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An SUV veered off a street in Normal Heights and plunged down a sheer embankment onto Interstate 805, where it landed on a car driven by an FBI agent, seriously injuring both motorists.
The driver of the eastbound Jeep Cherokee failed to make a turn on Adams Avenue about 9:30 a.m., sending it down the roughly 75-foot embankment alongside the freeway, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.
The tumbling SUV hit a southbound sedan before coming to rest upside down in a traffic lane, SDFRD spokesman Lee Swanson said.
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Plenty of people, for example one person I used to go the school with thought he was special for getting the red Gyarados in HG/SS...
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This one kid thought the US was 2013 years old for real. And then 6 days later he thought there was no US amendment about religious freedom when he was doing what should be known as the absolute worst attempt of all time to convert me.
This kid also said out loud that he's smart. If he's smart, then my IQ is 9001.
Yep we should ban baton pass, and weather too. Oh and Trick Room, I'm tired of having to worry about Trick Room all the time. Just ban the move Trick Room, and prankster, it's broken. Ban all status moves on prankster users, they're too cheap. Oh and ban Probopass to it's so cheap. Just ban everything except Magikarp with splash.Well, actually Blaziken isn't really Uber because some people whined about how they were getting owned by it. I mean, it doesn't stand a chance in the Uber enviroment.
this guy who works at the service station who locked the keys in the car
so the owner of the car came and saw the guy trying to unlock the drivers door and the owner opened the passanger door (the owner knew about the key) and said: hey this door is opened
and the guy said: yeah, i know im just trying to unlock this door to get the key
I consider half of my grade to be 'stupid', since, even though we've all been going to a french school for 10+ years, they still don't know how to properly use a verb tense taught in grade six. The people who think Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr are the only 'keys' to society. Not to mention the people who actually waste money on graphic tees with things like 'YOLO', 'SWAG' or 'COME AT ME, BRO!'. What else... oh yeah, my town mayor is a doorknob; he's planning on building a new city hall and a new swimming center, despite the fact we have 5+ recreational centers and a city hall already. He also wants to sell the small parks we have to third parties. He's not the only dullard, all politicians seem to be like that.
A man once said:Sincerity is punished in my job, but when we need men, we must adjust to them, and since we cannot win them but by this way, it is not the fault of those who flatter, but those who want to be flattered.
I overheard this guy rant about how Lord Of The Rings was such a ripoff of Skyrim. My inner nerd nearly tore him apart...
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People who say "Swag" despite being white.
I was writing "BRONY" on the benches at school in the waterdrops. And another brony came along and purposely rubbed it out and asked what a brony was. Despite being a brony. I'm no longer friends with her anymore.Why must all girls at my school be the fashion teen or a ************************************************** ******
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Parroting what Jb said, why were you writing on school property to begin with? Even if it can be easily rubbed out, you're technically defacing property, which if I'm not mistaken is against school rules period. And has this girl ever established herself as a brony before, or had she just not heard the word prior to it? And I think "brony" is more for the male fans than the girl fans, which I think they're called "Pega-sisters".
Anyhoo, about a week or two ago, I was approached by an audio student to do an interview, which I gladly participated in. I don't know his age, but he used "YOLO" in a sentence for... no apparent reason. (Not during the interview, but just in normal small talk.) I was tempted to go, "Oh, sorry, I remembered I have to do something, can't do the interview today," but I'm too nice a person to decline. Even then, it made me very concerned.
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1. They're called bronies for a reason. It's a combination of Bro+Pony, so technically, I don't think a girl would be a brony...but that's just minor nitpicking.
2. Being ignorant in one regard doesn't make someone the "stupidest person you ever met". So, she's never heard the word brony. It's mostly just used on the internet anyway, and I don't think most people know what bronies are in the first place.Look back over the post. It said "in the water drops".Why were you writing in school property?
So I'm assuming it's kind of like writing on the dirt or something, and nothing like ink/paint/whatever else was used.
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Cause "Swag" is a racially specific thing right? Like all words! Man, I hate when people call themselves nerds when they aren't white.......
Anywho, I met someone who legitimately thought that Chess was played exactly like checkers when I was in high school. I was pretty disappointed that he didn't at least know that they weren't the same game
Some kid I had a class with in high-school. Reeked of tobacco and booze, his grades were horrid, talked like a gangster, was constantly absent, wore his pants at his crotch (the fact that he wore a belt made it more ridiculous), and constantly broke the uniform code by wearing a hat and hoody in class. The worst part is the fact that he smoked pot as well, onetime he came to school with a high and knife in hand.
I just remembered this one moment. It was probably a brain-fart, but this one student in one of my early classes asked out-loud who Abraham Lincoln was when he was brought up in class. Even then, I was thinking to myself "Are you serious?", and she looked like she really didn't know who he was. I don't remember if she was the same age as me or a little older, but I haven't seen her in a couple of years, nor do I remember her name anymore.
I'm still dumb-founded over this to this day.
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The dedication ceremony included a tour of the facility, which features eight Dell computers, a printer, educational software, desk lamps and chairs. Mayor Angel Taveras joined GTECH executives at the ceremony.
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Following your remarks and reports, we have made some modifications on the secure trade tool so as to make the make the characters selection easier and faster.
Please test it and let us know what you think about it. We find it better and we are thinking about using this pattern in other places.
Have fun!
