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Chris Brown Sues Los Angeles Man for Extortion
While Chris Brown sits in a jail cell, his legal battles continue to mount. However, he's fighting back. The R&B singer is countersuing a basketball player for extortion.
According to TMZ, Brown is suing Malcolm Ausbon over an alleged fight that happened during a pick-up basketball game at a Los Angeles gym.
Ausbon originally sued Brown claiming he assaulted him over a foul call and then proclaimed he was affiliated with the Bloods gang. Ausbon also alleges that he sustained injuries all over his body and had to be hospitalized.
The 'Loyal' singer, who was recently sentenced to 131 more days in jail for violating his probation, denies that he attacked Ausbon.
Brown's suit alleges that Ausbon knew he was falsely accusing the singer but his attorney later sent in this written demand:
Mr. Ausbon believes $250,000 will suffice compensating him for his physical and emotional injuries. Mr. Ausbon is placed in a position by the LAPD where he needs to decide whether he will press charges for aggravated assault and battery. However, Mr. Ausbon prefers not to resort to filing these claims or the lawsuit. He would rather be compensated."
Mark Geragos, Brown's lawyer, said Ausbon promised to keep the incident a secret if Brown coughed up the money, but the singer refused to pay.
Attorneys for Malcolm Ausbon had no comment on the matter.


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Skating: the word can work interchangeably, but rarely can a skateboarder also ice skate, let alone play hockey. But leave it to the Transistor Sect's jack-of-all-trades to slip off the Fallens and try his feet at ice hockey. Queue Hanson Brother jokes.
Directed & Edited by Suziie Wang. Words and marquee photo by Dave Chami. For more Off The Board videos click here.
Thin Ice
I took ice skating lessons when I was ten and really wanted to play, but it was too expensive back then and I kind of forgot about it for a while. Recently I bought some pads and went for it.
Aim For The Post
I came out to Puck Play-which is just open ice that anyone can come out to and play on a thrown-together team-every day or every other day for three months, trying to learn different stuff. At first I couldn't stop with my skates, so I had to put my stick down to get myself to stop. But two weeks into it, I finally figured it out. Right now the hardest part is shooting. I can't quite figure that out. It was stopping, but I finally figured that out.
Get Organized
Now I play on two organized teams. One of the teams was called Active, because I was sponsored by Active and they gave me some money to help start the team, and the other team is the Shamans. My friend just asked me to play on that one. I'd say the Active team is better because we play in a higher division. There are a whole bunch of different divisions and we're just right in the middle-nothing too crazy for me.
The Agony Of Defeat
I've played three seasons and every season we lose the last game. We always get second for some reason. I think we might win this time, though.
Loose Slots
I play center, but what I usually do is take the face-off and go straight to the front of the net and try to tip something in. I don't even know if I'm playing it right, but I just try to stay in front of the net as much as possible.
Hip Checks, Not Paychecks
The league that I play in is an adult league with no contact, but you still get hit. Everyone's pretty mellow about it, except for the dudes who are really jocky.
I got skates, shin guards/kneepads, socks pulled over it, cup, shorts, a little padded shirt, jersey, gloves, stick, and helmet. That's pretty much everything you need to stay protected out there.
It's not really a gnarly injury because there are much worse, but I got a stick to the throat, which is kind of sketchy. But I was all right.
Skating To Skating
I guess the stamina I've gotten from skating demos or contests or whatever has helped me stay out on the ice a little bit longer, so I'm not getting as tired as quick. That's the only way I'd say skateboarding had helped me play hockey.

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Published January 13, 2015
Army officials from China and the United States are meeting in Hawaii for an annual disaster relief exercise that will include field training for the first time this year.
Specifics of the exercise scenario starting Tuesday have not been publicly released. U.S. Army Pacific officials have only described it as a humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operation requiring U.S. and China military cooperation in a fictional third country.
On Thursday, U.S. and Chinese soldiers will train in a field exercise at Bellows Air Force Base, on a Marine Corps training area on the east side of Oahu.
Col. Bill Florig, chief of civil military operations for U.S. Army Pacific, said in announcing the exercises last month that the event is the largest between the United States and China armies.
"What we are trying to emphasize in this exchange is our inherent flexibility," Florig said. "They (China) are looking to see that flexibility that we have demonstrated so often in the past in disaster response."
Officials say the first two days of the exchange will be academic, while the field work will include practice with field equipment.
The United States will have 50 people participate, including soldiers and civilians from U.S. Army Pacific, the Hawaii Army National Guard, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. China is expected to bring 60 soldiers and observers.
The exchange is an annual exercise that is part of a security cooperation agreement established in 1998.
Last year in China, military officials discussed how they would respond to an earthquake.


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Shuck and awe occurs while your gf or bf is giving you a blow job and moves down to toss your salad and finds a piece of corn still stuck to you crack.
my gf was giving me a bj and went to lick my butthole and found some corn. Unfortunately she got the shuck and awe and wasn't in the mood anymore.
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Tower of Power
Tower of Power
Sunlight is a powerful thing. A tiny magnifying glass is able to focus just a little bit of the Sun's light into a hot beam. This beam is hot enough to burn a small pile of dry leaves!
Do not try this without adult supervision!
Imagine how hot it would be if an entire field's worth of sunlight were focused onto one tiny point.
You would get a superhot beam of bright light. Sounds like something out of science fiction, right?
But it is not science fiction at all. In fact, this beam of light is the key ingredient in the newest form of solar energy. This technology is named concentrating solar power, or solar thermal energy.
The basic idea is simple. The Sun's light is focused onto a small area using mirrors. The mirrors constantly follow the Sun as it moves through the sky. They do this to make sure they are receiving as much light as possible.
The beam created by all of these reflecting mirrors is used to heat a liquid to an extremely hot temperature—sometimes over 1000°F! This liquid is a chemical that is very good at trapping heat. After it is heated, the liquid is pumped through a tank of water in a pipe. These hot pipes cause the water to boil and create steam. This steam spins a turbine, which powers a generator. Sometimes, the hot liquid itself is used to power the generator.
That's how this technology gets electricity from the Sun!
Solar concentrating power is important because it produces energy without releasing harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. It is also great because we are in no danger of running out of sunlight!
In fact, all of the energy that the ocean, land, and air absorb from the Sun in just 1.5 hours could power the whole Earth for an entire year!
Many countries, including the United States, are beginning to adopt concentrating solar power. The technology is only getting better. This new kind of solar energy could be very good news for our planet.


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Boilermaker Strides To Go Green
To demonstrate its commitment to going green, the Boilermaker has applied for certification from the Council for Responsible Sport.
Certification from the council formally recognizes the successful completion of a socially and environmentally responsible sporting event.
Officials say during last year's race, more than four tons of solid waste was sent to the recycling center instead of the landfill.
They also say the simple act of going to online registration resulted in the elimination of printing nearly 80,000 race applications.


