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The decision to give up his job as the Calais High School boys basketball coach was a difficult one for Ed Leeman.
He is a 1986 Calais graduate, has been an instructor in the Jobs for Maine Graduates program at the school for 22 years and has guided the Blue Devils varsity team for 10 seasons.
He had received other job opportunities and passed them up, but not this time, as he is taking a regional manager's position with the Jobs for Maine Graduates program.
"It's just one of those things. I'm not sure how many opportunities I might get. This feels right at this time," Leeman said. "I still have some anxiety about it. We'll see how it goes, but I think it will go well."
Leeman, 45, explained that his new post doesn't stipulate that he give up his coaching job, but he said he realizes that the extra time commitment and travel it entails would not enable him to continue coaching, which also requires a major time commitment.
"The people at Calais have been the best people in the world to work for as well as the Jobs for Maine Graduate people," said Leeman, who would like to return to coaching some day. "This is not an easy decision, it's kind of tearing me up."
Leeman is leaving behind a highly successful decade as coach that includes three Class C state titles and four Eastern Maine crowns. The state title in the 2006-07 season was the first for a Calais boys basketball team, and they repeated the next year.
As a player, Leeman admits that he never met a shot he didn't like, but as a coach, he turned to defense as the foundation of success for his program. His teams became a tourney perennial.
"His teams were tough defensively and were well coached," said Calais athletic director Randy Morrison, who made Leeman his first hire when he began the AD post 10 years ago.
Leeman emphasized education to his players, Morrison added.
"He was a great teacher of the game, but he also made sure the kids always kept up their grades. Even in the off-season he was after them to get their work done in all subjects," Morrison said.
Leeman's straightforward personality was another key attribute.
"He was very honest with the kids and parents. Everyone knew where he was coming from," Morrison said.
Leeman got off to a shaky start in his first season as the Blue Devils lost their first four or five games before winning an away game in Houlton.
"We were down by 10 at halftime, and until then, I had been conservative, half-court man on defense. But we went to '21,' full-court pressure and went 11-2 the rest of the season," Leeman recalled.
His first tourney game, a quarterfinal against Penquis, was another lesson learned as veteran coach Tony Hamlin used a 2-3 zone defense to beat what may have been a more talented Calais team, Leeman said.
"That was a big lesson on how to crack a 2-3 zone," he added.
The next season, Leeman's teams started an amazing run that included back-to-back state titles and a 63-0 record before losing to Winthrop in the state final in 2008.
"I remember all of the kids, so many good players, tons of them," said Leeman, who was reluctant to name a few of the players without naming them all.
"I've had some great moments and some great kids," he said. "I've tried to pass on the game the best I can. I've been blessed to be a Blue Devil."
He adhered to the concept of team play during his tenure and believes that is the true meaning of the game of high school basketball.
He also successfully dealt with what can be a difficult situation: coaching your own kids. He coached both Jordan (2005-09) and Joel (2010-13).
"I don't think there's one person in Calais who thought I favored my kids," Leeman said. "They weren't coddled. They knew they had to be tougher than everyone else."
Leeman said he also was fortunate to have great assistant coaches, such as Marcia Rogers, who assisted his teams during their state championship runs.
"She was awesome. She taught kids respect for the game and discipline," he said.
Leeman is helping his most recent assistant, Chris Woodside, who is running the summer basketball program.
Morrison said the school hopes to name Leeman's replacement within the next two months.


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May 25 (Reuters) - Billionaire hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen is losing the financial support of Blackstone Group Inc , the largest outside investor in his embattled SAC Capital Advisors, which is yanking much of its client money, according to a letter reviewed by Reuters.
A pension consultant, in a May 21 letter to clients, said Blackstone has notified Cohen that it intends to "fully redeem" a significant portion of the roughly $550 million the investment firm has invested with the $15 billion hedge fund. The letter from pension consulting firm Russell Investments said Blackstone submitted its redemption notice to SAC Capital sometime before May 15 because of ongoing concerns about the insider trading investigation that continues to engulf Cohen's fund.
Blackstone's investment with SAC Capital is through several investment funds known as hedge fund of funds and also through separately managed accounts it maintains for clients. The decision to redeem from SAC Capital impacts only client money invested in its hedge fund of funds, according to the letter. It's not clear how much of the $550 million is in those hedge fund of funds and it is not clear what Blackstone is advising clients who have money in separately managed accounts that is invested with SAC Capital.
Russell did say in the address to its pension clients that Blackstone "expects to receive 100 percent of investors' capital by year-end." Russell, which manages $173 billion in assets and oversees a number of index funds, also provides advice to pensions and institutional investors on where to invest their dollars in hedge funds.
The timing of Blackstone's request to withdraw money from SAC Capital is critical because it came before the hedge fund told investors on May 17 that its cooperation with federal authorities was no longer unconditional. Soon after, news broke that federal prosecutors had issued grand jury subpoenas earlier this month to Cohen and several of his top executives, seeking their testimony about insider trading at the hedge fund.
The decision by Blackstone, which has invested with SAC Capital for at least a decade, is a big blow to the 56-year-old fund manager, who is widely regarded as one of the most successful traders of his generation. Blackstone - which manages about $46 billion in hedge fund investments for public pensions, foundations, corporations and wealthy individuals - is seen as something of a bellwether for other investors in the $2.2 trillion hedge fund industry because of its stature.
Representatives for Blackstone did not immediately respond when asked for comment on Saturday. An SAC Capital spokesman declined to comment.
The letter from Russell Investments, which was reviewed by Reuters, made no mention of the subpoenas on Cohen and his executives and was sent after a Russell representative talked to a Blackstone executive about the redemption decision. The letter said Blackstone decided to submit a redemption notice to SAC Capital after reviewing the terms of a $616 million deal SAC Capital reached in March with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to settle allegations that the hedge fund's employees had engaged in insider trading in four stocks.
Blackstone, according to the letter, said the settlement with the SEC "did not give additional comfort that the issues at-hand were resolved."
A representative for Russell Investments did not respond to a request for comment about the letter from its Russell Research division.
