining room is spacious and sunny and so smartly decorated that many people assume it's a branch of a national chain.
Perhaps one day, it will be.
Photo: Bridget Brennan, owner of Bare Naked Bakery & Cafe in Bellmore, opened Long Island's first gluten-free bakery in July 2010. (Newsday / Erica Marcus / Aug. 20, 2010)Website Add an event Correct this listing


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Blackberry Outages Sweep North America
White collar professionals across America are spinning their trackwheels in vain today, the day the Personal Digital Assistants died. Widespread BlackBerry outages in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India reached North America today, leaving thousands of cubicle dwellers in the U.S. and Canada mashing their fingers against microscopic keypads in vain.
Messaging and email services are at their worst state in two years. (Apparently there was a big outage back then too? Why do people still use these things?) Globally, BlackBerry's RIM network has suffered disruptions for three days. Meanwhile, I can't get RIM's service update site to load. Is that just me? Anyway, good day to buy stock in Apple. [Reuters, RIM, images via Wikimedia and Shutterstock]


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LONDON, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The British residents of an apartment where a pair of strangers were caught having sex posted pictures and videos of the incident online.
Chris Sawyer, 27, said he heard the couple enter his London apartment through a door that had been left open by a neighbor in the early hours Saturday and the pair went into the bedroom of his roommate, Sean Thorne, 24, who was not home, and had sex, The Sun reported Tuesday.
Sawyer said he called Thorne before taking pictures of the incident and posting updates about the rendezvous on Twitter. He said he took video of the embarrassed couple exiting Thorne's room.
Thorne said he has thrown away his bed sheets. He said the couple did not take all of their belongings when they left.
"I've got his red trousers as he took mine by mistake. I think it's quite funny now," he said.
The roommates said the girl, who had been attending a party at a neighbor's apartment prior to the incident, sent some friends to the apartment later to collect her hot pants and other items.


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I'm a student who wants to be an author when I grow up. I love soccer, basketball, drawing, acting, writing (of course), Lord of the Rings, Eragon, X-men, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars (Hayden Christensen is so hot in III), anything with a dragon (or any other magical creature in it), and I love my family.
I have to name my friends because they are so WON-DER-FUL!
They are Picklebug, shout2muggles, Professer Bookworm, hpsmartone32, and malfoysgrlfriend83.
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CLEVELAND, OH -- In my continued search to save you time, money and flag down huge deals, it's all about battery bargains today. I've been waiting almost six months for another great battery deal and finally I got what I wanted.
It's a rather high number in my opinion: the average household in our region spends as much as $100 per year on batteries and with most of that on AA's, and at least 70 batteries used per year.
From TV remote controls to flashlights, smoke detectors and more, rechargeable batteries are not a great mix for many gadgets in our home, which is why today's deal drop on 80 regular alkaline batteries has me fired up. The batteries below which are made by Toshiba tested VERY well for us and held their ground with both Duracell and Energizer for the most part. Considering you're getting more than a year's worth of batteries for under $20, this is without a doubt the deal of the day.
While I have seen competing offers on other batteries from other brands, many of the batteries in these packages are nearly expired or not of great quality.
We do not receive any financial compensation from any deal or for mentioning any product/company. The only purpose of this series is to save you money!
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60% Off 80 Toshiba AA Super Alkaline Batteries + Free Shipping
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Now: $19.97
**Batteries in this package are best used before February 2017.


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The Year In Electronica Music
(For a complete list of 54th GRAMMY Awards nominees, click here.)
With dubstep artist Skrillex taking five GRAMMY nominations into his custody with his eerie, hair-raising samples and crushing bass lines, and superstar DJ Deadmau5 detaining three of his own, a slew of articles have hit the Internet with titles such as "2011, The Year Of Electronic Music" and Most Electronic Year Yet?" by journalists who, in my opinion, are a little late to the party (and no, I don't mean rave) in suggesting electronica music is having its moment. That isn't to say that 2011 wasn't an incredible year, just that it is the latest culmination of incredible advances and artistic brilliance in electronica and dance music — a stop on the road we've been on for years.
