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Motor Training to Treat Hand Dystonia
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First Posted : August 9, 2001
Last Update Posted : March 4, 2008
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This study will evaluate the effect of motor training on focal hand dystonia in people with writer's cramp and will examine whether this training affects excitability of the motor cortex of the brain. In dystonia, muscle spasms cause uncontrolled twisting and repetitive movement or abnormal postures. Focal dystonia involves just one part of the body, such as the hand, neck or face. Patients with focal hand dystonia have difficulty with individualized finger movements, which may be due to increased excitability of the motor cortex.
Patients with hand dystonia 21 years of age or older may be eligible for this 2-month study. Those taking botulinum toxin injections must stop medication 3 months before entering the study.
Participants will undergo a complete neurologic examination. They will undergo motor training with "constraint-induced movement therapy." This therapy involves constraining some fingers while allowing others to move. Participants will have the following tests and procedures at baseline (before motor training), after 4 weeks of motor training, and again after 8 weeks:
- Handwriting analysis - A computerized program evaluates the degree of "automatic movements" the patient uses in writing, as well as writing pressure and speed.
- Symptoms evaluation - Patients fill out a written questionnaire about symptoms and rate their improvement, if any, after training.
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation - The patient is seated in a comfortable chair, and an insulated wire coil is placed on the scalp. Brief electrical currents pass through the coil, creating magnetic pulses that travel to the brain. These pulses generate very small electrical currents in the brain cortex, briefly disrupting the function of the brain cells in the stimulated area. The stimulation may cause muscle twitching or tingling in the scalp, face, arm or hand. During the stimulation, the patient is asked to slightly tense certain muscles in the hand or arm or perform simple actions. Electrodes are taped to the skin over the muscles activated by the stimulation, and the electrical activity in the muscles will be recorded with a computer.
- Electroencephalogram (EEG) - Wire electrodes are taped to the scalp or placed on a Lycra cap the patient wears to record the brain's electrical activity.
Participants will have 50-minute motor training sessions 3 times during the first week of the study, twice the second week and once each in weeks 3 and 4. In addition, they will be required to practice the training at home for 25 minutes each day during week 1 and 50 minutes each day for the remaining 3 weeks. Fingers not being trained will be splinted.
|Condition or disease
|Focal Dystonia
|Behavioral: constraint-induced movement therapy
|Phase 2
Dystonia is a movement disorder characterized by sustained muscle contractions generating twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures. Abnormalities of the motor cortex have been shown in patients with focal hand dystonia. In addition it is well known that dystonic patients have co-contraction of their antagonist muscles, and that individualized finger movements are imprecise and difficult. Motor training such as "constraint-induced movement therapy" has been described to be successful in patients with musician's cramp. We therefore hypothesize that motor training with training of individualized finger movements could improve focal hand dystonia in patients with writer's cramp. We propose to study one group of twelve patients with either pure or dystonic writer's cramp. Patients will receive individualized finger training with immobilization of fingers that are not in training. Evaluation for improvement will be done with a handwriting analysis program developed by Mai and Marquardt, and clinical evaluation with the Fahn-Dystonia Scale.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies have shown that patients with dystonia have less intracortical inhibition compared with normal subjects, leading to excessive cortical activity and possibly to co-contraction of agonist-antagonist groups of muscles of the forearm resulting in dystonic posturing. Furthermore, studies in other basal ganglia disorders as well as dystonia have suggested that the movement related cortical potentials might show plastic changes that reflect the degree of "successful" performance of a motor task. We therefore would like to evaluate the excitability of the motor cortex before and after the training with TMS and movement related cortical potentials.
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|Motor Training as Treatment of Focal Hand Dystonia
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A while back, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts started up their Guru lecture series where greats from the world of film- and television-making would speak on their inspirations and insights from each medium.
Now, BAFTA's a clever outfit, one that's given out awards to video games for the last eight years. Impressive, no? That'd be like the people in charge of the Oscars doling out recognition for a title like, say, Limbo.
So, knowing what they know, BAFTA's also invited luminaries from the world of video game design to talk to their members. BioWare's co-founders were among the games folk who spoke and the clip above shows snippets of the lecture and Q&A with Drs. Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka. The partners cite a quote from Russian literary legend Leo Tolstoy to explain why they believe video games can be art. It may not be a debate that rages with the white-hot heat of a few years back, but Zeschuk and Muzyka's comments show that games needn't be thought of as so different from other forms of creativity.
The whole BioWare BAFTA lecture can be seen here, along with clips from past lectures.
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ROCHESTER — Karen Malsbenden wants to build something. It's just going to take time.
Now in her third year as the head coach of the Spaulding High School girls varsity basketball team, Malsbenden returns seven players from last year's 1-17 team. The Red Raiders went 4-14 in her first season and made the Division I tournament as the 16th and final seed.
"We're moving in the right direction," she said. "We're building the foundation and the girls are working hard. It's positive."
The seven players returning are seniors Seana Flynn (forward), Kara Lavertu (guard/forward), Brooke Lawler (guard), Chloe Routhier (guard) and Ashley Lemery (guard/forward), junior Lyndsee Thompson (forward) and sophomore Emily Benway (guard/forward).
Newcomers include juniors Jane Douglas (guard), Dana Tremblay (forward), Brittnie Gentry (guard) and Sydnee Thompson (forward) and sophomore guard Jade Lawler.
