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Aaron Payne Cup: MSHS star ruled out ahead of Kirwan trip
MACKAY State High School will be without star halfback Henri Stocks for their Aaron Payne Cup encounter with Townsville rivals Kirwan State High School tomorrow.
Coach Andrew Gercken confirmed Queensland under-16 representative Stocks was "carrying a bit of a niggle” after he represented Capricornia at the State Schoolboys U18 trials in Roma last week and would not make the trip to Townsville.
Stocks' absence is a big blow for MSHS, who must win at least one of their remaining two games to have a chance of finishing in the top four and progressing beyond the group stage.
"He's our chief organiser. He leads us around the park so not having him will be a big blow,” Gercken said.
"A few of our younger guys will have to step up.”
When MSHS last made the trip to Townsville two weeks ago to tackle Ignatius Park College, they were slow out of the blocks and made to pay by a clinical home side.
It was 22-0 to Ignatius Park inside 30 minutes.
Gercken said he and the team had learnt their lesson.
"We spoke about getting ourselves as prepared as we can and reflected on what they did in the last game,” he said.
"Hopefully they take something away from that last performance. Mostly, that we need to start the game a lot better than we did. that was what let us down.”
Kirwan are a hurdle MSHS has been unable to move past in recent meetings.
In their two contests last season, the Townsville school came out on top on both occasions.
"We played them once in the (group) game and again in the North Queensland semi-final,” Gercken said.
"They got the better of us in both games. They were pretty heavy defeats, too.”
The Daily Mercury and Queensland School Sport Rugby League have partnered to start livestreaming of the premier schoolboy league competitions in the State - the Allan Langer Cup in the south-east and the Aaron Payne Cup in Central Queensland - from News Corporation's news websites from Townsville to the Gold Coast.
The first games will be livestreamed on Tuesday in the Aaron Payne Cup when Mackay State High School take on Kirwan State High School (Kirwan, 2pm), St Patrick's College Mackay play Ignatius Park College (Ignatius, Townsville, 12pm) and Rockhampton Grammar School take on The Cathedral College (Browne Park, Rockhampton, 6.30).
Queensland Schools league boss Andrew Peach said the deal would take Queensland schoolboy league into the homes of the more than 120,000 digital subscribers that News' titles have in the State.
"This is growing the game in a way that wouldn't have been possible even a few years ago,” he said.
The deal allows schools to recoup the cost of professional filming of games, and he encouraged school league followers to support this paper's subscription model.
Those who do not have a subscription will be able to watch for as little as $3.50 a week under the Hot Offer deal currently available.
The games will be near the top of the home page of this site on Tuesday just ahead of kick-off time.


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This could be a major development in e-readers.
FOX News reported:
No need to wish for access to the library at Hogwarts; you may soon own a book that can refill its pages -- just like magic.
Imaginations are running wild upon news of a breakthrough that could lead to a low-cost and even disposable e-reader. Coining the phrase "E-paper on paper," electrical engineering professor Andrew Steckl and University of Cincinnati doctoral student Duk Young Kim have developed a method that allows colored text and video to be displayed on flexible, organic paper.
Not too unlike pixels on a screen, "electrowetting" involves applying voltage to millions of colored droplets within a display to form the images seen on the paper, Steckl told FoxNews.com.
"We've been working with electrowetting devices for making displays for some time, and I thought it would be great if the kind of devices we build used more natural materials," Steckl said. "You know, renewable materials that we can harvest on a regular basis and then dispose of more naturally as well."

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Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross announced Thursday that 13 officers will be terminated over violent or discriminatory Facebook posts.
The announcement comes after an internal review of a database detailing thousands of social media posts made by police, some of which contained homophobic comments, anti-Muslim slurs or calls to violence.
“I am very troubled and I understand the dismay the public would have, because we have it as well,” Ross said at a press conference.
He said the officers will be first suspended for 30 days with the intent to dismiss.
Seventy-two officers were already removed from street duty over their posts. DA Larry Krasner has said some of the posts demonstrate police bias and could lead to cops being barred from testifying at criminal trials.
The commissioner said another four officers will receive 30 day suspensions, and others among the 72 would receive lesser reprimands. All are required to attend mandatory retraining classes.
The department worked with an outside law firm to review the posts. Ross said that many of the comments fell into a category of protected language that merely violated the department’s social media guidelines.
However, a smaller group of officers made statements online that indicated “they had little to no regard for their position as police officers,” he said.
