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Graduate Education Summit Nov. 1
Three student groups will host a panel discussion Nov. 1 on the state of graduate education in North Carolina and the nation. The university community is invited to attend.
Nov 01, 2013
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The University community is invited to attend the Graduate Education Summit, which will be held from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the theater of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.
"The Graduate Education Summit is an opportunity to bring leaders in higher education and government together to discuss the future of graduate education, initiated by student questions," said Michael Bertucci, one of the event coordinators and a doctoral student in chemistry. "We hope the Summit will spotlight how graduate education is an integral part of the UNC campus community and state and federal economic growth."
Invited panelists are:
- Chancellor Carol Folt, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Dean Steve Matson, The Graduate School, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt, Chapel Hill
- N.C. Senator Jeff Tarte, District 41
- N.C. Representative Verla Insko, District 56
- U.S. Representative David Price, N.C. District 4
- Vice President for Public Policy and Government Affairs Beth Buehlmann, the Council of Graduate Schools
- Director of Federal Relations Steven Bloom, Office of Government Relations, the American Council on Education
The UNC-Chapel Hill event is presented by Student Advocates for Graduate Education, the UNC Graduate and Professional Student Federation and the UNC Science Policy Advocacy Group.
For more information, please contact Michael Bertucci (firstname.lastname@example.com) or Deb Saine (email@example.com).

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Writer-director Rian Johnson has signed up Bruce Willis for a role in his upcoming time travel executioner flick, "Looper."
Willis will play the older version of the same character as Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a story about a time in the future when convicted criminals are sent back in time to be killed before they can commit their crimes. The preemptive approach goes pear-shaped when their character is assigned to kill himself.
"It's not like an 'I, Robot'–type thing. It's a very character-based film, and it's very violent and very dark," Johnson told /Film last year. "It's set in the near future, and things are very bad in an industrial town in Kansas. The worst crime you can commit 30 years from now is messing with time travel, so the only people who will mess with it are big criminal groups. It's a weird mixture; it has elements of the first 'Terminator' and 'Witness,' bizarrely enough."
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Johnson's already launched a blog for the film that so far appears to be a dumping ground for inspirations for the film. The most recent post, from February, is the John Cale song "Gun," featuring the lyrics, "blood on the windows and blood on the walls / Blood on the ceiling and down in the halls / And the papers keep downing on everything I burned / And the people getting restless but they'll never learn." So that speaks to the "very dark, very violent," feel Johnson mentioned.
This is a huge departure for Johnson, whose 2005 debut "Brick" was a noir whodunit set in a sunny California high school and starred Gordon-Levitt as the teen gumshoe on the trail of a murderer. Johnson's other feature was 2008's "The Brother's Bloom," starring Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo as a pair of con men who target a rich heiress, Rachel Weisz, for their final score.
Johnson has a great eye and tells a story about as well as anyone. It'll be interesting to see what he can do with the world of sci-fi, and whether he'll use special effects. We look forward to this even though time travel is clearly impossible, because honestly, if it were possible, someone would've shown up by now in a time machine.
Gordon-Levitt can be seen in director Chris Nolan's upcoming "Inception" starring Leonardo DiCaprio, while Brody will be starring in the bio-engineering horror flick "Splice" opposite Sarah Polly.