The Red Raiders have some decent size led by 6-2 Lyndsee Thompson. Guard play will provide the challenge in D-I.
"We're working hard on breaking the press and making good decisions," Malsbenden said. "We're working hard and being accountable. We're going to win some games. We've been working on fundamentals the last couple years. Now we're working on Xs and Os, so we have some options for offense and defense. We have more strategy. It's fun. The girls are starting to see that and are having fun."
Malsbenden said, "the program as whole, including the younger girls, we're starting to establish expectations and they are starting to meet them.
"We're looking to change the perception of Spaulding basketball in New Hampshire," she added. "But we don't want to get ahead of ourselves. I've got to hand it to the girls, they are responding."
Spaulding opened the season with a 50-37 loss to Nashua South at home. The Red Raiders host Timberlane Friday.
Spaulding's program has had very little success in its 40-plus year history. The best stretch for the Red Raiders came in the mid 1990s when they made four straight trips to the then Class L tournament, which included tournament wins in three of those four seasons. The 1996-97 team, led by all-state guard and 1,000-point scorer Kelly Donohue (who later played four years on the UNH women's team) had an overall record of 18-5, the best in program history. That year, No. 5 Spaulding won its first-round game over Manchester West at home, before losing in the quarters at No. 4 Londonderry. The Red Raiders have not won a playoff game since.
Unfortunately, after that season the Red Raiders went 10 years without making the tournament. At one point they went 2-70 in Class L and had a 37-game Class L losing streak.
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PC manufacturers were thrown off by Windows 8 and its new touch-friendly face, which has given the PC industry what it needed to bring the PC forward into the mobile device space. The PC's long term success hinges on its ability to evolve, both in form factor and functionality. Boxes have largely given way to all-in-ones, laptops to Ultrabooks, and so on. Innovation often equals experimentation, and so PC makers have been throwing various PC designs against the wall to see what will stick. There's no question the tablet is the next evolution, but the PC is having a hard time finding a tablet form factor that truly embraces the versatility of Windows. The current crop of devices tend to make tradeoffs, some due to hardware and some due to the maturity of Windows as a legacy desktop OS. The modern side of Windows 8 is best enjoyed on a tablet, while laptop form factors tend to fare better with legacy programs and the desktop in general. Naturally, given Windows' dominance over the past 15 years, slate tablets running Windows RT haven't had the best of luck competing with devices from Apple and Android and their vast app stores. X86 slates, like Microsoft's own Surface Pro, offer the full PC experience like backwards compatibility and performance, but currently at the sacrifice of battery life. Read our complete review here.
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#281 Posted Dec 06 2016 - 19:10
#282 Posted Dec 06 2016 - 20:28
Nobodys_Hero, on Dec 06 2016 - 13:10, said:
Arent you cheerful!
Give it some time.
The first wave was limited, to ensure a minimum of mistakes.
252 people received a ban, and over 1,700 were disqualified from the Top Tanker event.
I'd say it is a pretty good start.
Can't wait to see what the second wave will look like.
#283 Posted Dec 09 2016 - 05:32
#284 Posted Dec 10 2016 - 18:01
#285 Posted Dec 11 2016 - 03:17
Here is a question to the devs but I don't know if they will answer.
Are you catching players with cheats with your new fair play system?
Is it working to your liking?
Are there a lot of cheaters caught? Yes or no.
#286 Posted Dec 11 2016 - 20:52
#287 Posted Dec 11 2016 - 21:16
#288 Posted Dec 11 2016 - 21:18
#289 Posted Dec 13 2016 - 14:19
Still no answer from the devs.
Sort of like the Canadian government.
Send me your tax money we know what is best for you,
It is too complicated you would not understand.
#290 Posted Dec 14 2016 - 19:12
Wtornado, on Dec 10 2016 - 19:17, said:
Here is a question to the devs but I don't know if they will answer.
Are you catching players with cheats with your new fair play system?
Is it working to your liking?
Are there a lot of cheaters caught? Yes or no.
We have published the information about the first wave on the portal. The system works, so the answer is yes.
#291 Posted Dec 14 2016 - 20:08
#292 Posted Dec 14 2016 - 20:48
#293 Posted Dec 14 2016 - 23:41
there are 3 of us at my house that play, my account since 2011. i never used to add mods at all. as the game changed it has become so laggy for me and the other 2 that we simply cannot aim in most situations without the use of aa+. so when an update comes out we have to wait for the mod to be updated to play.
so i guess we're done with tanks very sad. for the loss of a hugely enjoyable pass time and the thousands of dollars invested.
i have never understood why a mod that is available for free to anyone to use would be considered an advantage.
Edited by cactus27, Dec 14 2016 - 23:42.
#294 Posted Dec 15 2016 - 00:01
So this is what I gather from all the posts on this topic. @GhostPrime please correct me if I am wrong and please fill in the blanks...
Dead White/Grey Tanks - Legal
BattleAssist - Legal
AA+ - Illegal
2D HitSkins - Under Review (i.e. Legal for now)
3D Hitskins - Illigal
Any Reload Indicator - Illegal
Damaged Received Panel - Legal as long as it does not indicate Player name
Visual Mods such as Reticles - Legal
Visual Mods that alter/remove terrain - Illegal
Visual Mods that make terrain features more visible such as indistructable objects or train cars - ???