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A marathon legislative debate continued to grip the Minnesota Legislature on Sunday as Democrats edged closer to passing what stands to be a dramatic expansion of union power in the state.
Amid thundering chants of "We're still here," House members began the debate in the wee hours Sunday morning, breaking for a few hours after dawn, then dragging themselves back to engage in some of the most fiery debate of the session.
"This is nothing more than union payback at the cost of low-income families," said Rep. Peggy Scott, R-Andover.
Democrats engaged GOP rivals in a point-by-point debate on more than 100 amendments that is expected to stretch 17 hours and had not wrapped up by press time.
"Society does not value the work or the labor provided to the children or the work provided to take care of the elderly," said Rep. Tom Anzelc, DFL-Balsam Township. "Yes, workers should have a chance to decide for themselves whether or not they wanted to bargain collectively."
The unionization debate is now the ribbon threading legislators through the final hours before Monday night's mandatory adjournment. House members broke from the debate periodically to address crucial budget and taxing measures, but were expected to return to the union fight for another all-night session. Bleary-eyed legislative leaders also were holding last-ditch meetings behind the scenes, trying to cobble together a stripped-down state borrowing package.
With velocity increasing and time running short, Democrats began ditching hotly debated measures that were gumming up the chances for a timely end. Raises for legislators, a new metro sales tax and a gas tax hike were all left for dead by Sunday night.
DFL legislative leaders cut a budget deal with Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton over the past week and are racing to pass billions of dollars in spending measures that adhere to that agreement.
The Senate granted final passage to a $15.7 billion education funding bill that will give most parents access to free, all-day kindergarten beginning next year.
The 41-26 vote sent the measure to Dayton for his signature. The proposal is the largest share of the state budget and a top priority of DFL leaders.
The bill includes $485 million in new education spending and $40 million to boost scholarships for lower-income families who want to send their children to high-quality preschools, a $40 million increase in special-education aid, and an increase in basic classroom funding.
Democrats are also ending the high-stakes high school graduation tests known as the GRAD tests, and are raising the age at which students can drop out to 17 from 16.
"This is a great bill that has reform, puts us on a path for each Minnesota student to be successfully ready for college and career as part of the world's best workforce," said Sen. Chuck Wiger, DFL-Maplewood, chair of the E-12 Finance Division.
Republicans accused Democrats of throwing money at a broken system.
"When are we going to get down the business of making sure we are educating kids?" responded Senate Minority Leader David Hann, R-Eden Prairie. "When are we going to get off the idea that somehow spending money equates to that?"
Eyeing Capitol repairs
Legislative leaders met privately, seeking a last-minute deal on a state-backed borrowing proposal, which Democrats say will create thousands of jobs.
State borrowing requires a larger majority than normal bills; Republicans defeated an $800 million proposal on Friday.
Democrats are now weighing a smaller bill focusing on money to refurbish the State Capitol, a measure that a handful of crucial Republicans could find appealing.
"In the last 20 hours of session, anything is possible," said House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt, R-Crown.
Sunday's pouring rain caused a Capitol tunnel to spring a leak, with water pouring from the ceiling. On the House floor, members said the soggy floor served as a fresh reminder of the need for Capitol renovations.
In another last-minute twist, Dayton sent a letter to Senate leaders Sunday afternoon asking them to reject the confirmation of Tax Court Judge George Perez, whom Dayton had reappointed.
Dayton said that a week ago a review panel found that Perez regularly missed the three-month deadline for issuing opinions and falsified dates to hide the delays. The panel recommended censure and suspension without pay for nine months. Perez's attorney said he will seek a lesser penalty.
"Had I known about the board's findings, I would not have reappointed him," Dayton said.
Debate gets testy
The showdown over the unionization vote is emerging as a defining battle of the session, with Republicans calling it a brazen power grab by unions with Democrats solely in power at the Capitol.
Unions are looking to organize more than 21,000 home child-care workers and home-health aides who get reimbursements from the state.
Unions argue that years of reductions in aid payments under GOP control have left them nowhere else to turn except to organize and fight for better reimbursement rates.
But the measure also would give the unions thousands of new dues-paying members — and millions in new revenue — at a time when unions nationally are struggling to find members.
In a stunning flash of testiness during the debate, Rep. Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington, called out to DFL House Speaker Paul Thissen, DFL-Minneapolis: "Are you waiting for AFSCME to vote on this bill?"
During the debate, Eliot Seide, executive director of AFSCME Council 5, leaned over the railing from the gallery above, surveying the deliberations.
Democrats in the House believed they have the votes to pass the measure, but Republicans were determined to make it an exhaustive debate.
"Child care is a tough, tough business," said Rep. Bob Barrett, R-Lindstrom. Unionization "is going to cost them more. What's the benefit?"
Democrats stressed that state-paid child-care workers and home health aides don't have to unionize if the bill passes.
They would merely have until 2017 to decide whether to organize.
"The choice is simple," DFLer Anzelc said.
If you don't want to participate, "don't take the government money."


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Install from SSH
This article is intended to show users how to install Arch remotely via an SSH connection. Consider this approach over the standard one in scenarios such the following:
Setting up Arch on...
- HTPC without a proper monitor (i.e. an SDTV).
- A PC located in another city, state, country.
- A PC that you would rather setup remotely, for example from the comfort of one's own workstation with copy/paste abilities from the Arch Wiki.
Boot from Media
Boot into a live Arch environment via the [live CD/USB image] and log in as root.
Setup the Live Environment to use SSH
One should be presented with the root prompt [root@archiso ~]# at this point.
Firstly, setup the network on the target machine:
aif -partial-configure-network
Secondly, sync the live environment to a mirror, install the openssh package, and start it:
pacman -Syy pacman -S openssh /etc/rc.d/sshd start
# pacman -S openssh :: The following packages should be upgraded first : pacman :: Do you want to cancel the current operation :: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n] n
Finally, allow sshd connections and setup a root password which is needed for an ssh connection; the default arch password for root is empty.
echo "sshd: ALL" >> /etc/hosts.allow passwd
Connect to the Target PC via SSH
Connect to the target machine via the following command:
$ ssh firstname.lastname@example.com
From here one is presented with live environment's the welcome message and is able to administer the target machine as-if sitting at the physical keyboard.
$ ssh firstname.lastname@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com's password: Last login: Thu Dec 23 08:33:02 2010 from 10.1.10.200 ************************************************************** * To begin installation, run /arch/setup * * You can find documentation at * * /usr/share/aif/docs/official_installation_guide_en * * * * i18n: Use the 'km' utility to change your keyboard layout * * and console font. * * * * If you are looking to install Arch on something more * * exotic, such as your kerosene-powered cheese grater, * * please consult http://wiki.archlinux.org. * * * ************************************************************** [root@archiso ~]#
Next Steps
The sky is the limit. If the intent is to simply install Arch from the live media, run Install from SSH/arch/setup. If the intent is to edit an existing Linux install that got broken, follow the Install_from_Existing_Linux Install wiki article.
Want grub2 or the ability to use GPT hardrives?
- Manually partition the target HDD/SDD using the gdisk utility installed via pacman -S gdisk before starting the arch installer and when presented with the option to install a boot loader in the installation framework, simply answer no and drop back to the live environment's root prompt.
- Installation of grub2 is trivial at this point. Simply chroot into the fresh arch install (default pre-mounted if coming out of the installer) then install and setup grub2:
cd /mnt rm console ; mknod -m 600 console c 5 1 rm null ; mknod -m 666 null c 1 3 rm zero ; mknod -m 666 zero c 1 5 mount -t proc proc /mnt/proc mount -t sysfs sys /mnt/sys mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev chroot /mnt /bin/bash
Now inside the fresh Arch chroot:
pacman -S grub2 grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab
Edit Template:Filename to your liking. Install grub and generate a grub.cfg
grub-install /dev/sdX --no-floppy grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
When ready to reboot into the new Arch install, exit the chroot and unmount the partitions prior to a reboot of the system.
exit umount /mnt/boot # if mounted this or any other separate partitions umount /mnt/{proc,sys,dev} umount /mnt
- If the target machine is behind a firewall/router, the default ssh port of 22 will obviously need to be forward to the target machine's LAN IP address. The use of port forwarding is not covered in this guide.
- One can edit Template:Filename on the live environment prior to starting the daemon for example to run on a non-standard port if desired.


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There are no Butlers in this one, baby.
After two years in which the Bulldogs crashed the championship game – almost winning one of them on a miracle shot, then going ice cold in another – the big boys are back: Kentucky and Kansas, both college basketball royalty, will square off for the title on Monday night. These are the two winningest programs in Division 1 history, Kentucky with 2,089 victories in 109 seasons, and Kansas — once coached by the inventor of basketball himself, James Naismith — with 2,070 since its first season in 1899.
Both teams are connected through history. Legendary Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp, the "Baron of the Bluegrass", attended Kansas from 1919-1923. There, he was mentored by Phog Allen, who coached at Kansas for 39 years and won an NCAA title in 1952. (Allen also played for Naismith at Kansas.) Rupp — whose legacy, we should add, was tainted by his refusal for years to recruit black players — retired in 1972 with 872 wins, more than any other college coach at the time.
Kentucky coach John Calipari started his career at Kansas an assistant for Larry Brown, who played for Dean Smith, another Kansas alum, at the University of North Carolina.
(MORE: Kentucky Responds To Calipari's Antics)
Though Kansas-Kentucky harkens back to college basketball's past, the matchup is a product of the modern game. Kentucky head coach John Calipari has exploited a rule, on the books since 2005, that requires potential NBA players to be at least 19 years old, or to have spent at least a year in college, before entering the pro draft. His sales pitch is simple: we run an NBA factory at Kentucky. Come here, win 30 games, and move along for millions. This year the Wildcats will likely lose six players — three freshmen, two sophomores, and a senior — to the NBA.
Kentucky also has a star, 6'10" center Anthony Davis, who would not have existed during Rupp's days. Back then, big men parked near the basket. Although Davis is deft down low — his footwork, ability to shoot close-range shots with both hands, and a wingspan that stretches across Kentucky guarantee he'll be the top pick of this year's draft — he's also comfortable dribbling the ball up the floor and playing out by the perimeter. Davis grew up playing guard until an eight-inch growth spurt in high school made him a big man. After Kentucky's Saturday night win over Louisville, Calipari joked that he'd let Davis, who scored 18 points, grabbed 14 rebounds, and blocked five shots against the Cardinals, play point guard next year as a way of coaxing him back to Kentucky for a sophomore season. Nice try.
How can Kansas beat Kentucky? Kansas is no squad of scrappy underdogs: 6'10" power forward Thomas Robinson, for example, is also an NBA lottery pick. The Jayhawks, led by Naismith Coach of the Year Bill Self, execute exquisitely on offense. Kentucky largely relies on pro-level players making shots of pro-level difficulty (except for when point guard Marquis Teague drives the length of the floor for layups, like he did when a clueless Louisville D forgot to cover him on Saturday night). And even the pros have off nights. Davis may be tall and speedy, but he's a beanpole, and Kansas' physical post players have the ability to push him around. Maybe they can force Davis into foul trouble.
Calipari sometimes gets accused of rolling out the balls and letting his team play, but that's not true at Kentucky: this year's team is famously unselfish. Davis, for example, is fourth on the team in shots-per-game. No one averages more than 9.4 shots per game. If there was one flaw in Kentucky's game on Saturday night, it was rebounding effort. After keeping Louisville off the boards at the start, Kentucky let the Cardinals crash the glass for 19 offensive rebounds, which helped them crawl back into the game. Monday night, look for Kansas' bruising big men to chase every opportunity down low.
Would a Kansas win be considered an upset? I think so: few college basketball teams are more talented, on paper, than the 2012 Wildcats. But it wouldn't be a total shocker. After all, we're talking about Kansas. And if we're lucky, the game itself will be as historic as the two schools playing in it.
(MORE: "One Shining Moment" 5 Facts About The NCAA Final Anthem)