Outside investors in SAC Capital like Blackstone, who account for roughly $6.75 billion of the $15 billion managed by Cohen, have until June 3 to decide whether to submit redemption notices for the second quarter. In the first quarter, outside investors notified Cohen they intend to withdraw about $1.7 billion of that $6.75 billion by year's end.
People close to SAC Capital said Cohen, who has roughly $8 billion of his money invested in SAC Capital, is bracing for another large round of redemption requests. The speculation is growing in the hedge fund world that if Cohen gets another large round of redemption requests, he may opt to return all the outside money and convert SAC Capital into a family office - an unregistered firm that manages money just for himself and his friends and family.
SAC Capital is one of the world's larger hedge funds with 1,000 employees.
Blackstone's hedge fund of funds invests client money with more than four dozen hedge funds, including SAC Capital, Pershing Square Capital Management, Elliott Management and DE Shaw & Co, according to people familiar with the private equity firm's asset management business.
The decision by Blackstone to redeem comes after the private equity and investment firm has stuck with Cohen throughout the course of the long-running investigation that has so far resulted in nine one-time employees of the firm being charged or implicated in insider trading schemes.
Cohen himself has not been charged with wrongdoing, but the investigation is seen as increasingly focusing on him and his firm.
In late April, lawyers for Cohen and his firm met with federal prosecutors in Manhattan to make their best case argument about why the hedge fund billionaire and his SAC Capital Advisors should not be charged with criminal wrongdoing. But people familiar with that meeting said the lengthy presentation did not impress federal prosecutors, who are now considering whether to use a racketeering law aimed at prosecuting the Mafia and drug gangs to pursue a criminal case against Cohen's hedge fund.
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Former Central State Eight Conference football players can be found on Division I rosters at nearly all positions, from quarterbacks to kickers.
But the CS8 has become known for sending linemen to the highest levels of college football.
�I think it speaks volumes to our conference,� SHG coach Ken Leonard said. �You have to be just a little lucky to have big kids.�
The recent wave of Division I-bound linemen began with SHG�s Marlandez Harris, who went to Indiana University in 2010. And though he never played for the Hoosiers, the 6-foot-3, 274-pound defensive lineman started a trend.
The next year, SHG offensive guard Ryan Klachko (Nebraska and Illinois), Rochester defensive ends Riley McMinn (Iowa) and Taylor Hill (Western Illinois) and Glenwood lineman Jake Wienhoff (Illinois State) would join the college ranks at FBS or FCS Division I schools.
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ISU would get two more CS8 players � Springfield High�s Ryan Gelber in 2012 and Jacksonville�s Dalton Keene in 2013. Fellow �13 CS8 alum James Torgerson (Springfield High) went to WIU.
The run wouldn�t end there as two Class of 2014 graduates, Jacksonville offensive tackle Blake Hance (Northern Illinois) and Rochester defensive end Matt Swaine (ISU), signed National Letters of Intent.
And 2015 might be the banner year for CS8 linemen banner.
Jacksonville�s Gabe Megginson was the first to commit, when he told Illinois his intention to join the program next fall as an offensive tackle. That was followed by SHG offensive tackle Quinn Oseland�s oral commitment in August to Minnesota.
Michael Zeigler, the other tackle on the SHG offensive line, already has an offer from Austin Peay. He hopes solid play this season adds to his offers.
For those counting, that�s 13 since the 2009 high school football season, or more than two a season, with six playing at Bowl Championship Series-eligible schools.
�There are some talented kids,� Jacksonville coach Mark Grounds said. �They�ve got to be self-starters because they�ve got to do the lonely work. They�ve got to demand excellence for themselves.�
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�I think we�re blessed but I think it shows coaches are doing a good job of recruiting the hallways,� Grounds said. �People have no idea how much goes on behind the scenes. But ultimately, the kids have put the effort in.�
To get scholarship looks at these schools, a player has to have the right dimensions in the first place � especially those on an offensive front five.
�I think o-linemen are the toughest (to produce) because o-linemen have to fit a certain bill, be a certain weight,� Rochester coach Derek Leonard said.
And size alone isn�t enough.
�You�re looking for that big kid, a big kid that can move,� Ken Leonard said.
In Rochester�s four-peat of 4A state titles, Derek Leonard has had more than his share of athletic defensive end types. The most recent was Swaine.
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IT WAS AFTER his brother was shot to death by thugs in front of his family that Emerson Rene's parents decided to move from El Salvador to Marin County, hoping to give their children a better life and education. Two years later, Rene, 15, is attending San Rafael High School with the goal of going to college and becoming a surgeon.
"Education for me is something that makes someone a successful person," Rene said. "This country has great opportunities and a lot of hope."
The San Rafael High sophomore is part of an art project focused on promoting educational equality for all students. A photo of Rene paired with a statement about what education means to him will be attached April 26 to the wall of the Bellam Boulevard undercrossing near the main San Rafael Post Office.
Rene is one of 27 people participating in the project, which is being spearheaded by Dominican University. Dominican students, students in the Canal Alliance Youth Scholarship Program and mothers from the Young Mom's Marin group are part of the awareness project. Its goal is to get people talking about the struggles some local students face in getting an equal education compared with their more privileged neighbors.
Julia Van der Ryn, Dominican University service-learning director, said many people don't realize there are educational inequalities in Marin.
"We have a really affluent county, but we have pockets like the Canal area where people are marginalized and don't get the same opportunities," Van der Ryn said.
She and others cited a 2012 report, "A Portrait of Marin," funded by the Marin Community Foundation that, among other things, highlighted disparities in education levels and funding within the county geographically, ethnically and by income.
"Schools serving children from more affluent families are spending more per pupil than schools serving children from low-income families," the report said. "Dedicating the fewest resources to the neediest students is not in the best interest of Marin's future."
The awareness project was inspired by Parisian street artist and 2011 TED (Technology, Education and Design) prize winner JR, who wants people to turn the world "inside out" by sharing portraits of themselves along with a statement about what they stand for. TED is a nonprofit focused on spreading inspiring ideas, according to its website.
Van der Ryn said she and Lynn Sondag, Dominican University art professor, admire JR's work and have been planning the project for some time, putting a proposal before the university in July.
