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The Toyota Prius c was introduced in the 2012 model year and is derived from the Toyota Yaris.
The driver's space was seriously compromised by intruding structure. Lower interior intrusion measured as much as 30 cm at the lower hinge pillar. Upper interior intrusion measured as much as 20 cm at the hinge pillar and instrument panel. The steering column was pushed back 7 cm toward the driver.
Measures from the dummy indicate that injuries to the left lower leg would be likely in a crash of this severity. The risk of significant injuries to other body regions is low, including head injury risk from the instrument panel hit.
The dummy's head barely contacted the frontal airbag before sliding off the left side as the steering column moved 12 cm to the right. Additionally, the seat belt allowed excessive forward excursion of the dummy's head and torso, contributing to the head hitting the instrument panel. The side curtain airbag deployed but does not have sufficient forward coverage to protect the head from contact with forward side structure and outside objects, and the driver's seat tipped forward and toward the B-pillar. The side torso airbag deployed.
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The Toyota Prius c was introduced in the 2012 model year and is derived from the Toyota Yaris. Frontal ratings are assigned by the Institute based on a test conducted by Toyota as part of frontal crash test verification.
Measures taken from the neck, chest, and both legs indicate low risk of injuries to these body regions in a crash of this severity. A high head acceleration occurred when the dummy's head hit the steering wheel through the frontal airbag, indicating that head injuries would be possible.
Dummy movement was well controlled. The driver side curtain airbag deployed during the crash. As the dummy moved forward into the frontal airbag, its head also contacted the side curtain airbag.
Driver — Measures taken from the dummy indicate a low risk of any significant injuries in a crash of this severity.
Passenger — Measures taken from the dummy indicate a low risk of any significant injuries in a crash of this severity.
Driver — The dummy's head was protected from being hit by any hard structures, including the intruding barrier, by a side curtain airbag that deployed from the roof.
Passenger — The dummy's head was protected from being hit by any hard structures, including the intruding barrier, by a side curtain airbag that deployed from the roof.
In the test, the strength of the roof is determined by pushing a metal plate against one side of it at a slow but constant speed. The force applied relative to the vehicle's weight is known as the strength-to-weight ratio. This graph shows how the ratio varied as the test of this vehicle progressed. The peak strength-to-weight ratio recorded at any time before the roof is crushed 5 inches is the key measurement of roof strength.
A good rating requires a strength-to-weight ratio of at least 4. In other words, the roof must withstand a force of at least 4 times the vehicle's weight before the plate crushes the roof by 5 inches. For an acceptable rating, the minimum required strength-to-weight ratio is 3.25. For a marginal rating, it is 2.5. Anything lower than that is poor.
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Cityscape: The Roaring 20s
The glamour, the music, the fashion, the mobsters and more from the 1920s
F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 masterpiece novel "The Great Gatsby" will once again come to life on the silver screen next week. The latest film adaptation of the novel stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire. The movie promises roaring 20s' glamour, excess and excitement, but we thought, why should Hollywood have all the fun?

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Vince Gill and the Time Jumpers – Live Performance by Grammy-Nominated Country Act
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2012 was a good year for the Time Jumpers. They added iconic 30-year country music veteran Vince Gill to their ranks and released their long-awaited debut album, The Time Jumpers.
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Well, since it was Thanksgiving for most of you yesterday I thought I'd give my thanks to you all for the lovely messages on my last post! Really glad to have the support, during the good times and the bad! So, in keeping with my promise to write about good things... here are a few photos from my recent trip to Iceland! I had SUCH a wonderful time, it's an amazing, enchanting country. You feel like you are at the end of the world, or on another planet. Or at the beginning of time on ours. Steam and sulphur rise up from the ground, volcanoes rumble all around, glaciers advance from the mountains and the sky is lit up in technicolour. View from the church tower in Reykjavik:
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Amazing pics Squirrel!! Jealous you saw and took great photos of the Northern Lights. Hope one day I can see them as well!ReplyDelete
Just lovely sums it up. btw, I agree with Jenn ... I'm jealous, the iceberg lagoon is cool but would really love to see the Northern Lights.ReplyDelete
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HANA Awards Churches of Scientology Disaster Response Team for their Work In Haitian Earthquake Disaster
Ralph Gedeon, Haiti Earthquake survivor tells his story.
At their 2010 gala event, the Haitian American Nurses Association (HANA) presented a Humanitarian Award for the Church of Scientology to Sue Taylor, National Director for the Churches of Scientology Disaster Response Team.
Over 230 medical staff, religious and political leaders attended the event held by the Director of HANA Rockland County (Florida), in honor of the men and women who gave their time and expertise to help the people of Haiti following the disaster.
HANA and the Scientology Volunteer Ministers (VMs), some of the first responders to the January 12th earthquake, worked together to help save lives. The Volunteer Ministers did whatever needed to help the doctors attend to the injured — from driving day and night to get supplies for the medical teams, to providing security and ensuring the doctors had sterilized equipment and clean scrubs. And when the HANA medical teams returned to the States, the VMs also assisted the nurses to get transport home.Sue Taylor and Ayal Lindeman with HANA Rockland Founder and President.
Among those attending the HANA gala were Haiti earthquake survivor, Ralph Gedeon and licensed nurse, EMT and Scientology Volunteer Minister, Ayal Lindeman. As Ralph told a captive audience, he was attending classes at Port-au-Prince engineering school when the earthquake struck, leaving him trapped beneath the fallen building for two days before his father managed to dig him out. He was brought to the General Hospital and the doctor's prognosis was grim: Ralph's leg was shattered and had an infection that would spread to his heart if it wasn't removed.
That's when he met Scientology Volunteer Minister, Ayal Lindeman. Both Ralph and Ayal knew that amputation would seriously reduce Ralph's chances to ever get a job and a life on the street as a result. Ayal took to heart the motto of the Volunteer Minister, "Something Can Be Done About It," and promised Ralph that he would not only get a prosthetic leg, but an education as well. So with Ayal's help, Ralph was transported to the States. After 10 separate surgical procedures, he was able to get a prosthetic leg he could use, and within a month he was able to walk with a cane. Today, Ralph has a bright future ahead of him.
The Director of HANA Rockland then spoke of the assistance the VMs gave in helping the HANA medical teams gain entrance into Haiti. She commended the Volunteer Ministers for all of the help provided to the nurses, Haiti and the Haitian people. She then awarded the National Director for the Churches of Scientology Disaster Response Team, Sue Taylor, with a Humanitarian Award stating: "The Haitian American Nurses Association Rockland County presents this Humanitarian Award to the Church of Scientology and all of their volunteers for your commitment, benevolence and support in the Haiti January 12, 2010 earthquake HANA medical and humanitarian disaster relief missions."
She additionally called the attending Volunteer Ministers to the stage awarding them with pins in gratitude for their help and for their continuing support in Haiti.
Since the Haiti earthquake hit on January 12th, 2010, over 300 Volunteer Ministers from 22 countries have traveled to Haiti to provide assistance, and have trained ten thousands of Haitians as Volunteer Ministers themselves.


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A Jamestown business has been spotlighted as one of the most environmentally friendly fitness establishments in the country.
A story in the July issue of Fitness Management tells of Jamestown Fitness Center's owner Barbara Lundy's concerns for the environment and, in particular, the island's fresh water problems and its bans on water use during long, dry periods.
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Inside, she installed water-saving heads on all four showers and all sinks, and the toilets use 1.6 gallons per flush. The men's room has the first waterless urinal on the island.
Beyond the water concerns, Barbara said that she has energysaving lights and the building is well insulated. She also purchases environmentally-friendly cleaning products and buys recycled paper towels and toilet paper.
Here on our small island, Barbara Lundy and her Jamestown Fitness Center show the world what real environmentally-sensitive initiatives mean whether establishing a new center in the world of fitness or any other business.
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With the Jamestown Philomenian Library's middle school book group meeting early next month, it's time for members to pick up and read their copy of "Green Glass Sea" by Ellen Klages, the 2007 winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.
Please call or visit the library to reserve a copy of the book or reserve it online www.jamestownri. com/library/. All children entering middle school in the fall are welcome to join. Visit the library or call 423-7280 to register or just come ahead anyway.
