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Does this look like the face of someone who would berate and threaten his players? Or worse, a parking enforcer who was only doing his job when he gave the Kansas football coach two dozen parking tickets? You'd be surprised.
Mark Mangino seems very jolly, but according to KU's parking and transit authority, he used to have anger issues. And parking issues. In his first few years as the Jayhawks coach—before he was a national coach of the year with the pull to get his own private parking space—Mangino had a habit of parking in school loading zones (I know, I know) and then either not paying or getting the tickets voided. In 2007, he was issued eight tickets in a span of six months and when he received his last one, he blew up at the student who issued them.
In his written report, Walters said that Mangino had told him that he'd been unloading notebooks and had asked how he could unload without getting a ticket. [Ed note: Yes, yes. "Unload."] Walters responded that he should get a loading permit from one of the parking booths on campus or to contact the office.
"He got out of the car, slammed the door and came within about a half-foot of my face and started yelling at me, saying that I couldn't answer any of his questions and that he works 16-hour days and has no time to get a pass," Walters wrote, in his report ....
"This job gives you power, does it?" Mangino said, according to Walters. "You feel real f—-ing powerful walking around like a big shot, huh? … Why in the hell else would you be bothering me with this?"
No, Walters said, the office had told him to issue tickets for cars parked in the loading zone.
"So offices tell you what to do?" Mangino said, according to Walters. "F—-ing offices walk around telling you what to do all day?"
Mangino eventually got back into his car, Walters said, before continuing: "You just don't like talking to me because I'm ethnic, just because I talk with my hands."
This is just shocking. Mark Mangino is "ethinic"?
Also, this whole saga of Mangino's investigation is apparently happening because senior linebacker Arist Wright complained that Mangino—a noted disciplinarian and occasional hothead—"poked him in the chest." Seriously? He could lose his job for poking someone in the chest? Isn't that why football players wear pads? Even the freakin' baby thinks that's weak.
Probe aims to determine if Mangino went too far [Lawrence Journal-World]
Documents show what it looks like when Mangino loses his temper [KU Sports]
Kansas Jayhawks football coach thinks he's above, of all things, parking tickets [True/Slant]


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The Vodafone Smart is a budget Android smartphone which can be yours for the princely sum of £75. It is a network-skinned Huawei U8160, also known as the Vodafone 858, and like many of the current run of OEM devices, is designed to be affordable above all else. But have too many corners been cut? Does opting for a smartphone on a budget limit how smart it actually is?
In the pursuit of value for money it is finished in plastics, although it feels pretty sturdy in the hand, with only a minor degree of creaking when grasped. It is a compact handset, measuring 56 x 106 x 12mm, so will easily slip into any pocket or bag and nestles down nicely in the hand. Although the design isn't especially sophisticated, we like the simplicity of the clean lines, even if there is a little too much space taken up by bezel, and not enough screen.
Beneath the 2.8-inch display are four touch buttons for your regular Android controls of home, menu, back and search, with ample space beneath for Vodafone to place their logo. We're guessing this is a popular choice when branding devices, but we can't help wishing that more of this space was taken up by the display.
One unique feature of the Vodafone Smart is the ability to customise the covers, so if you feel you want to emblazon your company logo, tag or whatever on it, then you can easily and cleanly do so. Of course we have one with the Pocket-lint logo on…
Elsewhere you'll find a 3.5mm headphone jack on the top along with the power/standby button, a volume rocker on the right-hand side and the Micro-USB connection in the bottom.
Basic is a basic does
As a starting point the Vodafone Smart doesn't do too much wrong. It is cheap, so that restricts the expectations from a performance point of view. Running Android 2.2.1 (at the time of writing) it does at least present you with a relatively up-to-date version of Android unfettered by alterations. Vodafone have added a few apps to service their own community, such as shopping links, but these are easily avoided and don't change the core experience.
There has been a change to the keyboard however, using TouchPal Input, which offers up a smart keyboard with decent prediction and correction, if not quite as slick as our favourite SwiftKey. There is one problem, however, which is pretty much unavoidable. With a screen size this small, the keyboard dominates it, so you never really have that much space to see what is going on. Start dialling a phone number and the contact suggestions don't fit in the space available, so you spend more time pressing arrows and moving screens around than you would do if you had slightly more space.
But Android works well enough on a small screen and we'd rather pick Android over a proprietary operating system for the ease of synchronisation with Google's services. You don't just get basic services either, you can head off into Android Market and download all sorts of applications, although obviously you don't have the compatibility here to run many of the more sophisticated applications or games - BBC iPlayer, for example, isn't going to work for you; on a device this small, media consumption is going to be somewhat limited overall.
As a music player it copes better, the stock Android Music player supplying your tunes in a logical manner. The external speakers provides reasonable volume, but is tinny as you'd expect. You don't get the sort of music shortcut controls you do from the likes of HTC or Samsung by default, although a third-party music player, such as DoubleTwist or AmazonMP3, will give you a better overall experience.
Navigation and operation of the device is generally fast enough, although you will find that opening apps and reacting to notifications comes with something of a delay, so don't expect to skip around like you do on more powerful devices.
Sitting at the core of the Vodafone Smart is a 528MHz processor with 256MB RAM, the sort of specs that phones had 2 years ago, and making this one of the least powerful phones we've seen this year. Internal storage is limited, so if carrying music around is on your list of wants, you'll need to insert a microSD card - up to 32GB is supported.
But the modest stats aren't the biggest problem with the Vodafone Smart. The real issue we have with the Smart is the screen. The small size is one thing, but the low resolution of 240 x 320 really doesn't bring much to the party, nor does the limited viewing angle.
The result is that things never quite look sharp enough, colours are a little flat and you'll spend a lot of time moving around and zooming to get to see the details which can't be resolved with any degree of fine detail. There is no multitouch support either, so no pinch zooming in the browser or Google Maps, making things just that little bit more fiddly.
Surprisingly, too, we found that battery life wasn't great. We've seen some low spec devices that will see the day out, but in our testing of the Vodafone Smart we found the battery levels dropped off at quite a rate, so you'll still be charging this phone most nights, unless you take serious moves to curtail power consumption. It out-performs many high-end devices, simply because you won't be pushing it as hard, but at the same time, you're not capturing HD video, or enjoying an expansive display.