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$12,990 Base Price MSRP
$17,805 As Tested MSRP
Model Lineup: Nissan Versa S manual sedan or hatch ($12,990); S automatic sedan or hatch ($13,990); SL automatic sedan ($15,990); SL CVT hatchback ($16,210)
Standard Engine: 1.8-liter DOHC 16-valve inline-4
Engine Options: 122-hp 1.8-liter DOHC 16-valve inline-4
Standard Transmission: CVT
Transmission Options: 6-speed manual; 4-speed automatic; CVT continuously variable automatic
Basic Warranty: 3 years/36,000 miles
Assembled In: Aguascalientes, Mexico
Model Tested MSRP: Nissan Versa SL CVT hatchback ($16,210)
Standard Equipment: cloth upholstery, air conditioning with micro filter, 180-watt AM/FM/CD stereo, power windows, power door locks, remote keyless entry, door armrest pads, glove compartment light,15-inch alloy wheels, tilt steering column, metal pedals, 60/40 split folding rear seats with cargo cover
Options As Tested: Convenience Package ($650) includes intelligent key system, Bluetooth hands-free phone system, steering wheel audio switches, leather-wrapped steering wheel; ABS ($250)
Standard Safety Equipment: advanced frontal airbags, front seat side-impact airbags, full-coverage side-impact curtain airbags, front seat active head restraints, tire pressure monitoring system
Optional Safety Equipment: ABS with EBD and Brake AssistDestination Charge: $695
It offers the small-car virtues of nimble handling, easy parking, and lively yet efficient performance. Versa delivers an EPA-estimated 31 mpg on the highway with the automatic, 33 mpg with the manual transmission.
The Versa is slightly bigger than the lower priced Toyota Yaris and the more expensive Honda Fit. All three are subcompacts designed with tall rooflines for increased interior comfort and visibility. The Versa is the smallest car you'll find in Nissan showrooms: smaller and less expensive than the compact Nissan Sentra, but offering greater interior space and more versatility.
The Versa has received the highest possible ratings in government and insurance industry crash tests, though keep in mind that's among small cars (five stars from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; and a good" rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety). Versa safety features include dual-stage frontal air bags, front-seat side-impact air bags for chest protection, and roof-mounted curtain air bags for head protection.
Versa went on sale as a five-door hatchback in July 2006, with a four-door sedan following in January 2007. Combined, the sedan and hatch sold more 59,000 units in less than one model year. For 2009, Nissan has simplified the model lineup by reducing the total number of body, trim, and transmission combinations from nine to six. The Sport Package is restricted to the hatchback.
Bottom line, the Nissan Versa is a big small car with comfort, performance and versatility. It's roomy and offers good fuel economy."
The 2009 Nissan Versa is available as a four-door sedan or five-door hatchback, each in two trim levels. All are powered by the same 122-horsepower 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine driving the front wheels.
Versa S ($12,990) comes standard with cloth upholstery; air conditioning with micro filter; four-speaker, 120-watt AM/FM/CD stereo; tilt steering column; and 185/65R15 tires on 15-inch steel wheels. A six-speed manual transmission is standard, a four-speed automatic transmission is optional ($1000). Versa S comes in sedan and hatchback body styles; the hatchback features a 60/40 split folding rear seat. Options include cruise control ($200), and a Power Package ($700) consisting of power windows, power door locks, remote keyless entry, door armrest pads, rear door map pockets, and a glove compartment light.
Versa SL sedan ($15,990) and hatchback ($16,210) upgrade with premium woven seat fabric, a more adjustable driver's seat, center armrests front and rear, the Power Package, cruise control, a 180-watt stereo with an in-dash 6CD changer and MP3 capability, and 15-inch machined alloy wheels. Sedan and hatchback both come with split folding rear seats. A six-speed manual is standard. The CVT automatic ($1,000) is available for the hatchback, while a four-speed automatic transmission is an option for the sedan ($750).
Options include a Convenience Package ($650) with an Intelligent Key system, Bluetooth hands-free phone connectivity, leather-wrapped steering wheel, and steering wheel-mounted audio controls. The Moonroof Package ($600) adds a power glass sunroof and illuminated visor vanity mirrors. A Sport Package ($700) for the hatch adds fog lights, a rear roof spoiler, side sill extensions, and unique front and rear fascias. The Audio Package ($300) consists of a 100-watt Rockford-Fosgate stereo with premium speakers and subwoofer. An iPod interface ($270) and XM Satellite Radio ($150) are available. Accessories include splash guards ($110), floor mats ($155), auto-dimming inside mirror ($125), interior accent lighting ($300), and aluminum kick plates ($130). A rear roof spoiler ($250) and a new cargo organizer ($160) can be added to the hatchback.
Safety features include frontal airbags, side-impact airbags, roof-mounted curtain airbags, front-seat active head restraints, and a tire pressure monitoring system. Anti-lock brakes (ABS) with Brake Assist and Electronic Brake-force Distribution (EBD) are an option ($250) on all models.
Walk Around
The Nissan Versa looks bigger than it is. One reason for that is an exceptionally short rear overhang: Very little of the car extends past the rear wheels.
Coming at you, the Versa is clearly related to the retro-future-cool Quest minivan, with a smaller rendition of the same flying-V grille that seems to cantilever off a strong center post, emphasized at either end by classy, triangular headlights. Similarly, a tall, steep windshield aids space efficiency in the van and in the Versa as well.
It's very different at the Versa's near-vertical rear, where the little Nissan almost looks like a hatchback BMW never built. The bottom edges of the tailgate angle sharply inward to clear the cat's-eye taillights. We're guessing it was designed this way to allow those trapezoid taillights to stay on the body rather than being mounted on the tailgate itself. It gives the rear end a unique character, though the tailgate opening is smaller than it otherwise could be.
The sedan is nearly seven inches longer than the hatchback and has a more conventional rear end. The sedan is handsome enough, with its long, tapering sail panels.
We find the hatch more appealing. We like its distinctive styling and find it more versatile than the sedan.
The huge front seats in the Nissan Versa are roomy and comfortable. As with the other cars in this class, the Versa driver gets lots of legroom and headroom. In terms of hip room, however, the Versa is a real standout. The width and the substantial structure of the front seats may make the Versa a great choice among subcompacts for big drivers. The cloth-covered seats are comfortable without being too soft and offer plenty of side support.
The back seat is particularly impressive. As you get in you'll be pleasantly surprised by the size of the rear door and how the front edge of the rear wheel well does not intrude as you step in. There are many larger four-door sedans and even many large SUVs that have smaller rear door openings. Even a six-footer shouldn't feel cramped as the rear seat legroom is at or near the top of the class. The Versa sedan gives up about half an inch of rear-seat headroom to the hatch, but that's not all that much.
Nissan has made sure that most of the surfaces you touch, such as the armrests and door handles, have a soft feel to them. No hard plastics here.
The instrument pod contains three large, well-recessed gauges that are easy to read. The speedometer takes pride of place in the center and almost seems as if it is floating over the other two gauges.
Controls for the dash mounted radio and CD changer are well integrated into the center stack, and although they are not very large they are easy to see and comprehend. There is a large volume knob in the center with a very visible power button. Three functional, conventional knobs operate the climate control system. All in all there's nothing fancy about any of the controls, although everything looks well finished. Two large cupholders are conveniently located under the center stack.
The optional Intelligent Key allows for keyless starting of the engine, something that up until now has only been available in luxury cars. We don't recommend it. Tow truck operators tell us they get a lot of calls dealing with keyless starting systems. And we don't find them a big benefit.
Cargo versatility is a strong point for the hatchback. There's a generous 17.8 cubic feet of cargo space with the rear seats in place. Fold them down and you've got 50.4 cubic feet, which is almost as much space as you'll find in a small SUV. Part of the reason for the spacious rear cargo bay is the careful design of the rear suspension so that no strut towers intrude into the interior. The versatility of the three-door hatchback is one of the unsung tales in the world of automobiles.
The sedan offers a 13.8 cubic-foot trunk, which is good for the class.
Driving Impressions
The Nissan Versa gets an EPA-rated 27/33 mpg City/Highway. One of the reasons for its excellent highway economy is its continuously variable transmission, or CVT. Nissan has been a standout in this technology; it's so well integrated into the Murano that drivers often don't notice it was anything other than a regular automatic.
A CVT doesn't shift gears like an automatic transmission. Instead, a segmented belt rides up and down on cone-shaped pulleys to vary the speed ratio between the engine and the drivetrain. It works more efficiently than a traditional automatic, which is why the Versa equipped with a CVT delivers such good highway mileage. Around town it has the same economy as a manual transmission, better than an automatic, in other words.
A four-speed automatic transmission is available for the Versa, though we expect it may be phased out. A six-speed manual remains for drivers who prefer shifting gears.
We've been pleased with the Versa. It has plenty of zip and there's no problem merging into traffic on a fast free-flowing freeway. When you stomp on the gas pedal the sound of the engine revving instantly before the car accelerates, a phenomenon of the CVT, can be a bit disconcerting at first. We found it not unpleasant, in fact it sounds kind of fun. In regular stop-and-go traffic under slow acceleration there is no sensation other than the car moving forward smoothly with no sound or feel of shifting gears. It's certainly a far cry from the clumsy gear shifting once common on small four-cylinder cars with three- and four-speed automatics.
On winding roads in Tennessee, near where Nissan is building its new U.S. headquarters, we found the car's handling to be perfectly adequate. It's not sporty like a Mini Cooper, nor is it sloppy like budget cars of a few years ago. Sporty drivers might wish for more feedback from the steering and more power, but there's no reason for others to complain.
The Versa is one of the first cars in this price category to feature electric power steering. In the past we have been disappointed in the poor feel of electric steering, but Nissan seems to have designed this system so it feels just as good as any hydraulically powered steering. No complaints here.
Thanks to the long wheelbase with wheels pushed out toward the four corners, the ride is better than one usually expects from a small car.
The brakes are fine. We recommend ordering the anti-lock brakes (ABS) with electronic brake-force distribution (EBD) and Brake Assist for their ability to help you avoid an accident.
The Nissan Versa delivers decent performance and has a surprising amount of interior space. It feels bigger than it actually is, which is a good thing. There's lots of room for back-seat riders. The hatch offers big cargo space. The Versa gets excellent fuel economy, particularly on the highway. The CVT works well, though it will feel a bit different at first.
New Car Test Drive contributor John Rettie filed this report from Nashville, Tennessee. John F. Katz added some commentary.
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text: UPDATED: Clinical Trial Results Announced in Study of Peginterferon Beta-1a - Company Submits Application to FDA May 21, 2013 Updated May 21, 2013: Based on the results reported below, Biogen Idec announced in a May 21 press release that it has submitted an application to the FDA for approval of peginterferon beta-1a for the treatment of relapsing forms of MS. Biogen Idec announced that a phase III study of peginterferon beta-1a, injected under the skin either every two or four weeks, reduced the relapse rate significantly more than placebo in a study of 1500 people with relapsing MS, reaching the primary goal of the study. Peginterferon is a new formulation of the interferon beta-1a molecule which enables it to maintain effects in the body for longer periods of time. More data from this ongoing study, also called the ADVANCE study, will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting in March (read more here). According to a press release, the company is planning to file for regulatory approval in the United States and European Union in 2013. Background: Avonex® (interferon beta-1a, Biogen Idec) is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of people with relapsing forms of MS to slow the accumulation of physical disability and decrease the frequency of clinical exacerbations. Peginterferon beta-1a is a "pegylated" form of the interferon beta-1a molecule. Pegylated molecules are attached to a molecule of polyethylene glycol, which enables them to maintain effects in the body for longer periods of time. Previously, the formulation has been tested in healthy individuals in two phase I clinical trials. The Study: For this phase III, two-year trial, investigators worldwide recruited 1516 people with relapsing MS who were randomly assigned to one of three groups: placebo, peginterferon bet-1a 125 mg delivered subcutaneously (under the skin) every two weeks, or peginterferon beta-1a 125 mg delivered subcutaneously every four weeks. The primary objective of the study was to determine the effects of the drug versus placebo on the annualized relapse rate at one year. Secondary objectives included the effects on central nervous system damage as observed on MRI scans, quality of life, and disease progression as measured by the EDSS scale. According to the press release, the annualized relapse rate was reduced significantly more that placebo, by 35.6% in the two-week dosing group, and by 27.5% in the four-week dosing group. Similar reductions occurred in the proportion of patients who experienced relapses. The risk of disability progression (confirmed over 12 weeks), as measured by the EDSS scale, was reduced by 38% in both peginterferon groups. Disease activity on MRI scans was reduced by 67% in the two-week dosing group and by 28% in the four-week dosing group. The most common adverse events were infections, occurring in 1% or fewer people in all three treatment groups. The most commonly reported adverse events associated with the peginterferon groups were redness at the injection site and flu-like illness. Quality of life results were not included in the press release. The ADVANCE Study is still ongoing to finish two years. After the first year of the trial, those on placebo were transitioned into one of the active treatment arms for the second year of the study. Study participants then will have the option of enrolling in an open-label extension study called the ATTAIN study, during which they are being followed for up to four years. Comment: "We look forward to seeing the complete data from this study," says Timothy Coetzee, PhD, Chief Research Officer of the National MS Society. "Having additional treatment options is important for people with MS, since everyone responds to therapies differently." Read more about efforts to stop MS in its tracks.