@bluthgeld: you should be able to do everything using the keyboard (type, use up/down arrow, type enter). Also, use the clan name to get the cards from the clan.
Fraggle: Thanks for the update on the update.
This is a bit harder then the other version of point scroll click and it seems that you can only add one card how do we add multiple cards if a bulk trade?
@patricia: select a card, pick the quantity you want, press, enter. Repeat for another card.
Yeah .Thanks got it on the clans.
Could you put similar features on Collection Pro?
@Fraggie: Thanks, that should bring me a big relief.
@ phycho - I honestly don't know, but you're level 5, and when I right-click on your name, I see Secure Trade as a valid option for you. (Mini-menu.)
Use the yellow Collection button up top, and Secure Trade should be the bottom option. However, remember that for ANY market transactions (including Secure Trade, I believe), you need to have the market unlocked, first. Check the FAQ (under the Rules) for more info.
Hope that helps!
When ever i try to use the secure trade option i get the messeage "braudir can't trade characters" what can i do?
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Jen QuraishiMay 31, 2011 7:20 PM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a video of Rep. Paul Broun (R-Georgia) talking about the TSA. According to Rep. Broun's statement on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, he saw the TSA pat-down a grandmother and a young child and let a man in "Arabian dress" sail right through. From Rep. Broun (10 minute mark in video embedded below):
"And then right behind him [small child], was a guy in Arabian dress who just walks right through. Why are we patting down grandma and kids? We need to focus on those people who want to harm us. We have to identify those people, we do that through human intelligence, we do that through trying to get into the inner circle... and then focus on those individuals, not on the general public. Unfortunately, I think the Department of Homeland Security has focused more on the general public and has been afraid of political correctness: we've got to forget political correctness. We've got to start focusing on those people who want to harm us as a nation."
I'm not sure exactly what Arabian dress is (maybe baggy pants and a vest like Aladdin's?), but I actually agree with some of the things Rep. Broun is saying. I'm with Rep. Broun on the idea that the TSA needs to stop invasive searches and scans of the general public (which miss a lot of stuff anyway) and devote resources toward identifying actual, intended terrorists and their targets. However, Rep. Broun loses me when he implies that a dude in Arabian dress isn't part of the "general public". I can't tell if Rep. Broun wants the TSA to crack down only on men in ethnic dress, or on grandmas in Arabian dress too, but at any rate, stereotyping people and treating them differently based solely on their appearance isn't just "politically incorrect": it's discrimination.
In case Rep. Broun doesn't realize it, profiling has been happening for a while now, actually: many people of Middle Eastern and South Asian descent have been erroneously suspected of terrorism, either by the TSA, pilots, flight attendants, or even fellow passengers. However, these amateur profilers fail to differentiate between a possible terrorist and, say, an economics professor at California State University. If Rep. Broun needs more examples, I'm sure the ACLU would be happy to provide them.
Kiera ButlerMay 31, 2011 6:31 PM
There's been much freaking out about a World Health Organization announcement (PDF) about the link between mobile phone use and cancer: The group now considers radiation from cell phones a possible carcinogen. Sounds scary, but what does it actually mean?
Over at BoingBoing, there's a good post that explains why the WHO news isn't really news at all. It doesn't represent any new scientific findings; rather it basically tells us what we've known for a while: that while very limited evidence suggests there might be a connection between some brain tumors and radiation, there isn't enough to say for sure that cell phone use causes cancer.
Frustrating though this may be, it's par for the course for epidemiology. The fact of the matter is that proving causation is just really hard. Indeed, as the New York Times points out, other examples of "possibly carcinogenic" substances include some dry cleaning chemicals and pesticides, but also coffee and pickles.
Even the results of the Interphone project, the largest and most highly anticipated epidemiological study of cell phones and cancer to date, were maddeningly inconclusive when they came in last year. The researchers from the 13 participating countries did find that although very heavy cell phone users were about 40 percent more likely to develop glioma, but there were so many potentially confounding methodological issues that the ultimate conclusion was that cell phone use does not significantly increase cancer risk for the vast majority of people.
Unfortunately, all of this means we're pretty much just as in-the-dark as we were about the subject when I was reporting on cell phones and radiation a few years back. And frustratingly, as I noted before, we probably won't know more for at least a few years:
Finding subjects who have brain tumors and who have used their cell phones for more than 10 years is difficult, especially considering that the tumors typically take 10 to 20 years to develop. What's more, people are notoriously bad at remembering how much they've used their phones and which ear they hold their cell phone up to—especially if they're looking around for something to blame a brain tumor on.
In the meantime, does that mean that you're all clear to sleep with your cell phone next to you on your pillow? Of course not; it just means that the researchers haven't yet proven anything one way or the other. As a precaution, the WHO panel suggests you'd do well to limit talking time, especially for kids.
Kevin DrumMay 31, 2011 6:18 PM
I think I've now read at least half a dozen mainstream media figures lamenting the absurd level of coverage that the mainstream media is giving to Sarah Palin's bus tour cum summer vacation cum presidential campaign tryout. Note to the nation's editors: your own reporters think that chasing her around like a starstruck junior high school kid is nuts. Isn't it time to pull the plug and let her tour the United States with the privacy she allegedly wants?
Eric ArnoldMay 31, 2011 5:27 PM
Editor's note: Every other week, The Media Consortium rounds up the latest media policy news in a blog called the The Wavelength, posted below.