Those comments led his office to seek their authors’ dismissal.
“I continue to be very angry about these posts,” Ross said. “Many of these, in my view, violate the basic tenets of human decency. And I am saddened by the fact that there are some who would attempt to justify such hateful and vile behavior.”
The city’s Fraternal Order of Police said in a statement it was “disappointed” with the decision and planned to meet with all of the impacted officers. In the past, the police union has argued that officers fired over more serious misconduct should be reinstated.
The commissioner declined to name the 13 suspended officers, but read aloud from some of their Facebook comments. One matched a post made by Officer Jesus Cruz, in 2016, in reference to a news story about a police officers being injured while breaking up a brawl.
“F—— animals, he should have split their wigs,” Cruz wrote.
Ross also mentioned that posts reading “Death to Islam” could be grounds for dismissal. Police officer Joseph Przepiorka had posted a meme that read “Death to Islam.” A police source also confirmed both men were among the 13 officers set for dismissal.
Cruz had already enrolled in DROP, the city’s earlier retirement plan. Many of the older officers were expected to simply retire rather than await dismissal.
Ross said his department would explore enhanced “data mining” in order to better flag officers’ social media posts for problematic material. But some of the officers who had been under investigation over their posts had been subject to lawsuits. About half had civilian complaints over alleged misconduct filed against them over the past five years.
The commissioner couldn’t say why these officers appeared to be facing more serious repercussions over their Facebook posts than these formal complaints or lawsuits.
“It’s a fair question but I don’t know what those outcomes were for those cases,” he said. “But those are things we’ll be looking at because it’s a legitimate concern.”


Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) inserted an amendment into the Senate budget bill, against the U.N. Small Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The budget passed, meaning Inhofe’s amendment preventing the U.S. from signing onto the U.N.’s We’ll Take Your Sovereignty and Your Weapons, Too treaty will not be ratified, at least for now. Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton support the treaty.
“We’re negotiating a treaty that cedes our authority to have trade agreements with our allies in terms of trading arms,” Inhofe said. “This is probably the last time this year that you’ll be able to vote for your Second Amendment rights.” Source: The Hill
March 22, 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) introduced two amendments Thursday to the Senate Budget Resolution for Fiscal Year 2014 to help protect and preserve the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.
Amendment 139 would establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund for the purpose of preventing the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, a treaty currently being negotiated by U.S. State Department officials.
“The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty is another attempt by internationalists to limit and infringe upon America’s sovereignty,” said Inhofe. “Such a treaty would require the United States to implement laws as required by the treaty, instead of the national controls that are currently in place. This would also disrupt diplomatic and national security efforts by preventing our government from assisting allies like Taiwan, South Korea, or Israel when they require assistance. I will continue to mount strong opposition to any effort by Sec. Kerry and the State Department to ratify this treaty.”
Amendment 360 would establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund for the purpose of preventing a federal firearm registry. Current efforts in Congress to place further restrictions on gun rights would make allowance for such a registry.
“Ongoing efforts by my colleagues in Congress to further restrict gun rights is leading us down a slippery slope towards a national firearm registry,” said Inhofe. “Criminals could care less about the law. A national firearm registry will only give Washington more power to collect information on law-abiding citizens. There is a reason such a registry is currently outlawed as it has the potential to be misused for suppressing Americans’ 2nd Amendment rights.”
Inhofe spoke on the Senator floor Friday regarding amendment 139, which can be viewed by clicking here.
As you read around the InterTubes about the United Nation’s Small Arms Trade Treaty, don’t be delluded into thinking the only focus is our Second Amendment, which is the big issue for the U.S. but the forerunner to deciding who can have weapons and who cannot worldwide…in the future, after the remainder of a pleathora of U.N. plans are implemented.
The U.N. says we need this Treaty to restrict arms getting in the hands of terrorists. Remember who Homeland Security believes are terrorists? That you be you, you brutish right-winger. Never mind that the U.N. refuses to define who a terrorist is, because they would have to point the finger at their Islamic member countries and the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation – the most powerful entity inside the U.N. More information here.
Thank you Senator Inhofe.
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Raul Malo is a singer's singer, a rarity in our image-conscious music world. And while he's long since given up on being strictly a country singer (if he ever even was one in the first place), Malo has always been blessed with the sort of Roy Orbison-esque voice that all true country fans can appreciate. "Hello Again" is a five-song EP preview of Malo's upcoming full-length CD, but to paraphrase an old Smokey Robinson song, sometimes a taste of Malo is worse than none at all because this brief snippet leaves the listener wanting more - much more.