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Hello All,
I wanted to let everyone know that we will be camping on the river Fri & sat night. I have a nice little island that we can all camp on. If anyone is interested on camping let me know.
of course once I show you our spot...I will have to bury you there!!
I hope some of you can make it down,
see you on the river!


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That is a lot of injector but when needs must you just have to roll with it.there is a 4 cylinder tune or two uploaded in the custom $12p tunes thread I think
That is a lot of injector but when needs must you just have to roll with it.there is a 4 cylinder tune or two uploaded in the custom $12p tunes thread I think
Isuzu g200 twin can tune
I am at my wits end!
I've spent 10 days trying to figure out why engine loses fuel (?) on acceleration at about 4800rpm
Checked all the obvious like ignition (swapped parts), checked fuel pressure, wiring, sensors etc.
Even put in an unnecessary new fuel pump in case fuel volume was the issue.
I can't make heads or tails out of the Datalogs to see if there IS a cause showing there, or am I seeing the Datalog's recording of the effects??
I mean... to me it's LOOKING like the ECM cuts off the fuel for some reason (when all rev limits are set to 6500).
PS - This problem was just rearing it's ugly head BEFORE I installed my multi-port EFI system.
That's why I was thinking it's inherent to something 'mechanical' on the car instead of the ECM, it's programming, or the new EFI. Am I wrong?
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Screenshots from Datalog.
1st one is while idling. Not great- but here it's a starting point.
2nd screenshot shows everything crashing down.
Am I going lean - or being flooded?
Once in a while it will go past 4800rpm to rev limit, then a block later - no way.
The drop looks exactly the same when it happens at 4800rpm.
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Even tried another 1227165 ECM with no effect.
So if problem is not with car or ECM - maybe the $12P NVRAM board in the ECM???
It's been a while since I looked at 12P, but I'm curious if 12P has parameters for the fuel / ignition cutoff? Maybe there are 12P parameters configured to native V8 that need a conversion for a 4 cylinder?
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Oh... Dave... I thought you were on vacation or something... ;-)
$12P does - and they're set for 6500rpm...
We started with the same base BIN on my other car with the Supercharged V6 without this strangeness.
And with the Fast TBI on this engine with same ECM starting with same BIN got around 6000rpm without problems.
I'm running all the datalogs to get a Wideband O2 History Average table - and see what that looks like.
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Send me a bin file and some datalogs I'll have a look
There doesn't seem to be any way to attach files to a PM...
The BIN started as $12P red_camaro_tune BIN - that you are familiar with. ;-)
NO TABLES have been altered.
Only parameters to get IAC working for idle, throttle etc. and Displacement/inj flow rate (Litres/Grams per sec)
It appears that at 4800rpm, 60-70Kpa - AFR goes to 20.7 - no wonder it dies!!
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Sweet I'll have a look tonight and see what hump out at me
Thank you very much...


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Parody videos abound around Apple's iconic look/feel for its marketing. The commentary in this one points out that iPhones customers people only use iPhones to take pictures of their food.
(Maybe the next video will be a baby bottle for all those infant images, too.)
The Siri integration that supplies caption suggestions help "imply a life worth living."
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Decades after its heyday in the Polynesian-themed bars of the 1940s and '50s, the stubborn-shelled coconut, technically a seed, is now more closely associated with suntan lotion than cocktails. It doesn't help that artificially flavored rums and saccharine sweet mixes took the place of the real thing. But as the tiki revival looms like a summer storm over your local lounge, coconut (in its natural form) is poised to make a comeback. Its creamy, fresh flavor and texture goes with almost anything—enriching citrusy drinks and cooling spicy ones—so don't be surprised to find it making regular appearances on bar menus across the country.
The liquid from a coconut comes in three forms: water, milk and cream. Crack one open—particularly one that's young and green—and you'll find a pool of slightly viscous, low-fat, electrolyte-rich water. Though coconut water is full-bodied and creamy, it has a delicately sweet and nutty flavor. White rum has been its traditional co-conspirator in Caribbean cocktails, but the subtle flavors of coconut water round out singular vodkas, such as 42 Below Manuka Honey and Hangar One Kaffir Lime; exotic New Western dry gins, such as Tanqueray Rangpur and G'Vine Floraison; and Muscat-driven piscos, such as La Diablada and Barsol Alcholado.
Coconut milk and its richer, more concentrated sibling, coconut cream, are prepared by mixing grated coconut with warm water and then straining. The resulting liquid is packed with flavor and can stand up to more intense spirits such as bourbon, Cognac and aged rums along with powerful spices and herbs, such as hot peppers, fresh cilantro and ginger. Coconut cream is also integral to the king of coconut cocktails, the Piña Colada. Those looking to treat this drink right can shake fresh pineapple juice with coconut sorbet for a lean version, or use true coconut cream—the thick layer at the top of a can of regular coconut milk—to re-create the classic cocktail in all its glory.


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WOODSTOCK – The Huntley man believed to be responsible for a Memorial Day domestic shooting that left his brother dead and himself in critical condition has died, authorities said.
Mark R. Grundei, 50, died Wednesday evening of severe head injuries at a hospice care center in Woodstock, nine days after the incident at 11469 Morning Glory Lane, Huntley, and after being moved from Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin, according to a news release from the Huntley Police Department.
The preliminary autopsy report said the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head with an entrance wound but no exit wound. The bullet was recovered from the back of the head during the autopsy, according to a press release from McHenry County Coroner Anne Majewski.
Police hadn't pressed charges but believed Grundei shot and killed his brother, Robert A. Grundei, 48, of Coral Springs, Florida, before turning the gun on himself. Their 81-year-old mother, Alyce Grundei, suffered a graze wound but was treated and released.
Police have said the two brothers were arguing over living arrangements, because Robert Grundei was visting from his Florida home and making plans to live with Alyce Grundei, which would have forced out Mark Grundei, who currently lived with his mother, authorities said.
The family also was mourning the death of another brother to the men, Brian, who drowned weeks earlier in Lake County.
An investigation into the incident is ongoing, the release said.
Police are awaiting final results from Robert Grundei's autopsy through the Kane County Coroner's Office, and have submitted evidence from the Northeastern Illinois Regional Crime Laboratory, the release said.
Police were called to the Huntley home by Alyce Grundei just after 5 p.m. on Monday, May 26. When they arrived, she was at the front of the house holding the five-shot, .38 revolver used in the shooting and was bleeding from the head.
Police have said the gun belonged to Mark Grundei.
Huntley Deputy Chief Michael Klunk said Thursday that not all five shots were fired from the weapon. He said all rounds had been accounted for but declined to say how many were fired.
Police originally believed Robert Grundei suffered a gunshot wound to the head and shoulder but have since said the injury to the head wasn't the result of a bullet. Preliminary autopsy results from the McHenry County Coroner showed he died from a gunshot wound to the back.
"We released information based on the injuries we had seen," Klunk said. "We found out later he was shot in the back and there was a trauma to the head."
Authorities have submitted DNA of all three people involved and gunshot residue to the crime lab, he said.
The home at 11469 Morning Glory Lane had been placed on the real estate market prior to the incident. Alyce Grundei was released from the hospital to family members in the area on the night of the shooting.
"It's kind of a tragic story all the way through," Klunk said.