Directional Hit Indicators (Red Arrows) - Legal
Zoom Out - Legal
Zoom in beyond vanilla - Illegal
MiniMap mods that Show Last known Location - Legal
MiniMap Mods that show direction - Illegal
Garage Mods (Carousel, Armour Skins etc.) - Legal
Safe Shot - Legal
Tank Info Panels (penetration numbers of an enemy gun, the armor for the front/side/rear armor and the weight) - Legal
I am not sure if i am missing any popular mods that are out there.
But I think the players would like to finally get a clear answer of what is allowed and what isn't, rather then these vague guidelines that have been plaguing this issue for way to long.
In addition, seeing the amount of ongoing confusion on this issue I personally believe a three strike Policy rather then two would be more appropriate, with the first one being a simple warning or 1 day ban. Along with at a minimal explanation of what the player did wrong.
There just isn't enough clarity to just outright ban a huge group of your main player base.
Edited by Thor_101, Dec 15 2016 - 06:14.
#295 Posted Dec 15 2016 - 10:06
pretty sure the
Mini map mod that shows last known is classified as Illegal
I think I read it in one of the things WG posted around the Top tanker thing.
I rarely run mods, every now and again run a few just before a big patch then don't run with mods for a long while.
now I'm mod less again and either way doesn't bother me or effect my game play since I run little things like XVM
#296 Posted Dec 15 2016 - 10:09
Here's some examples of negative gameplay advantages from the third category. Players found using them will be penalized:
- Revealing the positions of enemies in a way not included in the vanilla client. Marking objects destroyed on the map and minimap in real-time by altering the display of shell flight tracers or calculating the position of enemy artillery with tracers and marking them, as well as those that keep spotted vehicles displayed, even when not aiming at them
- Making it easier to block an enemy's shell by indicating their exact aiming point (for example, with a laser beam)
- Alerting you when spotted vehicles are reloading, including displaying an enemy's reloading timer
- Auto-aim, or "aimbots" that provide more functionality than the "aim lock" in the vanilla client, specifically those that aim at the enemy's weak spots or automatically lead the aim so the offending player can focus on maneuvering their tank
- Enabling automatic use of non-Premium consumables
- Aiding in finding enemies by letting you adjust the transparency of objects on the map
- Leaving "ghosts" of enemy vehicles on the battlefield where they were last detected
- Any direct alteration of the physical properties, performance characteristics, or effects of any vehicle or object in the game, or otherwise subverting the game rules
Copied from the fair play policy news article.
#297 Posted Dec 15 2016 - 17:03
#298 Posted Dec 15 2016 - 18:24
Rawrlynn, on Dec 15 2016 - 04:06, said:
pretty sure the
Mini map mod that shows last known is classified as Illegal
I think I read it in one of the things WG posted around the Top tanker thing.
I rarely run mods, every now and again run a few just before a big patch then don't run with mods for a long while.
now I'm mod less again and either way doesn't bother me or effect my game play since I run little things like XVM
Last known location is part of the vanilla client, if you don't have it on your minimap then you are doing yourself a dis-service. It's there along with range circles, etc...
#299 Posted Dec 16 2016 - 06:55
First time posting here - I don't see any other way of reaching out to Wargaming.
Dear Wargaming,
I'm greatly disappointed in your change in policy banning auto aim mods which in the past were not considered illegal.
Before using the mod I was careful to search online to ensure there were no official posts that it was illegal only to find
that you've now changed the rules. I consider this unfair.
I've been using this mod for most of 2016 and have no interest in re-learning how to play parts of the game in which I'm used to
engaging auto aim while the cursor is near a target without it being directly on the target.
I will not be paying for anything else in this game until your in game auto aim is improved or this mod is considered legal again.
ps - Your initial posting online giving examples of which modes were illegal did not list this as an example.
So I didn't even realize there was a new ruling until this new patch came out and I can no longer find the mod
Truly sloppy.
#300 Posted Dec 16 2016 - 16:13
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Morgan Freeman will not play god or the president in the upcoming sci-fi flick "Transcendence". The film tells the story of a scientist who's brain is uploaded into a computer after he is killed by terrorists. Truth be told it hasn't been revealed what role Freedman will play so there is still a solid chance he could play the president, god or some sort of god/president hybrid here. I just like to think outside the box now and then.
Sunn Classic Pictures has gone ahead and dropped word that they intend to move forward with a remake of the 1983 classic killer dog flick "Cujo". Based on a Stephen King story, Sunn Classic is the same group that released the original and decided to hold on to the rights to the picture in the hopes that in 20 years we'd be remaking every horror film ever made. Well planned fellas.
If you loved last year's surprise gushable fan boy favorite "Dredd 3D" then you're in luck because a sequel is currently in the works and will drop this September. Of course the sequel will be in comic book form and instead of being able to watch cool stuff fly around the screen you'll have to read words and look at tiny stupid drawn pictures but still. Ya know what no I can't even joke about this. This is just awful and only exciting to virgins.
"Stripped", a new horror flick set in Vegas has been confirmed to be hitting DVD this coming May 14th. The flick follows a group of friends who find themselves in the company of strippers who also happen to take the vital organs of their clients. I'll be honest this movie doesn't sounds very good and I'll most likely never see it but I will read just about any article that mentions strippers.