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By Steve Aschburner, NBA.com
Granted, it's not always satisfying when the NBA issues an officiating verdict the day after a disputed play. Learning 18 hours later that, yes, a foul should have been called on that final missed field-goal attempt in Team A's 1-point loss doesn't change the W-L records of the squads involved and rarely calms fans who felt their team got jobbed.
But transparency beats opacity, even after the fact, so the league regularly has tried to review, interpret and explain its many calls and non-calls ASAP. One way to do that now, with the playoffs approaching and stakes and emotions getting ever higher, is through a follow of @NBAOfficial on Twitter. That account will provide updates and clarifications on rules and fouls in the closest thing to real time, while educating some fans on what does or doesn't constitute an instant-replay "trigger."
The Twitter feed was one of the reminders Thursday to media folks in the league's 2014 basketball & referee operations WebEx online meeting. A fleet of NBA executives provided updates and answered questions about the season and looming postseason, including "points of emphasis" that will remain high on referees' radar as the playoffs unfold.
Participating in the multi-media event: Rod Thorn, president, basketball operations; Mike Bantom, executive vice president, referee operations; Kiki VanDeWeghe, senior vice president, basketball operations; Joe Borgia, vice president, referee operations; and Don Vaden, VP & director of officials.
One thing fans might notice again this spring is a change that was initiated for the 2013 playoffs: Keeping referees together in the same crew to develop familiarity and continuity in their court coverage.
Traditionally, three referees come together pretty much randomly to officiate NBA games, compared to MLB umpires, who work most of the season in set four-man crews.
Vaden said that last spring, the league booked two referees as a tandem for each game, with the third official rotating through. "Ken Mauer and Ed Malloy worked every game together," Vaden said, offering an example. "We're more consistent in what we're doing on the floor when we do that."
This used to be standard procedure, Thorn recalled. "There was a time way back when crews were kept together," he said. "There was a time when the same two referees refereed all the games in The Finals."
In addition to the logical benefits of refs working together, Vaden mentioned some secondary ones off the floor in terms of reviews and communication.
"Keeping the guys together, traveling together, they can review more video of the games," he said. "They're easier for me to get a hold of than in the regular season. Even on off-days they're together in the same hotels, so we can do a review from their last game and give them a preview of the game to come."
The review process of referee performance has grown more thorough through the years, with a centralized group of eight reviewers in the office in New Jersey handling most of the heavy lifting. Teams also submit feedback, and the league has made it a priority to keep teams, players, coaches, media and fans in the loop with rulings and updated points of emphasis.
The selection process to work in, and advance through, the postseason is rigorous, Bantom said. From the regular-season pool of 62 referees, 32 are identified based on performance criteria to work the first round. That gets cut to 20 for the conference semifinals, 16 for the East and West finals and 12 assigned to The Finals. Guidelines in the playoffs include: no back-to-back games for officials, no more than three games worked in a week and, ideally, not reappearing in a series before Game 6 (loosened to Game 5 in The Finals).
Speaking about the NBA in general in 2013-14, with the transition from David Stern to Adam Silver in the commissioner's office, VanDeWeghe said: "Our focus has been transparency and inclusion. We want to include more people in our discussions. Improve communications with teams, players, media and fans. We want to share more information and just the processes of what we go through. You can never tell where a great idea comes from, and we'd like to hear from you. This is our game together."
The POE this postseason will largely be a continuation of those introduced back in October. Among them, Vaden spoke of:
- Freedom of movement, including illegal screens.
- Traveling calls, especially on the perimeter.
- Point-of-contact plays, before, during and after shot attempts. "We have clarified the rule for teams, that if it affects the natural follow-through, even though the ball was released, we would penalize the defender," Vaden said. "Hits on the elbow, we've gotten better at."
- Push or pull plays, physically redirecting an opponent.
- Delay-of-game calls for handling the ball after it passes through the net. Said Vaden: "Everybody complained, but after about a month of the season, everybody's running from the ball. The players have done a great job in adapting to this."
- Verticality. "It's easy for us to call 'A' to 'B' movement," Vaden said, referring to a defender who goes up in the air but not quite straight up. "As the season went on, we saw more of the defender turning in the air and [confronting the ball handler] with his side." That's a defensive foul too. But a scorer who wards off the defender with an arm, leads with a knee or elbow or even "displaces" the man so he cannot rebound can wind up with an offensive foul.
Borgia reminded participants that the NBA's system of points and suspensions for flagrant fouls and technical fouls resets for the playoffs. The trigger numbers in the postseason are four points for flagrants, seven for technicals.
Several execs weighed in on "hand on the ball" interpretations, which came up again Tuesday on the final play of the Brooklyn-Miami game. That's when LeBron James went up for what could have been a game-winning dunk, only to have the ball knocked loose – and his hand or wrist smacked, James complained – by Nets forward Mason Plumlee.
Plumlee was credited with a game-saving block and the league's brass supported that call.
"Frame by frame, you can see that Plumlee got his hand on the ball before there was any contact hand-to-hand," Thorn said. "That was basically LeBron's hand coming forward and interlocking with Plumlee. A very, very close play. Very, very difficult to see. I think the refs did a great job in ascertaining what they did."
Borgia attempted to simplify for the online audience what many folks don't get quite right.
"If they hit a part of my hand or finger that is physically on the ball, that is considered hitting the ball and not a foul," the referee-turned-supervisor said. "I think there is some misconception out there. … On a jump shot, most of the time the ball is more on your fingertips and not sitting in the palm of your hand. If someone hits the back of the hand, that would be a foul."
Transparency, see. It might not alter a critic's opinion of a call but it can aid in the understanding.