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From December 2016 to October 2017 we have worked with a number of cities in Europe interested in promoting agroecological urban food policies through a network and its different exchange and learning working groups.
As a result of this work and the Congress held in Zaragoza in December 2016, a network in Spain has been born: the Network of Cities for Agroecology, which is moving steadily inwards and also looking towards Europe through the relationship with other existing sustainable food networks and cities.
In October 2017, the City Council of Zaragoza, promoter of the Agroecocities network, decided to focus its efforts on the Spanish Network of Cities for Agroecology, since it is acquiring much more weight and works both in Spain and in Europe. So, the web and social media accounts of the Agroecocities network are currently inactive.
We invite you to visit the website of the Spanish Network of Cities for Agroecology and from there get to know the work of Spanish cities in the field of agroecology and its links with other international activities.
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'Tis the season to be contentious. Yea, even downright litigious. Merry Christmas and Happy Lawsuit. Every year, like the eternal fruitcake, it happens again: Someone sues a city over a nativity scene. This year, Athens, Texas, is under fire. Or a governor calls the state Christmas tree a "Holiday" tree, and people get really riled up at this politically correct insult to Christmas. For the 2011 episode, see "Governor Chaffee Chafes Rhode Island." It's playing on the nearest web search.
But it's not just governments. Retailers can't seem to win either. A few years ago, Target got 700,000 individual complaints because it took a holiday-neutral approach in its marketing. No "Christmas" just "Holidays." Target apologized and brought Christmas back. But if they bring it back too vigorously, they'll be accused of ignoring their Kwanza-and-Hanukkah celebrating customers. And how about all those atheist/pagan/solstice-loving shoppers?
I can't speak for the latter group, but as one of those Jewish customers, I say please continue to ignore me and my holiday traditions. The problem with applying fairness to the holidays is that you end up treating apples like oranges. Or mistletoe like menorahs. Hanukkah just isn't like Christmas, despite the desperate efforts of marketers and Jewish parents of small kids suffering from Christmas-envy.
Lest you underestimate the pull Christmas has on little Jewish kids, let me tell you my Christmas story. I grew up in a neighborhood that was almost exclusively Jewish, and yet I became obsessed with Santa when I was six. He seemed like God himself, sitting on a throne, granting wishes, surrounded by angels in the form of elves. And there he was in the local mall.
But my mother didn't want me to sit on his lap. She told me it wasn't our holiday. Finally, when I was eight, I got my chance – my mother was distracted in the shoe department. I felt terribly guilty as I mounted Santa's lap. I was being disloyal to my family and my faith. So instead of asking for the Hot Wheels set I wanted, I blurted out, "I'm Jewish." Santa leaned close, his beard tickling my cheek, and whispered, "So am I."
Thus ended my Santa obsession. Apparently, he was just a guy from my neighborhood, playing a role. The forbidden Christmas tree shone a little less brightly for me after that.
And I turned my attention back to Hanukkah, which unfortunately for eight-year-old-Hot Wheels-craving kids is really just a minor holiday. It falls behind more important festivals most non-Jews have never heard of: Sukkot, Purim, Tu Bishvat. Hanukkah commemorates a battle in which Jewish forces, fighting for the right to practice their religion, overthrew a Syrian dictator in the second century BC. And then, when the Jews went about cleaning up the Temple, which had been desecrated, they lit a candelabra (called a menorah) and the meager one-day supply of oil burned for eight days. And so in another Christmas-like coincidence, the holiday includes a miracle and lights.
But really it's a holiday that celebrates Jewish resolve against assimilation. Which is ironic, considering it's the only Jewish holiday that's been assimilated.
Giving gifts only became part of Hanukkah in the last hundred years, when the Goldsteins wanted to keep up with the Smiths. And because the holiday lasts eight days, some families started giving a present each day as if that would help Hanukkah outshine Christmas. It's not going to happen.
For one thing, we don't have a soundtrack. Have you heard the Dreidel song? It was never covered by Nat King Cole or Frank Sinatra.
The truth is, Hanukkah can't compete with Christmas. And it shouldn't. While certainly well-intentioned, the attempt to be inclusive – to include the menorah in public displays and Hanukkah alongside Christmas in greeting cards – can seem a bit condescending. The message, at least to me, is that no matter how different our traditions seem, they're all the same underneath. And that's just not true.
For example, there's no parallel in Christianity for the Jewish practice of keeping kosher. And there's no Jewish version of the miracle of the virgin birth. Diversity is about respecting differences, not finding the thread that makes us all the same.
So I say keep on celebrating Christmas boldly, publicly, and without apology. It's the holiday of the majority, and it's a beautiful mix of the secular and the spiritual. Christmas is a religious holiday, but it's also become our American festival of hope and charity. It's the time of year people volunteer at soup kitchens and flood charities with much needed donations. It's about the eternal victory of light over darkness. Christmas is the time many of us recognize what a wonderful life we have. We need Christmas in America.
Jim Sollisch is creative director at Marcus Thomas Advertising.


