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Paso Robles police say a father has been charged with murder in the death of a 2-year-old girl who had visible injuries to her head and body when officials found her.
The San Luis Obispo Tribune reports Wednesday that ( https://bit.ly/VvVQOZ ) 29-year-old Herbert Brown III was arrested after authorities responded to a report the child wasn't breathing early Monday morning.
The child was treated at a local hospital before being transferred to a San Francisco Bay Area hospital for treatment. She died late Tuesday night.
Brown has been charged with murder and assault resulting in the death of a child. He's being held on $130,000 bail.
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GSBS renamed School of Graduate Studies
(COLLEGE STATION, TX) — In an effort to more accurately reflect the scope of programs within its graduate school, the Texas A&M Health Science Center (TAMHSC) Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences is being renamed the School of Graduate Studies.
In addition, David S. Carlson, Ph.D., has been named dean of the school. He also is vice president for research at the TAMHSC and interim director of the TAMHSC-Institute of Biosciences and Technology in Houston.
The name change and appointment were approved at the regular meeting of The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents.
"The change in the name to School of Graduate Studies with its own dean will alleviate ambiguity about the scope and importance of graduate programs in the Texas A&M Health Science Center," Dr. Carlson said.
Since the inception of the Texas A&M Health Science Center in 1999, the name of its graduate school as the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences did not reflect the full range of graduate programs within the institution. In particular, graduate programs in public health and health services research are not typically considered "biomedical sciences."
The goal of the graduate school is to prepare future faculty and researchers to improve the health of all Texans through scientific discovery and education. The school works closely with the faculty and administrative officers at each of the TAMHSC academic units and centers to facilitate, coordinate, and support research and training initiatives within the TAMHSC as well as between the health science center and other academic, clinical, private, and community-based health and research institutions.
The school offers master's and doctoral programs in biomedical, clinical and public health sciences through the College of Medicine, School of Rural Public Health, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, and Baylor College of Dentistry.
Update: As of November 5, 2010 the web address of the school has also been updated to reflect the name change, http://sgs.tamhsc.edu the old web address will continue to work, but please update your links and bookmarks to reflect this change.
Media contact: Dee Dee Grays, 979.436.0611.

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Growers and others in ag community say they've been working to address the issue of Lake Erie's high phosphorus levels.
After a weekend of stern warnings to avoid their city's water, Toledo's 400,000 residents on Monday got the news that it was once again safe to grab a drink or take a shower using city water. The source of the crisis? A bloom of toxic algae that drifted near Toledo's water intake in Lake Erie, resulting in high levels of microcystin, a toxin that can cause vomiting, poor liver function, and more.
But new worries for Ohio farmers may have just begun as people revisit the question of Lake Erie's water quality and the role of agriculture. Runoff from crops and livestock operations, along with aging septic systems and lawn/garden fertilizer use, are one of the reasons behind the lake's high phosphorus levels and blue-green algae blooms. According to a 2013 task force report, phosphorus from cultivated cropland represents 61 percent of the total phosphorus load in the Lake Erie basin.
As a result, many farmers are fretting that that they now will be unfairly blamed for all of Lake Erie's problems. "My biggest concern was the situation in the lake, but now that it's subsided, my biggest concern is that people will have a knee-jerk reaction and start scapegoating," says Wade Smith of Whitehouse Specialty Growers, where he grows vegetables and perennials.
Yet Ohio's agriculture community has been working on the issue for several years. "We started with extensive outreach to our members, telling them, 'You need to take this concern seriously,'" says Joe Cormely, communications director for the Ohio Farm Bureau. The organization has encouraged farmers to educate themselves about new developments in nutrient application and explore more strategic land management practices
Such learning will also soon be mandatory for some. In 2014, the Ohio legislature passed a law requiring farmers with 50 acres or more to attend a class before they can obtain the new license to apply fertilizer to their fields, similar to the requirements for pesticides.
Others say they are already using practices designed to reduce runoff and use fertilizer more strategically, from filter strips along drainage ditches, no-till, and more. "I think a lot of us are trying to do the right thing. We are adopting GPS technology and variable-rate fertilizer technology to get it right," says Paul Herringshaw, who farms corn, soybeans, and wheat on 1,500 acres near Bowling Green, Ohio. "We have a lot of concern about what is happening. … I cannot stress enough that Ohio agriculture has been more proactive that we are getting credit for."
Herringshaw points to farmer-supported research at Ohio State University, where research scientist Elizabeth Dayton is looking at phosphorus and agriculture with the hope of helping farmers and others find the best ways to manage yields, reduce runoff, and improve water quality near Lake Erie, which supplies drinking water to 11 million people in the U.S. and Canada.
"We need to identify the source and figure out what is happening, because nobody knows what is really going on," says Herringshaw, who notes that many farmers have reduced their phosphorus usage compared to the past. "Unfortunately, the research is going to take time."
That may be exactly what Ohio farmers do not have, though, when it comes to the question of taking action to improve Lake Erie's water quality. "When 400,000 people are told not to drink the water, nothing is fast enough," Cormely of the Ohio Farm Bureau says.
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Well this had to happen, but not in the way it actually did. Blizzard sought to stop Valve from trademarking the "DOTA" name, associated with a custom map for its highly successful Warcraft III franchise that eventually broke off from its parent game and is being developed by Valve as DOTA 2. Blizzard, till now, had no problems with this since Valve was not taking anything that was explicitly its own to use – considering that DOTA was fan-made and fan-enjoyed from start to finish. However, Blizzard does have a problem with Valve trying to trademark the DOTA name.
The gist is that Blizzard never owned or wanted to own the DOTA name. It merely exuded goodwill to its fans and wishes to let the name be open and free for anyone to use. It's a lot like the name "chess". If Zynga decided to suddenly trademark the name "Chess" for one of its absurd Facebook games, it would look odd and many people will call foul. That is exactly what Blizzard is doing:-
By attempting to register the mark DOTA Valve seeks to appropriate the more than seven years of goodwill that Blizzard has developed in the mark DOTA and in its Warcraft 3 computer game and take for itself a name that has come to signify the product of years of time and energy expended by Blizzard and by fans of Warcraft 3. Valve has no right to the registration it seeks. If such registration is issued, it not only will damage Blizzard, but also the legions of Blizzard fans that have worked for years with Blizzard and its products, including by causing consumers to falsely believe that Valve's products are affiliated, sponsored or endorsed by Blizzard and are related or connected to Warcraft 3.
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By Brendan DeMelle • Monday, April 11, 2011 - 12:10
**UPDATE: The Cornell paper is now available in final, published format here: "Methane and the greenhouse-gas emissions footprint of natural gas from shale formations."[PDF]
The Hill reported this morning on a groundbreaking report from Cornell University researchers confirming that shale gas recovered through high volume hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," will produce even more greenhouse gases than the burning of coal in the next two decades - a critical window in which society must reduce emissions to combat climate change. While natural gas is often viewed as a "cleaner alternative" to conventional fossil fuels - and is often promoted as a "bridge fuel" by environmentalists and politicians alike - the new Cornell report explodes this myth.
