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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Despite the wrath of Hurricane Sandy, senior members of the Yale women's sailing team Emily Billing and Claire Dennis were back on the water on Wednesday to practice. It was their last opportunity to sail before the ICSA Women's Singlehanded Championship, which they will compete at this weekend in Long Beach, Calif.
Billing and Dennis qualified for the singlehanded nationals back in September by finishing fourth and third, respectively, at the New England Women's Singlehanded Championship. Both sailors are looking to cap off their very successful college singlehanded sailing careers with a strong finish in Long Beach.
The nationals will be sailed in laser radials, the principal women's singlehanded class at both the collegiate and the international level.
Not only do Billing and Dennis both have extensive experience in the laser radial, but they also have a long history of training together in the boats. Prior to coming to Yale, both sailors were teammates on the US Sailing Olympic Development Team in the radial class. While singlehanded sailing is inherently an individual effort, success in the discipline still requires a level of team effort. Billing and Dennis have been pushing each other since early on in their careers and their results in collegiate singlehanded racing prove how valuable that relationship has been.
Fifteen races were sailed at last year's nationals in Chicago, yet Billing and Dennis ultimately finished only eight points apart. Dennis took second and Billing took third.
Dennis, who also finished second at the nationals her freshman year and won the event her sophomore year, reported that she feels well-prepared for this year. She said that she is "just focused on sailing a smart regatta and doing the best [she] can in the conditions."
"I am happy that we had a lot of light wind to practice in recently," said Dennis. Long Beach tends to be a relatively light-wind racing venue during this time of year.
Billing has also had a successful series of results at the singlehanded nationals. She finished seventh her freshman year, fourth her sophomore year and third last year. If the trend of improvement continues, she is sure to find herself on the podium again this year.
According to Billing, who reported while standing in line to board her plane to California, "we worked hard to get here and both of us are going in with a positive mindset."
The Bulldogs, along with their two coaches Thomas Barrows '10 and William Healy, are scheduled to arrive in Long Beach early this evening. This should allow them plenty of time to get a good night's sleep before tomorrow's racing begins. Eighteen races, wind permitting, are scheduled for the event. The results can be followed online by following this link.
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Rome, Italy (PANA) - The worsening food security situation in the Near East is not only caused by the structural constraints the region is facing in producing enough food and an increasing dependence on food imports but also by conflict, the flow of refugees and migration, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said here Thursday.
Opening a two-day ministerial segment of FAO's Regional Conference for the Near East, da Silva underscored that these issues are not contained by national borders.
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"We know that there is an intrinsic link between peace and food security, and between hunger and conflict.
"We have seen how dispute for food and over resources such as land and water have triggered conflict.
"Peace is fundamental to food security and food security is fundamental for keeping peace."
The MDG target is still within reach at the global scale and in the Near East and North Africa, but a final push in the last 672 days before the deadline is needed, the Director-General told the conference.
Algeria, Djibouti, Jordan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco and Turkmenistan are among countries that have already met the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target to reduce by half the proportion of hungry people between 1990 and 2015.
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The use is that the emptiness of the mind can be experienced right off, whereas the emptiness of the apple, for instance, can only be conceptualized right off. Beyond that, in a much shorter time than can emptiness of outer phenomena be realized, one can gain real experience of the emptiness of mind, of it's luminous nature, and of it's unobstructed capacity. Since when one gains actual realization of the nature of mind, not just glimpses and understanding, one also gains realization of everything else, it is a much swifter path for those suited to it. On the other hand, using analytical and conceptual methods takes much, much longer to realize. Analysis is a useful tool, but if one can use methods that allow for direct experience, that is obviously better. All 4 Tibetan traditions have these methods in addition to analytical ones.
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May I attain Samantabhadra's kingdom in this very life!
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What qualifications/training must one have?
I am a bit shocked to hear that a layperson can just apply to distribute the Eucharist.
I went to a Catholic high school, and they would even have students handing out the Eucharist... It makes me wonder how many people *really* got the required training Prayers,Faith
My good friend, a Catholic woman said she wanted to apply to be a Eucharistic minister. What is that? What qualifications/training must one have?I am a bit shocked to hear that a layperson can just apply to distribute the Eucharist.
The last ordinary Roman Catholic Mass I was at with my mother's side of the family about two months ago there were 4 lay people handing out the host plus the priest (5 handing out the host). Then there were 2 handing out the chalice. That is 7 people handing out Communion for about what seemed to be 75 people. Hardly extra-ordinary circumstances.
I was a Eucharistic Minister and licensed Layreader in the Episcopal church. During celebrations of the Eucharist we only administered the Chalice, never the Host.
Very strange. Is this common in the Episcopal Church? I used to go to Episcopal churches, but they were of the Continuing Anglican variety.
It's going to take a while to clamp down on this, though things have improved over the dark days of the 1970s.
No longer allowing Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion to take part in the purification of the Sacred Vessels was definitely a step in the right direction by Benedict XVI. Hopefully we will see more moves in this direction but it looks like USCCB will fight each of them tooth and nail.
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Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 7:42 pm
Post subject: Best cell reception / prepaid plans in La Ventana
I'd like to be able to call the states while I'm in La Ventana.
On the maps there is GSM coverage in La Paz and La Ventana. How is it in reality?
I won't have much internet access or I'd try skype. I think I can get a sim card and prepaid minutes for Telcel or Movitel. Does anyone have a recommendation?
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Pretty sure but not positive that only telcel, not nextel or movistar works there.
Telcel works fine.
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Post subject: Re: Best cell reception / prepaid plans in La Ventana
mdedeo wrote:
I'd like to be able to call the states while I'm in La Ventana.
On the maps there is GSM coverage in La Paz and La Ventana. How is it in reality?
I won't have much internet access or I'd try skype. I think I can get a sim card and prepaid minutes for Telcel or Movitel. Does anyone have a recommendation?
I have Telcel service in LV and it works great! My advice: Go to the "big" Telcel store located behind Burger King (and next to City Club) in La Paz. Ask for "Omar" - he speaks excellent English and is very knowledgeable and helpful. Tell Omar what you want and he'll inform you of the options, etc.
I requested a "cheap" phone and ended up with the LG A100a - it was $299 pesos and included a $100 peso credit for calls. So the phone itself cost me around $14-15 usd (not including the $100 peso calling credit).
I'm on the "Amigo Combinado 20" plan - pre-paid - no contract. You pick up to 5 "special" US or Canada phone numbers that they enter in their system and you then get a discounted rate when you call those specific numbers. I was told "10 min for 11 pesos" which is roughly 7.5 cents a minute - not bad! In reality, I'm being charged at a different rate but it's less than I was quoted so I'm happy! You can also designate up to 20 Mexico national numbers which also get a discount rate.
You can purchase the Telcel Amigo calling cards just about anywhere. You then "redeem" the card credit via your phone.
If you talk to Omar you should be good to go!
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If you have ATT at home they contract with telcel so there is good service and you can buy the "Viva Mexico Plan" for $15 per month on top of your regular bill.
I get perfect unlimited (basically) calls to and from the US and Mexico. And I only have to pay the $15 per month extra for the months I am in Baja.