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Road safety legislation in the Americas
Legislación sobre seguridad vial en las Américas
Martha HíjarI; Ricardo Pérez-NúñezII,*; Cristina Inclán-ValadezIII; Eugênia Maria Silveira-RodriguesIV
IInstituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Centro de Investigación en Salud Poblacional, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
IIInstituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Centro de Investigación en Sistemas de Salud, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
IIILSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
IVPan American Health Organization, Sustainable Development and Environmental Health Area, Washington, D.C., United States of America
Legislating five of the main risk factors for road traffic injuries (RTIs), as much as enforcing the law, is essential in forging an integral culture of road safety. Analysis of the level of progression in law enforcement allows for an evaluation of the state of world regions. A secondary analysis of the 2009 Global status report on road safety: time for action survey was undertaken to evaluate legislation on five risk factors (speed management, drinking and driving, motorcycle helmet use, seatbelt use, and use of child restraints) in the Americas. Laws were classified depending on their level of progression: the existence of legislation, whether the legislation is adequate, a level of law enforcement > 6 (on a scale of 0-10), and whether the law is considered comprehensive. A descriptive analysis was performed. The totality of the countries has national or subnational legislation for at least one of the five risk factors. However, 63% have laws on the five risk factors studied, and none of them has comprehensive laws for all five. Seatbelt use appears to be the most extended enforced legislation, while speeding laws appear to be the least enforced. There are positive efforts that should be recognized in the region. However, the region stands in different stages of progression. Law enforcement remains the main issue to be tackled. Laws should be based on evidence about what is already known to be effective.
Key words: Legislation as topic; accidents, traffic; seat belts; child restraint systems; head protective devices; Americas.
La legislación sobre cinco de los principales factores de riesgo de sufrir lesiones causadas por el tránsito, así como el cumplimiento de la ley, son esenciales para forjar una cultura integral de seguridad vial. El análisis del nivel de progresión en el cumplimiento de la ley permite evaluar el estado de las regiones del mundo. Se llevó a cabo un análisis secundario de la encuesta Informe sobre la situación mundial de la seguridad vial: es hora de pasar a la acción, de 2009, para evaluar la legislación sobre cinco factores de riesgo (control de la velocidad, conducir bajo la influencia del alcohol, uso del casco al conducir motocicletas, uso de cinturones de seguridad y uso de sistemas de retención para niños) en las Américas. Las leyes se clasificaron según su nivel de progresión: la existencia de legislación, si la legislación es adecuada, un nivel de cumplimiento de la ley > 6 (en una escala de 0-10) y si la ley se considera integral. Se realizó un análisis descriptivo. Todos los países tienen legislación nacional o subnacional al menos con respecto a uno de los cinco factores de riesgo; sin embargo, 63% tienen leyes sobre los cinco factores de riesgo estudiados, y ninguno de ellos tiene leyes integrales para los cinco. La legislación sobre uso de cinturones de seguridad parece ser la de mayor cumplimiento, mientras que las leyes de exceso de velocidad parecen ser las que menos se cumplen. En la región hay esfuerzos positivos que deben reconocerse; sin embargo, existen diferentes etapas de progresión. El cumplimiento de la ley sigue siendo el principal tema por abordar. Las leyes deben basarse en datos de eficacia reconocida.
Palabras clave: Legislación como asunto; accidentes de tránsito; cinturones de seguridad; sistemas de sujeción infantil; dispositivos de protección de la cabeza; Américas.
The world report on prevention of road traffic injuries (RTIs) launched in 2004 by the World Health Organization (WHO) highlighted the importance of enacting appropriate legislation to address the use of seatbelts and child restraints, the wearing of motorcycle and bicycle helmets, alcohol-impaired driving, and speeding. The need to enforce such laws was also emphasized as one of the main recommendations of the world report. It was concluded that legislation on the main risk factors for RTIs and its accurate applicability are essential for developing an integral culture of road safety (1). These factors require a comprehensive approach to improve road safety and to decrease the high burden that RTIs represent for the entire world.
During the same year, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) assessed road safety legislation in 20 countries of the Americas region (2). At that time, legislation on seatbelts, child restraints, helmet use, and drinking and driving was studied. Speed limit legislation was not addressed. One of the main recommendations of the study was that, in some cases, legislation should be based on solid evidence, well organized, and updated. It was realized that many countries have different laws at the national, state, and municipal levels regarding risk factors for RTIs, which could be counterproductive. Around the region, a lack of legislation meeting what has been found to be effective for seatbelts and child restraints was highlighted (2).
To follow up on its recommendations and to better assess the status of road safety in the world from a comprehensive approach, during 2008 WHO developed and implemented a global survey that was answered by 178 countries. Before this effort, comparison among countries was difficult, because standardized data were not available. Furthermore, without this information it was not possible to evaluate the extent to which the comprehensive approach recommended by WHO is being implemented by countries (3). PAHO led this effort for the region of the Americas and published a regional report with the main results of this global survey for the countries of the region (4). The objective of the present study is to perform an in-depth analysis of the level of progression of road safety legislation in the Americas. Analysis of the level of progression in law enforcement allows for evaluation of the state of the region in a positive and realistic way, highlighting the region's assets and gaps in this important public health problem.
Design and study population
A secondary analysis of the 2009 Global status report on road safety: time for action survey (GRSS) was carried out (3). This survey had the objective of assessing the status of road safety in all WHO member states to detect potential gaps in road safety and then help countries to identify key priorities for intervention. Indirectly, this survey also evaluated the extent to which countries had followed the recommendations of the world report on RTI prevention published by WHO in 2004 (1).
Although 178 countries answered the world survey, this analysis focuses on the 30 of the 34 member states from the region of the Americas, one associate member state (Puerto Rico), and one invited country (British Virgin Islands) that participated in this global initiative. Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, and Saint Kitts and Nevis did not participate. This number represents 88% of the countries in the region but accounts for 99% of the population living in the Americas. The GRSS in the Americas was conducted beginning in May 2008 and was completed in September 2008 (4).
Data collection and conformation of variables
The GRSS consisted of a self-administered questionnaire that was sent to all participant countries. To lead this effort, national data coordinators in each country were identified and then trained by PAHO specialists to standardize application of the survey. National data coordinators were asked to involve in the survey up to eight local experts from the health, transport, and enforcement sectors among nongovernmental organizations, academics, and other road safety practitioners. Each respondent was asked to complete the questionnaire independently and then to discuss each of the answers at a consensus meeting. In Puerto Rico and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the questionnaire was completed only by the national data coordinator taking into consideration the survey filled by the people involved. A final country response was then submitted to PAHO. In order to solve and elucidate any inconsistencies, information was integrated into a database that was further validated by establishing a dialog between PAHO representatives and the national data coordinator to resolve any inconsistencies. This information was then sent for government approval. More detailed information on the methodology has been published elsewhere (5).
The applied questionnaire mainly explored the availability of legislation on five behavioral risk factors: speeding, drinking and driving, motorcycle helmet use, seatbelt use, and use of child restraints. The perception of enforcement levels related to each legislation was also evaluated on a scale of 0-10. These grades were the result of a consensus among all local respondents. For this analysis, laws were classified on a scale, depending on their level of progression, using the following criteria: existence of a specific law tied to the corresponding risk factor; existence of a specific law and whether it was adequate; existence of a specific law and whether it was enforced (a subjective threshold of > 6, taking as reference the reported perception of enforcement, was used); and if the law was considered comprehensive, a combination of the existence of the law, its adequacy, and a high level of enforcement (> 6) (see Table 1). This work set the cut-off point at 6 to define adequate enforcement of laws for two reasons. The first was that only a few countries in the region reported enforcement > 7 for any of the five laws [cut-off point defined by WHO in the GRSS (3)]. The second reason was that the number 6 represents the minimum approbatory score as it is above the halfway point of 5.
Adequacy of laws was defined by specific recommendations of WHO based on what has been found to be effective in terms of injury prevention (1). It has been widely accepted that countries need to set speed limits that reflect the function of individual roads, notably in urban areas where speed limits should not exceed 50 km/h; blood alcohol concentration (BAC), or the equivalent breath alcohol content limits, should be 0.05 g/dL or less; helmet laws should cover all riders who are legally allowed to ride on motorized two- or three-wheelers, all engine types, and all road types, and helmets should meet national or international standards; and seatbelts should be used by front- and rear-seat occupants of all vehicles.
A descriptive analysis was performed; central tendency and dispersion measures were calculated for continuous variables (mean, maximum, and minimum values) as well as frequencies and percentages for categorical variables using Stata 10.1 (6).
As can be seen in Figure 1, 63% of the countries under study had laws for the five risk factors studied, and only Bolivia did not have legislation for two risk factors. On the other hand, 60% of the countries had no comprehensive laws for any of the five risk factors, with Canada, Brazil, and Barbados addressing the most risk factors: three each. Figure 2 shows the level of progression of these five risk factors in the Americas region. Results are presented separately by risk factor.