Malo worked with Steve Berlin once again on this project, and that sax man's Los Lobos influence is especially during the live version of Every Little Thing about You, a Latin slow-burner. There is also a concert take on I Said I Love You. So Beautiful, on the other hand, finds Malo applying some Beatles flavor to music, and it's quite nice.
If you're the kind of person that can walk along a buffet table and just sample small tastes of a few things, you have a personality suited to appreciate this latest Malo effort. The rest of us will be left with grumbling tummies.


Lauren in Sheffield has quizzed Nick Clegg on tuition fees saying that a raft of Government policy has left poorer young people feeling that "higher education is not for them."
Speaking about his election pledge to cut tuition fees which he has subsequently had to retract the Deputy Prime Minister said:
I have apologised as clearly and candidly as I could for that fact that we made a commitment that given that we were unlikely to be in Government on our own.
it is certainly one of the biggest regrets that we made a commitment that we were just not in a position to deliver.
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The inquest into the deaths of 11 people in the Shoreham air disaster is due to be opened and adjourned today.
Criminals are escaping arrest because police are delayed in getting to crime scenes in cars that do not have sirens, officers have warned.
NHS staff to be offered Zumba classes and counselling to keep them fit and in work, NHS England's chief executive is to announce.


#china #zkzm #lazerassault
China’s Military has developed a new portable laser weapon, the non-lethal ZKZM-500 laser assault rifle, that can zap a target from nearly a kilometer away.
The 15mm caliber weapon weighs three kilos (6.6lb), about the same as an AK-47, and has a range of 800 meters, or half a mile, and could be mounted on cars, boats, and planes.
It can also fire more than 1,000 “shots”, each lasting no more than two seconds.
It is now ready for mass production and the first units are likely to be given to anti-terrorism squads in the Chinese Armed Police, but it could also be used in covert military operations.
China has developed a new portable laser weapon that can zap a target from nearly a kilometer away, according to researchers involved in the project.
The ZKZM-500 laser assault rifle is classified as being “non-lethal” but produces an energy beam that cannot be seen by the naked eye but can pass through windows and cause the “instant carbonation” of human skin and tissues.
China has developed a new portable laser weapon:
Pentagon Confirms Chinese Fired Lasers at U.S C-130 Pilots in Djibouti Africa 2 Injured:
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A baby girl has entered the world in a hurry on the side of one of Melbourne's busiest freeways.
Parents Courtesy Hove and Joshua Deen were driving along the Westgate Freeway about 9:00pm on Saturday when they realised they would not get to the hospital in time for the birth.
They pulled over near Altona North and Ms Hove gave birth as traffic flew by at 100 kilometres per hour.
"[My partner] was on the phone to triple-0 asking how far away they were but I was saying: 'ask them how to deliver this baby, you're going to have to do it'," she said.
"He had to catch, I had to push it out.
"I think that's every guy's worst nightmare, the baby is coming and you're going to have to deliver it."
Mr Deen praised the paramedics who kept everyone calm as he delivered the baby.
"At the start I was like, 'I hope she can wait for the paramedics to come, I don't know what to do'," he said.
"But the lady on the phone was really helpful, just making sure the baby and the mother were breathing.
"I was a busy, busy man."
Ms Hove said the situation left her in a state of shock.
"I couldn't believe she was just in front of me on the car seat, I was like: 'I can't believe this baby's coming out right now on the side of the road'."
The pair said they wrapped their newborn in a towel and waited for the ambulance to arrive.
Paramedic Jon Hinton was one of the first officers to arrive.
"They were a bit surprised and were taken short. Obviously they were doing the right thing by trying to get to hospital but I think they left their run a bit late," he said.
"It wasn't their first baby and sometimes the second baby comes a bit quicker."
Mr Hinton said it was lucky paramedics arrived when they did.
"I've turned up and found that baby has been born, needed to check up on baby a little, because youngster was not breathing quite so well as I'd have liked, but she's well now," he said.
Both mum and baby had a slightly calmer ride to hospital in an ambulance.