"For the past one-and-a-half years, we've fantasized about participating in the project," Van der Ryn said, adding that the project is the first of its kind in the Bay Area, with similar projects already installed at more than 9,500 sites throughout the world.
On Friday, participants gathered at the university's Brown House to finish their personal statements and arrange their portraits in a row. Each head shot was taken by Alejandra Tamayo, 20, a photographer and former Dominican University student.
Jessica Gaines, 25, a Canal resident and member of Young Mom's Marin, stood at the front of the room with her 1-year-old son as the group discussed how the photos should be arranged. They decided randomly placing the photos in a row, some with smiling faces and some with serious expressions, would make the best impression.
Gaines said she hopes people will see the mixture of faces, which includes her son and some of the other children, and realize that all come from different walks of life but deserve equal educations.
"It's a group of different people, but there are also similarities," Gaines said. "We've all been in some of the same situations."
Gaines is a stay-at-home mother to her three children, but she plans to attend college in the fall when her oldest daughter enters kindergarten. She said she's interested in criminal law and possibly becoming a lawyer. After attending a continuation high school, Gaines said she's now more motivated to educate herself.
"I know it will be hard, but I think I'll be able to do it," Gaines said.
Eager for more opportunities, Angelina Rodriguez, 19, a Young Mom's Marin member and Novato resident, said she wants to be the first in her family to graduate from college. She is raising her 2-year-old son while working part-time as an in-home care provider and attending Heald College in San Francisco to become a labor and delivery nurse.
Rodriguez said it's important for her to be able to show her son that she can provide for him, ultimately encouraging him to also get a good education.
"If you're more educated, you have a better outlook on the world and you can express yourself in more ways," Rodriguez said.
Dominican University senior Jason Simon, 27, said he sees a lot of inequalities in how lower-income students and higher-income students are taught about proper nutrition. In addition, he said those who are uneducated don't understand how to live sustainably and lessen pollution.
"If people were more educated, they'd know what they were doing to their environment," Simon said.
A humanities and cultural studies student, Simon plans to go into the sustainability field after graduating in May. He said everyone should be able to attend college science classes like he did to learn environmentally-friendly skills.
The photos of Simon and all the other participants will ultimately take shape as a 10-foot-tall, 80-foot-wide piece of art comprised of 3-by-5-foot posters of each person. The project will remain on the undercrossing for six weeks after the April installation.
Sondag said she hopes the project will generate discussion in the community about the need to provide quality education to everyone. She said the project's site at Bellam Boulevard is symbolic.
"Where it's located, it divides the Canal from other parts of Marin," Sondag said.
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I'm BAAAACCCCKKKKKKKKKK. At least for a while anyway as I wrestle with withdrawal from Facebook. I have to admit that I first started blogging in part because I'm now working out of my home after leaving the TV news business and didn't have anyone other than my wife and two dogs to talk to. My lovely and talented bride has since returned to the corporate world of marketing and such and we lost one of our Scottish Terriers last December. So now it's just me and the remaining Scotty and at 15 years he's just about deaf and can't see very well. Facebook increasingly wants more information or wants me to do things that I don't want to do such as use the "new timeline". I have to admit that I've reconnected with a lot of folks on FB but I'm also getting a lot of requests to be friends with people that I barely know or don't know at all. So, I'm considering going back to my roots. I won't be blogging just about the local TV scene like I was before and I'm not sure how long this will go on. Heck, I may pull the plug in a month or so. Anyway, I'm going to give it the old college try and see where this takes me (if it takes me anywhere at all).
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text: Using my Fez Touch 07 December 2011 david Code Carrying on my journey of running DALIS programs on the .Net Micro Framework, here is a photo showing some actual screen output: ...apart from having to upgrade the firmware on my Fez Panda to get the screen drivers working it was pretty painless. I have some more work to do yet, I have only written the absolute basics of writing to the screen, but I know it can all be done. I think that I'll probably try to get an IDE 40 pin male to female cable, which will allow me to connect the Fez Touch to the Fez Panda using a flexible cable. Performance of running DALIS programs is not great, so I may have to try and do some optimisation. Having said that, DALIS was never designed to be a high performance language anyway.


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A seizure is a sudden "episode" caused by an electrical problem in the brain. With a seizure, a person has change in awareness, body movements, or sensation.
Signs & Symptoms
There are many types of seizures. Common types are:
Causes include epilepsy (a brain disorder), infections that cause a high fever, heat stroke, and electric shock. Head injury, stroke, and toxic substances can also cause a seizure. Sometimes the cause of a seizure is not known.
Seizure disorders are treated with medication. Other medical treatments may be needed.
Questions to Ask
Did the seizure occur with or after any of the following?
Are any of these conditions present?
Has the person stopped taking medicines for seizures? Or, do seizures occur more often or are they more severe?
Self-Care / First Aid
For Seizures with Convulsions
Febrile Seizure Prevention
For a child who has had a febrile seizure in the past, give acetaminophen or ibuprofen at the first sign of a fever. Give the right kind and dose for his or her weight. Insert suppositories that lower fevers, instead, if prescribed by the child's doctor.
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Book Review: 'All That Is'
Critic Alan Cheuse reviews the new novel All That Is by James Salter.
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.
And I'm Robert Siegel.
At the beginning of his new novel, James Salter writes: There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real. The novel is Salter's first in over 30 years. It's called "All That Is." And our reviewer Alan Cheuse says it is the best novel he's read in a long time.
ALAN CHEUSE, BYLINE: "All That Is," the novel is Salter's version of a contemporary American "War and Peace," with the war, World War II, in this instance, coming first. Day was rising, we hear in the opening pages. A pale Pacific dawn that had no real horizon, with the tops of the early clouds gathering light. The sea was empty. Slowly, the sun appeared flooding across the water and turning it white. A lieutenant JG named Bowman had come on deck and was standing at the railing looking out.
And so we meet Philip Bowman, Manhattan-born. After the immediate post-war years as a Harvard student and then after taking a job with a publishing company in his native city, Bowman meets a beautiful woman from horse country Virginia at a bar in New York and falls hard for her. They marry. I was stricken, he describes this years later. I was blinded by it. I didn't know anything.