Table 2 indicates that the 30 countries have national legislation on speeding, and two countries (United States of America and Canada) have legislation set at the subnational level. In Canada all subnational legislation sets speed limits at 70 km/h, but in the United States the limit varies across states. However, this legislation is adequate in only three countries (9.4%): Honduras, Nicaragua, and Paraguay. Legislation in 63% of the countries established that speed limits on urban roads should not exceed 50 km/h. Local decision makers have the authority to reduce these national speed limits in 28% of the countries evaluated. On average, enforcement of speeding laws was reported to be low, with a value of 3.7 in the region. Only Brazil, the British Virgin Islands, Costa Rica, and Panama (12.5% of participating countries) reported enforcement to be equal to or greater than 6 on a scale of 0-10. As a result, no country had comprehensive laws on speeding, according to the criteria used for this analysis.
Drinking and driving
The totality of countries has legislation on drinking and driving. In 31% of participating countries, the BAC limit for the general population was 0.05 g/dL or less. Ten of the countries studied (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Suriname) reported limits varying up to a maximum of 0.05 g/dL. The BAC limit in Honduras was 0.07 g/dL, while in the Bahamas, Belize, the British Virgin Islands, Canada, Ecuador, Guyana, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela the BAC limit was 0.08 g/dL. Legislation in the United States as well as Paraguay and Guatemala is set at the subnational level. Although the United States reported a national BAC level, the other two countries did not report national BAC levels. Worth mentioning is that in Mexico, the BAC level is set at the subnational level.
Few countries follow WHO's recommendation of establishing BAC limits for younger or novice drivers at lower levels than for the general population. Only Canada, the United States, Puerto Rico, Brazil, and Panama reported having lower levels for these subgroups in this important risk factor. In this sense, adequate legislation on drinking and driving was present only in Brazil and Panama (6.3% of participating countries) with BAC limits of 0.02 and 0.01 g/dL, respectively. Although the BAC limits were the same for the general population and for younger people, legislation in both countries was considered adequate as both levels do not exceed those recommended for younger drivers. These two countries also gave the level of enforcement a high rating and consequently were the only two countries with comprehensive laws. However, Costa Rica and Venezuela rated law enforcement at 6 and 7, respectively, which is high given that the average level of enforcement in the region was 3.6 for this risk factor.
Worth mentioning is that countries such as Barbados, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines used different parameters to define and measure the presence of alcohol in blood (physician certificate or breath content).
All countries studied reported having national or subnational legislation on helmet use, but as for the previous two risk factors, adequate laws were present in only 40.6% of the countries: the Bahamas, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. In slightly more than 48% of the countries, legislation did not require helmets to meet a recognized safety standard. In terms of the level of enforcement, only 40.6% of the countries reported having a level of 6 or more on a scale of 0-10: Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Panama, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. The average law enforcement in the Americas was 5.1. Comprehensive laws existed in only 21.9% of the countries: Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.
Bolivia was the only country that lacked any type of legislation aimed to address seatbelt use. The rest of the countries have national or subnational legislation on the obligatory nature of seatbelt use. Although this risk factor could be seen as the most targeted of the five risk factors under study, seatbelt use is obligatory for all passengers in only 63% of the countries. This issue was not explored in the United States because questions about the characteristics of legislation and level of enforcement were not applied for countries that do not have legislation at the national level. Although in Canada seatbelt legislation is set at the subnational level, those questions were answered.
Law enforcement was rated at 6 or higher by 56% of the countries. The average enforcement level was 5.8 in the countries with legislation, which is higher than the number for the other four risk factors. However, comprehensive laws were reported in only 34.4% of participating member states: Barbados, Brazil, the British Virgin Islands, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. This suggests the same problems observed for the rest of the risk factors: most countries still lack a comprehensive approach toward road safety.
Child restraints
More than 30% of the countries in the Americas reported not having legislation obligating the use of child restraint devices for young children in vehicles. For those that have legislation, enforcement of child restraint laws was low-on average 3.6-particularly when comparing it with legislation for the use of seatbelts and the use of helmets. Only 15.6% of the countries valued enforcement of this law at a score of 6 or higher on a scale of 0-10. Since adequacy of laws on this risk factor was not evaluated, these five countries were considered to have comprehensive laws: Barbados, Canada, Costa Rica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago.
This effort constitutes the first approach to analyzing legislation on the main risk factors for RTIs in the Americas that uses a standardized methodology and covers the great majority of member countries of the PAHO/WHO regional office, accounting for 99% of the people living in the region. However, previous work oriented and influenced the development of this study on road safety (7-9). It was possible to observe that in the past 5 years some progress has been made in the region. As an example, in five countries that previously requested the use of seatbelts only for people in the front seat, now use of seatbelts is mandatory for all individuals in all seats. This is the case in Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, and Uruguay. In addition, during this period, BAC limits decreased in two countries in the region: in Brazil, from 0.06 to 0.02 g/dL; in El Salvador, from 0.1 to 0.05 g/dL. Future studies should be able to monitor the progression of the region toward a comprehensive approach to road safety.
According to the results of this study, the risk factor best addressed was seatbelt use, with 34% of participating countries having comprehensive legislation, followed by helmet use (22%), use of child restraints (16%), and drinking and driving (6%). Speeding is the least addressed risk factor in participating countries, as no country reported having a comprehensive law. An overall assessment suggests that greater efforts should be made in the region to enforce existing laws for the five risk factors associated with RTIs. As has been recognized by WHO, addressing road safety in a comprehensive manner requires the involvement of multiple sectors through a common and coordinated multisectoral strategy on RTI prevention (3). In order to do this, a key element would be to allocate more financial resources, which still seems to be pending. Currently, only 8 of the 32 countries informed investment in road safety, and this fund appears not to be sufficient for the magnitude of the documented problem (4). Allocating money for road safety must include the built environment: roads where drivers can control speed, education campaigns to target awareness of reducing alcohol intake, and communicating the level of child mortality associated with lack of child restraints, to mention a few. The complexity of RTIs suggests that law enforcement alone is not enough and education and the improvement of safe road infrastructure should accompany application of the law.
This study has some limitations. The objective of the GRSS was not to corroborate or confirm the answers provided by respondents. As a result, this analysis assumes that all responses are correct, although responses might reflect a lack of accurate knowledge or familiarity with the topics explored among respondents. Although information was further validated by all governments, there is evidence that questions some of the answers provided by some participants (10). We also should be cautious with the information provided by all participants, as personal evaluation is subjective and context specific. In addition, it is important to consider that the use of child restraints might not be a priority in some countries of the region that have low motorization rates or where most road traffic victims are vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians. As discussed by some authors, not all health policies are beneficial for all road users and vulnerable road users might benefit the least (11). An illustrative example is the drinking and driving law, which focuses on car drivers, while the evidence shows that drunken motorcyclists and pedestrians have a high risk of being involved in a crash, but they are not included in the legislation (12). Thus, we can make the point that future work should address more legislation and health policies aimed at protecting those vulnerable road users in order to reduce the gap in terms of the burden of disease among groups of low socioeconomic status, who tend to be pedestrians (13).
Last, while law enforcement is essential for road safety, as highlighted by some authors (14), it is also important to improve existing laws. In this respect, international best practices and evaluated interventions should be copied and adapted to the specificities of the region. In at least two countries in the region (Colombia and Suriname), a new road user is appearing on the scene-motorcyclists (4)-which suggests two things: a probable reshaping of RTIs in the region and, consequently, the priorities of safety legislation and an opportunity to anticipate the problem by looking at international practices best developed in Southeast Asian countries.
Having laws aimed at addressing an important risk factor for RTIs is desirable, but it is only the first step.
Having adequate laws is even better; laws should be based on what is known to be more effective.
Enforcing laws is essential for road safety: improvement is still needed in the region.
Comprehensive laws are necessary to improve road safety for all road users, especially for the vulnerable ones. In setting speed limits, it is important to consider the type and function of the roads and streets, BAC limits should guarantee a reduction in driving under the influence of alcohol, and use of proper protection equipment should be required. Countries must think about law enforcement as a priority and ensure they have resources in their budgets for that purpose.
Acknowledgments. This analysis was enriched by comments received from Vilma P. Gawryszewski, Pierre Maurice, Jasline Flores, Margaret Herbert, Andrés Villaveces, José Ignacio Nazif Muñoz, Luis Roberto Escoto, and Maristela Monteiro. Opinions expressed in this work represent the point of view of the authors and not necessarily of their institutions. Financial support was provided by the Pan American Health Organization and Bloomberg's Philanthropies.
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Manuscript received on 22 June 2011.
Revised version accepted for publication on 13 April 2012.
* Send correspondence to: Ricardo Pérez-Núñez, email@example.com


