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FaceBreaker drops you into a world filled with eye-popping stylized graphics and ego wielding characters that get you raring to get your pummel on. Add a little personal motivation to your fights using the custom face generator called Photo Game Face. Use an Xbox Live Vision camera or a PlayStation Eye camera to create a custom boxer by uploading yourself -- or someone more notorious -- directly to your console. Alternatively, use a regular photo and share your masterpiece with the world in the online Boxer Gallery. Download your created boxer into your game in seconds from EA Sports World (www.easportsworld.com), or scour the 30,000 plus boxers that have already been created since the launch of the downloadable demo last month.
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So much for Gilpin's Hegemonic Stability theory
An interesting side note - Bush is in Colorado today. He just went down to the Springs for the Air Force Academy's graduation. While he is down there, he is meeting with James Dobson, the head of Focus on the Family... makes you wonder who is running the country - Bush or his conservative religious friends.
When you have an enitity such as the UN who has profited from a dictatorship such as Iraq and your "allies" such as France who also profited from Iraq...it makes it difficult to be anything but unilateral in your foreign affairs. Who are you to consult when the world, because of their greed, don't want you to smash their piggy bank?


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2009 may still be hopping, but 2010 for Gerard Butler will have some treats as well. One of them, How to Train Your Dragon, now has a teaser trailer. It doesn't tell us much, but it's something!! The official site has been updated, but not much to see. It's now got a Flash placeholder instead of just an image. Still, pretty cool!! See the trailer below:
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The How to Train Your Dragon Storybook and 3D Viewer, to be released on February 2, 2010, is available for pre-order at Amazon.com. Order the original story for Christmas and the new storybook for Valentine's Day for you favorite little one!!
Thanks to Beth Whitson for sharing some pics of Gerry getting ready to enjoy a leisurely flight! View larger…
No playing "Where's Gerry" for September 13. He was pretty much EVERYWHERE!! Recap of places he was and people he saw below:
In Touch Icons + Idols Celebration, MTV VMAs, Giant Steps for 9/11, Harry Winston New York Collection Celebration, US Open
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That makes me think, if Stars is a legit thing maybe it'll let you follow Lillie to Kanto and continue the shenanigansCero wrote:Finally defeat the E4. So many references to Kanto in this game, makes me think whether they'll delay the DP remakes and go straight to Red Sun and Blue Moon (or maybe they'll just be the sequels anyway).
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Surprise at Ferrari in Williamsburg: President Obama!
What a coincidence: the "Ferraris on the James" event, a meeting of US-American Ferrari owners in Williamsburg, also involves US-President Barack Obama. The Democratic candidate for the White House is staying at the same hotel where the Ferrari event is held.
The elegant hotel on the river James, in Virginia, has been chosen by Barack Obama for the preparations for the upcoming second TV debate with Mitt Romney on Wednesday.
The numerous Ferraristi present can see the Obama staff coming in and out of the hotel, while they will definitely make themselves heard with their Ferrari engines.
There are numerous models and types of Ferraris present at the meeting and one participant said: "Let's hope they won't distract them."


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France: Assad Could Strike Again If No One Acts
PARIS (AP) — France's prime minister says there's no doubt that the Syrian government carried out a deadly chemical attack against civilians — and that a failure to react would allow President Bashar Assad to launch a similar attack again.
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault addressed parliament Wednesday during a debate to rally support for a military strike again Syria. The U.S. and France accuse Assad's Syrian government of using chemical weapons in an Aug. 21 attack on rebel-held suburbs of Damascus that killed hundreds.
Ayrault said the attack killed nearly 1,500 people — a higher figure than the French government has used before.
He is in the delicate position of trying to shore up support amid deep skepticism in France while also waiting to see if the U.S. Congress authorizes military action next week.
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France's government offers a preview Wednesday of what the Obama administration faces next week, as lawmakers debate the wisdom and necessity of a military response to a chemical weapons attack in Syria that killed hundreds.
Shoring up support for a military response, French officials said a punitive military response would help shift the balance in a 2 ½-year-old civil war that was tipping in favor of Bashar Assad.
"If you want a political solution you have to move the situation. If there's no sanction, Bashar Assad will say 'that's fine, I'll continue what I'm doing,'" France's foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, told France Info radio Wednesday morning, hours ahead of the debate.
As the Obama administration worked to build its own support ahead of the Congress vote, the U.S. and Israel conducted a joint missile test Tuesday in the eastern Mediterranean in an apparent signal of military readiness. In the operation, a missile was fired from the sea toward the Israeli coast to test the tracking by the country's missile defense system.
But Russian President Vladimir Putin, one of Assad's most vocal supporters, warned the West against taking one-sided action in Syria, although he told The Associated Press that Russia had frozen new shipments to Syria of an air defense missile system.
There's a major difference between the French debate and the one coming up on Capitol Hill: President Francois Hollande has an easy majority in the French parliament, and he neither needs nor — unlike President Barack Obama — wants their vote of approval. But with the prospect of military action against Assad facing dwindling support internationally, the government has been building its case.
The U.S. and France accuse the Syrian government of using chemical weapons in an Aug. 21 attack on rebel-held suburbs of Damascus that killed hundreds of people. Obama and Hollande are pushing for a military response to punish Assad for his alleged use of poison gas against civilians — though U.S. officials say any action will be limited in scope, not aimed at helping to remove Assad.
Putin said Russia "doesn't exclude" supporting a U.N. resolution on punitive military strikes if it is proved that Damascus used poison gas on its own people, but he questioned the proofs released by Britain, the United States and France as part of their efforts to build international support.
Any proof needs to go before the Security Council, Putin told The Associated Press. "And it ought to be convincing. It shouldn't be based on some rumors and information obtained by special services through some kind of eavesdropping, some conversations and things like that."
Fabius, the French foreign minister, said Syria would certainly come up at this week's G-20 meeting in Russia.
"We will discuss with the Russians, because they are an important player in the region. Up until now they've been blocking things. If there's been an evolution that would be very desirable," Fabius said.
On Tuesday, the White House won backing for military action from two powerful Republicans — House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner and House majority leader Eric Cantor.
In Syria, Al-Baath newspaper, the mouthpiece of the country's ruling Baath party, slammed U.S. senators and members of the Congress for their support.
An editorial in the paper's Wednesday edition branded the American lawmakers who backed military action in Syria as "advocates of war and terrorism."
"When the Obama administration seeks a broader mandate from the Congress, which it basically in no need of, this means that it prepares itself for what is bigger and more dangerous," the paper said.
In Paris, Hollande said that the U.S. vote "will have consequences on the coalition that we will have to create." He did not specify whether that meant a military coalition.
Fabius on Wednesday acknowledged the U.S. vote was crucial.