Of course, neither did she. Bowman rises to the level of great expertise in the publishing world, even as his marriage dies a slow death. His attempts to find love seemed solid always at first and then shattered. While working for a time in London, unhappy and still searching, he carries on a ferocious affair with the wife of an older English businessman with astonishing sentences describing their lovemaking.
Later, back in New York City, a divorced Bowman falls in love with a woman named Christine. Her husband lives abroad and she's raising an adolescent girl. Bowman commences an affair that gives the feel of a sturdy marriage with him working during the week in the city and commuting on weekends to a house on Long Island that he's bought for them.
When Christine betrays him with a local contractor, the pain this makes in Bowman's life goads him to rise to the level of Shakespearian revenge. Reading and re-reading all this, I found myself in a state that Salter's work as with the finest writers we know often induces. You breathe deeply and your pulse races. The sentences, the scenes, the life, the life.
SIEGEL: Alan Cheuse with his review of James Salter's new novel, "All That Is."
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Defending champion Novak Djokovic posted a solid straight-set victory Tuesday in a first-round match of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.
Djokovic has won the event four of the last five years -- he lost in the semifinals in 2012 -- and opened his 2014 defense with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Denis Istomin. Djokovic improved to 5-0 all-time versus Istomin and has lost just one set in the series.
He won two-thirds of the points on serve and saved all four of the break points Istomin had. All of those came in the second set. Djokovic was able to finish off three of his 12 break opportunities.
No. 2-seed Juan Martin del Potro retired from his match after Somdev Devvarman took the first set 7-6 (7-3). Del Potro cited a left wrist injury as the reason for his being unable to continue. Del Potro is right-handed but hits a two-handed backhand.
Third-seeded Tomas Berdych took out Marius Copil 6-3, 6-4, losing only 12 points over his 10 games serving.
Mikhail Youzhny, the No. 6 seed, had a pair of breaks in each set of a 6-3, 6-4 win over Michal Przysiezny, and seventh-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga completed the first round with a 6-2, 6-4 decision over Victor Hanescu.
Other first-round winners Tuesday were James Ward, Radek Stepanek, Lukas Rosol, Nikolay Davydenko, Sergiy Stakhovsky and Malek Jaziri.


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August 18, 2005
LOS ANGELES - Today, Forbes released its 2005 Survey of Best Business Schools and UCLA Anderson School of Management's Fully Employed MBA (FEMBA) program ranks second. This is the first time that Forbes has evaluated part-time business school programs.
Forbes also ranked UCLA Anderson School's full-time MBA program 19th overall. This biennial survey measures the MBA's return on investment by evaluating the five-year gain in compensation after graduation, minus the sum of tuition and forgone compensation. This survey ranked MBA programs of some 50 business schools. In addition, Forbes ranked the top non-U.S. business school programs.
Below are highlights of this year's Forbes survey.
Part-time Program Rankings
- NYU (Stern)
- UCLA (Anderson)
- Chicago
- Northwestern (Kellogg)
- Michigan (Ross)
- Minnesota (Carlson)
- Maryland (Smith)
- Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
- Fordham
- SMU (Cox)
Top 20 Business Schools
Full-time Program Rankings
- Dartmouth (Tuck)
- Pennsylvania (Wharton)
- Chicago
- Columbia
- Yale
- Stanford
- Harvard
- Virginia (Darden)
- Cornell (Johnson)
- Northwestern (Kellogg)
- Texas-Austin (McCombs)
- Iowa (Tippie)
- NYU (Stern)
- UNC (Kenan-Flagler)
- UC Berkeley (Haas)
- Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
- Brigham Young (Marriott)
- MIT (Sloan)
- UCLA (Anderson)
- Duke (Fuqua)
For more details, please refer to the current newsstand issue of Forbes (dated September 5) or see the content online at: http://www.forbes.com
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is perennially ranked among the top-tier business schools in the world. Award-winning faculty renowned for their research and teaching, highly selective admissions, successful alumni and world-class facilities combine to provide an extraordinary learning environment. UCLA Anderson constituents are part of a culture that values individual vision, intellectual discipline and a sense of teamwork and collegiality.
Established in 1935, UCLA Anderson School of Management provides management education to more than 1,400 students enrolled in MBA and doctoral programs, and some 2,000 executives and managers enrolled annually in executive education programs. Recognizing that the school offers unparalleled expertise in management education, the world's business community turns to UCLA Anderson School of Management as a center of influence for the ideas, innovations, strategies and talent that will shape the future.


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If only the Jedi Council had thought to provide psychiatric analysis of its prospective Jedi, they may have been able to prevent the ultimate disturbance in the force - Darth Vader. A panel of French psychiatrists spent some time studying Anakin Skywalker's life, including his turn as Darth Vader and concluded he suffers from "borderline personality disorder."
I won't pretend to understand the inner workings of psychology, but nothing about Darth Vader seems borderline to me. The guy is a full-on sociopath with serious issues. But every lunatic needs a good diagnosis.
The psychiatrists noted Darth Vader possessed "six of the nine borderline personality disorder criteria as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition."
Eric Bui, a French psychiatrist, believes Emperor Palpatine's influence on the highly unstable Anakin Skywalker was a crucial component to his disorder.
"...the Emperor's dark and destabilizing influence upon a young Skywalker might have even exacerbated the symptoms of borderline personality disorder."
This is all pretty obvious information, but hearing it from a trained psychologist makes it even more legitimate. Honestly, Anakin was doomed from the start. His mother claimed he was immaculately conceived. Come on, people. That should be sign number one you live in a psychologically unstable household.
When that same mother is killed and you believe everybody is out to get you, complexes begin to develop. Episodes II and III reveal quite a lot about the borderline personality disorder these doctors so clearly diagnose. But if it was so easy for them to call out Anakin on his issues, why were Yoda and the Jedi Council so blind to the mental handicap? It just seem like a glaring oversight by a collection of the most powerful minds in the galaxy.
