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But the airline, in trying to cut costs during bankruptcy, hired outside maintenance companies this summer for the first time to modify its cabins. And airline documents show that those workers did not understand how to properly install the seats.
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The airline has acknowledged that it is ultimately responsible for the quality of work done on its planes, whether by its workers or outside contractors. "All U.S. airlines are required to monitor maintenance work at the vendor work site, regardless of where the contractors are located," said Andrea Huguely, a spokeswoman for the airline. "We have employees on site at any facility that performs maintenance on our aircraft."
The union argued that American's switch from its own unionized mechanics was putting passengers at risk. "You can't have just anyone doing that maintenance," said Larry Pike, president of the Transportation Workers Union Local 567, which represents the airline's mechanics. "You can't pull over in the sky and fix something if you hear something go thump."Continue reading the main story
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But since October, it has offered an evolving set of explanations for the seat problem, blaming first the clamp used to hold the seats in place and later an accumulation of soda and dirt in the seat tracks that prevented the clamp from locking properly. It now says that a part "did not work the way it was designed to work," though the airline said in an advisory to mechanics that a contributing factor was the "incorrect installation of the seat to the seat track."
Ms. Huguely defended the use of contract workers as necessary if the airline was to remain competitive. "Our competitors have forged a path of having their maintenance completed where it is most cost-effective," she said. "We must similarly adapt."
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Although the four flights with loose seats made news in October, the airline already knew that one of its contractors had had trouble installing seats. That contractor, Certified Aviation Services of San Diego, was hired to work on Boeing 767s. It told American on Aug. 28 that it might have installed seats incorrectly.
Ms. Huguely said, "The issue with the first aircraft was discovered as soon as C.A.S. began work on the second aircraft." The first plane was grounded in Montevideo, Uruguay, until it could be fixed, according to a document outlining the internal investigation that American conducted afterward.
In its review, American wrote that workers "misinterpreted" the aircraft maintenance manual. "The entire C.A.S. vendor crew was coached and counseled" on Sept. 4 about the importance of asking for help when there is doubt about how to accomplish a task, the report said.
But the same issue came up again on Sept. 26, when a seat came loose on an American 757 on a flight from Dallas to Vail, Colo. In that case, the work had been done by a second contractor, Timco of Greensboro, N.C. In Vail, Kip Blakely, vice president of industry and government relations at Timco, told The Greensboro News & Record, the seat was tightened and the plane flew on to Boston. "The same seat was loose again," he said. "American fixed it." It went from Boston to Miami, and the seat came loose again. According to Mr. Blakely, "That's when the pilot declared an emergency" and made an unscheduled landing at Kennedy Airport in New York.
Rollie Reaves, a union mechanic at American, said after the problem was found at Certified Aviation Services in August, maintenance supervisors should have told all workers about the issue. "They should have printed a maintenance alert and hung it in a work area," he said. But it was not until Oct. 15, he said, that mechanics were warned that seat fasteners could appear to be secure even when they were not.
Both Certified Aviation Services and Timco are well-established airplane maintenance companies, and Timco's Web site indicates that part of its business comes from installation of airplane seats. Both companies work for other airlines as well as American.
In an e-mail, Leonard Kazmerski, a vice president at Timco, said technicians in Boston "properly installed the seats on the aircraft" and that "the seats were inspected by certified technicians." Asked for further specifics, he said in an e-mail, "We are going to honor our agreement with AA and not address details about work we perform for them."
Officials at Certified Aviation did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
Some of the Boeing 757 installation work at Timco in Boston was done by students at National Aviation Academy in Bedford, Mass.
American and Timco defended the use of students to do work on airliners. "Physicians use nonmedical-degreed personnel to perform certain tasks, providing learning and development opportunities, but the doctor oversees their work," Mr. Kazmerski said.
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Tracy McGrady starring in a Chinese beer commercial in 2012 might seem super random. But in China, it's just good marketing. McGrady, who averaged a career low 16.1 minutes off the bench for the Atlanta Hawks this season, may be well past his 13 points in 33 seconds prime from decade-past. But as one part of the Immortal Holy Duo along with Allen Iverson, the two most popular post-Michael Jordan NBAers in China of all-time, he is still largely worshipped in the Middle Kingdom. Whereas AI mesmerized China with his sick handles and short-on-height, big-on-heart game, T-Mac became an icon not just because he was arguably the most talented player in the NBA for a time, but also because of his unrivaled accessibility. The most famous of Yao Ming's long line of Houston Rocket teammates, McGrady achieved legendary status among Chinese because he was on television and in print the most. During Yao's prime with Houston, the Rockets essentially became China's home team. Beat writers from Titan Sports Weekly, Basketball Pioneers and other major Chinese publications were all sent to the States to follow the team, and almost all of their games were broadcast live on CCTV-5 in the mornings for fans to watch. The reason for all of that was Yao, but because of McGrady's superb basketball ability and the national exposure it received in China, a lot of Chinese became more infatuated with the moves of the silky smooth 6-7 swingman than of their post-up 7-6 center. And like Iverson, who's throngs of obsessed fans was documented on this space last month, McGrady has is own legion of devoted followers. More times than I can count, a black basketball-playing friend of mine has been told that he looks like Maidi — McGrady — by kids as young as seven or eight to women as old as 80. He's so popular, he was even named some sort of official ambassador to China by the Chinese government before flying over to China for what amounted to be a traveling rock tour that was sold out on every stop. Simply, everybody knows T-Mac in China. Ask someone who their favorite Houston Rocket of all-time is, and chances are you'll hear Tracy McGrady. So no, T-Mac selling beer at age 33 is not totally random. But, these dudes stealing his beer? That's not only random, that's just messed up. And it's even more messed up considering T-Mac was nice enough to bring a variety pack, as evidenced by the one clear bottle that one guy holds up as Tracy hangs from the raised rim. Luckily, McGrady still has the knees to land comfortably from the drop and the mellowness to still offer these tools his brew. "If you're a brother, than drink with me!" he says at the end. If it was me, I probably just would have called them all sha bi, kicked their ball away and taken my beer away to some people who have some respect. Maybe that's why I'm not an ambassador to China… Meanwhile, in related past-their-prime NBA players selling beer in China, Shaquille O'Neal has one for Harbin Beer that's been playing on CCTV throughout the NBA playoffs. Beijing Cream has a poll asking which one is better — my vote goes to McGrady because I actually think a deaf mute would do way worse than what I felt was relatively passable Mandarin (key word: relative). As for other NBA players, they already have done way worse.