In 2011 we can point to chart-climbers such as Britney Spears, who infused an electro and reverberant drum pattern and bass line in "Till The World Ends," and Nicki Minaj, who created a storm of digital raindrops and super bass in "Super Bass." (Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez event made waves on YouTube when they were seen reciting the lyrics to "Super Bass," leading Minaj to make a cameo in concert with Swift.) Even though none of these women are technically electronica artists, they all successfully incorporated the genre into their own mainstream works.
But electronica music's presence wasn't just limited to a few pop and rap tracks — it was everywhere this year. The Black Eyed Peas' "The Time (Dirty Bit)," Flo Rida's "Good Feeling" and Rihanna's "We Found Love" featuring Calvin Harris are all good examples of what is supposed to be an EDM underground sound, but instead rises across mainstream airwaves with grime and two-step styles, demonstrating that not only is EDM no longer underground, it may very well be mainstream.
How else can one explain such widespread adoption of the genre, from Drake's collaboration with SBTRKT on "Wildfire" and Jamie xx's remixes of several Gil Scott-Heron songs, to David Lynch's electro pop track "Good Day Today" chosen as the lead single of a mostly rock and roll album? Or the naming of remixers and dance music legends Underworld as music directors for the London 2012 Olympic Games? To say nothing of the move business, where the Chemical Brothers scored Hanna, Trent Reznor did The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and Basement Jaxx took on Attack The Block. Even traditional EDM festivals hit new levels of national interest. Not only did the Electric Daisy Carnival pull in 250,000 attendees in Las Vegas in December 2011, but concert promoter Live Nation backed the Identity Festival, the first electronica music touring festival, for more than 20 successful stops.
It was truly an incredible year. One that brought not just the highlights mentioned above, but the culmination of the years of ever-greater adoption of and success by dance and electronica in the mainstream. With such a stucco-sturdy foundation, I think it's time for those who still hold a love-and-hate relationship with electronica music to admit that it pervades their MP3 players and playlists … and has, not just in the last year, but for decades. It just so happens that 2011 was an incredible latest stop for a journey we've been on for some time.


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So last week I mentioned that my band does a cover of 'Clint Eastwood' by the Gorillaz. The cool thing about this song is that it features the rhyming of Del tha Funkee Homosapien, so covering it gives me a chance to rap, and provides the audience with something you don't often see at a pub night. I said I'd get a recording for ya, so here it is:
I wish I could do something about the sound, but the microphone on my mobile doesn't handle noise too well. If anyone knows a 'fix' for that I'd greatly appreciate it. If you'd like to contrast my performance with the original, here it is:
The self-aggrandizement continues!
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While many of the 60 quakes in the past year were too light to be felt by people, the Arkansas Geological Survey hopes to pinpoint a cause.
Geologist Scott Ausbrooks says a closer look is warranted. He told Little Rock television station KATV (http://bit.ly/165yHaC ) that more monitors will be placed in an area from Clinton to Heber Springs.
Ausbrooks says the quakes could just be a natural occurrence, perhaps tied to recent water level changes at the lake. The region also has a pair of injection wells serving the natural gas industry. Ausbrooks says it is too early to say if those are contributing to the uptick.


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Michael Matthews has taken ORICA-GreenEDGE's first win on European soil for the 2014 season, with a convincing bunch sprint victory at the Vuelta a La Rioja in Basque Country. Matthews bettered his second place position at this event last year, finishing off an exemplary display of teamwork by the Australian team to take the win ahead of Francesco Lasca (Caja Rural- Seguros RGA) in second and Carlos Barbero (Euskadi) in third.
"It's obviously nice to win at any time, but the first win of the year is always hard to get," said Matthews. "Once you get the first one they usually keep coming. The lead out was perfect today, probably the best lead-out I've experienced with any team. Hopefully the win today gives the team confidence that I can win and if we can keep these lead outs going there should be more wins to come."
The team went into the 164.7 kilometre warm up race for this week's six day Vuelta al Pais Vasco firmly focused on getting Matthews to the line for the win.
A flurry of early attacks led to the formation of the day's main breakaway, which included Christian Meier and Damien Howson. Once that was reeled in, a smaller break of six riders managed to escape and maintained a slim advantage over the bunch into the final kilometres of the race. With around 10 kilometres remaining, ORICA-GreenEDGE moved to the front and worked systematically to bring ensure a bunch sprint for Matthews.