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ADDISON COUNTY — When Starksboro's Jonah Rule proposed to his wife Caitlin, it was no surprise to his mother Ann.
Rule's mother still recalls the first time she saw her daughter-in-law. At that time, Caitlin Rule was a 15-year-old Middlebury Union High School student.
"She was walking down Court Street one afternoon just after school got out," wrote Ann Rule via e-mail last week. "Jonah pointed to this beautiful, young lady with a long blond ponytail swinging in the breeze. He said, 'Mom, I'm going to marry that girl one day.'"
Those who would like to support the Rule family may:
• Go to indiegogo.com and donate to the Jonah Rule Memorial Fund at indiegogo.com/JonahRuleMemorialFund.
• Head to the fund's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/JonahRuleMemorialFund.
• Donate to the fund via mail. Make checks out to Caitlin Rule and send them to:
Karrie Provencher c/o Rule Family Fundraiser
225 Perkins Road
Weybridge, VT 05753
To his mother's dismay, Rule — who also attended MUHS at the time — hadn't even spoken to Caitlin. But that was long before they married and had children of their own.
"They met and the rest is history," said Ann Rule. "They were best friends. The love those two shared was beyond any I've ever seen. They didn't need much — no fancy dinners, no wild parties. They loved being alone with their children."
In a tragic turn of events, the 32-year-old Rule passed away in a Fayston car crash last Tuesday, leaving behind his loving wife and two young children, Austin and Callie. But Rule's sudden death did more than leave the family devastated, it left them without a source of income. According to Ann Rule, "Caitlin hasn't worked for a long time. So, for her to get back out in the work world is going to be the hardest thing ever for her and the kids."
Upon hearing the news, friends and family banded together to help the now fatherless family. One of those people was Erin Bettencourt, an old high school friend who grew up in Salisbury and is now living in Massachusetts.
"When I saw this story, and I'm the mother of three young children, I just thought, 'What would I do if this had happened to me?'" said Bettencourt on Thursday. "My husband works a second shift to make ends meet, and if he was gone I honestly wouldn't know what to do. I just wanted to help Caitlin and her kids anyway I could."
Bettencourt went online and looked for a fundraising website to create a support fund for the family. She chose indiegogo.com, a service that only took 4 percent of the total earnings if Bettencourt met her goal, a percentage she said was less than other sites.
She set a goal of $1,000 and within 24 hours had crushed that mark. The Jonah Rule Memorial Fund raised more than $12,000 that first day, averaging more than $500 an hour (for information on how to donate, click here). The online fund, which is set to expire at the end of July, had raised more than $16,000 by midday Friday.
"It's just such a great community," said Bettencourt. "It's not just Middlebury pouring its heart out, it's everyone."
Rule's family is pitching in to help raise funds for Caitlin and the kids, and local businesses and organizations — like Waterfalls Day Spa, Brian Cadoret and people at Stream and Brook Fly Fishing, Middlebury Discount Beverage, Middlebury Fitness and Twitchell Hill Farm — are helping to raise funds for the Rule family.
"We have such a huge support group," said Ann Rule. "We will survive with the help of everyone who loved Jonah."
Reporter Andrew Stein is at [email protected].


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Terri Lonier has been appointed executive director of the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center and clinical professor of management in DePaul University's Driehaus College of Business. Lonier said future programs at the center will include entrepreneurial speakers, business workshops, student business competitions, and individual and group advising¿all designed to help students understand what it takes to be an entrepreneur. Most recently, Lonier was assistant professor and program supervisor of entrepreneurship and strategy in the arts, entertainment and media management department at Columbia College Chicago. Prior to joining Columbia, Lonier led the strategy consulting firm Working Solo, Inc., which guided Fortune 100 and high-tech firms such as Apple, Microsoft, Bank of America, Visa USA and HP in reaching the small business marketplace. Lonier received her doctoral degree in business history from New York University. She has a Master's degree from the University of Florida, and a Bachelor's degree from Saint Mary's College.
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For high-tech workers, it pays to be certified, according to research conducted by Dice Learning that shows 10 IT certifications stand out for delivering higher salaries.
"Not all certifications are created equal in terms of paycheck impact. While nearly half of all technology professionals have at least one certification, a minority attributed pay increases to certification," said Evan Lesser, director of Dice Learning, which offers technical training and information about certifications and career advancement, in a statement. "When you combine in-demand skill sets and proven salary impact, specific certifications become valuable to individual technology professionals."
Dice Learning used responses from some 17,000 high-tech professionals to determine which technical skills and IT certifications deliver more compensation and helped workers command higher salaries. For instance, IT pros certified as a Project Management Professional could demand more pay on the job and unemployed workers might find more open positions. According to Dice Learning, there are currently 1,400 available jobs on Dice.com with PMP certification listed as a requirement.
"It's a particularly important job today, when companies are beginning to resurrect projects they'd shelved during the downturn, but want them completed as cost efficiently and quickly as possible," according to a Dice Learning press release.
Other certifications helping IT pros increase their compensation are vendor specific. Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCP) and Microsoft Certified Systems Administrators (MCSA) all landed on the list, showing that high tech workers who can prove they are adept at Microsoft systems and associated skills will be in demand. For instance, Dice.com has 1,000 jobs listing a MSCE as a requirement.
"Sought by systems engineers, technical support engineers, systems analysts, network analysts and technical consultants, the MCSE is for professionals who spend their time maintaining the basic platforms on which so much business is conducted," Dice Learning states.
IT professionals trained as Cisco Certified Network Associates (CCNA) are also seeing bigger paychecks, according to this research. Having the "ability to install, configure, run and troubleshoot medium-sized routed and switched networks" is paying off for CCNAs, who by getting this IT certification also prove they can handle security and wireless technologies as well as a number of network protocols. Dice.com lists more than 650 available job opportunities requesting CCNA skills.
The Network+ certification also landed on Dice Learning's list, which covers managing, maintaining, troubleshooting, installing and configuring basic network infrastructure. Offered by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), the Network + certification is also often included in programs by vendors such as Microsoft, Cisco, Novell and HP. The A+ certification, also from CompTIA, is often associated with technical support professionals and shows an IT pro can install networks and conduct preventative maintenance, as well as secure and troubleshoot networks.
Security certifications such as Security+ from CompTIA and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) also deliver higher pay, according to Dice Learning, which states "security is a growing concern for businesses around the world." For CISSP holders, Dice.com currently lists 750 open positions.
Process skills could also mean more money, according to this research. ITIL certifications show IT professionals have studied the best practices and can apply them to an employer's IT service management efforts.
"The three-tier ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) certification demonstrates the expertise of professionals in tech management. Public and private organisations use the ITIL as a compendium of IT operational best practices," according to Dice Learning.
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SAN FRANCISCO — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Friday that Republicans will unite behind Neel Kashkari, California's GOP nominee for governor, after a divisive primary against a tea party favorite but also said he has "work to do" to attract national fundraising for his long-shot bid.
Christie, chairman of the Republican Governors Association and a potential 2016 presidential candidate, appeared with Kashkari, a former U.S. Treasury official, at a flower warehouse in the liberal stronghold of San Francisco before heading to a $10,000-a-plate fundraiser for the association.
"He knows how difficult this race is," Christie told reporters. "But I believe he's going to do the work, and when he does, you're going to see not only the RGA but lots of Republicans across the country, when they see an opportunity to win here in California, are really going to be rushing here."
Incumbent Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, has $21 million in his campaign account and won 54.5 percent of the vote in last week's top-two primary, compared to about 19.4 percent for Kashkari.
Christie and Kashkari also denounced comments made earlier this week by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who compared being gay to conditions such as alcoholism, in which people can choose to change their behavior.
Christie said he does not believe "that's an apt analogy and not one that should be made because I think it's wrong." But he said every public official should speak for themselves on such issues.
Kashkari said he met with Perry, another potential GOP presidential candidate, to discuss economic issues before he made the comments about homosexuality. He said people should "cherish each other based on who we are."
"Somebody's sexual orientation is nothing to be treated. We are who we are, and the notion that you're going to convert someone from one to the other I just fundamentally don't agree with," he said.
Christie's stop is part of a cross-country revival tour in which he is trying to shore up his reputation after the bridge-closing political scandal at home put a dent in his national aspirations. In recent weeks he has visited Pennsylvania, Tennessee, New Mexico, Iowa and New Hampshire.
He appeared Thursday night on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon" and is spending the weekend at a summit in Utah hosted by 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.


