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Are Automated Status Updates From Location Check-In Apps Degrading Your Social Network?
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I'm at the Apple Store Palo Alto in Palo Alto http://gowalla.com/spots/9591
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It looks all too familiar to me. And these messages are increasing in frequency in inboxes and social sites. What's going on here is that a fairly new kind of app, the "location check-in" service, is starting to get more traction among early adopters, and the usage is resulting in rapidly increasing "10-20" updates. Last week, the SXSW conference was ground-zero for this battle, as two of the hottest players, Foursquare and Gowalla, battled it out a year after both launching at the same event. Gowalla, behind for most of the year, gained steam at SXSW, winning a SXSW Web Award. Gowalla launched an updated app in Austin...and that's where my trouble began.
It seems that many of my social contacts have decided to try Gowalla this past week, and as a result, my Status Updates from my Contacts in LinkedIn, and "What's Hapenning" in Twitter are getting stuffed with spammy updates of every time one of them shows up at some coffee shop. This is the worst of social...the anecdotal "I'm brushing my teeth now" update that we all made fun of before we discovered the real value of Twitter.
What has happened is that these Check-In apps are degrading the average value of the messages my friends send. As a "follower", I tend to only follow people who put tight filters on their tweets, usually offering some deliberate thought about politics, telecom, or technology. But once these people connected Check-In apps to Twitter, their deliberate, pensive, witty tweets are being overrun by location spam. I'm not your mom, and I don't care where you are!
To be fair, the Check-In apps, by themselves, are not bad, and can be quite cool. I like being able to sign into locations, leave virtual notes there, leave pictures on a virtual board, rate the place, get discounts. Many of the uses are fun, informative, and even whimsical. I like the goofy competition for "being the mayor" of the bubble tea shop. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, Shane Snow over at Mashable describes the leading apps well, including a head-to-head feature chart. So while the apps can be engaging, it's just the optional connection of these apps to automatic outbound messages that is problematic and can generate too much chaff.
Not only can automated messages add up in quantity, but they can occasionally send the wrong signals, or be cause for embarassement. On one funny occasion, my wife visited someone at the hospital, and she turned on Foursquare. Because of the lingo of these apps, her Facebook page and friends were pushed the message "Liz just checked-in @ Kaiser Permanente Medical Center - Walnut Creek". Now, much as we liked the free flowers, we're not sure she was sending the right signals.
Like email and spam in the 90s, the good-quality, human written missives are being substituted by pointless, automated messages. It's far easier for a server to crank me out a message than for a person to type out 140 characters, so I predict this unfortunate trend to continue. An increasing number of status updates will be coming - not from your friends - but from machines they've allowed to send on their behalf. Too bad. I wanted to stay in touch with my friends, not their software.
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Investors are stepping back into solar stocks after many got burned as the recession hit and oversupply, weak demand and high-profile bankruptcies caused solar equities to stumble, an article in The Wall Street Journal said.
Falling costs of production and installation and the industry shakeout of previous years have paved the way for more gains similar to those the sector has already enjoyed this year.
The stocks "aren't for the faint of heart," the article said, citing the example of solar-panel maker and developer First Solar Inc.
First Solar on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter earnings that were weaker than expected, and the stock promptly fell about 12% that day. It recovered, however, up nearly 7% on Thursday on the heels of an upgrade by R. W. Baird.
That volatility is somewhat typical of solar stocks, but the stocks have broadly rallied over the past year.
Shares of SolarCity Corp. , which is backed by Tesla Motors Inc. CEO Elon Musk and has been a favorite of day traders because of that association, have gained 400% in the past 12 months. Canadian Solar Inc., a darling of analysts at J. P. Morgan and Roth Capital, has gained 960% in the last year.
Shares of Guggenheim Solar exchange-traded fund focusing on solar names have gained 159% in the past 12 months, trading at $47.37 on Thursday. That ETF traded above $100 back in 2009.
Some fund managers interviewed by WSJ still have their misgivings about the sector, regardless of the breakneck speed of its recent gains.
"It's a big hot, hairy mess that often has nothing to do with business fundamentals," Kim Forrest, a senior equity analyst at Fort Pitt Capital Group, told the newspaper.
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The Dalai Lama is a high lama in the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Buddhism. The name is a combination of the Mongolian word dalai meaning "Ocean" and the Tibetan word བླ་མ་ bla-ma (with a silent "b") meaning "teacher". According to the current Dalai Lama, the Tibetan word "lama" corresponds precisely to the better known Indian word "guru".
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Studio One-Acts Continue Tonightby Jim Amidon • November 6, 2012 Share:
The Wabash College Theater Department features a slate of seven short plays written, directed, and starring Wabash students. The annual Studio One-Acts will be performed 8 p.m., tonight in the Experimental Theater.
Tickets are not required, but seating is limited. Some of the plays include adult content, and the total run time for the productions is one hour.
"In many ways the Student-Directed One Acts Project is a centerpiece of our theater program," said Theater Professor Dwight Watson. "The Project allows us to scaffold several theater classes. Students in the introductory acting class work with theater majors in the directing class to produce and present plays written by students in the playwriting class. The scaffolding also involves interlocking efforts from our design and technical students."
This year's slate includes original productions written by Joel Bustamante '11, Jordan Plohr '12, James Morey '14, and Sam Bennett '14.
Han Nie '15 is directing three of the plays, while Joe Mount '15 and D.J. Young '13 are each directing two of the shows.
Josh Lutton '14 designed the costumes for all seven shows, while Phil Robin '13 designed the lighting.
"The aim of the Project is to give non-majors a meaningful theater experience while our majors apply classroom instruction to creative inquiry, performance, and managerial leadership," said Professor Watson. "It is the high level of expression, student interaction, collaboration, and commitment we value in Wabash theater and the arts."
The comedies include Bustamante's The Sun Swings at Star Rise, which is directed by Nie and stars Michael Holmes and Jake Peacock.
Jordan Plohr's "Tea Time" series will be presented in its entirety. Young will direct Tea Time on Wednesday, which stars Noah Eppler, Calvin Smith, Patrick Kroll, Zach Canon, and Natalie Coronado.
Mount will direct Tea Time on Thursday, which stars Mahlon Nevitt, John Beardmore, Ryan Guerrettaz, and Jake Peacock, and also Tea Time on Saturday with Patrick Korll, Anh H. Nguyen, Mahlon Nevitt, and John Beardmore.