The discussion on the book will be on Friday, August 10, at 3:30 p.m. in the museum room.
According to the publisher, the plot takes place in 1943, when 11- year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west by train to live with her scientist father amidst much secrecy. Over the next couple of years, Dewey gets to know eminent scientists, tinkers with mechanical projects and becomes friends with a budding artist who is as much a misfit as she is and all the while has no idea how the Manhattan Project is about to change the world.
Will someone please inform the ProJo that Jamestown is not in South County!
The Kathy Brownell Follies is in intense rehearsal for this year's appearance in the Jamestown Community Chorus' 18th annual Talent Show on Aug. 16.
This will be the 17th year the troupe will delight the island audience. Although it has its act together, the performers have yet to come up with a title for it. Kathy did offer a hint, though, "You never know what a strong wind will blow in."
In addition to Kathy, the follies in made up of Alexa Furtado, Elaine Flynn, Denise O'Dwyer, Marilyn Tolleson, Carolyn Jacques, Jim Feeney, Sharon Reardon and Julie Lutyens.
"We're all looking forward to it," Kathy said.
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Raffle tickets, the winners to be drawn during the talent show, will go on sale Aug. 4 at businesses throughout town. Tickets are $1 each and six for $5 and are also available from chorus members or at the door on the 16th.
Ticket sellers will be located in front of McQuade's on Saturdays, Aug. 4 and 11, and Sundays, Aug. 5 and 12, all from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
There will also be a table set up near the East Ferry Deli on Saturday, Aug. 11, from 9:30 a.m. until 3 p.m.
Proceeds from the show and raffle benefit future programs of the chorus, donations of choral music to the library, a music scholarship for a Jamestown student and the chorus' participation in the Rhode Island Festival Chorus, founded by the island singers and their director, B.J. Whitehouse.
Michael Vick should be incarcerated in an animal cage in a shelter. Nah, that would be too good for him.
If Fluffy leaves home, Dr. Joshua Hatch of the Jamestown Animal Clinic tells in his Pet Tip of the Week how you'll get him back quicker. "A missing pet can be a stressful event for a family.
"A few precautions now may help get your pet back quickly and safely. First, make sure your pet has some identification like tags or a collar with a current phone number on it. Make sure you have a recent photo of your pet so you can put up flyers and let local animal hospitals, dog officers, and shelters know what your pet looks like.
"If your pet is micro-chipped make sure that information is current, too. If you do put up flyers, offer a small reward to guarantee every kid in the neighborhood is looking for your pet! Start looking for your pet by walking around your neighborhood on foot. Most pets do not stray far from home and if they are injured you are more likely to find them if you are not in your car. Carry a blanket or towel with you in case they are injured so you can move them without getting bitten or scratched yourself."
Does anyone remember the name of the seagull Red Skelton impersonated?
As the heat settles in this month there'll be a lot of talk about the "dog days." You may hear that it signifies sultry days "not fit for a dog," or that it's the weather when dogs go mad.
Actually it's the days defined as the period from July 3 through Aug. 11 when the Dog Star, Sirius, rises in conjunction (or nearly so) with the Sun.
As a result, some felt that the combination of the brightest luminary of the day (the Sun) and the brightest star of night (Sirius) was responsible for the extreme heat of the middle of the summer. According to the ancients other effects were droughts, plagues and madness.
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Some of that madness, and indeed panic, will be seen in the media as Aug. 1 ushers in the first day of the hurricane season in New England.
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Another moment of mirth with Beth: Our 5-year-old grandson couldn't wait to tell his grandfather about the movie we had watched on television, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." The scenes with the submarine and the giant octopus had kept him wide-eyed.
In the middle of the telling, my husband interrupted Mark, "What caused the submarine to sink?"
With a look of incredulity Mark replied, "Grandpa, it was the 20,000 leaks!!"
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Stan: There are a lot of diverse processes and applications out there. We all tend to think our loop performance problems are unique.
Greg: But a deeper understanding of concepts will guide you through the thousands of details to the source of the problem and the most effective solution.
Stan: We've picked Mark Coughran, a senior industry consultant in Global Industry Solutions at Emerson Process Management in Austin, Texas, and previously a research specialist in the Research and Test Department at Fisher Controls in Marshalltown, Iowa, to be our guide.
Greg: For you as a troubleshooter, what are the most common performance problems?
Mark: I am seeing integrator loop tuning and valve response problems in all of the process industries in plants all over the world.
Stan: Why are these problems so prevalent?
Mark: First, valve specifications generally do not have entries for valve performance requirements. The tuning for integrating loops also is different and counterintuitive. Finally, plants are being built where there is no expertise.
Greg: What valve response parameters are most critical for loop performance?
Mark: The key parameters are valve dead band from backlash and shaft windup, resolution limits from stiction, and the installed characteristic that is the result of the inherent valve characteristic, fluid properties and the process pressure at the valve inlet and outlet. Dead band and resolution are lost motion, and the slope of the installed characteristic is the valve gain. The control valve is the principal source of nonlinearity and limit cycling in control loops. Split-ranged valves and integrating processes are particularly susceptible to valve response problems.
Stan: Dead band, stiction and characteristic nonlinearity are generally greatest near the closed position. The transition between cooling and heating for temperature control and acid and base reagent for pH control requires operation near the closed position of all valves at the split-range point. I have seen a lot of loops cycling across the split-range point, wasting energy and reagent. So what I am hearing is we have a double hit. What processes have an integrating response?
Mark: Batch temperature, bioreactor process variables (dissolved oxygen, pH and temperature), some gas pressures, level, dissolved solids and impurity concentrations in processes with large recycle streams have integrating responses. Composition, temperature and pH loops in continuous processes with a large dominant process time constant have a near-integrating response. To shorten tuning tests dramatically, these extremely slow self-regulating processes can be tuned as integrating processes.
Greg: These are important loops in terms of process yield and efficiency, since analyzers provide direct measurements, and temperatures provide inferential measurements of process composition. How about an example of a typical tuning mistake?
Mark: A drum level loop was cycling with a controller gain of 1 and a reset time of 20 seconds. The settings that proved best ended up being a controller gain of 12 and a reset time of 2000.
Greg: This is consistent with my experience that loops with integrating processes are running with a significantly smaller than desirable controller gain and a reset time at least an order of magnitude too low. I have had success increasing the reset time by a factor of 10 as a quick fix until an auto tuner can give results. This is a move in the more stable direction. If the reset time is not greater than 300 seconds, and the controller gain is not greater than three, then the tuning settings are probably too low. More than two significant figures is wishful thinking.
Mark: If the controller gain is too low, you become more sensitive to reset action. The product of the controller gain and integral time must be greater than four divided by the integrating process gain (See Equation 10 in Adaptive Level Control or below).
Thus, you can reduce slow rolling oscillations and overshoot by increasing the controller gain. This is counterintuitive because we are taught that a lower gain and slower tuning provides a smoother over-damped response.
Some integrating processes, such as header pressure and jacket temperature control, have a lead time where the initial rate of change is much faster than the eventual rate of change of the process variable. The tuning rules for integrating processes are not well known, and the tuning rules to deal with a lead time are particularly rare. Most of the tuning rules in the literature are for self-regulating processes with a first order (single lag) plus dead time response approximation. The user doing trial-and-error tuning finds it especially difficult for integrating processes.
Stan: In an inverse response where the process variable first moves in the opposite direction of the final response, you have to back off on the controller gain. Drum level, column sump level and furnace pressure can have an inverse response. In modern plants, the degree of inverse response has decreased. Pre-heating feed water and air by flue gases for energy recovery has reduced the inverse response for boilers and furnaces. For column sump level, the inverse response is only seen when steam is manipulated to control level, not a preferred control scheme unless the bottoms flow is too small for level control.
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The Lowdown on the 2014 Zagat Review
New York diners spend more but tip less than their counterparts in the rest of the country. They love Italian food, but hate noise. And nearly half think it's fine for children to use iPads and cellphones at the table. Nina and Tim Zagat join Lunch Break with the results from the 2014 Zagat Restaurant Survey. Photo: Getty Images
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Preston boss Phil Brown hailed the character of his side after they earned a thrilling 4-3 win against Wycombe at Adams Park.