With the team's first win of the European season coming relatively late in comparison with previous years, the confidence garnered from Matthew's win has come at an ideal time ahead of the Basque tour that brought so much success for the team in 2013.


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HPS201 - Research Methods in Psychology A
Unit details
|2018 unit information
|Enrolment modes:
|Trimester 1: Cloud (online)
Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Warrnambool, Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Cloud (online)
Trimester 3: Cloud (online)
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|Unit chair:
Trimester 1: Christian Hyde
Trimester 2: Ian Fuelscher
Trimester 3: Ian Fuelscher
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|HPS111 and HPS121
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|Contact hours:
Trimester 2 Campus: 1 x 1 hour class and 1 x 2 hour seminar per week
Trimester 1, 2 and 3 Cloud (online): 1 x 2 hour cloud (online) seminar per week
This unit will introduce students to a variety of parametric univariate statistics commonly used in psychology. The focus is on both a conceptual and analytical understanding, rather than strict computational problem solving. The unit progresses from a discussion of descriptive statistics and the foundation of hypothesis testing to the introduction of specific statistical tests such as the t-test, chi-square, Analysis of Variance, Correlation and Regression. An important focus of the unit is on understanding the logic underlying the various statistical analyses covered. The unit also emphasises links between specific statistical analyses and common study designs used in psychology. Students will be taught to analyse data primarily through definitional formulae, as well as a computer-based statistical package.
Assessment task 1: Assignment (maximum 2000 words) 40%
Assessment task 2: Final examination (2 hours) 60%
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After the joy, half laughter the book
Of the kids favorite motherfucking chapter
No need to be a actor (cover up with quilt)
So the fat nigga could drink my motherfucking milk
I wan't some gold bapes I want a prom date
Sloppy ass musty bitch, that's overweight
I wan't a new piano,record deal, new pills, therapist
I'm pissed (Somebody give me a hug)
Jingle balls and I'm fucking Mrs. Clause
Have her climbing up the wall, while he givin' ya'll gifts
He ain't never gave me shit
My mom bought the wrapping, and the shit that influenced
Me to start rapping. It's not a joke, chilling with the Polar Bear
That used to work for coke, santa's sniffin' coke
My Santa Letter Wrote
Fuck you, whiney Malcolm X movie, try me
And I'm stealing Harry Potter's Cloak
Middle East was his birthday, 25th I'd rather get gifts
So why the fuck would I go out my way to celebrate birthday
I'm selfish what the fuck I look like buying a gift
Hide em, bed under the couch
Rad kid done smashed they motherfucking ginger house
And Jesus don't know me, he ain't my homie
Our friendship sits on a self
Santa go and molest an elf
Prancer, Jingle, Rudolf
Drunk driving at night, a peppermint Smirnoff
Santa little buzz, and forgot to switch gears off
My childhood is here, never ever ever smirnoff
Snowman robbing little girl, boys, for toys
And G.I. Joes, and here his fat ass go on my roof
Like Ho Ho (Ho Ho Ho)
Christmas tree's green, and this time of year clean
Make me wanna go and do things (like)
Nigga's in a tinsel, sleighbell blow whistle
Alana, Raquel, hope ya'll under the missle-toe
The house is decorated, and man I'm frustrated
Cause' I didn't get shit that I really wanted
New Years zoom like a mother fucking Mazda
But at the end I wanna' know what the fuck is Kwanzaa?
(What is it? Nobody Knows...Nobody Knows
(O.F.M Banging on your FM.)
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays
Fuck It, I'm still a kid
Bout' to go have a snowball fight
In the middle of LA
Steal some Christmas trees, set em' on fire
Eat some gingerbread cookies
Shit, I don't know
It's the time to enjoy life
You Know?
Happy Holidays from us at Odd Future
And, Fuck you. Fuck You. Fuck You
Tyler, The Creator posted this from his old account on Hypebeast:
I Was Bored, I Hate/Love Xmas, And Uh….Bad Quality, Missing Words, Jst Wanted It Done.


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Just spent a great day of skiing in San Marcos, Texas with Trent Finlayson last Sunday! The day I had can only really be stated as "One of my best days of waterskiing EVER!"