Gas is not just a "bridge to nowhere," it turns out to be a highway to hell. The Cornell study makes clear that the widely-held perception that gas is the "cleaner" darling of the fossil fuel trio is a myth. With total methane emissions factored in, shale gas turns out to have the greatest climate impact of all the fossil fuels.
Contrary to popular belief, gas is just as polluting as coal in the long term - and far worse in the near term due to the higher warming impact from methane when it is first released to the atmosphere during the controversial fracking stage. This news is certain to rattle policymakers in Washington who have promoted gas as a solution to our energy crisis. The Cornell paper is a game changer, and its release this week should command the attention of everyone concerned about our energy future.
The peer-reviewed paper, authored by Cornell experts Robert Howarth, Anthony Ingraffea and Renee Santoro, is expected to be published later this week in the journal Climatic Change.
From the leaked draft of the study:
"The greenhouse gas footprint for shale gas is greater than that for conventional gas or oil when viewed on any time horizon, but particularly so over 20 years. Compared to coal, the footprint of shale gas is at least 20% greater and perhaps more than twice as great on the 20-year horizon and is comparable when compared over 100 years… These methane emissions are at least 30% more than and perhaps more than twice as great as those from conventional gas. The higher emissions from shale gas occur at the time wells are hydraulically fractured – as methane escapes from flow-back return fluids – and during drill out following the fracturing."
Fracking, sadly, has been given the green light for now by the Obama administration, and the president himself recently touted the fact that, thanks to this procedure, the U.S. now has access to huge reserves of fuel for the future. The Energy Information Administration currently estimates that the U.S. will rely on shale gas for roughly 45% of our energy needs by the year 2035.
DeSmogBlog has noted extensively in the past some of the dangers associated with fracking, including the threat of toxic chemicals and radiation from the process leaking into drinking water supplies and local waterways. The New York Times "Drilling Down" series by Ian Urbina revealed several new angles about the threats posed by fracking for shale gas, and new information about the risks of gas drilling are emerging on a near-daily basis.
The full Cornell paper will be published in the journal Climatic Change later this week. Stay tuned for further analysis of this groundbreaking study, and more information about the perils of relying on dirty gas for our energy needs.
Green Hornet replied on Permalink
Natural gas vs coal - methane
Anyone who thinks the paper by Howarth et al is a "game changer" has not read the paper. As science goes, this paper is exceptionally weak. Worst of all, in concluding that natural gas from shale is "worse" than coal in GHG release, it assumes there is no methane released into the atmosphere by coal mining. What do you think the exhaust fans are releasing to keep the mines from exploding during mining? Inadvertant release of methane during shale gas drilling is worth examining, but this paper is simply not a credible effort to do so.
Jim Prall replied on Permalink
Did too!
Sorry, "green hornet" but your claim is simply false. They definitely do include an estimate for methane emissions from coal mining. You would know this if you had looked at their Figure 1.A. See the caption? See the top bar in the stacked bar for coal mining? There it is, methane emissions from coal mining. Not hard to see.
"Simply not credible"? Who should I listen to: an anonymous blog poster who ignores Figure 1 in the paper, and
gives zero sources for a better analysis, just a dismissive toss-away? Or should I listen to this paper, which goes into detailed accounts of each stage in each type of production, cites numerous studies by well known authors on carbon emissions, states the uncertainty ranges for each figure and stays with conservative estimates, and shows their calculations for the overall comparisons?
Im afraid youve fallen into the fallacy of argument from incredulity: *you* failed to be persuaded by the paper, so you want to claim that this makes the paper "simply not credible" to everyone. Sorry, doesnt follow.
Maybe a better study will come along later that improves on this work or even corrects some fault, but that will take work, research and specifics with hard numbers - not just your hasty smackdown with one single critical claim, that one criticism veing itself easily shown to be incorrect.
Green Hornet replied on Permalink
Coal mine methane
And the reference source for the data on coal mine release of methane is where? The paper states the data were determined/derived from "Supplemental Electronic Materials". Yet the discussion of published references cited in the paper states: "However, we can compare our estimates for conventional gas with three previous peer-reviewed studies on the GHG emissions of conventional natural gas and coal: Hayhoe et al. (2002), Lelieveld et al. (2005), and Jamarillo et al. (2007). All concluded that GHG emissions for conventional gas are less than for coal, when considering the contribution of methane over 100 years."
So the evidence for the thesis proposed in this paper resides in a Figure in which the data on coal mines from which the Figure was derived are not available to the reader. Are you aware of studies on the amount of methane released by venting of coal mines over the life of the mine? If these papers exist, why were they not cited?
Jim Prall replied on Permalink
Green hornet, you seem to be straining to find fault with this study. You list the sources they cite for the point you question, then ask why they dont cite sources… Huh? Are you saying the cited works arent "available"?
I readily found Hayhoe 2002 via Google Scholar:
And it provided this link to the full text PDF:
Please read that and let me know if you think it addresses your issue about evidence or whatever.
Jim Prall replied on Permalink
Here is a source that
Here is a source that collects several recent estimates of methane emissions from a wide range of sources including coal mining:
What I take from these figures is that human driven CH4 emissions are around 1.5 to 2x natural emissions, and that CH4 from coal mining comes in around 5 to 10 percent of the human contribution.
What exactly is "not available"?
Green Hornet replied on Permalink
Source of data for Fig. 1
Jim - no, I wasn't referring to the citations you mentioned as "not available". Sorry I confused the issue by inserting that excerpt from the paper in my reply at the place I did. In the Results section of the paper, where the authors describe Figure 1, they note that the derivation of the data used to construct the bar graphs for diesel and coal came from "Electronic Supplemental Materials". It is not clear what these materials are, but they are not (or at least don't appear to be) the 3 papers mentioned in the Discussion. I haven't been able to find papers that have measured the amounts of methane exhausted by coal mine vents. I'll check the sources you provided in your later post. In order to make the assertion that shale gas is worse that coal for GHG emissions, it seems to me the onus is on the authors to inform the reader how they reached the conclusion that methane release from coal mines is negligible (which is what Fig 1 says). If they were truly negligible, why would the mine need to run the venting fans 24/7 to prevent explosive levels of CH4 buildup in the shafts?
I did read Joe Romm's blog today regarding his phone call to the author. I thought it was interesting that the author told Joe that the findings were based on very limited data and needed further verification before conclusions were reached. However, the media and members of Congress will leap on the headline of "nat gas worse than coal". This I think is regretable because that conclusion is far from settled. What we can probably agree on is that there is leakage of methane from the drilling of shale gas wells, and this deserves further study, as well as mitigation. However, the second part of the paper's assertion that shale gas is worse than coal seems scientifically weak and at this point, at least from the data presented, unfounded.
Rob replied on Permalink
Kind of a tough sale.