Calling isn't a problem and we found that callers came across clearly and reported that we came though loud and clear too. Messaging is a little fiddly because of the screen size on offer and as we've mentioned, the text never really looks sharp, it's always a little fuzzy.
Looking Smart?
Around the back of the Vodafone Smart you'll find a 2-megapixel camera. It's been a while since we've seen a 2-megapixel camera on a phone and here you don't get any photographic luxuries - it isn't autofocus, so the results are limited, the sort of thing common from camera phones a few years back, with soft images, lots of fringing and poor colour reproduction. The low screen resolution also means that you can't really judge the results of your snaps on the fly.
Video too is very basic, only offering 352 x 288 resolution at 15fps at the highest settings, so not really keeping pace with current offerings and only really suitable for sharing between devices.
There are a number of budget Android devices appearing now, but this appears to be amongst the cheapest out there. It isn't as advanced as rival network's budget Orange San Francisco, which costs a little more, but it is based on the same device as their new Orange Stockholm, so it will be interesting to see how the two compare.
At its very core you can't criticise affordability, but for a slightly higher initial outlay on PAYG you could find yourself getting much more from your phone. If you are limited in your budget and want to experience something of the Android revolution then the Vodafone Smart is certainly a first step, but the low power and poor screen will limit that experience.

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LUXOR, Egypt, June 17 (UPI) -- As a series of terrible epidemics -- now known as the Plague of Cyprian -- wiped out hordes of ancient Egyptians, some writers of the time thought the world was coming to an end.
Archaeologists have recently unearthed new artifacts and human remains from that horrific period of history. Digging in the artifact-rich Funerary Complex of Harwa and Akhimenru in ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, today the modern city Luxor, a team of Italian researchers found bodies caked in a thick layer of lime. In ancient times, lime was a commonly used as a disinfectant.
Discovered by researchers with the Italian Archaeological Mission to Luxor (MAIL), the bodies were located in three ancient kilns where the lime was produced and then used the cover plague victims as they were incinerated.
Pieces of pottery recovered from the kilns were dated to roughly 270 CE -- allowing researchers to connect the bodies to the period of the 3rd century when several different plagues ravaged the Roman Empire.
The tomb where the bodies were excavated was built in the 7th century BCE, and enjoyed a long history of use before being abandoned in the wake of the plague.
"The disposal of infected corpses gave the monument a lasting bad reputation and doomed it to centuries of oblivion until tomb robbers entered the complex in the early 19th century," explained Francesco Tiradritti, director of the MAIL.
Tiradritti and his team's research into evidence of the epic plague is detailed in the latest issue of Egyptian Archaeology, a journal published by the Egypt Exploration Society.
The series of plagues known collectively as the Plague of Cyprian is named for Saint Cyprian, a bishop of Carthage and an early Christian writer who first described the epidemic as a signal of the end of days.
"The kingdom of God, beloved brethren, is beginning to be at hand," Cyprian wrote. The bishop also wrote of the symptoms he witnessed -- vomiting, bloody eyes, bowel discharge and "in some cases the feet or some parts of the limbs are taken off by the contagion."


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This past weekend I attended the 4th annual Beer, Bourbon, and BBQ Festival at the Timonium Fairgrounds. The all-you-can-drink event, which is put on by the Baltimore-based Trigger Agency in seven locations throughout the summer, has been growing in recent years. A couple years back, the Timonium festival expanded into the grandstands and, this year, the festival was two days and they added 20,000 feet of heated tent space.
But something that never changes is the large variety and selection of premium bourbon and beer. This year, guests got a 5-oz. tasting glass that they took around to the 60 beer and 40 bourbon vendors. There was a bluegrass band on stage, various BBQ options, a mechanical bull, and two tasting theaters. Also, you got to discover random companies like Bearpong, which makes a giant, portable version of the popular drinking game. (The vendor also featured a bear, in costume, playing beer pong).
I certainly had some favorite vendors, including the Wisconsin-based Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company. Leinenkugel's cirtus-accented brews (the Summer Shandy and Sunset Wheat) were refreshing wheat beers, perfect during the day. I also liked how the festival jumped on the trend of sweet tea vodkas, and my favorite was the smooth Jeremiah Weed Southern Style Sweet Tea. I also enjoyed Jack Daniel's Single Barrel, Dogfish Head's Aprihop, and the classic Magic Hat #9.
If you didn't get a chance to go to Timonium this weekend, then you should head down to the festival at the National Harbor June 18th and 19th. I highly recommend splurging the extra $10 and purchasing a VIP ticket. For two extra hours, you get to browse the vendors with practically no lines before they let the general admission ticket holders in. Well worth the price.
Something I would like to see in upcoming years is a tent devoted to all local products. Sure, they had plenty of Maryland brewers scattered around, but it would be cool for them to be concentrated in one place. It will be interesting to see how the Beer, Bourbon, and BBQ Festival evolves next year.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 45 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
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Grandstand Travel is a new division of our existing retail travel company. Grandstand has been set up to sell sport and event tours to consumers across Australia.
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Lots of logos in the travel industry are pretty kitsch, with palm trees and beach balls, etc. We are NOT looking for that. We need something sharp and modern, but not cold. Nothing overly-complicated. Something that jumps out of a web page, and conveys the excitement of travel, but also reflects a high level of professionalism.
Holidays cost alot of money, and consumers can be wary about dealing with new brands, so it's important that our brand and logo convey professionalism and reassurance.
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The Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR) can only handle grievances against attorneys who are licensed to practice law in the State of Wisconsin. For contact information regarding lawyer disciplinary agencies in other states, go to http://www.abanet.org/cpr/disciplinary.html (external link).
Grievances can only be filed against individual attorneys, not law firms. Grievances filed by one person against multiple attorneys will be handled separately. To preserve confidentiality, do not refer to the alleged misconduct of one attorney in a grievance concerning another attorney.
Please see the pamphlet "Attorney grievances" for additional information.
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Grievances may be filed by telephone, mail, or e-mail.
To file by telephone: Call (608) 267-7274 or (877) 315-6941 (toll free), and choose option 1 to file your grievance.
To submit a written grievance: Grievances can be sent in the form of a letter, or by completing the grievance form below. The grievance form can be printed and completed by hand, or type in the form using Adobe Acrobat and then print it. When typing in the form be sure to print it out before exiting or your work will be lost. Sign and date the form, then mail it to: Office of Lawyer Regulation, 110 East Main Street, Suite 315, P.O. Box 1648, Madison, WI 53701-1648
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Question: Can the Office of Lawyer Regulation help me settle a dispute about the amount of my attorney's bill?