It's often been said that if Johnny Depp and Christopher Nolan ever teamed up the world would explode from all the hot action that would be produced. Well folks get ready for the end of time because it's happening. The movie is "Transcendence" and I think it has something to do with a super computer that gets put inside a dead person or something. I'm not really sure. Truth be told I started reading the description and I started to daydream about Depp's gentle soft smile.
Gillian Anderson has been confirmed to be taking on a multi-episode role in the upcoming NBC show "Hannibal". The show is based on the much loved Hannibal Lecter character and Anderson will play the role of the good doctor's therapist. Funny story. I always get Gillian Anderson and Marlee Matlin mixed up so for a second I thought Lecter's therapist was going to be a deaf woman which I thought was kind of crazy. Good story huh?
ABC has given the thumbs up to a new zombie outbreak series titled "The Returned". Based on a novel by Jason Mott the show will focus on a small town in the Midwest where the dead return to change the lives of those they left behind. Kind of like "Pushing Daises" I'm guessing, only still on the air.
Want to know even more casting news for "Insidious Chapter 2"? Well Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson and Andrew Astor will all be returning for the second installment of the film and I have absolutely no idea who they are or what roles they played. They all have really weird names though huh? Angus. Sounds like dangus. That's funny.


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My days tend to involve a lot of different projects because, well, I'm involved in a lot of different projects! So to put my posts in some context, I figured I'd start by introducing myself and the projects that I'm currently working on.
My name is Emily Jones, and I'm a zooarchaeologist – in other words, my specialty is looking at animal bones from archaeological sites to learn about past human-environment interactions. (You can learn lots more about zooarchaeology at the website for the International Council for Zooarchaeology). I do go into the field from time to time, but most days I'm either 1) in the lab, identifying animal bones; 2) in the office, doing statistical analyses of the data generated by (1); or 3) in the office, writing up the results of (1) and (2), for technical reports, for scientific publications, or for the public. Right now, I have two major projects in process: I'm working on the statistical analysis of a collection from Spain (stage 2), deposited about 15,000 years ago, and I'm in stage 1 (that is, identification) on a collection from Navajo-affiliated sites (dating to the 16th and 17th centuries A.D.) here in New Mexico. I'll be doing some work on both these projects during the Day of Archaeology!
As well as being a zooarchaeologist, I teach. In a month, I'll be teaching a class in introductory zooarchaeological analysis for the University of New Mexico's Department of Anthropology, here in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. And as the time till class begins is getting shorter and shorter, I'll be working on this as well.
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Eric Drexler proposed in 1981 that molecular objects could be mechanically positioned to atomic precision to effect controlled site-specific synthetic reactions to build complex objects. In 1986 Drexler gave the name assembler to devices that "will be able to bond atoms together in virtually any stable pattern." In Nanosystems, published in 1992, Drexler presented a detailed technical analysis of the process of molecular manufacturing that assemblers would make possible. More recent studies ["Safe exponential manufacturing" by Chris Phoenix and Eric Drexler, 2004, Nanotechnology 15 869-872] have emphasized the advantages of desktop nanofactories over microscopic self-replicating machines.
Although no flaws in this analysis have been suggested, a number of prominent scientists made unsupported claims that molecular manufacturing is infeasible, and the wider scientific community failed to take the prospect of molecular manufacturing seriously. For example, an otherwise visionary NSF study, published in 2002, titled Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance (see Update 49) fails to mention molecular assemblers. More recently, however, a review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative conducted by the National Research Council called for experimentation toward molecular manufacturing (see Nanodot post).
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Not a lot of happy Canadians over on the comments page for CBC Radio's program Spark. The producers for the radio show, blog, and podcast on technology issues have disclosed that the program won't be using Creative Commons licensed materials any more.
The mention came after a fan posted that he couldn't locate mention of the Creative Commons music used in the episode.
"I can't find the link?" he noted. "Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place?"
"You're not looking in the wrong place," came a reply. "There's simply no Creative Commons music used in this episode. By management decree, CBC podcasts are no longer permitted to use CC music. Instead, we're using the APM Music library (http://www.apmmusic.com/), which is copyright cleared and fully licensed by the CBC."
CC licenses let artists offer more flexible and open copyright arrangements for users. The revelation of the ban, of course, generated protest from various commentators.
"What an unbelievably dumb idea," declared copyright activist Russell McOrmand. "Great way to have people become less supportive of CBC's taxpayer subsidised budget: making sure that money is wasted in as many ways possible."
"Hi, Russell," responded CBC staffer Lily Mills. "It turned out that our use of Creative Commons licensed music was going against some of the details in collective agreements we hold with certain talent agencies. As such, we had to discontinue our use of it."
"That isn't a good enough answer," McOrmand replied. "If ACTRA or some other union is making such demands in contracts, then we have the right to see them. Please post a link to the contract so that I and the lawyers at Creative Commons Canada can read and respond."
Eventually CBC Programming Director Chris Boyce chimed in with a statement:
The issue with our use of Creative Commons music is that a lot of our content is readily available on a multitude of platforms, some of which are deemed to be 'commercial' in nature (e.g. streaming with pre-roll ads, or pay for download on iTunes) and currently the vast majority of the music available under a Creative Commons license prohibits commercial use.