Kind of a tough sale. According to the NOAA, the rate at which atmospheric methane increase has declined since the 80s and is currently negative.
Jim Prall replied on Permalink
Rate of atm. Methane?
This comment is a bit hard to follow, but seems to be trying to say that total methane concentration in the atmosphere has either stopped rising? Or the rate of increase has slowed? Whichever you meant, methane emssions have not stopped, and concentrations are certainly not falling.
In any case thats not really a good objection to the point of this paper. Frakking is a new practice and is just starting to be widely used. We could expect more methane increases in the future based on the figures in this paper for emissions during frakking and drilling out, if indeed frakking grows at the kind of rate they project. But current and recent methane trends are dominated by other factors than frakking up to this point, so you cannot use that to argue that frakking is not in fact causing the level of fugitive emissions asserted in this paper.
Rob replied on Permalink
Try: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_methane.
Read under the heading "Emissions accounting of methane".
You can complain that this is a Wiki reference if you want, but there are ample citations within the article and you are free to read to your hearts content.
Green Hornet replied on Permalink
NOAA on atmospheric methane
Rob is correct that NOAA has shown a drop in atmospheric methane over the past decade, although it has begun to rise again in the latter years of the decade. A NOAA spokesperson suspects most of that rise may be due to warming of the arctic and release of large amounts of methane as permafrost melts.
To quote: "Rapidly growing industrialization in Asia and rising wetland emissions in the Arctic and tropics are the most likely causes of the recent methane increase, said scientist Ed Dlugokencky from NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory. "We're on the lookout for the first sign of a methane release from thawing Arctic permafrost," said Dlugokencky. "It's too soon to tell whether last year's spike in emissions includes the start of such a trend."
While I don't doubt there is some release of methane during the process of drilling shale for natural gas, this has to be put in the context of other sources of methane release into the atmosphere. In their obvious desire to poo-poo natural gas derived from fracturing shale, the authors of this paper have handed the proponents of coal-fired electricity a nice piece of propaganda.
Jim Prall replied on Permalink
I dont see it that way, GH.
I dont see it that way, GH. Poeple used to claim that n gas was less carbon intensive than coal per unit of delivered energy. That would be true if gas drilling had low "fugitive" losses. Thus study raises the concern that frcking may be driving up such leaking, enough to put the leakier cases of conventional gas drilling and almost all fracking wells above coal mining for overall carbon intensity.
That doesnt make coal any cleaner, and i think the oublic should get that.
A longer discussion of this article is ongoing over at Joe Romms climateprogress.org
Joe aptly sums up the significance of this work. He interviewed Horwath for his write up. Well worth a read.
paul_s replied on Permalink
"Groundbreaking"? Hardly. It
"Groundbreaking"? Hardly. It is a report, not a study, and presents conclusions the authors want it to present. It reads like a first draft, the language usage is so clunky in it.
Jim Prall replied on Permalink
How it "reads"?
Now that is just silly, paul_s. I read the paper and it reads just fine; i did not find the language "clumky" - ratzher it seemed to me well written, clearly worded and fully documented with figures and citations.
You will have to do better than just name calling. I invite interested readers to see for themselves how the paper "reads" and whether or not it seems "clumky."
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you are doing very nice job.
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Last night's South Park featured this spoof of LeBron James's recent commercial. It features BP CEO Tony Hayward intercut with other characters in the midst of existential crises.
How very South Park of South Park to recontextualize the commercial for someone even more loathsome. Pretty clever there, Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Pretty clever, indeed. The episode also answered some mythology/logistical questions concerning a long-running gag and Cthulhu, because why not. So if you're at all interested, the full episode is available to view for free—albeit with commercials—here.


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Putin and Obama speak by phone as US moves on several fronts to counter Russian aggression
President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke for an hour by phone Thursday as the administration moved on several fronts to counter Russia's aggression in Ukraine's Crimean peninsula.
The White House said Obama emphasized to Putin that "Russia's actions are in violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, which has led us to take several steps in response in coordination with our European partners."
These included sending U.S. fighter jets to allied countries, imposing visa restrictions on Russians and strongly decrying a planned referendum in Crimea to split from Ukraine and join Russia.
The call was the first known contact between the two leaders since Saturday, shortly after Russian troops moved into Crimea.
The White House said Obama told Putin there still was a way to resolve the situation diplomatically, which would include the Ukraine and Russian governments holding direct talks, international monitors and Russian forces returning to their bases. There was no indication of Putin's response.
Earlier Thursday, Obama said at the White House,"We are well beyond the days when borders can be redrawn over the heads of democratic leaders."
Obama was reacting to a vote in Crimea to join Russia -- which is scheduled for a referendum in 10 days. Obama, echoed by the State Department, said this move would "violate the Ukrainian Constitution and violate international law."
The president said there is still a path to resolve the crisis, and urged Russia to let international monitors into Ukraine as part of that. But, referring to a boosted U.S. military presence among NATO partners, Obama said the U.S. is taking steps "to reaffirm our commitment to the security and democracy of our allies in Eastern Europe."
Among those steps, six F-15s landed in Lithuania, along with two K-135 refueling tankers, on Thursday morning.
Polish officials also claimed that the U.S. was sending 12 F-16s to Poland, along with 300 U.S. troops. The Pentagon, though, said no decision had been made, though "Secretary Hagel is committed to increasing our participation in the aviation detachment in Poland, a detachment he visited recently."
The U.S. Navy also announced it is sending a guided-missile destroyer to the Black Sea as part of a "scheduled" deployment.
The Navy stressed that the USS Truxtun would be leaving from Greece for "previously planned" exercises with Romanian and Bulgarian Naval forces. But the ship movement comes as the Pentagon overtly boosts its NATO presence in the region, as part of an effort to shore up allies in the face of Russia's advances.
The USS Truxtun will be detaching from the USS George H.W. Bush strike group, currently in the Mediterranean. Another ship, the USS Taylor, had previously been in the Black Sea but ran aground and is currently undergoing repairs in Turkey.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration was moving ahead Thursday with additional sanctions and visa restrictions on Russians in response to the country's incursion in Ukraine.And the House voted Thursday to approve a $1 billion loan guarantee package for Ukraine.
At a hearing on Capitol Hill, a top State Department official also blasted Russia's version of events, which it used to justify its use of the military -- just hours after the department issued a blistering fact sheet on the topic.
"There are no confirmed reports of threats to ethnic Russians," Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Eric Rubin testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Rubin continued, "No confirmed reports of a massive movement of ethnic Russian refugees, no threat to Russian naval bases. The interim Ukrainian government is a body that represents the will of the Ukrainian people. It is not an extremist cabal. Russia's assertions are nothing more than veneer used to justify its military action."
The State Department fact sheet, called "President Putin's Fiction: 10 False Claims About Ukraine," aimed to counter what the State Department calls Russia's false narrative to justify its illegal actions in Ukraine. The State Department wrote: "The world has not seen such startling Russian fiction since Dostoyevsky wrote, 'The formula 'two times two equals five' is not without its attractions.'"