"If the United States backed off — which I don't plan on, but anything can happen — this type of action wouldn't be possible and so we would have to consider the Syrian question in another way," he said.
Syria's parliament speaker sent a letter to his counterparts in France ahead of Wednesday's debate, urging them not to make any "hasty" decisions. The office of Assembly President Claude Bartolone confirmed receipt of the letter and promised a public response later Wednesday.
The Syrian lawmakers sent a similar letter to Britain ahead of a parliamentary vote there that came down against military action.
Since the outbreak of the Syria conflict in March 2011, the two sides have fought to a stalemate, though the Assad regime has retaken the offensive in recent months. Rebel fighters control large rural stretches in northern and eastern Syria, while Assad is holding on to most of the main urban areas.
French government spokeswoman Najat Vallaud-Belkacem said punitive action in Syria would "re-balance" the situation on the ground.
The Syrian conflict, which began as a popular uprising against Assad in March 2011, later degenerated into a civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people.
The U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday that the number of Syrians who have fled the country has surpassed the 2 million mark.
Along with more than four million people displaced inside Syria, this means more than six million Syrians have been uprooted, out of an estimated population of 23 million.
Antonio Guterres, the head of the Office for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said Syria is hemorrhaging an average of almost 5,000 citizens a day across its borders, many of them with little more than the clothes they are wearing. Nearly 1.8 million refugees have fled in the past 12 months alone, he said.
The agency's special envoy, actress Angelina Jolie, said "some neighboring countries could be brought to the point of collapse" if the situation keeps deteriorating at its current pace. Most Syrian refugees have fled to Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.
Associated Press writers Karin Laub in Beirut, Daniel Estrin in Jerusalem, Lori Hinnant, Sylvie Corbet and Jamey Keaten in Paris, John Danisziewski, Lynn Berry and Vladimir Isachenkov in Novo-Ogaryovo, Russia, and Lolita C. Baldor in Washington contributed to this report.
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SUFFERN — A gloomy picture was painted Friday of the prospects for securing state or federal funding for new transit services in the Tappan Zee corridor.
SUFFERN — A gloomy picture was painted Friday of the prospects for securing state or federal funding for new transit services in the Tappan Zee corridor.
Representatives of the state Department of Transportation and Federal Transit Administration told the Tappan Zee Transit Task Force that the demand for money has been outstripping the supply and is likely to continue to do so.
In practice, this means that the competition for discretionary funding programs is greater than ever and that formula aid programs — largely supported by gasoline taxes that haven't been raised in decades, have less to distribute.
At the same time, the emphasis has shifted away from new or expanded transit services to maintaining existing services in a state of good repair.
And the time from application to award for competitive federal programs is still seven to 12 years, despite ongoing efforts to streamline the process.
Other sources of revenue for existing transit services include dedicated state taxes, such as the dozen-plus levies that benefit the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, local government subsidies and fares.
Veronica Vanterpool, executive director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, advocated that the task force carry on regardless and take the same can't-afford-it-but-need-it approach to transit that the state took with the new bridge.
"You should plow ahead with what you think is the best (transit) solution, even if there's no guarantee you'll get the funding you need," agreed Bill Wheeler, director of planning at the MTA.
The task force has until the year's end to draft short-, mid- and long-term recommendations for new transit services in the corridor, along with suggestions about how to fund them.


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After the San Francisco (California) to Phoenix (Arizona) and Phoenix to Dallas (Texas) flights, Solar Impulse is now ready for the third leg of its Across America Mission, from Dallas to St. Louis (Missouri). Take-off is scheduled for today 4am local time (11am Swiss time) and landing for tomorrow 1am local time (8am Swiss time).
The solar-powered plane, alternatively piloted by Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, will be flown this time by Piccard, who will achieve, with a planned 21 hour flight, his longest flight in the single-seat to date.
The Solar Impulse team is facing yet another challenge in this third leg: the storms which struck Missouri on Friday rendered inoperable the Solar Impulse's hangar at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. Fortunately this situation will be remedied with the use of Solar Impulse's own inflatable hangar to park the aircraft. Conceived and designed by the Solar Impulse team for the world tour of 2015, this structure will be used for the very first time in real conditions.
3 May 2013: First leg San Francisco/Moffett Airfield – Phoenix/Sky Harbor
22 May 2013: Second leg Phoenix/Sky Harbor – Dallas/Fort Worth
3 June 2013: Third leg Dallas/Fort Worth – St. Louis/Lambert Airport
Mid June 2013: Fourth leg St. Louis/Lambert Airport – Washington DC/Dulles
Early July 2013: Fifth and last leg Washington DC/Dulles – New York/JFK
The Solar Impulse team has set up a programme called "Fly with us in the cockpit" to create an influential global movement to promote the use of clean technology. Anyone can have their name carried in the cockpit of the solar airplane flying across the United States and show their support for clean technology.
|Type of Record
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|André Borschberg (SUI)
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|26 h 10 m 19 s
|André Borschberg (SUI)
|ratified - current record
|Gain of height
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|André Borschberg (SUI)
|ratified - current record
|Distance along a course, pre-declared waypoints
|1487.6 km
|André Borschberg (SUI)
|preliminary record claim received
|Free Distance
|1506.5 km
|André Borschberg (SUI)
|preliminary record claim received
|Straight distance, pre-declared waypoints
|1099.3 km
|André Borschberg (SUI)
|ratified - current record
|Straight distance, pre-declared waypoints
|1386.5 km
|André Borschberg (SUI)
|preliminary record claim received
Photo credit: Solar Impulse | Revillard | Rezo.ch
The solar-powered airplane Solar Impulse, which departed yesterday 22 May from Phoenix, reached Dallas this morning, thus achieving a flight that might prove to be the longest flight ever made with 1'541 km.
With this performance André Borschberg, who piloted the plane in this 2nd leg of the Across America Mission, would supersede the record he himself established in 2012
All the data from the loggers must be now be provided by the Solar Impulse team to the National Aeronautics Association and then to the FAI for ratification. Observers from the FAI Amateur Built and Experimental Aircraft Commission (CIACA) were present in Dallas and at the Observation Centre in Payerne, Switzerland to collect the flight information. The Observers included CIACA President Alfons Hubmann.
"This leg was particularly challenging because of fairly strong winds at the landing. It also was the longest flight – in terms of distance - ever flown by a solar airplane. You have to understand that the pilot needs to stay awake for more than 20 hours without any autopilot" said André Borschberg, co-founder, CEO and pilot of Solar Impulse who still holds the record for the longest duration ever in a solar powered airplane with 26 hours."


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VANCOUVER, BC – Looking to build on their five-match unbeaten run, Vancouver Whitecaps FC (8W-5L-5D) now turn their attention to welcoming Chicago Fire (6W-8L-3D) to BC Place this coming Sunday, July 14. This will be the first ever time that the Fire visit BC Place and the only meeting between the two sides this season.