Early goals from Neil Mellor and Iain Hume were cancelled out by Gareth Ainsworth and Scott Donnelly for the hosts. Stuart Beavon gave Wycombe an unlikely half-time lead before Hume and finally Mellor gave Preston a seventh consecutive league win with the only goals of the second half.
The win saw Preston move up to second in League One and Brown said: "We probably thought at 2-0 we could take our foot off the gas and the game was over, but you can't do that."
He added: "Then to concede a goal from a free-kick, a penalty and a corner is very uncharacteristic of us defensively and we decided to change things tactically at half-time and I think it worked for us.
"They are very disappointed because of the way we defended. To go seven on the bounce is a great achievement, but we haven't really done anything yet. We've snuck into the top end of the play-offs and it's very early days but we're showing some good signs.
"The character of the side and the way we are playing football and the way they can change tactically during the course of the game proves we have got the experience out there that can do that."
Wycombe boss Gary Waddock was disappointed with the result, but pleased with the way his side responded to going two goals down.
He said: "Obviously I'm disappointed for the lads. Going from 2-0 down to turn it around and then our own style of play has ended up costing us a point or a result at all from the game. The goals we gave away were naive from our point of view.
"When you go 2-0 down against a top side like that you think it's going to be a very long evening but the lads turned it around and credit to them. It was well worth the entrance fee. It was an excellent game of football from end to end and we gave them a scare and they're a very good side.
"We could have laid down and it could have been a long evening and a hammering but we recovered very well, but got caught with a couple of counter attacks and we came away with nothing."
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Lennox Industries has announced several personnel changes that sources say will allow the HVAC manufacturer to make the most of changes in an evolving commercial market.
- John Carino, regional director, northern region, will take on additional responsibility for Lennox' Magnum and Manufacturer's Representative key initiatives. Carino will oversee key accounts managers Brent Del Toro and Chris Saxon, who will help implement the Continuous Comfort™ planned replacement program with large national accounts. Del Toro, based in Houston, TX, will cover the South Central, Mountain, West Coast and Midwest commercial districts. Saxon, based in Nashville, TN, will cover the Northeast, Great Lakes, North Central and Southeast commercial districts.
- A new "Canadian commercial district" is being created by merging the former Ontario district and the Western Canada district. Team members will report to Regional Director Nick Ennamorato. Chris Murray will build on his success in strategic services to take on the new role of sales manager, strategic service sales. Murray will report to Jeff Britain, director of national accounts. All national accounts directors will now report directly to Jeff Britain.
- A new position — field application consultant— has been created to support the needs of specifying engineers and design/build organizations. The role will be filled by three of Lennox' award-winning Commercial Consultants: Steve Donley, Rusty Brown and Jim Cavanagh.
- With the continued growth of strategic services, Craig McCarty and Michael Rice will take on the roles of project manager, strategic services. Their team will be overseen by John Whinery. Specialized commercial customer service support teams are being reorganized in Lennox' corporate headquarters in Richardson, Texas to support both district sales and national accounts. Deborah Kauffman, Director of Commercial Customer Service. will lead the customer service initiatives.
Susan Herndon, vice president of sales for Lennox North America Commercial, says the reorganization will provide improved focus in a changing market. "Lennox has a strong heritage of successful innovation thanks to our employees' willingness to embrace change, and we are confident these changes will allow us to excel in these turbulent times."
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Parents protesting a plan to send fourth-graders to a soon-to-be-built middle school on the west side of the city say they have amassed more than 500 signatures of Quincy residents who also want school leaders to hit the brakes on the proposal.
If the Massachusetts School Building Authority approves the plan, Quincy's new Sterling Middle School would be one of just a handful of middle schools in the state that house fourth through eighth grades in the same building.
Parents are concerned that 9-year-olds aren't ready for the pressures of a middle school environment or the exposure to adolescent schoolmates at the upper reaches of the middle grades, but they have failed to make much headway in their opposition.
"Right now we have focused our comments on Dr. DeCristofaro, but we are not getting anywhere with that," said Courtney Perdios, one of the parents leading the petition drive.
Perdios plans to hand the petition over to Mayor Thomas Koch, who is chairman of the school committee, with the hope that Koch will persuade DeCristofaro to take the proposal off the table.
Koch's spokesman, Chris Walker, said Wednesday that the mayor isn't taking sides on the issue but favors more debate.
"This is exactly the time the school committee and the community should be having this kind of a discussion when we are in the planning stages of a new building," Walker said.
Last month, DeCristofaro submitted two plans to the Massachusetts School Building Authority, seeking state funding to help build a new Sterling Middle School in 2017 near its current site on Granite Street.
One plan would keep Sterling's current fifth-through-eighth-grade configuration. The other plan, however, would include fourth-graders, an option motivated by growing enrollment pressures in Quincy's elementary grades – from 3,593 to 4,228 students in the last seven years.
"We understand parents get upset at the idea of change," said Laura Owens, assistant to the superintendent for communications.
Owens stressed the proposal would be scrutinized by the state school building authority, which could reject the fourth-grade option.
"The feasibility study by the MSBA could say this is a no-go," said Owens.
The school building authority pays a significant portion of the costs of new and remodeled public school buildings in the state.
At a public meeting last month sponsored by two ward councilors, some parents objected not just to the idea of fourth-graders having to change classrooms like middle school students, but also said fifth-graders were having a hard time adjusting to the new routines at Point Webster Middle School.
Owens said that fifth-graders at Point Webster have more of "a typical middle school" experience and change classrooms during the school day, but the vision for fourth- and fifth-graders at the proposed new Sterling Middle School would keep them separate from older students and require less changing of classrooms.
"They would spend the majority of day with their homeroom teacher," she said.
And none of the fourth- or fifth-graders in either scenario would ride a school bus with older students because bus transportation is offered to students only through fifth grade, she said.
State education officials would not comment on the latest thinking about grade configurations for middle schools, but two education professors said Quincy's proposal needs to consider the developmental needs of fourth graders.
"I can understand parents' fears but schools are very careful about keeping (younger children) separate in a middle school," said Nancy Witherell, a professor of elementary and early childhood education at Bridgewater State University.
Linda Mensing Triplett, who directs the middle and high school programs at Lesley University's education school in Cambridge, was much more blunt about siding with parents who oppose Quincy's plan.
"Fourth-graders are still children ... who need the consistency of a teacher who knows them well," Triplett said. "I don't think they are going to separate them successfully in a large middle school situation. In the hallways, doorways, bathrooms and waiting outside school, they are going to be with middle school students. Some young children will find themselves afraid."
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Parents gather 500 signatures against Quincy school plan
Parents protesting a plan to send fourth-graders to a soon-to-be-built middle school on the west side of the city say they have amassed more than 500 signatures of Quincy residents who also want school leaders to hit the brakes on the proposal.


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HANG TIME PLAYOFF HEADQUARTERS — When the playoff pairings came into focus late in the regular season, we knew there was the potential for this when the Boston Celtics and Atlanta Hawks got locked into the No. 4-5 battle in the Eastern Conference.
An era was coming to an end. A five-year run for one of these two franchises would continue on for at least another series and that same five-year run (that began in their epic first-round series in 2008) for the other franchise would have run its course.
Well, it's time for the Hawks to face the reality of their own situation and turn the page. The Hawks are facing more than just elimination after their disastrous 101-79 Game 4 showing in Boston Sunday night. Most compassionate observers turned away from when the Celtics' lead grew to 37 points … with more than a quarter and a half to play remaining.
How many times can you hear about a team talk about "not responding" or "we just didn't have it" or "our energy and effort was nonexistent" in a big game situation before it sinks in?
The Hawks have dropped 12 playoff games by 20-plus points since 2008, a staggering number that does not include all of the games they lost by 16, 17, 18 and 19 points.
They'd fight back with stats of their own — such as along with the Celtics and Lakers, they are one of just three teams to reach the second round in each of the past three seasons. But that would foolishly suggest that the Hawks belong in the same sentence with two franchises that have won championships in the past four seasons.