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Gracemere is located nine kilometres west of Rockhampton, the Beef Capital of Australia. The town is home to the largest saleyards in the Southern Hemisphere and is the heart of the Capricorn cattle industry.
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The Archer Brothers, early pioneers of Rockhampton, opened up the Gracemere region in April 1853 and established their home at the settlement of Gracemere. The area was named in honour of Tow Archer's wife, Grace.
Paradise Lagoons is a privately owned cattle property and is the location for Australia's richest campdraft. The property is located 16 kilometres from Rockhampton (near Gracemere), and the nation's best campdrafters flock to compete here annually.
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- Yield:serves 4
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:45 minutes
- 1/2 cup fine cracker crumbs
- 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans
- 3 large lemons
- 1 rounded tablespoon chopped fresh sage
- black pepper
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 large eggs
- salt
- 4 medium catfish fillets (about 6-ounces each)
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
Adjust the oven rack to the upper middle position and preheat oven to 450°F. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine the cracker crumbs and chopped pecans. Zest one of the lemons and add it in, along with the fresh sage. Add a healthy helping of freshly ground black pepper. Stir well. On a large plate, add the flour and spread it out evenly. In another large bowl, crack in the eggs and add the juice of 1/2 lemon. Whisk until just combined. Butter a rimmed cookie sheet.
Dry the fish fillets, and then season each side with salt. Take one fillet and roll it in the flour to coat evenly, and then shake off any excess. Dip the fillet into the egg mixture, and then hold it over the bowl to let the excess egg drip back in. Then add the fillet to the cracker and pecan mixture, and roll into evenly coated. Transfer fillet to the buttered pan. Repeat process with remaining fillets. When done coating all of them, set them aside for 15 minutes before cooking.
Brush the fish fillets with the melted butter, and then transfer the sheet to the upper oven rack. Cook until the fish is cooked and the top is browned, 10 to 15 minutes. Meanwhile, cut the remaining lemons into wedges.
When done, serve fish immediately with the lemon wedges. Broccoli goes especially well as a side.
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I realize this DRMShock business is occupying an awful lot of my attention lately, and is thus occupying an awful lot of my blog. The whole thing is an injustice in my view, so, I've been "fighting the power" (by complaining ineffectually) and "sticking it to The Man" (by calling The Man lots of names) in accordance with the great traditions of impotent geek uprisings.
But why am I so worked up over this? I've come to realize that there are four ingredients to the "perfect" game for me:
- I love games which are "survival horror". I enjoy games where you're intended to fear the bad guys instead of mow through them.
- I love first-person games.
- I love Roleplaying games. (In the sense that I love games where you "level-up" or become more powerful as you progress.)
- I love non-linear games, where you can move freely and re-visit previous locations, and where changes made to the world are persistent.
If we look at this like a Venn Diagram:
My affinity for certain games is related to how many of these four elements they contain. Note the sweet spot in the center, the spot which contains all four, is the perfect game for me. It's like my own personal genre. In the history of videogames, exactly three games have hit that spot: System Shock, System Shock 2, and BioShock. The latter I'll never play because of the asinine and invasive DRM.
This may help explain why my ire has risen above normal levels and attained some higher state of continual, transcendental rage.
Which means I'm likely to keep writing about it.
Also, the next person to tell me to run out and buy a $400 XBox so I can play this game gets a brick to the head. People who suggest this are missing the point by several nautical miles. Economics aside, I can't in good conscience give any money to 2kGames. Period. This is about principals. No I won't pirate the game. No I won't buy it and then download a crack. I'm going to go without, because right and wrong are more important than videogames, even once-every-seven-years treasures like BioShock.
Quakecon 2011 Keynote Annotated
An interesting but technically dense talk about gaming technology. I translate it for the non-coders.
Marvel's Civil War
Team Cap or Team Iron Man? More importantly, what basis would you use for making that decision?
Playstation 3
What was the problem with the Playstation 3 hardware and why did Sony build it that way?
Fixing Match 3
For one of the most popular casual games in existence, Match 3 is actually really broken. Until one developer fixed it.
Good Robot Dev Blog
An ongoing series where I work on making a 2D action game from scratch.