Sunday's match between Whitecaps FC and Chicago Fire kicks off at 4 p.m. PT and is live on Sportsnet Pacific and Bell mobile devices. 'Caps fans can also listen to Sunday night's match live on TEAM 1410 radio and teamradio.ca, starting with the pre-game show at 2 p.m. PT. TEAM 1410 will also have a two-hour post-game show, which will begin following the match. Tim Hortons is the official sponsor of Sunday's match.
More than halfway through the MLS campaign, Vancouver remain one of only two undefeated teams at home along with FC Dallas. Through nine MLS matches, the 'Caps are 6W-0L-3D in front of their fans, and 7W-0L-4D in all competitions including the two Amway Canadian Championship contests.
The 'Caps are coming off of a historic 2-0 win over Seattle Sounders FC last Saturday. The victory was the Blue and White's first win over a Cascadia opponent since joining MLS. A brilliant fourth minute goal from Kenny Miller and a late tally from substitute Darren Mattocks provided the scoring, while a brilliant performance in net by Brad Knighton preserved the shutout. Knighton's pivotal role earned him MLS Player of the Week – the third time in the past four weeks that a Whitecaps FC player has received the honour.
Last Match: Whitecaps FC 2-0 Sounders FC
Heading into this pivotal weekend, the 'Caps are currently fifth in the tightly contested Western Conference, with 29 points from 18 games played. With the four teams above them, (Real Salt Lake, FC Dallas, Los Angeles Galaxy and Portland Timbers) all playing each other this weekend, Vancouver could move into second place with a win over Chicago and some favourable results from the other fixtures (Real Salt Lake plays FC Dallas, Portland hosts LA Galaxy).
Martin Rennie's side will miss Simon Thomas, Russell Teibert, and Carlyle Mitchell all due to international duty, as all three players are with their respective national teams at the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The home side will also continue to miss captain Jay DeMerit (ruptured Achilles tendon) and winger Omar Salgado (foot fracture) indefinitely. Centre back Andy O'Brien (hamstring strain) and winger Erik Hurtado (left foot sprain) are both listed as questionable for Sunday.
Last match: Chicago Fire 1-2 Sporting Kansas City
Heading into their tilt with the 'Caps, Chicago have lost just once in their past 10 MLS matches. However, that one loss came in their last match – a 2-1 home defeat versus Sporting Kansas City.
Striker Mike Magee bagged the lone goal for Chicago against SKC – his fifth in six MLS matches since joining the Fire from LA Galaxy, and his eighth in nine matches including three goals in three Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup affairs. The in-form attacker has scored in all but one match since returning home to Chicago. In fact, the loss to SKC was the team's first since Magee came on board.
On Wednesday night, the Fire also hosted a friendly against Mexican powerhouse Club América, falling 3-2 at Toyota Park.
Chicago are currently in eighth place in the Eastern Conference, with 21 points from 17 matches; five points behind Houston Dynamo for an elusive playoff spot.
The Fire will be without the services of Logan Pause (SI dysfunction) and Steven Kinney (quad strain). Frank Klopas will also be missing his first choice goalkeeper, Sean Johnson, who is representing the United States at the Gold Cup.
July 14, 2012: Chicago Fire 1-0 Whitecaps FC
In the three previous games played between the 'Caps and the Fire in MLS, Vancouver hold a record of 1W-1L-1D. The last match between the two clubs will have been exactly one year ago to the day, on July 14, 2012. The 'Caps were narrowly defeated 1-0 in the Windy City on a free kick goal from former Mexican international Pavel Pardo.
Last season's loss in Chicago was the first time Vancouver had been defeated by the Fire after the 'Caps earned a 0-0 draw on the road and 4-2 victory at Empire Stadium in 2011.
A pair of Whitecaps FC players have set personal milestones versus the Fire: Gershon Koffie recorded his first ever MLS goal during Whitecaps FC's 4-2 home win over Chicago Fire on August 7, 2011, and Brad Knighton earned the first shutout of his MLS career in a 1-0 victory over Chicago on September 11, 2010, when he was a member of Philadelphia Union.
Sunday's match will be a battle between two of the top goalscorers in MLS. Magee is currently tied for the league lead with 11 goals, while Camilo is just behind with 10 so far this season.
In terms of player connections, Chicago midfielder Daniel Paladini played two seasons from 2009 to 2010 under Whitecaps' head coach Martin Rennie while they were both with Carolina Railhawks and was teammates with Jun Marques Davidson, Tommy Heinemann, Brad Rusin and Matt Watson. Additionally, Knighton played with Fire midfielders Jeff Larentowicz and Wells Thompson at New England Revolution, while Heinemann spent last season with Dilly Duka and Shaun Francis at Columbus Crew.
Next up for the boys after facing the Fire is a trip to Southern California to face the Robbie Keane led Los Angeles Galaxy at the StubHub Center on Saturday, July 20. That match is scheduled for a 7:30 p.m. kickoff.


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Now that you have your Translator account, you should have the additional links, one of which is to Translation Workflow. It would make a lot of sense for you to make a link from there to a subpage for this content. The aim is to make such information consistently and easily available for newcomers to the Translation group. Thank.


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Okay, so I was thinking of some weird musical instrument ideas, and then I had a brilliant idea.
You know Hotline, right? That little client/server warez/mp3 thing? Well, the creator of it, Adam Hinkley, a really cool guy who got royally screwed by Hotline Communications, created this paint program that lets more than one person paint at the same time on the same canvas. Well, I was thinking, why the hell didn't anyone create something like that for music? I don't mean like a high-quality voice chat thing, though. I mean something where you plug a MIDI-compatible instrument into your computer and jam.
This has all sorts of other uses, too, including the very humorous idea of using a combination of this and text-to-speech to give an internet concert...
I don't know, I just had the idea and had to tell someone. If anyone here could make it or could send the idea to someone who could, that's cool. If you all think it's laughable and are laughing at the laughability, that's cool too. Whatever.
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As a symbol of rebirth, longevity, and protection in ancient China, this authentic Asian design shines in Crystal Silver Shade. It bears a special seal engraved on the crystal base, describing the Zodiac sign and giving its name in Traditional Chinese and English. Decoration object. Not a toy. Not suitable for children under 15.


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Amy Winehouse: Countdown to Relapse
Covenant House Vancouver, our youth workers always say: Relapse is a part of recovery. And so relapse is often not approached as a setback but rather as an expected stumble along the road to overcoming addiction. I always hear our staff saying to our kids "remember your clean time", which means that staying sober, even if only for a week or a month, was actually achieved, proving that they can absolutely do it. That it is possible. Especially when those around you rally in support.