The Celtics won it all in 2008 while the Lakers won back-to-back titles in 2009 and 2010. The Hawks, for all of their accomplishments during this same stretch, have been escorted from the postseason in an ugly fashion each and every time, without once truly breaking through with this current core group.
They'll tell anyone willing to listen that this series is far from over at 3-1 with Game 5 Tuesday night at Philips Arena. And with their history against these Celtics, it might be worth a listen. They played seven games in 2008, with each team taking turns ruling their home floors all the way through to Game 7.
But this time is different. As much as you'd like to believe these limping Hawks have a chance to make a series out of this one, the stench of inevitability is floating in the air after that Game 4 debacle in Boston.
Even if the Hawks find a way to push this thing to a Game 6, it's hard to see them coming all the way back from this hole and winning the series — they'd have to become the ninth team in NBA history to come back from a 3-1 deficit to win a series.
Their core includes All-Stars Joe Johnson and Al Horford, Josh Smith, their best player during this injury-plagued season that has seen Horford play in just 12 games (the 12th coming in Game 4 after a four-month layoff after surgery to repair a torn pectoral muscle), third-year point guard Jeff Teague and former No. 2 overall pick and current sixth man Marvin Williams. (You could add veteran center Zaza Pachulia to that list as well, since he is one of the five holdovers from that 2008 series.)
Viewed as one of the league's most promising young groups a couple of years ago, the Hawks refused to part ways with any of that core in an effort to tweak their flawed chemistry and risk getting better by letting a valuable piece go.
Of course, we have the luxury of hindsight right now. And it's easier to point out the flaws of this group as their end draws near. But the Hawks' front office (spanning two regimes, both Billy Knight's and, currently, Rick Sund's) continuously stood their ground, opting to change coaches (from Mike Woodson to Larry Drew) and swap the role players and supporting cast while maintaining the core.
(We'll spare you the standard line of citing all of the botched lottery picks, empty free agent signings and failed point guard experiments.)
You hold on tight to that core when you believe they form the basis of a championship team, not a team good enough to make the playoffs and maybe the second round. Draft picks have come and gone, opportunities to trade one of those core players have come and gone and opportunities to let them walk via free agency have come and gone.
Each and every time the Hawks' brain trust weighed their options, they decided against a radical or even significant move in favor of the stability and safety net that comes with a guaranteed playoff team — that's smart business in the front-office world, but not exactly a move that inspires or intrigues an already fickle local fan base.
The fact of the matter is risks must be taken if a franchise has its sights set on the ultimate reward. The Celtics parted ways with Kendrick Perkins, one of their mainstays from their two trips to The Finals. It was a move that did not meet with the approval of Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and Rajon Rondo. Even Celtics coach Doc Rivers struggled to hide his unease with the move when it went down.
But Celtics general manager Danny Ainge is a risk-taker who understands that bold leadership is the path to greater success, knowing full well that whether it works out or not is on his head.
Perkins was traded to the Thunder, a team with a younger core much closer in makeup to the one the Hawks had a few years ago, when the window of opportunity for making a move was much greater.
Thunder general manager Sam Presti traded former lottery pick and starting small forward Jeff Green to get his hands on Perkins, the gritty big man he felt completed his team. It was a calculated risk that helped transform the Thunder from a talented and promising young outfit into a championship contender that made the Western Conference finals last season and is one of a handful of teams now capable of reaching The Finals this year.
Those are just two examples of teams the Hawks consider contemporaries that have made the hard choices with their core groups, hard choices the Hawks avoided in the past and will have to make in coming weeks and months.
Because there is no doubt that the time has come for the Hawks to turn the page and chart a new future, one that does not include all of the familiar faces you've seen over the past five years.


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(NewsUSA) – Many of the key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — better known as ObamaCare — are already coming into effect this year.
Many Americans are wondering how ObamaCare changes their health care and what they should do.
A new guide book — the "ObamaCare Survival Guide: The Affordable Care Act and What It Means for You and Your Healthcare" — is the first easy-to-understand road map to the 2,700-page law. The book is a number-one New York Times best-seller.
The "ObamaCare Survival Guide" gives consumers insight into these new requirements.
"Many provisions have already rolled out, and there are many more to come, so it's not an overstatement to say that this law will affect everyone in this country," says author Nick J. Tate, a recognized healthcare writer.
"The ObamaCare law fundamentally changes the way you interact with your doctor, your insurer, your hospital. So this book attempts to give you the road map to get the best bang for your health care dollar."
The "ObamaCare Survival Guide" is of vital interest in particular to the insured, seniors and Medicare users, young adults, business owners, prescription drug users, medical professionals, Medicaid recipients, doctors and union members.
Already insurance premiums are rising. And many businesses are considering dropping health care coverage. If this happens, many insured individuals would be required to use state exchanges to buy their insurance.
All of this and more is explained in the "ObamaCare Survival Guide."
Donald Trump has endorsed the book, saying: "The 'ObamaCare Survival Guide' is a must-read for anyone who is worried about getting good health care for themselves or their employees."
Most importantly, the book explains who the winners and losers of the new law are, and how consumers can protect themselves from changes that may impact them.
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January 2013 DrivelinesPosted in Features on January 1, 2013
New Jeeps for 2013 & 2014
Trailhawk is the name of this new Grand Cherokee model, one of several offerings coming this year and next from Jeep. The Trailhawk concept truck got rave reviews when it debuted at Moab, Jeep says, so the package was put into production.
Trailhawk is equipped with "winch ready" steel bumpers, rock rails, a Quadra-Lift air suspension, and Goodyear all-terrain tires, with the option of a locking rear diff. The Trailhawk will be easily spotted thanks to its special badges and black hood decal.
Plans are still underway for a seven-seat version of the Grand Cherokee, called the Grand Wagoneer, to debut as a '14 model , according to a report in Automotive News. Also look for a diesel engine for the '14 Grand Cherokee and an eight-speed automatic for the Grand and Wrangler, says AN.
Roush Raptor
We recently toured the facility near Detroit where Roush Performance builds hopped-up Mustangs, and we were surprised to see a Raptor in there. Turns out Roush is putting together a kit for the 6.2L V-8 in Ford's desert truck that includes a TVS 2300 twin-screw supercharger to boost output to 525 hp and 535 lb-ft of torque. The kit also includes an exhaust system, special Roush headrest embroidery, and a graphics package.
This particular truck is special, built for NASCAR driver Greg Biffle to compete in a charity event. It has a three-tone Sherwin Williams paintjob, 18-inch V-Tec wheels mounting BFG Mud-Terrain KM2 tires, a Baja-style spare-tire holder, custom lighting, and body armor.
Plans call for the Roush Off-Road Package to be available through Roush, and Roush-authorized Ford dealers. The folks at Roush estimate that it will add $8,000-$12,000 to the cost of the Raptor.
Range Rover: The Next Generation
Land Rover hasn't introduced an all-new version of its tony Range Rover since 2002, so this is big news for fans of the luxurious, capable, (and, yes, pricey) British SUV. This latest Range Rover is certainly an evolutionary, not revolutionary, change from an exterior design standpoint, but a lot has changed beneath the aluminum skin. Extensive use of aluminum in the Rover's unibody, in fact, shaved some 700 pounds, which improved fuel economy.
Engine options for the U.S. market include two 5.0L V-8s, one naturally aspirated (375 hp) and the other supercharged (510 hp). Backing the engines is an eight-speed ZF automatic transmission and a fulltime 4WD system with a 2.93:1 low-range ratio. A new Terrain Response 2 system uses onboard sensors to tailor the engine, transmission, center differential, and suspension to suit a variety of terrain conditions, from gravel to rockcrawling.
The new Range Rover rides on a fully independent suspension—double wishbone in front, multilink in the rear—fitted with height-adjustable air springs that can raise the body nearly 3 inches. The system allows more than 12 inches of wheel travel in back and 10 inches in front.
Of course, the new Range Rover also offers all the interior amenities of an English manor home, including a choice of leather grades for the upholstery, real wood trim, LED mood lighting, a rear-seat DVD entertainment system, and audio options that run all the way up to a 1,700-watt reference system with 29 speakers and surround sound. A two-place rear seat option includes seats that not only recline but also massage. You can even order a cooler to store beverages between the rear seats.