But again, it all comes back to the slimy Emperor Palpatine. His unethical influence is the true root of it all. Everything that happened before him simply planted the seeds to allow him to push the unstable Skywalker into darkness. Dr. Bui believes it all could have been prevented.
"I believe that psychotherapy would have helped Anakin and might have prevented him from turning to the dark side. Using the dark side of the Force could be considered as similar to drug use: It feels really good when you use it, it alters your consciousness and you know you shouldn't do it."
So George Lucas' character of Anakin Skywalker, later known as Darth Vader, was really a subliminal commentary on the teenage struggle with identity and the end result of surrounding yourself with the wrong people. It makes perfect sense. Throw in a serious trust issue with not only himself, but the people around him and the relationship with Padme was just as dangerous to his psyche.
It doesn't change much along the lines of how we perceive Darth Vader. I think we can all agree he is more mentally unstable than pure evil. [SPOILER ALERT!] Based on his pre-death moment of enlightenment and personal freedom, in his son's arms no less, it would appear the real reason for his disorder was Emperor Palpatine's initial brainwashing. Yet, was that so obscure?
What do you think about the new diagnosis? Are Darth Vader's psychological issues to blame for his ways or was he simply pure evil, even as a little boy on Tatooine? Discuss int he comments section below.
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A lone oak atop lush green hill side is enjoying a gorgeous spring sunset.
San Jose, CA
Watching a snowstorm clear in Yosemite is an experience hard to describe in words. As the mist starts to clear revealing the massive granite formations surrounding the valley, the grandeur of the place suddenly becomes apparent.
A lone oaks soaks in warmth of an explosive sunset after a frosty winter.
Flying Feathers
Last light of the day kissing high Sierras and the Half Dome.
Marooned Valley
A severe snow storm unloaded more than 2 feet of snow overnight in Yosemite Valley. Surrounding high Sierra got more than 10 feet. All roads leading to the valley had to be closed, marooning visitors inside. As the storm finally starts to clear, beauty of the snow clad valley was breath taking. Few fortunate souls had the chance to witness it.
Yosemite National Park
Bridal Veil
Remnant of an Inferno
A breezy dawn on arid California hills, moments after an inferno like sunrise. The cloud scattered in the wind gust and glowed like embers for quite a while.
Perched Above
Late Bloomers
I was happy to find these few late blooming sun-flowers, they made the fiery sunset look astonishing.
Valley of Flowers
Above average winter precipitation, after years of drought, has resulted in an unusually beautiful wild-flower display in various parts of California.
This remote central region has witnessed a super bloom. It's literally miles and miles of spring flowers all around you. The hillside seems to have been painted in a wide range of colors.
Temblor Range, SLO
Fleeting Beauty
A scene I stumbled upon while chasing the small patch of cloud.
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With no more blah blahs, here's a food porn tour at Circles.
Since this is Makati Shangri-La, my expectation became a bit steep as well. As steep as their buffet rates!!
I dont know if it's just me, but the ambiance of HEAT in EDSA Shangri-La feels more luxurious.
Anyway, let the gluttony begin. ^_^
i love this one, tastes like sukiyaki's broth
they dont serve tempura on a Sunday night?! what the..
im just delighted to have my steak
my comfort food. the pasta is tasty as well as the meat.
that salmon dish is great. the paella is bland.
uhm ordinary. and sadly they dont serve hakaw.
It's not that Im looking for more, but Im at least looking for excellent tasting dishes.
Moving on, I requested the chef to cook the curachas and shrimp - the Singaporean style. Achieve!
in case you dont know, you may choose to have your seafood cook the way you want it.
My friends are already eating their dessert when I finished eating my seafood plate. Oo, madamot ako. Di ako namigay. ^_^
As per my friends verdict, only some of the cakes are really good. Most of them tastes so-so. Thanks to the chefs for recommending the must-try ones.
Overall, Circles Buffet is good but not as we thought it would be. We expected it to be great. I can't even recall an item which is really excellent. Good thing we availed this buffet rate on a promo. Im thinking of those regular paying customers who are dining as well. Parang di naman sulit ang P2,000 for this buffet. Im dissappointed that there are no Tempura, Hakaw, Pizza and Lobsters.
Anyhow, from the ambiance, to the staff, to the buffet spread - I love EDSA Shangri-La's HEAT more! HEAT gets better everytime I dine there. yesss, madalas may nanlilibre dun! ^_^
So far, here's my top 5 best buffet in Manila.
1. Spiral at Sofitel
2. HEAT at Edsa Shang
3. Marriot Cafe at Marriot Hotel
4. Crossover Brunch at Dusit Thani
5. Cafe Ilang-Ilang at The Manila Hotel or Circles Buffet at Makati Shang
Circles Buffet Rate
Monday - Saturday P1,670 | Sunday P2,026
Sunday - Thursday P2,007 | Friday - Saturday P2,271
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Some of you might have noticed the recent changes on the appearance (namely logo) of Team EtsyMalaysia. The truth is, Team EtsyMalaysia has been quietly working behind the scene for a whole new appearance.
After a month or so of hard work and collaborations from members, I'm proud to announce that Team EtsyMalaysia is ready to move on to a new site. Welcome Team EtsyMalaysia. This will be the new home for the team, so remember to update your bookmark.
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"We don't want to become entertainment," he said. "I think there's something sick about making entertainment out of real people's legal problems. I don't like it in the lower courts, and I don't particularly like it in the Supreme Court."Oh, come on. When Court TV shows a murder trial, that might absorb us in an unhealthy way, and wrongly make victims into a spectacle for cheap entertainment, but by the time a case is argued in the Supreme Court, the victims are out of view and the issue has been abstracted. What is left is a high-level debate about ideas and the meaning of texts. The public would be lifted up and educated by hearing the arguments.
UPDATE: I suspect that what Scalia is concerned about is not so much those "real people" with legal problems, but the image of the justices. If we could see them pushing with questions and interrupting decent lawyers, maybe regular people would find them narcissistic, pompous, rude, or just plain strange. They'd be ridiculed. "The Daily Show" would run clips. Some folks like me would watch the uncut show on C-Span, but most would experience the Court in the context of politics and humor. The question is whether that might be good for them.