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In speaking of his receivers last week coach Tony Sparano said he was "happy with group of players we have right now, been very productive over the last couple of years, and are continuing to get better."
And that's fine because a coach is supposed to show his players love, sometimes. But a coach is also supposed to know the truth and the truth is the receiver in which the Dolphins have made their biggest financial and emotional investment is not getting better.
Last year when everyone was expecting him to take a major step forward he took a significant step backwards.
That's not opinion.
Ted Ginn regressed in 2009 and the tangible measure of that is available at ProFootballFocus.com as Sam Monson's crew have broken down league-wide drop percentages for pass catchers.
The good news? Greg Camarillo, despite whatever shortcomings he has in his game, is nothing if not dependable. He didn't drop a pass in 2009 in tying for the NFL lead in drop percentage at zero. You cannot get better than zero drop percentage.
Camarillo had 50 catches on the season without a flub.
The bad news? Ginn.
Forget all you know about Ginn's draft pedigree and how in three years he hasn't really lived up to it. He's not dependable no matter if you think of him as a draft bust or a guy who came in as a street free agent. That's because Ginn had a 2009 drop percentage of 20.83, which was the third worst in the NFL behind only Kansas City's Mark Bradley (25.00 drop percentage) and Green Bay's James Jones (21.95 drop percentage).
Pro Football Focus defines a drop as when a receiver gets his hands on a ball, but drops a pass you would reasonably expect to be caught.
According to the tape study by PFF, Ginn dropped 10 passes while catching 38 passes last season. That means the guy dropped one of every five passes thrown to him.
And that followed a 2008 season in which Ginn dropped eight six passes while catching 56.
Fewer catches, more drops in 2009. That is not progress.
I will attempt to get you the statistics on Davone Bess and Brian Hartline today.
[Update: Bess dropped seven of 83 catchable passes. He had a drop percentage of 8.434 to go along with his team-leading 76 catches. Not terrible. Not great. Hartline dropped three of 34 catchables passes. His drop percentage was 8.824 to go along with his 31 catches. Interestinly one of the receivers that fell between Bess and Harltine's drop percentage was Randy Moss. He dropped eight of 91 catchable passes for an 8.791 drop percentage. Of course, Moss kind of makes up for those drops by, you know, catching 83 passes for 1,264 yards and 13 TDs. Perspective.]
Meanwhile, tight end Anthony Fasano was more dependable than probably some of you realized.
His drop percentage of 8.823 was about middle of the pack among tight ends. He dropped three of 34 catchable passes according to PFF. The most dependable tight end in the NFL last season?
Jeff King of the Carolina Panthers didn't drop any of the 25 catchable passes thrown his way. Former Dolphins tight end Randy McMichael (seven drops and a tight end-high 17.07 drop percentage) and Donald Lee (six drops and a 13.95 drop percentage) obviously struggled in 2009.


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Standard ECMA-333
Private Integrated Services Network (PISN)
- Mapping Functions for the Tunnelling of QSIG through H.323 Networks
2nd edition (December 2003)
This Standard specifies functions for using an H.323 packet
network in order to interconnect two Private Integrated services
Network eXchanges (PINXs) forming part of a Private Integrated
Services Network (PISN). Interconnection is achieved by carrying
the inter-PINX signalling protocol over the H.323 call signalling
channel, making use of the protocol tunnelling facilities of H.323,
and inter-PINX user information (e.g., voice) over logical channels
established through H.323. Each logical channel usually represents
a unidirectional media stream conveyed by means of the Real-time
Transport Protocol (RTP). The inter-PINX signalling protocol is
assumed to be QSIG, as specified in ECMA-143,
ECMA-165 and other standards.
The Standard provides for an on-demand type of interconnection,
where a separate H.323 call is established at the start of each
PISN call and cleared down at the end of that call. A semi-permanent
scenario where a single H.323 call with an indefinite lifetime
carries QSIG on behalf of many PISN calls is described as an additional
In the scenarios covered in this Standard, the PINXs participating
in a call are not necessarily aware of the H.323 network providing
the interconnection, and the features available are those of the
QSIG network. This is different from a scenario where true interworking
between QSIG and H.323 (i.e. QSIG-H.323-QSIG) is used to connect
two PISNs or two parts of the same PISN. In this latter case all
networks participate in a call on equal terms, and features are
limited to those available in all networks and supported by the
gateways. This latter scenario is outside the scope of this Standard.
This Standard is applicable to PINXs that can be interconnected
to form a PISN using QSIG as the inter-PINX signalling protocol.
The following file can be freely downloaded:
This Ecma publication is also approved as ISO/IEC 23290.
The previous replaced "historical" edition of this Ecma Standard is available here.


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Twenty two (22) new collections were updated or added this week at FamilySearch.org—over 11 million new, free indexed names and images from original source records!
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Driving is a core aspect in the Grand Theft Auto series, encompassing nearly all activities in the games. The series is even named after "grand theft auto", the legal term for vehicle theft.
The act of controlling aircraft as well as sea vessels falls under this article.
Vehicle control has remained virtually unchanged throughout the series. Entry into a vehicle, be it by carjacking or otherwise, requires only a stroke of a key or button. Road vehicles since Grand Theft Auto 1 (and, similarly, ships) allow the player to accelerate, brake, steer and engage the handbrake or emergency brake (E-brake). When a vehicle is stationary, the brake command can be used to reverse a vehicle, while the E-brake can be used to execute sharp turns or while parked on an incline to prevent rolls down the slope. Road vehicles are commonly available with a working horn and a radio or, for emergency vehicles, emergency radio chatter. Also, the player character can be seen holding a SMG if he enters a car while equipped with one and is holding the steering wheel with both hands while at the same time holding the SMG with his right hand, except for GTA San Andreas wherein Carl Johnson is holding the steering wheel with only his left hand while his right hand is placed on his lap while at the same time holding the SMG.
For more elaboration on driving and controls, see:
The controls of aircraft are significantly different. Helicopters require the player control the speed of the rotor using the acceleration and brake commands, while banking requires the used of both the steering commands for side banks and two pairs of directional commands for forward/backward leans and turning. Similarly, fixed-wing aircraft utilize acceleration and brake commands to control forward thrust (affecting lift), steering commands for aileron control, and two pairs of directional commands for elevator and rudder controls.
The ability to control a vehicle is adversely affected by the type of vehicle the player is in. Motorcycles in GTA 1, for example, are capable of climbing up staircases when conventional cars can't. On the other end of the spectrum, larger, heavier vehicles, such as buses and trucks, are less maneuverable and oftentimes lack in speed, making them poor candidates for evasion from the police although their durability and weight can also be taken into consideration. Heavy vehicles can also be used for fun as a battering ram against other smaller vehicles. In San Andreas, players can adjust the hydraulics/pneumatic suspension system of selected vehicles (without cheats/mods) by maneuvering or clicking the left analog stick which would allow the vehicle height to be adjusted accordingly. This ability is similar to the one in Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition, known as 'weight transfer', but the vehicle cannot be flipped sidewards. Instead, the vehicle will rotate clockwise/counter-clockwise into a flat-spin instead of leaning onto the left or right wheels. Those features can be performed in San Andreas. In San Andreas, vehicles will inevitably catch fire and explode if they come to rest after being turtled (flipped onto the roof).
Certain vehicles may also come equipped with special features, such as a weapon (e.g. Tank, Rhino and Hunter), a water cannon (Fire Truck) or towing apparatus (Truck Cab or Tow Truck), which may be used to the player's advantage.
Damage resistance should also been considered. A weaker body may offset the high performance of certain vehicles, while a slow, heavy vehicle may be far more resilient to damage. If a player is not proficient enough in their driving or has not properly planned their path to their destination, the choice of vehicle may become a hindrance if the player is urgently completing a mission or escaping from pursuers.
In San Andreas, the PS2 version makes driving of vehicles with hydraulics/pneumatic suspension more difficult by assigning the R3 control to the shock-bouncing and other maneuverings. Under normal circumstances, the R3 stick is used to move the camera view to allow the player to spot for obstacles.
In GTA IV, stopping for red lights and/or pedestrians is not recommended as the NPC drivers of GTA IV treat the player's car as an obstruction of the road should it be done so. In addition, the NPC drivers behind the player would normally react by swearing, having to use languages to make the player's vehicle budge, and/or in worst case scenario damaging the player's car while attempting to overtake. However if the player moves forward a little before the cars behind start to overtake, they will wait; (this is because traffic was programmed to move around the cars you park, creating an error where 'AI' assumes the protagonist is parking when the player stops).
Unlike in GTA San Andreas, whereby NPC drivers patiently stop behind the player's car without having to treat the player's car as an obstruction for waiting for the red light. However, NPC drivers would still attempt to overtake the player's vehicle soon after the traffic light turns green.
NPC drivers can be seen turning on their vehicles' turn signal light while making turns and having their brake lights on after they come to a halt. Those are some of the many functions that are not available in the normal mode, with the exception on the use of mods. However in Grand Theft Auto IV, it is possible to apply the brake lights when stopped. Hold in the gas and brake buttons at the same time ever so slightly, not so much as to do a burnout, just enough to light the lights up.
When driving a vehicle up or down a large, steep road at high speeds in Grand Theft Auto IV, the cars are likely to go airborne and have a rather bumpy landing to the point that they crash into another car or land upside down. It is possible to prevent this by lifting off the gas, holding the e-brake, and moving the left joystick around to slightly control the vehicle whilst being airborne. After noticing they made the cars feel more big and boatlike (meaning they had heaps of body roll when pushed to the limit), Rockstar Games stated that not only will the cars stick to the ground a bit better in Grand Theft Auto V, but the development team were also able to run more physics on them to the point that it'll feel almost like a racing game. In the final game the driving was somewhat similar to what was promised, although it does not seem like more physics were run onto the cars in the game.
Camera views
As is the player while on foot, the variety of camera views while driving varies between games, but may be classified into two groups:
- Top-down view, which is purely used in GTA 1 (London packs included), GTA 2 and GTA Advance. The camera view is also available in GTA III, as well as GTA Chinatown Wars, which employs a top-down and forward viewing hybrid. A similar top down view can be viewed in a helicopter in GTA V.
- 3D view, standard in GTA III, GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas, GTA Liberty City Stories, GTA Vice City Stories and GTA IV, which usually employs a forward viewing angle or a cinematic view that takes advantage of an enhanced 3D environment. Originally, GTA III features four camera angles, in addition to the aforementioned top-down view, including two tail cams (further and closer to the player's vehicle), a bumper cam and, a cinematic cam. From GTA Vice City onwards, a third tail cam positioned even further from the player's vehicle is added.
- First person view was only available with mods before the enhanced version of GTA V, now it is possible to go into first person. It shows a cockpit view, the steering wheel and speedometers now are fully functional.
- Rockstar improves the cinema camera view in GTA IV by adding the ability to enable slow motion by pressing L3 on Xbox 360 and PS3.
- In GTA V, the slow motion option is improved even more; allowing the player to choose the speed of the game. By pressing B on Xbox 360, or O on PS3 the camera goes into the cinema cam. Moving the right thumb stick will change the speed of the game (e.g. moving the right thumb stick down will slow the game. This can be done twice).
- Rear view, where the camera is positioned infront of the windshield looking back behind the car. This was first introduced in GTA IV, and was re-used in GTA V. This is useful for quickly seeing what is behind quickly without having to rotate the camera behind the player. In GTA IV and GTA V, the protagonist will look in the rear-view mirror when the player switches to this camera option.
- The steering animations in the GTA series have evolved gradually. In the 3D universe, the protagonist would only turn the wheel slightly, whereas GTA IV's protagonists demonstrate a proper hand-over-hand steering technique, turning the wheel around fully. GTA V's steering is a step back from IV - the protagonists only perform one rotation of the wheel. Even though the more recent Grand Theft Auto titles have shown a more realistic depiction of steering technique, the actual steering wheel model still does not move at all, however in the enhanced version of GTA V, the steering wheel is fully functional.
- Other minor details depicted during driving include the protagonist looking in the rear-view mirror when the player presses the corresponding "rear view" button in GTA V, being able to switch the engine off when exiting a vehicle in GTA IV (along with the noticeable sound of the handbrake being engaged when doing so) and how Carl Johnson starts steering with one hand on the wheel after the player acquires enough driving skill - compared to how CJ steers with both hands during the beginning of the game. CJ will still steer sportier vehicles such as the Turismo with both hands regardless of the driving skill stat.
- In GTA V, if one of the protagonists is idling in a car and starts fidgeting around (scratching head, examining hands, etc....), it is possible to drive the car in a straight line without them cancelling their animation, and will only grab the wheel when they are done with that particular animation or when turning the vehicle.
- In GTA V, Michael and Franklin will seem to have a mad expression on their face when the player is driving faster than normal.
- In the enhanced version of GTA V, the protagonist can duck while driving in first person, this is useful to dodge enemy fire while in a vehicle.
- Strangely, despite a screenshot advertising the new feature showing a GTA Online player ducking in a boat, ducking cannot be performed in boats.
Specific Topics
- Carjacking, breaking into a vehicle or stealing an occupied vehicle.
- Drive-by shooting, the ability to fire a weapon from a vehicle.
- Voluntary and involuntary ejections, the ability to jump out of/off or be thrown out of/off a vehicle.
- Towing, the ability to haul trailers or other vehicles.
- Vehicle damage.
- Vehicle sub-missions.
- Garages, storage area for vehicles.
- Spray shops, establishments allowing players to eliminate wanted levels while in a road vehicle.
- Car bombs.
- Modification garages for road vehicles.
- Crusher, a device used to crush vehicles for rewards.
- Prostitutes, NPCs, which can be picked up while on a car and "used" for player health.