This can be yours for an MSRP starting at $83,500 when the Range Rover goes on sale this winter.
This Just In
• Watch for fresh sheetmetal on the '14 Frontier and Xterra, say the crystal-ball gazers at Automotive News. A new Titan truck is still a couple years away, they say, but when it does arrive it may do so with a regular cab (a Titan first) and a smaller V-8 option than the current 5.6L.
• Chrysler has initiated a dealer repair program for some of its 3.6L Pentastar V-6 engines due to a problem with the cylinder heads. Chrysler is vague about what the problem is; customers have complained about engines stalling and making strange ticking noises. The problem affects just a small percentage of the Pentastars (about 1 percent, or 7,500 of the 1.5 million engines built over the last two years), says Automotive News, but customer repair requests have apparently flooded dealerships, causing delays in getting the engines fixed.
• Badlands Off-Road Adventures, which puts on a monthly series of "Getting Started" off-road driving clinics at the Hungry Valley OHV area north of Los Angeles, is now offering the classes in Borrego Springs, about 90 miles east of San Diego. Visit www.4x4training.com for more info.
Earth Watch
• The Marine Corps still wants to annex the popular Johnson Valley off-roading area in Southern California as part of its Twentynine Palms base, but local 4WD groups are working to keep the area open. SEMA has joined the fight and presented a plan whereby the Marines would obtain special-use BLM permits for the area during the two months of the year when they want to hold maneuvers, leaving it open to recreation the rest of the time. The Corps, on the other hand, wants ownership of more than half of the area (some 147,000 acres) and would grant access to just 40,000 acres for OHV use during the 10 months it is not holding maneuvers. Congress is enacting legislation that will require the Marines to study alternative ways to share the land with the OHV community, says SEMA.
• You may have already heard that the federal government's new fuel economy and carbon dioxide emissions standards would raise automakers' fleetwide fuel economy target to 54.5 mpg by 2025. That's a fleet average number, keep in mind, not the intended fuel economy for all vehicles, so trucks that need powerful engines will likely fall out of that range and be offset by very fuel efficient—or even electric—cars. Still, we can expect the trend toward efficient six- and four-cylinder engines to continue and make inroads in the truck segment, so big-displacement V-8s may become a thing of the past.
• Yamaha approved more than $120,000 in grants during the second quarter of 2012 to promote responsible OHV use. Since starting the program in 2008, Yamaha has invested more than $2 million in the OHV community.
Built JK As Cheap Truck Challenger?
It all depends on how you read the rules. For a $3 raffle ticket you could win this built '12 JK Unlimited from the California Association of 4WD Clubs (Cal4Wheel). It has been fortified with bombproof parts like Poison Spyder Customs tube fenders and rock sliders, an Advance Adapters Atlas II transfer case, Metal Cloak suspension, Yukon Grizzly lockers, and more. The Jeep will be raffled at the annual Cal4Wheel convention in Rancho Cordova on February 16. You don't need to be present to win, and tickets can be purchased online at cal4wheel.com/win-a-jeep-tickets. If a reader wins, you really should bring it to our next Cheap Truck Challenge.
Pathfinder Goes Mainstream
Years ago, Nissan's Pathfinder was a truck-based SUV rugged enough to win our 4x4 of the Year award—twice. Times have changed, though, and except for us four-wheeling diehards, very few buyers want a truck-based SUV anymore. So Nissan has completely redesigned the Pathfinder, turning it into a car-based crossover that will have tremendous appeal to families. Four-wheelers? Not so much.
If you're looking for a pavement-based people mover, the Pathfinder is among the best. Not only are all three seating rows spacious, but Nissan has developed a new sliding second-row system, called Latch and Glide, that makes plenty of room to climb into the third row, even with a baby seat strapped in a second-row seat. (See what we mean about families?) The new 3.5L V-6 has lots of pep, and it will return 25 mpg on the highway if you watch your speed—pretty good for a 4,290-pound vehicle.
What the Pathfinder can't do is wheel very well. The All-Mode 4x4-i AWD system is a front-wheel–biased powertrain with a single-speed transfer case that can be used fulltime or locked to provide a 50/50 torque split between the front and rear wheels. On graded roads it works just fine, but it doesn't take much (a rutted hillclimb, for example) to overwhelm the drive system and the pavement-oriented tires. We also found that the suspension system, which provides a very supple ride on-road, is just too soft off-road, dragging the front air dam through even the mildest whoop-de-dos.
The Pathfinder does have a 5,000-pound tow capacity, though, so put it on your short list when it's time for a new toy hauler.
Jeeps & More at Chrysler Museum
If you find yourself in the Detroit area, be sure to stop in at the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, housed at Chrysler's headquarters in Auburn Hills. It is not the biggest museum in the area (the Henry Ford is hard to beat in that regard), but truly significant, interesting, and offbeat stuff is on display there. We liked the WWII diorama built to display this MB, and across from it was an enormous Sherman tank engine. Apparently Chrysler built the engine by bundling five six-cylinder engines so it could use existing tooling. The massive powerplant (1,250 ci) put out 445 hp.
New Tundra, FJ Models
There's no huge news from Toyota for 2013; instead, the maker is refining its existing truck lineup. For instance, the Platinum package that was available as an options bundle for the Tundra CrewMax Limited is now a standalone trim level. Platinum-level trucks feature heated and ventilated front seats, a DVD/navigation system, a powered moonroof, and woodgrain-style interior trim.
The FJ Cruiser continues essentially unchanged, except the Trail Teams special edition is finished in Cement Gray this year. The 4Runner is also a carryover model, though SR5 versions now have a switch to actuate the transfer case, not a lever.
• Nov. 30–Dec. 2: Transwest Ford Henderson 250 by Best in the Desert, Henderson, NV. Info: www.bitd.com
• Dec. 1: Advanced Beginner Off-Road Driving Clinic by Badlands Off-Road Adventures, El Paso Mountains near Mojave, CA. Info: 310.374.8047, www.4x4training.com
• Dec. 1: Holiday 200 desert race, Barstow, CA. Info: www.moreracing.net
• Dec. 2: Getting Started Off-Road Driving Clinic by Badlands Off-Road Adventures, Hungry Valley SVRA, Gorman, CA. Info: 310.374.8047, www.4x4training.com
• Dec. 7-9: Rage at the River desert race, Laughlin, NV. Info: www.snoreracing.net
• Dec. 8: Wheelin' 4 Toys by the Brush Beater Jeep Club, Kansas Rocks Recreation Park near Mapleton, KS. Info: www.brushbeaters.com
• Dec. 8: Sand Driving Clinic by Badlands Off-Road Adventures, Oceano Dunes near Pismo, CA. Info: 310.374.8047, www.4x4training.com
• Dec. 9: Winch & Recovery Clinic by Badlands Off-Road Adventures, El Paso Mountains near Mojave, CA. Info: 310.374.8047, www.4x4training.com
• Dec. 27-31: New Year's Eve Fire and Ice Run and Bonfire, Superlift ORV Park, Hot Springs, AR. Info: 501.625.3600, www.orvpark.com
• Note: If you have a 4WD event you want us to publicize, please send the date, location, a description of the event, and contact info—phone numbers and/or email/website address—to Calendar, 4-Wheel & Off-Road magazine, 831 S. Douglas St., El Segundo, CA 90245; fax 310.531.9368; email firstname.lastname@example.com. Please submit your info at least four months in advance of the event due to our press lead times.


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Mount St. Joseph Academy's undefeated hoopsters began the new year by pushing their win streak into double figures, rising to 10-0 last Thursday evening with a 51-34 defeat of Villa Joseph Marie.
Seniors Cailin Schmeer and Bridget Higgins registered 15 and 14 points, respectively, for the host Magic, who achieved a 5-0 record within the Athletic Association of Catholic Academies. The Jems, fueled by 14 points from Courtney Shaw and nine from Melissa Poderis, leveled off at 5-5 overall and 3-3 in the league.
"It was great to come out of the holidays with a win," said Schmeer, a 5'9" forward who has had to become a more of a force in the paint this year due to the graduation of 6'1" Steph Smith.