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Amazon has 16 million fans on Facebook — an online customer base that most other retailers would kill for.Yet the company isn't very good at reaching them, according to a new report. And while being bested by Walmart and Victoria's Secret in social media isn't a badge of shame — those two brands are masters of Facebook — Amazon is also getting its butt kicked by the likes of Footlocker and Applebee's.
One of the first lessons marketers learn when trying to use Facebook to drive e-commerce traffic is that hard-sell posts on Facebook, offering goods for sale, don't work. Consumers want to be entertained or inspired in social media. Creative, entertaining posts are the ones that get high customer engagement; posts with deals of the day get ignored.
That's something we're hearing over and over again at Business Insider's Social Commerce Summit today.
Expion, a social media marketing management company, did an analysis of the top retailers on Facebook in Q4, the crucial holiday shopping season.
It found Amazon isn't even in the top 10 when it comes to persuading Facebook users to pay attention to its posts. The ranking is based on the number of fan actions per post during the period. (Among all retailers, there were an average of 3,880 fan actions per post.)
The reason, Expion concludes, is because Amazon appears to fundamentally misunderstand Facebook. Its posts don't have the same amount of thought or effort behind them, Expion says, and its poorest posts are mostly daily deals.
Here's who won Christmas on Facebook, among retailers:
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Amazon managed only 4,622 fan actions per post.
Here's Expion's take on why Amazon failed to engage its audience.
Amazon may be the top online retailer for consumer search, but when it comes to social engagement it's missing the mark. It has nearly 16M fans and posted 250 times, but is only #15 on the Fan Action Index list. Brands like Kohl's, Target and Macy's all generated over 3X the Fan Actions that the online retail giant did. When looking at it's posts, it's easy to see that Amazon doesn't put the same amount of thought and effort into each post as a Target or Starbucks might. It also doesn't have a conversational or engaging dialogue with fans like a Walmart or SUBWAY does. The majority of it's poorest performing posts were Deal of the Day posts that didn't seem to resonate with Facebook Fans. Some of it's top performing posts did have a conversational tone, showing that a more strategic and consistent narrative would likely significantly boost Facebook engagement.
And here's an example of a recent Amazon deal offer that got not very many likes:
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UD statistics students spend summer getting real world experience
Three University of Delaware students studying statistics spent the summer interning with financial and medical research institutions, gaining invaluable real world experience and, for some, job offers. Tom Ilvento, professor in the Department of Applied Economics and Statistics (APEC) in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR), said that internship opportunities are important for every student but especially for statistics majors, as it "opens the students' eyes to a bigger vision of what their field is about and what they can do and what kind of skills they really have. "We preach a lot that as a stat major, you're different, you have a lot of skills. But I don't know that they appreciate it until they get into a setting where they have to start using it." Using their skills were seniors Heather Bowman and Zachary Baine, who completed internships with financial institutions, and Qiuming (Mark) He, who worked with a medical research organization. Ilvento said he was pleased with the students' work over the summer, pointing out that they went out on their own and actively sought out the internship opportunities and then excelled in their respective positions. "I was impressed with all three finding positions and I was really happy for the experience they had. They were all involved in real world problems in groups, and they were participating members, so these weren't internships where they went and got the coffee — they really got involved and were able to do things and contribute to their teams." The undergraduate internship program in statistics is not as developed as the statistics master of science internship program, which has up to 17 students each class in year-long internships with local companies such as DuPont, Conde Nast, Chase, Bank of America, and PNC Bank. However, Ilvento noted that APEC would like to head that way with undergraduate internships and this past summer was a great start in that direction. "Ultimately, we would like to see more undergraduate statistics majors intern each year," he said. Heather Bowman Bowman spent her summer interning at Chase Bank in Wilmington, working with a marketing manager on a partner credit card for the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), a brand that owns facilities such as the Holiday Inn. "Every week I would do acquisitions reports — looking at how many new card members we had from in a hotel and how many we got from various sites or emails — and then I would present that on a phone call to our partner," said Bowman. She also explained that she looked at the net promoter score, which told her how pleased current card members were with their card and the reasons why, from which she could report on whether changes the credit card company had made recently were making card members more or less happy. Bowman said that having an analytical background from her undergraduate courses at UD helped her as she applied what she learned in the classroom to the world of work. "Having the analytical background and thinking came in handy when I looked at the data and tried to figure out what to do with a gigantic spreadsheet and how to make sense of the numbers." Another thing that helped was her knowledge of Statistical Analysis Software (SAS), a program that she learned how to use in class. "I took a master's level statistics class that taught SAS and that's something that a lot of companies like to see, so I thought that helped because I actually used that this summer at Chase to work on a couple of reports." Zachary Baine Baine interned at American Express in New York City. He explained that his main project was researching card member data, trying to find certain trends and looking at metrics. "I was analyzing those metrics and trying to figure out how we could predict them and use the information to try to generate more revenue growth." Baine said that the people at American Express were hands-off, trusting that he would get his work done, which he did thanks to the foundation he gained in UD's statistics program. "Some statistics classes for regression analysis really helped me and I used that often," said Baine. He added that the computer science and programming classes that he took as a requirement for his statistics major helped him understand some of the coding language. "The statistics courses built a foundation for me so that I could stare at all this data and try to figure out what was going on." As for his favorite part of the internship, Baine said that was easy: the end when he was given a job offer. "I was lucky enough to receive a job offer and for the interns that did get a job offer, they brought us all up to the top floor, the CEO's floor, with this luxurious conference room," he said. "They put us all in there and had the CEO of the company come in and congratulated us, so that was a good way to end the internship and left the most lasting impression on me." Qiuming (Mark) He He spent the summer working at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Mo. The facility had many individual labs, but He explained that he worked for the core facility for bioinformatics, helping to process data and provide consultation for scientists. "They came to us if they had any questions," He said. "Usually they could handle their data by themselves but if they had some difficulty, they came to us and we figured it out or gave them advice on how to approach the data." He worked with a program called R, software with which he had no previous experience prior to the internship. "I heard the name R but I never touched it and then in the first two months, I was doing some tasks and practicing, and in the last month I did my project just using the R software." He said that all of the skills learned in the statistics program at UD came in handy, as he had experience programming in other languages and only had to adjust to the syntax changes. He also said that the skills he learned at UD, such as critical thinking and ways to approach data, helped him out, as well. As for statistics in general, He said that he loves how the practice allows him to help people. "We can really talk to people and see what they want and then we have the data as the backup. We can come up with the result and then we have to back that up so it's really solid, and I like the feeling of making people happy when they see what they think is actually statistically significant. I really like seeing that they meet their expectations." Article by Adam Thomas Photos by Danielle Quigley This article can also be viewed on UDaily.