text: On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Chris Sideroff wrote: > On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 16:48, Joe Landman wrote: > > First questions first: > > > > Why do you think you need a faster network, and what aspect of fast do > > you think you need? Low latency? High bandwidth? > > To tell you the truth I can't answer that with more than, "I have a > gut feeling". I am in the process of profiling the performance of our > current cluster with our programs. Any suggestions ??? Analyze the applications, preferrably at the code level. If they exchange a few, big messages then they are likely bandwidth limited. If they exchange many, small messages then they are likely latency limited. If you don't have access to the code, then run a tool such as xmlsysd/wulfstat that lets you watch the (ether)net on a whole cluster at once as it runs your applications and take note on e.g. packet counts per second per node, net data throughput per second per node. Joe's question is dead on the money. Until you do this, you cannot be sure that your application is choking due to a network that is "slow" in any dimension. Even if it IS slow due the network, it may not be slow in a sense that can be substantively fixed by changing networks, if you're already using gigE. gigE's latency isn't great, but its bandwidth should be at least comparable (within a factor of 1-3) of the faster networks. Sometimes, also, the problem is the network but not at the physical layer; rather in the way the code itself is organized and uses the network. If the code is YOUR code, then a trip through e.g. Ian Foster's book on parallel programming and algorithms (there are several others with good reputations) is indicated before investing a LOT of money in a new network. If the code is somebody else's code, then the list is a great place to get actual feedback on what the essential bottlenecks are and to learn of actual clusters that are successful designs. It sounds (below) like you have a bit of both -- good luck finding Fluent users or a Fluent-savvy consultant on the list (both seem pretty likely). Before departing, I'd suggest working with vendors to arrange a loaner network and prototyping it with your programs before finally buying it. These networks are a substantial investment, as the companies that sell them well know. The companies are quite competitive and want your business. They are usually pretty willing to let their hardware "speak for itself" so you aren't investing $1-2K/node only to learn afterwards that it doesn't speed your code up at all. That is an outcome that benefits nobody, really, not even the network vendor (as you'll doubtless later poison their reputation in this very competitive and reputation-sensitive marketplace). rgb > > > Then... > > > > What codes are you running? Across how many CPUS? Have you done a > > performance analysis on your system to observe "slow" runs in progress, > > and are you convinced that the network is the issue? > > We run exclusively computation fluid dynamics on it. One program is > Fluent the other is an in-house turbo-machinery code. My experiences so > far have led me to believe Fluent is much more sensitive to the > network's performance than the in-house program. Thus my inquiry into a > higher performance network. > > > We have done lots of tuning bits for customers where the issues wound up > > being something else than what they had thought. It is worth at least > > looking into for your code/problems, and identifying the bottleneck (if > > you haven't already done so). > > Do you have more information on this 'tuning for customers'. I am > interested in your results. Again any suggestions on how to go about > this are welcomed. > > Thanks, Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Lester shuts door on the Mariners
Red Sox cruise to fourth straight win
For 3 2/3 innings, Jon Lester was perfect.
Then, after Ichiro Suzuki reached on an infield hit with two out in the fourth, Lester focused on going the distance. When Suzuki foiled Lester's bid for his third career complete-game shutout, scoring Seattle's only run with one out in the ninth, the Red Sox lefthander settled for the next best thing: A complete-game win.
"A win's a win, regardless if you go five innings or if you go nine,'' said Lester, who went the distance in Monday night's 6-1 victory over the Mariners at Fenway Park, allowing one run on eight hits with no walks while ringing up six strikeouts. Lester threw 119 pitches, 73 strikes.
"Obviously, you want to go nine,'' he said. "Every time you go out there that's your goal: to stand out there and watch everyone run in and give them high fives, and you feel like all the work you put in for that week was for a reason.''
Turning in his finest pitching performance of the season, one befitting a staff ace, Lester helped the Red Sox (16-19) extend their home winning streak to four games. He did so after recording his eighth career complete game, and second of the season after going eight innings in a 3-1 loss at Toronto April 11.
"He had a mission to accomplish, and he did it,'' said Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine, the beneficiary of four consecutive strong outings by his starting pitchers, leaving the beleaguered Josh Beckett to follow suit in the culmination of this two-game set vs. the Mariners Tuesday at 4:05 p.m.
"I think when you watch the other guys, as a staff, we're pretty prideful in what we try to do,'' Lester said. "When you start seeing guys succeed and making pitches and getting out of jams, and the offense comes in and picks our guys up if we give up a run and scores another run, that confidence, it just keeps building.
"And you feel like if I buy into what we're doing the next few pitches, everything will take care of itself,'' Lester said. "I think that's been our mind-set the last four nights.''
An air of anticipation seemed to grow among the Fenway Park crowd of 37,334 when Lester took the mound and worked with cold-blooded efficiency in this 2-hour 25-minute affair, retiring the first 11 batters he faced by working with catcher Kelly Shoppach to establish his fastball on both sides of the plate.
"Shop did a great job tonight of really establishing both sides of the plate for me,'' Lester said. "Getting me in a rhythm, feeling comfortable. I got some quick outs and got the guys back in the dugout and once again they swung the bats really well.
"It was big for us and big for the starting staff these last four games. It's good to see.''
Lester held the Mariners scoreless through 8 1/3 innings and allowed just one base runner through five frames - that coming in the fourth when Suzuki hit an infield single that ricocheted off Lester's glove toward the third-base side of the mound.
Third baseman Will Middlebrooks was unable to get to the ball in time to make a play at first.
"I mean, I think it's everybody's goal to go out there and throw a no-hitter, a perfect game,'' said Lester, who didn't allow a ball out of the infield until a fly out to right for the second out in the fifth inning. "I just ended up giving up a base hit a little later than normal.
"It's obviously in the back of your mind,'' Lester said about the possibility of throwing a perfect game or no-hitter. "But I don't think it really becomes significant until the sixth, seventh inning, when you're cutting those outs down and you might have a chance.''
The offense provided enough support for Lester by scoring two runs in the first inning.
Dustin Pedroia, who had his 14-game hitting streak snapped after going 0 for 3, drew a lead-off walk from lefthander Jason Vargas (4-3, 3.28 ERA) to spark the one-out rally.
David Ortiz and Adrian Gonzalez followed with back-to-back RBI doubles to left, giving the Sox a 2-0 lead.
The Sox came back in the fourth and tagged Vargas for three more runs on three hits, including homers by left fielder Daniel Nava and Shoppach.
Nava, who reached on all four plate appearances in Sunday's 12-1 romp of the Indians by going 2 for 2 with a pair of doubles and getting hit by two pitches, hit a two-run shot that just made it into the Green Monster seats, extending Boston's lead to 4-0.