"I definitely had to step up because we don't have that huge presence of Steph in the middle," she affirmed. "I've had to work on my post moves a little bit more."
Both Smith and guard Mary Jo Horgan (now playing at Loyola and Lehigh respectively) were multi-year starters, and Schmeer and fellow seniors Higgins and Maddie Kohler have had to adjust to leading the Magic.
"We sort of learned how to do it under Steph and Mary Jo, so I think Bridget and Maddie and I have been able to take on that role," Schmeer said. "I like to talk to the younger girls and let them know that we went through the things they're experiencing now. If someone has a problem, we'll talk one-on-one and try to figure it out."
Villa Joe, meanwhile, was figuring out how to play without absent center Mary Newell, and the Jems did a decent job of it through much of the game. Schmeer and sophomore Alex Louin sent the Magic out front, 4-0, then the visitors kept pace from there and only trailed 13-10 at the end of the first quarter. The Magic kept surging ahead, but Villa Joe would come back with enough offense to keep the Mount from breaking the game wide open.
When Higgins went coast-to-coast with two minutes left in the half to make it 25-12, the Jems were able to bring the lead back down into single figures for halftime (27-18). Mount St. Joe jumped out 34-20 in the first three minutes of the third round, but the visitors fought back to make the period a 10-10 draw.
The teams traded baskets at the start of the fourth round for a 39-30 tally, then over the next two minutes Higgins deposited a lay-up and a short jumper and Jones converted a pair of free throws. Villa Joe scored a lay-up to make it 45-32, but Poderis was hurt at the same time and had to leave the floor. Two drives by Schmeer and one by Higgins wrapped up the win with a 6-2 Mountie run for a final spread of 17 points.
In light of her plans to play college ball, high-scorer Schmeer revealed, "I've tried to improve my confidence, because I struggled with that a bit last year. I'm looking to be more aggressive and to improve my defense. I think my offense is fueled off my defense, like when I can get steals and push it up the court, and also when I get rebounds."


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Alan Parsons Live Project Announce 2013 U.S. Tour Dates
Legendary musician and producer Alan Parsons has announced his plans for the 2013 touring season, including a rare eight concerts in the United States. The U.S. leg of the tour will kick off on Feb. 14 in Fort Pierce, Fla. and wrap up on Feb. 24 in Napa, Calif.
The multiple Grammy-winning Parsons was a top sound engineer before he hit it big as a musician by releasing a string of classic albums including 'I Robot,' 'The Turn of a Friendly Card' and 'Eye in the Sky.' His Alan Parsons Project was a studio group until the '90s, when he formed the first Live Project, and he has since toured off and on, but it is still a rare treat to see him perform stateside.
This year's tour coincides with the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon,' which Parsons engineered and for which he was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.The final U.S date of the tour, at the Uptown Theatre in Napa, Calif., marks the album's 40th anniversary week.
Parsons and his band will also perform in Germany, Austria and Holland in March before visiting Germany, Italy, Turkey and Paris for other concerts and festival appearances this year.
Alan Parsons Live Project U.S Tour Dates:
2/14 - Fort Pierce, Fla.
2/15 - Clearwater, Fla.
2/16 - Orlando, Fla.
2/18 - Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
2/20 - Jacksonville, Fla.
2/22 - West Coast (TBD)
2/23 - Las Vegas, Nev.
2/24 - Napa, Calif.


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I think we must have made some-kind of a record, we moved 12 desks, servers, phone lines and other office related stuff and got it up and running with in 22 hours.
Nordic eMarketing moved from Sidumuli 15 to Brautarholt 8, 105 Reykjavik. On the third floor you will find Iceland's largest Creative Advertising Agency (Hvitahusid) and sharing the second floor with us is ABS Media.


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Difference between revisions of "The Panorama Factory"
(Robust program for a reasonable price)
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Revision as of 02:03, 26 October 2005
Panorama Factory is a pretty robust program for creating panoramic images. Like other programs, you can use a guided step by step, pretty foolproof method, or do it all manually. The program can automatically detect camera rotation, focal length, falloff, plus warp, align and fine tune the image, blend, sharper and automatically crop.
Like most wizards, Panorama Factory�s wizard works best if everything is as close to perfect as possible (level tripod, etc.) If not, you�ll have to play around and try different combinations of settings. I have a hard time getting good results from �neckstrap� panos.
It�s one of the less expensive programs available (Windows based only) and pretty speedy. You can create partial or 360 degree single row panos.
You can add hotspots and create virtual tours (see their website for examples.) The hotspot editor is one of the nicer ones I have seen to date. It�s simple to use and has a lot of options (including target frame � rare to find!)
You can also create your pano in a variety of formats:
QuickTime iSeeMedia PTViewer
As well as save the file in the above formats, plus:
Layered Photoshop image Image file only: TIF, PNG, JPG
It's share ware. You can download a trial version and try it out. The older version - 1.6 (much less in the feature department) is free. http://www.panoramafactory.com/download.html
From their website:
The Standard Edition V4.0 (shareware)
Starting with release V2.0, The Panorama Factory is shareware. This means that you may evaluate The Panorama Factory Standard Edition for up to 30 days without registering it.
This download includes English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Czech, Hungarian, Slovak and Russian. To choose your language, start the program and then select your language from the Languages tab of the Options dialog (Tools menu). Online help is supplied in a "bilingual" format showing commands, buttons, etc. in the local language with explanations in English.
Please note: During the evaluation period a watermark will be placed on the images you create. You must purchase a Registration Key if you want to continue using the Software after the 30 day evaluation period ends or to produce images without watermarks. Read the Standard Edition license for more information.


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Wind, you are more than welcome, but i question your approach to all this - it should not be important to you what others achieve, only what you achieve. The only way you will know anything at all is know for yourself, not because someone posts it on an internet forum.Wind wrote:thanks Anicca for your excellent description of Samadhi. I still wonder how many here has personally achieve it. If there are many here who can achieve Samadhi then I would know it's quite attainable unlike jhana where it's seem like an improbable task.
Belief in what the Buddha teaches is required - not what internet posers post.
Sharpen the precepts to a fine point. That fuels the meditation. Find the 16 steps of meditating that the Buddha teaches and do your best on just the first 4. See for yourself what happens. If the Buddha teaches anything, it is that when a cause exists, the results happen. Lead yourself to find out if it is attainable. Be prepared to give it your all and plenty of time if you really want to find out.
In the vein of what others have posted - if you find it possible to lay the foundation (Samadhi) for that first floor (Jhana) - maybe it is not unlikely or improbable to build upon it!
If the Buddha is worth studying, then surely you can believe that the only thing that determines what is or is not attainable is the effort you put into practicing the Dhamma. There is no magic in orange robes - there is only the practice and the results.


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ST. CHARLES – Greg Grooms' addiction resulted in a few brushes with the law – a reality reflected in the art he submitted for the Drug Rehabilitation Court Art Show on Wednesday.
Grooms, 27, of Aurora, drew a picture of a prison inmate and included the words, "Every time I use, I break out in handcuffs." He played on the idea that using drugs is like having an allergic reaction.
Grooms has spent six months in the Kane County Drug Rehabilitation Court fighting his heroin addiction. He said his experience so far has been positive, and he's glad that the drug court has given him a structured path toward sobriety.
"With time, it'll help push me back into society slowly instead of me just kicking [drugs] and going back out there," he said.
Grooms was one of 157 drug court participants who had the opportunity to submit art – whether it was painting, drawing, poetry, video or music – to the second annual art show.
Carrie Thomas, program coordinator for the Kane County Drug Rehabilitation Court, said drug court participants voluntarily submitted art for the show. Entries included photo collages of participants and their families and poetry. One poster board included the phrase, "I was hopelessly dopeful. Now I'm dopelessly hopeful."
"Having any kind of creative outlet can be very therapeutic and cathartic," she said. "We have people who didn't even know they could draw."
Volunteers served hors d'oeuvres and played live music. Patricia Golden, presiding judge of the drug court program, said the event gives drug court participants a creative outlet and a chance to socialize in a sober environment.
She said it's also important for participants to see the art other participants have submitted.