Smart phones are hip, trendy, and loaded with user-friendly apps. But these devices also collect and store your personal information, leaving huge security gaps.
The prevalence of spyware in mobile technology and social networking sites has huge implications as a privacy issue, since users have no way of knowing who's peeping, or for what purpose. New concerns over mobile and Internet privacy have been raised at the federal and state level, and there's already push-back from some of the major players in the tech industry.
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As Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) writes for Care2, recent studies indicate smart phones and other mobile apps are being used as remote spyware. Franken, one of the leading advocates for Net Neutrality and other media policy issues on Capitol Hill, notes that researchers found that "both iPhones and Android phones were automatically collecting certain location information from users' phones and sending it back to Apple and Google—even when people weren't using location applications."
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Adam WeinsteinMay 31, 2011 4:52 PM
Did a Navy SEAL kill Osama Bin Laden with a pork-coated bullet, thus denying him entrance to paradise? That's the highly unlikely claim coming from a shady website selling gun lubricants that it guarantees to be "13% USDA liquefied pig fat."
According to the purveyor of Silver Bullet Gun Oil, the product is "a HIGHLY EFFECTIVE Counter-Islamic terrorist force multiplier." Here's why:
When fired, BULLETS are coated with SILVER BULLET GUN OIL containing the PIG FAT. The PIG FAT is transferred to anything the BULLETS STRIKE. The coating of OIL CONTAINING PIG FAT effectively DENIES entry to Allah's Paradise to any Islamo-Fascist terrorist KIA with a bullet coming from a firearm using SILVER BULLET GUN OIL in the barrel. SILVER BULLET GUN OIL uses the belief system of Allah's Islamo-Fascist terrorists to put fear of death into them, a fear they haven't had until NOW.
On his site, the anonymous figure behind Silver Bullet says his intentionally un-halal lube is quite popular among armed employees of the US government, stating that "Thousands of bottles of Silver Bullet Gun Oil have been distributed since July of 2004 by its creator to members of ALL U.S. Military branches." He also claims that the gun oil is used in tank and helicopter weapon systems and that "a number" of air marshals use it as well. On a Marine message board, he asserts (along with some harsh racial epithets) that his gun oil is helping win the war on terror: "I've been putting out SBGO for 5 and 1/2 years. I pushed the Pork additive [13%] long enough for the rags to get the message, which according to those that are using it in their [area of operations] puts some real FEAR into these mutts."
Mark ArmstrongMay 31, 2011 3:49 PM
Mother Jones guest blogger Mark Armstrong is the founder of Longreads, a site devoted to uncovering the best long-form nonfiction articles available online. And what better time to curl up with a great read than over the weekend? Below, a hand-picked bouquet of five interesting stories, including word count and approximate reading time. (Readers can also subscribe to The Top 5 Longreads of the Week by clicking here.)
Kevin DrumMay 31, 2011 2:52 PM
Gallup says today that doctor-assisted suicide is the "most controversial cultural issue" in its recent poll. Why? Because it's the issue where opinion is divided most closely. I'm not sure that's really much of a proxy for "most controversial," but I guess it's their poll, not mine.
What struck me about their list, though, was how few of these things I object to. Out of 17 issues, there were only four I objected to, and even there my objections depend on circumstances. There really wasn't a single one that I just flatly, always think is morally unacceptable. I'm not sure what this says about me.
Anyway, here's the list. See if you can guess the four I found kinda-sorta unacceptable. (Hint: I don't really have a problem with human cloning, though I suppose I might change my mind if a cloned race of superhumans takes over the world and enslaves the rest of us.)
Kevin DrumMay 31, 2011 12:35 PM
Dana Goldstein, writing about our need for better teachers, sums up my skepticism over the entire ed reform agenda in one sentence:
But what if the United States is doing teacher reform all wrong?
Well, yes. What if we are? Unfortunately, this is a question that hangs over practically every initiative to improve our schools. We just don't know for sure if they work, and studies to prove things one way or the other are almost impossible to conduct properly.
So what's the problem with our efforts to build better teachers, anyway? Are we doing it all wrong?
That's the suggestion of a new report from the National Center on Education and the Economy, a think tank funded mostly by large corporations and their affiliated foundations. The report takes a close look at how the countries that are kicking our academic butts — Finland, China and Canada — recruit, prepare and evaluate teachers. What it finds are policy agendas vastly different from our own, in which prospective educators are expected to spend a long time preparing for the classroom and are then given significant autonomy in how to teach, with many fewer incentives and punishments tied to standardized tests.
OK, fine. Here's some anecdotal evidence that this might be true. It comes from my mother, who was talking to one of her old teacher buddies, who recently got a job teaching teachers how to teach students to write critically about literature. Apparently it's to improve the performance of kids in AP English classes, who have been immersed in the wretched five-paragraph format their entire lives and don't know how to write coherently about abstract subjects.
And that's fine. But my reaction was the same as my mother's: aren't AP English teachers supposed to know how to do this already? Why do they need a coach? What have they been doing their entire teaching careers if they haven't been teaching their kids how to write about literature?
So that's that. But of course, the plural of anecdote is claptrap, so this doesn't mean anything. The real question is whether better trained teachers in the Finnish mode are really what we need to get better schools. Considering the almost universal contempt that teachers and everyone else have for ed schools, that's either hard to believe or else self-evidently true. I can't quite tell which. But there are a lot of other reasons that Finnish and Chinese schools might produce better test scores than ours, and adopting their models of teacher training would be fantastically expensive. So we had better figure it out before we commit to some massive nationwide program to train better teachers.