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I contacted ATT about the Viva Mexico plan for my ATT phones. Just as Wyatt said ATT would change my 700 minute family plan to the Mexico plan for an additional $15/month. I could then change it back after returning to the States. All calls made from Mexico would be charged against my anytime minutes even those made to a cell phone on my family plan. I forgot to ask about the weekend calls if they would count against my minutes. The main disadvantage for me is the loss of all roll over minutes over my plans basic 700 minutes. For example, I currently have 2000 roll over minutes, when I change from my current plan to the Viva Mexico plan I would lose 1300 of those 2000 roll over minutes. We rarely use our cell phones while home 6 months of the year and build up lots of roll over minutes, but the other 6 months when travelling we use 1500 to 2000 minutes a month. Therefore, the roll over minutes are more valuable to me than the savings of the Viva Mexico plan. I will try to get by with WiFi calling.
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I had on and off coverage with t-mobile. That was free roaming with my current plan. No data though.
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whatever you do don't think you can just use your phone sparigly. there's a reason why the owner of the mexican cell network is one of the the richest men in the world. i once used my phone for 2 calls and some quick emailing and came back to a $300+ bill
at&t works better in baja than it does in most parts parts of california. friends with verizon had almost no reception whatsoever and were paying for a special plan.
i was going to go viva mexico, but when i called i told them i only needed it for two weeks they gave me a better plan. not sure what she called it.
one extra bonus was that i told her when i was returning she set it up so i was automatically switched back to my original plan the day i came back.
i did voice only. wifi is pretty easy to find.
if you need your own i-net connection i was told you can get a prepaid personal 3G wifi hotspot. for less money you can get a usb dongle. you can get it before you go or get it down there. i have no personal experience with those.
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Seriously. The document is basically a step-by-step guide for government officials on how to seize, takedown and censor websites. It has sections like "guide for preparing domain name orders, seizures & takedowns" and "checklist of information to submit with a legal or regulatory action." This is exactly the opposite of what ICANN should be doing if it believes in preserving the basic structure and principles of the internet. But given ICANN's general incompetence, is it really any surprise that it's ending up on the wrong side of this issue, too?


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The $2,500 fine that was doled out to Nik Antropov on Friday, for boarding T.J. Brennan on Thursday night, says a lot about the state of today's NHL.
Years ago, that kind of hit would have resulted in a penalty (which it did), but no further action. However, with the concussion "epidemic" in the game today, the NHL is fearful of its brand. If bigger players hit smaller players and the head is involved, especially if the bigger player leaves his feet, there will be disciplinary action. In today's NHL, the fine was warranted.
Ironically, the day after the fine was levied against Antropov came word that the Jets leading goal scorer, Evander Kane is now out of the lineup, indefinitely, with a concussion. Everyone believes something must be done, but what?
The NHL has a problem and despite the league's best efforts, there isn't anything that can be done. Nothing.
Take, as a for instance, "Black Tuesday."
On Tuesday, Dec. 20, two New York Islanders, goalie Al Montoya and forward David Ullstrom, were taken from the ice with suspected concussions. In Ottawa, Jesse Winchester left the game with head trauma. In Pittsburgh, the home of Sidney Crosby and his fragile cranium, Chicago's Marcus Kruger left with a game with a concussion after a vicious hit from Deryk Englelland.
One night, three games, four concussions. It has become an "epidemic."
In fact, if there was one story that has consumed the National Hockey League this season, it is the concussion story. Yes, the return of the Jets was wonderful and the death of three players in the off-season was tragic, but the one story that wouldn't fade away –primarily because of the injury suffered by Sidney Crosby – was the concussion story.
And, not surprisingly, it became as big an issue as ever at the end of 2011. Especially after John-Michael Liles went down on Dec. 22 and Shea Weber suffered a concussion on Dec. 23.
Sadly, there is very little that can be done about it.
Now, naturally, the NHL was concerned the night Montoya, Ullstrom, Winchester and Kruger went down. Already, some of its biggest stars were on the sidelines nursing head injuries – Crosby, Jeff Skinner, Chris Pronger– so of course the league was worried. This past week, Flyers GM Paul Holmgren confirmed that there was absolutely no chance Pronger would be back this season while Crosby went back to his old chiropractor in hopes of finding some relief fior his symptoms.
Trouble was, there was absolutely nothing the NHL could have done in any of these cases. Engelland was suspended for his hit on Kruger, but Montoya was blasted by Winnipeg's Kane who was pushed into the goalie, so it wasn't Kane's fault. Kane didn't even have a discussion with the NHL's vice-president of discipline, Brendan Shanahan.
Fact is, in the vast majority of major head trauma incidents this season, there was absolutely nothing the NHL could have done. Milan Michalek ran into his own teammate Claude Giroux ran into his own teammate. The list goes on.
The NHL has done everything it possibly can, doling out supplementary discipline on an almost daily basis and yet players are suffering concussions at an alarming rate.
Here are the problems:
1. The equipment. The players don't wear padding anymore, they wear body armour. Their equipment is a weapon, or a series of weapons.
2. The athletes are too big and too fast. Fifty years ago, players averaged 5-foot-10, 175 pounds. Today, it's 6-foot-2, 220-pounds. The ice surface is no bigger than t was then. Accidents will happen and the presence of these very big men will make those accidents more devastating.
3. The skates. Today's hockey skates are a technological masterpiece. They are lighter, the blades are sharper and as a result, these giant players skate faster than ever. When the players run into each other, somebody gets hurt.
4. No red line. Players are flying through the neutral zone at a pace that has never been more frightening. If a player gets hit in the neutral zone now, there is always a chance a stretcher will be required.
5. The ice surface. With larger, faster players, the 200-foot X 85-foot enclosure might be too small. But there is one problem. If you watch a hockey game today, most of the fierce play occurs in a space from 10-feet to 30-feet in front of the net, between the circles. Even if there was a larger ice surface, it's unlikely players would use the extra space.
It's a tough game. Kane now out with concussion
The NHL can continue to pass new rules designed to avoid the inevitable. It can fine and suspend players and pay a full-time disciplinarian to try and "clean-up" the game. But I'm afraid none of it will work.
It's the nature of the game – a fast, brutal dangerous game. And as long as large, tough, fearless, fast-skating, highly-paid entertainers are asked to do what's necessary to play in the NHL — with the loss of multi-million contracts for those who don't play aggressively — there will be serious head injuries.
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Cohen delays testimony, citing Trump 'threats'
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The Politicians Who Cried 'Cyber Pearl Harbor' Wolf
from the tough-to-believe-them-any-more dept
David Parera, over at FierceGovernmentIT, has done the dirty work of tracing the history of the phrase, and suggesting that these Chicken Littles have been warning about the "imminent" digital Pearl Harbor for many years now.
The earliest public reference appears to be in a June 26, 1996 Daily News article in which CIA Director John Deutch warned that hackers "could launch 'electronic Pearl Harbor' cyber attacks on vital U.S. information systems."There's a lot more where that came from, so go hit the link, read it, and be amazed.
The next month, then-Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick told the Senate Governmental Affairs permanent subcommittee on investigations that "we will have a cyber-equivalent of Pearl Harbor at some point, and we do not want to wait for that wake-up call," according to the Armed Forces Newswire Service.
Thereafter the term appears to have gone into a hiatus, apart from some offhand or derivative references to the original sources cited above. But, not to worry, Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) used it again in the spring of 1998, being quoted in a March 19 South Bend Tribune article warning that "We have an opportunity to act now before there is a cyber-Pearl Harbor...We must not wait for either the crisis or for the perfect solution to get started."