In order to ensure that we continue to be in line with current Canadian copyright laws, and given the lack of a wide range of music that has a Creative Commons license allowing for commercial use, we made a decision to use music from our production library in our podcasts as this music has the proper usage rights attached.
Everyone can rest easy—there are no 'groups' setting out to stop the use of Creative Commons music at the CBC, and we will continue to use Creative Commons licensed music, pictures etc. across a number of our non-commercial platforms.
You can read the rest of the thread to get the responses to this explanation. Whatever you think about the issue, give some credit to CBC's responsive staff. Hard to imagine this kind of give and take on a National Public Radio page.
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A week after Vancouver Whitecaps FC and Seattle Sounders FC dueled in Major League Soccer (MLS) action at BC Place, the rivalry continues at the U-23 level on Friday as the 'Caps and Sounders face off in the United Soccer Leagues (USL) Premier Development League (PDL). The match kicks off at 7 p.m. PT across the border at Curtis High School in the city of University Place, Washington.
On Wednesday, Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23 hosted Kitsap Pumas on a rainy evening at Percy Perry Stadium in Coquitlam. In the end, the match ended in a 1-1 draw with Cody Cook scoring for the 'Caps.
Cook entered the game for Kianz Froese at halftime, and in minute 62 this substitution paid off when Cook responded and scored off of a free kick by Marco Bustos.
After playing in front of the home fans, Whitecaps FC will head south to play cross-border rivals Sounders FC U-23. So far this season, the 'Caps hold a 0W-1L-2D away record. Though they have had strong performances, Vancouver are eagerly looking forward to adding a victory to their overall record of 0W-2L-3D to start this 2014 United Soccer Leagues (USL) Premier Development League (PDL) season.
"We have some very young players who are playing and we have to remember that this is a development league," Thompson said. "It's to get our U-18s and our young pros to the next level and playing this type of physical team is going to help our development."
Highlights from Sounders FC U-23 last match vs. Puget Sound
Early on in the 2014 PDL season, Sounders FC U-23 hold a 0W-2L-0D record, positioning them at the bottom of the Western Conference Northwest Division.
The Sounders have fallen to defeat in both of their matches, a 1-0 loss to newcomers Lane United of Oregon and a 3-2 loss at home to nearby rival Puget Sound Gunners FC. Mohammed Dumbuya and Luis Esteves scored against Puget Sound.
In their debut 2012 PDL season – after being rebranded from Tacoma Tide – Sounders FC U-23 finished in first place in the Northwest Division and made it all the way to the league semifinals before losing 3-2 to Forest City London.
Entering the third season of their rivalry at the PDL level, Whitecaps FC U-23 have a 1W-2L-1D record against their Cascadia foes. The 'Caps won their most recent contest, beating the Sounders 4-2 at Thunderbird Stadium on June 21, 2013.
Whitecaps FC U-23 return to action this coming Tuesday, June 3 for another road match. The 'Caps will again head south to face Washington Crossfire at Redmond High School, with kickoff set for 7 p.m. PT.


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A West Monroe man was sentenced on Jan. 3 for violating the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act in the Federal Western District Court of Louisiana in Monroe.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen Hayes ordered Jeffrey M. Miles, 23, to pay a $2,525 fine, to serve three years of unsupervised probation and revoked his hunting privileges for three years for shooting a mature bald eagle in Franklin Parish on April 4, 2011.
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Enforcement Division agents initiated the investigation on April 4 after finding a dead bald eagle in a drainage ditch along Camphouse Road.
After a thorough investigation and receiving tips from the public through the department's Operation Game Thief hotline, agents were able to cite Miles on April 22 for violating the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. Miles entered a guilty plea on Sept. 19.
U.S. Assistant District Attorney Cytheria Jernigan prosecuted the case.
Agents participating in the case were Capt. Alan Bankston, Lt. Scott Watson, Senior Agent Albert Tarver and Senior Agent Johnny Wilson. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Senior Agent Kash Schriefer also assisted in the case.
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"Human-robot Teaming for Rescue Missions: Team ViGIR's Approach to the 2013 DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials", Journal of Field Robotics, p. 26 pages, 2014.,
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – There are many reasons for the Vancouver Canucks' inability to win hockey games since mid-February.
The power play is one. It's 0-for-16 in the last seven games and sat 20th in the NHL based on Friday's numbers. It's been beaten to death.
Overtime and shootout failures are another. The Canucks have lost six of nine games beyond regulation and four straight when it's been tied after 60 minutes.
And here's one more: Canuck third-line players haven't scored since the month of January. Zack Kassian has five goals but none since Jan. 30. Max Lapierre has one goal. It came on Jan. 30. David Booth has no goals in eight games since returning from a training camp groin injury.
You can throw rookie Jordan Schroeder in there, too. He sometimes skates with Booth and Kassian on the third line in offensive-zone situations. He has two goals but none since Feb. 9.
The odd goal from a third-liner might have made a difference. The Canucks are 3-4-4 in their last 11 and only the 8-3 debacle in Detroit was a blowout defeat. The other seven losses were all one-goal games with a couple of empty-netters among them. Three of the losses were in shootouts. Another was Thursday's 2-1 overtime loss to Columbus. Vancouver's next game is Sunday in Minnesota against the Wild.
Canucks assistant coach Rick Bowness, who handled media duties Friday following an optional practice, attempted to put his best spin on the absence of third-line offence.