But how do we figure it out? Good question. See the beginning of this post for my non-answer.
Kevin DrumMay 31, 2011 11:18 AM
Robert Pear reports that hospitals are unhappy over new federal regulations that pay them based on the cost of care they provide to Medicare patients compared to other hospitals:
For the first time in its history, Medicare will soon track spending on millions of individual beneficiaries, reward hospitals that hold down costs and penalize those whose patients prove most expensive....Hospitals could be held accountable not only for the cost of the care they provide, but also for the cost of services performed by doctors and other health care providers in the 90 days after a Medicare patient leaves the hospital. ....Under the new health law, Medicare will reduce payments to hospitals if too many patients are readmitted after treatment for heart attacks, heart failure or pneumonia. In addition, Medicare will cut payments to hospitals if they do not replace paper files with electronic health records, and it will further reduce payments to hospitals with high rates of preventable errors, injuries and infections.
For the first time in its history, Medicare will soon track spending on millions of individual beneficiaries, reward hospitals that hold down costs and penalize those whose patients prove most expensive....Hospitals could be held accountable not only for the cost of the care they provide, but also for the cost of services performed by doctors and other health care providers in the 90 days after a Medicare patient leaves the hospital.
....Under the new health law, Medicare will reduce payments to hospitals if too many patients are readmitted after treatment for heart attacks, heart failure or pneumonia. In addition, Medicare will cut payments to hospitals if they do not replace paper files with electronic health records, and it will further reduce payments to hospitals with high rates of preventable errors, injuries and infections.
In related news, Aaron Carroll reports that physicians, who used to be rabidly opposed to national healthcare, are now substantially in favor of it:
Remember, this was support for federal legislation to establish National Health Insurance. That's far more radical than the PPACA. And 59 percent of physicians supported it. That was an increase of 10 percent from what we found five years earlier, and it was statistically significant. More than half the respondents from every medical specialty supported it, with the exception of surgical subspecialties, anesthesiologists and radiologists. That means support included a majority of general surgeons, medical subspecialists and obstetricians/gynecologists.
Aaron calls this a problem for the AMA, and I suppose it is. But I think it's also a problem for hospitals: to a large extent, the interests of hospitals and physicians are not only diverging, but becoming actively opposed. In the past, physicians probably would have been as opposed to these new Medicare regs as hospital administrators, but I'll bet that's largely not the case anymore.
As an analogy, this strikes me as having mirror-image similarities to No Child Left Behind, another piece of legislation designed to force efficiency on a particular sector of the economy. At first, parents were largely in favor of NCLB while teachers and school administrators were largely opposed. But as time has passed and suburban schools have started to suffer from the law (either because they're given failing grades or because inner city schools start competing effectively for the best teachers), the ground has shifted: parents and teachers now find themselves frequently in agreement that NCLB has gone further than they like. This provides a growing political coalition to change or water down the law.
In healthcare, it's the same dynamic in the opposite direction: a political coalition is breaking up. Doctors and patients are starting to align one way, while hospitals and insurance companies are aligning in another way. The good news is that this makes it less likely that healthcare reform will be repealed. There just isn't a united political coalition in favor of it.
Stephanie MencimerMay 31, 2011 11:11 AM
Following a time-honored Washington tradition of dumping required but embarrassing information on a Friday night before a major holiday, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas finally released the details of his wife's income from her year or so working for the tea party group Liberty Central, which fought President Obama's health care reform law. His new financial disclosure form indicates that his wife, Virginia, who served as Liberty Central's president and CEO, received $150,000 in salary from the group and less than $15,000 in payments from an anti-health care lobbying firm she started.
The disclosure was apparently prompted in part by Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), who had been needling Thomas (including on Twitter) for months to disclose how much money his wife earned from Liberty Central. That's because challenges to Obama's health care reform law are likely to end up before the Supreme Court sooner rather than later, and if Thomas and his wife benefited from her income working against the bill, the justice has an enormous conflict of interest in hearing any legal challenge. Thomas had failed to disclose Virginia's income on his financial disclosure forms for 20 years; under pressure from Weiner and others, he had recently amended old disclosures to reflect hundreds of thousands of dollars she had earned working for the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank that also opposed Obama's health care plan.
But, up until now, Thomas had not revealed how much money his wife made from her controversial Liberty Central work. When Virginia Thomas decided to take a high-profile role in the organization, she was immediately criticized because of the potential that her job might compromise her husband's independence on the bench. Eventually, she was forced to step down (a move also apparently prompted by her bizarre October phone call to Anita Hill, the woman who'd accused her husband of sexual harassment during his confirmation hearing). When she left the organization, she created a new consulting firm, Liberty Consulting, which also did anti-health care reform lobbying. Justice Thomas finally released the details of her compensation Friday night, but the disclosure, and Weiner's triumphant press release announcing the move, were largely overshadowed by Weinergate.
Over the weekend, Weiner's Twitter account was allegedly hacked and Tweeted a photo of a near-naked man to a college student. Conservative media mogul Andrew Breitbart published the photo on his site, Big Government, and the feeding frenzy was furious enough to ensure that Thomas' news barely saw the light of day. Still, if and when health care reform makes its way to the Supreme Court, Thomas will have a much harder time making his conflict of interest go away.