Meanwhile, the latest actions by Crimea itself are also on tenuous footing. Crimea's parliament has asked to join Russia, which citizens could formalize with a vote in a March 16 referendum. But there are no legal grounds for this move, according to Ukraine's interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
Although several House Foreign Affairs Committee members gave strong statements about punishing Russia for its transgressions, Treasury official Daleep Singh noted the limits to the effectiveness of sanctions. Singh did point out that Europe's reliance on Russian energy is a two-way street: Europe depends on Russia for energy, but Russia depends on Europe for revenue from that energy.
Rubin also spoke about the recently announced visa restrictions.
"Pursuant to the president's guidance, the State Department is putting in place visa restrictions on a number of officials and individuals, reflecting a policy decision to deny visas to those responsible for or complicit in threatening the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine," he said.
Other options are on the table.
Florida Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen brought up the Magnitsky Act. She suggested new names be added to the list to "name and shame" the Russians known to have committed human rights violations. To this, Rubin indicated that the State Department is indeed actively considering adding new names.
The Magnitsky Act, officially the Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012, is a bipartisan bill passed in late 2012 intended to punish Russian officials linked to the death of Sergei Magnitsky. It would block their entrance to the United States and use of their banking system. Worldwide, the act has been hailed as groundbreaking for human rights.
Putin said at the time the act was "unfriendly" and threatened bilateral relations. Russia responded to the Magnitsky Act by barring Americans from adopting Russian children.
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Coach Carter
In the fall of 1998, Ken Carter, a distinguished alumnus of Richmond High located in an impoverished, working-class community north of San Francisco, agreed to coach his alma mater's struggling basketball team.
Carter, a successful businessman who had set several school scoring records back in the Seventies, took the position with the aim of instilling his players with the drive to achieve excellence both on the court and in the classroom. Well aware of the dire prospects after graduation for the average athlete who focused on sports at the expense of academics, he had each of his players sign a contract in which they promised to have perfect attendance, to hand in all of their homework assignments and to maintain at least a 2.3 grade point average.
And to prove his commitment to excellence, he even allowed his own son to transfer to inner-city Richmond from a private school. Everything went well initially, with the team going undefeated and enjoying a 13-0 record deep into the season. But then, the Coach received mid-term progress reports from teachers indicating that most of his kids were receiving failing grades. So, he made the difficult decision to padlock the gym and to substitute books for balls in order to undue the delinquency immediately. This development so outraged the players, their parents and the rest of the local community that the ensuing call for Carter's head received national attention.
The tensions surrounding this series of events serves as the basis for the surprisingly uplifting Coach Carter, perhaps best described as a cross of Lean on Me (1989) and Hoosiers (1986), as it borrows heavily from the both the "blackboard jungle" and "overcoming the odds" genres. Samuel L. Jackson, who seemed to be sleepwalking through a lot of his recent roles, at least found the fire needed to portray the charismatic title character, here, very convincingly. Jackson had to exhibit some of his trademark intensity to hold his own opposite the intimidating, larger-than-life crew Carter inherits from his retiring predecessor.
For this picture's super-realistic storyline has the Coach facing physical confrontations from his first day on the job and having to continue to exhibit a certain "in-your-face� machismo to command respect. Of equal import, however, is the fact that director Thomas Carter (Save the Last Dance) saw fit to develop several compelling sub-plots in addition to the overarching "education over basketball" theme. For instance, one player, Kenyon (Rob Brown), must mature quickly when he learns that his girlfriend (Ashanti) is pregnant, while another, Timo (Rick Gonzalez), finds himself attracted to the fast money his drug-dealing cousin is dangling in front of his face if he opts for life on the wrong side of the law. Because the film presents a fairly-faithful rendering of actual events, don't expect a sugar-coated, "happily-ever-after" Hollywood finish and you won't be disappointed. That being said, Coach Carter, nonetheless, is ultimately unusually satisfying, as it transcends typical sports flick fare, given its sobering suggestion that tough times might call for tough love and tough measures.
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Sally Jewell has been sworn in as Interior secretary, replacing Ken Salazar, who stepped down after more than four years as head of the agency responsible for more than 500 million acres of national parks and other public lands.
The 57-year-old Jewell, a former CEO of outdoor retailer Recreational Equipment Inc., won Senate confirmation earlier this week.
She was sworn in Friday at a private ceremony at the Supreme Court. Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor administered the oath of office. O'Connor and Jewell worked together on an independent commission that recommended a new vision for the National Park Service.
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British military officials ordered a daring commando raid that rescued a New York Times reporter because they feared the journalist and his interpreter were about to be moved to Pakistan, a senior Afghan official told the Times.
The pre-dawn raid freed Stephen Farrell but proved deadly for his translator, Sultan Munadi, who met a fusillade of bullets while trying to identify himself as a journalist. It was unclear whether rescuers or the Taliban killed him, according to the Times. A British rescuers, at least one Afghan civilian and dozens of Taliban fighters were also killed in the fight.
Afghan journalists criticized British military officials for their decision to go ahead with the raid, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported. Munadi had spoken to his family by phone in the hours before his death, saying that there were only a "few issues" to resolve before he would be released, according to the report.
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ou were hired or a programmer by a telephone company employs metering scheme in computing the telephone bill. the metering scheme is as follow
call made on weekday between 6:00AM to 6:00PM are charged at 2.50 dollar per minute charged at are charged weekday are charged a discount rate of 2.00 dollars per minute. calls made anytime on weekend are charged a weekend rate of 1.50 dollar per minute. your job is to write a program that will ask the user to enter the ff. information: an integer representing the day so on an integer representing (in 24 hours format) the call started; and an integer representing the time the call ended
please guys if you think the rate are ridiculous please did is not real life rate just a java problem and not real please here my code but i do not how to put the 2.50 discount rate im really lose please kindly help me where to put this codes please could kindly help me to understand this im confused and also please could also tweak or could please kindly finish what is missing in my code and this not and assignments or homework its just a SEAT-WORK i did im really confused at it
import java.util.Scanner; class week { public static double weekendRate = 1.5; public static double weekRate = 2; public static void main(String[] args) { int day; int startHour; int startMinute; int endHour; int endMinute; int begin; int end; int duration; double bill; Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.print("What is the weekday?"); day = in.nextInt(); System.out.print("What is the starting time? Hour:"); startHour = in.nextInt(); System.out.print(" Minute: "); startMinute = in.nextInt(); System.out.print("What is the ending time? Hour:"); endHour = in.nextInt(); System.out.print("Minute: "); endMinute = in.nextInt(); begin = startHour * 60 + startMinute; end = endHour * 60 + endMinute; duration = end - begin; if (day == 6 || day == 7) { bill = duration * weekendRate; } else { bill = duration * weekRate; System.out.println("Duration: " + duration + " minutes"); System.out.println("Bill: " + bill + " dollar "); } } }


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Are you tired of looking at the hollow shell of a GMC pickup sitting on your lawn, reminding you of your complete failure with yet another restoration project? Just make it into a BBQ like the enterprising Saudis at Radical Motorsports.