Nie will direct Tea Time on Friday with Zach Canon, Max Gallivan, Ted Nilsson, Max Nguyen, and Michael Holmes.
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Indiana native Ryan Newman enjoyed a very popular Brickyard 400 win on Sunday. The taste of champagne could not have come at a better time for one of NASCAR's most likeable stars.
Indiana native Ryan Newman enjoyed a very popular Brickyard 400 win on Sunday. The taste of champagne could not have come at a better time for one of NASCAR's most likeable stars.
While in victory lane, he said he had difficulty taking in all that a win at the storied 2.5-mile speedway offered. He had just collected a major NASCAR victory at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway in his native state in front of millions of television viewers and many thousands of fans in the grandstands.
It's the Cinderella story of the 2013 Sprint Cup season.
"I don't realize it yet, it's a dream come true," Newman said. "I think that if it hits you all at once it's not good enough. It will take a week or so for this to set in. Just thank everybody for this opportunity, everybody in my racing career. This is just like when I won the Daytona 500 (2008). (The win is about) everybody that helped me get to that day and it's the same thing again. Thank you."
Newman's victory story is a heartwarming tale involving a very personable driver faced with many questions about his Sprint Cup future. Rest assured he'll be OK. The win at Indy made certain of that.
He wanted nothing more than to enjoy the moment and not think about where he'll be in 2014. He thought of his long journey to stardom. As is often the case, most racers tell stories of having to endure many sacrifices before making it big.
"To me, it's awesome to be here at Indy," Newman said. "It's awesome because it's my home state. I grew up racing around here at Winchester, Salem, IRP, little tracks like Anderson. That makes it special.
"Most people don't know but I lived in Jeff Gordon's old shop before I ever made it in NASCAR. I slept with the race cars. That was my summer job, working on race cars, sleeping in the shop with them…."
Newman is quick to point out he's not one to show very much emotion. A few tears were shed when he knocked Jimmie Johnson from the pole position on Saturday. Sunday's win left him extremely grateful.
"…I don't show much emotion. I think everybody knows me as that," Newman said. "I had the same emotion, the same thankfulness I had when I won the Daytona 500. I feel everybody that has been a part of my racing career, from people that bought my racing uniform, bought me a right rear tire, given us a credit card to get to some racetrack at some point in my career, those are the people that helped me get to where I am today.
"…Those are the things that make it special. I think about those things more than I carry the emotion on my cheeks."
Newman's win at Indy and 17th of his career was a highlight to a long and emotional 2013 season. Recently, his team owner, Tony Stewart, announced the South Bend native will not be back in a Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet in 2014. Newman has talked with several Sprint Cup teams but is yet to name where he will race next season. Newman suffered through a dismal race at New Hampshire July 13 where he finished 39th. Newman was happy to get the July 20 break in the schedule to regroup and mentally prepare for Indy.
"…The emotions have been an absolute rollercoaster," Newman said. "Loudon (New Hampshire) was a disaster. We got crashed out, everything that was said. We got through all that stuff. (We) talked about it."
For a driver in limbo concerning his future employer, it's a perfect time to win one of NASCAR's biggest events, especially since he's unofficially auditioning for a new job.
"(Crew chief) Matt (Borland) did an amazing job to come here with a fast race car and gave me what I needed," Newman said. "We all did it together. Not the guys just here, but the guys at the shop, the pit crew. You all know it's a huge team sport. It makes it better looking for something for 2014, also for Matt. There are a lot of questions to be answered. We'll get through all that. But today we're celebrating a victory."
Newman will enjoy memories of Indy a few more days before moving on to Pocono Raceway this coming weekend. The win there may very well jump start his championship hopes. He is currently 16th in points with one win, three top-fives and nine top-10s.
Wins do have a way of producing more wins, especially when they come in NASCAR's biggest and most prestigious events.
"The biggest thing is confidence. Confidence for me, confidence in the team, confidence with me in the team," Newman said with smile. "We still have a championship to go after. We still have the Chase to chase and there is still plenty of racing left. This is a great day for us in points. That doesn't mean anything. Tomorrow is a new day. Come Pocono this will be the past."
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The American Medical Association (AMA) and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) teamed up to launch Exercise Is Medicine, a program that encourages doctors to prescribe exercise to their patients as a way to prevent chronic conditions, obesity, hypertension and diabetes. Physicians should advise patients to incorporate at least 30 minutes of exercise and 10 minutes of stretching and light weightlifting at least five times a week, according to the program.
The AMA and the ACSM are working to ensure that physicians ask about their patients' level of physical activity during each patient visit and to produce the expectation among patients that their doctor will ask about and prescribe exercise. The groups also want to help health care providers become consistently effective in counseling patients about their physical activity needs.
Another program goal is to change policy in public and private sectors to support physical activity counseling and referrals in clinical settings. The groups also hope to encourage health care providers to be physically active themselves.
A survey conducted by the ACSM found that nearly two-thirds of patients would be willing to exercise and lead a healthier lifestyle if advised by their physician. Four out of 10 physicians say they talk to their patients about the benefits of being physically active but don't always offer suggestions about how to be active. On the other hand, 25 percent of patients say they go to their doctor for advice on leading a healthy lifestyle, and 24 percent turn to fitness and health Web sites for this advice.
A new Web site created by the ACSM and AMA allows for patients and physicians to research information about how to lead a physically active lifestyle.
"More than half of Americans don't get nearly enough exercise and would be astounded to see how much difference a brisk 30-minute walk a few times a week makes in their overall health," says Ronald M. Davis, AMA president. "We encourage physicians to talk to their patients about the importance of exercise and to work with them to establish programs they can start today and continue throughout their lives."


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Kanye West Recieves Probation, Community Service in Photographer Battery Case
It's appears that Kanye West's assault case against a Los Angeles photographer is finally over. The rapper-producer pleaded no contest to misdemeanor battery in a special plea that will allow him to maintain his innocence.
West's attorney entered the plea on behalf of the rapper who wasn't in attendance.
According to the Associated Press, Judge Alan Rubin sentenced the G.O.O.D. Music leader to serve two years of probation and perform 250 hours of community service. In addition, he must attend 24 anger management sessions and pay restitution to the victim.
The victim, photographer Daniel Ramos, was attacked by West last summer at LAX. Yeezy scuffled with the shutterbug for his camera when he wouldn't stop asking him questions. Ramos claims that West punched him in the face during their tussle at the airport.