Amy Winehouse however is surrounded by f*cking idiots. And these idiots happen to be her husband's parents…
Over the objections of her own family, Amy has checked out of rehab after only five days, claiming that after "a couple of decent meals" treatment would no longer be required. And then that useless prick she married picked her up and took her to the pub – the pub! – with his parents in tow who claimed they were "supervising" the party.
Well no wonder Blake is a loser. And if you ask me, loving a loser is Amy's biggest problem. I know you know the type. Some of us have been unlucky enough to have loved that type too: abusive but not violent, will never amount to anything, he prefers her insecure and vulnerable because he knows it's the only way he'll keep her.
I wonder if she'll live long enough to figure that out.


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The number of people killed in Baltimore this year has exceeded the count from all of 2011 after a violent Wednesday that saw at least one stabbed and three shot — including two near the same corner where a 16-year-old was killed a day earlier.
Less than 24 hours had passed since the fatal shooting of teenager Daniel Pearson on Greenmount Avenue when two more men were hit by gunfire in almost the same spot. Another man was killed in Northwest Baltimore, and a boy was taken to the hospital after being stabbed on his way to a school.
"Public safety is the top priority of this administration," Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said early in the day. "This year's homicide numbers are tragic, simply tragic. I remain committed to reducing homicides and cracking down on violent offenders. We cannot allow senseless gun violence in our neighborhoods."
Tyrone Brown, Pearson's stepfather, and his despondent fiancee sat in the dark Wednesday, shades drawn. Again, gunfire rang out just blocks from the home.
"It's happening again," he said. "There's been another shooting."
Last year was the first time since the 1970s that Baltimore recorded fewer than 200 homicides, a symbolic feat that punctuated consecutive years of steep declines. That will not happen in 2011. This year's total is now 198.
Shootings have been coming in bunches lately, with two triple-shootings and four double-shootings since last week, an unusual occurrence in Baltimore's recent history.
Pearson, the eighth juvenile killed this year in the city, was known around the neighborhood as "Funny," his mother said, because of his good nature, though he had also had his share of brushes with law enforcement. He was expecting to become a father at the end of December.
The mayor urged residents to look at overall crime statistics, not just murders, and said that gun crime, violent crime and property crime are all down when compared with last year. Murders involving guns are up 20 percent compared with the same time last year, but overall gun violence — including aggravated assaults and robberies with guns — is down 9 percent, the most recent statistics show.
Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts, who visited Tuesday night's crime scene on Greenmount, was back again Wednesday afternoon, at the intersection of Boone and East 27th streets. He said police believe the recent shootings are in part fueled by a gang turf war.
He has previously said that investigators believe that the Black Guerrilla Family, a prison-based gang that has been branching out on the streets, is trying to expand its turf, sparking clashes. He said the area around Boone Street was known Bloods gang territory.
"The Black Guerrilla Family is trying to take over gang, drug-related territories," Batts said, standing under a sign warning that the area is under surveillance "24 hours a day."
"In order to operate, you have to pay them, and the BGF and Bloods now have a feud that's taking place."
He said a shooting Tuesday afternoon on Orleans Street was also believed to be connected, though he did not have information on Pearson's killing. A 33-year-old man and a 20-year-old man were also wounded in that incident.
Police officials in recent years rarely provide motives for crimes, even when detectives are confidently pursuing leads. But Batts said it was "important to provide the tapestry, that most of these are not random."
After moving additional resources into patrol last week, police now say they are emptying out their administrative bureau — those working desk jobs — to increase strength on the street and increase foot patrols.
As police surveyed the crime scene at Boone Street, another shooting was reported in Northwest Baltimore, with a man shot multiple times in the head and chest.
Baltimore police spokesman Vernon Davis said Thursday that officers had received a call reporting a shooting in the 2800 block of Boarman Ave. shortly after 2:30 p.m Wednesday. He said police found Adonay Garcia-Wilson, 22, and transported him to Sinai Hospital. He was pronounced dead at 3:26 p.m.
Davis said police had no suspects but were continuing to investigate.
And in West Baltimore, an Edmondson High School senior was stabbed in his left side on his way to school, according to system officials.
In a statement, the school system said the boy arrived at the building, where school administrators called police and medics about 8:30 a.m. He was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, accompanied by his mother. City police are investigating, officials said, because the incident may have spilled over from a neighborhood spat.
Back near Greenmount Avenue, Pearson's parents struggled to come to grips with his death from the night before. It wasn't lost on them that there would be one less setting at the Thanksgiving table.
"The holidays will never be the same," Brown said. "Ain't nothing to be thankful for."
Daniel had been in trouble, and was on juvenile probation. He was enrolled in an alternative school and trying to do better, they say.
"He went to school every day like he was supposed to," said Johnson, his mother. "He reported to his probation officer like he was supposed to. He was doing good there, at school."
She wondered if things could've been different. She'd been in contact with her son moments before he was killed. She was waiting at a bus stop just a few blocks up the street at the time, and spoke to him on the phone about catching the same bus. Don't get on the 48, she told him. Wait for the second one to come.
He told her he understood, but when the bus pulled up to where he was supposed to be, he didn't get on, Johnson said.
Brown, who is engaged to Johnson and considered Daniel his stepson, was inside a relative's home and heard the gunfire.
"I thought it was an accident," Brown recalled. "And then I happened to see all the [police] lights. I went to see what was going on, and somebody asked me was that my stepson. I was like, 'I don't know, is it?'"
He called Johnson, who was riding the bus. People around the neighborhood were saying Funny had been shot.
Was it true, she asked? He couldn't be sure. But she had to get off the bus, he said. She got off near Old Town Mall, and he picked her up.
They're frustrated that no one may come forward with information. Fewer than half of the city's homicides are solved each year.
"If somebody know something, say something," Brown said. "Don't worry about saying you a snitch. Put yourself in our shoes. It's too many guns on the street. Don't y'all think it's enough killing? Come on. It's time to rise up."
Rawlings-Blake sought to emphasize the human toll of city violence.
"While many of us talk about numbers, we can't forget that behind these numbers, that's somebody's son," she said. "That's somebody's daughter, father or mother, uncle or friend. The young man who was No. 197, his life was no less valuable that No. 9 or No. 7 or No. 97. I don't believe that there's an acceptable level of homicide. In order for us to become a safer city, everyone has to have that belief. We all have to work on it together."
Baltimore Sun reporters Luke Broadwater and Erica L. Green contributed to this article.
The number of people killed in Baltimore this year has exceeded the count from all of 2011 after a violent Wednesday that saw at least one stabbed and three shot — including two near the same corner where a 16-year-old was killed a day earlier.