Of course, as Parera notes, just because every single one of those fearmongering reports turned out to be false, it's still possible that the "Digital Pearl Harbor" is right around the corner. But, still, it at least raises significant questions of how important it is that we rush through the bill without an explicit explanation of the true threat. Of course, that won't really matter, as everyone's basically playing a giant game of musical chairs, trying to be ready to claim they "called it" should these horrible things ever actually happen.


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RIPLEY - Jacob Haynes and Casy Smith are proving to be dedicated to their craft. The seniors-to-be are heating up in summer scrimmages with a common goal. Both guards want to avenge the horrid (2-22) season they experienced as juniors.
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RIPLEY - Jacob Haynes and Casy Smith are proving to be dedicated to their craft. The seniors-to-be are heating up in summer scrimmages with a common goal. Both guards want to avenge the horrid (2-22) season they experienced as juniors.
There are many reasons why the team struggled so much but neither player is making excuses.
"Personally, I am working all summer on driving the ball to the basket more, getting stronger and also working on my defense." said Haynes.
Haynes made five three pointers in a game at Parkersburg South last season and proved to be clutch when he nailed a three point dagger in a win over Ravenswood with only seconds on the clock to seal the win for Ripley at Ripley Health Center.
Both players are participating in the three weeks of scrimmages that the West Virginia Secondary Schools Activity Commission allows for prep teams after school is out. Casy Smith will be sharpening his skills with his teamates and in AAU ball.
Smith then will compete in the Junior Nationals in Columbus Ohio in July. The sharp shooter will also be traveling to Charleston to endure a summer boot camp by personal trainer Josh Lewis.
"I'm trying to improve all facets of my game and get stronger, physically," said Smith.
Smith showed his scoring potential when he dropped 26 points on Saint Albans in last year's opener that included six three pointers. Ripley needs Haynes and Smith to gel for the team to be successful. A point guard "by committee" was implemented last season by coach Craig Harmon out of necessity.
Smith brought the ball up court the lion's share of the time and shared the point guard duties with Haynes.
The position looks to be a three-headed monster this season with Josh Chancey seeing some time at the point.
Both Haynes sand Smith have shown the ability to score. With more consistent results, the pair could be a tandem to deal with along with fellow senior post man Chuck Sleboda and Junior-to-be returning All MSAC scorer Kade Harrison.
The Vikings have the option of going with a guard heavy line-up that could run the court and score in transition.
Drew Harpold could easily fit into that role. The junior received quality varsity playing time last season.
Smith averaged 10.0 ppg and 2.9 rebounds last season. Haynes netted 9.7 ppg and 3.6 rebounds in 2011-2012. "Both of those guys played pretty well in our last scrimmage with Saint Albans," said assistant coach Steve Hunt. "We are counting on them."
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I would claim that, in scientific terms, we're living in the golden age of genomes, while the full promise of robotics has yet to arrive. Dr. Charles Elachi, the head of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, would argue that robots are actually having their golden age right now; they're just having it in space. He gave the audience at the AAAS meeting plenty of reasons to agree with him as he recapped the missions in progress and others still in the works.
It's hard to say anything new about the Mars rovers; they simply continue to be amazing. They're starting to show their age, with a jammed wheel and a frozen shoulder, but, given that they were supposed to die from dust-covered solar panels years ago, they're aging gracefully. Elachi also mentioned the next Mars mission, which will touch down to explore the Martian polar permafrost on Memorial Day in late May. He said you could set your watch by the landing, but they'd still be watching carefully to make sure that will be a soft one.
Next up, he highlighted Cassini, with its discoveries of the geysers of Enceladus and the discovery of methane lakes and oceans by its companion probe, Huygens. Managed properly, Cassini will continue to function for at least eight more years, and scientists are already planning to fly it through the plumes of Enceladus' geysers to get a better sense of the material that's being shot into space from an unseen liquid reservoir.
Elachi told a great story about the Deep Impact probe, which slammed a projectile into comet Tempel-1 and observed the resulting debris plume. That plume surprised JPL, because it was much larger than expected—so large, in fact, that it obscured the crater until after Deep Impact was past the comet. Fortunately, someone found a solution: the Stardust probe, which dropped off a sample of material from a comet's tail to earth, was still operational and its path could be tweaked to swing it by Tempel-1. That flyby, and a closer view of the impact crater, should be happening in the near future.
A number of yet-to-be-launched missions were also highlighted. These include GRAIL, a pair of satellites that will orbit the moon to do detailed gravitational maps of its internal composition; this follows on the success of a similar system orbiting the earth. The two largest asteroids, Vesta and Ceres, will be getting visits from Dawn, NASA's first craft with an argon ion engine. The efficiency of this engine is key to allowing one craft to orbit Vesta for a few years starting in 2011, and still maintain enough power to move on to Ceres in 2015. Elachi also mentioned a new Jupiter orbiter, Juno, that's on schedule for 2011.
Elachi moved on to describe space-based observatories, a topic he introduced by highlighting the success of the Spitzer space telescope, which has allowed us to image stars that represent nearly every stage of the stellar lifecycle. He went on to describe a series of missions that might get us our first detailed view of extrasolar planets, and mentioned the prospects for creating an orbiting gravity wave observatory. A number of earth-focused observatories were also discussed, the most intriguing being a satellite that will be capable of mapping carbon fluxes in real time.
Overall, Elachi made a strong case that it's a good time to be a robot, especially if you're in outer space. Given that he's probably much smarter than I am, I won't be arguing with him.


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Along with Anthony's record, the Bucs matched the program record for 3-pointers in a single game with 15, as junior guard Tim Smith (
"If we could tie a ribbon around that first half we would win a lot of games," said ETSU head coach Murry Bartow. "We came out yesterday with a lot of energy in practice and I think that momentum carried into today. I thought Travis got us off to a quick start, Timmy was vintage Timmy, and James was just sensational."
The Bucs (7-16 overall, 3-10 SoCon) opened the game with easily their most productive first half of the season, shooting 68 percent from the floor and scoring 64 points to take a 35-point lead at the intermission. The 3-point shooting of Anthony and the slashing style of Smith highlighted the offensive outburst, as Anthony went 5-of-7 from beyond the arc and Smith was 8-of-10 from the floor. The two netted 19 points apiece before the break.
In the second half, ETSU was primarily on cruise control. However, the Bucs still managed to hit an additional six 3-pointers and freshman Greg Surmacz (
Anthony, who finished with a team-high 30 points, bested the school record of seven 3-pointers, which was set by Dimeco Childress against Vanderbilt on
ETSU shot 54 percent from the floor (42-of-78) and 15-of-25 from 3-point range. Meanwhile, the Bucs forced 24 UNCG turnovers, collected 17 steals, and held the Spartans to 45 percent shooting from the floor.
For UNCG, Ronnie Burrell scored a game-high and career-high 33 points, while Ricky Hickman and Ray Bristow pitched in 16 and 12 points, respectively.
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Kiss Wins Audi Melges 20 Nationals For A Consecutive Second Time
18 November 2011
November 13, 2011 (Miami, FL) - The eight-race 2011 U.S. National Championship, hosted by Coconut Grove Sailing Club (CGSC), has completed leaving Michael Kiss on Bacio, along with crew consisting of tactician Chris Rast and Jamie Kimball as winners. Kiss' score line included an impressive four bullets (race wins) and a race to spare. "I really didn't think we'd be able to do it," said Kiss. "But, we did. It was really great and a lot of fun." For Kiss, with this win, he is a back-to-back U.S. National Champion.