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Two United Airlines passengers feuding about reclining a seat forced the airline to make an unscheduled landing at O'Hare International Airport on Sunday, officials said.
The skirmish aboard United Flight 1462, which was headed from Newark to Denver, began when a man tried to use a gadget called the Knee Defender that blocked the seat in front of him from fully reclining, according to according to United Airlines.
A flight attendant informed the man, 47, that United does not allow such gadgets like this one, which is advertised online for $21.95. The man, who had also been using a laptop, refused to comply, officials said.
An argument ensued and the woman, 48, who had tried to recline her seat stood up and threw a cup of water at the man, the airline confirmed.
Both passengers were sitting in United's Economy Plus section, the part of the plane that has four more inches of legroom than the rest of coach.
Authorities with the Chicago police and Transportation Security Administration confirmed that, at about 3 p.m., they met with the unruly passengers after the plane landed at O'Hare.
"Both passengers were very disruptive and failed to follow flight crew instructions," said Chicago police Officer Ron Gaines, who confirmed that the skirmish began over a reclining seat.
United does not allow customers to use devices "that prevent seats from reclining," an airline spokeswoman confirmed.
No arrests were made.
"Typically in these situations, they turn out to be customer service (related) and there isn't a crime committed," said Michael McCarthy, a TSA spokesman based in Boston.
"It really isn't terribly common."
The Boeing 737 continued on its flight to Denver, officials said.
Authorities declined to release information about the passengers and whether they made it to their destination.


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Special equipment: grill pan
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
In a large bowl mix together water, lemon juice, sugar and salt until dissolved. Add lemon quarters and chicken. Marinate for 30 minutes. Remove from marinade and pat dry. Preheat a grill pan over medium heat. Massage 1 drop of liquid smoke into each chicken breast. Salt and pepper generously then rub 1 tablespoon butter over and under skin of each chicken breast, placing 2 sage leaves underneath the skin. Place on hot grill, skin side down, until skin is golden brown, about 5 minutes. Transfer chicken to a baking sheet and bake until cooked through, about 25 minutes.
Meanwhile for the white wine mushroom sauce: In a large saute pan over medium heat, melt 2 tablespoons butter with olive oil. Add onions, mushrooms and cayenne pepper. Saute until onions are translucent and mushrooms are tender, about 8 minutes. Add wine and reduce until it's almost evaporated. Add chicken stock and simmer until reduced by one third. In a small bowl press together remaining butter and flour with fingertips until well blended, then slowly add to the sauce while stirring with a wooden spoon. Simmer until sauce resembles loose gravy, about 5 minutes. Serve warm with the chicken.