Answer: No. Fee disputes usually do not involve issues of professional misconduct. The State Bar of Wisconsin has a Committee on the Resolution of Fee Disputes which may be of assistance to you. You may write the Fee Arbitration Administrator, State Bar of Wisconsin, P.O. Box 7158, Madison, Wisconsin 53707-7158 or phone (800) 444-9404, ext. 6624. For more information on fee arbitration, visit the State Bar's website (external link).
Question: What happens after a grievance is filed?
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If the grievance provides information sufficient to support a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct for Attorneys, a letter is sent to the attorney by OLR staff requesting a response. When all pertinent information has been received by OLR staff, a determination is made as to whether (a) an uncontested violation exists, (b) the grievance should be dismissed for lack of evidence, (c) further staff investigation is needed, or (d) the matter should be assigned for further investigation by a district investigative committee.
The investigator will seek all relevant information regarding the allegations, whether inculpatory or exculpatory. Upon completion, the Director may take any of the following actions: 1) dismiss the matter due to a lack of sufficient evidence, 2) divert the matter to an alternative to discipline program, 3) seek the respondent attorney's consent to a private or public reprimand, or 4) present the matter to the Preliminary Review Committee for a determination of cause to proceed. The Director may dismiss the matter, request additional investigation, dismiss the grievance with a letter advising the attorney that the conduct comes close to being a violation and should be avoided in the future, divert the matter to an alternatives to discipline program, or agree to the imposition of a private or public reprimand without a public hearing if the attorney consents to it. In cases of serious misconduct or cases where the attorney will not consent to a reprimand, the Director must present the results of his/her investigation to the Preliminary Review Committee for a finding of cause to proceed to file a disciplinary complaint against the attorney with the Supreme Court seeking reprimand, suspension, disbarment, or conditions upon the continued practice of law. In cases where an attorney may have a medical problem that is affecting his/her practice, the Director, using the procedure noted above, can file a petition with the Supreme Court seeking a suspension or conditions upon the continued practice of law for reasons of medical incapacity.
When the Preliminary Review Committee finds cause to proceed, the Director may seek consent to a private or public reprimand, divert the matter to an alternatives to discipline program, or file a complaint with the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court may revoke or suspend a license, reprimand an attorney publicly or privately, impose conditions upon an attorney's practice, or order a monetary payment (usually for the purpose of restitution).
Question: How long does the grievance process take?
Answer: In some cases, it may take as little as 30 to 90 days. In other more involved, complicated cases, it may take as long as one to two years. Our goal is to complete all grievance investigations within one year.
Question: Can I find out if an attorney has had grievances filed against him/her?
Answer: In a few instances, yes. The Office of Lawyer Regulation can disclose cases where public discipline has been imposed: (1) a public reprimand without public hearing upon consent of the attorney, and (2) where a formal complaint is filed against the attorney in the Supreme Court. Information is available by contacting the Office of Lawyer Regulation.
Question: Can I find out if an attorney has been disciplined?
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Question: Can the Office of Lawyer Regulation refer me to an attorney?
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The Acura RLX is the brand's new top-of-the-line sedan, replacing the discontinued RL and conceived to give Honda's luxury division increased traction in the heart of the luxury segment. It's a segment that continues to be dominated by a Germanic trio, Audi A6, BMW 5 series, Mercedes-Benz E-Class, all of them either rear- or all-wheel drive, all strong performers, all heavily endowed with panache and prestige.
So what does the RLX bring to the table to enhance Acura's credibility in this high stakes game? The new car is certainly not without virtues. New sheetmetal, new engine, new (to this model) chassis technology, improved fuel economy, new interior, and a wealth of electronics some devoted to infotainment, others to safety features.
Basics: at 196.1 inches of overall length, the Acura RLX is just 0.3 inch longer than the RL, but its 112.2-inch wheelbase represents a stretch of 2.0 inches. That, plus a 2.0-inch expansion in width, gave the design team plenty of raw material for improving interior volume, particularly in the rear seat area, a weak point with the RL.
The engine is also new, an aluminum 3.5-liter SOHC V6 with four valves per cylinder, variable valve timing, and direct fuel injection. Its output, 310 horsepower, 272 pound-feet of torque, is all but identical to the 3.7-liter V6 that propelled the RL (300 horsepower, 271 pound-feet), but the key development objective for the 3.5 was fuel economy, and in this the new engine represents a big improvement: 20/31 mpg City/Highway, according to the EPA, versus 16/22 for the RL. Some of this gain is attributable to the adoption of direct fuel injection, more of it to cylinder deactivation, which shuts down half the engine in steady highway cruising.
The new V6 is allied with a 6-speed automatic transmission, sending power to the front wheels. While the car's overall gearing is oriented toward optimizing fuel economy, the RLX will get out of the starting blocks and across an intersection with reasonable haste. Beyond that, forward progress becomes a little more deliberate, respectable, but not extraordinary.
While the RLX propulsion inventory is thus far routine, the RL-X does bring one mechanical distinction to the table, one that gave the Acura product people an opportunity to exercise their penchant for peculiar acronyms. They call it PAW-S, for Precision All-Wheel Steering. Basically, the rear wheels contribute to steering, counter-steering at low speed to enhance maneuverability, turning with the fronts at high speeds for increased stability. Honda has tried this before, with disappointing sales results. This time around the take rate will be better, since the feature is standard equipment, rather than an option.
Styling has rarely been a strong suit at either Honda or Acura, and the RLX is consistent with corporate design caution. Aside from a phalanx of LED headlights, lending a bit of sci-fi mystique to the front end, the new sedan is unlikely to attract more than a casual glance as it glides along in traffic. The grille, with its slightly beaky center element, is recognizable as Acura emblematic, but beyond that and the LEDs the design is bland and breaks no new ground. The same could perhaps be said of the German troika that dominates the class, but if the Teutons are familiar from one generation to the next, that familiarity includes a big helping of prestige.
Model LineupAcura RLX ($48,450); RLX with navigation ($50,950); RLX with Technology Package, $54,450; RLX with Krell Audio Package ($56,950); RLX with Advance Package ($60,450)
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Acura RLX is bigger than the old RL. It's longer than the Mercedes-Benz E-Class, BMW 5 Series and Audi A6, and it's wider than all but the E-Class. The Acura rides on a slightly shorter wheelbase, however.