In second overall was Marcus Eagan on Cajun Underwriting with and incredible performance on his first time out in the fleet. He superceeded third place finisher Travis Weisleder on Layline.com/Gill Race Team by 15 points.
Sunday, the final day of racing rounded out three days of the same spectacular conditions as days past. A nice, pleasant breeze fluctuating from 12-18 knots under gorgeous sunshine was the perfect complement to Biscayne Bay's flat water. The final two races went to Chuck Holzman on Flyer, who hammered the fleet with speed as his next closest contention was Eagan, placing second in both races. Nathan Hollerbach on FU had an amazing last race finishing third.
A very special thanks goes to PRO Ron Rostorfer and his entire Race Committee staff. The Race Committee work was very organized and well-run making it the best Nationals ever! To all the volunteers at CGSC who made things, just in general run smooth as clockwork, in particular Maryann & Richard Etkin, and Joann Mathieu.
The class would like to also extend gratitude to every participant that made their way to Miami and joined the fleet at such an amazing event.
Again, a very special thanks to fleet newcomer Wes Whitmyer on Slingshot as he sponsored the open bar on Saturday afternoon at Coconut Grove Sailing Club during the after racing social.
TOP TEN RESULTS (Preliminary, After 8 Races, 1 Discard)
1.) Michael Kiss, Bacio; 3-1-1-1-[4]-1-3-[36/DNS] = 14
2.) Marcus Eagan, Cajun Underwriting; 1-5-3-2-5-[10]-2-2 = 20
3.) Travis Weisleder, Layline.com/Gill Racing Team; 5-3-5-[10]-3-3-9-7 = 35
4.) Russell Lucas, Shimmer; 2-[8]-2-5-8-8-7-5 = 37
5.) Paul Reilly, Red Sky Sailing Team; 7-11-[12]-3-1-2-8-6 = 38
6.) Chuck Holzman, Flyer; 4-[19]-8-8-14-5-1-1 = 41
7.) Tony Tabb, Elevation Racing; 13-2-14-4-11-4-[23]-17 = 65
8.) Claudio Recchi, Let's Roll; 11-6-4-7-[17]-12-10-15 = 65
9.) Nathan Hollerbach, FU; 9-9-18-[24]-9-14/RDG-5-3 = 67
9.) Ryan DeVos, Volpe; 6-7-6.5/RDG-11-[19]-14-13-10 = 67.5
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Aaron Swartz's Death Leads To Public Attention Towards Prosecutorial Overreach
from the about-time dept
Perhaps one good thing coming out of all of this however, is that more and more press outlets are suddenly paying attention to the wider issue of prosecutorial overreaction:
By and large, American prosecutors no longer fight their cases at trial. The new dispensation is justice by plea bargain. The more savage the penalties prosecutors can threaten, the more likely the defendant (guilty or innocent) is to speed things along by pleading guilty and accepting a light penalty. According to the Wall Street Journal, Swartz was offered the choice of pleading guilty and going to jail for six to eight months, or else going to trial and taking his chances. The multiple counts and their absurdly savage sentences are best seen, just as the family said, as instruments of intimidation.That same article goes on to note: "And if a prosecutor should turn his righteous all-powerful gaze on you, you're done for." That's it, end of story. The likelihood of winning a case after federal prosecutors take you to court is minimal. And that's waking people up to the fact that the criminal justice system is insane:
The prosecutor's bottom line, apparently, was that Swartz had to go to jail. In my conception of criminal justice, the prosecutor's role is to establish guilt, not pass sentence. Juries have already been substantially dispensed with in this country. (By substantially, I mean in 97 percent of cases.) If prosecutors are not only going to rule on guilt unilaterally but also, in effect, pass sentence as well, one wonders why we can't also dispense with judges.
In recent years, as the Wall Street Journal has documented in a disturbing series of articles, Congress has enabled prosecutorial intimidation by criminalizing ever more conduct, passing laws that provide for or require extreme sentences, and reducing the burden of proof (through expanded application of "strict liability", where lack of criminal intent is no defense).
Notwithstanding the anger that has been unleashed at Ortiz following Aaron Swartz's death, she should not be regarded as an anomaly. As the noted civil-liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate points out in his 2009 book, Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent, federal prosecutors have been given vague, broad powers that have led to outrages against justice across the country.We already covered some of this with Tim Wu's take on the prosecution, but it's still good to see more publications calling for change on this particular issue:
"Wrongful prosecution of innocent conduct that is twisted into a felony charge has wrecked many an innocent life and career," writes Silverglate, a friend and occasional collaborator. "Whole families have been devastated, as have myriad relationships and entire companies."
...whatever opinion one has of Swartz's politics, the American criminal justice system, in its relentlessness and inflexibility, it's unduly harsh sentencing guidelines, requires serious reexamination.Part of that, of course, is getting the DOJ to stop focusing solely on "winning," and get them to start actually look at what is real justice. Instead, it now is clear that the prosecutors on Aaron's case were looking for a "juicy" case so they could get their names in headlines.
Heymann was looking for "some juicy looking computer crime cases and Aaron's case, sadly for Aaron, fit the bill," Peters said. Heymann, Peters believes, thought the Swartz case "was going to receive press and he was going to be a tough guy and read his name in the newspaper."So, now is the time to get beyond just reforming the CFAA or copyright laws or whatnot, but to also look at what can be done to change the situation:
But Swartz's suicide may be the first to generate widespread sorrow and outrage over common prosecutorial tactics that put ordinary as well as extraordinary citizens at risk. The increasingly voluminous federal criminal code, the vagueness of its individual offenses (numbering about 4,500 in 2007), and its harsh mandatory minimum sentences -- combined with failures of Justice Department leadership -- regularly expose law-abiding Americans to prosecution for activities they have no reason to consider illegal.This kind of prosecutorial overreach impacts everyone in serious ways, generating lots of headlines, but doing little to nothing to actually help stop crime.


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I'm keen on an OMD with the 60mm macro. I mainly shoot in shallow water with low visibility. I'm finding it hard to decide between the Olympus PT-EP08 and Nauticam housing.
The Oly is significantly cheaper with the relevant port. Is there any good reason to spend more and go with Nauticam housing?
(Edit: I may also consider the 12-50mm or 8-18mm lens in the future. I believe that the Olympus standard port will accommodate both the 60mm macro and 12-50mm, while the Nauticam needs a port for each lens, making it even more expensive?)
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GILBERT: Big changes are afoot in Waterford
Mark Herne is living proof that you can fight City Hall -- or more precisely, in this case, the Township Hall.
His 11th hour opposition to the special assessment district to help fund Waterford police may have been decisive. The issue failed on a 17,289 to 16,207 vote.
Herne led the effort to distribute 10,000 leaflets criticizing the issue last weekend.
The flyer distributed by the group Waterford Residents for Accountable Politicians, or WRAP, read in part: "We do need to support our police, but in a responsible, less reckless manner. Do not misunderstand -- this new forever tax will be used to bail out the township's reckless budgeting."
The special assessment district would have cost $95.26 per year -- a fairly modest amount -- for a home with a taxable value of $48,853 and generated about $3.6 million in the first year of collection. If the assessment had been approved, township officials said they would recall laid-off officers and hire 18 to 20 additional ones, as well as restore motor carrier enforcement and a 24-hour detention facility.