At the hearing, Ramos demanded that West be thrown in jail. "If I did what he did to me, I'd be behind bars," he said. "I was doing my job and he broke the law."
Lawyer Gloria Allred has filed a civil suit against West on behalf of the photographer.
Earlier this year, West escaped criminal charges in another battery case, after he beat up a teen at a chiropractor's office in Beverly Hills, Calif. The Los Angeles County prosecutor rejected the case because Yeezy paid the young victim a reported $250,000 out of court.


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Southern rapper Lil Wayne, born Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., began his career as a member of rap group The Hot Boys -- but the prolific rapper is best known for his solo work. His solo debut, "Tha Block is Hot," went double platinum. "Tha Carter" and "Tha Carter II" were also chart-toppers.
Lil Wayne was catapulted to superstar status with the release of 2008's "Tha Carter III." The album featured several hits including "A Milli," "Mr. Carter" and "Lollipop." In 2008, Lil Wayne was the leading Grammy nominee, with a total of eight nominations.


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A Twitter user named @superDaE revealed a screenshot of how the Kinect 2 sees the world, reports The Verge.
The image shows the device interpreting much more detail than you'd see in the original Kinect. The Verge has confirmed the validity of this images with its own sources, so we're pretty excited to see such an improvement in Microsoft's Xboxperipheral. It ought to make even more applications possible than we've seen before.
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Hope College will sponsor the presentation "The Constitutional and Political Implications of the Supreme Court's ObamaCare Decision" on Monday, Sept. 17, at 3 p.m. in the Fried-Hemenway Auditorium of the Martha Miller Center for Global Communication in conjunction with national Constitution Day.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in late June narrowly upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as ObamaCare. Dr. Jack Holmes and Dr. David Ryden of the college's political science faculty will present differing perspectives on the decision, with the audience encouraged to participate in the conversation.
"The decision was perhaps as significant as anything the Court has done in the past 15 years," Ryden said. "While the result marked an important short-term policy victory for the Obama administration, it also contained what could prove to be meaningful limitations on Congress's regulatory and spending authority in the future. The case also revealed a fascinating internal dynamic, with conservative Chief Justice John Roberts joining with the liberal bloc of four justices to salvage the legislation. In short, the case raises important questions going forward for the Constitution and the Court, the future of nationalized health care, and for our politics."
Constitution Day marks the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. The delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pa., on Sept. 17, 1787.
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Keith Letourneau appears in a No. 5 Joe Flacco jersey weeping, leaping, pounding his fists on the floor, flinging himself on a couch, grabbing the TV screen with both hands, looking for all the world as if he's about to explode. He's screaming at the top of his lungs, at a pitch that would surely shatter glass if sustained, lamenting that he can't take it anymore, that the play he just saw is unbelievable, that he'll surely die if this continues. And, now, he's Internet-famous. See the series of YouTube videos here.
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Bring in a universal mobile phone charger for all makes, say MEPs
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A universal charger for all mobile phones should be introduced to cut costs and waste for users, proposed the Internal Market Committee on Thursday, in an amendment to a draft law on radio equipment. The committee also cut some red tape, by deleting a rule that would have required manufacturers to register certain categories of devices before placing them on the market.
"We urge member states and manufacturers finally to introduce a universal charger, to put an end to cable chaos for mobile phones and tablet computers", said rapporteur Barbara Weiler (S&D, DE), adding that "we have changed key points in the Commission draft to avoid interference between different radio equipment devices while ensuring that small firms will not face a heavier administrative burden".
The draft directive lays down harmonised rules for placing radio equipment, such as cellular telephones, car door openers or modems, on the market. These rules aim to keep pace with the growing number and variety of radio equipment devices and ensure that they do not interfere with each other. They also include essential health and safety requirements.
Universal charger
Radio equipment devices and their accessories, such as chargers, should be interoperable, say MEPs. For example, a universal phone charger would make mobile phones simpler to use and cut costs and waste for users. They therefore propose that the new radio equipment rules should oblige manufacturers to make mobile phones compatible with a universal charger.
Cutting red tape
MEPs deleted a proposed obligation for companies to register certain categories of radio equipment prior to placing them on the market. They saw this proposal as disproportionate, especially for small firms, and said that alternative product traceability provisions could ensure the same quality of market surveillance.
Next steps
The legislative resolution was adopted unanimously with 35 votes in favour. The committee will decide later whether to start informal negotiations with the Council in order to seek an early first-reading agreement.
In the chair: Committee Vice-Chair Sergio Gaetano Cofferati (S&D,IT)


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The Texans re-signed offensive tackle Andrew Gardner on Friday, the club said.
Gardner (6-6, 309) appeared in three games a season ago. He's likely to vie for a reserve tackle role. Gardner was not tendered as a restricted free agent by Houston before being brought back.
Gardner, 26, was a sixth-round pick of the Dolphins in 2009. He was a collegiate and high school teammate of Calvin Johnson, with both attending Sandy Creek High School in Tyrone, Ga., then moving on to Georgia Tech in Atlanta.


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It is hard to top the Philadelphia City Hall, but the Masonic Temple right across the street comes pretty damn close. Construction started in 1868, with the castle like structure being finished in about 10 years. After that the interior design started and lasted another 30 years. What they accomplished is nothing short of amazing.
The 7 main lodges were each designed in a different style and by a different architect: Renaissance, Ionic, Morrish, Corinthian, Gothic, Egyptian, and Norman. With very few exceptions, everything is rendered in plaster and then painted and grained. Even though many of these styles are most closely associated with religious buildings, and many of the rooms resemble the insides of temples, all religious symbols are conspicuously absent. Masons are a nondenominational organization and so left them out on purpose.
The pictures that follow are eye-popping, but don't come close to giving you the experience of being in the building. Not only is it all plaster but there has never been any interior restoration. In some places you can see the paint chipping from the plaster – it is very minor. The tour guide told me this started when they installed a modern air conditioning system. Prior to that, cooling was done by fans blowing over large blocks of ice. The exterior is granite, I think, and went through a major restoration about a decade ago.
In the Gothic Room, the furniture pre-dates the building. This is all from the original Masonic Hall in Philadelphia, which burned to the ground. The 2 portraits are that of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, noted Masonic brothers. Several of the stained glass windows and ceilings are back-lit because they don't really have access to natural light. Once inside the building you quickly become disoriented as to where you are in the building.