Thomas said drug court is a 30-month program for alcohol and drug addicts. Graduations are two times a year, and 19 people walked in the most recent graduation.
In order to complete drug court, participants have to follow through on recommended treatments, pay their court fines and have a full-time job or be a full-time student.
"We want them to be a contributing member of society," she said. "Paying their debt to society is a big part of that."
Golden said the program is beneficial even if participants don't make it all the way through. She said the weekly court visits and drug tests three times a week help many participants stay sober for the longest period they've ever been sober.
"A lot of them are working for the first time in years or celebrating the holidays for the first time in years," she said.


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|Lt. General Thein Htay is pictured at the Myanmar International Convention Center in Naypyidaw on August 20, 2011 (AFP/File, Soe Than Win)
WASHINGTON — The United States placed a Myanmar general on its sanctions blacklist Tuesday for arms deals with North Korea that violated the UN Security Council embargo on buying weapons from Pyongyang.
Weeks after a landmark visit to Washington by Myanmar President Thein Sein celebrated the thaw in bilateral relations, the US Treasury named Lt. General Thein Htay, the head of Myanmar's Directorate of Defense Industries, for the sanctions.
The Treasury said the general was involved in buying North Korean military goods despite his government's support of the Security Council ban.
It said he acted on behalf of the Directorate of Defense Industries, a Myanmar military agency that was placed on the US sanctions blacklist in July 2012 for arms deals with North Korea.
The Treasury stressed in a statement that the Myanmar government, which until 2010 endured years of isolation and condemnation by the international community for rights abuses, was not targeted by the sanctions.
"This action specifically targets Thein Htay, who is involved in the illicit trade of North Korean arms to Burma," the Treasury said, using the former official name for Myanmar.
"It does not target the government of Burma, which has continued to take positive steps in severing its military ties with North Korea."
The Treasury noted that the Myanmar government last November "publicly announced its intention to abide by" the UN Security Council resolution prohibiting countries from buying military equipment and support from North Korea.
"The international community has repeatedly condemned North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile proliferation activity," the Treasury said.
"North Korea's arms trade provides it with an important source of revenue to expand and enhance its proscribed nuclear and missile programs, which are a threat to international peace and security."
The sanctions announced Tuesday forbid any American from doing business with Thein Htay and freeze any assets he might have in the United States.
The general was until early this year Minister for Border Affairs, a position which linked him to the widely-criticized handling of anti-Moslem violence in one state and its brutal campaign against the Kachin minority in another.
The blacklisting came despite a warming of relations between the United States and Myanmar, after the government introduced democratic reforms.
In May, President Thein Sein, a former military commander, held talks with US President Barack Obama in Washington as Myanmar continued to gain distance from its former pariah status alongside North Korea.
It was the first visit in nearly 50 years by a Myanmar leader to the White House, and Obama praised the country's journey away from brutal junta rule, promising Washington would offer more political and economic support.
But the US has not whole-heartedly embraced Myanmar, remaining cautious about its security ties to Beijing and Pyongyang.


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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Hemagiri Arumugam paced the MIT men's cross country team to victory in the annual Engineer's Cup competition on Saturday afternoon. Tech had five runners among the top 10 finishers, totaling 25 points to beat out RPI (39) and WPI (65). The win was MIT's 18th straight in the annual series among the three schools.
Arumugam was the first across the finish line, finishing the eight-kilometer course in 26:43.84, three seconds ahead of RPI's Chad Mitchell. Paul Welle followed 20 seconds behind in third place. Bill Phipps finished fifth with a time of 27:13.75. Ben Mattocks (27:24.72) earned seven points for the Cardinal and Grey while Stephen Serene rounded out the squad's top 10 finishers.
The Engineers will be back in action next weekend at the UMass-Dartmouth Invitational.


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May 25, 2001
South Bend, Ind. - UC Santa Barbara couldn't overcome a two-hour rain delay and a flurry of miscues, losing to Florida International 17-4 in the teams' first game of the 2001 NCAA Regionals at Notre Dame.
The Gauchos (39-16) dropped to 3-11 in NCAA Tournament play, losing their ninth straight Regional game. The Golden Panthers (41-18) upped their NCAA Regionals record to 7-12.
Florida International got on the board early, as Gaucho ace James Garcia and UCSB struggled. The Golden Panthers scored three times, using two walks, two hits, a balk and a a fielding error by Dave Molidor and a sacrifice fly.
After a 1-2-3 first, the Gauchos scored their first run of the game when Jed Stringham was hit by a Willie Collazo pitch with the bases loaded. Molidor, who had walked to lead off the inning, scored on the play. He had advanced to second on a Tyler Von Schell single up the middle, the Gauchos' first hit of the game, and moved to third when Jeff Bannon was hit by a pitch.
Garcia settled down following the rocky first, and retired ten of the next 11 batters he faced, including striking out two Golden Panthers in both the second and third frames and one in the fourth.
Jared Schumaker led off the Gaucho third by poking a double down the left field line. He was able to advance to third on Ryan Spilborghs' fly ball to deep right, before scoring on Chad Peshke's single through the left side, as the Gauchos pulled to within one run, with the score 3-2 after three innings. The UCSB third ended on a ground ball double play, as did the second.
Von Schell led off the fourth with a line single to center, his second base hit of the game. Bannon bunted the Gaucho first baseman to second. Stringham then doubled over the outstretched glove of the FIU center fielder, but Von Schell, who thought the ball had been caught, had to stop at third on the hit. Donovan Warrecker then struck out and Campanella grounded out to end the UCSB rally.
More Gaucho miscues led to six Golden Panther runs in the fifth. After a leadoff double and a flyout, a fielding error by Bannon, a balk, three straight singles and another balk, Garcia's third of the game, made it 6-2 FIU. A three-run home run by shortstop Mickey Torello pushed the FIU lead to seven and knocked Garcia out of the game, with only one away. Jim Bullard came on in relief of the starter, and after giving up a single to left to the first batter he faced, got a flyout and a groundout to end the inning.
Despite getting the leadoff man on in the bottom of the fifth, the Gauchos could not score. Schumaker reached when the left fielder dropped his line drive. Spilborghs then grounded into a double play, FIU's third of the game. Peshke followed with a single, but was forced out on Molidor's grounder to the third baseman.
In the top of the seventh, Florida International leadoff man Paulk started the inning with single through the right side. After the fourth balk call of the game against UCSB, Von Schell was thrown out of the game by the first base umpire. Paulk eventually scored when Bullard struck out an FIU batter who reached on a wild pitch.
UCSB managed two runs in the sixth, taking advantage of an FIU throwing error. Following a Bannon single and Stringham being hit by a pitch for the second time, Warrecker grounded to the second baseman, who flipped to the shortstop to force Stringham. The shortstop threw the ball away trying to double up Warrecker, allowing the Gaucho catcher to advance to second base and score on a subsequent Andy Campanella single to right center, making it 10-4.
Matt Moran relieved Bullard, throwing a scoreless seventh. Russell Wirth came on in the eighth, giving up one unearned run. The inning ended when Campanella threw Matt Huntingford out at home trying to score on a Brad Eldred single to left. The Gauchos went down 1-2-3 in the seventh and had one man reach base in the eighth.
Justin Angevine finished the game, entering for Wirth in the ninth after two runs had scored scored.
Garcia (10-3) took the loss, while Collazo (12-0) got the win, throwing his third complete game of the season. Both men were named Third Team All-Americans by Collegiate Baseball earlier today. Peshke, Von Schell and Bannon each had two hits in the game.
Sophomore right fielder Ryan Spilborghs extended his school record hitting streak to 34 games with a two-out single up the middle in the bottom of the ninth. Spilborghs had gone 0-for-4 prior to his last at-bat.
The Gauchos will face Wisconsin-Milwaukee in an elimination game at 12:00 p.m. central time tomorrow. The Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers lost 12-4 to Notre Dame in the first game of the Regional prior to the UCSB-FIU game. The winner of tomorrow's elimination contest will face the loser of the Notre Dame-Florida International game (3:30 p.m. central time) in a 7:00 p.m. central time contest. UCSB will throw lefthander Rylie Ogle (10-2) in tomorrow's game.