The township had 106 sworn officers in 2001 and has 48 today, Police Chief Dan McCaw has said.
Everyone knows Waterford needs more police protection. But now it will be back to the drawing board.
As with most municipalities, Waterford could protect itself more efficiently and probably cheaper by contracting with the Oakland County Sheriff's Department. But there appears to be little desire on the part of the citizenry to pursue that option.
The natives were certainly restless on election day in Waterford. They replaced our three-term incumbent Supervisor Carl Solden with Gary Wall.
They also swept out incumbent Trustees David Kramer, David J. Maloney and Bette O'Shea.
The only trustee re-elected, Anthony Bartolotta, said he was very pleased with the election results.
"We're going to have a real good board," he said. But he acknowledged, "our backs are against the wall. We have to balance the budget by year's end."
He said he would like to see an audit of the township's finances.
"The new people have a chance to make some changes," Herne said. "There need to be some housecleanings."
Herne said elected officials had insufficient knowledge of the police department's budget. None of them, for instance, were checking the department's invoices.
"I've been working on this for 12 years," said Herne, who eschews the idea of running for office himself. This time, he said, "I got a lot more help from other people."
"They think it's their right to have our money," Herne said of township officials. "Actually, it's their privilege and they need to spend it wisely."
Herne said that he hopes to meet with Police Chief Dan McCaw to discuss the department. Increasingly, it is going to have to be citizen watchdogs like Herne who will keep an eye on local officials. The Oakland Press last week sponsored a class for aspiring bloggers, offering tips on how to follow local governmental affairs. Several such bloggers have linked to The Oakland Press website.
The key is asking questions and keeping things simple and understandable. In Herne's case, it was basic mathematics, and to him, things weren't adding up.
Certainly Herne isn't the only individual who was speaking out about the police issue. Supervisor-Elect Wall also opposed it.
"I can't support it," Wall said during the campaign. "The reason I can't support it is from a moral standpoint: I support the police department, but there's too many people that can't afford more taxes. There are people losing their houses, seniors on fixed income, people that can barely afford to feed and clothe their children that they're sending to school."
Wall said the township needs to find the money another way.
"I believe there's other places you can look to trim costs, other than asking taxpayers to finance yet another ... a special assessment district ..."
Now, it will be his problem.
Glenn Gilbert is executive editor of The Oakland Press. Contact him at email@example.com or 248-745-4587. Follow him on Twitter @glenngilbert2.


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[2012~KDrama] Big
Title: 빅 / Big
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: KBS2
Broadcast period: 2012-June-04 to 2012-July-24
Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55
Director: Ji Byung-Hyun (Drama Special - Behind the Scenes of the Seokyeong Sports Council Reform~2011, Drama Special - Strawberry Ice Cream~2011, Glad to Love You~2010, Hot Blood~2009, Land of wind~2008, Sassy Girl, Chun-hyang~2005)
Writer: Hong Jeong-Eun, Hong Mi-Ran (Delightful Girl Chun-hyang~2005, My Girl~2005-06, Fantasy Couple~2006, Hong Gil Dong~2008, You're Beautiful~2009, My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho~2010, Best Love~2011)
18 years old Kang Kyung Joon (Shin Won Ho)'s spirit suddenly becomes transplanted in the body of 30 years old Seo Yoon Jae (Gong Yoo). Seo Yoon Jae is a successful doctor and engaged to high school teacher Gil Da Ran (Lee Min Jung). Gil Da Ran just so happens to be the teacher of 18 years old Kang Kyung Joon.
Jang Ma Ri (Bae Suzy) is a girl who love Kang Kyung Joon (Shin Won Ho) and try any effort to escape Kang Kyung Joon's spirit from Seo Yoon Jae's body.
1."Big" takes over the KBS2 Mon & Tue 21:55 time slot previously occupied by "Love Rain".
2.First script reading took place on April 14, 2012 at the KBS Annex building. Screenwriters Hong Jeong-Eun and Hong Mi-Ran, plus cast members Gong Yoo, Lee Min-Jung & Jang Hee-Jin all took part. Singer/actress Bae Suzy also attended to say hi to the other cast members, even though she is on vacation and will not appear until episode 3.
3.Filming first took place at a hospital in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. The scene involved 18-year-old high school student Kang Gyung-Joon (Gong Yoo) first discovering his spirit has been transported into doctor Seo Yoon-Jae (Gong Yoo).
Main Cast
Gong Yoo as Seo Yoon Jae
Lee Min Jung as Gil Da Ran
Bae Suzy as Jang Ma Ri
Jang Hee Jin as Lee Se Young
Shin Won Ho as Kang Kyung Joon
Jang Hyun Sung as Kang Hyuk Soo
Supporting Cast
Go Soo Hee as Lee Gyung Mi
Ahn Suk Hwan as Gil Min Gyu
Yoon Hae Young as Lee Jung Hye
Baek Sung Hyun as Gil Choong Sik
Moon Ji Yoon as Na Hyo Sang
Choi Ran as Kim Yeong Ok
Shin Ji Soo as Lee Ae Kyung
Lee Hee jin (cameo)
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Lee Min Jung Is a Strong Candidate for Hong Sisters' Upcoming Drama
It's been announced that Lee Min Jung is a strong candidate to play the heroine in the Hong Sisters' next drama "Big" (title subject to change). According to a source from KBS, Lee Min Jung received the synopsis and is currently deciding between a movie and drama as her next project.
"Big" will be directed by Ji Byung Hyun, who produced popular series "Delightful Girl Chunhyang" in 2005, and is written by famous sisters Hong Jung Eun and Hong Mi Ran. The sister are the masterminds behind popular trendy dramas like "The Greatest Love," "My Girlfriend is a Gumiho," "You're Beautiful," "My Girl," "Delightful Girl Chunhyang," and more. The upcoming drama will be a Korean version of the fantasy, romance movie "Big," starring Tom Hanks.
The Hong Sisters' "Big" aims to air sometime in June on KBS once Jang Geun Suk and Girls' Generation's YoonA's "Love Rain" ends.
Woot! No better news for the drama year to come. The Hong Sisters writing duo has announced that they'll be back in 2012 with a new drama for KBS. Nothing else has been decided; just that they're going to do a drama. But that's pretty much enough to get the anticipation dial set to 10. The genre, the story, the stars… it's anyone's guess. Will it be another inside look at showbiz like Best Love or You're Beautiful? Or a journey into fantasy like Hong Gil Dong or Gumiho?
People always call various actresses of the day "Rom-Com Queens" (or in Korean, Ro-Co Queen, which always sounds like "loco queen" to me). But I'd venture to say that the real queens of rom-com are the Hong Sisters (Hong Jung-eun and Hong Mi-ran), who have branded their own version of the genre, where the com isn't just an afterthought. They're known for a lot of things — their meta-on-meta in-jokes, their puntastic wordplay, their pop culture savvy — but in the end I think what makes them stand out is that they don't forget the FUNNY.
So many dramas that call themselves rom-coms aren't actually comedies at all. It doesn't mean they aren't good, but they've tended towards the lighthearted feel, rather than laugh-out-loud humor. Sometimes a Hong Sisters drama is as liberal with the toilet jokes as it is with the wordplay, but in the end, I never fail to bust a gut.