The balusters and newel posts are cast iron. Stairs and floors are marble.
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Senate leaders appeared to be edging closer to an agreement on the number of amendments that could be offered for the new farm bill as Congress returned to Washington from its Thanksgiving break.
But negotiators were still trying to iron out last-minute differences on what Democrats were calling "non-relevant" amendments that kept the Senate from deliberating the new legislation for most of the month of November.
While press reports had Senate leaders agreeing to a plan in which five amendments could be offered by Democrats and 10 by Republicans, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Ranking Member Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., and their staffs were still working on those numbers at press time.
"Chairman Harkin certainly hopes to get the farm bill back on the Senate floor next week (the week of Dec. 3), and an agreement to limit amendments to between five and 10 per side would allow passage within a few days," said a spokesman for Harkin's office Thursday (Nov. 29).
"Party leaders will need to determine which non-relevant amendments can be debated and voted on, but the chairman will do everything in his power, working closely with Ranking Member Chambliss, to speed completion of this important bill."
The current stalemate began Nov. 5 when Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada announced he was asking senators to limit amendments to those that were "germane" to the farm bill so the Senate could finish its calendar for the year.
Republican senators, such as Pete Domenici of New Mexico, who wanted to introduce a renewable fuel standard amendment to the farm bill's energy title, said Reid was trying to stifle debate. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky agreed and Republicans began a series of filibusters against the farm bill.
Meanwhile, the list of potential amendments has grown from a few dealing with such issues as fixing the alternative minimum tax and eliminating the estate tax to more than 270. Reid probably will allow consideration of the former once the Senate begins debate, observers say.
Farm organizations have been urging Senate leaders to put aside their differences and complete action on the $288-billion farm bill so a House-Senate conference committee can get to work on reconciling the differences between the Senate bill and the bill passed by the House back in July.
In a letter signed by 19 groups, including the American Soybean Association, National Association of Wheat Growers, National Corn Growers Association, the National Cotton Council and the USA Rice Federation, the organizations said they were disappointed in the Senate's lack of progress on the legislation.
"We respectfully urge you to agree on a process for completing the 2007 farm bill before the end of this year that reflects the broad and bipartisan support for new farm legislation," the letter said. "The Senate Agriculture Committee's farm bill has broad support throughout U.S. agriculture and rural America and in the nutrition, conservation and energy communities."
The letter demonstrates the change in farm bill sentiment House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson and others have noted among farm and interest group constituents in recent months.
Although several of the groups signing the letter initially favored an extension of the 2002 farm bill, they said they now prefer enacting new farm legislation to keeping the current law.
With the 2007 farm bill's baseline "already substantially lower than previous years, extending current law could also result in a substantial reduction in the funding available for writing the next farm bill," the letter said. "A further reduction would only make writing new legislation that much harder."
Most farm leaders believe the Senate holds the trump card on the farm bill. Chairman Peterson has said he believes a House-Senate conference committee can resolve most of the differences in the House and Senate versions of the bill — once the Senate passes the measure.
"I think about 75 percent of this stuff could be worked out fairly easily by the time we come back here in January, assuming the Senate passes the bill in December," Peterson told reporters. "And I think the rest of it could be worked out in a week or so."
Bob Stallman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, the nation's largest farm organization, said he was cautiously optimistic about the chances of the bill clearing the Senate and going to a conference committee.
If the process drags into 2008, it would not be the first time Congress completed work on a farm bill a year after it was scheduled. Both the 1996 and 2002 farm bills would have been dated a year earlier if Congress had finished work on them in the year in which it started.
One of the amendments that is almost certain to be allowed is one dealing with payment limits that is expected to be introduced by Sens. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Byron Dorgan, D-N.D. The measure would put a "hard cap" of $250,000 on payments to individual farmers and their spouses.
The Senate passed a similar amendment to the 2002 farm bill, but the language was removed from the bill at the insistence of House negotiators during the conference committee deliberations.
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The survey (which covered 2002-2007) showed that agencies had not submitted forensic evidence (including DNA, fingerprints, firearms and toolmarks) to a crime lab in:
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There are many reasons why evidence collected from a crime may not be submitted to a laboratory for analysis. Subsequent investigation may have shown that the evidence would not be probative, charges against an alleged perpetrator may have been dropped, the suspect may have pled guilty, or, in a rape case, the issue may be "consent" and, therefore, analysis of the evidence may have been considered not probative.
However, the study showed that some law enforcement agencies do not fully understand the potential value of forensic evidence in developing new leads in a criminal investigation; for example:
We know that DNA evidence can identify a suspect in a "no suspect" case or link a perpetrator to a specific crime through CODIS, the national DNA database, and latent prints can identify unknown perpetrators through automated systems like the national Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS). The knowledge gap revealed in some of these findings — particularly, as the survey reveals, among the nation's small (less than 25 officers) agencies — could be due to a lack of training. Specialized training in these cases may have been beneficial and led to a different outcome. In another finding from the study, 11 percent of the agencies reported that one of the reasons they do not submit evidence for analysis is because of the lab's inability to produce timely results, and 6 percent said the lab was not accepting new evidence due to backlog issues. (See About the Backlog).
Reasons Why Law Enforcement Agencies did not Submit Forensic Evidence for Unsolved Cases (pdf, 81 pages) in the full report.
Computerized information systems enhance the ability of police agencies to manage, track and monitor forensic evidence in criminal cases. The survey revealed that more than half of law enforcement agencies (56 percent) did not have a computerized information system that was capable of tracking forensic evidence inventory. Large agencies (100 or more sworn officers) were much more likely to have a computerized system, with nearly three out of four reporting that their information system allowed tracking of forensic evidence.
For the agencies that do have a computerized information system, the survey did not reveal the exact capabilities, such as whether they were able to specify what evidence has been tested (or not tested) in a case, how long evidence in a case has been in storage, and the status of cases. The survey also did not determine, for the 44 percent of agencies that do have a computerized system, whether these systems are integrated with more centralized police records management systems.
Law Enforcement Information Systems and Forensic Evidence (pdf, 81 pages) in the full report.
Policies and practices for retaining evidence varied widely from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In addition to the need to retain evidence in unsolved crimes, there are an increasing number of states that have passed laws requiring the indefinite storage of forensic evidence used in criminal convictions. About a third of the agencies (38 percent) said they had an evidence-retention policy regarding the preservation of biological evidence in cases where the defendant was found guilty, and 16 percent said they were unsure if they had such a policy.