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UPOV ROM GTITM Computer Database, GTI Jouve Retrieval Software 2007/02 Citation for `KLECA06121`. cited by examiner.
A new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named `KLECA06121`, characterized by its compact and mounding growth habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; relatively large deep purple-colored flowers; and good garden performance.
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1. A new and distinct Calibrachoa plant named `KLECA06121` as illustrated and described.
Botanical designation:Calibrachoa sp.
Cultivar denomination: `KLECA06121`.
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa, botanically known as Calibrachoa sp. and hereinafter referred to by the name `KLECA06121`.
The new Calibrachoa is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Stuttgart, Germany. The objective of the breeding program is to create new freely-branching Calibrachoa cultivars with compact and trailing plant habit,early and freely flowering habit, and unique and attractive flower color.
The new Calibrachoa originated from a cross-pollination made by the Inventor during the summer of 2003 in Stuttgart, Germany of a proprietary selection of Calibrachoa sp. identified as code number V 024, not patented, as the female, or seed,parent with a proprietary selection of Calibrachoa sp. identified as code number V 052, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent. The new Calibrachoa was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a single flowering plant within the progeny of thestated cross-pollination in a controlled environment in Stuttgart, Germany in May, 2004.
Asexual reproduction of the new Calibrachoa by vegetative cuttings in a controlled environment in Stuttgart, Germany since May, 2004, has shown that the unique features of this new Calibrachoa are stable and reproduced true to type in successivegenerations.
The cultivar KLECA06121 has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment and cultural practices such as temperature and light intensity without, however, anyvariance in genotype.
The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of `KLECA06121`. These characteristics in combination distinguish `KLECA06121` as a new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa: 1. Compact andmounding growth habit. 2. Freely branching habit. 3. Freely flowering habit. 4. Relatively large deep purple-colored flowers. 5. Good garden performance.
Plants of the new Calibrachoa can be compared to plants of the female parent selection. Plants of the new Calibrachoa differ primarily from plants of the female parent selection in flower color as plants of the female parent selection haveviolet-colored flowers. In addition, plants of the new Calibrachoa differ from plants of the female parent selection in growth habit as plants of the female parent selection are trailing.
Plants of the new Calibrachoa can be compared to plants of the male parent selection. Plants of the new Calibrachoa differ primarily from plants of the male parent selection in flower color as plants of the male parent selection haveblue-colored flowers. In addition, plants of the new Calibrachoa differ from plants of the male parent selection in growth habit as plants of the male parent are upright to trialing.
Plants of the new Calibrachoa can be compared to plants of the cultivar KLEC02059, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 15,817. In side-by-side comparisons conducted in Stuttgart, Germany, plants of the new Calibrachoa differed from plants of thecultivar KLEC02059 in the following characteristics: 1. Plants of the new Calibrachoa were more compact than and not as vigorous as plants of the cultivar KLEC02059. 2. Plants of the new Calibrachoa were more mounding than and not as trialing asplants of the cultivar KLEC02059.
The accompanying colored photograph illustrates the overall appearance of the new Calibrachoa, showing the colors as true as it is reasonably possible to obtain in colored reproductions of this type. Colors in the photograph may differ slightlyfrom the color values cited in the detailed botanical description which accurately describe the colors of the new Calibrachoa. The photograph comprises a close-up view of typical flowers and leaves of `KLECA06121`.
The aforementioned photograph and following observations, measurements and values describe plants grown in Stuttgart, Germany, under commercial practice during the spring in a glass-covered greenhouse with day and night temperatures ranging from14.degree. C. to 16.degree. C. and light levels averaging 20,000 lux. Rooted young plants had been growing for about six months when the photograph and description were taken. Plants used for the description were grown in 12-cm containers and pinchedone time one week after planting. In the following description, color references are made to The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart, 1995 Edition, except where general terms of ordinary dictionary significance are used. Botanical classification:Calibrachoa sp. cultivar KLECA06121. Parentage: Female, or seed, parent.--Proprietary selection of Calibrachoa sp. identified as code number V 024, not patented. Male, or pollen, parent.--Proprietary selection of Calibrachoa sp. identified as codenumber V 052, not patented. Propagation: Type.--By vegetative cuttings. Time to produce a rooted young plant, summer.--About three weeks at temperatures of 20.degree. C. to 26.degree. C. Time to produce a rooted young plant, winter.--About four weeksat temperatures of 20.degree. C. Root description.--Fine, fibrous; white in color. Rooting habit.--Freely branching; moderately dense. Plant description: Plant and growth habit.--Compact and mounding growth habit; moderately vigorous. Freelybranching habit with about four to five primary lateral branches each with multiple secondary lateral branches; pinching is typically not required. Plant height.--About 7 cm. Plant diameter.--About 19 cm. Lateral branch description: Length.--About 9cm. Diameter.--About 2 mm. Internode length.