It snapped a streak of 171 at-bats between his memorable grand slam in his first major league at-bat (on his first pitch, no less) June 12, 2010.
"I didn't think it was gone,'' Nava said. "Knowing how big the wall is and seeing some other balls that guys have hit, I didn't think it compared to a [Will] Middlebrooks bomb, or the one Shop hit later. I thought it was going to go off the wall, but I was surprised that it barely squeaked over.
"But I'll take it. I'm not going to complain.''
After Marlon Byrd flied out to center, Shoppach took Vargas deep to left, clearing the wall with a mammoth solo homer that made it 5-0. "Occassionally, I'll bump into 'em,'' Shoppach said.
The three insurance runs the Sox scored in the fourth provided Lester with more than enough support to throw four more scoreless innings, allowing just five hits the rest of the way.
"I wasn't coming out of that game unless we scored 10,'' Lester said. "For me, it was my game, and Bobby was going to have to fight me for the ball if he came to the end of the dugout.''
When Lester emerged from the ninth to a rousing ovation, it came as a relief for the bullpen. "When he went through six innings with 65 pitches, everyone was pretty excited,'' said Matt Albers. "We always stay ready, but it's always a great thing to have happen.''
Certainly, Lester was due some noogies, or even a Gatorade bath, from his relievers, all of whom were treated to a rare night off.
"There were no noogies or Gatorade baths, or nothing like that,'' Lester said. "Just a lot of high fives. It was nice to have that.''
After Suzuki spoiled Lester's bid for the shutout when he reached on a leadoff single to left, went to third with one out on Justin Smoak's double to left and scored on Kyle Seager's ground out to second, Lester punctuated his night in the only way he knew how.
He struck out Alex Liddi to end the game.
"We're trying to build a foundation of confidence in each other as a team,'' Valentine said. "And when Jon is out there pitching like that we feel good about ourselves.''
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. --- Three runs in both the eighth and ninth innings proved to be too much for Tennessee Tech to overcome Saturday as it dropped a 10-6 loss to SIU Edwardsville.
TTU seemed to have things going its way after a trio of chaotic middle innings that saw the Golden Eagles leading the Cougars 6-4. After a scoreless seventh however, the SIUE bats came alive yet again as they poured in three runs in both the eighth and ninth innings.
In the eighth, the Cougars rallied for three runs off TTU relief pitcher Cullen Park, using four hits and a walk to go up 7-6. Mitch Matecki and Devin Caldwell each posted RBI-doubles, while Zach Hawkins drove in the third run of the inning with an RBI-single.
The Cougars continued to pour it on in the ninth as Travis Becherer knocked a three-run shot to right field of Tech reliever Nick Price to extend SIUE's lead to 10-6. The Golden Eagles managed to load the bases in the bottom of the inning but SIUE relief pitcher Dustin Quattrocchi held on for his eighth save of the season.
The first three innings saw little action, as TTU starter Matthew Shepherd and SIUE starter Josh Hoguet looked solid. The only blip on the radar came in the bottom of the second as Zephan Guyear drove in Michael Morris with an RBI-single to give Tech the early 1-0 lead.
TTU and SIUE matched each other with one run a piece in both the fourth and fifth innings, which included a solo-shot from Caldwell in the fifth as Tech held a one-run lead at 3-2.
In the top of the sixth, Matt Highland led off the inning with a solo-shot to right center to knot up the game at three. After hitting the next batter, the Golden Eagles made a call to the bullpen and used three different pitchers to get out of the inning, but not before SIUE took a 4-3 lead on a wild pitch.
Austin Wulf led off the bottom of the sixth as he was hit by a pitch, and was moved over to second after James Abraham's sacrifice bunt. Zach Stephens then singled in Wulf to knot up the score at four, but the Golden Eagles were able to get two more runs behind a two-run single from Michael Morris to take the lead at 6-4.
Brian Lorenz (3-0) earned the win as he threw one shutout inning in relief, while Quattrichi picked up his eighth save of the season as he threw two scoreless innings while striking out three. Hoguet got the no decision as he gave up three runs, two earned, in four innings pitched.
Park (2-5) took the loss as he allowed three runs in 2.2 innings. Shepherd got the no-decision as he surrendered four runs in five innings.
TTU and SIUE wrap up their three-game series Sunday at 1 p.m.


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The Bills think WR Donald Jones is growing into a bigger role.
Dolphins offensive coordinator Mike Sherman says this week's game against the Bills will test his team's character.
Said Patriots DT Vince Wilfork, "We can always get better and do things a little differently. There are some scheme and fundamental things we'd like to clean up, but we got away with a 'W' to be 6-3. You've got to be proud of that."
At least the Jets locker room is in better shape than last season.
After beating the Raiders, Ravens coach Jim Harbaugh had some praise for defensive coordinator Dean Pees.
Bengals coaches were happy with the effort of their defense on Sunday.
Browns WR Greg Little credits a meeting with former NBA player Alonzo Mourning for helping him become more focused.
The Steelers are going to have to experience life without QB Ben Roethlisberger.
The Titans will have to guard against a letdown with the Jaguars following the Bears on the schedule.
Injuries will force the healthy remaining Colts defenders to step up their games.
Jaguars DE George Selvie has taken advantage of his opportunity.
Using WR Kenny Britt more effectively is on the Titans' to-do list.
The Broncos are concerned about RB Willis McGahee's fumbles.
Sam Mellinger of the Kansas City Star calls the Chiefs getting a group celebration penalty for a touchdown called back by a different penalty the "Chiefs-est" thing of the season.
Raiders coach Dennis Allen thinks the team's struggles stem from a combination of effort, scheme and talent.
The Chargers expect to be without DT Aubrayo Franklin for a while.
Bruce Carter and Sean Lee appear to have the Cowboys set for a long while at inside linebacker.