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The overwhelming majority of likely U.S. voters, including a majority of black Americans, oppose the tearing down of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial featuring Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, a poll finds. While rioters, as well as some Republican and Democrat lawmakers, have sought to remove monuments, statues, and flags associated with the Civil War and the nation’s presidents, the overwhelming majority of Americans say they are opposed to such plans. The latest Rasmussen Reports survey finds 75 percent of likely U.S. voters oppose closing or changing Mt. Rushmore in Keystone, South Dakota. Less than 20 percent said they support the removal of Mt. Rushmore. By a 56-percent majority, black Americans said they oppose tearing down Mt. Rushmore, while only about 35 percent said they support removing the monument. Likewise, more than six-in-ten Democrats, 76 percent of swing voters, 82 percent of white Americans, and 88 percent of Republican voters said they oppose tearing down Mt. Rushmore. The Rasmussen Reports survey also asked likely voters if they opposed or supported removing statues in honor of Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson from public places. More than 70 percent of all likely voters said they opposed tearing down statues dedicated to the two men. Majorities in every racial, income, age, gender, political, and educational attainment group said they oppose tearing down statues and buildings honoring Washington and Jefferson — including 54 percent of black Americans, 78 percent of white Americans, 57 percent of Democrats, 83 percent of Republicans, and 75 percent of swing voters. For years, Americans by huge majorities have opposed a post-structuralist agenda to tear down and remake the nation’s historical monuments and statues. In a 2017 Rasmussen Reports survey, nearly 90 percent of Americans said they oppose tearing down monuments honoring former presidents. The poll surveyed 1,000 likely U.S. voters from June 29 to 30 and has a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points.
The idea of desecrating, or tearing down, Mount Rushmore is a sentiment held only by these who just hate America in general, and those idiot millennial punks who have been bain-washed by their Marxist teachers into thinking that our history is evil and racist all around…and who never were really taught American civics in school. Glad the silent majority is still opposed to tearing down our history. But, that silent majority now more than ever needs to stand up and fight back against these punks who are trying to tear our country down.
A greater percentage of U.S. registered voters believe Confederate statues, which have been targeted by protesters in recent weeks, should remain standing despite activists’ demands to remove them, a Morning Consult poll released this week revealed. The survey, taken June 6-7, showed that a greater number of Americans believe Confederate statues should remain standing, 44 percent, as opposed to the 32 percent who say they should be removed. Twenty-three percent expressed no opinion on the matter. The fundings reflect a slight shift in opinion over the last three years. In August 2017, 52 percent of voters indicated that the statues should be left alone, with just over a quarter, 26 percent, indicating otherwise. However, Morning Consult reported that the purported increase in support over the years is largely driven by Democrats: The rise in support for removing the statues was driven by Democrats, a majority of whom now take that position, and independents, who still favor keeping those statues standing by a 10-point margin. Eleven percent of GOP voters say the statues should be removed, virtually unchanged since 2017. The vast majority of Republicans, 71 percent, believe the Confederate statues should remain standing, whereas the majority of Democrats, 53 percent, believe they should be taken down. Forty percent of independents believe they should remain standing, with 30 percent vying for their removal and 30 percent expressing no opinion. The survey was taken among “roughly” 1,900 voters, with a margin of error of +/- two percent. The survey comes as protesters vandalize and, in some cases, tear down Confederate statues and others they deem offensive, including statues of Christopher Columbus. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has also embraced the calls for change, requesting in a letter on Wednesday the removal of Confederate statues occupying the U.S. Capitol, or as she called them, “monuments to men who advocated cruelty and barbarism to achieve such a plainly racist end.” “Monuments to men who advocated cruelty and barbarism to achieve such a plainly racist end are a grotesque affront to these ideals,” she said in a letter to Committee Chair Roy Blunt (R-MO) and Vice Chair Zoe Lofgren (D-CA). “Their statues pay homage to hate, not heritage. They must be removed.” Interestingly, Pelosi has remained silent on her own father’s role in the dedication of a Confederate statue in Baltimore’s Wyman Park in 1948. Her father, Thomas D’Alesandro, Jr., oversaw the dedication of such a statue in Baltimore’s Wyman Park — the Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monument — as mayor of the city in 1948. At the time, the Speaker’s father said people could look to Jackson’s and Lee’s lives as inspiration and urged Americans to “emulate Jackson’s example and stand like a stone wall against aggression in any form that would seek to destroy the liberty of the world.” World Wars I and II found the North and South fighting for a common cause, and the generalship and military science displayed by these two great men in the War between the States lived on and were applied in the military plans of our nation in Europe and the Pacific areas,” D’Alesandro said at the dedication ceremony, as detailed by the Baltimore Sun. He continued: Today with our nation beset by subversive groups and propaganda which seeks to destroy our national unity, we can look for inspiration to the lives of Lee and Jackson to remind us to be resolute and determined in preserving our sacred institutions … remain steadfast in our determination to preserve freedom, not only for ourselves, but for other liberty-loving nations who are striving to preserve their national unity as free nations. Pelosi’s office did not return Breitbart News’s request for comment.