The Acura engineering team cites gains in body shell rigidity, thanks to extensive use of hot stamped high strength steel in selected areas, and in the finished product conveys a sense of praiseworthy solidity.
An aluminum hood, doors and decklid save about 76 pounds in the body-in-white. However, with curb weights that range from 3933 to almost 4000 pounds, the RLX is generally heavier than the three German sedans.
The 2014 RLX sports a new double wishbone suspension system up front, and a new multilink arrangement at the rear designed, of course, to accommodate P-AWS.
There's also a new capless fueling system, a la the technique pioneered by Ford. When it functions properly (i.e., no leakage), as was the case on our test car, this feature eliminates the ugly sight of a forgotten fuel cap flapping in the breeze, eventually to detach itself entirely. It's easy to use: Open fuel door, insert fuel filler, close fuel door. If you forget the latter step, the system won't mind and won't dribble.
With its longer wheelbase and fractional reduction in overall length, the proportions of the RLX have an athletic look, and the jewel-eye LEDs lend a bit of distinction to the front end as well as a lot of lumens to navigating dark country byways. But in the main, the RLX follows the Honda/Acura design philosophy of timeless styling, a conservative look, low on flash, but long on staying power.
As you'd expect of a car in this price category, the Acura RLX is handsomely appointed within, with soft touch surfaces everywhere, first rate materials, and lots of space. In fact, Acura claims best-in-class rear-seat legroom, and it would take someone of NBA stature to scrape his head against the roof.
As you'd also expect, there's gizmology and connectivity galore, with an available eight-inch navigation screen stacked atop a seven-inch touch-screen controlling all sorts of infotainment choices. Although the nav system won't allow any manual adjustments or selections when the car is moving, not uncommon in the golden age of product liability, and the voice command element requires what amounts to an irritating and lengthy discussion to achieve results, Honda/Acura navigation technology is still near the top of the charts in terms of accuracy. Also, its real-time traffic info includes conditions on surface streets, which can be very helpful when the driver is pressed for time.
The expanded gizmology inventory extends to safety features, and here too Acura follows the industry trend toward more and more nannyesque driver aids. For example, the optional Lane Keeping Assist helps inattentive drivers stay between the lines. The optional adaptive cruise control system now includes a low-speed follow feature, which commuters may find helpful. Similarly, the Forward Collision Warning system may help inattentive drivers avoid whacking the car just ahead, although its panicky alerts and flashing lights are irritating to those trying to dissect traffic on their morning commute.
Many of the RLX's electronic safety aids are optional, but with or without them the car's excellent structure are expected to continue the Honda/Acura tradition of top ratings from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the influential Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Driving Impressions
As a driving experience, the Acura RLX skews heavily toward comfort and unobtrusive motoring. The cabin is extraordinarily quiet (think 2 a.m. in St. Paul's Cathedral), something that's been a strong suit for Acura's premier sedan ever since the original Acura Legend. Ride quality is creamy; it takes some very gnarly pavement to even remotely disturb occupants, and in general the going is about as serene as it gets in this market segment.
Power is respectable, although the 6-speed automatic seems a little dated in a class where 7- and 8-speed transmissions are becoming increasingly common. The new aluminum 3.5-liter SOHC V6 with four valves per cylinder, variable valve timing, and direct fuel injection is rated at 310 horsepower, 272 pound-feet of torque. Fuel economy is an EPA-estimated 20/31 mpg City/Highway.
Like almost all new cars today, the RLX is equipped with an electric power steering system, one of many measures the industry has adopted in the quest for improved fuel economy. At just 2.6 turns lock-to-lock, it's quick, but it's also vague, a trait common to many systems of this type; the driver doesn't have an accurate sense of where the front wheels are pointed. Like all idiosyncrasies of a particular car, this is something an owner gets used to in short order, but it's not a trait shared by the Germanic pacesetters in this class.
Acura touts the new PAW-S system (Precision All-Wheel Steering) as cutting-edge technology, and the implication is that having the rear wheels participate in the steering puts the front-wheel-drive RLX on a more or less equal footing with the rear-wheel-drive German competition. Our impressions fall short of parity with rear- and all-wheel drive cars. The system undoubtedly makes the RLX a little handier around town and does lend a bit of confidence at higher speeds on back roads, but the speeds have to be distinctly higher for this to be tangible and it's unlikely owners will be exercising their cars in this manner. The RLX is exceptionally comfortable, but it's not the kind of car that invites back road barnstorming.
The all-new 2014 Acura RLX is unquestionably luxurious, with an exceptionally high index of quality and quiet, competent comfort. Its value proposition is a little hard to endorse: a front-wheel-drive sedan such as the new Kia Cadenza delivers similar cosseting and better dynamics for considerably less money, and a V8-propelled rear-drive Genesis sedan undercuts even a base RLX. If relaxed dynamics, posh interior appointments, serene motoring, and good fuel economy expectations are the priority, the RLX merits a place in the luxury sedan sunshine.
Tony Swan filed this NewCarTestDrive.com report from Detroit after his test drive of the Acura RLX.


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Dunn M, Greenhill SJ, Levinson SC, & Gray RD (2011). Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals. Nature.
Some colleagues and I have a new paper out in Nature showing that the evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals. I've written an overview/FAQ on this paper here, and there's a nice review of it here and here.
The Abstract:
Languages vary widely but not without limit. The central goal of linguistics is to describe the diversity of human languages and explain the constraints on that diversity. Generative linguists following Chomsky have claimed that linguistic diversity must be constrained by innate parameters that are set as a child learns a language. In contrast, other linguists following Greenberg have claimed that there are statistical tendencies for co-occurrence of traits reflecting universal systems biases, rather than absolute constraints or parametric variation. Here we use computational phylogenetic methods to address the nature of constraints on linguistic diversity in an evolutionary framework. First, contrary to the generative account of parameter setting, we show that the evolution of only a few word-order features of languages are strongly correlated. Second, contrary to the Greenbergian generalizations, we show that most observed functional dependencies between traits are lineage-specific rather than universal tendencies. These findings support the view that—at least with respect to word order—cultural evolution is the primary factor that determines linguistic structure, with the current state of a linguistic system shaping and constraining future states.