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Wireless N150 ADSL2+ Easy Modem Router
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This Wireless N150 ADSL2+ Easy Modem Router (GO-DSL-N150) (Annex A, I, J, L & M) router connects to the Internet using an integrated high-speed ADSL2/2+ interface. Multiple computers at home or the office can share its high-speed Internet connection. The router provides firewall protection and QoS for secure and smooth online gaming, voice communication, and downloading of photos, files, music, and video over the Internet. Built-in WLAN provides high-speed access for wireless users, while four Ethernet ports provide connection to computers through Ethernet cables.
All-In-One Solution
The Wireless N150 ADSL2+ Easy Modem Router includes everything you need to set up a secure, high-speed Internet connection.
- Integrated WLAN interface provides speeds up to four times faster than 802.11g
- Four 10/100 Mbps Ethernet switch ports
- QoS and firewall protection
Ultimate Internet Connection
The Wireless N150 ADSL2+ Easy Modem Router is an affordable high-performance ADSL router for homes and small offices. This router features integrated ADSL2/2+ supporting download speeds of up to 24 Mbps, a high-speed wireless interface, firewall protection, Quality of Service (QoS), and a 4-port switch, all the essentials that a home or small office needs to establish a secure and high-speed remote link to the outside world.
High-Speed Wired and Wireless LAN Connection
The Wireless N150 ADSL2+ Easy Modem Router provides an integrated WLAN interface that supports high wireless speeds and interoperability with 802.11g/b wireless devices on the 2.4 GHz frequency band. It also provides four 10/100 Mbps Ethernet switch ports to connect computers. These built-in functions save you the cost and troubleof installing a separate wireless access point and an Ethernet switch.
Firewall Protection and QoS
Security features prevent unauthorized access to your home or office network from Internet intruders. The router provides firewall security using Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) and Denial of Service (DoS) attack protection. SPI inspects the contents of all incoming packet headers before deciding what packets are allowed to pass through. Router access control is provided with packet filtering based on port and source/destination MAC/IP addresses. For Quality of Service (QoS), the router supports multiple priority queues to enable a group of home or office users to experience the benefit of a smooth network connection of inbound and outbound data without worrying about traffic congestion. This QoS support allows users to enjoy high-speed ADSL transmission for applications such as VoIP, streaming multimedia, and online games over the Internet.
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ADSL Compliant
- Full ADSL2+/2/1 standards
- Annex A, I, J, L & M
- ANSI T1.413 Issue 2
- ITU G.992.1 (G.dmt)
- ITU G.992.2 (G.lite)
- ITU G.992.3 ADSL2 (G.dmt.bis)+A196
- ITU G.992.4 (G.lite.bis)
- ITU G.992.5 (G.dmt.bisplus)
- ITU G.994.1 (G.hs)
- Support Multimode
- Support Fast path and Interleave path
- Echo Cancellation
- Trellis Coding
- Bit Swapping
- Network Timing Reference
- Dying Gasp
- Downstream 4 kbps granularity, upstream 32 kbps granularity
- 1-bit constellation
- Bit loading on pilot tone
- CPE determining pilot tone
- Dual latency independently in each direction
- Extend bit swapping
- Initialization time < 60 sec Masked mode
- Multiple bearers
ATM Support
- MultiProtocol over AAL5 (RFC 1483/2684)
- PPPoA (RFC2364)
- PPPoE (RFC2516)
- VC and LLC Multiplexing
- Support 8 PVCs
- Traffic Shaping (ATM QoS) UBR, CBR, VBR-rt,VBR-nrt
- OAM F4/F5 loop-back, AIS, and RDI OAM cells
- UNI 3.1/4.0 Permanent Virtual Circuits
- MAC table capacity 256*8 entry
- GFC field
- VPI range 0-255
- VCI range 1-65535
- Keeping of reserved values
- Creating of PTI field
- Creating of CLP field
- Calculating of HEC field
- Means of VPI/VCI use
- Operational data rate - Upstream
- Operational data rate - Downstream
- PVC statistics
- Precise Peak Cell Rate traffic shaping on a per-VCC basis
Network Services
- IPv4
- DHCP Server/Relay
- DHCP Client (WAN Port)
- DNS Proxy
- PPPoE
- RFC 2684 Bridging/Routing
- Static Routing
- MSN Messenger
- RTSP (RealTime Streaming Protocol)
- SIP v1/v2
- Virtual Server (Port forwarding)
- PPPoE passthrough (Bridge Interface)
- uPnP IGD 1.0
- QoS
- IPP/ToS
- DSCP QoS in 4-priority queues
- Application QoS in 4-priority queues
- Strict priority
- VLAN QoS in 4-priority queues
- QoS Remarking based on IPP/ToS, DSCP and 802.1p
- TOS transparency through NAT
- Mapping to Queue according to DSCP bits and physical port
- IGMP Proxy v1/v2
- IGMP Snooping v1/v2/v3
- Port binding (LAN/WAN/USB/WLAN)
- IP Alias
- VPN (IPSec, PPTP, L2TP) pass-through
- 802.1D MAC Bridge
- IPoA
- Ethernet/ADSL/LAN statistics
- NAT and NAPT
- NAT 1024 sessions capacity
Universal plug and play
- UPnP based auto-configuration
- UPnP based port forwarding
- Internet Gateway Device
- Prevent port scanning & illegal packet attack
- DoS Attack protection
- SYN Flooding
- Ping of Death
- Teardrop
- LAND attack
- Management Access Control for LAN/WAN sides
- IP Spoofing
- IP with zero length
- Smurf Attach
- TCP Null Scan
- Stateful Packet Inspection(SPI)
- IP filtering
- MAC filtering
- URL filter
- 802.11 g/b with Wireless N properties
- Multiple SSIDs
- Rate adaptation automatically
- Power saving
- Max channel number
- Auto channel selection
- WMM support
- 64-bit & 128-bit WEP
- MAC address filtering
Device Management
- Web Configuration
- Telnet Management
- F/W upgrade
- Web Page/X-Modem/FTP/TFTP Firmware upgrade
- Diagnostic Tool for ADSL and IP Ping
- Two user accounts supported
- Setup Wizard
Dimensions (L x W x H)
- 148 x 45 x 112 mm (5.83 x 1.77 x 4.41 inches)
- 450 g (0.99 pounds)
Operating Temperature
- 0 to 40 ˚C (32 to 104 ˚F)
Storage Temperature
- -20 to 70 ˚C (-4 to 158 ˚F)
Operating Humidity
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text: Hesston Rolls Out 25,000th Large Square Baler May 17, 2013 05:00 AM Tweet A celebration of the 25,000th large square baler from AGCO's Hesston happened this week in Kansas. © Sara Brown TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Sara Brown Farm Journal Livestock and Production Editor Email AGCO's Hesston celebrated its 25,000th large square baler--a 2170XD 4'x3' baler--this week when it rolled off the line at the company's manufacturing facility in Hesston, Kan. "Some of the same things that drove the design in the 1970s are the same that are driving our industry today," says Steve Koep, vice president of sales for AGCO North America. In 1978, the large square baler became the efficiency solution to challenges of higher input costs and more production, he adds. The cost of fuel is now driving change to capturing biomass for energy production—wheat straw, corn stalks, switchgrass and other biomass crops. The purchaser, COO Bill Levy of Pacific Ag Solutions, says his operation runs Hesston balers because "we can't afford downtime." Pacific Ag operates the largest agricultural residue and hay harvesting business in the U.S. To serve its global customers, the company has one of the largest fleets of balers, windrowing and bale stacking equipment in the U.S. and has a nearly year-around harvest schedule in its seven-state operation area. Started in 1998, and due largely to the growth of biomass energy production and livestock feed demand globally, Pacific Ag has experienced more than 250% growth over the last three years and expects to double again in the next 24 months. The Hesston manufacturing crew, along with customer Bill Levy, Pacific Ag Solutions, and Hesston dealer Denzil Robbins, Robbins' Farm Equipment, Baker City, Ore., celebrate the manufacturing of the 25,000th Hesston large square baler. Photo: Sara Brown Back to news