The Giants said injuries were only part of the reason why RB Ahmad Bradshaw saw less playing time last weekend.
Jeff McLane of the Philadelphia Inquirer doesn't think the Eagles using RB LeSean McCoy more would have changed the outcome of their loss to the Cowboys.
Redskins WR Santana Moss says he's feeling well after recuperating from a concussion.
LB Nick Roach played a strong game for the Bears on Sunday night.
Lions coach Jim Schwartz praised the play of DT Ndamukong Suh against the Vikings.
Packers WR Greg Jennings wants to return faster than his doctors will allow.
Is Vikings RB Adrian Peterson better now than he was when he hurt his knee?
Falcons coaches don't score well on this report card from Sunday.
Another firing in Carolina could foreshadow the end for coach Ron Rivera.
Said Saints T Jermon Bushrod, "The way that we started out this season, for us to be in this position right now is hats off to our guys for not packing it in, for continuing to take this thing one day at a time, one week at a time, and continue to grind."
The Buccaneers could point to their big advantage in turnover ratio as part of the reason for their winning streak.
There will be tweaks made to the Cardinals coming out of the bye week.
Coach Jeff Fisher defended his clock management late in regulation in the Rams' loss.
49ers coach Jim Harbaugh spoke to a group of high school coaches on Monday.
Coach Pete Carroll would like to see better efforts on the road from the Seahawks.


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The 2007 Rhino Census indicates a sharp decline in rhino population
- Date: June 05, 2007
Only 31 rhinoceros were counted during a 10-day survey, from May 17-27, 2007 conducted in Bardia National Park, according to the national authority, the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation in Nepal. The previous rhino census, carried out in 2000 in this park found a total of 67 rhinos - 37 in the Geruwa River floodplain, and 30 in the Babai River floodplain.
Since 1986, 83 rhinos have been translocated to Bardia National Park from Chitwan to create a new viable population. Five rhinos are believed to have migrated to Katerniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary in India from the national park through the Khata forest corridor.
The acute situation of the conflict in the past few years greatly impacted conservation in the area when the 15 existing security posts were decreased to just 6 to cover an area of 240,000 acres. "The Babai River floodplain, main habitat of rhinos, saw no national park officials neither security staff for a period of three years. During this time a huge number of wild animals were poached," states a press release from the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation. Several additional posts have been reinstated since the restoration of peace in April 2006.
The rhino census was conducted by 12 researchers on individual elephants walking parallel to each other in a single direction on a pre-determined route to collect data along transects. The distance between each two elephants was about 330 to 650 feet and this helped calculate the area surveyed or swept in the rhino habitat. Each rhino observed was individually numbered and a merge figure was developed by combining age, sex, horn and body characteristics. The basis to identify individual animals included shape and size of horn, folds present in the neck and rump, special body marks (cuts, scars, skin lobes) and other special characteristics present on both flanks of the body. Special attention was given to differentiate sex among rhinoceros observed during census to estimate sex ratio. This census was supported by WWF Nepal and National Trust for Nature Conservation.
"The results of the 2007 Rhino Census in Bardia National Park will not discourage our conservation efforts," says Anil Manandhar, Country Representative of WWF Nepal. "If anything, we should all redouble our efforts to save this endangered species from the threats of illegal wildlife trade and loss of habitat."
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A look at the new 'Supercharged Superbeast' from the stables of General Motors, the 2009 Corvette ZR1
After years of rumors the Corvette ZR1 has finally arrived. As anticipated, the Mega-Vette's LS9 engine employs a positive-displacement blower and integral charge cooler. While the powerplant has yet to complete SAE dyno testing, GM is confident the final rating will be at least 620 hp with around 600 lb-ft of torque. Which makes this the most powerful engine ever offered in a factory Corvette, or in any American production car for that matter.
At 6.2 liters, the blower motor uses a smaller, 103.25mm bore diameter than the 7.0 liter LS7 (104.8mm) in order to stiffen the cylinder case to handle the additional combustion pressure. An Eaton R2300 2.3L supercharger with four-lobe, 160-degree twisted rotors runs at 10.5 psi, while the dual-pass charge cooler resides in the intake plenum. The aluminum block is standard LS3/Gen IV architecture, but with forged steel main caps, while the cylinder heads are new to the LS9, rotocast in A356T6 aluminum. The alternator and A/C compressor are driven by one serpentine belt, while a wider 11-rib belt on the outboard side drives the power steering, water pump, and supercharger. Pankl titanium connecting rods and forged 9.1:1 pistons with poly-coated skirts top off the list of trick pieces in Chevy's latest screamer.
The very limited-production powerplant will be virtually hand-assembled in GM's high-tech engine facility in Wixom, Michigan, just northwest of Detroit. When the new Corvette ZR1 equipped with the LS9 engine (six-speed manual transmission only, automatic unavailable) appears this coming summer, it will become the first supercharged production Corvette in history. The sticker price will be around $100,000.


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February 21, 2013 09:00 ET
- Seventy-two per cent of Canadian RRSP holders say their portfolio includes mutual funds - Mutual funds comprise almost a third of total RRSP holdings - Canadians cite professional management and ability to diversify as top reasons for choosing mutual funds - Investors currently favour income-generating mutual funds
- Seventy-two per cent of Canadian RRSP holders say their portfolio includes mutual funds
- Mutual funds comprise almost a third of total RRSP holdings
- Canadians cite professional management and ability to diversify as top reasons for choosing mutual funds
- Investors currently favour income-generating mutual funds
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Feb. 21, 2013) - Despite the wide range of investment options currently available to Canadians, a study issued today by BMO Financial Group has found that mutual funds remain the core investment choice for Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs). According to the study, 72 per cent of Canadians with RRSPs report that they hold mutual funds within their RRSP, and that mutual funds account for almost a third (31 per cent) of all holdings held in RRSPs.