Here's a refresher on their impressive resume of seven dramas over the last seven years:
Delightful Girl Chun-hyang, KBS 2005
My Girl, SBS 2005-06
Fantasy Couple, MBC 2006
Hong Gil Dong, KBS 2008
You're Beautiful, SBS 2009
My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho, SBS 2010
Best Love, MBC 2011
Raise your hand if that just made you feel really lazy.
Already the speculation's begun for possible leading men, because as we all know, having a swoonworthy leading man is pretty much a given in a Hong Sisters drama. Oh, like YOU wouldn't use your powers as the queen of rom-com to hire your favorite actors over and over. Of course, it could be anyone, but they do like to reuse familiar faces. Let's see… Lee Dong-wook just came back from the army and tangoed his way to the top of the hot guy food chain. Most recent second-lead Yoon Kye-sang is getting in more comedy practice with High Kick. Once-second-lead Lee Jun-ki is due out of the army in February. Oh, yeah, and there's SEUNG-GI. Do I need to show you the picture with the puppy again? Or maybe they'll surprise us and go with someone totally new. I'm pretty sure I don't care, as long as he's what a Hong Sisters hero always is — funny, and HOT.
Let the fantasy casting rounds begin!
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"Gong Yoo will be playing the role of Seo Yoon Jae, a 30-year-old man who comes to possess the soul of an 18 year old adolescent … Lee Min Jung will be trapped in an absurd situation where her stern 30-year old fiance becomes an 18-year old … miss A's Suzy will take part in the love triangle, who captures the heart of the 18-year old Seo Yoon Jae."
I'm so happy Lee Min Jung picked a rom-com as her next drama project. Those types of dramas suit her the best. Also, I'm happy that Gong Yoo is returning to the small screen. I was worried for awhile that he was ditching the drama world and moving on to bigger and better things (i.e. movies). The Hong sisters have been a hit and miss for me, but I'm optimistic about this cast.
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Baek Sung-hyun joins Big
Baek Sung-hyun (White Christmas) is the latest addition to romantic comedy series Big, which brings him back to the modern times after acting in sageuk cable drama Queen Dowager In-soo. He'll be playing another kid brother to a heroine as Lee Min-jung's trouble-making high schooler dongsaeng.'
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Found the plot moving entertainingly fast... as expected from the Hong sisters.
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I usually find characters similar to Lee Min Jung's character, Gil Da ran, either annoying or frustrating. Especially if they are as beautiful as her, it makes it really difficult to wonder how men are not attracted to her even if her stats are below her peers. She's so pretty and her personality is so warm. She may not be calm and collected, but where she lacks in one area she makes up in other areas. Her character reminds me of Ariel Lin's character (Xiang Qin). Her feelings toward Gong Yoo is parallel to Ariel's love to Joe Cheng (Zhi Shu) in ISWAK. But Lee Min Jung's character has its differences from Ariel's Xiang Qin. All in all, I'd say I enjoy Lee Ming Jung's take on this character so far (being only Episode 2). She is not annoying or frustrating but quite endearing.
Gong Yoo's character is both challenging and fun to play since he has to mimic Shin Won Ho as Kang Kyung Joon. There are times when I see Kang Kyung Joon's character pop up within Gong Yoo, which delights me. But most of the time, I give Gong Yoo the benefit of a doubt that he is possessed by an 18 year old as the story demands. His not so subtle childish behavior though can be a little overbearing considering the sassy and witty Kang Kyung Joon we met at the bus stop and observant student we saw in the classroom watching an emotionally hurt Gil Da Ran being teased by her students for the radio story. Shin Ho Won is the top of his class back in the states. He is not so immature, just very guarded and somewhat damaged from the death of his mom. I can imagine Shin Won Ho acting mad but I can't imagine him pursing his lip and blew making that buzzing sound. (This happened at episode 2). Very immature. I don't think that's within Shin Won Ho's character. I hope Gong Yoo does not go overboard on the immature for his possessed character. I want to see the boy in the man, not the man trying to be a boy. All in all.... I'm lovin' it.
Is it just me? "Uh-oh!" sound so cute every time Kang Kyung Joon's character (both Gong Yoo and Shin Won Ho) says it.
It's such a cute catchphrase!


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In our investigation of graph automorphisms, we've come across the concept of a strong generating set (SGS) for a permutation group. This is a generating set of a special form, which makes certain calculations particularly easy - for example, calculating the order of the group (the number of elements it contains). Our graphAuts algorithm naturally produced a strong generating set for the group. But what if we are just given any old set of generators for a permutation group.
The random Schreier-Sims algorithm is a fast Monte-Carlo algorithm for finding a strong generating set, given a set of generators. Monte-Carlo means that there is a small probability that it will return the wrong answer - in this case, it might return an SGS for a subgroup of the group we are interested in, instead of the whole group. In practice, this isn't an issue. First, we can make the probability of error as small as we like. Second, we usually know the order of the group, so can check whether the SGS is right.
The main function provided in Math.Algebra.Group.RandomSchreierSims is sgs, which takes a set of generators and returns a strong generating set.
(We already have an sgs function in Math.Algebra.Group.SchreierSims. This is guaranteed to give the right answer - but can be significantly slower. So, you have a choice which one to use.)
A projective plane is an incidence structure of points and lines satisfying the following rules:
- Given any two distinct points, there is exactly one line which passes through both
- Given any two distinct lines, there is exactly one point which lies on both
- There exists a quadrangle: a set of four points, no three of which are collinear
(There is another definition of projective plane, in terms of designs, but we haven't covered those yet.)
For any prime power q = p^n, the projective geometry PG(2,Fq) over the finite field Fq is a projective plane. However, it turns out that there are projective planes which are not of this form, associated with algebraic systems called near-fields, which are nearly fields but not quite.
In Math.Projects.MiniquaternionGeometry I construct PG(2,F9), together with three "non-Desarguesian" planes of order 9, based on the near-field J9 of order 9. The name Miniquaternion Geometry comes from the book of that name by Room and Kirkpatrick, because the multiplicative structure of J9 is the same as that of the unit quaternions.
A latin square is an n*n grid, with each cell containing a letter from an alphabet of n letters, such that in each row and in each column, each letter appears exactly once. For example:
1 2 3 4
2 1 4 3
3 4 1 2
4 3 2 1
Two latin squares are orthogonal if, when you superimpose them, each of the n^2 possible letter-pairs appears exactly once in the grid. For example:
1a 2b 3c 4d
2d 1c 4b 3a
3b 4a 1d 2c
4c 3d 2a 1b
It turns out that the existence of mutually orthogonal n*n latin squares is related to the existence of projective planes of order n. Euler's thirty six officers problem asks for a pair of orthogonal latin squares of order 6. It turns out that there is no solution, and this is related to the fact that there is no projective plane of order 6.
(There are projective planes of order q for any prime power q = p^n, and these give rise to mutually orthogonal q*q latin squares. However 6 is not a prime power. It is not known whether there exist projective planes whose order is not a prime power, but it is known by exhaustive computer search that there is no projective plane of order 6, and no pair of mutually orthogonal latin squares of order 6.)
This module lets you construct mutually orthogonal latin squares from projective planes, and other nice stuff.