Trent is an amazing skier, very professional, and an honest to goodness all around guy!
It's amazing how we work hard all year to do our best and it blows my mind how a day of help and quality coaching and instruction can us.
I pretty much spent the whole day with Trent. We did three sets with instruction at the end of every run. How much I improved personally was amazing in my own mind. And what he saw in me and the changes he set forth to my technique changed me immediately for the better. Most of the changes were just subtle issues that make vast improvements. But he also changed my mind set and my approach as I come too the first wake and how I exit the second wake.
I only wish I lived in a climate like it is in Texas where one can ski year round! Today is Thursday and I can finally lift my arms above my head as I was so sore from using muscles that I haven't used since Oct when I last skied and put my boat away! But man o man was it ever a good hurt!!!!
So thankful for the day Trent and his wife Kara showed me! I will be back this winter to ski with him again, get more coaching, and work on what he taught me already? I'm going home on Friday but my ski and equipment are staying in Texas for my next visit down.
If you ski and are ever in Texas - look Trent up! You'll be more than happy you did.
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Thanks for sharing. Sounds like you had a blast. Now it's back to ice fishing I guess?My Mom said I'm not allowed to get wet!
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I wish I could impress on all slalom skiers the value of training with a real coach. Several days in a row is my prefered method. I wish I had known this 30 years ago (and had the money). In the big scheme it does not have to be that expensive if you can work it in with another trip - or find a place within an easy drive.
Get coached -If you believe something to be true, it will be - in it's consequences.
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Benson what you state is SO TRUE! Now that being said skiers do yourself a favor and don't just throw your money out there at someone who says they are a ski coach.
I haven't taken whole lot of lessons but I have seen WAY BETTER coaching from some instructors to other instructors. Different styles and different techniques.
A couple times I really felt like all I paid for was some over priced sets that I could have went and done locally for a fraction of the cost.
But when you find someone that you know has paid attention to YOU & YOUR SKIING, analyzied it, and offered you constructive feedback that immediately made you ski better and you noticed it! GO BACK!!!!!
I wished I would have met Trent when I first got my job 6 years ago with my current company. I am in Houston too much to not take advantage of him and what he offers? I will schedule at least 2 sets with lessons every trip down now moving forward.
We got our first boat 5 years ago and our Moomba 2 years ago. I hadn't skied since my early twenties. Since my family got back into the boating lifestyle I have updated my boat and my ski.
I will never ski they way a lot of great skier do.............but at the same time I'm still not too old to work hard and get way better at doing something I love!!
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Array of analog sonar sensors connected to an aio device. More...
Array of analog sonar sensors connected to an aio device.
The AioToSonar driver offers the sonar interface for a group of analogue sonar sensors. It accesses the sensors through an analogue IO interface. (For example, you could connect several Phidets sonar sensors to a Phidgets Interface Kit.)
- Compile-time dependencies
- none
- Provides
- Requires
- aio
- Offers the voltage values of the sensors.
- Configuration requests
- a NACK is replied only
- Configuration file options
- sonarXX (Tuple)
sonarXX [port x y z roll pitch yaw]
- Default: None. You must specify all sensors here.
- Configures each sonar sensor of the array numbered with XX (00-99). The numbering must be continuous.
- port (int): The number of the input port in the aio interface, which this sensor is connected to.
- x/y/z/roll/pitch/yaw (float): The pose of the sensor.
- samplingperiod (float)
- Default: 0.02 s
- Time (in seconds) between to consecutive message queue processings. Should be synchronised with the sampling period of the aio device (e.g. samplingperiod_sonar ~ samplingperiod_aio/2). Because this driver does not access any hardware, waking up is computationally lightweight.
- voltagetometers (float)
- Default: 2.5918 m/V
- distance = voltagetometers * voltage
- Factor to convert the analogue input values (voltages) into distance values (meters). The default value fits for the Phidgets sonar sensor.