Among agencies that do have a policy regarding the retention of evidence post-conviction, 51 percent reported that the policy was governed by state statute, 43 percent said evidence was retained due to agency policy, and 5 percent said the policy was in place as a result of a legal decision.
Law Enforcement Policies for Retaining Biological Evidence (pdf, 81 pages) in the full report.
The researchers made a number of recommendations:
Study Implications (pdf, 81 pages) in the full report.
The survey does not reveal how many open cases with unanalyzed evidence would be solved or yield investigative leads if evidence were to be sent to the lab. It also does not address the number cases in which evidence was analyzed in the past, but which now — with the benefit of larger offender databases and new forensic technologies — might be solved or yield investigative leads; for example, a latent print run through IAFIS several years ago with no successful match could yield a hit now. More research would help us better understand these issues.
Study Limitations (pdf, 81 pages) in the full report.
The 72 percent response rate for the survey is considered very good; 2,250 of the 3,094 state and local law enforcement agencies that the survey was sent to responded. In some jurisdictions, however, the number of unsolved cases containing unanalyzed evidence was based on estimates; and some of the larger county and state agencies reported difficulty providing information about rape and property cases because they do not maintain these cases in a centralized system.
Study Limitations (pdf, 81 pages) in the full report.
[1] Strom, Kevin J., Jeri Ropero-Miller, Shelton Jones, Nathan Sikes, Mark Pope and Nicole Horstmann,
The 2007 Survey of Law Enforcement Forensic Evidence Processing (pdf, 81 pages), Final Report, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, September 2009, 228415.
[2] Unsolved cases were defined as cases that had not been officially cleared by the law enforcement agency.
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It's always interesting to watch FedEx Field Stadium in Landover MD – home of the Washington Redskins NFL team – get turned into what has to be one of the largest temporary commercial vehicle inspection stations in the U.S.
That's what's happening this week as part of the 26thannual "Roadcheck" 72-hour inspection blitz as over 10,000 federal, state, provincial and local inspectors working at 1,500 locations across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico conduct North American Standard Level I Inspections on trucks, tractor-trailers, buses and motorcoaches.
The FedEx Field site – overseen by the Maryland State Police with the assistance of LOTS of other federal, state, and local agencies – is set up to process about 500 vehicles a day from sunup to sundown, with no pause in the inspection action planned between the June 4-6 Roadcheck dates.
[To view more photos of the Roadcheck activity at FedEx Field, click here.]
Major Mark Savage of the Colorado State Police and president of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) that sponsors Roadcheck, along with Capt. Norman "Bill" Dofflemyer, Division Commander for the Maryland State Police, outlined some of the philosophies and tactics guiding this massive 72-hour inspection blitz effort below:
Anne Ferro, administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), also made an appearance at the Roadcheck "kickoff event" at FedEx Field to talk about how inspection personnel are also using the event to help continue spreading the word about impending reforms to hours of service (HOS) rules due to take effect July 1:
CVSA taps into the inspection data gleaned from this event and filed with state, provincial and federal jurisdiction systems, comparing the inspector's findings with past results to help identify trends and to measure program effectiveness. It will be interesting to see what – if any – safety trends are uncovered this year.


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Utilization of primary and obstetric care after medically complicated pregnancies: an analysis of medical claims data. Bennett WL, Chang HY, Levine DM, Wang L, Neale D, Werner EF, Clark JM. J Gen Intern Med. 2014 Apr;29(4):636-45. PMID 24474651
Latimer K, Neale D. Autoimmune Diseases in Pregnancy, Johns Hopkins Manual of Genecology and Obstetrics 2013.
Khan MJ, Neale DM. Progesterone for the prevention of preterm birth. Postgraduate Obstetrics & Gynecology 2012 March; 32(6): 1-5.
Witkop CT, Neale DM, Wilson LM, Bass EB, Nicholson WK. Active compared with expectant delivery management in women with gestational diabetes: a systematic review. Obstet Gynecol 2009 Jan; 113(1): 206-17.
Nicholson W, Bolen S, Witkop CT, Neale DM, Wilson L, Bass E. Benefits and risks of oral diabetes agents compared with insulin in women with gestational diabetes: a systematic review. Obstet Gynecol 2009 Jan; 113(1): 193-205.
Nicholson WK, Wilson LM, Witkop CT, Baptiste-Roberts K, Bennett WL, Bolen S, Barone BB, Golden SH, Gary TL, Neale DM, Bass EB. Therapeutic management, delivery, and postpartum risk assessment and screening in gestational diabetes. Evid Rep Technol Assess (Full Rep). 2008 Mar;(162):1-96.
Neale DM, Cootauco AC, Burrow G. Thyroid disease in pregnancy. Clin Perinatol. 2007 Dec;34(4):543-57, v-vi. Review
Small M, Blanc, C, Frederic, R, Neale D, Williams K, Kershaw T. Preeclampsia/eclampsia related maternal mortality in rural Haiti, The Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine 2005 Nov; 18(5); 343-348.
Neale D, Mor, G. The role of Fas mediated apoptosis in preeclampsia. J. Perinat Med, 2005;33:471-477.
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The National Security Council (NSC) is the main forum for collective discussion of the Government's objectives for national security and about how best to deliver them in the current financial climate.
A key purpose of the Council is to ensure that Ministers consider national security in the round and in a strategic way. The Council meets weekly and is chaired by Prime Minister David Cameron.
The Government has published its Strategic Defence and Security Review: Securing Britain in an Age of Uncertainty which sets out how we will deliver the priorities identified in the National Security Strategy. It describes how we will equip our armed forces, our police and intelligence agencies to tackle the threats we face today and in the future.
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Additionally there are associated cross-Government senior official groups that support and inform these ministerial level structures. Principal amongst these is the Permanent Secretaries Group chaired by the National Security Adviser, Sir Peter Ricketts. The National Security Adviser also acts as secretary to the NSC.
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FashionistA is a relatively young high-street cosmetics brand that is available exclusively at Superdrug. One of their hero products is their Fashion Secret Gel Liners, which come in 13 different shades at only £6 a piece.
The product above is the gel liner in 24/7 Style, which is a beautiful dark green almost black base colour with sparkles in it in various shades of green and I seem to even see blue. It's absolutely gorgeous and it applies like a dream thanks to the brush that is inside the lid!