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SunFlowers is new Vita game from Flying Hamster dev
The Flying Hamster is one of the rare gems of the Minis platform on PlayStation Network. Developed by The Game Atelier, The Flying Hamster featured adorable art and solid gameplay mechanics. The French studio is trying to hit it big yet again with their next release, a PSN release made specifically for the PS Vita.
SunFlowers is a puzzle game where you try to grow plants by controlling the sun. It's also one of the first Vita games played vertically, not horizontally.
SunFlowers promises to use every function of the Vita. For example, you'll be able to share flowers with friends directly or via Near. You'll also be able to shake the system to get rid of blowing leaves. It's still unclear how the game will use the touch panels and cameras.
The Game Atelier did not provide a release date for the game.


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Last week Rod 2.0 reported a small but influential number of black, California-based ministers were bucking the trend and telling their congregations and communities to vote NO on California's toxic Proposition 8. There is a welcome update: Rev. Eric Lee, President of the California Chapters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, publicly criticizes these so-called "black leaders" who are embracing Proposition 8.
Karen Ocamb has a great interview with the reverend at Bilerico. The money quote is when the reverend questions prominent anti-gay, black mega-church pastors such as Apostle Frederick K.C. Price who are in the front on this issue.
I would remind - particulalry the African American clergy - that the people who are driving this fight for Proposition 8 and to deny the civil rights of one group of people are the same people who considered African Americans inferior and used the Bible to justify slavery, Jim Crow segregation, discrimination. It's the same Church - the Mormon Church that did not allow blacks into the priesthood and did not allow them into Mormon heaven. So I think we have to consider the source - and so when you look at the source, it should automatically cause a red flag to be raised.
For those in denial about the racist history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints—extensively discussed on this page—here are the Cliff's Notes. The good reverend asks the same question we asked the other day: Where is the "leadership" of black church "leaders" on important issues affecting our community?
When you see an absence of clergy—particularly the African American clergy—who are absent when it comes to -70% of all new AIDS cases affecting black women and you don't hear anything about it; when you see an absence of clergy when 50--60% of black and brown boys are dropping out of school, going into gangs and into the prison industrial complex—where are the clergy on those issues?
Amen, reverend. Perhaps we should ask the board members of the National Baptist Convention, the nation's largest black Baptist denomination, who waited 25 years into the HIV/AIDS pandemic to finally mention the disease that was killing tens of thousands in the black community. With "leaders" such as these ...
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The physical design of your neighborhood, it's layout, lighting, building and maintenance, can effect the levels of crime and fear in your neighborhood. The quick response to the small problems of broken windows, graffiti, trash, etc can stop the escalation toward bigger crime problems occurring. Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design or CPTED, takes this one step further.
CPTED looks at the entire neighborhood to identify areas or elements that may have the potential to attract crime. Knowing simple CPTED design principals can lead to solutions that can be undertaken to reduce fear and prevent crime in these areas. CPTED can also help you plan ahead for future development in your neighborhood. There is much information about CPTED available online if you want more details than this booklet can provide. There are some basic strategies however that you can incorporate into discussions with your neighborhood or Block Watch group for shared areas such as parks or alleys. There are also strategies you should consider for your personal property.
CPTED does not promote the "fortressing" of properties, quite the contrary. The ability to see what is going on in and around a property should be your first priority. Perpetrators of crime are attracted to areas and residences with low visibility. This can be counteracted in the following ways:
- Lighting – street lights should be well spaced and in working order, alleys and parking areas should also be lit. Lighting should also reflect the intended hours of operation, i.e. lighting of playfields or structures in local parks may actually encourage after hour criminal activities. Motion-sensing lights perform the double duty of providing light when needed and letting trespasser know that "they have been seen."
- Landscaping – Generally uniformly shaped sites are safer than irregularly shaped sites because there are less hiding places. Plants should follow the 3-8 rule of thumb; hedges no higher than 3 feet, and tree canopies starting no lower than 8 feet. This should is especially important around entryways and windows.
- Fencing – Fences should allow people to see in. Even if the fences are built for privacy, they should be of a design that is not too tall and has some visibility.
- Windows – Windows that look out on streets and alleys are good natural survellience, especially bay windows. These should not be blocked. Retirees, stay at home parents, and people working from home offices can provide good survellience for the neighborhood during the day.
Access Control refers to homes, businesses, parks and other public areas having distinct and legitimate points for entry and exits. However, this should also be balanced to avoid "user entrapment," or not allowing for easy escape or police response to an area. Generally crime perpetrators will avoid areas that only allow them with one way to enter and exit, and that have high visibility and/or have a high volume of user traffic. This can be assured by:
- Park designs with open, uninhibited access and a defined entry point. A good example is a park with transparent fencing around the perimeter, and one large opening in the gate for entry. Putting vendors or shared public facilities near this entrance creates more traffic and more surveillance.
- Businesses with one legitimate entrance. Avoid recessed doorways.
- A natural inclination is to place public restrooms away from centers of activity, but they can become dangerous if placed in an uninhabited area. Restrooms that are down a long hallway, or foyer entrances with closed doors, are far away from the entrance of a park, or are not visible from the roadway can become problem areas.
- Personal residences with front and back doors that are clearly visible and well lit.
Territoriality means showing that your community "owns" your neighborhood. While this includes removing graffiti and keeping buildings and yards maintained, it also refers to small personal touches. Creating flower gardens or boxes, putting out seasonal decorations, or maintaining the plants in traffic circles seems simple, but sends a clear message that people in your neighborhood care and won't tolerate crime in their area. These kinds of personal touches work in business communities as well. More complex design efforts can also be undertaken for more dramatic changes. These are some things that should be considered when planning for future growth:
- Front porches and apartment balconies add to street surveillance.
- Traffic plans that consider the size of the neighborhood. People drive by "feel" more than speed limits, so a wide, two lane residential street can lead to speeding. Traffic circles, or increasing the size of curbs can help to calm traffic.
- Institutional architecture that respects the neighborhood identity and does not dwarf the current scale of the neighborhood.
- Clear transitions between private, semi-private and public areas.


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The 'launch' date is almost here. The sixth--and final???--book in my Calamity Jayne series, ANCHORS AWEIGH, is scheduled to set sail October 28th. I always get a little insecure at this time. You start telling yourself that your book is horrible and nobody will want to read anything you write ever again after reading it. That's why an author tends to look at those early reviews with her hands over her eyes, peering at the printed words through the gaps between her fingers.
Being an author sure the heck ain't for wimps.
I received my first review for ANCHORS AWEIGH, last week. It came from Romantic Times Book Review. My last book, FIANCE AT HER FINGERTIPS, received Four and 1/2 Stars from RT, but they've been somewhat stingy with their stars when it comes to my 'Calamity Jayne' series. I was pleasantly surprised, therefore, when I received the review last week to see ANCHORS AWEIGH had received a very nice review, as well as Four Stars! Here's what the RT reviewer had to say about AA:
ANCHORS AWEIGH - 4 Stars
Bacus provides a perfect escape into Tressa's world, where her very own Jack Sparrow and Will Turner are after her. There may be a possible murder plot, and the staff is trying to kill their passengers in the way of healthy eating, but Tressa is still her hilarious, down-to-earth self. A fun, fast read!
Summary: Tressa Jayne Turner is always attracting trouble, and once it finds her, she can't let it go. Her next bout occurs on a cruise ship where she's celebrating her grandmother's recent wedding. Once she's there, Tressa realizes her beef-loving self is stuck on a healthy lifestyles ship for a week, that someone is planning a murder, and she has two very good-looking men vying for her heart. (Lauren Becker)
Not bad for an inaugural review, ay mi hearties?
Of course, that doesn't mean Bullet Hole here won't be using her own pirate's kerchief to cover her eyes and peek over as she views additional reviews once they start sailing in. Arrgh!
And more good news from last week! I learned the German rights to my last release, FIANCE AT HER FINGERTIPS, sold.
All in all it was a pretty darned good week.
Oh! I also repainted the bottom portion of my bedroom and added a colorful border waist-high around the room. It looks fabulous!
Today? It's back to the book for Bullet Hole.
How's it looking in your neck of the woods?
~Bullet Hole who must see 'Appaloosa' this weekend!~


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The Department of Education (DOE) plans to open the 1000-seat high school in phases.
In September of 2010, the school is slated to open for a freshman class of 250 students, leaving the school 75 percent under capacity for its first year of operation.
In subsequent years, the DOE would phase in the remaining students and grades, possibly one grade per year.
The school is primarily zoned for School Districts 24 and 28. Seating priority for the incoming freshman class has been evenly divided between the two districts.
Critics of the plan say District 24, and all of Queens generally, is getting short shrifted by the zoning and plan to phase-in students.
Community Board 5 voted December 9 to wait an extra month before issuing a resolution on the project, shooting down a proposal to green light the school as is.
Vincent Arcuri, CB5's chairman, said the DOE's zoning proposal makes little sense. He argued that census data shows that, when combined, the sections of districts 24 and 28 included in the zoning don't have enough freshman to fill the incoming class.
"The zoning they currently have does not contain 250 freshman," Arcuri said.
If it isn't changed, he said the remaining open spaces would go to students from elsewhere in Queens and around the city. Arcuri has suggested expanding the District 24 area included in the school zoning farther west to capture more high school-aged students.
Dmytro Fedkowskyj, the Queens representative on the Panel for Education Policy, voiced strong opposition to the DOE's plan to fill the school slowly by phasing in students over time. He said the DOE told him they believe opening the school at full capacity will set it up for failure.
"Unfortunately we don't have the luxury of waiting in Queens," said Fedkowskyj. "We have high schools bursting at the seams."
He outlined an alternative plan to open the school for 9th and 10th graders at once. That way, Fedkowskyj said, the school would open at 50 percent capacity right away, alleviating overcrowding at other high schools such as Grover Cleveland and Newtown high schools.
A DOE spokesperson was unavailable for comment.
While impasse over zoning continues, the DOE is finishing construction at the Woodhaven Boulevard-Metropolitan Avenue campus.
Besides the as-of-yet unnamed high school, the site will also house a second, 900-seat school, I.S./H.S. 167. Seating for that school is being split between districts 28 and 75, which will get 700 and 200 seats respectively.
It remains unclear exactly how the opening of another high school being built in nearby Maspeth might impact the two new schools.
Fedkowskyj said the Queens needs as many high school seats as it can get. "I don't think that we have enough high school seats to serve the borough of Queens as it is," he said.


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The Great Naruto Bridge (なると大橋, Naruto Ōhashi) is a long and wide bridge that was built and completed in Prologue — Land of Waves by Tazuna. He built the bridge to connect the Land of Waves to the Land of Fire, thus freeing his country from Gatō's trade monopoly. After Team 7 helped him complete the bridge by fending off Gatō's assassins, he named the bridge after Naruto Uzumaki for he had played a major part of the reason that the bridge was completed.
In Part II, Sasuke Uchiha, a former member of Team 7, brought Suigetsu to the Land of Waves to retrieve Zabuza's Kubikiribōchō from his grave. When Sasuke saw the bridge and saw that it was named after Naruto, he briefly smiled thinking about the past then grunted and continued to the grave site.
- The bridge is frequently a selectable battle stage in Part I video games.
- There is an actual bridge named the Great Naruto Bridge (大鳴門橋, Ōnaruto-kyō). It is located between the city of Naruto, Tokushima and Awaji Island and crosses the Naruto strait, famous for its whirlpools (Uzumaki (渦巻き) is a Japanese word for whirlpool).