- Example
driver ( name "AioToSonar" provides ["sonar:0"] requires ["aio:0"] # Sensor name, AIO Port and Pose (angles in degree) for each sensor # Name [port x y z roll pitch yaw] sonar00 [0 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0] sonar01 [4 -0.3 0.3 0.3 180 0.0 0.0] )


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Skip to comments.Their Temper Tantrum (NY Times rant and barf alert)
Posted on 06/24/2011 9:01:30 AM PDT by Zakeet
Congressional Republicans, who played a major role in piling up the governments unsustainable debt in the first place, have thrown a tantrum and walked out of the debt limit talks. This bit of grandstanding has brought the nation closer to the financial crisis that Republicans have been threatening for weeks. But, at least now, their real goals are in sharp focus.
It has been obvious all along that cutting government services alone is not a solution to either the budget deficit or the mounting national debt. The Democrats, at least, acknowledged that reality at the bargaining table by saying that along with the cuts the Republicans cherish, there would have to be increases in revenue an end to unnecessary tax loopholes for corporations or the rich.
Those demands were modest too modest and Vice President Joseph Biden Jr., who is leading the talks, said they were making progress. But any compromise at all proved too much for the Republicans.
Mr. Cantor said that because he and the House would not support a tax increase, he was walking out of the talks until President Obama resolved the tax issue himself with House Speaker John Boehner. In other words, Mr. Cantor and Mr. Kyl preferred striking a Tea Party pose to the hard work of reaching a deal.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
We approve of revenue enhancements because we are so d*mn broke here at the Times that we haven't had to cough up any income taxes in years.
I don't remember The Slimes attacking the Wisconsin Democrat legislators who went AWOL.
Is my memory that bad?
LMAO! And the NYT was leading the charge to have a balanced budget and responsible spending! NOT!!!!
That's one goofy looking MOFO. The suspenders must keep his panty hose up.
I must have missed it too. I'm just so sure that the NYT would have been in the forefront in chastising the Wisconsin Dems about their responsibility to their voters and to remember that they are there to represent them, and not spend their time in bars in Illinois while they should be working. It is inconceivable that the NYT could not have lectured Wisconsin's runaway DEMS on something like this.
And thus we have further proof (as if it were needed) about how today's MSM journalists were not exactly at the top of the IQ barrel when their "Gaia" - or was that "Gay-Ya" gave out brains.
I can remember (a long time ago) when reading the NYT implied some degree of intellect. If their current presentation of journalism is any indication of the mental capacity of their readership, the sooner they switch over to an all cartoon format, the better.
Can someone provide a link for info on what this touted tax proposal is? Is this another one of those worthless "hire people and you get a tax credit" arrangements?
When I started to read the story the word "satire" came to mind. I thought it had to be satire.
Typical Sulzberger, sounds like he got some sand in his vagina again...
First, there is no such thing as "unsustainable debt". The debt will sustain itself, much to our detriment. Unsupportable? Yep. But what is unsustainable is our spending, which is increasing our debt. We cannot sustain an increasing debt level.
Nobody is talking about reducing our debt. The most aggressive plans do little more than, over time, stopping the GROWTH of our debt.
Maybe they meant "unmaintainable". We can't necessarily maintain our current level of debt if the interest rates we need to pay go up.
Second, while congressional republicans certainly played their part in increasing our debt over the years, they hardly played "a major" role. Frankly, our total debt in Jaunary of 2007 was probably maintainable for the long haul. In the last decade, the republicans actually controlled congress for less time than democrats. People forget how little we controlled the senate; we had a 50/50 split, and then for a 1.5 years the democrats had control; then we took it for 4 years, and then they took it back for the last 4.5 years. (6 years democrats, 4 years republican, 1/2 year split).
We had the house from January of 2001 through January of 2007 (6 years), and then democrats had that for 4.5 years.
And a majority of the debt has been incured in the time since January of 2007. And the largest yearly increases in the debt have occured when democrats had the house, senate, and the presidency.
Lastly, while "everybody" knows that we need more revenue to control the debt, there is no agreement that you need to raise tax rates; The republican argument is that raising tax rates now, with the current Obama Economy, would cost us jobs and revenue; we need economic growth, and that growth will return revenues to their historical norms.
Boy...that guy looks like he's done a lot of hard work in his time (especially of the blue collar type) ...(rolling eyes sarcasm)
Oh yeah, he's chopped plenty of firewood, changed the oil in his 4x4, harvested many deer and fish, truly a man's man.