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We are proud to announce the release of our first book:
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The UC Davis Department of Emergency Medicine, along with its residency program, benefit from a diverse faculty firmly committed to house staff education. With more than 30 full-time faculty at UC Davis Health and 14 at Kaiser south hospital, the faculty group is larger than most other emergency medicine residency programs in the country. The vast majority of the UC Davis Health faculty are residency trained and board certified, and many have multiple certifications. Their backgrounds cover a number of areas of focused expertise within emergency medicine, including toxicology, critical care, and pediatric emergency medicine.
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Re: Choosing a data structure for AI applicationsby mattr (Curate)
|on Jul 17, 2002 at 13:45 UTC ( #182425=note: print w/replies, xml )
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Dear Ovid,
I spent a good number of hours experimenting after reading your last post about thieves etc. Unfortunately since I had two deadlines I didn't have time to finish or to post my work in time. (and also it didn't work completely). This is great stuff, though everyone seems to be talking about databases all of a sudden.
I've looked around at reasoning code for use with Perl several times, though you probably know about the AI tool from NASA (CLIPS, thanks for the link John) and also CYC (also someone linked before I read the thread..). Perhaps you were prodded by a recent news story about Dr. Howard Cross' Problem Knowledge Coupler for medical diagnoses.
Anyway, some quick thoughts on what you've mentioned so far.
or maybe one day, &addfact qw(merlyn owns (gold of value 50));
What I first tried to do was implement the Who's a Thief problem using Damian Conway's Quantum Superpositions module, since it sounded like his any() and all() might be useful. Good for consciousness jokes too :) actually I had tried to apply it with an ingenious but only 80% implemented (too small to fit in this margin) solution to the question about filling a table with categories. The neat thing in both cases is that after setting up the data, the final answer usually is only one to three lines of what looks like very intuitive English-like phrasing.
I wanted to be able to say,
I had difficulty using it, for example I don't think any(actor)->owns{item} syntax worked. But it was seductive because it looked just like your prolog statements, except for all that punctuation. I played around with these kinds of statements:
Here $item and $potentialvictim were supposed to be simultaneously multivalued. But (unless I misunderstood) some of this did not work because you actually have to superimpose two multivalued objects to get the superimposition, I think. Otherwise a lot of what you think should happen doesn't.
Then I realized Quantum::Entanglement would be far more useful. This was also pretty difficult conceptually but I found it fascinating. In particular you might want to look at Entanglement's p_func which might be useful as a way to set rules operating on things. Also, the quantumlogic method looks extremely interesting and I haven't even barely looked in its general direction yet.
Well, I tried to say
where &wave would entangle its parameters like any(). (maybe this is how any() works, didn't check).
This would seem to let you easily change the probability of certain events happening. This module is extremely cool and brain bending, I recommend it.
However unless I am wrong (quite possible), since all possibilities need to be well-defined you end up with just a big matrix solver instead of an elegant logic engine. But the need for intersection, union, and probably a "such that" phrase (a pipe in math or haskell, like x|y=1) seem useful. Maybe for/foreach does it but there seems to be quite a lot more cool stuff in Haskell.
So I'd recommend checking out Set::Bag and Set::Scalar/Set::Scalar::Valued which seems pretty powerful and even overrides some symbols so you can take the intersection of sets which would help solve the thief problem. You can say things in Set::Bag like: $rich = owns(x,y) * valuable(y); # intersection
I think a Perl AI engine would be very useful in making interesting services, for example I did some looking around for one when I was planning a product recommendation engine that would help a customer find the right product given certain needs. I'd be much more interested now in being able to ask intelligent questions and get back statistically sorted answers, than to save a hundred thousand facts in a database just yet. Or to have just a little bit of intelligence added to my coding to save me time. Maybe something that knows all the functions I've written and could whip something up in response to a well-typed phrase?
By the way, about Cyc, if you haven't it might be interesting to read some of the messages in the forum in the sourceforge project page. A couple months ago I remember some very interesting questions.
And, have you looked at Haskell and what do you think?
Also, what if we had a project wiki for pm projects?
Finally a few thoughts about your questions, at the risk of stating the obvious..
- making a statement like you did about kudra and merlyn creates possible counterstatements (how many books does merlyn have) for example, which would seem to mean either doing a database search each time, or updating a hash of facts about each object every time you do anything. Perhaps you would like to simulate a universe of objects? It might make queries faster. Hence your pairs note, I'm sure.
- For some reason I think we operate more like the Entanglement routine above and less like SQL. Not subatomically speaking, but that some facts stand out, or your interest is piqued by certain words. Perhaps simulating a person listening to those facts and recording a story about them in a graph would be a viable approach. Plus you could graph it with DataViz! :)
- I like the ability to state questions in perl-friendly phrasing, like $kudra gives $book{learningperl} to $merlyn. And I'd like to have "such that" added to Perl. Looking back at Haskell and even Functional.pm it would seem that a hard mathematical approach is one way to do an interface, while another might be a more linguistic approach.
- I'd like to suggest a general purpose reasoning module that would emphasize useful interface and queries and not speed or volume of facts.
- Also as mentioned above, something which does some of the work for you in Perl development would be extremely useful.
Anyway, something that greatly magnifies the strength of a Perl programmer, and makes perl itself more powerful even in a small way, would have a lot of applications. What are the one or two words you would like to see added to the language?
Hope this has helped stir the coals and not put you to sleep. Much luck!
Matt R.
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OAKLAND — A private security guard shot and wounded a suspected burglar in the Oakmore District on Thursday, police said.
The security guard was patrolling the neighborhood at around noon, when a home burglary in the 4000 block of Harding Way was interrupted, according to police.
At least two burglars were spotted trying to break into the house, and one fled in a car later recovered in nearby Dimond Park, police said. The private security guard in his car followed one of the suspects on foot to Lyman Road, a few blocks from the scene.
The guard confronted the suspect, who took off running, and chased him on foot to the driveway of a home in the 4000 block of Waterhouse Road, where the suspect allegedly pulled out a screwdriver and attempted to attack the guard, police said. The security guard then shot him in the leg, according to police.
The suspect, who police said is 18 years old, was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive. The security guard, whose name was not released, works for Security Code 3, and was patrolling a neighborhood that has been heavily hit by burglars of late.
Signs in yards of several homes in the neighborhood warn that the area is patrolled by the private security company. Officials at the company declined to comment.