HAHAHAHA!!! Doh!! Hey Nancy! How ’bout them apples?? That lying, hypocritical windbag just got BUSTED! Some enterprising reporter needs to ask her these questions on camera, and see how she tries to dance around it. Of course that won’t happen, because she’s a Democrat. They’ll just look the other way, and let her get away with that. Typical.. Of course her at The Daily Buzz, we are right there with the majority of those registered voters and don’t believe we should be tearing down statues or monuments to any historical figures on either side. Those that want one of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (“MLK”) should have those statues. And, those descendants of Confederate Generals and other figures from that timeframe (especially in southern states that were part of the Confederacy during that time of our history), should have every right to protect and keep those statues and monuments. History is what happened; NOT what we wished had happened, or that hurt our tender feelings. People who have a problem with the facts of our history really need to get over it and move on. Same is true for the renaming of Army posts in our southern states. That is beyond ridiculous, and we support President Trump’s position NOT to do that. Shame on our legislators of BOTH parties who are caving to pc police and are trying to rename those historical posts.
In a brazen attempt to re-write history, President Barack Obama in a speech on Friday blamed “the politics of resentment and paranoia,” which he said had found a home in the Republican Party, for “wild conspiracy theories – like those surrounding Benghazi.” What a reprehensible way to frame an event that killed four Americans while they waited for rescue and protection they deserved from people Barack Obama never sent. Of course, you only heard about Obama’s characterization of Benghazi if you pay attention to conservative media. By and large the mainstream press excluded references to Benghazi from their reporting of the speech. Kris “Tanto” Paronto, one of the heroes who watched his friends die that night in Benghazi, called Obama’s comments “disgusting,” tweeting: “Benghazi is a conspiracy @BarackObama?! How bout we do this,let’s put your cowardly ass on the top of a roof with 6 of your buddies&shoot rpg’s&Ak47’s at you while terrorists lob 81mm mortars killing 2 of your buddies all while waiting for US support that you never sent.” He’s right to be offended. The real conspiracy of Benghazi was the false narrative that the whole thing was the result of an offensive video – an objectively proven lie born from the resentment and paranoia within Obama’s own administration. They didn’t think the truth was compatible with getting Barack Obama re-elected six weeks after the attack. In reality, Obama himself contradicted this conspiracy narrative before he even left office. Fox News’ Chris Wallace asked him in April 2016 to identify the worst mistake of his presidency. “Probably failing to plan for the day after what I think was the right thing to do, in intervening in Libya.” At least he got one thing right: Benghazi (or what he euphemistically refers to as the aftermath of his war in Libya) WAS a terrible mistake. What it was not is a conspiracy theory. With President Trump methodically erasing the Obama legacy, this bizarre attempt to reframe the narratives around Obama’s greatest failures should fool no one. Barack Obama took us to war with Libya. His State Department refused multiple requests to meet minimum security standards at the Benghazi consulate. President Obama never sent anyone to rescue or protect our ambassador or our own people during the 13 hours they were under attack. Four brave men died as a result and many other heroes had their lives forever altered. That is not a conspiracy. That is fact – no matter how inconvenient Democrats may find it. This is one part of the Obama legacy that Trump should not erase. We all need to remember the lessons learned from Obama’s worst mistake.
Agreed! Obama’s lies about his, and Hillary’s, epic failure with respect to Benghazi are unconscionable. It shows just how much of a coward he is. At best (and this is being WAY too generous), his and Hillary showed a spectacular lack of judgement and decision making when that horrific event happened. If you’re an honest Democrat, that is the ONLY defense you can possible muster. At worst, and this is FAR more accurate..there were a series of bad decisions, followed by a cover-up, and then when it was realized..Susan Rice was sent out to all of the major networks to lie about what they knew. That is exactly how it all went down. And, then.. When four brave Americans died as a result of this, Obama has the nerve in hindsight with the facts and videos out there to back it up…with his self-righteous, arrogant, metro-sexual manner to go out and suggest that the whole thing was a “Republican conspiracy?” Seriously?!? What a disgusting, nauseating tool… Shame on you Obama…and shame on the media for not calling him out, to his face…on camera. Thanks to former Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT, who was the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, for setting the record straight.