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How clever is that! You just unscrew the lid and pop off the top of the lid and turn it around so you can plug it into the little hole it just came out off and BOOM! you have a brush on a nicely sized handle! So you can take this with you whether you go without having to worry about bringing a brush and potentially contaminating it having it in your bag. This way the brush is protected when it's not in use but you can easily transform a day-time look into a night-time look without having to carry 2 things!
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Wheezing is a high-pitched whistling sound during breathing. It occurs when air moves through narrowed breathing tubes in the lungs.
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Wheezing is a sign that a person may be having breathing problems. The sound of wheezing is most obvious when breathing out (exhaling). It may also be heard when breathing in (inhaling).
Wheezing most often comes from the small breathing tubes (bronchial tubes) deep in the lungs. But it may be due to a blockage in larger airways or in persons with certain vocal cord problems.
Causes of wheezing may include any of the following:
Take all of your medications as directed.
Sitting in an area where there is moist, heated air may help relieve some symptoms. This can be done by running a hot shower or using a vaporizer.
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If wheezing is severe or occurs with severe shortness of breath, you may have to go directly to the nearest emergency department.
The doctor or nurse will perform a physical exam and ask about your medical history and symptoms. Questions about your wheezing may include when it started, how long it has lasted, when it is worse, and what might have caused it.
The physical examination may include listening to the lung sounds (auscultation). If your child is the one with symptoms, the doctor will make sure he or she did not swallow a foreign object.
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Schraufnagel DE, Murray JF. History and physical examination. In: Mason RJ, Murray JF, Broaddus VC, et al., eds. Murray and Nadel's Textbook of Respiratory Medicine. 5th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2010:chap 17.


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A bit of a digression today. The wonderfully named "Hyakunen no Kodoku" ("One Hundred Years of Solitude") is not a whisky but a shochu. It is however a cousin of our whiskies.
Shochu is Japan's indigenous distilled spirit, made from all sorts of ingredients and not to be confused with sake. I don't want to weigh this site down with too much shochu talk so I have created a little side blog to give a few more technical details. Many shochus have no more in common with whisky than I do with the Pope, but there are shochus that are pretty close relatives. A lot closer in fact than the Indian molasses based "whiskies" about which The Scotch Blog has written incisively.
"Hyakunen no Kodoku" is a distilled spirit made from unmalted barley and using a barley koji. It is aged in wood barrels and, at 40 per cent alcohol, is comparable to whisky strength (many shochus are only about 25 per cent). It is clearly influenced by Japan's tradition of whisky making and many who have tasted it say it has a whiskyish taste. This is what it says on the label:
"Pure Barley Shochu Stored in Barrels of Wood
Hyakunen no Kodoku is a pure and exquisite shochu made by aging barley shochu in wood barrels over a long period of time.
The barley shochu which is aged in wood barrels is made by a 100-year-old traditional method handed down since the 18th year of Meiji. The shochu, which is made entirely by hand, together with only the choicest barley are distilled in a "one-off" process in pot stills. The resultant shochu is matured in wood barrels to produce a mellower and tastier shochu. This is really a masterpiece of shochu.
The amber color of Hyakunen no Kodoku come from long aging in wood barrels. Excess coloring is carefully filtered out without any loss in flavor to produce a completly natural, refreshing and clear amber color.
The exquisite taste of Hyakunen no Kodoko is best enjoyed straight, on the rocks, or mixed half and half with water."
From which we can conclude that it is chill filtered, or some such process. The actual age of the spirit is not made clear. It is certainly not 100 years old. That is the age of the shochu making method (actually, it is now 121 years old). I think the aging is a relatively new innovation. Labeling of such things in the shochu world is sometimes obscure.
Anyway, I am still saving up up my pennies to have my own taste (it costs 14,000 yen a bottle, about 70 pounds). I have to I admit I am sceptical of the whisky comparisons. I have heard them before and, in my very limited experience, barley shochu is quite different. It is a much more mellow and almost sakeish drink.
After a taste of solitude, I can move on a potato based shochu aged for ten years in sherry casks.


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ICCC 2012: Raising Awareness of Common Criteria, Promoting Security for Emerging Technologies
In this age of emerging technologies and increasingly complex cyber threats, government and enterprise organizations of all types need to ensure that products they use meet key security criteria, are standards based, perform as expected and interoperate reliably with existing technology.
As these organizations adopt new emerging technologies in hopes of saving on infrastructure and maintenance costs, is this at the risk of security? Without the proper security mechanisms in place and validated, the results could be catastrophic.
Common Criteria is an international standard for evaluating IT product security and reliability, recognized by more than 26 countries around the world. Common Criteria is considered a mandatory requirement for purchasing network security products by many governments.
The 13th International Common Criteria Conference, this year being held in Paris from September 18-20, will bring together leaders from governments and organizations of all types from around the world.
The ICCC Conference offers certification/validation schemes, evaluation laboratories, product developers, system integrators and product users to exchange expertise, experiences and skills on the application of the Common Criteria and security for Information and Communication Technology [ICT] solutions, such as Cloud Computing.
Cisco will participate in speaking sessions at the conference focused on topics including Supply Chain Security, Architectural approaches to Technical Communities and Collaborative Protection Profiles, Cloud Security and Innovation.
Details on the speaking sessions presented by and in collaboration with Cisco are below:
Progress Report from the Supply Chain Security Technical Workgroup
Sept. 19 at 11:30 CET
Track 1 – Room B/Chagall + Van Dongen
Michael Grimm, senior program manager, Microsoft and Terrie Diaz, product certification engineer, Cisco
An Architectural Framework Approach in the Development of Technical Communities and Collaborative Protection Profiles
Sept. 19 at 11:30 CET
Track 2 – Room C/Soutine & Utrillo
Axel Munde, BSI
Dirk Jan Out, Brightsight
Jen Gilbert, lead, global certifications strategy and policy, Cisco
Cloud Security and Common Criteria
Sept. 19 at 14:30 CET
Track 3 – Room D/Picasso
Ashit Vora, manager, security assurance – FIPS/Common Criteria, Cisco
Innovation and the Common Criteria
Sept. 19 at 15:00 CET
Track 3 – Room D/Picasso
Audrey Plonk, Intel
Jen Gilbert, lead, global certifications strategy and policy, Cisco
Visit ICCC and Cisco Global Government Certifications for more information.