The front end of a 1978 GMC truck looks like a great basis for a barbeque grill, actually, with plenty of room for roasting meats where a fat V8 used to live. The truck's hood seems capable of keeping the smoke from escaping.
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You are currently browsing the category archive for the 'General .net Articles' category.
This article is in continuation of the previous one in which we have created a simple dot net web service. https://mirnauman.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/creating-a-simple-dot-net-web-service/
First of all click on Build and than on Publish.
On the next screen provide setting for the publishing. Like enter a publish profile name. Keep publish method to File System. Specify a Target Location where the published files will be saved.
Now open Internet Information Services Manager. We can do this by typing inetmgr in RUN dialog or Administrative Tools from Control Pannel. When the IIS Manager is open. Right Click the server name and click add Website.
This will open the add website dialog. Enter a site name, application pool name, provide the Physical path of the published files of our web service and provide a port number like 8082 etc.
Now check the application pool.
Right click on the website in IIS Manager and click Browse Website. you will see your web service up and running.
Note:- this tutorial can be used to publish any website or web service. The steps are the same
The reason for writing this article is that a lot of people have published too many articles on creating web services and making it simple but non is actually simple. Almost all of those article focus on the boring theory and functionality of the web service and not on actually what we least require to create a simple web service. Beginners to web services like me get confused in the functionality and un necessary theory. With this confusion the actual cause of creating a very simple web service dies. I have made it very simple to create a .net web service and my readers can extend this article like instead of addition they can put in what ever functionality they want in the WebMethod to get this web service work for them according to their needs.
Some Boring Theory That We Can't Get Rid Off
- When ever we create a web service we need some part of it to be accessed from outside. So that we can call it and make it do something for us. to make a method accessible to the outside world we need to add [WebMethod] Attribute on top of that method.
- The method that we need to expose to the outside world must be public.
- The file that we need to call is the one with ".asmx" extension to execute our web service.
- We can have a private method in our web service that can be called from with in our public method. Like we can have some classes that will have some method that will do some stuff for us. To get access to that functionality of those method. We need to call those methods from our public method by creating objects of those classes in the Service1.asmx file and calling those methods through those objects.
Now Coming To The Real Stuff.
My development environment
- Visual Studio 2010
- Windows 7 professional 64 bit
- Dot net framework 3.5
Creating the Web Service
Open your Visual Studio and click New Project (Section 1 in image). From the left side panel choose C#(Section 2 in image) , Web(Section 3 in image). From the Framework selection dropdown at the top select .Net Framework 3.5 (Section 4 in image) and from the list below that select ASP.Net Web Service Application (Section 5 in image). Give the name of the web service application (Section 6 in image) and the location (Section 7 in image) where it will be saved. Click OK (Section 8 in image)to create the project.
namespace WsMirTestWebService { /// <summary> /// Summary description for Service1 /// </summary> [WebService(Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/")] [WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)] [System.ComponentModel.ToolboxItem(false)] // To allow this Web Service to be called from script, using ASP.NET AJAX, uncomment the following line. // [System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService] public class Service1 : System.Web.Services.WebService { [WebMethod] public string HelloWorld() { return "Hello World"; } } }
This is what is created for us by default. now replace the method
[WebMethod] public string HelloWorld() { return "Hello World"; }
with your own method that you want to call from outside. Lets say we want to send two numbers to the web service and get the sum
[WebMethod] public int add(int a,int b) { int c = 0; c = a+b; return c; }
Testing Created Web Service
Now when we run our web service, we will see Service1.asmx in brower with all our WebMethods. Currently we have only one method i.e, add.
Clicking on the add link will take us to the second screen where we will supply two values to our WebMethod and will click the Invoke button to execute the add method.
We provide two values 7,3 and click Invoke button. This will execute our WebMethod add and if our method is returning some value it will show us the returned value.
The above link can be used to publish the created web service.


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Hi, may I ask, what's the recommended workflow with Garritan; score directly with Finale/Sibelius, or write into a sequencing program like Logic and then export midi for scoring?
I ask because want the best performance and scoring accuracy/control. I want to create the best audio mock up as well as the best score.


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Firm to study if High Point convention center is feasible
A group of High Point business and tourism leaders announced Thursday that it has hired a firm to study the feasibility of developing a convention center in the city.
The boards of the High Point Partners and the High Point Convention & Visitors Bureau have enlisted Strategic Advisory Group of Atlanta to assess the potential for establishing a meeting or event facility. Both organizations are looking for ways to increase consumer traffic and provide a general economic boost to the city outside of the High Point Market twice a year.
Representatives of both groups say the need for a large, multipurpose meeting space is critical to help High Point compete as a year-round business destination for meetings, trade shows and conventions.
"Clearly, there's a need for event space in High Point. The questions are, 'What kind? How big? and Where at?'" said CVB President and CEO Tim Mabe. "What we want to do is take a real smart approach to determine what it is that would make the most sense for us in High Point."
The boards of both organizations are hiring Strategic Advisory Group for "less than $60,000," with the CVB picking up the bulk of the cost, Mabe said. The firm is expected to complete its study by July 2014.
The group last year interviewed several companies interested in doing the study before settling on Strategic Advisory Group, which has done similar projects for communities around the country and "has a history of delivering high-quality analysis and being relentlessly objective about what the cities need and don't need," Mabe said. "We want to know not only what it is we need to do, but we want a plan of action on how to get it done."
The loss of Showplace as a site for conventions, conferences and trade shows has underscored the need for new alternatives, he said. The city has lost events that Showplace previously hosted, including the International Custom Rod Building Exposition, the Southern Building Material Association's annual trade show and North Carolina Aerospace Association and North Carolina Emergency Medical Services Association events, Mabe said.
"These are just some of the ones we've lost the last several months. This results in over a $1 million loss to our economy," Mabe said.
Civic events at Showplace, like the annual Hospice of the Piedmont's Taste of the Town fundraiser, also are at risk of being displaced, he added.
The group wants the study to look at all options for event space, including whether there may already be sites available in the city that would fit the bill.
"I don't want to leave any stone unturned. That's why we've got a consultant," Mabe said. "First of all, you have to find out what you can support."
He cited a hypothetical scenario involving a professional association of about 2,000 people holding a convention. It would require banquet space for that many people, as well as room for smaller "break-out sessions" and exhibit space. It's typically the fees that exhibitors pay for space at conventions that finance the events, he added.
Such a scenario would require a 40,000- to 50,000-square-foot facility, he estimated.
Strategic Advisory Group will do extensive research into the question of what it would take to bring these types of events to High Point. Mabe said the partners and CVB are concerned about High Point's ability to compete with other cities in landing conventions, particularly state association conferences.