Leaders at the church that George Washington attended decided that a plaque honoring the first president of the United States must be removed. Christ Church in Alexandria, Virginia will take down a memorial marking the pew where Washington sat with his family, saying it is not acceptable to all worshipers. “The plaques in our sanctuary make some in our presence feel unsafe or unwelcome,” leaders said, a reference to the fact that Washington was a slaveholder. “Some visitors and guests who worship with us choose not to return because they receive an unintended message from the prominent presence of the plaques.” “Many in our congregation feel a strong need for the church to stand clearly on the side of ‘all are welcome- no exceptions,'” they concluded. A memorial to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee will also come down. The decision comes in the wake of renewed controversy over whether statues honoring Civil War figures should be no longer honored. The debate broke out again over the summer after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia killed one and injured others. President Trump expressed concern that the censoring of Confederate generals would lead to dishonoring Thomas Jefferson and George Washington as well.
Clearly he was right… This erasing (or revising) of our American history is very dangerous stuff. George Washington DID own slaves. That’s true. The perpetually offended should get the hell over it. That was just something that happened back then. We don’t excuse or condone it. We simply acknowledge it as a fact. Washington also was our nation’s first President (a title he never wanted), and lead our country’s war for independence against the British. He held our country together when it almost fell apart. Instead of erasing our heritage, we need to celebrate these contributions by our founding fathers. Shame on this church for caving to the whining of a few tourists, who probably wouldn’t go back anyway, and denying the rest of us the opportunity to be awed by this piece of American history. Unreal..
If Democrats seeking the removal of historical memorials tied to racist history are serious, they should be tripping over one another to get in front of a camera and call for the removal of memorials and namesakes to Presidents Andrew Johnson, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Sen. Robert C Byrd. These five men had two things in common–all had a penchant for racism to one degree or another, and all were Democrats. Some of the memorials to them are monuments, some are groves, others are highways, bridges, colleges, and even cemeteries. Of course, the cemeteries ought not be disturbed, but they should be renamed if the Democrats are serious about rooting out the vestiges of racism. Click here to read a short description of each of the Democrats and the memorials and/or namesakes in their honor:
Democrat politicians and the dominantly liberal mainstream media have a short memory…a VERY short memory. After all, the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) was the Sen. Majority Leader (for crying out loud), and was in the Senate up til 2010; only 7 years ago. Keep in mind that Sen. Byrd was an “exalted cyclops” of the Ku Klux Klan!! And yet NOBODY in the Democratic party OR in the liberal media said ANYTHING about that. Where was Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Chuck Schumer, the NAACP, PBS/NPR, CNN, and of course, MSNBC?!? Their silence for decades has been deafening. Talk about brazen hypocrisy!! And, that’s just for starters.. The liberal media and Democrats like to bring up the KKK, and throw out the name “David Duke” (a former Louisiana state legislator and former leader of one of the many Klan organizations in the U.S.) as some sort of talking point. It’s totally scripted, and phony. For those who may not know.. Started in 1865 after the Civil War, the membership of the KKK was almost exclusively Democrats for the first ONE HUNDRED YEARS of it’s existence! That’s a very inconvenient FACT that the left doesn’t want you to know. Anyway, to read the rest of this outstanding op/ed by AWR Hawkins, click on the text above.
We hear a lot about the United States’ Judeo-Christian heritage, but according to President Obama, “Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding.” That’s what the president told a White House conference on “countering violent extremism” on Wednesday. Obama has said similar things in the past.