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Ride In 2/8: Eggs, Veal, Camels
Seemed like a kind of competitive morning morning. A woman on a flowery blue Canondale saw fit to shoal me from the right on East Capitol and then later on Penn, we were both based by some dude wearing a balaclava and riding a fixie. It all felt very racy (not that kind of racy) and I sort of got swept up in it, by passing the Canondale woman and riding behind the fixie guy, but then he turned a little later and Canondale caught back up and passed me again at some light. At 14th, we both watched the man tasked with keeping the intersection clear, scream at the driver of a big ivory Buick who didn't quite seem to understand that he was blocking said intersection by with big ivory Buick. Before 15th and Penn, she moved out of the bike lane to make the right turn to cut back in front of me, whereas I stuck in the bike lane, only to find that a large white truck had parked on 15th street cycletrack between E and Treasury. She went a different way through Lafayette Square, so that ended that. I guess you do what you do to keep yourself amused.
Fairly uneventful up 15th from H to R, except for a Kyle sighting and realizing that the Jamis I always see wasn't there. Maybe someone nicked it. I hope that the thief didn't use my surveillance to decide to make his move. I'd feel ever so guilty.
Got swarmed at R and 16th by four other bicyclists, each of whom independently or perhaps all collectively, decided that passing me and moving into the crosswalk before the light turned green would be a good idea. Here's my thing about crosswalks: treat them like you would want a driver to treat a bike lane, meaning don't stop in them. In the world remade for cars, it's the one lonely refuge for people to walk across the street legally and to block one with your bicycle is really rude and inconsiderate. Being six feet closer to the light isn't going to make the difference between your getting to work on time or not. If you think you're going to jaywheel (or the completely legal Parisian equivalent, which I ENVY SO MUCH because of its utter sensibleness), stop before the crosswalk, make sure no one is crossing and then ride to the other side.
Anyway, after being swarmed and shoaled, I found myself riding in the bike lane for a bit before deciding to move out into the travel lane, fall in behind a white van, and then pass two of the cyclists who just passed me. One of the cyclists in front, the one on a CaBi, moved left to turn down New Hampshire, maybe, and the other stuck in the bike lane, even though a driver in front of us threw up his right turn signal. I went back into the travel lane, the left guy made his left turn and the guy in the bike lane stopped for the turning car. And that's my story of how I was passed by four people and then passed those four people. There is no moral to the story. It's just something that happened and happens to almost everyone almost every day.
I feel like I've run out of ways to talk of my ride from Dupont Circle to my office. It's probably the most mundane part of my trip because it's kind of a dead space for pedestrian and bicyclist activity. Not that I can't tell you about all the fun stuff happening at some embassies, like, um, when sometimes someone pulls into the Turkish embassy and the gate opens or maybe about the ongoing renovations at the South African Embassy or how every once in a while I see some blonde women get off one the N buses and walk into the Finnish embassy. I mean, all that stuff happens, but even by the standards of this blog, it's not exactly noteworthy. I did see another bicyclist climbing the hill today. She was riding a mountain-y type bike and her frame had on it a Brazilian flag sticker. And coming down the hill I saw some of the same usuals that I've seen lately, including the guy who rides in the left travel lane on Mass and the woman who seems like she's overbundled with simply too much coat for the amount of body she has. I don't know if there's a name for this.
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Pretty much every vehicle ignores red lights in Paris, so bikes aren't really getting special treatment. I am convinced that prior to my departure from Paris I'm going to get mowed down by a pea-coated French woman on a mixte, which is a pretty good way to go if you ask me.ReplyDelete
I took some of the CaBi data and threw together a basic heatmap of ridership during 2011. I never got around to the actual analytics part of it - jdantos has taken care of that. Here's the link: http://goo.gl/pQQaUReplyDelete
What you're seeing is a year's worth of data: Each row is one day and each column is one minute. The darker blue cells indicate the highest number of rides started, grey cells mean no rides started. I overlayed the sunrise/sunset times for reference.
As far as pre-dawn morning commuting goes, "If its dark, I'll take the bus" is pretty much spot on - except very late summer and early fall (right around when DST switches over).
But CaBi riders apparently have no problem riding after sunset year-round.
I've also been meaning to do another visualization comparing hourly temperatures to rides started...but haven't found the time. One of these days.
On a side note, I can't wait till #fridaycoffeeclub.
- AnonymousFebruary 08, 2012 9:07 PM
Wait. Eggs, Veal, Camels?ReplyDelete
Also, @Bilsko that's pretty cool.


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Road to Mac OS X Leopard: Dock 1.6The Dock in Mac OS X is unique in comparison to the user interface of Windows, most Linux distros that emulate the Windows desktop, and previous versions of the Classic Mac OS. Apple has significantly updated the Dock in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Here's a look at what's new and different in our 3-page report.
This report goes to great lengths to follow the origins, history, and maturity of the Dock. For those readers with limited time or who are only interested in what's due in Leopard, you can skip to page 2 of this report.
The Dock's Origins
On the Mac, the Dock first appeared to the public in the beta preview of Mac OS X released in late 2000, which debuted the new Aqua interface. However, the ideas behind the Dock weren't all new. In the 1987, Apple's English dopplegänger, Acorn Computers, shipped its Mac-like RISCOS with a desktop operating system featuring an Iconbar. The strip on the lower edge of the screen displayed icons for drives and running applications. By the early 90s, the RISCOS Iconbar displayed icons for RAM disks, printers, folders, applications and system utilities.
The NeXT Dock
In 1988, Steve Jobs' NeXT began demonstrating the new desktop of NeXTSTEP, which included the new Dock. NeXT's Dock was a series of block icons, each of which could animate and update. Icons in the Dock could represent running applications or apps ready to be launched; the icons of running apps were tagged with an ellipsis to differentiate them (as is the Digital Librarian icon, fourth from the top, in the desktop image below). That made the NeXT Dock more of an application launcher.
Since icons couldn't be resized, the Dock consumed a lot of screen real estate. NeXT also provided no way to drop other placeholders into the Dock, such as files, folders, or open windows. Files and folders could be instead be dropped into the Shelf, a reserved space in File Viewer windows (analogous to Mac Finder windows).
In the screen shot below, the top four icons in the File Viewer window are sitting in the Shelf, while icons of the Dock are positioned along the right and bottom of the screen. NeXT also moved the desktop Mac trash icon into a Dock icon called the Recycler. The dynamic nature of the icons can be seen in the live time and date displayed by the preferences icon (second from top) and the Mail badge indicating new messages (third from top).
Newton's Dock
In the early 90s, Apple introduced the MessagePad running Newton OS, which similarly used a "buttonbar" as a launcher. The Newton's buttonbar demonstrated the significant resources Apple invested in reducing the amount of clicking required to pull up common tasks on the Newton. Other items could be dragged into buttonbar from a collection of extras, similar to the row of action icons on the iPhone's More/Edit/Configure screen within its iPod section.