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Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Dementia
Could there possibly be any causal relationship between Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) (or its associated high white cell count) and dementia? My mother was diagnosed with both at about the same time. I know this is most likely a coincidence, but has anybody studied this question?
Selina M. Luger, MD, Director of the Leukemia Program and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
Older patients can develop dementia for many reasons; however Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) is not known to cause dementia alone. If this patient has developed anemia secondary to CLL or perhaps metabolic changes or infectious complications secondary to the disease this could be contributing to a dementia. Also, in some cases, CLL can be found in the spinal fluid and can lead to a dementia. So, it is possible that they are somehow related. On the other hand, it is more likely that they are not at all related to each other and that your mother has developed dementia and has been found to have CLL.


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A former Warren police officer, who spent years working in schools, was charged Friday with sexually molesting a 16-year-old girl.
Dale Wayne Malesh, 62, of Roseville, was arraigned on two counts of 3rd-degree criminal sexual conduct - a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Malesh, arrested hours earlier outside his home on Loreto Street, asked 37th District Judge Dean Ausilio to release him on a personal recognizance bond and promised he would show up for future court hearings.
'Although the accusations are without merit, I have no intention of leaving,' said Malesh via video from the Warren Police Department lockup, adding he had plans to move to Florida. 'I am not a flight risk. I can assure your honor (of that). Although the allegations against me are serious, I have no problem staying here and preparing my defense with my attorney.'
In urging the judge to set a high bond, Macomb County Assistant Prosecutor Nicole Blank said law enforcement officials were concerned Malesh might attempt suicide.
'I am not a suicide risk. I am too narcissistic for that,' Malesh said.
Judge Ausilio ordered Malesh held in lieu of $150,000 cash or surety bond. The judge told the former police officer that if he manages to post bail, he must wear a tether, cannot leave Macomb County and must surrender his passport and enhanced driver license. Malesh also was ordered to have no contact with anyone under age 18.
The teenage girl, accompanied by friends in the court, cried as she left the courtroom. She later told The Macomb Daily that the accusations are 'overblown.'
'The charges are ridiculous,' said the teen, whose name is not being published by the newspaper. She said her alleged relationship with Malesh was 'completely consensual.'
According to court records, the alleged sexual penetration occurred in February and March. The teen turned age 16 - the age of consent under Michigan law - last August. However, prosecutors are basing the 15-year felony on state law that prohibits anyone from using their status to gain access to, or establish a relationship with, a student between 16 and 18 years of age.
Malesh spent the past 19 years of his law enforcement career as a Warren police officer, including the last 11 as a school resource officer. Prior to retirement, he worked as an officer at Warren Woods Tower High School. After he left the police force, Warren Woods Public Schools officials hired him as a contractual security worker.
Warren Woods Superintendent Stacey Denewith-Fici did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment Friday.
Warren police, including Special Operations officers carrying semiautomatic rifles, converged on Malesh's home in the area of Common and Hayes roads, at approximately 11:20 a.m. Friday. He emerged in front a short time later, raised his hands above his head and was handcuffed without a struggle. Moments later, another man was briefly handcuffed as detectives began searching the two-story house.
Investigators spent approximately two hours inside the house. One detective carried out a large box.
Warren Police Commissioner Jere Green said the arrest culminated a 3-week investigation in which police seized several cellphones, including phones belonging to Malesh and the 16-year-old girl.
'A lot of the investigation involved text messages and Tweets and Facebook,' Green said. The Macomb Area Computer Enforcement team assisted with that part of the investigation, he said.
Green said Malesh was interviewed by police on March 29. The city's top-ranking police administrator called the alleged actions by one of his former officers 'disappointing.'
'You would still expect a high level of behavior you'd expect from current employees,' Green said. 'Based on the evidence that I reviewed, the evidence that's been presented to date is disturbing.'
The police commissioner said additional evidence will be turned over to Roseville police for further investigation.
Malesh is scheduled to return to Warren's district court for a preliminary hearing on April 25.
On LinkedIn, Malesh said he is a training officer for St. John Health and president of Protection Professionals Inc., providing security for schools and health care facilities. He also is president of Malesh Associates Inc., offering security training.
Prior to his retirement in Warren, he conducted a firearms training class for members of Warren's Citizen Emergency Response Team. He also heads A2 Guns and Gear, which holds classes to help handgun owners obtain a concealed pistol permit.


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With ornaments stored away, fudge polished off, and Santa back in his toy shop, we can relax. Or, can we?
With ornaments stored away, fudge polished off, and Santa back in his toy shop, we can relax. Or, can we? Statistics for people actually reaching their New Year goals aren't very encouraging and that, of course, includes Congress. Whether overwhelmed or under-motivated, they heard the clock strike twelve long before their feeble finish to the 'fiscal cliff' fiasco. The clock will continue ticking opposition for the GOP. They won't be sitting around a campfire harmonizing "Kumbayah" anytime soon. But, deep breaths everyone! There's always sports!
Earl Warren said, "I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures." While that might be an arousing interpretation for many, I would simply categorize such a respondent into the mixed cluster of sports consumers. Sports, Sports, Sports! Is that all there is?