A TV, other electronic devices and guns were left scattered on the side of the home on Harding Way, but police had not yet determined if the items were taken from that house or another house in the neighborhood. The burglary and shooting remain under investigation.
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Hey Everyone!
Have we got a treat for you! We've teamed up with Michael Pavlovich to bring you a series of tutorial videos showing how he created the character for the image below, modeled and rendered in ZBrush 4R3. This five-part series will be released in installments every other day with the first part available right now. A lot of ground is covered, and we hope you enjoy it!
Michael has been in the game industry since graduating from the Ringling School of Art and Design in 2005. Starting as an environment artist, he has worked on several titles for multiple platforms at both Electronic Arts and Sony Online Entertainment. Michael is currently Lead Character Artist at Certain Affinity in Austin, TX. In addition to his "day job" he has also produced 5 video tutorials for Eat 3D.
PART 1. Positioning SubTools
Delve into using ZBrush to create your base mesh. Michael uses DynaMesh to maintain a clean polygon distribution and explains key concepts for how to ensure having the right mesh resolution. Running time: 5 minutes, 28 seconds.
PART 2. DynaMesh SubTools
Moves into the next phase of DynaMesh use, including mesh Insertion and Subtraction, as well as Projection. Tips for SubTool arrangement and how that plays into merging SubTools are also covered. Running time: 5 minutes, 17 seconds.
PART 3. Creating a Shell with DynaMesh
See the power of DynaMesh in this video as we discuss the SliceCurve Brush to quickly cut and shape a model. Running time: 8 minutes, 19 seconds.
PART 4. Trim with CurveTubes Brush
Michael throws a curve at us. Specifically, the Curve Tube brush and the Curve Surface brush. Discover the power of using curves as a sculpting tool! Running time: 6 minutes, 24 seconds.
PART 5. Accessories with Topology Tools
Covers a lot of ground as the character continues to take shape. We look at altering topology, powerful options with Adaptive Skinning and controlling your surface through the Geometry menu's Crease and Smooth features. You'll also learn how to use TransPose to duplicate geometry, the power of the Trim Dynamic and hPolish brushes, along with a little-known ZBrush feature: the alternative smoothing algorithm. Running time: 9 minutes, 4 seconds.
That's more than 30 minutes of project-based video instruction! Be sure to keep coming back to this thread over the next 8 days to catch it all!
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Forest City Velodrome DEVO Program
Courtesy Chris Helwig
The Forest City Velodrome and the Coach Chris.ca/Ted Velikonja Cycling Team are very pleased to announce a new DEVO program for 2008. This will be a joint venture to find and integrate up and coming athletes into a structured training and development program to produce Track, Road and MTB racers.
The program is geared towards youth age 14-17 in Southwestern Ontario. The program includes professionally supervised and monitored sessions at the Forest City Velodrome, FCV track bikes provided, road training on closed courses, group strength training sessions, fully subsidized coaching, free team clothing and in some cases subsidized road bicycles.
Rob Good from the Forest City Velodrome "is very excited about the opportunity to bring along the next generation of champions, It's been a goal of Albert Coulier and I to see one of our young riders progress to the National Team to represent Canada Internationally. This partnership with the Coach Chris.ca/Ted Velikonja Team will bring many athletes into cycling that otherwise would have taken up another sport." The DEVO program at the FCV will encourage young riders from across Ontario to experience the thrill of riding on the boards at the Forest City Velodrome.‰
Chris Helwig and Rob Good started planning a DEVO program in early 2007. Both are highly motivated to bring as many young riders into the sport of cycling and help these riders achieve their maximum potential. Rob and Chris saw the success of the Ottawa Bicycle Club Program that has brought over a dozen cadets and juniors to the track and wanted to increase the number of cadet and junior athletes competing in Southwestern Ontario.
The program will be lucky enough to have input and guidance from former World Champion Gord Singleton. Gord is not only a world class rider, he also has a great amount of coaching knowledge and expertise. The DEVO program is extremely lucky to have Gord's help in achieving the goals of the program.
Applications are now being accepted for the program. Preference will be given to athletes that will be between 14-17 as of December 31st 2008. Previous cycling experience is not a pre requisite. Those interested in applying should express their interest in an email to Chris Helwig email@example.com Include your date of birth, athletic background and reason for wanting to join the program. Each successful applicant will take part in a two month trial with the program to make sure they like the program and training.
The program is made possible by the generous sponsorship and support of Ted Velikonja an Investment Advisor at CIBC Wood Gundy, Forest City Velodrome, Coach Chris.ca, Casco, All Seasons Sports, Projectcore.com Inc. and Goldwell Professional Hair Care. There are sponsorship opportunities available for the 2008 program. Interested companies can email Chris Helwig for more information.
For more information on the Forest City Velodrome and its program's please visit www.forestcityvelodrome.ca
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The singer performing as the halftime act caused audience numbers to go up during the show itself (the first time that had ever happened during the Super Bowl), causing Jackson's act to be often cited as the reason the Super Bowl tries to book big musical acts for the halftime show rather than the marching bands of yore.
When Jackson first appeared on the stage amid a flash of smoke, he stood dramatically silent and immobile for a full 1.5 minutes while many of the 98,000 at the Rose Bowl Stadium cheered.
During his performance, a chorus of more than 3,000 children from Los Angeles performed "We Are The World," and footage of Jackson being involved in charities was screened. Jackson sang "Billie Jean," "Black or White" and "Jam."
Arlen Kantarian, chief executive of halftime show producers Radio City Productions, remembered how Jackson was struck by the idea of the viewers who would be watching in other countries.
"He said, 'Man, I'll never tour there,' " Kantarian recalled in an article with the New York Times which detailed how Jackson's performance forever changed the halftime show. "We talked to him about the blue-collar football fan that might not otherwise be a Michael Jackson fan and about how he could build a new fan base. He got that as well."
Bleacher Report writer Gordon Block ranked Jackson's show as the best halftime show ever.
"Super Bowl XXVII is the standard for all Super Bowl halftime shows, as the league called in the star power of Michael Jackson to keep audiences tuned in to the game," Block wrote. "Jackson did not disappoint… Since that 1993 show, the halftime performance has become a huge part of the game and made the game much bigger than the sport of football. It's a cultural event and one that is almost impossible to miss."


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13. November 2013 – 15:33
Apparently Jennifer Lawrence decided to take her whirlwind The Hunger Games: Catching Fire press tour quite literally.