"You know what?" Bowness said. "Kassian and Booth are skating the best we've seen them skate. So they're generating offence and they're generating chances. We'd be a lot more concerned if we didn't see the speed and we didn't see the chances that were there. They're cutting to the net, the puck is there and they just can't get a handle on it right now.
"So we'd be a lot more concerned if we weren't seeing those positive signs. If they stay with it, eventually the puck is going to go in."
Booth is the most accomplished offensive player of the bunch while Kassian and Schroeder are not proven scorers at the NHL level despite their first-round draft status. Lapierre, of course, is strictly a defensive player so offence from him is a bonus.
The Canucks' lack of depth at centre, especially in the absence of Ryan Kesler, is forcing the coaching staff to deploy Lapierre in a role for which he might not be suited. He has never been a playmaker and his career high in assists is 13.
So it's really up to Booth to get it going for the bottom-six forward group, followed by Kassian and then maybe Schroeder.
"It's very frustrating, especially when the game are overtime losses or a loss by one goal," Booth said. "It's something I have to do better. I can't make excuses. It's not good enough. I really have to bear down and get to the front of the net. I think dirty goals are scored there and that's how I get the majority of my goals.
"I feel like I have that extra step I maybe didn't have the first few games. I know that's my strength. It's just a matter of beating the guy and controlling the puck. I also have to follow up on those second chances."
While Booth is admittedly frustrated, Kassian is trying not to be.
"This is the NHL and it's not easy to score goals," he said Friday. "The chances are coming so you can't get frustrated. You can't let it get to you or it's just going to get worse. You definitely say, when your team loses a close game, that I wish I could have buried one.
"As a line, we have to throw everything at the net, crash the net, make sure we're stopping at the net and good things are going to happen. We were watching (video) clips this morning and there were a bunch of pucks right in that area and we were in the wrong spot at the wrong time type of thing. But it's going to happen. Eventually they are going to go in."
Schroeder is more upset than frustrated at his inability to produce. He is certainly being miscast as a fourth-liner, where he's mostly been skating at even strength, but the coaches are giving him time on the first-unit power play. He has gone seven games without a point and has just one assist in his last 12 outings.
"I do get upset with myself," said the diminutive Minnesota native. "I have high expectations for myself, as does everybody on this team. You want to be able to contribute every single game if you can. Who doesn't?"


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A….. always puts extra effort into her Purim Party theme and literally involves every member of her family into the fun of the holiday. One year she came to my door dressed as the wicked witch, with themed mishloach manot in hand, and each kid (plus my brother in law) was in tow as another member of the Wizard of Oz family. (I was told that if I posted the pictures, I would be excommunicated). Another fun year she made us all dress up in 80's garb and I had a great time exhuming my old favorite lime neon green shoulder padded short jacket (the matching mini-mini skirt wouldn't zip), and I blew off the dust from my beloved 3 inch hanging gem encrusted gold costume earrings (why I still have all that stuff, I do not know). I PUFFED up my hair, and tried to replicate my Stagelight blue eyeshadow (who remembers Blue Roses sticky lip gloss?). ( If this era applies to you, click here and reminisce with fads from the 80's). Anyways, Allegra treated us all to a whole 80's experience that Purim holiday, including an entire homage to Rick Springfield and his music. (ahem).
Fast forward to Purim 2012- Knowing that we would have to spotlight this holiday table on The Jewish Hostess, we quickly began to brainstorm. An adventurous sarfari theme came to mind and we got to work. Digging into both of our storage closets, we dug up anything and everything that was wood, orange, green, exotic, and bright. Within three minutes my niece was at my door ready to pick up my tropical finds.
A….. went to work on the computer and in her own words "Got the bandana'napkins' and the hanging balls and animal print bags from Oriental Trading. Dirt cheap. Got the 'bambu' disposable plates from Paper goods. All the rest is yours and my stuff dug up from the archives!"
A….. spent the next two days singlehandedly setting up her table, and so excited with how it was coming out, she called me at midnight to come check it out.
Twenty years ago A….. and I used to dream of running to Bergdorfs, but now all we were thinking of was when we could find a minute to run to the flower market for some brights that would polish off the table. We finally got there yesterday, parked illegally and within 10 minutes we had acquired a bunch of beautiful vines, leaves, and exotics, plus, of course, a parking ticket.
I ran to the fruit store (this was the one day of the year that Ouri's didn't have baby bananas!) and I grabbed some mangoes, kiwis, oranges, and pineapple, brought it to her house dumped them into our wood bowls, and within three minutes we were ready for photographer Gary Zindel to snap some photos.
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After leaving his cushy ESPN studio job in order to make a quixotic run for the U.S. Senate from his home state of Texas (a senate run, by the way, that featured unapologetic gay-bashing), Craig James is broke and looking for handouts from his former donors.
Ohio State blogger Ramzy Nasrallah, who donated $5 to James's senate campaign (the donation was ironic, one dollar for each hooker that Craig James killed while at SMU) posted a screen shot of an email that he received from James' campaign on his Twitter account (click to enlarge):
It's not out of the ordinary for former political candidates to try and raise money after a failed campaign, but a staunch conservative asking for a bailout from his donors seems a bit hypocritical, no? But let's not rush to judgment just yet. Perhaps James is the rare conservative who thinks that the downtrodden and indebted deserve a break every now and then. Maybe his senate campaign's website can clear things up for us:
We're bankrupting the American spirit with government benefits. You can't have the feeling of earned success by getting an unemployment check from the government. The focus should be job creation, not how long we can continue to bankrupt the spirit of hard-working Americans with unemployment benefits.