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Radiation therapy uses high doses of
radiation, such as X-rays, to destroy cancer cells. The radiation damages the
genetic material of the cells so that they can't grow. Although radiation
damages normal cells as well as cancer cells, the normal cells can repair
themselves and function, while the cancer cells cannot.
therapy may be used alone or combined with hormonal treatment to treat
prostate cancer. It is most effective in treating
cancers that have not spread outside the prostate. But it also may be used if
the cancer has spread to nearby tissue. Radiation is sometimes used after
surgery to destroy any remaining cancer cells and to relieve pain from
metastatic cancer.
Radiation is delivered in one of two ways.
Sometimes treatment combines brachytherapy with low-dose
external radiation. In other cases, treatment combines surgery with external
radiation or hormone therapy may be used along with brachytherapy.
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clinical trial for treatment.
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occur after treatment, such as erection problems. For some men, this problem
gets gradually worse over the course of several years after treatment. The
long-term effects of radiation therapy on the main body systems are not yet
known. Side effects include:1
Radiation therapy is used for:
For early-stage prostate cancer,
prostatectomy and radiation appear to work equally well. Radiation appears to work as well as prostatectomy and active surveillance for most men over 65 who have early stage prostate cancer (stages I and II, also called localized prostate cancer). For men younger than 65, treatment with surgery may help them live longer.2
For treating low-risk prostate cancer, brachytherapy alone works well.3
treating advanced prostate cancer that has grown beyond the prostate but not
into lymph nodes or bones, external-beam radiation combined with hormone drugs can
work better than surgery. This treatment often results in controlling cancer
growth and in many years of disease-free survival.1
Radiation therapy also works well to treat pain when prostate cancer has spread to the bone.4
Side effects are common. Some men develop
long-term problems that may have a significant impact on their quality of life.
Long-term problems that can be caused by radiation treatment include:
The goal of radiation therapy is to deliver the highest dose possible to the prostate while protecting the rest of the nearby organs (such as the bladder and rectum) from unnecessary radiation. Newer ways of giving radiation, such as 3D-CRT, IMRT, and proton beam therapy, are more accurate. This has helped to reduce problems caused by radiation.
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CitationsNational Cancer Institute (2012). Prostate Cancer Treatment (PDQ)—Health Professional Version. Available online: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/prostate/HealthProfessional.Lu-Yao GL, et al. (2010). Outcomes of localized prostate cancer following conservative management. JAMA, 302(11): 1202–1209.Zelefsky MJ, et al. (2011). Cancer of the prostate. In VT DeVita Jr et al., eds., DeVita, Hellman and Rosenberg's Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology, 9th ed., pp. 1220–1271. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.D'Amico AV, et al. (2012). Radiation therapy for prostate cancer. In AJ Wein et al., eds., Campbell-Walsh Urology, 10th ed., vol. 3, pp. 2850–2872. Philadelphia: Saunders.
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The known lands in the world are shown here. Locations of certain landmarks are marked down and each marking are as follows. If you wish to view the file in its full size, click the "i" in the bottom left corner of the map.
- Northern Water Tribe
- Northern Air Temple
- Western Air Temple
- Ba Sing Se Zoo
- Ba Sing Se
- Abbey
- Taku
- Makapu Village
- Pohuai Stronghold
- Fire Nation colonial village
- Harbor town
- Gaipan, located near an abandoned treetop hideout.
- Seedy merchants pier
- Fire Nation Capital
- Great Gates of Azulon
- Black Cliffs
- Fire Nation village which Hama terrorized.
- Fire Fountain City
- Roku's island
- Ember Island
- Shu Jing
- Jang Hui
- Fire Nation bazaar
- Crescent Island
- Great Divide
- Senlin Village, surrounded by a scorched forest.
- General Fong's fortress
- Mining village
- Serpent's Pass
- Wan Shi Tong's Library, now buried.
- Kolau Mountains
- Cave of Two Lovers
- Omashu, renamed New Ozai during the Fire Nation's occupation
- Foggy Swamp
- Plains village
- Tu Zin
- Chin Village
- Gaoling
- Kyoshi Island
- Eastern Air Temple
- Southern Air Temple
- Southern Water Tribe
- Whaletail Island
- Lake Laogai
- Eastern Sea
- Chameleon Bay
- Ba Sing Se Outer Wall
- Patola Mountains
- Si Wong Desert, location of the Si Wong Rock.
- Crystal Catacombs of Old Ba Sing Se
- Aang's favorite place to ride hog monkeys.
- Aang's favorite place to ride hopping llamas.
- Aang's favorite place to surf on the backs of elephant koi.
- Sun Warriors' ancient city
- Boiling Rock
- Yon Rha's village
- Fire Nation Royal Palace
- The above map excludes an entire hemisphere of Earth, most of which is oceanic. It is also heavily distorted, much like a Mercator projection, a type of cylindrical map that makes a round surface appear flat while still preserving loxodromes. This means the Water Tribe is territoriality smaller than it appears on the map, and the Fire Nation is larger.[1]
- ↑ Robert Moscoe (April 6, 2007). An Avatar Spring Break with Mike and Bryan. Avatarspiritmedia.net.
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(CNN) — The Illinois Senate passed a measure Thursday to legalize same-sex marriage, voting 34-21.
The state House will consider it next. Gov. Pat Quinn, a Democrat, has indicated that he would sign the bill.
Illinois would be the 10th state, plus the District of Columbia, to legalize same-sex marriage, according to Lambda Legal, a gay rights organization.
Three other states are considering similar legalization, said Camilla Taylor, marriage project director for Lambda Legal. A bill has passed the Rhode Island House and been sent to the Senate. A proposal has been introduced in the Hawaii legislature, and another is expected in Delaware, Taylor said.
Five states, including Illinois, have civil union laws, according to Lambda Legal and the National Conference of State Legislatures. The others are Hawaii, Delaware, New Jersey and Rhode Island.
The groups list four states as having some type of domestic-partnership recognition: California, Oregon, Nevada and Wisconsin. Lambda Legal lists Colorado as recognizing designated beneficiary agreements.
Twenty-nine states have constitutional provisions banning same-sex marriage, the National Conference of State Legislatures says.
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Robert Glasper's breakout year heads into a busy autumn with the keyboardist announcing the October 9 release of Black Radio Recovered: The Remix EP. The 6-track EP, which was produced by Glasper, features remixed and previously unreleased tracks from his acclaimed album Black Radio. The remixers include Glasper himself, as well as ?uestlove, 9th Wonder, Georgia Anne Muldrow, and Pete Rock, with additional contributions from rappers Black Milk, Phonte, The Roots, and vocalist Solange Knowles. The remixes reinvent tracks that originally featured Bilal ("Letter to Hermoine"), Erykah Badu ("Afro Blue"), Meshell Ndegeocello ("The Consequences of Jealousy"), and yasiin bey ("Black Radio"), as well as Robert Glasper Experiment's cover of the Little Dragon song "Twice." Also included is "Dillatude," the Experiment's tribute to the late, great hip hop producer J Dilla which is a previously unreleased track from the Black Radio sessions.