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Espie Santiago, NACE Guest Blogger, is an assistant director of career counseling at the Stanford University Career Development Center
Twitter: @espie_s
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/espiesantiagoOn Friday, August 23, my colleague Bev Principal and I will be conducting a session on "Strategies to Help Students Get the Most from Their LinkedIn Experience." As career services professionals and employers, we all know that LinkedIn is a mandatory tool in today's job market, but it can be challenging to convince students of its value without structured programs. It's even more challenging when faculty and academic departments on your college campus don't use LinkedIn themselves, and therefore don't support or encourage students to use it. We're excited to share with you how we, at the Stanford University Career Development Center, were able to successfully grow our LinkedIn program amongst students, faculty and staff, thereby helping students get the most from their LinkedIn experience. Ours is one such success story, but we're also anxious to hear anecdotes from others on the do's and don'ts of building social media programs at your respective organizations.
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Claudication is pain in your thigh, calf, or buttocks that happens when you walk. It can make you limp. It may be a symptom of peripheral artery disease (PAD). This is when narrowed or blocked arteries reduce the blood flow to your legs.
At first, claudication pain occurs when you walk a certain distance and goes away when you rest. But as the disease gets worse, the pain can occur when you walk shorter distances. Over time, you may no longer be able to walk because the pain is so severe.
Claudication is linked to health conditions that also increase your risk for heart attack or stroke. So you should be checked and possibly treated for artery disease in other parts of the body.
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is very common, mainly in people over age 50. PAD is caused by narrowed or blocked arteries in the legs or in the body's main artery (the aorta). This can reduce blood flow to muscles in your calf, thigh, or buttocks. This decreased blood flow may cause the pain that leads to claudication.
The blockage usually happens because of narrowed and hardened arteries (atherosclerosis). This is caused by plaque build-up inside the arteries. Plaque is made up of fat, cholesterol, calcium, and other substances in the blood. This plaque build-up can also affect your heart arteries. It can lead to chest pain or a heart attack.
Blockages in the leg are most common in the thigh and behind the knee. But they can also occur in other parts of the body such as the aorta, groin, or belly. You can have more than 1 blockage.
Risk factors for claudication are the same as those for hardened arteries (atherosclerosis). They include:
Claudication is a symptom of a narrowing or blockage of an artery.
Typical symptoms of claudication include:
Pain when you are resting is a sign that your blocked arteries have become worse.
Claudication symptoms may look like other health conditions. Always see your healthcare provider for a diagnosis.
Diagnosis focuses on finding narrowed arteries in your legs. Your healthcare provider will take your medical history and give you an exam. You may also have tests such as:
Your healthcare provider will create a treatment plan for you based on:
Claudication is often first treated by making lifestyle changes. This can reduce your risk factors for peripheral artery disease (PAD). Medicine and surgery may be needed in some cases. Treatment may include:
In severe cases, blood flow may be fully or almost fully blocked. Then a procedure or surgery may be needed. This may include:
In very rare cases, if all other treatments have not worked, the leg may need to be removed (amputated). People who smoke or who have diabetes are at increased risk for amputation.
Hardened arteries (atherosclerosis) that cause claudication in your legs can also affect the blood vessels in your heart and brain. For this reason, it is very important to reduce your risk factors for atherosclerosis. This can help prevent claudication as well as heart attack and stroke.
You can reduce your risk factors by:
If your symptoms get worse or you have new symptoms, call your healthcare provider.
Tips to help you get the most from a visit to your healthcare provider:


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Security footage shows a store clerk chase away a would-be robber with a machete.
A would-be robber was stopped in his tracks when, instead of handing over money, a deli worker pulled out a machete.
Police in Long Island, N.Y., released video surveillance footage today that captures an armed robbery attempt last month. The video shows a man enter a deli holding a gun in one hand and an open bag in the other.
The masked gunman appears to fire a shot at the wall at which time the clerk can be seen bending down behind the counter. Much to the surprise of the would-be robber, the clerk stands back up brandishing a machete and chases the gunman out of the store empty handed.
The date of Aug. 17, 2011 displayed in the video is not correct and is the result of a camera glitch, police confirmed to NBC New York.


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Casino Pays Out in Poker Tourney with Fake Chips
A New Jersey casino is reimbursing players in a poker tournament that was suspended after counterfeit chips were discovered.
More than 2,100 entrants who finished outside the top 450 and played in the same room as the North Carolina man who is accused of introducing the fake chips will get $560, including a refund of their $60 entry fees from the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa.
The final 27 players are to share the remaining prize money, which comes to $19,323 each.
The 423 gamblers who fell outside the top 27 but in the money are not to get further payments. But those who have not been paid will be.
The settlement was ordered by the state Division of Gaming Enforcement.
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The computer made the travel agent virtually obsolete. Netflix NFLX, +0.51% turned the video-store clerk into an endangered species. And nobody even cares about flash drives anymore thanks to the cloud.
So, will Google's GOOG, +0.83% driverless car send the driver's ed instructor the way of the dinosaur? Driver's ed teachers do not seem too concerned.
This week, Google debuted a prototype for a car that drives itself. The tiny, two-seater car has no steering wheel or accelerator and brake pedals, and instead depends on its internal software and sensors to find its way. Currently, its speed maxes out at 25 miles an hour. "We're planning to build about a hundred prototype vehicles, and later this summer, our safety drivers will start testing early versions of these vehicles that have manual controls," said Chris Urmson, director of Google's self-driving car project, in a blog post. Google expects to sell its self-driving cars to the public as early as 2017. And Google isn't the only player in this world: auto makers including General Motors, Audi and Toyota have been pouring resources into driverless-car research.
If the car of the future doesn't need a driver, will there still be a need to teach people how to drive? More simply: Will driver's education, once a rite of passage for many American teens, go the way of the milk man?
The idea that we would be chauffeured around by robots comes at a time that driver's ed is struggling. In 2009, driving school revenue hit $785.9 million, but this year, research firm IBISWorld predicts revenue of just $773.1 million.
Brandon Ruiz, a lead analyst at IBISWorld, says that this is due to the fact that vehicle and gas prices are increasing; that has led to operators raising prices, and in turn, people shying away from driving instruction courses (at least in the 13 states where it's entirely or mostly optional).
Millennials and subsequent generations may be driving this trend in more ways than one.
"For the younger generations, the prices are going up so much that they have a hard time paying for them," Ruiz says. Plus, young people are moving to walkable communities, sharing cars and using alternate transportation, all of which doesn't help driver's ed. Indeed, just 79% of people aged 20-24 had a driver's license in 2011, down from 92% in 1983, according to a study by the University of Michigan's Transportation Studies Institute.
Indeed, the driver's ed industry — long dependent on the youth of America — has seen declines so steep that some businesses are shutting down: "Due to budget cuts, many schools are eliminating their drivers' ed programs," says Katie Frassinelli, a spokesperson for the National Corvette Museum, which hosts a number of driving courses.
Some experts say that driverless cars could — at least one day — accelerate the contraction of this already weakened industry. Ruiz says that while it will be far in the future before most Americans are driving autonomous cars, when they do, it won't be good news for the industry. "Driverless cars may eliminate lots of driver-related jobs, driver's school employment included," he says.
But many members of the driver's ed community are singing a different tune. "I have no worries about it personally," says Sharon Fife, the past president of the Driving School Association of the Americas and owner of a driving school — who says that even if these cars do come to market, there are serious questions of affordability and widespread adoption. And even if the cars are widely adopted, Fife says, "people are still going to need some kind of instruction…you still have to be smarter than the vehicle." Or, as automotive analyst Lauren Fix points out, "airplanes practically fly themselves and we still train pilots."