Dock Substitutes in the Classic Mac OS
The Newton's button bar never made it into the classic Mac OS, then called System 7. Instead, Apple rounded up various shareware tools and incorporated them into the Mac desktop throughout the 90s. Oddly, there was never any way to tell at a glance which apps were actively running on the classic Mac, an obvious need solved by NeXT's Dock years before the Mac OS was even routinely running multiple applications at once.
Instead, the classic Mac OS used an icon in the top right to indicate the currently running app, which would drop down a menu of other running applications. This Application Menu also served as a way to select between running apps. It was not an app launcher however.
Apple added various systems to the Mac OS to provide functions later handled by the Mac OS X Dock:
- In System 7, the Control Panel desk accessory for setting system settings such as screen resolution and audio volume was exposed as the Control Strip (above, lower left), a Dock-like selection of small icons that floated on top of other windows. It did not launch or display applications, and was really intended only for use on PowerBooks.
- Later, Tabbed Windows (above, lower right) allowed users to collapse an open window into a labeled tab on the edge of the screen; selecting the tab would pop it up back to full size.
- Windowshade allowed open windows to be alternatively minimized in place, rolling the window's contents up into their titlebar
- A separate Launcher in Mac OS 8 (below) provided an editable listing of programs grouped by sections.
Windows: No Dock For You
While Microsoft's Windows borrowed heavily from both the Mac and from NeXT, it did not incorporate anything like the NeXT Dock. Instead, it designated a horizontal TaskBar, which creates a rectangular bay for each open window. The obvious flaw of dividing up the horizontal Start Menu bar into rectangles for each open window is the finite space involved. The perpetually cramped TaskBar doesn't make it clear and obvious which apps are running if more than a few are. Individual windows of a single application are also difficult to represent using wide horizontal bars when more than a half dozen windows are open. There is also no way to scale the tiny icons used in the TaskBar.
In 2001, Windows XP tried to address the problem of cramped boxes in the TaskBar —the inherent result of squeezing multiple, wide bars into a narrow strip —by grouping together the windows of each app into grouped TaskBar items. Grouped items reveal detail when popped-up into a menu of nearly impossible to read window titles. This only further obscured the individual windows of an app, similar to how the classic Mac OS Application Menu made it clumsy to view the currently running applications.
The Windows TaskBar also does nothing to launch applications; Microsoft added a QuickLaunch bar to do that, which sits between the Start Menu and the TaskBar. After launching an app, QuickLaunch does nothing; it doesn't indicate that the app is actually running, and doesn't relate to that application's windows in any way. Oddly, this most useful interface convention of Windows was downplayed in Windows XP Professional, which turns the QuickLaunch off by default; it requires editing the Start Menu settings to restore.
Microsoft may have backpedaled on QuickLaunch to direct attention toward the fancier Start Menu of Windows XP, which requires navigating deeply nestled submenus to launch a application; it was actually presented as a feature. The main problem with QuickLaunch is that it competes with the TaskBar for the minimal space available; having a few QuickLaunch icons means you have even less room to display TaskBar bays for the currently open windows. Users who only ever open three windows won't see the problem, so XP Home leaves the QuickLaunch bar on. However, anyone who uses their PC to do more than browse the web will find the TaskBar nearly worthless even before cramping it up with a selection of QuickLaunch icons.
This year's Windows Vista did nothing to fix the absurd Start Menu bar aside from making the Start Menu a round logo ball that conveys even less information about how it might be used, and making the bar itself glossy. The scrunched TaskBar bays can now popup a live preview of the Window they relate to (above), but this requires mousing over each TaskBar bay. Imagine if live previews were just sitting there, live, to preview at a glance without any mousing around? That would take you back half a decade to Mac OS X's Dock.
On page 2: Mac OS X: Return of the Dock; The New Dock in Mac OS X Leopard; and Stacks Take Back the Dock


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To the people of Morenci and surrounding area:
The buildings in downtown Morenci are for the most part a hundred years old or more. They have survived and are obviously still useful.
The Morenci Area Hospital at half that age is due to be torn down and be replaced by a new building for the "current needs."
The existing structure was built with money given by Ray Herrick of Tecumseh Products, plus many monetary gifts by companies and individuals of the area: Lyons, Fayette, Waldron and of course, Morenci. Mr. Herrick insisted that it be built of Indiana limestone, an expensive but superior building material.
My question is: Why tear down a building of this quality when there are other uses that it could serve? Apartments, offices, museum etc.
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A baby armadillo was born on February 19 at the Minnesota Zoo. The birth of the little charmer pictured above is the third of its kind in the US this year.
Three-banded armadillos live in Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. Habitat destruction has threatened their survival.
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Bigfoot, Block Challenge Banks of Bristol at July 20 Event
In 2012 legendary Monster Truck Bigfoot made its debut at Bristol Motor Speedway, but as the iconic machine smashes back onto the track for the 2013 Thompson Metal Monster Truck Madness presented by Beef O Brady's, he'll share the equally iconic facility with a whole new set of first-time contenders - the stars of Global Rallycross (GRC).
Offering fans a one-of-a-kind experience, the Saturday, July 20 doubleheader pairs the venue's first-ever GRC event with its popular Monster Truck Madness spectacular, ensuring guests are treated to a thrilling spectacle as acclaimed Rally drivers such as Ken Block and famed heavyweights like Bigfoot showcase their skills.
With five X Games medals in his trophy case and the title of Gymkhana video series stunt driver on his resume, Hoonigan Racing Division driver Ken Block is guaranteed to thrill spectators during the evening's first event as he wheels his No. 43 Ford Fiesta around the corners of the custom-designed BMS course and soars over its towering jumps.
Once Block and his GRC competitors crown a champion, Bigfoot and his peers return to wreak havoc on the high banks during the Speedway's fifth annual Monster Truck Madness event. Starting with a racing segment, trucks speed around the track in two qualifying rounds before vying for the title in a final elimination. After a victor is declared, drivers climb back into their trucks prepared to catch big air and crush any obstacle in their path during the fan-favorite freestyle showcase - a showcase Bigfoot's driver Dan Runte promises will amaze.
"Just the opportunity to be at Bristol, I'll run the truck as hard as I possibly can," said the 10-time champion. "The magnitude of the facility make you want to run wide open. It's an honor to do a show at a place like this."
"I would recommend Bristol to any fan that hasn't been to a monster truck show," he said. "The way the facility is built with seating so close to the action, it guarantees they'll see what these trucks can really do."
Guests can also get up-close-and-personal with Block, Runte and their machines at the Monster Truck Pit Party/Global Rallycross Paddock Party scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m. as well as by joining the post-event party after on-track action concludes.