Robert Glasper Experiment has also been added to the line-up of the iTunes Festival 2012, taking place at the Roundhouse, Camden Town in London, on September 23. By downloading the free iTunes Festival App, fans from across the globe can watch the show live or view it afterwards for a limited time on their computer with iTunes, on their iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or on the big screen using Apple TV.
Glasper has also announced an extensive fall North American tour that will include a CMJ showcase at S.O.B.'s in New York City, 2 nights at UCLA's Royce Hall in Los Angeles that spotlight Glasper with both his Experiment band and Trio, as well as appearances in Washington DC, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and a hometown show in Houston. See below for a full list of tour dates.
The track listing for Black Radio Recovered: The Remix EP is as follows:
1. Afro Blue feat. Erykah Badu / 9th Wonder's Blue Light Basement Remix feat. Phonte
2. Black Radio feat. yasiin bey / Pete Rock Remix
3. The Consequences of Jealousy feat. Meshell Ndegeocello / Georgia Anne Muldrow's Sassy Geemix
4. Twice / ?uestlove's Twice Baked Remix feat. Solange Knowles & The Roots
5. Letter to Hermione (feat. Bilal) / Robert Glasper and Jewels Remix feat. Black Milk
6. Dillatude
September 15 – Indianapolis Jazz Festival – Indianapolis, IN
September 23 – iTunes Festival @ The Roundhouse – London, England
September 26 – Milwaukee Performing Arts Center – Milwaukee, WI
October 4 – Showcase Live – Foxboro, MA
October 5 – Iron Horse – Northampton, MA
October 6 – Traif – Buffalo, NY
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October 26 – Discovery Green – Houston, TX
October 27 – Royce Hall – Los Angeles, CA (Trio)
October 28 – Anthology – San Diego, CA
November 1 – Palace of Fine Arts Theatre – San Francisco, CA
November 4 – Triple Door – Seattle, WA


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2014 BET Awards Winnersby Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
The 2014 BET Awards are here, and a ton of our favorite artists are leading the nominations! With Beyonce and Jay Z nabbing multiple noms (including the Viewers' Choice Award and Best Collab) as well as nods for Pharrell, Drake, Justin Timberlake and more, we can't to see which awards our fave stars will go home with.
Check out the full list of winners below, and be sure to keep it here on PopCrush because we'll be updating it throughout the show.
Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
Lionel Richie
Coca-Cola Viewers' Choice Award
August Alsina ft. Trinidad Jame$, 'I Luv This' – WINNER
Beyonce ft. Jay Z, 'Drunk In Love'
Drake, 'Worst Behavior'
Jhene Aiko. 'The Worst'
Pharrell Williams, 'Happy'
Best Female R&B/Pop Artist
Janelle Monae
Jhene Aiko
K. Michelle
Tamar Braxton
Best Male R&B/Pop Artist
August Alsina
Chris Brown
John Legend
Justin Timberlake
Pharrell Williams — WINNER
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A$AP Mob
Daft Punk
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Young Money – WINNER
Best Collaboration
August Alsina ft. Trinidad Jame$, 'I Luv This'
Beyonce ft. Jay Z, 'Drunk In Love' – WINNER
Drake ft. Majid Jordan, 'Hold On (We're Going Home)'
Jay Z ft. Justin Timberlake, ft. 'Holy Grail'
Robin Thicke ft. T.I. & Pharrell Williams, 'Blurred Lines'
YG ft. Jeezy & Rich Homie Quan, 'My Hitta'
Best Male Hip Hop Artist
Drake — WINNER
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Jay Z
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Best Female Hip Hop Artist
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Nicki Minaj – WINNER
Video of the Year
Beyonce, 'Partition'
Beyonce ft. Jay Z, 'Drunk In Love'
Chris Brown, 'Fine China'
Drake, 'Worst Behavior'
Pharrell Williams, 'Happy' — WINNER
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Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Refuses Bathroom Access to 5-Year-Old, Who Then Has Diarrhea In Front Of Them
A reader writes: "Last night we were out with friends and went to the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory at Bella Terra/Huntington Beach. We were eating outside as my 5 year old daughter got an uncontrollable urge to use the bathroom and began crying and screaming 'diarrhea, diarrhea.' I ran into the store with her in my arms, begging to use the bathroom and they refused multiple times."
I explained she had diarrhea and couldn't hold it and told them she was about to go on the floor. They refused again and never offered me any alternatives. I begged them to have a heart and that she was 5 but by that time she had lost it all over herself and me. I ran with her in my arms to the movie theater that let me use their bathroom. I cleaned her up, threw out some of her clothes and went back to the Chocolate Factory – asking for names and number of management. I again pleaded with them to use their heart in situations like this.
I called the manager today and she finally called me back. She supports the employees and tells me that it is an insurance decision. She told me to sue if it makes me feel happy. She laughed at me when I told her I would be using my extensive contacts to begin a viral campaign to boycott her store and the entire chain and told me that she was "sure that would make my daughter very proud." My daughter was humiliated, forced to defecate on herself due to the lack of compassion exhibited by the store – which the owner continued to support on the phone with me. I don't want anything, I just want them to have a bit of compassion in the future.
Longtime Consumerist readers know this isn't the first time we've written about a company refusing a customer with a bathroom emergency and ending up with disastrous results. Last summer, a similar story involving Jo-Ann fabrics prompted enough complaints to the CEO that he issued an apology and "immediately changed [company] policy to allow any customer to use [store] restrooms upon request." Our reader pointed us to a situation a few years ago when Old Navy denied bathroom access to a customer with Crohn's disease that ended up with the customer's state legislator introducing a bill requiring businesses to open up their bathrooms for emergencies. We don't think a law is necessary, just basic human decency: if someone has an emergency, let her use your bathroom.
UPDATE: After reading some of the comments, I searched around some more to find out whether a place that serves food has to provide a bathroom to customers. As it turns out, Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory may have violated existing California Code provisions. An organization called the American Restroom Association has a Uniform Plumbing Code that requires a "toilet facility for customers, patrons, and visitors of all mercantile and business establishments." The Uniform Plumbing Code has been adopted by California, so it seems that there IS a requirement for businesses to provide restroom facilities for customers.
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Britain's best all round entertainer John Barrowman is announcing a 16 date tour for 2015 in support of his new album, "You Raise Me Up"
This will be John's first full UK tour in four years, and promises to be an entertainment experience not to be missed. "I'm so excited to be touring again, said John, that I am choreographing songs and arranging stories in my sleep."
John's fans funded the album through PledgeMusic's Direct to Fan platform. It features new arrangements of many of John's favourite songs, Including "Mandy", "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "A Thousand Years" and the title track , "You Raise Me Up".
"This album has been a thrilling personal journey for me, added John. "Each lyric, each melody means something special. I can't wait to perform live for all my fans who help fund "You Raise Me Up."