Most experts agree that self-driving cars, if nothing else, will change the nature of driver's ed. "Programming the car, how to override the pilot system, what to do when things don't go according to plan…that might be the focus of training," says Greg Hallinan, the CMO of Carlsbad, Calif.-based driving school I Drive Safely.
Others go one step further, suggesting that autonomous cars might be a boon to driver's ed businesses. William Van Tassel, the manager of driver training for the AAA National Office, says that it's likely that self-driving cars will have both manual and autonomous components, which will mean that drivers may need more skills. "This could make driver's ed more important," he says.
Whatever the outcome, one thing seems pretty clear: Self-driving cars could make the world safer a safer place than millions of driver's ed courses ever could. "It's the safest driver I've ever ridden with," says John Ulczycki, a vice president of the National Safety Council, who rode in Google's new self-driving car prototype this month. "It [the car] handled situations probably even better than we teach in driver's ed."
More must-reads from MarketWatch:
What's missing in Google's self-driving cars
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Featured Ingredient: Spinach
Why does Popeye the Sailor Man eat spinach? We know that it's to recharge his superhuman strength so he can win over a certain lady. Apparently, the creator of Popeye made the strongman's main fuel spinach because it was believed back in the day that spinach was abundant in iron. Now, nutritionists know that the leafy green is not a very good source of iron and the plant contains compounds that reduce its absorption.
Regardless of its iron content, spinach is indeed a powerfood. A serving of the verdant vegetable contains an abundance of beta-carotene, vitamin K used for blood clotting and bone strength as well as folate, a B vitamin shown to reduce the risk for a number of different cancers. All the more reason to add spinach to plenty of recipes, including, surprisingly, muffins.
It's been a long time since I made a batch of savory muffins, so when I saw an amazing idea for one with spinach, roasted red pepper and feta in the pages of Bon Appetit magazine, I knew it might just be winner. These muffins are great for packing with your lunch as they work both cold and warm. I believe they would also be wonderful with gorgonzola cheese in replace of the feta. This recipe is just another example of where you can swap out the nutritionally poor all-purpose flour for more wholesome whole wheat with great results.
Does anyone out there in the cyber world have any other ideas for tasty savory muffins?
Savory Spinach Feta Pepper Muffins
2 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
1/4 cup sugar (I used turbinado)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon cayenne
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup milk or unsweetened non-dairy beverage
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 large eggs
1 cup thinly sliced baby spinach leaves, stems removed
3/4 cup crumbled feta cheese
1/2 cup chopped roasted red peppers from a jar
Preheat oven to 375F. In a large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, cayenne, and salt. In a separate bowl, whisk together egg, milk and oil. Add dry ingredients to wet and mix gently until flour is incorporated. Fold in spinach, feta and red pepper. Divide among 12 muffin cups and bake for about 20 minutes, or until golden on top and a tester comes out clean. Let cool before unmolding.


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Refugee supporters claim the immigration department had put a "freeze" on the application of a now-deceased Sri Lankan asylum seeker because he had reached the Australian mainland.
Leorsin Seemanpillai, 29, set himself alight on Saturday.
He was living in Geelong waiting for his application for a protection visa to be finalised.
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has cautioned against drawing conclusions about what drove Mr Seemanpillai to self harm.
There had been no visa decision nor had he been told he was being deported.
"This is a terrible and tragic incident and none of us can know the mind of someone in this situation," he told reporters in Canberra on Monday.
But Asylum Seeker Resource Centre spokeswoman Pamela Curr blames processing delays on the application of Mr Seemanpillai, whose boat reached Darwin in January 2013.
Ms Curr understands all asylum seekers who made it to Australia after August 2012 but before the federal parliament passed laws to excise the mainland in May 2013 have had their applications frozen.
"We don't know but maybe Leo would still be alive if his claims were being processed in a timely way," Ms Curr told AAP.
"These direct-entry people were all frozen."
The no-advantage test introduced by the Gillard government in August 2012 did not apply to asylum seekers who reached the mainland.
It was aimed at ensuring those who arrived by boat were not advantaged over people waiting in refugee camps.
Ms Curr said it was six months before Mr Seemanpillai had been allowed to make his refugee status claim and after 18 months he still hadn't had an official interview.
A spokeswoman for Mr Morrison denied direct-entry cases had been frozen.
Australian Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young said the cruelty of the Abbott Government's refugee policy was pushing people to breaking point
"It's clear that Leo was a casualty of the system," Senator Hanson-Young said.
The minister hit back at what he considered the politicising of the death.
"If they are then that is a disgraceful and grubby and despicable thing for the Greens to do," he told Sky News.
Mr Seemanpillai had been receiving community mental health support "for some time" and was in contact with a case worker as late as last Friday.
There was nothing to indicate during those meetings he had intended to take his own life.
Mr Morrison said he was satisfied Mr Seemanpillai had received adequate assistance while on the bridging visa, with work rights and ongoing mental health support.
The department will conduct a review of the arrangements.
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it cracks me up when people think they are so much smarter than the books and... yea the books made SF the favorite because they think Baltimore should be the favorite... that's how it works!
holy crap!
sorry i cant resist .. lol
looked to me when it was 21 - 6 at halftime that vegas INDEED MADE THE WRONG TEAM THE FAVORITE .. ? did a light come on in your head at any point in this tender window of time ? the power outage was the outside mitigating factor thrown in to kill the ravens blowout of the mighty nfc team from the happy city ..
should we get into why the lights went out ? i would not know the answer right ? because i am not living in the state of nevada ? or in new orleans ? or i would not know because i dont have any family members that work for cbs , tony gotti banditto or tony the tiger .. ooh , i know but i dont have to let you know .. haha (that was fun) trying not to be too aggressive , is work yes .. 1
You know what Duh4u - I'm sorry, I owe you a HUGE apology. I don't know why it took me this long to pick up on all the signs:
*You're mulitple references to "Brokeback Mountain"
*You're flat out angry hatred of my sexy ladies avatars
*You're constant stalking, badgering and trolling of all the male cappers in here
*Finally, the "piece de resistance", you let it slip about some romantic sailing weekend to the Catalina Islands with someone named "Luigi"?
I know you're trying your hardest to suppress your feelings, but why don't you just come on out of that closet. The door is obviously wide open now. It's O.K., no judgement from me, I'm sure all of us have a friend or family member with an "alternative" lifestyle.....
Oh, and since you can't seem to find a worthy avatar of your own, I've come up with a couple for you:
- - maybe this is your style?
- - maybe this?
- - or maybe start small, like this?
.....and with this final gloriously crafted post that I'm sure you will read over and over again, The Quad will exit, only to return next football season to start the fun all over again.........


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Summer food program for children
The Nespelem School District announces the sponsorship of the Simplified Summer Food Program for Children. Meal will be made available at no charge to attending children under 19 years of age. All meals are available with out regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs) To file a complaint of discrimination, write USDA Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue S.W. Washington D.C. 20250-9410 or call 866-632-9992(Voice) or 800-877-8339 (TDD). The USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.
Times & Dates are subject to change.
Meals will be provided at the following locations:
Nespelem School District 229 School House Loop 509-634-4541 Breakfast & Lunch
Colleen's Day Care 24 Wild Horse Lane 509-634-4607 Lunch Only 11:30-12:30
Dates & Times of availability: No Meals will be served on Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
June 18 through July 26, 2012 Breakfast @ Nespelem School only 8:00-9:00 Lunch 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.


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