In addition to mutual funds, the study revealed that Canadians are building their RRSPs with a variety of other investments including Guaranteed Investment Certificates (GICs) (21 per cent), cash (20 per cent), stocks (11 per cent), bonds (nine per cent) and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) (four per cent).
"Mutual funds remain a popular investment option for the average Canadian investor because, among other benefits, they offer immediate diversification," said Serge Pépin, Vice President, Investment Strategy, BMO Asset Management Inc. "To ensure investors choose the funds that best suit their needs, an investment professional can not only help navigate the wide array of mutual fund options available, but also provide financial planning and risk tolerance assessment advice."
According to the study, Canadians invest in mutual funds for several reasons, including:
What types of mutual funds do Canadians prefer?
When asked about what type of mutual fund in which they would like to invest (whether inside or out of an RRSP), 81 per cent reported they would favour income-generating funds.
"As Canadian Boomers begin to retire in greater numbers, it's natural that many would be looking to generate income from their investments, including mutual funds," said Mr. Pépin. He noted that BMO Investments Inc. offers a number of income-generating options in its mutual fund lineup.
The second choice for the type of mutual funds in which Canadians would like to invest are those that gradually become more conservative as the investor approaches his/her life goals (76 per cent). To address this need, BMO Investments Inc. offers BMO LifeStage Class Funds. These six funds shift their asset mix from an emphasis on equity funds to an emphasis on fixed income and cash equivalent funds as they approach different target end dates. The funds are intended to provide growth in the early stages and become progressively more conservative over time as they near their respective target end date.
For more information on BMO mutual funds, please visit www.bmo.com/mutualfunds.
Get the latest BMO press releases via Twitter by following @BMOmedia
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Publication Date:1969
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Berg, H.C., 1969, Preliminary geologic map of Annette Island, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report: Technical Data Unit classification number 351, 1 sheet.
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I'm quite busy these past few months as I try to finish my thesis writing, however, a recent event urged me to blog about this to warn others.
As you've learned in my earlier post, my father almost fell as a scam victim. I reckon he came close to being one again this time.
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Joe Maddon quickly admits the situation he inherited with the Chicago Cubs was less difficult than when he took over a struggling Tampa Bay Rays franchise in 2006.
But some of the policies and decisions that Maddon made with the Rays have been applied to a harmonious Cubs team because Maddon has let veterans police the younger players.
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WASHINGTON—Comptroller of the Currency John C. Dugan said today that the OCC is committed to a process of Bank Secrecy Act and Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) supervision and enforcement that is not only effective, but also measured and fair.
"The post–9/11 world is profoundly different in many ways from what it used to be, and that is certainly true in the BSA area," Comptroller Dugan said in a speech before a money laundering conference sponsored jointly by the American Bankers Association and the American Bar Association.
"Whether we like it or not, the traditional concerns of BSA, that, disrupting the money flow of the drug trade and other illicit activity, have been joined with concerns about combating the financing of terrorism," he said.
Mr. Dugan said that neither banks nor regulators could afford to adopt a casual approach to BSA compliance and offered a four-step approach for banks to meet their BSA/AML responsibilities:
Mr. Dugan said that the OCC has embarked on a comprehensive review of its supervision to better understand where weaknesses existed, and how to improve them. Although the review is still underway, he described three initiatives that the OCC has already undertaken.
First, the OCC has developed methods for enhanced risk assessment of a bank's products, customers, and geographies. Second, the OCC is applying the new uniform examination procedures in all examinations. Third, the OCC has adopted improved processes to identify and correct deficiencies and weaknesses and to initiate enforcement actions when appropriate.
Mr. Dugan said that the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing "is a marathon, not a sprint, and there is no finish line." Bankers and regulators share in a common goal of better BSA/AML supervision and compliance and both are committed to work together to achieve that goal, he added.
"There will be more challenges along the way, and the road may be rocky at times," Mr. Dugan concluded. "But I believe that, through our collective efforts, we will achieve and sustain a level of BSA/AML compliance and supervision that better ensures our nation's financial institutions are not used as vehicles for money laundering, terrorist financing, or other illicit activity. And I believe that the banking industry, and the nation, will be better for it."
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CAM or Not?
January 28, 2013 - Sylvia Heldreth
If a licensed Community Association Manager helped an association by supervising the lien filing process on a delinquent owner, he or she would be engaged in the unauthorized practice of law. The legislature and the attorneys explain that filing liens is not as simple as it seems and that the things that need to be considered or that could go wrong really require the process to be supervised by a licensed attorney. We've even heard it said that individuals who represent themselves have a "fool for a client."
Should a CAM be able to handle this type of legal process?
What do you think?
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Feb-25-13 7:20 PM
No thoughts or comments at all? And I thought when women got into the mainstream of politics, etc that things were going to "change"? Yeah, right.
Can none of those who pull your strings assist you in answering my lies and misstatements; not even one big-time politician, lawyer or even an 'honorable' judge?! How about one of the judges who hold 'Judge Judy' procedings? At best you are all a bunch of clowns with a bit of cowardice thrown in.
Feb-19-13 9:20 PM
There is some credibility to your "fool for a client" statement. I got 'burnt' once but my foolishness was not in law it was in my arrogance and big yap.
On the other hand, since then I have found it much more rewarding to do my own legal work as lawyers are by 'law'; "officers of the court". That means they CANNOT pursue matters other than what they are TOLD they can pursue. I have no such restriction. Any thoughts?
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Why You'll Love Yoga
- Your body weight provides all the resistance you need to strengthen and sculpt from head to toe.
- It's the perfect way to cross-train because it stretches tight muscles, increases range of motion, enhances balance, and improves alignment.
- It's good for your body and mind: Yoga boosts energy and calms you as it teaches awareness, focus, and patience.