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New Fook Lam Moon
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This Hong Kong-style café offers an extensive menu of Cantonese classics, such as baked salted chicken, stewed eel with black bean sauce, and stuffed beancurd with aubergine and green pepper. The roast meats (duck, pork, chicken) are popular too, and, unusually, there are also a few (hard-to-spot) Malaysian dishes. Our fried ho fun arrived with mixed seafood and pork (char kway teow, stir-fried flat noodles, in another guise), and packed real punch. The taste of garlic and belachan (hot shrimp paste) lingered on delightfully. Less thrilling was a dry, bland Hainanese chicken rice.
We were lucky to have grabbed the last table on the packed ground floor, which is smart in brown (walls and floor tiles are uniformly bronzed), with mirrors down one side to brighten up the place. The basement is a bit soulless. Staff are friendly, but of limited help if you need menu advice.
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Average User Rating
3 / 5
Rating Breakdown
- 5 star:2
- 4 star:5
- 3 star:2
- 2 star:1
- 1 star:4
Excellent meal at a reasonable price staff helpful and efficient will most certainly be back again on our next trip to the capital
Good food. Really enjoy the meal. We will come back again
I have been to ti restaurant 6 times now returning each time im Chian town, wih various friends all really enjoying it. The best chinese I have had in the UK, the salt and pepper squid is 'to die for'. Staff can be quite quiet but not an issue always a wait but worh it.
ENGLISH Just good, no more. Be VERY CAREFUL with the bill (hand-written, and you can't really read it) they charge more than you have to pay. They tried to make me pay £88 when I ordered for £73 !!! I ask them to look at the bill, they "double checked" saying me there was no problem with it... So do not hesitate to ask for the menu and do the bill with them or they will steal your money !! For what you eat... Better to go somewhere else ! FRENCH Bien mais sans plus. Cependant, faites très attention car l'addition est écrite à la main (et illisible) et ils chargent plus que ce vous avez pris. N'hésitez pas à compter avec eux et avec la carte ! Ils ont essayés de me faire payer £88 pour une addition qui n'en faisait que £73 !!! Des voleurs !!! Pour ce qu'on y mange mieux vaut aller voir ailleurs...
Service charge was added though not marked and a tip also asked for the card payment, and charge was made for cokes at £3.50 instead of the £2.50 on the menu. It's a complete rip-off. I wish I had read the user reviews instead of just the Time Out 4 star review on my iphone.
Went here tonight ~8pm - had to queue but
I have never tasted Oriental cuisine anywhere near as good as this. On my first visit I had Malaysian Curry Chicken with Mixed Vegetable Fried Rice and Lemon Garlic Chicken Wings for desert i had Banana Fritters. On my second vist I asked the manager to order for me. She Ordered me a beef dish (i don't really know which one it was) with crispy squid and Special Fried Rice. My third visit i had a boneless Lemon Chicken, Crispy Duck Pankcake and Mixed Vegetable Fried Rice. From the presentation to the aroma to the taste everything about my experience at New Fook Lam Moon was awesome. The customer service was excellent really friendly waiters. Great value for money and i would definitely recommend it. 5*
New Fook Lam Moon restuarant is worth a visit. The quality and the services are exceptional. Although I rated this restuarant as 4 stars, it could be improved by making the food more outstanding with 5 stars standard. It's a great restaurant for all people around the world to eat at. The starters are not expensive and is worth it. The portion size is just right.
our 4th visit since change of ownership service is as good and as welcoming as always drop in food standard - saltier, presentation is least interesting and smaller portions the owner hunded us the bill without asking (how rude?!) this won't make us return, shame!
I have eaten there a few times this year and though small and chaotic, the service was fine. The owner is very pleasant and the food I have ordered there has been great. Yesterday we had a lunchtime set menu of Pork and vegetable soup, noodles and fruit (£5.90) as well as baked chilli salt squid (not on the menu, but is shown as prawn in shell) which is excellent. Usually the reason I go there for. Its dry, spicy and salty but sets the taste buds off (£10.00) . Complimented with a sticky style boiled rice. The portions are described as generous.We drank jasmine tea and the pot was filled up automatically as it was finished (if not, a trick here is to take the lid off and rest it back in the appature with the lid tilted if you want more). The whole bill including service was £23 for two and they were quite happy to let us sit there chatting whilst we finished our tea well after the food was finished. More than happy to go back.
I'm rather surprised by all the negativity on this page. I've been to this restaurant three times in the past year, and the experience has always been a pleasant one. It is perhaps mis-classified - they do some Malaysian dishes, but they're really more Chinese. And they are definitely at the "cheap, but very good value for money" end of the scale - always crowded, can be noisy, rather Spartan decor. Last time I was there we had a 2-person set meal, which was prawn crackers, a quarter crispy aromatic duck, two portions of rice, and three main-course dishes, all of which came to just £33 - not much more than your local Chinese take-away, but the food is FAR better quality - vegetables all perfectly cooked, and one of the nicest sweet and sour sauces I've ever tested, a world away from the usual syrupy rubbish. I've always found the servers to be polite and friendly, too, if maybe a little rushed. Not a place for a quiet, intimate dinner, but if you want good Chinese food that doesn't break the bank, I recommend it quite strongly.
the food was not all that impressive, although i will say the egg fried rice was nice, but incredibly overpriced and service was terrible, the waiter and manager both incredibly rude, and it didn't help that they automatically added the service charge. would definately not go there again.
After experiencing such BAD customer service today I felt it is necessary to write a review! First off the waiter was very ill mannered and sighed and puffed at everything we asked for as if it was a chore. A friend asked for their food to be put in a take away box and the waiter simply shoved two plastic boxes at her, to do it herself. The waiter gave us the bill before we even had our desert! Very unprofessional! It really felt like they wanted us out of there in a hurry! We also had a slight misunderstanding in the service charge and the manager came and saw us and he gave no apologies to us what so ever and he didn't even try to be nice, even though we were being very polite. The reply was "Don't tell me how to run a restaurant" and he walked off! We tried to speak to him again and he walked off ignoring us and he simply did not care; now we had paid our bill. I will not be recommending this place to anyone and will stay far away from this restaurant as much as possible! I would rather pay more money for the food in future if I am going to be treated like a customer! So if you wish to be treated politely and with proper customer care I suggest you go elsewhere!
I've never written a review but thIs experience really was that bad. The restaurant is excessively cramped, and the food was average, if that. The service was unbelievably poor. I have not been treated this badly in a restaurant ever and I do visit various restaurants often. The waiter was consistently rude, answering questions rudely, and making it clear that we were an Inconvenience when asking for extra drinks, etc. If the service was good enough we should never have needed to call the waiter over for extra drink in the first
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Venturing Program
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Venturing is a program of the Boy Scouts of America. It is available to young men and women under the age of 21 who meet any of the following qualifications:
- are at least 15 years old
- are 14 years old and have completed the 8th grade.
- Prior participation in Boy Scouting or Varsity Scouting is not required.
Venturing is program is designed for young adults who are looking for rugged high adventure or challenging sporting activities and still want to be a part of a Scouting program that offers the advancement opportunities and values of the Boy Scouts of America.
Venturers will learn and live by the Venturing Oath and the Venturing Code.
Advancement and recognition
The basic advancement system
- Sports Bronze Award
- Religious and Community Life Bronze Award
- Arts and Hobbies Bronze Award
- Outdoor Bronze Award
- Sea Scout Bronze Award
Expert-level awards
Other awards
Sea Scouting
- See Sea Scouting for further information.
Sea Scouts is a specialized segment of the Venturing program, which was organized to address members' boating skills and promote knowledge of our maritime heritage. Swimming, lifesaving, first aid, Coast Guard Auxiliary Sailing and Seamanship, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation courses are taught with the ship by its officers.


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Welcome to the South Laois Tourism Website. South Laois/North Kilkenny the undiscovered Ireland situated a 20 minute drive from The Rock of Cashel and Kilkenny Castle. Our aim is to promote tourism throughout the areas of Durrow, Ballinakill, Abbeyleix, Ballyouskill, Ballyragget, Lisdowney, Gathabawn, Johnstown, Rathdowney, Erill, Donaghmore, Ballybrophy, Clough, Cullahill and Ballacolla.
The Cullahill/Gathabawn area is one of the undiscovered scenic areas in the country. The view from the Failte Ireland Approved Cullahill Mountain Walk and Guathabaun Loop is somethng to behold as seven counties can be viewed from this area. This area is also home to the McGiolla Phadraig Way Walk (Fitzpatrick Way Walk). Walkers can also avail of the Leafy Loop Walk which straddles Dunmore Wood and Bishops Wood (home to the alluvial wetlands). The walks at Heywood Gardens and the Mass Lough in Ballinakill area are also tourism treasures.
The south of Laois has a huge amount of waterways with the Goul, Erkina, Gully and Owenbeg Rivers all tributaries of the River Nore which continues its journey to the city of KIlkenny. These rivers are a paradise for fishermen and canoeists alike with Durrow, Cullahill and Ballinakill Anglers and the Woodenbridge Paddlers Canoe Club all active in the area. Granstown Lake and woods which are close to the village of Ballacolla is also a gem. The lake is regarded as one of the finest course fishing lakes in Europe while Gills pond in Ballinakill is also a renowned fishing destination.
With the assistance of Laois Partnership, Laois County Council and Failte Ireland South Laois also has six on road approved cycle trails ranging from 8 km to 48km. The area is also rich in history with many old houses, castles, mills and burial grounds dotted throughout. Tourists can also enjoy the many festivals staged in the area throughout the year. The region also possesses many restaurants, bars and guesthouses where tourists can relax and enjoy their stay. Find out more About Us.


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The rumor about the Beatles coming to the iTunes Store has been beaten to death over the years, and thus many of us at Ars have developed a deep cynicism towards the subject. Nonetheless, here we are again looking into the eye of the storm, only this time around, the speculation is based on more speculation.
The rumor here is based on the rumor that Apple will be holding an event on September 9. How does September 9 tie into a Beatles rumor resurrection? The folks over at MacRumors have pointed out that the Beatles version of Rock Band is coming out at that time, as is the entire remastered Beatles catalog. Since we live in a world void of coincidence and same-day launches of products, this apparently means that Apple will announce during the rumored Apple event that the entire Beatles catalog will be released on iTunes that day.
If you were expecting more, then you may be disappointed. The possibility is always there, of course, that this will turn out to be true. However, it seems unlikely that Apple would put itself up against a band that was "bigger than Jesus" armed with only a CEO that thinks he's bigger than Jesus. Also, we must remind ourselves that the September 9 event hasn't even been confirmed yet.
Now, I Don't Want to Spoil the Party, I just wouldn't hold my breath. We have been disappointed in the past, but we do eagerly await The End when we can buy the aforementioned songs on iTunes.