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TheSchachter wrote:IMAWAL removes one layer of curse when you use it on any monster (maybe excluding no-exp enemies? not sure). I'm almost certain this is intentional.
Curses are stated to be removed by killing uncursed enemies, neither condition of which is exactly true here. If IMAWAL is intended to bypass Curse Bearer then we should at least chalk it up as another unintuitive mechanic that needs to be documented in-game. (See also: knockback vs blink etc.)


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The most recent in a series of studies from a team at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center has shown that a single molecule is at the heart of one of the most basic survival tactics of prostate cancer cells.
A paper published today by the Public Library of Science identifies a microRNA called miR-125b as a potential target for treatments designed to stop the proliferation of prostate cancer cells, particularly in patients who have developed a late-stage form of the disease resistant to androgen deprivation therapy.
MicroRNAs are small, single strands of RNA that regulate gene expression processes between larger strands of RNA — that is, they play vital roles in turning genes on and off. RNA, or ribonucleic acid, is a family of large molecules involved in the coding, decoding, regulation and expression of genes.
The team, led by UC Davis urology professor Ralph de Vere White, director of the comprehensive cancer center and senior author on the study, had found in previous studies over the last several years that miR-125b is highly expressed in human prostate cancer, turning off some tumor genes that if left unaltered would have made therapy more effective. This was particularly true at the point in late-stage treatment when patients' levels of testosterone, or androgen, have purposely been lowered as a form of treatment for metastatic prostate cancer. Testosterone is a driver of tumor growth.
"Our latest research demonstrates that elevated MiR-125B in prostate cancer cells is a mechanism that thwarts our efforts to eradicate the disease," said de Vere White.
The UC Davis study details exactly how miR-125b represses a protein called p14ARF in two prostate cancer cell lines and in a mouse model. The study is important because it is the first to identify miR-125b as a direct regulator of p14ARF in metastatic prostate cancer cells.
P14ARF is an important link in the pathway between two genes that suppress prostate cancer cells, p53 and PUMA. When miR-125b downregulates p14ARF, p53 is restrained from its job of killing cancer cells. Treatment of prostate cancer cells with an inhibitor of miR-125 results in increased expression of p14ARF and full functioning of p53, leading to the death of prostate cancer cells, known as apoptosis, and a concomitant slowing tumor growth.
This is known as a p53-dependent pathway; there's also a p53-independent pathway, and miR125b downregulates that as well. Thus this paper shows that, through its manipulation of p14ARF, miR-125b is a major modulator of cell death, whether p53-dependent or independent. Since all prostate cancer cells are one or the other, this phenomenon impacts all of them, which makes miR-125b an important molecule in the progression of prostate cancer.
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Juan Zamora pumped $26 of gas into his 1994 Chevy Camaro at his regular Conoco just like any other normal day. The only problem is his Paypal debit card recorded a transaction of $81,400,836,908.
An as-yet-unidentified system glitch resulted in the $81 billion charge which was only discovered after Zamora was informed his credit car had been maxed out, a couple billion times over. After arguing with Paypal's broken-English service division in India, Zamora was eventually able to convince the creditors he hadn't filled his Camaro up more than 3.1 billion times (or alternately gas hadn't gone to $5,920,060,866 a gallon) the charge was removed. Juan's moral of the story: "Pay cash." [Consumer Energy Report]


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The signs were pointing toward quarterback Jake Locker returning to the starting lineup all week and coach Mike Munchak made it official on Friday.
Locker will start against the Dolphins on Sunday after missing the last five games with a dislocated left (non-throwing) shoulder. It's the second time Locker suffered the injury this season, which caused the Titans to take a more cautious approach to his return than they did after his initial injury in the first game of the season.
Locker will wear a harness to help protect the injured shoulder, but Munchak said there won't be any restrictions placed on Locker's play. After a week of practice with no setbacks, Munchak said that the Titans will be turning him loose.
"How he plays, there is no control over that," Munchak said, via Jim Wyatt of the Tennessean. "He is just going to react and go play. He has done a good job sliding and getting down — he has a knack for that. He just needs to avoid … taking the useless hits. And be smart about it — get rid of the ball quicker and those kinds of things. And we have to be smart with the protection."
Locker has completed 63.2 percent of his passes this season for 781 yards, four touchdowns and two interceptions. With owner Bud Adams putting the entire team on notice (and on the couch, psychologically speaking) this week, Locker's play in the second half will have a lot to do with the futures of Munchak, General Manager Ruston Webster and many of the players on the roster.


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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Look Ma, it took me 26 years, but I'm international!
my office, my bookshelves, my inspiration board...
In all seriousness, this was such an honor and I'm so grateful the magazine thought my work space would serve as inspiration for their readers.
Cosmo Slovenia is not available anywhere in the United States, but you can see the article on their website here!
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Congrats Alaina, that's so awesome !ReplyDelete
Happy birthday, lady!!! I hope you have a great weekend and enjoy your dinner with the boy!ReplyDelete
Ahhhh! So awesome! A wonderful birthday present :) Happy, Happy Birthday to you!!ReplyDelete
How wonderful! Congrats -- very exciting! Happy Birthday, too!ReplyDelete
That is so so awesome! What a fun little birthday present :) Happy birthday dear!ReplyDelete
Happy birthday! Congrats again on the feature. You are a my favorite sympathetic American.ReplyDelete
yay!! congrats i love it :) you are a celebrity in solveniaReplyDelete
Congratulations!! That is fantastic and definitely well deserved!ReplyDelete
congrats Alaina! that's so cool!ReplyDelete
Happy birthday!!! Sometimes low key celebrations are really the best.ReplyDelete
And congrats on your feature!! So exciting! And I love your office.
Happy Birthday. It's my 2 year old son Dax's birthday as well. I enjoy your blog very much.. Thanks for sharing your talents. Have a wonderful day!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 5, 2011 at 11:39 AM
Congrats! What a huge honor! And Happy Birthday!! xoReplyDelete
Happy Birthday Alaina! Have a wonderful day! What a great birthday present being published must be :) Congrats lovely lady!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 5, 2011 at 12:47 PM
AHH so exciting! Way to go girl! And Happy Birthday!ReplyDelete
Hope your bday is fantastic. Congrats on the magazine feature, that's so exciting.ReplyDelete
So exciting - and 110% deserved! What a lovely birthday present!ReplyDelete
Happy happy birthday, and congrats on the feature! Did they alert you about the article or did someone else point it out? Either way, quite the milestone!ReplyDelete
Congrats and happy birthday lady! What a fantastic birthday present. Btw, my birthday is this weekend, and I was an on time baby.. ewwww. Happy New Years indeed. Enjoy your day!ReplyDelete
that's amazing! Congratulations!ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday! You and that dress are a perfect match.ReplyDelete
(Does this mean I can say my art was in Cosmo. too!)