--About 0.5 cm to 1.8 cm. Strength.--Strong. Aspect.--Mostly upright. Texture.--Smooth, glabrous. Color.--145A. Foliage description: Arrangement.--Alternate, simple; sessile. Length.--About 1.5 cm to2.5 cm. Width.--About 5 mm to 10 mm. Shape.--Lanceolate to elliptical. Apex.--Broadly acute. Base.--Attenuate. Margin.--Entire. Texture, upper and lower surfaces.--Smooth, glabrous. Venation pattern.--Pinnate; arcuate. Color.--Developing andfully expanded foliage, upper surface: 137A; venation, 144A. Developing and fully expanded foliage, lower surface: 137C; venation, 144B. Flower description: Flower arrangement and habit.--Relatively large salverform flowers arranged singly arising fromleaf axils. Freely flowering habit with usually about 43 open flowers and flower buds developing per lateral branch. Flowers not persistent. Flowers face mostly upright. Fragrance.--None detected. Natural flowering season.--Plants flowercontinuously throughout the summer in Germany. Plants begin flowering about twelve weeks after planting. Flower longevity.--Individual flowers last about one week on the plant. Flower diameter.--About 2.5 cm. Flower length (habit).--About 2.5 cm. Flower throat diameter.--About 8 mm. Flower tube diameter, base.--About 2 mm. Flower tube length.--About 1.5 cm. Flower bud.--Shape: Elongated oblong. Length: About 2 cm. Diameter: About 6 mm. Color: 79A. Corolla.--Arrangement: Five petals fusedat the base and opening into a flared trumpet. Petal length from throat: About 1.4 cm. Petal lobe width: About 1.2 cm. Petal shape: Obverse. Petal apex: Obtuse. Petal margin: Entire. Petal texture, upper and lower surfaces: Smooth, glabrous;satiny. Throat and tube texture: Smooth, glabrous. Color: Petal, when opening, upper surface: 83B; venation, 79A. Petal, when opening, lower surface; 83D; venation, 79C. Petal, fully opened, upper surface: 77A; venation, 79A. Petal, fully opened,lower surface: 83D; venation, 79C. Throat: 79A; venation, 79A. Tube: 3A; venation, 163B. Calyx.--Arrangement: One star-shaped calyx tube with five sepals fused at base per flower. Sepal length: About 1.5 cm. Sepal width: About 3 mm. Sepal shape:Lanceolate to elliptical. Sepal apex: Acute. Sepal margin: Entire. Sepal texture, upper and lower surfaces: Smooth, glabrous. Color, upper surface: 138A. Color, lower surface: 138B. Peduncles.--Length: About 3 cm. Diameter: About 2 mm. Angle:Erect to about 75.degree. from stem axis. Strength: Moderately strong. Texture: Smooth, glabrous. Color: 144B. Reproductive organs.--Stamens: Quantity/arrangement: Five per flower. Anther shape: Elliptic. Anther length: About 1 mm. Anther color:11A. Pollen amount: Moderate. Pollen color: 11A. Pistils: Quantity: One per flower. Pistil length: About 6 mm. Style length: About 5 mm. Style color: 150A. Stigma shape: Oval. Stigma color: 149A. Ovary color: 154A. Seed/fruit.--Seed and fruitdevelopment have not been observed on plants of the Calibrachoa. Garden performance: Plants of the new Calibrachoa have been observed to have good garden performance and tolerate wind, rain and temperatures ranging from about 1.degree. C. to about50.degree. C. Pathogen/pest resistance: Plants of the new Calibrachoa have not been observed to be resistant to pathogens and pests common to Calibrachoa.
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Leicestershire's Angus Robson hopes one day to have the same decision that confronted older brother Sam Robson because it means he will have made a success of his cricket career.
Sam, at 24, is two years older than Angus and like his brother, was born in Australia but a British passport holder thanks to their English mother, and chose England as the country he wanted to represent at international level.
And last week the Middlesex opening batsman made a maiden Test hundred against Sri Lanka at Headingley.
Angus is some way off making it into the international reckoning following several fifties for Leicestershire, but with a hundred still proving elusive.
But the younger Robson has a fresh opportunity to impress in Leicestershire's tour match against India at Grace Road, weather permitting.
Rain put paid to the second day of three on Friday after India had declared their first innings on 333 for four on Thursday's opening day.
But if conditions allow, Robson should get a bat on Saturday following scores of 75 and 81 for Leicestershire in their recent County Championship defeat by Surrey.
Angus Robson was with his parents, Jim and Rosamunde, in the crowd at Headingley to watch the early stages of his brother's Test century.
Asked about choosing between England and Australia himself, he said: "If I keep doing well, which I hope I do, maybe in another few years I might be closer to having to make a decision like that."
"I suppose it's good I've got him (Sam) to talk to if anything like that ever does come up."
And there's no doubt his brother's success has sharpened his own career ambitions.
"Absolutely. It's obviously a long way off for me at the moment. When you see it at such close distance, it only makes you more determined to do well. Maybe, one day …"
Robson was in London by the time Sam completed his century against Sri Lanka.
"I went (to Headingley), and watched day one with mum and dad — and he was 20 not out at the close," he said.
"Next day, we had to travel to The Oval — so I left when he was about 50 not out at lunch.
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He added: "I drove down with one of the other players, Greg Smith, and we listened to Geoff Boycott and all the commentators all the way there."
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Markovic is regarded as one of the most exciting young players in Europe and has already been linked with moves to Germany and Italy as well as to the Premier League.
Liverpool are also thought to be interested but the 17-year-old striker, rated at £10 million by Partizan, admitted that he only has eyes for Stamford Bridge and has followed the Blues since he was a child.
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"I'm told there were 20 scouts from all over Europe in the VIP box when we beat Red Star.