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"Planet of the Apes" actress and former Sports Illustrated model Estella Warren was charged Thursday with four misdemeanor counts stemming from her drunken driving arrest last month.
Warren is scheduled to be arraigned June 17 on one misdemeanor count each of DUI, hit-and-run, battery on a peace officer and resisting or delaying a peace officer, according to Frank Mateljan of the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office.
Warren was arrested just after midnight May 24 -- about an hour after she was stopped on suspicion of drunken driving in the 600 block of North Harper Avenue, according to Los Angeles police.
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The 40-year-old model/actress allegedly had crashed her Prius into three parked cars and resisted arrest -- some accounts had her kicking an officer -- at the scene. While being booked, she slipped out of her handcuffs and ran out a police station door, though she was quickly recaptured.
She was released at 2:35 p.m. the same day after posting $100,000 bond, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department website.
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The European Union confirmed Tuesday that free-trade negotiations with the United States should kick off as planned next week, despite widespread concerns over the alleged eavesdropping of EU diplomats.
The Commission, the EU's executive branch that leads the negotiations on behalf of its 28 members, said the planned start of talks in Washington next Monday "should not be affected" by the surveillance scandal that has emerged in recent days.
However, it insisted that the trans-Atlantic atmosphere needed to clear up for the talks to be successful.
"For such a comprehensive and ambitious negotiation to succeed, there needs to be confidence, transparency and clarity among the negotiating partners," it said in a statement.
The talks are likely to take at least a few years.
The first week of technical negotiations start in Washington on Monday but political outrage over the U.S. eavesdropping allegations had raised questions over whether they would go ahead.
On Sunday, an apparent leak from former U.S. intelligence systems analyst Edward in Germany's Der Spiegel magazine allegedly showed that the National Security Agency bugged the EU's diplomatic offices in Washington and infiltrated its computer network.
The magazine said the NSA took similar measures to listen in on the EU's mission to the United Nations in New York, and also used its secure facilities at NATO headquarters in Brussels to dial into telephone maintenance systems that would have allowed it to intercept senior EU officials' calls and Internet traffic.
French President Francois Hollande on Monday suggested that the scandal could derail the free-trade negotiations. He insisted that the U.S. clarify the situation and end any possible eavesdropping immediately. There could be no negotiations unless Washington provided such guarantees, he insisted.
France had been reluctant to start the talks as it insisted on keeping the movie and television business out of the negotiations to shield Europe's audiovisual industry from Hollywood.
Yet EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said hinging the start of talks on such political issues as the eavesdropping scandal would amount to the EU shooting itself in the foot. The EU, he said, was entering talks out of self-interest, not to be subservient to the United States.
Any far-reaching EU-US trade deal could provide a big boost to growth and jobs by eliminating tariffs and other barriers that have long plagued economic relations — a free trade pact would create a market with common standards and regulations across countries that together account for nearly half the global economy.
A recent EU-commissioned study showed that a trade pact could boost the EU's output by 119 billion euro ($159 billion) a year and the U.S. economy's by 95 billion euros ($127 billion).
Another estimate showed eliminating tariffs alone would add $180 billion to U.S. and EU gross domestic product in five years' time while boosting exports on both sides by about 17 percent. That could add about 0.5 percent annually to the EU's GDP and 1 percent to the U.S.
For Europe in particular, that extra growth could be crucial to help pay high public debt and bring down unemployment, which is at record highs.


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Bullpen hopeful Partch tinkering with mechanics
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Trying to make the roster in Cincinnati's bullpen this spring, right-handed reliever Curtis Partch has been tinkering with his mechanics. Pitching coach Jeff Pico and bullpen coach Mack Jenkins have noticed Partch had the tendency to fly open up during his delivery.
In his second outing of the spring Sunday against the Padres, Partch delivered a perfect inning.
"I've been working on some things with Jeff and Mack with keeping my right side closed a little longer," Partch said Monday. "Besides one or two pitches, I felt like I was more in line. I could tell my pitches were a lot better. My fastball had better command. I'll keep trying to get better and be more consistent."
Partch, 27, began the 2013 season at Double-A Pensacola, but made 14 appearances over two big league stints with the Reds. He was 0-1 with a 6.14 ERA and had 17 walks with 16 strikeouts over 23 1/3 innings. Although he struggled at times, he had a couple of good outings -- including four scoreless innings vs. the Cubs in a June 13 defeat.
"Right now he's a guy who is challenging to help us more in the middle," Reds manager Bryan Price said. "His stuff plays more like a back end of the bullpen guy because he's got size, he's got velocity, his breaking ball is getting better and he's developed a really nice changeup.
"Consistency is really going to dictate what kind of career he has. He has the stuff. Now it's making consistently good pitches. He could end up being a good one."
The Reds are already deep in the bullpen, but Partch could pitch himself on to the staff, especially if relievers Jonathan Broxton and Sean Marshall aren't ready to begin the season on time. Broxton is still rehabbing from August forearm surgery and Marshall has had a sore shoulder.
"I feel like my stuff is good enough to where if it's doing what it's supposed to, it should take care of itself," Partch said. "I can't really be out there thinking I have to be perfect to make the team. If I don't, it's not the end of the world. I'm sure if something happens, they'll need me. I just have to show them they can rely on me and be ready when they need me. It's all you can do."


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Oh, pop art. Lately we've seen Communist war memorials turned into superheroes and Batman and Superman channeling Michelangelo. Now Italian sculptor Giuseppe Veneziano (who previously put supes in compromising positions) has clownified Antonio Canova's 19th century sculpture Perseus and the Head of Medusa in Venice.
I'm assuming Perseus traveled to the bowels of McDonaldland and collected the spokesclown's head to prevent a one-kilometer-tall Grimace from destroying Argos. Also, Ronald's blood turns into the Fry Kids when it splatters the earth.
UPDATE 8/22: More art-history-inclined readers than yours truly have pointed out that — given the statue's posture — this may be a throwback to Carvaggio's 17th century painting David With The Head Of Goliath. Well, globalization subtext then, etc. etc.
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Guess what? Yes! It's finally time for my kitchen garden update! As you may remember, my balcony got a make-over a few months ago (read more about it here). I've been anticipating the weather to warm up and the sun to reach my little balcony again so that I can plant a few seedlings and start redoing my garden that was so rudely battered by the cold winter rain and wind. I bought a few seedlings to get started - parsley, mint, rosemary, oregano and some lettuce. I'm also planning to sow seeds for some veggies in a couple of weeks' time.
|Oregano and mint. The mint has braved winter and done really well!
Anyway, I thought I'd share these photos with you today. There will be many more kitchen garden photos to follow, I'm sure! Until then, I hope you're enjoying the weekend!
|Rosemary is my favourite so I keep it in the kitchen too at all times.
|Spring flowers to brighten up my balcony
|And some bits and pieces I've collected from junk shops and markets... I'm dying to start sewing!


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Not Kruger and Jackson, no. Lane and Brolin. US Weekly has confirmed that they're done. Another source tells the magazine it's "amicable and not ugly". Well, would they say otherwise?
This comes just a few weeks after Brolin was arrested for being drunk and disorderly on New Year's Eve. I interviewed him for Gangster Squad about 2 hrs after that story broke. He seemed like he'd had a good one the night before. Half our interview was about Ryan Goslings balls -- he described them like "a vineyard" and no, I didn't take the conversation there. He did.
Brolin was also alleged to have cheated on Lane a couple of years ago on location in New Orleans -- click here for a refresher. There were pictures. It certainly looked incriminating. And still, they made it through. The word on those two though, at least the way I've always heard it, is that it wasn't the infidelity that bothered her, given that it's not unusual to have certain arrangements in this business, so much as the constant carousing.
They were both wild for a while. I've seen them together at parties and it's not like she behaved like Jennifer Garner. No, she was as into the night life as he was. Then. And the drama too. Then. After so many years of it though, she may have decided that she was no longer interested in sharing her home with an overgrown frat boy anymore.