How Yoga Works
The ideal yoga workout incorporates six types of poses, says Roger Cole, PhD, a psychophysiologist and yoga instructor. "Together, they improve alignment, strength, flexibility, and relaxation." Standing poses build strength and stamina. Balancing poses improve balance, of course, but also promote focus. Forward bends stretch back and hamstring muscles; back bends improve breathing. Twists aid in digestion and tone abs. And inversions increase circulation, leaving you calm yet energized. We've designed a program with one pose from each group, plus modifications to make it easier for newcomers. Do each exercise once in the order given.
1. Warrior II (standing pose)
Strengthens: Butt and thighs; stretches hips
- Stand with legs 3 to 4 feet apart, turning right foot out 90 degrees and left foot in slightly.
- Bring your hands to your hips and relax your shoulders, then extend arms out to the sides, palms down.
- Bend right knee 90 degrees, keeping knee over ankle; gaze out over right hand. Stay for 1 minute.
- Switch sides and repeat.
Make it easier: Leave your hands on your hips and don't bend your knee as deeply; instead, focus on lengthening the spine.
2. Tree (balancing pose)
Stretches and strengthens: Butt, thighs, calves, ankles, chest, and shoulders; improves balance
- Stand with arms at sides.
- Shift weight onto left leg and place sole of right foot inside left thigh, keeping hips facing forward.
- Once balanced, bring hands in front of you in prayer position, palms together.
- On an inhalation, extend arms over shoulders, palms separated and facing each another. Stay for 30 seconds.
- Lower and repeat on opposite side.
Make it easier: Bring your right foot to the inside of your left ankle, keeping your toes on the floor for balance. As you get stronger and develop better balance, move your foot to the inside of your left calf.
3. Downward Dog (partial inversion)
Stretches: Hamstrings and calves, strengthens shoulders
- Begin on all fours; press spread fingers firmly into the floor.
- Bring your knees off floor as you lift tailbone toward ceiling.
- Gradually straighten legs by shifting thighs back, pressing heels toward the floor.
- Press shoulders down and keep head between arms. Stay for 1 minute.
Make it easier: If you have tight hamstrings, keep your knees slightly bent or pedal your feet by alternating the heels toward the floor.
4. Wide-Legged Forward Fold (forward bend)
Strengthens: Thighs; stretches hamstrings and calves
- a. Stand with feet 3 feet apart, hands on hips.
- Inhale, then exhale and hinge forward from hips until chest is parallel to floor, hands on floor directly under shoulders.
- b. Exhale, then bend elbows and deepen stretch by lowering head toward floor, palms pressing down and upper arms parallel to the floor. Hold for 1 minute.
Make it easier: Support your head on a yoga block.
Tip: Keep your jaw soft and your shoulders pressed away from your ears, even when you're working hard in a pose. When you're relaxed, your muscles will release, which increases flexibility.
5. Bridge Pose (back bend)
Stretches: Chest and thighs; extends spine
- Lie on floor with knees bent and directly over heels.
- Place arms at sides, palms down. Exhale, then press feet into floor as you lift hips.
- Clasp hands under lower back and press arms down, lifting hips until thighs are parallel to floor, bringing chest toward chin. Hold for 1 minute.
Make it easier: Place a stack of pillows underneath your tailbone.
6. Seated Spinal Twist (twist)
Stretches: Shoulders, hips, and back; increases circulation; tones abdomen; strengthens obliques
- Sit on the floor with your legs extended.
- Cross right foot over outside of left thigh; bend left knee. Keep right knee pointed toward ceiling.
- Place left elbow to the outside of right knee and right hand on the floor behind you.
- Twist right as far as you can, moving from your abdomen; keep both sides of your butt on the floor. Stay for 1 minute
- Switch sides and repeat.
Make it easier: Keep bottom leg straight and place both hands on raised knee. If your lower back rounds forward, sit on a folded blanket.
Find Your Yoga Style
"Yoga's physical, emotional, and mental benefits are inextricably linked," says Roger Cole, PhD. "Stretches help to release pent-up tensions, while strength-building poses boost body confidence," he says. "Plus, holding a pose for a minute or more improves your focus and gives you the opportunity for spiritual insight." So while you may not walk out of a yoga class with the wisdom of a swami, at least you'll be more in tune with yourself.
Find Your Yoga Style
Ashtanga or Iyengar? Hatha or Hot? With a little knowledge, it's easy to determine the practice that's right for you.
Best for: Beginners
Although it's the umbrella term for all physical yoga practices, it is often used as a name for beginners' classes that include basic poses, breath work, and meditation.
Try this: Yoga Zone's Introduction to Yoga (DVD; $14.95 at yoga.com)
Best for: Busting stress
Props such as bolsters and blankets support your body so you can totally relax.
Try this: Relax & Renew by Judith Lasater, PhD (book; $21.95 at rodmellpress.com)
Best for: Perfecting your form
This practice emphasizes precise alignment and develops strength and flexibility.
Try this: Yoga for Beginners with Patricia Walden (DVD; $15 at yoga.com)
Best for: Working up a sweat
A series of 26 poses practiced in a room heated to 105 degrees to increase flexibility.
Try this: Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class (CD; $20 at bikramyoga.com)
Best for: Raising your heart rate
This steady stream of flowing movements coordinated with the breath doesn't stop until the final resting pose.
Try this: Sun Salutations Awakening the Flow (DVD; $16.95 at soundstrue.com)
Best for: Sculpting your upper body
A standardized sequence of athletic poses that connects movements with the breath.
Try this: Ashtanga Yoga DVD Set (set of 2 DVDs; $40 at gaiam.com)
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The emergence of mega-regions, as metropolitan areas merge to form a system of cities, has demonstrably contributed to growth in the developed countries. With South Asia experiencing one of the highest urbanization rates, connecting cities presents opportunity to mobilize people, goods and services, and develop supply chains over larger spatial areas. However, this also implies unraveling overlapping commuting patterns, economic linkages, social networks, multiple jurisdictional boundaries- which add to the complexity of decision-making for policymakers and practitioners.