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For three quarters, Kinston�s leading scorer didn�t make a shot from the floor and couldn�t hit a free throw.
But with eight minutes left and the state 2A championship on the line, Kinston�s Monique Lofton calmly went to work.
CHAPEL HILL � For three quarters, Kinston�s leading scorer didn�t make a shot from the floor and couldn�t hit a free throw.
But with eight minutes left and the state 2A championship on the line, Kinston�s Monique Lofton calmly went to work.
The senior leader scored all 11 of her points in the fourth quarter as the Vikings pulled away late to down Canton Pisgah 51-40 Saturday in the Dean E. Smith Center to claim the first state title in Lenoir County girls basketball history.
Kinston finished the season with a sterling 27-4 record, including an 18-game win streak to close out the year.
�I�m so happy for these girls,� Kinston coach Hubert Quinerly said following the victory. �They worked hard all season and definitely deserved this championship. But the same could be said for Pisgah. It�s a shame that either team had to lose.�
Without Lofton�s fourth quarter heroics, the Vikings may have been the one on the losing end.
After missing her first seven shots, Lofton finally drained a 3-pointer from the right corner to put Kinston ahead 31-27 with 7:13 left in the game.
She added a free throw and then buried another trey at the 5:04 mark. By that time, Kinston was in the midst of a 9-0 run, opening up a 42-31 advantage with 3:48 to go.
�Getting Monique started was huge,� Quinerly said. �She�s one of our seniors and her leadership and play down the stretch was critical.�
Lofton contributed another layup and a pair of free throws to complete her spectacular career finale.
�I think I was a little nervous out there,� Lofton said, �but I kept on shooting and luckily they finally started to fall.�
For three quarters, however, it was a pair of underclassmen that kept Kinston in the game.
Sophomore Lydia Rivers finished with 13 points, nine rebounds and nine blocked shots to earn game MVP honors.
Freshman Jada Faison also scored 13 points, including the free throw that gave Kinston the lead for good in the final minute of the third period. She was named the squad�s Most Outstanding Player.
The first half was a sloppy mishmash of big-game jitters and stellar defensive play.
The two teams combined to shoot 14 of 52 from the floor and 1 of 10 from 3-point range as the Bears (26-7) led 16-15 at intermission.
�The first half was part nerves and part Pisgah�s defense,� Quinerly said. �Obviously they have an outstanding team. It took us a little while to adjust to what they were doing.�
A pair of free throws by Brittany Drumgoole gave Kinston its first lead of the second half, 22-20, with 3:57 remaining in the third quarter.
Kinston also outrebounded the Bears 38-33 in the contest, the first time Pisgah had been beaten on the boards in the playoffs.
�Kinston deserves a lot of credit,� Pisgah coach Brandon Holloway said. �They�re very talented and they won the little battles that decide games between good teams.�
The Vikings outscored Pisgah 23-13 in the final period. They survived despite making just 9 of 19 free throws.
�We knew it was going to be tough, but this is the best feeling in the world,� senior Alexis Williams said. �To be able to go out on such a high note makes all the work the last four years worth it.�


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EU law may force RBS and Lloyds to become English
If Scotland were to vote for independence, both Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds may be forced to move their registered offices or legal homes to London under European Union law, I have learned.
A senior banker has told me that his organisation is taking legal advice on the impact of the relevant directive, Council Directive 95/26/EC of 29 June 1995, because it has never been tested in the courts and there is no case law around it.
Regulators are also busy assessing its significance. Bankers and regulators both tell me it is likely to mean that RBS and Lloyds would be obliged to move their homes south of the border, if Scotland were to go it alone.
The directive says that banks must have their head offices "in the same member state as its registered office".
It also implies that those registered and head offices should be located where a group has the bulk of its activities - which, as you know, is England for Lloyds and RBS.
One relevant part of the directive says that a regulator should prohibit a bank from operating where the "geographical distribution of the activities actually carried on indicate clearly that a financial undertaking has opted for the legal system of one Member State for the purpose of evading the stricter standards in force in another Member State within whose territory it carries on or intends to carry on the greater part of its activities".
Now it is very unlikely that the Prudential Regulatory Authority and Financial Conduct Authority in London would accuse Lloyds and RBS of keeping their registered offices in Scotland to deliberately evade "stricter" oversight by them.
But that may not matter. Because, as I understand it, they think this directive broadly implies that a bank must have its legal home in the country where it carries out the bulk of its activities - which in this case (to state the obvious) is England (or rather the rest of the UK, excluding Scotland).
Here is where I labour the point.
Lloyds already has its head office in London, separate from its Scotland registered office.
And RBS has two head offices, one in London, one in Scotland - and, to repeat (yawn), Scotland is its legal home.
The big simple point is that neither RBS or Lloyds would probably choose to move their head offices and important risk control functions back to Scotland: even if the regulators thought this was a good idea, their owners would not; which means that, on the basis of Council Directive 95/26/EC of 29 June 1995, their registered offices, their homes, would be coming to the City.
If you are still with me (many congratulations, by the way), you may be wondering why any of this matters.
Well for both sides in the battle over the future Scotland, the fact that two of the UK's biggest banks, Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds, have their registered offices or legal domiciles in Scotland has been a double edged sword.
On the one hand it appeared to be symbolically important for the Yes or pro-independence campaign that RBS and Lloyds have not followed the lead of the insurance company Standard Life, which recently suggested that it might have to move south of the border if Scotland voted to go it alone .
And maybe these banks' homes in Edinburgh speak to a vital future for Scotland's financial services industry and economy.
So to that extent no real news on their post-independence planning is implicitly good for Alex Salmond and those in favour of a separate Scotland.
However, the mainstream British political parties and the Better Together campaign have pointed out that banks occasionally run into financial difficulties (err, these two did, not that long ago, at a near-crippling cost to British taxpayers and the economy).
So Tories, Libdems and Labour, along with HM Treasury, have noisily pointed out that an autonomous Scotland would not on its own be able to bail out this pair of banks.
Here are the stats: Lloyds' and RBS's loans and investments are £1.9 trillion collectively, or between 13 and 15 times the value of Scotland's annual output or GDP (depending on how it's measured) - which suggests that Scotland would be bankrupted by the implied costs of rescuing these two banks and their depositors.
What matters is that the Treasury - and the cross party troika of George Osborne, Danny Alexander and Ed Balls - have cited these apparently unaffordable potential bail-out costs when explaining why they reject the demand of the Scottish government for a formal monetary union between an autonomous Scotland and the rest of the UK.
They say that it would be to trample on the interests of taxpayers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to enter into a monetary pact with Scotland, which left these taxpayers implicitly exposed to the risks of rescuing two big banks, when regulators in London would not have been in a position to keep them prudent and healthy.
And it is this refusal of the political establishment in London to countenance formal monetary union with Scotland which is seen by many to have dealt the greatest blow to Mr Salmond's separatist ambitions.
Or to put it another way, Lloyds' and RBS' home in Scotland can be seen as good and bad for both sides in the independence argument.
But if these homes would come to London more-or-less automatically in the event of a vote for separation, then it means that their future would no longer be part of the cut and thrust of the referendum battle.
And, on balance, it may be that the automatic nature of relocation to England would be worse for the pro-union campaign - because it means the financial risks of a monetary union with Scotland would reduced.
A banker said: "Salmond will never say this publicly, but he is bound to regard the depoliticisation of where we base ourselves as a good thing. He would no longer have the risk of picking up a big bill for us, if everything went belly up again".
All that said, it is no great surprise that neither side have been shouting that Scottish independence equals emigration to London of Lloyds and RBS.
But it does explain why neither Lloyds or RBS have felt compelled to say anything much about how they would respond to a popular decision in favour of separation - because their ability to choose their respective nationalities may be severely circumscribed, by EU law.
PS: If you are interested in the history of this tedious EU directive, which could have such a big impact on the referendum debate, it is commonly known as the post BCCI directive.
The directed was enacted to make sure that no bank could ever again be run along the lines of the criminal enterprise, BCCI, which had its registered office in Luxembourg, but most of its operations in London - and the Luxembourg regulator simply didn't have the resources to check what BCCI was up to, and the Bank of England felt it did not have the powers to do so.