The New York Times editorial writer(s) present their "arguments" in much the same fashion as your typical confused leftist. Notice how they make blanket assertions, but provide no evidence to back up those assertions.
The New York Times says so, therefore it must be true. It's "obvious", isn't it?
After all, leftist tropes are always obviously enlightened and correct, while conservative policies are always obviously flawed and evil, right?
How come the "obvious" tactics of charlatans and demagogues and propagandists seem to be right at home in so many New York Times editorials? (Rhetorical question only)
Are there any New York Times editorial writers who are smarter than a fifth grader?
There was one fool insisting that some one not paying income taxes, pays a higher percent of their income than those making 250K a year.
Of personal note there was one who stated that those under sixteen thousand a year, had no tax liability. I want the IRS to know that! Disabled Vet, taxable income a little over 12K, been audited three times in 12 years. the last time got five letters from four different IRS offices demanding five different amounts, ranging from $32 to $1700.
To all of us, TEAS, Indies, Reagan Dems, Libertarians, the Times is irrelevant but not to many E.Coast lemmings. The fact is: we must as Pubs oppose and combat their lies, Schumer-Reid-Pelosi-Durbin made yesterday about Pubs causing the entire eco,. mess. Otherwise, these lies, as they have been for decades, will be believed nationally.
Eric Cantor, and very few in the new Congress, are not like GHWB. Apparently the NYT doesn't believe that when he says "No New Taxes"...they think they will happily cave.
Okay, let's end trust fund exemptions. That would put the kibosh on the Mark Daytons, Rockefeller and other uber-progressives. And let's make sure the NYT is properly taxes, and is not allowed to declare "losses" as deductions... after a year of paying corporate taxes, the NYT would be out of business.
I'm all for that. Time for these insaniacs to lose their jobs and platform.
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Detroit Area Study, 1992: Social Change in Detroit (ICPSR 2880)
Principal Investigator(s): Farley, Reynolds, University of Michigan. Department of Sociology
This survey focused on factors that influence social change in the Michigan tri-county area of Oakland, Macomb, and Wayne counties and the changes that have occurred over time with respect to different ethnic groups and women. Respondents' opinions were sought on issues such as job discrimination, including pay and promotion on the basis of race, ethnicity, or gender, factors that influence employers in hiring decisions, such as experience in line of work, formal education, references, looks and appearance, age, race, and gender, possible reasons for Blacks' having worse jobs, income, and housing than Whites, and factors that affect this situation, such as racial discrimination, perceived inferior ability, lack of educational opportunities, and lack of motivation on the part of Blacks. The survey also elicited respondents' views on factors influencing residential segregation, including the lack of affordable housing for African Americans and other ethnic minorities and the lack of Whites' acceptance of these ethnic minority groups in White neighborhoods. Other variables probed respondents' attitudes toward interracial marriage, segregated and desegregated schools, all-Black male and all-Black female public schools, nonviolent and violent means of social change among Blacks, government legislative measures such as the cut in welfare cost, parental approval for under-age abortion, the amount of federal taxes paid, and affirmative action for women and African Americans in job training, education, hiring, and promotion. Also explored were respondents' feelings about the quality of city and neighborhood services, public schools, crime, and the desirability of living in Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties and some of the suburbs around Detroit. Additional variables examined respondents' views on comparative wealth and intelligence among ethnic groups such as Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Arab Americans, and Whites, the degree of discrimination toward Hispanics, Blacks, Asians, and women, and the high degree of self-reliance among immigrant groups and nationalities in the United States as compared to United States minorities such as African Americans. Questions on the respondents' educational background covered the level of education and professional qualifications. Additional information gathered by the survey includes duration of residence in the tri-county area and at the current residence, place of previous residence, employment status, place of employment, mode of transportation to work, income, current debts and assets, job benefits, previous military service, information on family and household members, religious denomination, presidential candidate preference, age, race, ethnicity, skin tone if Black, marital status, and gender.
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Onsite Coverage: Mobile Message at BAI is 'Go Big or Go Home'
PHOENIX — What a change a year makes. The loud message at a morning session on mobile banking at the BAI Payments Connect conference in Phoenix is this: "Go big or go home."
Mobile banking adoption now is occurring at a "dizzying rate," said panelist Bob Hedges, a managing director at research firm AlixPartners.