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Sunday, 24th May 2015
Sunday, 24th May 2015
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To the casual hockey fan, Mark Scheifele was a surprise pick last June in Minnesota. Many Jets fans were probably hoping Ryan Strome would fall to 7th and when he didn't they were most likely thinking Sean Couturier was the probable selection (I know I did). Many experts felt that Winnipeg went "of the board" or "reached" when they selected Scheifele from the Barrie Colts.
After the dust settled and the interviews began and the scouting reports started to fly, people were introduced to a 6'2" center, coached by Dale Hawerchuk, who was thrilled to be drafted by the Jets. I don't believe that Spezzaish smile has left his face since the first time he slipped on the NHL crested jersey in June. Quickly we all realized that not only did the young man have a good frame, he has the skills of a future #1 franchise center as well.
Later he was invited to the Team Canada summer evaluation camp for the 2012 World Junior Championships and Scheifele looked slow, behind the play, and pretty sluggish. He also didn't have the benefit of top offensive linemates during the inter-squad games. It should also be noted that he was probably the 4th or 5th center on the depth chart and at the time looked to be in a dogfight to even be considered for the tournament.
Scheifele benefited though from the extra ice time with elite players and rode that momentum into a fantastic rookie camp in Penticton BC in early September. Edmonton's Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Scheifele were two of the tournaments best players and it was obvious that Scheifele's confidence was sky high and all Jets fan's were excited to see this kid first hand. I appeared that the Jets made an excellent pick in their first draft back in the NHL.
Fast-forward to September 20th and the Jets played their first NHL game in Winnipeg in 15 years, albeit an Exhibition game, against the Columbus Blue Jackets. All Scheifele did was score 2 goals and 2 assists and light the entire city on fire! Scheifele would go on to have a great pre season and finished 2nd in league scoring with 4 goals 4 assists for 8 points and there was no doubt that he would break his first training camp and make his NHL debut.
Reality reared its head quickly and Scheifele was only able to manage scoring his first professional goal in 7 games (against the Maple Leafs which had to be extra special for him) and was returned to Barrie on October 23rd in a move that most people agreed was the best for the player. The added benefit of being returned to junior is that he would be the top center for team Canada and play in vital situations, which should lead to further development for the player.
The scoutingreport.org had this to say about Scheifele prior to the draft:
"Obviously his skating still needs work as he doesn't quite have that great acceleration or balance, but once he can rectify those two areas of his game, he will be a force in the OHL, and a very good NHL prospect. Scheifele has real good puck poise and the puck seems to follow him all over the offensive zone. The past couple of looks I've had of him, he's really generated a lot of offense with his elusive agility and ability to utilize his quick release."
This from dansallows.com:
He is a good skater, with great offensive instincts, terrific vision, makes his linemates better, and has an incredible work ethic that should see him develop into an all-round player sooner rather than later. Scheifele is quickly making waves among NHL scouts, as the youngster is eligible for the 2011 Entry Draft, and may just be a sleeper pick come June.
From Scott Taylor, Jetsnation:
"Scheifele has all the tools but he's still a skinny kid who was knocked off the puck pretty easily after the season started. He looked great against other junior prospects, East Coast League and AHL players in the pre-season, but once the big boys started playing, he wasn't quite the same. Of course, he has to be one of the top six forwards to be effective. He's not going to be what he is — a scorer and playmaker — on a checking line.
In fairness, last year was his first year of major junior hockey so he's come a long way. He'll be a big part of the World Junior team and he's got three important gifts — great hands, good hockey sense and a long, lean body that will fill out."
The future looks very bright for Winnipeg with Scheifele and Alex Burmistrov as the top two centers for several years to come. Unfortunately for the team, there is a significant drop off after those two as far as young players are concerned. That being said, Scheifele may indeed be a top 10-15 prospect for the entire NHL once this years graduating class is taken out of the equation.


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Every trick in the barbecue kit is used to create this incredible dish: a spice rub for deep-down flavor, a mop to keep the chicken moist during cooking, wood chips for old-fashioned smoke taste, and, of course, a delicious sauce that features root beer. Using root beer is a great idea since it is sweet and aromatic qualities you expect in barbecue sauce. Ask your butcher to halve the chickens and remove the backbones. Thus! Get ready to enjoy the tasty Grilled Chicken with Root Beer Barbecue Sauce
1 tablespoons salt
1 tablespoon Hungarian sweet paprika
1 tablespoon (packed) dark brown sugar
2 teaspoons ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon celery seed
2 3 1/2- to 3 3/4-pound chickens, each cut in half, backbones removed
1 cup water
3/4 cup distilled white vinegar
1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
45 charcoal briquettes
2 cups hickory wood chips, soaked 1 hour in water to cover, drained
Mix first 5 ingredients in small bowl. Reserve 4 teaspoons spice mixture for mop mixture. Rub remaining spice mixture all over chicken halves. Refrigerate chicken 1 hour.
Mix 1 cup water, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, and reserved 4 teaspoons spice mixture in medium bowl to blend for mop mixture. Place 1 handful of torn newspaper in bottom of charcoal chimney. Top newspaper with 30 charcoal briquettes. Remove top rack from barbecue; place chimney on bottom rack. Light newspaper and let charcoal burn until ash on briquettes is gray, about 30 minutes.
Open 1 bottom barbecue vent. Turn out hot charcoal onto 1 side of bottom rack. Using metal spatula, spread charcoal to cover approximately 1/3 of rack. Scatter 1 cup drained wood chips over coals (using too many wet chips may douse the fire). Fill foil loaf pan halfway with water and place on bottom rack opposite coals.
Return top rack to barbecue. Arrange chicken halves, skin side up, on top rack above loaf pan (not above charcoal). Cover barbecue with lid, positioning top vent directly over chickens.
Place stem of candy thermometer through top vent, with gauge on outside of lid and tip near chickens (thermometer should not touch chickens or rack); leave thermometer in place during cooking. Use top and bottom barbecue vents to maintain temperature between 275°F and 325°F, opening vents wider to increase heat and closing to decrease heat. Keep any other vents closed. Check temperature every 10 minutes.
Grill chickens until almost cooked through, brushing with mop mixture every 15 minutes, about 1 hour 25 minutes. After 15 minutes, use technique described above to light an additional 15 charcoal briquettes in chimney set atop nonflammable surface.
If temperature of barbecue falls below 275°F, use oven mitts to lift off top rack with chickens; place rack with chickens on nonflammable surface. Using tongs, add hot gray charcoal briquettes from chimney to bottom rack. Scatter remaining 1 cup drained wood chips over charcoal. Reposition top rack on barbecue, placing chickens above loaf pan.
Cover with lid. Brush chickens with some Root Beer Barbecue Sauce and continue grilling until meat thermometer inserted into thighs registers 180°F, about 6 minutes longer. Using tongs, move chickens directly over fire. Grill until sauce sizzles and browns, about 2 minutes. Cut chicken into quarters. Serve, passing remaining Root Beer Barbecue Sauce separately.