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Donald Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigned on Friday in the wake of campaign shake-up and revelations about his work in Ukraine.
In a statement issued as he arrived in Louisiana to tour the flood-ravaged state, Trump said Manafort offered his resignation Friday morning. The billionaire called Manafort "a true professional."
"I am very appreciative for his great work in helping to get us where we are today, and in particular his work guiding us through the delegate and convention process," Trump said.
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Emails between Manafort's deputy, Rick Gates, also a top Trump adviser, and the lobbying firm Mercury LLC showed that Manafort's firm directly orchestrated a covert Washington lobbying operation on behalf of Ukraine's then-ruling political party.
The effort included not just legislative outreach but also attempts to sway American public opinion and gather political intelligence on competing lobbying efforts in the U.S.
Manafort and Gates never registered as foreign agents for their work as required under federal law.
In a statement Friday, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, Robby Mook, said Manafort's departure signals a connection between Trump and "pro-Kremlin elements in Russia."
"You can get rid of Manafort, but that doesn't end the odd bromance Trump has with Putin," Mook said. "Trump still has to answer serious questions hovering over his campaign given his propensity to parrot Putin's talking points, the roster of advisers like Carter Page and Mike Flynn with deep ties to Russia, the recent Russian government hacking and disclosure of Democratic Party records, and reports that Breitbart published articles advocating pro-Kremlin positions on Ukraine."
Mook also challenged Trump to "come clean on his own business dealings with Russian interests."
Also Friday, Ukrainian anti-corruption investigators released copies of handwritten ledgers detailing possible cash payments from Ukrainian political figures to Manafort totaling more than $12 million. Details of the payments described in the ledger were first reported by The New York Times. Manafort denies receiving those payments.
Earlier this week, Trump brought in a new campaign chief executive and campaign manager following a disastrous stretch in which the New Yorker committed a series of errors and fell behind Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in both national and battleground state preference polls.
The new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, had described Manafort and Gates as part of a new "core four" atop the Trump operation with her and CEO Stephen Bannon.


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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- With an extra-long Spring Training thanks to their early opening series against the Dodgers in Sydney, Australia, the D-backs' coaching staff has looked for ways to break up the monotony of the spring.
After having a short day of work Monday so that they could play paintball, the D-backs will go at it hard Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
"The next three days we'll get a little more intense," manager Kirk Gibson said. "When they come out of Thursday, they'll probably be pretty tired."
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Well, high-profile New York school psychologist Izzy Kalman says it is — despite its good intentions.
That's because Pink Shirt Day and other faddish, anti-bullying initiatives promote "victim thinking" that weakens children, reducing their resiliency and restricting their ability to neutralize bullying.
"We're teaching children that nobody's allowed to do anything to them that they don't like," Kalman told me Tuesday. "The only place where everybody's always nice to each other is heaven."
Kalman said North America has been fighting bullying for 14 years since the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, in which two senior students murdered a dozen other students and a teacher, and wounded 23 others before committing suicide.
Kalman, the son of two Holocaust survivors, pointed out that Columbine and other mass school shootings haven't been perpetrated by bullies, but by people who feel like victims.
Have things got any better?
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And the reason the anti-bullying movement isn't effective is that it's engaged in a futile attempt to get rid of human nature — while acting like a bully itself.
"Some of the nastiest people are anti-bully activists ... and they feel completely justified being nasty," Kalman said in an interview from Staten Island in New York.
Premier Christy Clark, who helped set up Pink Shirt Day in B.C. in 2008 when she was a hard-charging CKNW radio host, defends it as a day around which people can organize anti-bullying efforts.
"So it's not the day itself that is the single most important thing, it's all the lead-up to the day, all the curriculum, all the teaching, all the thinking about it that happens in schools in particular that really makes the difference," Clark told me Tuesday.
Now some people, especially NDP supporters, would say the attack ads that B.C. Liberal supporters have been running against NDP Leader Adrian Dix amount to bullying.
The premier is obviously not one of them.
She pointed out that, according to experts, bullying is a "persistent effort to harm another person that gives the perpetrator pleasure."
But aren't the Liberals getting pleasure out of persistently harming Dix?
"Well, the B.C. Liberals aren't doing that, Jon. I mean, I think you need to be really clear in your story about that, that we are not running those ads," Clark said.
But she could stop them, couldn't she? "No," she insisted.
I have a pink shirt. But I won't be wearing it Wednesday, any more than I'll be wearing a green shirt for Earth Day in April. I'm just not the kind of a guy who likes locking arms with my new best friends and singing Kumbaya.
I also agree with those knowledgeable folks who say that humans are hardwired to bullying and other dominant forms of behaviour — and that holding yearly, politically salable group hugs won't change that.
Indeed, my problem with Pink Shirt Day is that it has turned a serious, complex issue into a Hollywood-style fashion statement.
Not that imposing more and more laws works. Nor does turning B.C. schools into hermetically sealed fortresses. As Vancouver school trustee Ken Denike says: "It's very difficult to legislate changes in behaviour, and that's basically what we're trying to do."