Before, AlixPartners had talked about mobile banking "nearing" a "tipping point" – but it's there and well beyond that now, Hedges said at the Monday session.
Also from BAI Payments Connect:
- 5 Facts You Don't Know
- The Rise of the Non-Bank
- Underbanked, Unbanked and Fraud
- Old Fraud Targets Still New Favorites
- Now Up: Cross-Channel Fraud
- Digital Wallet Update: Try Something, Anything
The big driver: extremely fast adoption of smartphones, added AlixPartners' Teresa Epperson. As consumers acquire sophisticated phones, they want to use them and a particular area of interest is financial services.
The AlixPartners headline: when consumers are choosing where they want to switch their financial services, a large driver is the range and quality of the mobile banking offering and, said Hedges, a reality is that most of those consumers are choosing to align with a top five bank because that is where the best and widest mobile banking services are found.
He stressed that to stay competitive – especially with the 34 and younger demographic – a financial institution has to keep beefing up mobile banking. Thus his advice to "go big or go home."
Plain Jane mobile banking now is table stakes. Smart institutions are adding mobile remote deposit capture, said Hedges, who also pointed to a rapid spike in interest in photo bill pay, where consumers snap a photo of a bill to pay it.
Digital wallets – especially ones associated with values for consumers – also win some interest, said Hedges, who indicated that AlixPartners research show financial institutions still the preferred provider for digital wallets, according to most consumers, "but PayPal is making big gains," meaning the financial institutions cannot assume they will hold onto this pole position.


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Hardeeville meeting canceled
In case you were anticipating a Hardeeville City Council meeting agenda in your inbox today, wait no longer.
The meeting has been canceled. Why?
"Due to lack of a quorom," said Lori Pomarico in an email. In simple terms, city officials are too busy to attend their monthly scheduled meeting.
The next meeting is set for April 18. With budget workshops soon approaching, Hardeeville must sit down and discuss the much argued business licenses fees and millage rates.
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—A man who was showing off a handgun when it accidentally discharged and wounded a stranger in an adjoining motel room has pleaded guilty to several charges.
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports ( http://bit.ly/YMWavT) 26-year-old Zachariah McCullough pleaded guilty Friday to attempted illegal discharge of a firearm, third-degree assault and violation of probation terms. His sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 13.
An arrest affidavit says McCullough was showing off his revolver at the Mesa Inn in Grand Junction on Sept. 29, 2012, when the weapon accidentally discharged, "blasting a large hole" in the wall.
Twenty-year-old Juan Lara, who was staying in the adjacent room, was hit in the shoulder by the errant round.
When the shooting occurred, McCullough was serving probation after failing to register as a sex offender.
Information from: The Daily Sentinel, http://www.gjsentinel.com


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Command flow inhibitor. More...
Command flow inhibitor.
The inhibitor device which can be turned on/off by selected bits (AND bitmask) of provided dio interface blocks commands sent from provided interface to the subscribed device.
WARNING! Using this device we no more can say that each sent command is guaranteed to be delivered to the receiver.
- Compile-time dependencies
- none
- Provides
- any kind of interface ('comm' key)
- dio ('switch' key)
Roles of provided interfaces are distinguished by given key (switch or comm)
- Requires
- the same interface as provided with 'comm' key (again, 'comm' key)
- optionally, dio ('switch' key) to read switch state from other device
- Configuration requests
- none
- Configuration file options
- init_state (integer)
- Default: 1
- if set to 1, the switch is initially set to ON (see 'neg' below)
- bitmask (string)
- Default: "00000000000000000000000000000001"
- Last character is the lowest bit (length greater than 0, max. 32 characters)
- neg (integer)
- Default: 0
- If set to 1, invert switch meaning (pass commands when it is OFF)
- block_data
- Default: 0
- If set to 1, data flow is also blocked
- msg_interval
- Default: 0.0
- If greater than 0.0 (seconds), commands will be passed with this interval (all commands sent more frequently will be thrown away). When this interval is set to 0.0, all commands are passed (as long as inhibitor state is right).
- Example
driver ( name "inhibitor" provides ["switch:::dio:0" "comm:::position2d:10"] requires ["comm:::position2d:0"] bitmask "111" )