Tickets to experience this one-of-a-kind show are just $25 for adults and $5 for kids 10 and under, and if purchased by July 15th BMS is offering $5 off the adult ticket price so click here or call (423)-BRISTOL and reserve your seats today.


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I closed up the 2008 Thread so that we can start a new tradition!
Share what you got for Christmas 2009 in here!
Did you get what you wished for?!
Did you get a fruitcake?!
Share Pictures if you've got them! We all wanna know!
What Did You Get For Christmas 2009?


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A wide range of events are planned to celebrate the day.
Forty years ago, on July 4, 1973, hundreds of Blanding residents gathered for an iconic "City Photo" on the corner of Main Street and 100 South. The photo has been the focus of much attention in the subsequent years.
Exactly forty years later, on July 4 at 10 a.m., photographer Ken Hochfeld will take an updated photo at the same location. Everyone is invited to be a part of the community photo.
The July 4 parade is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m., but may be delayed a little by the photography.
The parade features a wide variety of floats and entrants. One of the highlights will certainly be the large number of motorcycles that will honor Jason Workman, a Blanding native who was killed in Afghanistan in 2011 as a member of Navy Seal Team Six.
The Dinosaur Museum in Blanding will mark its biggest event since its grand opening on July 4, 1995 as two new exhibit halls will be opened.
"FEATHERED DINOSAURS" features six life-size ten foot long Deinonychus raptors, and a giant feathered Therizinosaurus, which stands 14 feet tall with a 20 foot wingspan and shows the most current of new scientific discoveries.
"DINOSAURS IN THE MOVIES" features colorful original posters and memorabilia with examples from the entire history of movie dinosaurs. From the early "Ghost of Slumber Mountain" to recent films like "Jurassic Park" many of the posters are large and oversized.
Steve and Sylvia Czerkas, owners of the museum, bring their traveling "feathered dinosaurs" exhibit to its permanent home in Blanding. The feathered dinosaur exhibit has traveled to museums around the world.
The ribbon will be cut to the new exhibits after the July 4 parade. Mayor Toni Turk is scheduled to cut the ribbon.
The hall will be dedicated to M. Dale Slade, the museum's Co-Founder.
The new exhibit hall was made possible by grants from the Federal USDA Rural Development, the Utah State Office of Economic Development, San Juan County Tourism and Economic Development, The City of Blanding, The Blanding City Legacy Fund, and individual donations.
Other events on Independence Day are listed on the spadea page of this issue of the San Juan Record. There are a variety of athletic events and competitions. Displays feature local arts and crafts and a number of groups sponsor fund raising events, including the popular food and craft booths at Centennial Park.
Dinner, a concert and a fireworks show close the evening on July 4.
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With so much riding on efforts to improve schools, it's a telling commentary that it takes a front-page story in The New York Times to finally get the attention of the public about the precarious state of teacher morale in this country.
Teachers don't choose a career in the classroom for fame, fortune, or power. The overwhelming majority teaches for the inner satisfaction of helping young people. That's why, for veteran teachers in particular, the vitriol hurled their way has blindsided them. Their younger colleagues have handled the vituperation far better, because they have never known anything else.
It's hard to understand what reformers expect to accomplish by their incessant attacks on what seems like all teachers in general. These reformers claim that only by holding the feet of teachers to the coals can educational quality improve. It's this argument that led to the publication in the Los Angeles Times last August of teacher ratings in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest.
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Yet few other large organizations aimed at improving performance participate in this kind of large-scale naming and shaming, because they realize how counterproductive it is. The military, for example, has some of the strictest standards for promotion. But the details of determining who should be moved up are done behind closed doors. The top brass has long known how important it is to maintain morale among the rank and file.
Large private-sector corporations know, too, that exposing and vilifying their employees will do little to improve performance. Even companies who pride themselves on transparent, broadly shared performance reviews share them internally, not with an unscrupulous, angry national public.
Teachers, however, are denied the same kind of treatment. Their performance, which is disproportionately judged by standardized test scores of their students, is broadcast far and wide. They are pilloried on all fronts as the chief culprits behind failing schools even though decades of research has shown that out-of-school factors are responsible for two-thirds of the variation in student achievement, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
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The result is reflected in the turnover rate. Close to 50 percent of teachers nationwide quit the field within the first five years. The cost of replacing these teachers is conservatively estimated to be $2.2 billion a year, according to the Alliance for Excellent Education.
California, which has the nation's largest population of public-school teachers, serves as a case in point. With more than 300,000 teachers serving more than 6 million students, the results of teacher exit surveys can't be ignored.
The main reasons teachers cite for leaving the profession are lack of support for the work they do and bureaucratic impediments, according to a study on teacher retention from the Center for Teacher Quality at California State University. The poor teaching and learning conditions exiting teachers described included lack of planning time, professional development, supplies and books, and support from the administration. They also spoke of excessive paperwork, classroom interruptions, and other restrictions that prevented them from doing their jobs.
Those who remain in teaching not surprisingly complain of burnout. When teachers feel unappreciated for the work they do, the constant bombardment in the form of OpEds and letters to the editor in newspapers eventually takes a toll.
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Sadly, this state of disrespect, turnover, and burnout is the antithesis of the situation of teachers in other countries. In Finland, Singapore, and South Korea, which are widely considered to have some of the best school systems in the world, teachers are held in the highest regard. That may be in part because these countries recruit their teachers from the top third of their college classes. But it's also largely the result of the culture, which reveres learning for its own sake.
The US has always been ambivalent about teachers. Some Americans recall with appreciation the ones who played an important role in their lives. Others, however, focus on the long vacations and supposedly short teaching day.
Yet there's another factor at play that accounts for the negative attitude. Until the mid-1970s, the overall high grades given to teachers were the result of limited openings in other fields for talented women and minorities. When they were finally able to find jobs elsewhere, teaching was faced with new competitive pressures.
Many talented professionals left for more lucrative, high-paying jobs. Teaching has never fully recovered.
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One chief factor that has exacerbated the flight of talent is the unrelenting demand of the accountability movement. Teachers are required to combat systemic school and community problems, address mass under-performance by students, and bring student test scores up by huge percentages in the span of a year – often with little support. Faced with growing numbers of students from impoverished, chaotic backgrounds, teachers are forced to perform triage almost on a daily basis. Little in their education and training has prepared them to play parent, psychologist, and police.
The result has been lack of time for teachers to teach the subject matter that they have been licensed to teach. Therefore, when the media focuses only on student test scores as evidence of teacher effectiveness, taxpayers are presented with a distorted picture. It's a perfect prescription for demoralization.
It's time to realize that teachers are doing the best they can in the face of unprecedented demands. A pat on the back – and a little practical support – at this time can go a long way to help them and ultimately our students.