Manitoba high-school teacher Michael Zwaagstra, author of What's Wrong With Our Schools and How We Can Fix Them, agrees that Pink Shirt Day doesn't accomplish very much.
"I mean, frankly, there's a certain amount of irony that, to combat bullying, we're going to put pressure on everyone to wear the same type of shirt," Zwaagstra said.
School anti-bullying programs, he adds, seem to swing to two extremes. They either adopt zero-tolerance policies that lead to over-the-top disciplinary actions for those engaged in harmless play-acting or they adopt an absurdly permissive approach to genuine troublemakers.
Brenda Morrison, a social psychologist who heads Simon Fraser University's Centre for Restorative Justice, is less skeptical about Pink Shirt Day. She says the inspiring story behind it — how it began as a grassroots movement in Nova Scotia — is what matters.
"Two boys just took it upon themselves to do something," Morrison noted, adding that creating a culture of dignity and respect is the most effective intervention for bullying we know of right now.
Former West Vancouver school superintendent Doug Player also says respect is key: "The only rule required in a school is 'be considerate,' and that applies to all and all things."


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SACRAMENTO (AP) — Police fatally wounded an armed robber who had held two women hostage at a Sacramento restaurant, authorities said.
The shooting by SWAT officers Saturday afternoon ended a two-hour standoff at the Jack in the Box in the College Greens Shopping Center.
After receiving reports of an armed robbery, police surrounded the fast-food restaurant and evacuated nearby businesses around 12:30 p.m.
The gunman took two women who worked in the restaurant as hostages.
"The suspect held the victims against their will and forced them around the interior of the restaurant at gunpoint," police said in a release. "The suspect was also seen by officers using a hostage as a human shield."
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When this happens, in some cases, one of the parents may use the parental alienation technique to damage the relationship the children may have with the other parent. Alienating parents may do this out of anger but parental alienation can be very dangerous to children, especially if they had a good relationship with the alienated parents. The alienating parents may think alienation may win the children to take their side, but in reality, the behaviour can harm the children emotionally.
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Leah Remini is finally breaking her silence about her split from the Church of Scientology.
In a lengthy interview with Buzzfeed, Remini recounts her "horrendous" first exposure to the church as a child, when her mother relocated Remini and her sisters to Clearwater, Florida, where they became members. "We went from a middle-class lifestyle [in Brooklyn] to living in a roach-infested motel with six other girls off a freeway in Clearwater," the King of Queens alum says. "We were separated from our mother. We had to sign billion-year contracts we didn't understand. And we kept saying, 'Why are you doing this to us? Why are we here?'"
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After she eventually moved to California, Remini stayed in the church until she very publicly broke away from Scientology last June. Her primary motivation for doing so was her 9-year-old daughter Sofia. "She was getting to the age where the acclimation into the Church would have to start," Remini says. "I started thinking of my own childhood and how I grew up resenting my mother because she was never home. ... In my house, it's family first — but I was spending most of my time at the Church. So, I was saying 'family first,' but I wasn't showing that. I didn't like the message that sent my daughter."
When she decided to leave the church, Remini said she tried turning to friends who were also Scientologists for support, but was met with resistance. Though Remini says her mother has supported her decision, other prominent Scientologists — including Kirstie Alley — have denounced her. "We had a chance to make a change from within, but they didn't want to," she tells Buzzfeed. "They only cared that their lives would be disrupted if they stood with me. They didn't care about doing the right thing. That showed me everything the Church taught me was a lie."
Remini, who appeared on the most recent season of Dancing with the Stars, is currently starring on TV Land's The Exes and plans to write a memoir. "I'm not trying to be controversial. I just want people to know the truth," she says.
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In case you've heard any different, it's not actually that grim up north. It's in that spirit that DiS is bringing you a bill of some of the best musicians that northern England has to offer.
This Thursday (November 3rd), we're dragging the stunning Lanterns on the Lake down the M1 from Newcastle to play at The Harley in Sheffield. They'll be supported by Liverpool's Laura J Martin and South Yorkshire's own Cats:for:peru.
Lanterns on the Lake have been pretty much smothered in praise from the likes of Elbow's Guy Garvey for their breathtakingly beautiful and intricate fusion of subtle electronica and swooning folk melodies. In September, our very own David Edwards reviewed their debut album Gracious Tide, Take Me Home, giving it a not-too-shabby 8/10. He said:
"Newcastle has always been a folk haven with its working-class roots but Lanterns on the Lake typify a newer, younger, more experimental and more elegant hybrid style (though it's still immersed in heartbreak, sighs of longing and lamentations). Their sorrow brings happiness to us, for their music is generally wonderful."
Laura J Martin, on the other hand, is a little more happy-go-lucky. Her flute-based folk balladry is brought brilliantly to life by live loops and an uplifting thirst for experimentation. This year she's cut her teeth playing with Norman Blake and Euros Childs' latest band, Jonny, and is due to release her debut album early next year.
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I mean, you've probably been walking around for years with repulsive, off-putting underarms, constantly serving as a living mockery of your put-together appearance. Those days are over. The WSJ says that Unilever's research found that "93% of women consider their armpits unattractive." Haha! It's so true, ladies. And don't even get us started on the soles of your feet.
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