The Oscar winner showed up to her Madrid premiere today (in a Dior Gown) with her new pixie cut extra tousled. While the back and the sides of the short crop were slightly mussed, the front pieces were dramatically flipped upward in a windswept effect.
The actress has been trying out different hairstyles nearly every day while promoting the second installment of the film franchise. Earlier in the day, she flaunted a casual bedhead style. Yesterday she channeled Twiggy with a chic 60s hairstyle. And on Monday, she sported a sleek pushed-back effect at the London premiere, which was her most sophisticated yet.
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I was looking at some car bodies. Think perfectly shot stock photograph using perfect lighting. You always see some amazing highlighting on the car body.
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Flu Vaccination
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All patients registered at Barrack Lane Medical Centre hold a practice wide registration. This means you can elect to be seen at either Barrack Lane or Stoke Park site. Every patient is allocated a named GP, but this does not prevent you from seeing the clinician of your choice if they have availability. If you would like more details please contact us or ask at reception.
When you need to be seen...
We will offer you a same day appointment with a member of our On the Day Team. Appointments can be arranged by calling the surgery direct or can be booked on line. Our On the Day team are supported by a designated Duty Doctor who is available for urgent problems.
To save a time consuming trip to the surgery...
Our clinicians are available each day for telephone consultations and to provide advice.
When you need a follow-up appointment or are asked to come back...
Our reception staff will organise a telephone assessment for you, with a clinician of your choice, who will call you back to discuss your needs and arrange a face to face appointment if you agree that one is needed.
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Patients who do not attend for their appointments cost the National Health Service many millions of pounds each year.
If you cannot attend an appointment for any reason please inform us as soon as possible in order for us to give the slot to someone else.
You can also text us to cancel your appointment on:
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By giving us as much notice as you can you are helping us to make sure that someone else is given your slot.
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Specimens need to be dropped in at the reception desk by 12 noon so that we can send the samples off to the laboratories. Please ring for results after 2.30pm when the surgery is less busy.
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After last season's 0-10 disaster, the second straight season that Sultana finished last in the Mojave River League, Sultans coach Zane Sweeney has had enough. The last two years have been brutal for the Sultans – who have lost their last 11 games, have lost all eight league games and have fallen twice to crosstown rival Hesperia during that time.
As Sweeney was evaluating what went wrong, he decided that Sultana had gotten a little too diversified and had lost the foundation that led it to an MRL title as recently as 2005. So when evaulating his team in the offseason, Sweeney decided that Sultana needed to pull things back a bit.
"We need to get back to what made us good in the first place," Sweeney said. "We are going back to the old stuff, the stuff that worked for us. You'll see us run a lot of zone blocking on offense and run the 4-3 on defense."
Both units could use a great deal of improvement. The Sultans, as you would expect, were overmatched a year ago, as they were outscored by an average of 29.3 points per game. Sultana, which gave up 38.6 points per game on defense while only scoring 9.3 points per game offensively, lost every game but one by double digits.
"Last year was a nightmare, just embarrassing," Sweeney said. "There was nothing good about what happened last year and we are dedicated to going out and putting out a better effort. We have to get better."
It might be too much for Sultana to get a playoff spot – or emerge from last place for that matter – but there is some talent for the Sultans to work with. Offensively, 6-foot-4, 250-pound junior tight end Brandon Lindeman should be a bear to deal with, while senior Malcolm Collier and junior Joe Maynes will anchor the running game. Lindeman will also play defensive end, while Zach Mendoza will be the main cog in the linebacking corps.
Sultana's schedule (Home games in CAPS, league games with *)
Sept. 11 – at Palm Desert
Sept. 18 – CAJON
Sept. 25 – at Palmdale Knight
Oct. 2 – VICTOR VALLEY
Oct. 8 – vs. Summit (Miller HS)
Oct. 16 – at Hesperia*
Oct. 23 – RIM OF THE WORLD*
Oct. 30 – BARSTOW
Nov. 6 – APPLE VALLEY*
Nov. 13 – at Serrano*


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Neil Lennon hopes Celtic's good recent form will help take them past Irn-Bru Second Division side Arbroath in tonight's William Hill Scottish Cup fourth-round replay at Gayfield Park.
The Hoops qualified for the knockout stages of the Champions League last week with a dramatic 2-1 home win over Spartak Moscow then followed that up with a comprehensive 3-1 victory Kilmarnock at Rugby Park on Saturday to take them three points clear of Inverness at the top of the Clydesdale Bank Premier League with a game in hand.
The Red Lichties snatched an unlikely 1-1 draw at Celtic Park in the first game with a late goal from Steven Doris, but the Parkhead boss wants his side to take care of business at the second time of asking.
"We are taking this game very seriously," he said.
"It is a different competition but one where we have had no recent success and we would like to progress so it is another important game.
"The way things have been going in the last week to 10 days, you want to keep that feel-good factor going and this is potentially very dangerous.
"I have been on the end of a few cup upsets as a player and a manager and I don't want that to happen tonight."
Lennon, who has defender Mikael Lustig and midfielder Paddy McCourt back after recovering from hamstring injuries, knows his players will have to cope with the more basic surroundings of Gayfield Park, despite playing at some famous stadiums this season such as the Nou Camp in Barcelona, Spartak Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium and Benfica's Stadium of Light in Lisbon.
The former Celtic skipper said: "It will be a new experience for me going to Arbroath and for most of the players as well.
"But in the last couple of years we have been at Berwick and Peterhead (in the cup) so we know the attitude has to be right.
"I don't know what the conditions will be like so we will have to adapt to them as best we can and play accordingly."


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The Dick Cheney obsessed Chris Matthews, on Wednesday's Hardball, served up a softball to liberal Democratic Congressman Ed Markey as he pondered if the former vice president could, in any way, be blamed for the BP oil spill. Matthews, who it seems can't go a week without mentioning Cheney, even though he's no longer in office, questioned Markey if the oil spill occurred because of lax oversight by Cheney-installed regulators as he asked: "To what extent is the current regulatory regime, that governs people like BP, in place because of the previous administration, which was run by Cheney, based upon the Halliburton lifestyle that he came from?" [audio available here]
The following exchange was aired on the May 5 edition of Hardball:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: In the last administration, which put in place apparently a lot of these people that are regulators, these headless nails that are in there, supposedly regulating the oil industry, had a role. They got in there because Cheney was in there with his secret task force. They met at the White House. We never found out who, in the oil industry, was involved. To what extent is the current regulatory regime, that governs people like BP, in place because of the previous administration, which was run by Cheney, based upon the Halliburton lifestyle that he came from?