Here in the south, sports seems to take precedence on the front burner and is simmered as the main staple for consumption. Of course, some might argue, only after "religion and guns." But, Arkansans do love their Hogs. The name of the University of Arkansas mascot came about after they were said to have played like a "bunch of Razorback hogs." Hence, Tusk, a Russian boar, became a living celebrity. The mascot weighs approximately 475 pounds. Now, that's a lot of bacon! Tusk III travels to home football games where he rides through the crowds in his spacious, red chariot that has potential to give even the Queen of England cause for envy. However, Tusk III's mere 8,000 square foot indoor facility which is heated in the winter and cooled in the summer doesn't compare to the Queen's 800,000 square feet of floorspace. Buckingham Palace sits on 50,000 acres of manicured lawn and gardens. But, Tusk has one-up on the Queen. He can slop to his delight in one of several mudholes within his 10,000 square foot fenced playground. After such merry play, he gets further spa treatment in a fruity smelling bubble bath.
Okay, so I'm a spoil sport, but let's get realistic for one moment. How many people do you know to be reclining in easy chairs sitting in 8,000 square feet of floor space as they watch the Razorbacks on their tellys? With the average home in Arkansas 2,000 square feet, or less, the math is simple. So folks, how does it feel being bested by a Hog? But, it doesn't stop there. What about all those mud baths that big porker gets for free? Being a tradition since the time of the Mayacamas Indians, mud baths are made up of a combination of clay, peat and hot mineral waters. The treatment begins as you slowly slide into your tub of warm mud. It relaxes muscles and joints, detoxifies, and leaves skin soft and renewed. You may walk away feeling renewed, but your wallet won't .Yes, again folks, that big ole hog has one-up on us.
In the arena of health, that big porker has maintained his weight better than the average Arkansan, but many lack knowledge or means of living "high on the hog." Other facts also get overlooked when it comes to football. Watching the action of our favorite team, we forget that football, like politics, involves wallowing in huge pools of money. Coaches are paid salaries that exceed the top-paying salary of a Neurosurgeon while colleges push for bigger and better athletic facilities. Study enhancements and tutors become an essential ingredient of segregating athletes from the remaining student body. It's that academic half that only stays afloat from tuition raises and public funds or appropriations from state legislature. College athletics has become the marketing and celebrity index for influence. Even influence of Russian boars! Even though Tusk IV took over the role of Mascot, Tusk III still reigns as the Boss. He probably listens occasionally to Rick Springsteen's music, but having his very own stereo system he mostly listens to Razorback band music around the clock. His favorite happy song that really gets him going is Hank Williams Jr.s' "Hog Wild." That might put a smile on your face but like George Bernard Shaw said, "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it." And, that's my unvarnished opinion…


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Her glasses would have made this set better. IMO
Lotsa soft focus and haziness going on.
I gave Alex Lynn a 10++++++ and made Odara a favorite as well as giving her the same
The photography on this set is impressive, excellent, and outstanding. One of the best. The colors and flesh tones are so natural and real that I want reach out and touch the model. The focus and lighting are excellent. The composition of the shots are excellent. Congratulations to Alex Lynn for an outstanding job. 10+++ to Alex.
Odara is very sexy. Love the backside shots. Fantastic honey buns.
So true
Ooooooooh, Odara gets the Alex Lynn treatment in today's set and I love it love it love it! Nothing gets the heart racing better than everyday clothes sliding off an exceptional woman. And I always love the sight of a button down top being relieved of its duties.
Beautiful set of a lovely woman.
right on, bro
What I love about Odara from Slastyonoff's sets is how she is simultaneously very real ~ a woman you might meet anyday in the street, at school, a friend of friends, etc. etc. yet also, tremendously sensual and sexy.
This combination is a combination Alex absolutely excels in capturing in his models and his material so Odara is custom made for his treatment.
One thing I especially enjoy about this set is how the lighting really brings out Odara's lovely blue eyes. (:
have to agree there
Odara baby... You are amazing... I am speechless...
This has such a relaxed feel to it, and so many pretty shots! Think I will need to take my time perusing it, I don't want to miss anything :-)
I agree! Relaxed, light, and airy. She has such a beautiful curvy body, and I love those eyes.
Three photographers have photographed Odara now, and I think I like this one the most. Thank you Alex Lynn.
Very relaxed girl next door feel. Hard to resist that at home look. Plaid shirt, plain but colorful panties and bobby socks with a slow relaxed strip. Yummy!
Lovely model.
Lovely set.
I really appreciate the photos with the shirt and panties.
Much nicer to start with some clothes, and then reveal the body, instead of starting out completely nude.
Gives some contrast, some anticipation for what is to come.
So... the Eyeball enhance button set to 11 I see...
She's got lovely eyes naturally, why waste time with the obvious and heavy handed shop or alternatively the silly tinted contacts, dunno which, but the results are equally silly.
Lovely girl and fun pics though.
I agree with the statement she's a pretty girl ( I would say beautiful) and these ARE fun. However I see no problems with the blue eyes, she's always had them.( she does fiddle with hair color though)


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College is hard! There are all those books to read. Wouldn't it be wonderful to mix the workload up. Like, with some assault rifles?
These images reportedly show a popular class at Nanjing University of Science and Technology in China. The students are studying machine guns and taking them apart to see how they work.
While it might be surprising to most to see a college professor waving around assault rifles, if the students are going to study the weapons, this all does make sense. It's like dissection, but instead of frogs, there are automatic firearms.
中国の大学ではアサルトライフルを使った授業がある [中国的爆発日記]
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Recall 11V213000
Piece May Break Off Front Engine Pulley
Recall Details
Forty-one vehicles may have a front engine pulley that was manufactured with an insufficient adhesive where the inner mass damper ring attaches to the vibration damper. If the inner ring were to separate with the hood open and the engine running, personal injury could result. Dealers will inspect and replace the affected parts to correct this issue. This recall is expected to begin during April of 2011.
Our Quick Take
A piece of the front engine pulley could break loose unexpectedly. Injury could result if the engine is running and the hood is open when this occurs.
What Should You Do?
This could be considered a medium priority recall; however, the engine should not be operated with the hood open until this recall is complete. Please contact your Mercedes-Benz dealer; they will check to see if your specific vehicle is affected and advise you as to what to do next. Always have your vehicle identification number (VIN) handy when you call.