Walt Gardner writes the Reality Check blog at Education Week. He taught for 28 years in the Los Angeles Unified School District and was a lecturer in the UCLA Graduate School of Education.


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New sugarcane plantations are threatening wildlife near the Amazonian rainforest. Help protect the jaguar, puma, and maned wolf by tracking their use of the land.
The Araguaia River corridor connects the highly fragmented and threatened central Brazilian savannah (Cerrado) and the vast wilderness of the Amazonian rainforest. At the headwaters of the river lies Emas National Park, where jaguars, pumas, maned wolves, tapirs, and giant anteaters roam. You're needed to help find out how these species are using the land around the park. This is especially important now, as the rapid expansion of the area planted with sugarcane for biofuel production may act as a barrier to these animals as they move through the corridor.
You'll map the movements of selected animals and analyze the data to determine what factors influence them. You'll help install camera traps around the sugarcane plantations to record the species that use these areas. Working with trained scat-detector dogs, you'll look for feces of the species of interest.
In past years, volunteers have observed a wide range of animals, including rheas, pampas deer, macaws, giant anteaters, tapirs, armadillos, crab-eating foxes, ocelots, maned wolves, and even a puma. Volunteer-monitored camera traps and scat collection have provided a great deal of critical information that supports researchers in the effort to influence land use and wildlife management in the area.
The Araguaia River is one of the best remaining options for providing a protected wildlife corridor to preserve Brazilian biodiversity.
A fragmented agricultural landscape presents a threat to the biodiversity of Brazilian wildlife.
Fragmentation of habitats and isolation of small populations of animals threaten biodiversity. Small populations face greater risks of extinction, as they suffer from reduced genetic diversity, and inbreeding makes them less adaptable to changing conditions and more vulnerable to illnesses.
Habitat corridors provide individual animals with the opportunity to move between habitat patches, thus supporting genetic exchange and biodiversity conservation. Animals of the Cerrado are suffering from the effects of habitat fragmentation and population isolation. The Araguaia River, connecting the fragmented Cerrado and the Amazonian rainforest, is one of the best remaining options for providing a protected wildlife corridor to preserve Brazilian biodiversity.
Monitor animals like these peccaries.
The challenge of the Araguaia River Biodiversity Corridor Program (ARBC) is to preserve the course of the Araguaia River and promote it as a biodiversity corridor. This project is investigating the movements of jaguars, pumas, maned wolves, tapirs, giant anteaters, giant armadillos, white-lipped peccaries, and rheas across the agricultural landscape around Emas National Park. This is particularly important with the rapid expansion of sugarcane cultivation in the Cerrado, which is further fragmenting the land and possibly creating barriers to wildlife movement.
Emas National Park is part of the Pantanal's Biosphere Reserve and a UNESCO Human Heritage Reserve. Situated in central Brazil, the park is one of the country's largest Cerrado national parks and probably the last to protect grassland jaguars, pumas, maned wolves, bush dogs, and hoary foxes. Here, you'll have the unforgettable experience of living among rheas, macaws, pampas deer, giant armadillos, peccaries, giant anteaters, foxes, tapirs, jaguars, and other unique - but often elusive - creatures.
Near the park are the springs of the Araguaia River, one of the largest rivers of central Brazil. The relatively well-preserved habitats along its course make it an important and extensive corridor for central Brazil's biodiversity.
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During the first field day, you'll learn about the activities in which you'll participate and the objectives and expected results of these activities. Then you'll be ready to:
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Join Earthwatch researchers in Brazil to monitor the movement of jaguars.
Earthwatch scientist Dr. Leandro Silveira researches the process of determining the habitat needs of iconic Brazilian jaguars, pumas, and maned wolves.
You'll stay near Emas National Park in a comfortable house with hot showers, flush toilets, electricity, a full kitchen, and laundry.
A talented local cook will prepare your meals. You'll get to enjoy a variety of tropical fruits and vegetables, and typical Brazilian meals such as rice and beans with beef, chicken, or fish. In the field you'll usually take a packed lunch with sandwiches, pastries, fruit, and snacks.
Stay in a house near Emas National Park.
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During breakfast at Jaguar Conservation Fund (JCF) in Serrado, Brazil, the boss, Dr. Leandro informed us that White Collar Peccaries were captured in a pen-trap made by us, consisting of Linda, Alison, Virginia, Fiona, Dave Nardine and myself. Excitedly Dr. Ana,Dr. Natalia and us went to the site. Leandro, managed to catch an adult with a sturdy butterfly net like object and Ana expertly put a radio collar round it.
We the volunteers had our jobs cut out: to repair and construct new peccary pens, to check and replace camera traps, collect scat with help from Toupa, the scat dog and within JCF, feed the resident animals, clean their pens, type all animal sighting information on computer.
We were lucky to see many exotic animals such as Armadillo, Tapir, Capibara, maned wolf, crab eating fox and birds, such as Toko Toucan, Blue yellow Macaw, Rhea, Caracara, burrowing owl. Most exciting was sighting of a giant Anteater. We had lost all hope of seeing one when on the last day while returning from our trip inside Emas National Park we caught sight of one. Leandro stopped the jeep and ran around it so that the animal came closer to us. It was an adorable soft toy!
The Earthwatch experience was remarkable. I made new friends, learnt new things (managing a GPRS) , saw exotic animals in their natural habitat. Apart from directly helping Jaguars, JCF is creating awareness among the landowners about conservation of the Serrado grassland. I feel proud to be an Earthwatcher
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You don't have to be physically pushed around to be a victim of bullying—you could be sitting safely in front of your computer at home. Cyberbullying is when the Internet is used to harass, embarrass, or threaten someone. It's become an issue in the last few years, and many parents still aren't even aware that it goes on. Police forces are still figuring out how to deal with cyberbullying, and how to find the real identities of bullies who hide behind Internet identities.
Cyberbullying is just as painful as any other bullying. It may not leave any physical scars, but it can be emotionally damaging. There is no way to escape cyberbullying—the threat can now come into you own bedroom.
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Last year, a teenage boy in Canada became a victim of cyberbullying in front of an audience of millions. A Star Wars fan, the heavyset teen made a home movie of himself using a golf ball retriever as a light saber. He made his own sound effects for the video, which he intended to keep private.
Some classmates got their hands on the video and posted it on an online file-sharing system, where people swap information, music, and videos. Huge numbers of people downloaded the video. Other versions were made that digitally placed the boy's figure into films like The Matrix and The Lord of the Rings. A number of television programs played the video, and the teenager had to deal with the embarrassment of having his homemade movie shared with an audience around the world.
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- The PMC USM FPGA Development Package can be used with the P599 USM main PMC. It includes a sample design integrating the standard Wishbone and the Altera Avalon bus.
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