Wishing you a magical year!
Huge congrats to you! Hope you have a wonderful birthday celebration this evening.ReplyDelete
Congrats on such an exciting publication!! And another happy birthday to YOU! xoxoReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 5, 2011 at 9:28 PM
You go girl! Congratulations.ReplyDelete
Congratulations! That's fantastic! And Happy Birthday!! 26!! Have a fabulous year Alaina, you deserve it!ReplyDelete
Wow! Congratulations! I'm glad they finally caught on - 'cos we all think you're a design genius!!! What a great birthday present, happy birthday!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 6, 2011 at 3:10 AM
Congrats and greetings from Slovenia!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 6, 2011 at 3:14 AM
and don't worry it is not misspelling, just typical language declension:)ReplyDelete
Happy birthday Alaina! And congrats on the mag feature :)ReplyDelete
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Happy Birthday and congrats on the feature in Cosmo!ReplyDelete
Happy birthday and congrats on the magazineReplyDelete
Happy birthday :) I hope it was a wonderful one. Birthdays are so special! And congrats!!! What a great present, eh?ReplyDelete
ha! thats cool....i was in a few international magazines too...it was pretty funny. I was hoping they quoted me correctly because i couldn't read any of it! :)))congrats to u!ReplyDelete
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In a recent interview focusing mainly on how he admits he would be a "rubbish" Prime Minister, Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson revealed some details about what promises to be a highlight of the upcoming 11th season of Top Gear. We've known that there is supposed to be a big race in Japan, but we weren't exactly sure what mode of transportation would be pitted against the car until now.
Yes, Jezza spilled the beans, revealing that a Japanese bullet train will be the competition. But what new supercar in the land of the rising sun could possibly give a high-speed bullet train a genuine challenge? The previous seasons' races featured the likes of the Aston Martin DB9, Ferrari 612 Scaglietti, McLaren Mercedes SLR, and the Bugatti Veyron. So unless Lexus tossed over the keys to a pre-production prototype of the LF-A, we're thinking the Nissan GT-R will be representing. No word on which wins, (not that we'd want to have it spoiled for us) but we're rooting for Godzilla.
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In 2010 exactly – according to a Russian professor and former high ranking KGB intelligence expert who forecast the collapse of the Soviet Union – in 1976. Here's a map and summary from the Wall Street Journal.
[M]ass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S. will break into six pieces … He predicts that economic, financial and demographic trends will provoke a political and social crisis in the U.S. When the going gets tough, he says, wealthier states will withhold funds from the federal government and effectively secede from the union. Social unrest up to and including a civil war will follow. The U.S. will then split along ethnic lines, and foreign powers will move in.
California will form the nucleus of what he calls "The Californian Republic," and will be part of China or under Chinese influence. Texas will be the heart of "The Texas Republic," a cluster of states that will go to Mexico or fall under Mexican influence. Washington, D.C., and New York will be part of an "Atlantic America" that may join the European Union. Canada will grab a group of Northern states Prof. Panarin calls "The Central North American Republic." Hawaii, he suggests, will be a protectorate of Japan or China, and Alaska will be subsumed into Russia.


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BOSTON, Mass. – A header goal from Lucas Ordosgoitia (Cartagena, Colombia) off of a Douglas Silviera (Revere, Mass.) corner kick in the first two minutes would be all that men's soccer would need as they managed to hang on for 88 minutes to defeat the visiting Colonials of Western Connecticut State University by the final of 1-0 Saturday afternoon at the Clark Athletic Center Field.
The deciding tally, which marked the second of the season for the freshman forward, was scored at 1:46 in the first half. With the victory UMass Boston improved to 4-9-2, 1-5 in the Little East Conference and brought an end to the Beacons four-game skid as well.
The loss marked the second straight 1-0 loss for the Colonials as they fell to 3-10-2, 2-4 in the conference. Saturday's defeat also pushed Western Conn. State out of playoff contention, with only one Saturday left in the regular season. To date the Colonials sit tied for fifth with Rhode Island College, with only the top-4 teams advancing to the conference tournament.
Other than the early go-head goal from the Beacons, Saturday's match was primarily a back-and-forth stalemate. Both teams had their chances to find the back of the net, but a majority of the match was played in the middle third.
Western Connecticut did have an opportunity to tie the game just moments after the Beacons go-ahead score. Following an UMass Boston offside call, WCSU goalkeeper Jack Holub stepped up to take the indirect kick. The senior crushed the ball into the Beacons defensive third, and with a wild hop managed to bounce over the head of sophomore goalkeeper Bryce Menard (Randolph, Mass.) and into the Beacons goal.
However with no player touching the ball on either team the ball was brought back out, despite heavy argument from the WCSU coaching staff. The only other solid chance that the Western Connecticut offense came when Gabriel Goja tried to place the ball to the near post with less than 10 minutes to play in the first half. The ball was just about to cross the goal line, when a sliding Reyn Johnson (Mangilao, Guam) deflected the ball out of the goal preserving UMB's slim lead.
After the halftime break, WCSU and UMB continued to move the ball up-and-down the pitch, with neither really able to get anything going. As time continued to wind down on the Colonials the pressure began to build to score the neutralizer. However every attempt was met by the Beacons defense which on the day held the Colonials to just seven shots, three of which were on goal. Menard notched his first collegiate shutout with Saturday's win after posting just two stops. Holub finished with three saves for the Colonials, as he faced a combined eight shots, four on goal from the Beacons.
The host Beacons also held a slight advantage in corner kicks posting eight on the day, while Western Connecticut finished with seven.
Prior to the start of Saturday's contest the Beacons honored their seven senior members in Brycen Dowd (Mansfield, Mass.), Victor Hugo Costa (Brasilia, Brazil), Dan Purchia (Winchester, Mass.), Luis Saquich (Marlborough, Mass.), Brian Sanz (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Hamza Abdul (Chelsea, Mass.) and Johnson.
Men's Soccer returns to action on Tuesday when they travel to Massachusetts Maritime Academy for a 7 p.m. non-conference match.