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text: SeaWorld Investigation: Secrets Below The Surface 10News Looks Into SeaWorld During 7-Month Investigation 10:17 AM, May 29, 2007 Share Article SeaWorld is a San Diego landmark, a cheerfully choreographed and skillfully marketed celebration of the sea.Millions of visitors -- locals and tourists -- know very little about an industry built on the capture of killer whales, dolphins and other sea creatures.Ken Balcomb of the Center for Whale Research said, I would describe the whole captive industry as being very secretive.10News began investigating the park following the killer whale attack during the Shamus how last November.Investigators spent months obtaining and researching court records, safety reports, animal inventory reports and documents related to the various owners of SeaWorld over the years.10News traveled to Washington state to learn more about the killer whale, the centerpiece of a billion-dollar business, and the man who started it all, killer whale hunter Ted Griffin, the man who captured the first Shamu.Whales die in the hunt, that's true, said whale hunter Ted Griffin.In 1965, in the water alongside Seattles Pier 56, was the first ever killer whale performing show. It was the precursor to the Shamu success. The star of the show was a 20-year-old Orca named Namu.Griffin captured Namu, trained him, rode him and showed people for the first time that killer whales were not evil but wonderful, intelligent mammals.Griffin caught Shamu later that same year.Griffin took film of the original Shamu to San Diego. At first, he leased the whale to SeaWorld, he said, because the park was afraid the whale would not survive for long. However, when Shamu became an instant hit, SeaWorld bought her outright for $100,000.I was interested in the whales and interested in making a good profit on selling the whales, said Griffin.Griffin made no apologies about the whales that died in the hunt, including Shamus mother. Griffin shot her with a harpoon and she drowned.SeaWorlds current owners, who had no involvement, said it is a sad, ancient history.Brad Andrews, Vice President of Zoological Operations with Busch Entertainment said, I am not even aware of the stories told back then and the validity of them, so I cant comment on something that happened that long ago.Griffin was also blunt about the cover-ups that were orchestrated by himself and his hunting partner, Don Goldsberry.Goldsberry ended up working for SeaWorld, assigned to bring whales to the park. He was eventually barred from Washington waters because he hunted killer whales with explosives."If I have dead whales, I'm going to conceal it from the public, which is what I did, said Griffin.Griffin admitted at one time he and Goldsberry herded three full families of whales into a cove in Puget Sound, trapping them in nets.Three young whales and one adult tangled in the nets and drowned."I have 4 dead whales, what am I going to do with them? said Griffin.What Griffin and Goldsberry did is well-documented.Balcomb said, They hired divers to slit open the bellies, fill them with rocks, put anchors around their tails, and sank them at night."Balcomb runs the Center for Whale Research in Puget Sound where 49 whales were taken from the wild population."There's only 1 left, Lolita in the Miami Seaquarium. Basically, they've all died in captivity, said Kelley Balcomb-Bartok of the Center for Whale Research.Records from the center showed the whales died from pneumonia, drowning and infections.SeaWorlds original Shamu died from an infection of her blood and uterus after living 6 years in captivity. She was the first of 51 Shamus.Todays SeaWorld is a much-improved and healthier place for the whales.Andrews said, Whats really changed over the years are the husbandry techniques, the veterinary care, just like the evolution of modern medicine for people.That first Shamus legacy is the park today -- the largest and most successful in the world.Andrews said SeaWorld has always been a healthy place for whales, but some documents 10News found tell another story.10News found records during a 7-month investigation that SeaWorld has worked hard to keep out of public view.Find out more Thursday on 10News Live at 11 p.m.For more background on this story or to comment on this 10News investigation, visit the 10News Investigation Blog. Share Article A Share A A A Share Article


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While attending almost thirty or so performances over the course of six days, I witnessed an allegedly innocuous format engage and thrill a couple thousand people virtually all day and much of the night, proving, at least to me, that "smooth jazz" as we knew it is gone.
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September 3, 2010 Ahead in the CountSabermetric Teams and Sabermetric Scouting
We have all seen the merits of Major League Baseball teams using sabermetrics in its infancy. The famous bestseller, Moneyball by Michael Lewis, brought readers in to watch how the Athletics used statistical analysis to help repeatedly win the American League West despite a miniscule payroll at a time when few teams were using sabermetrics. However, in recent years many organizations have seen the competitive advantage of using sabermetrics grow smaller as more teams become aware and begin to target the players that the A's were able to acquire so easily. Although sabermetrics clearly has helped teams like the Red Sox and Rays become dominant in recent years, there have also been plenty of sabermetric teams being disappointments. Perhaps most famously, the Mariners were highly touted for their use of sabermetrics to put together an excellent defensive team going into this season, but instead have fallen deep into last place in the AL West. Dave Cameron at FanGraphs.com has endured much criticism for ranking the Mariners organization sixth in their probability of winning a championship in the coming years going into 2010. While Cameron has been criticized, I was reminded by something Joe Sheehan wrote in his final Prospectus Today column in December: That makes a good deal of sense at the qualitative-analysis level, but what if overrating "progressive" teams occurred at the quantitative level? What if even PECOTA was overrating sabermetric teams? I set out to answer this by surveying current and former Baseball Prospectus staff members and interns in an attempt to dig up exactly which teams are sabermetric leaning. I had my own guesses, but I left those out because I did not want to bias the results of tests. I wrote the following survey: "I want to know about how much you perceive different major-league teams' usage of sabermetrics. I'm going to list all 30 teams and I want you to label them 1-4 for their Sabermetric use over last five years (2006-2010) to your best knowledge where:
If a team switched from being very non-saber to very saber-utilizing at some point between 2006 and 2010, just average out the results and split the difference. Please just mark a number 1, 2, 3, or 4 next to each team in this order." I got 13 answers, and although everyone seemed to have a slightly different definition of what it meant to be sabermetric, I was able to use the responses to get better results. To avoid differences in standard deviations from person to person, I set everyone's standard deviation equal and made the average ranking 2.5 for everyone. Then I averaged out everyone's answers to get the following ranking of teams by their perceived sabermetric usage:
Then I took the average winning percentage from 2006-2010, and ran a quick correlation between sabermetric usage rating and winning percentage. The correlation was a notable, if not exceptional .10. Of course, removing the Pirates, who picked up sabermetrics when Neal Huntington took over as general manager in 2007 in an effort to pull the organization out of deep in the cellar, bumps that correlation up to .15. This is all despite a negative correlation between payroll and sabermetric usage (.18, between payroll rank from 1-30, and adjusted sabermetric usage). In fact, the amount that teams exceed their expected wins as predicted by payroll rank alone has a .27 correlation with sabermetric-usage ranking. However, I also took the difference between the PECOTA projected winning percentage for each team and their actual wins from 2006-10. This was a solid measure of how much sabermetrics overrates teams. This measure correlated with sabermetric usage above at a very high level: .27. In other words, a large fraction of the error in PECOTA in the past five years can be explained by PECOTA systematically overrating teams that use sabermetrics. Consider the following table of the adjusted sabermetric usage rating combined with the average payroll from 2006-10, the average PECOTA projected wins and the average wins from 2006-10 (assuming that teams' final 2010 winning percentage is equal to their current winning percentage).
*Actual Wins assume final 2010 winning percentage is equal to 2010 winning percentage as of August 29 The correlation can be seen pretty clearly from the table. PECOTA is routinely overstating the Indians and A's, perhaps most known for sabermetrics, as well as teams like the Diamondbacks and Pirates who certainly have used sabermetrics in their decision making. On the other hand, PECOTA keeps selling the Angels and Twins short, franchises routinely criticized for not utilizing sabermetrics. Certainly PECOTA is not expressing a preference for teams like the Indians. PECOTA has no idea which team Moneyball or Mind Game is about. PECOTA simply knows the data it receives. However, teams that use sabermetrics heavily are likely to pick the same players favored by PECOTA, given the data they receive, and therefore those teams are likely to overrate the same players that PECOTA does. However, more concerning for those sabermetric teams is that they miss on some of the players that PECOTA misses on. In Moneyball, Billy Beane repeatedly threatened to fire all of his scouts, but never actually did. Now, one of the more sabermetrically knowledgeable general managers is the Blue Jays' Alex Anthopoulos, who has recently expanded his pro scouting staff and doubled his amateur scouting staff, significantly increasing the money put into scouting in an attempt to gain ground in that area, much like the early 2000s A's were able to gain ground by using sabermetrics to acquire neglected players with high OBPs. The Jays have decided to marry sabermetrics with scouting, using both bases as a foundation to build a winning team in the hardest division in baseball to do so, the AL East. This is exactly what teams need to do. It's become quite clear that being sabermetrically savvy does not guarantee a competitive team. Certainly the Rays would not be vying for the top record in baseball on one of the lowest payrolls if they were not also employing a staff of brilliant sabermetricians, but there are plenty of saber-utilizing teams who are not anywhere near playoff contention. Teams need to use both sabermetrics and scouting to cover their bases on multiple fronts. Otherwise, a weak scouting staff will not be able to identify players that the sabermetricians are overrating. PECOTA only projected the Jays to win 72 games this year, a number they are close to eclipsing with a month remaining in the season. No one saw Jose Bautista hitting over 40 home runs; PECOTA only projected 18. Whether that was good luck, a strong scouting staff, a good sabermetric staff, or all of the above, the fact is that finding the players that the rest of the league are missing is essential and marrying scouting and sabermetrics is the best formula to get the job done. That is not to say that sabermetrics is not necessary. Sabermetric teams are doing better overall compared to teams that do not rely as much on sabermetrics, but it is clear that the market inefficiencies that sabermetrics revealed a decade ago are no longer as large and teams now need to approach building a roster from multiple angles. Anthopolous' Blue Jays may prove to be the next generation—teams that use strong scouting and strong sabermetrics to build a winner.
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From smartphones to tablets, Wi-Fi to 3G/4G: I cover telecom & mobile.
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The two services have different advantages. Google has built unique features into its maps, such as "Street View" (360-degree images) and "Satellite View" (bird's-eye perspective). Nokia is including 3-D landmarks for 200 cities around the world and point-of-interest information from Lonely Planet and Michelin guidebooks. Ovi Maps is also designed to be less "bandwidth hungry" than Google Maps, which requires a more constant data connection to view maps. Nokia says Ovi is 10 times more efficient in its use of bandwidth than Google's service. Ovi Maps will also be available in many more places (74 countries, 46 languages) than Google Maps Navigation, which is currently limited to the U.S. Nokia also contends that its maps are of higher quality than Google's, due to its close relationship with Navteq.
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In the interview, Monteith says that "Glee" creator Ryan Murphy's rule about no trailer sex is a good one since "There's a beautiful chemistry to this show, and messing with that would be dangerous." In fact, the atmosphere is less sexy and romantic and more about family and camaraderie.
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