REP. ED MARKEY: Well, the Clinton administration recommended, for example, that an acoustical trigger that would have made it possible to shutdown the well by remote control be installed as an essential piece of equipment. But when the Bush/Cheney administration took over, they made a determination that it was too costly to build in that extra safety precaution. And, again, when there is an assumption that an accident cannot occur, $500,000, which is what that acoustical trigger would have cost, seems very expensive. But when 5,000 barrels of oil per day is spilling out into the Gulf destroying people's livelihoods it doesn't seem that costly at all. And so that was the ethos that existed inside the Bush/Cheney era, and I'm afraid we're now living with the consequences of those assumptions.


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I'M lucky. My home was not flooded – and my heart goes out to all those whose lives have been left in ruins by this week's devastating floods.
Yet, like them, I share the growing tide of anger over the failure of successive governments to fulfil their primary duty: to protect their own people.
And, at a time when it is so easy to be shocked by events in a world which appears to be at war with itself, whether it be global terrorism or its struggle with Mother Nature, three incidents here in Yorkshire left me speechless.
The first was driving down Kirkstall Road, one of the main roads in Leeds, and seeing the protective padding from the rugby league goalposts used at the Leeds Rhinos' training ground wrapped around a tree's branches. Was the rampaging River Aire really this high? This, and then the 300-year-old bridge in Tadcaster collapsing into the swollen water, were images to last a lifetime.
The second was walking into a supermarket and seeing collecting buckets for the victims. So typical of Yorkshire's world-renowned public-spiritedness, this benevolence is usually only requested after the apocalypse has struck some faraway country rather than the county I'm proud to call home.
And the third was David Cameron's fleeting visit to York to view the damage. Carefully stage-managed to avoid the indignant flooding victims, I never thought I would live to see the day when the Prime Minister was so reluctant, even afraid, to meet his people. Shame on him – this complacent contempt was only surpassed by his spineless decision not to chair the following morning's Cobra emergency response committee to put in place lessons supposedly learned from his visit. This no-show left him guilty of the charge of gesture politics.
Mr Cameron is not alone – visits by Environment Secretary Liz Truss and Communities Secretary Greg Clark – have been similarly sterile and smack of a Cabinet in collective denial about neglecting the North's needs. What happened here would not have been allowed to occur in London.
If these Ministers had met more victims, they might have comprehended this county's despair. They would also have heard moving stories like the lady from Hebden Bridge who telephoned a radio phone-in and said that not only was the damage far greater than the 2012 floods which swamped the Calder Valley, but she had been unable to get any insurance following that disaster in spite of Ministerial promises to the contrary.
Two points struck me. The cost of the damage – £50,000 was her estimate – but the stoicism in her voice. She had every right to be angry – this, after all, is the area where Mr Cameron told flood-hit residents in 2012 that "the Government stands by to help in any we can" – but that anger was masked by a quiet defiance across this great county as the filthy floodwater slowly subsides.
Despite the indifference of Ministers – the aforementioned Ms Truss tried to take the credit for £33m of preventative measures in Leeds when her Government axed a far more robust £180m scheme in 2011 – I'm sure these victims will pull through thanks to the public's benevolence and the generosity of strangers.
Yet this does not excuse the country's political elite who regard Northerners as second class citizens. Mr Cameron's past promises after flooding disasters, whether it be its offer to the Calder Valley or "money no object promise" when the Thames, and also Somerset, were submerged, have proved to be worthless empty words.
The policy failures over many years are also staggering, whether it be an insurance system that is in tatters, the mania for building new homes on flood plains which exist for good reason and the fact that the Government's additional money for defences – piffling sums in comparison the £5.8bn of damage incurred last month – has been offset by town hall budget cuts that has seen schemes cancelled, postponed or scaled back. This false economy is unsustainable.
This has also not been helped by the Opposition's ineptitude. Good government requires effective scrutiny and I'm proud, as the comment editor of this newspaper, that The Yorkshire Post's hard-hitting editorials have exposed these serial shortcomings. This has been even more important because of Labour's deafening silence and the Scottish Nationalists appearing not to bother either.
I note Andrew Percy, the Conservative MP for Brigg and Goole, took to Twitter to denounce the paper's coverage as "political nonsense", but he must be one of the few people who think the Government has done a good job – the Environment Secretary, after all, was the first Minister to sign up to the Chancellor's spending review. I remain of the view that she could, and should, have stood her ground and ensured she secured more money for flood defences.
What next when Parliament reconvenes? The promised review into flood defences does not go far enough. The whole planning system myst be reviewed to to ensure all new properties are built with extreme weather in mind. It's pointless pressing ahead with new developments if they're going to be washed away. The management of rivers also needs addressing, not least the impact of EU regulations on basic maintenance.
The Government and Environment Agency's work needs a far clearer focus. There are too many chiefs –and not enough people progressing new schemes. If former EA boss Chris Smith was bad enough, his successor, Sir Philip Dilley, has proved even worse and only returned from his Barbados bolthole grudgingly. Yet how many times has the word 'unprecedented' been used to describe the recent carnage? If more money has to be found, so be it. I note on my tax return that £144 of my hard-earned money was spent on the environment in the past year while £110 was my contribution to Britain's £12bn a year overseas aid obligations, including the £1bn given to the world's most corrupt nations. I think the time has come for taxpayers to be given a choice on this.
In the meantime, the people of Yorkshire must maintain the political pressure until the tide turns and the Prime Minister answers this county's cry for help. Over to you, David Cameron.


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The major is intentionally flexible so that you, with the help of your advisor, can design a program that serves your interests or allows you to prepare for a career requiring a broad range of knowledge. The skills you acquire will also prepare you for professional programs such as social work, law and medicine.
Acquire a strong knowledge base in a focus area and develop skills in research, communication, critical thinking, analysis and interpersonal skills. Develop an understanding of individual and group behavior as you learn to analyze and address social problems in a rapidly changing world.
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Dynamic development. Study how people and groups grow and change over time. Learn to develop theories that adapt to shifts in culture and environment.
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