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If you were dropped into a unknown forest or grassland and told to start collecting plants, you would start with what you first encountered, which would be the common species. All ecological communities are dominated primarily by a few common species, with a long tail of rare species (a hollow rank abundance curve). A good rule of thumb is that 50% of the individuals belong to only 10% of the species. As different plant collectors visit a particular vegetation type, herbaria become filled with duplicates of the of these common species. The rare species are by definition harder to catch in flower and fruit, yet it is among these individuals that new or undiscovered species may be discovered. Hence personal experience with a flora will help a collector pass by common, 'known' species and more efficiently spot the new ones.
While no one doubts this role of experience, a recent paper by Bebber et al. (2012) reviewing numbers of type-specimens per collector suggests that long experience makes one disproportionately more successful at finding new species (type specimens are those plant collections associated with the descriptions of new species). The authors found that "more than half of all type specimens were collected by less than 2 per cent of collectors." This group of 'elite collectors' has been vitally important to the discovery of plant diversity, but the number of people in this demographic (herbarium-employed, expatriate, general collectors) is dwindling. A new model must emerge if we are to continue, and indeed step up, plant species discovery before it is too late. In a related article in Nature, John Whitfield (2012) quotes John Wood, an active elite collector, as saying, "It's possible that the days of the non-native plant collector are virtually at an end, and people like myself are the last examples."
During my time working in Southeast Asia, I have been repeatedly struck by the enthusiasm of young local scientists and students for getting out in the field and collecting. Surely their energy can be harnessed for discovering plants in their countries? It should be a natural switch: from expat experts to more local ones. The question is: who and how? Local professional botanists are the obvious inheritors of the 'elite' crown, and it is likely that a sizable proportion of the '2%' were not expats. In Indonesia today, elite collectors would include Mien Rifai, Ismail Rachman (Herbarium Bogoriense), and Kade Sidayasa (Wanariset, E Kal), and younger professionals on their way up including Ary Keim (Herbarium Bogoriense), Charlie Heatubun, and Krisma Lekitoo (both from Forest Research Center, Manokwari). But in a country the size of Indonesia, even experienced, well-traveled national botanists may not return to a place frequently enough to really come to know a flora—although a developed sense for where to look for new species in a new place will help them.
So I believe there's a vital role for local, non-professionals who can be trained to be very effective 'plant-spotters.' With our current work in Borneo, Teguh Triono and I are working with two groups to build local capacity for plant discovery: university biology students and park rangers. The goal is to maximize the botanical capabilities of those with little experience using technology (Webb et al. 2010), while identifying and retaining those special few with 'the eye for plants' who desire to go further and become so-called 'parataxonomists,' or plant experts working outside normal academic channels (Basset et al. 2000, Pfeiffer and Uril 2003, Basset et al., 2004).
After three years, I am pleased to apply the term parataxonomists to our field assistants, Endro and Acun. Their collecting trip to Seram was a way to further develop their skills and confidence, and also to assess the effectiveness of the model of using parataxonomists for core collecting work. Their specimens are now back in Bogor and have been dried, and our herbarium team are starting to examine them. It will be tremendously exciting if we have one or two new species.
While on the trip, Endro and Acun spread the collecting methods they had learned. Endro writes:
"The first day we surveyed the river as we usually do in Borneo. It was great to see the enthusiasm of the team. We started with a demonstration of how to collect, and since the team was learning, we did not expect to make many collections on this first day. However, if we did a good job with the training, the whole trip should be more effective.
One funny thing was when Iik (Manusela park staff) asked, "How about collecting pandans?" I described my experience from Borneo, that normally we have no problem collecting them, even their stilt roots. Then Iik pointed to a pandan nearby, and I had to laugh: the plant was huge, with many stilt roots, each 20 cm in diameter, and a total height of more than 20 m!
We got ten specimens on this first day, from lianas, trees, and pandans, quite satisfactory. Several of the trees were quite tall, but the tree climbers rose to the challenge. And the training went well, with everyone happy with their different roles. We also talked about types of plants and how we can identify them."
The training offered by Endro and Acun was so welcomed and successful that we have initiated discussions about developing a plant collecting program at the Manusela Park office. Imagine if we had experienced parataxonomists based at each national park in Indonesia, making high quality collections with DNA vouchers, taking photos, and uploading the data to networked databases. While individually none of them may ever collect as many type specimens as the elite global collectors of yesterday's botany, as a group they may still be successful at finding many new, rare species, because locally they will be 'elite parataxonomists.'
- Basset Y, Novotny V, Miller SE, and Pyle R. 2000. Quantifying biodiversity: experience with parataxonomists and digital photography in Papua New Guinea and Guyana. BioScience 50:899–908.
- Basset Y, Novotny V, Miller SE, Weiblen GD, Missa O, and Stewart AJA. 2004. Conservation and biological monitoring of tropical forests: the role of parataxonomists. Journal of Applied Ecology 41:163–174.
- Bebber DP, Carine MA, Davidse G, Harris DJ, Haston EM, Penn MG, Cafferty S, Wood JRI, Scotland RW. 2012. Big hitting collectors make massive and disproportionate contribution to the discovery of plant species. Proc. R. Soc. B, 279:2269-2274
- Pfeiffer J., Uril Y. 2003. The role of indigenous parataxonomists in botanical inventory: from Herbarium Amboinense to Herbarium Floresense. Telopea 10:61–72.
- Webb CO, Slik JWF, Triono T. 2010. Biodiversity inventory and informatics in Southeast Asia. Biodiversity and Conservation 19: 955-972.
- Whitfield J. 2012. Superstars of botany. Nature 484: 436-438.