Indeed he has.. Obama’s breathtaking, ideologically self-serving, history revisionism should offend every American citizen who has had the most basic elementary school American civics, and has half a brain. I mean, c’mon!! How dumb does he really think we all are?!? No, Mr. President. Islam has NOT “been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding.” Starting with the Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower and settled at Plymouth Rock in the early 17th century, through our Declaration of Independence, our War for Independence, the subsequent U.S. Constitution and its first 10 Amendments we call the “Bill of Rights,” and so on… Our country was founded as a Christian nation. Period. Yes, we have freedom of religion and tolerate ALL religious faiths here, and always have.. But, make NO mistake about it. Our founders were Christian men and women who did NOT whip out their prayer rugs and face Mecca a few times a day. They had Bibles in virtually every household, and the kids’ school textbook was the New England Primer for the first century and a half. Take a very good look at it sometime. It’s basically excerpts from the Bible used to teach English and so on. I’m sorry if that offends the politically correct, tender sensibilities of some. But, as John Adams once said, “facts are stubborn things.” Agreed. We were founded as a tolerant, free, yet undeniably, clearly Christian nation. It’s not even moot. The only interaction our founders had with Muslims was fighting Muslim pirates from Africa on the high seas. That’s it. So, Mr. President…. Stop lying to the American people about our heritage. Perhaps you’re confusing YOUR Islamic upbringing in Indonesia with America’s. I’d recommend you read the “Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.” Moron..


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In quick succession, the government has painted itself into two embarrassing corners. By putting the Ford Foundation on a prior permission watchlist in the interest of national security, it is inviting international ridicule. Earlier, it had amused the international community by imposing travel restrictions on a Greenpeace activist, an approach to managing dissent that fell from grace with the close of the Middle Ages, and which must reliably fail in the age of pervasive communications.
In pursuit of its stated aim of building capacities and institutions, the Ford Foundation provides financial support for research programmes in at least 10 institutes of national importance, including an IIT, an IIM, the Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. In addition, its earliest interventions in India included the development of physical infrastructure like Kennedy Hall at the Aligarh Muslim University. To suggest that the foundation’s interests are spurious or disreputable brings all these institutions — and senior staffers handling funds — into similar disrepute. And since the Indian government has frequently contributed to these projects or founded the organisations in which they run, the interests of government officials who okayed the Ford Foundation’s financial support begins to look suspect, too. This is a tricky corner for a government to be in.
If a government which seeks to engage with the world and prepare India for a global role conducts itself in a seemingly xenophobic manner, the dissonance can be striking indeed. A government whose first instinct is to stifle dissent instead of persuading the dissenter is sadly anachronistic, and a handicap for a nation in search of a larger international role. Equally out of time is the convention barring non-profit organisations from indulging in or promoting “political” activities. The idea of what constitutes politics has been expanded sharply by 20th century reform movements like feminism. Today, the personal is the political. A political dimension may be read into almost every act, and these acts are performed in a world that is essentially borderless. In this globalised milieu, to insist that non-profits must be unwaveringly non-political is unrealistic, and anxieties about the “foreign hand” are symptomatic of medieval paranoias that last reared their head prominently in Indira Gandhi’s regime. But it is not just the Modi government. Its predecessor too was deeply disconcerted by non-governmental activity. This trend is dangerous and can end up isolating India in an increasingly open world.
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Lots of behind-the-scenes chatter is taking place about two items on the agenda for this week's Attleboro Zoning Board of Appeals meeting. Both items involve the school buses parked at Pleasant Auto Center.
One item includes a public hearing "to consider revoking the special permit" for Pleasant Auto owner Cynthia Karol. The permit allows her to operate the business on the property, despite its location in an area zoned residential. She is restricted from having buses parked on the property. However, the buses of school district contractor H&L Bloom have been parking at the site since last month.
A rival agenda item (no public hearing included) calls for the permit to be modified "to include the operation of a bus terminal/storage facility."
Last month, Karol received a letter from the city telling her to get rid of the buses within 30 days or face fines of $100 per day. She told Attleboro Patch that she planned to get the permit modified so the buses would be allowed to stay.
The ZBA session is scheduled to take place Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall in the council chambers. The agenda is attached to this article.

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|Publication number||US7856290 B2|
|Application number||US 11/850,468|
|Publication date||Dec 21, 2010|
|Filing date||Sep 5, 2007|
|Priority date||Nov 25, 2003|
|Also published as||US7376487, US7894940, US8326458, US20050113972, US20070299549, US20080231227, US20110082583|
|Publication number||11850468, 850468, US 7856290 B2, US 7856290B2, US-B2-7856290, US7856290 B2, US7856290B2|
|Inventors||David Bruce Kumhyr|
|Original Assignee||International Business Machines Corporation|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (31), Non-Patent Citations (3), Referenced by (16), Classifications (46), Legal Events (3)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 10/721,436, filed Nov. 25, 2003 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,376,487.
1. Technical Field
The invention relates to the ability of a robotic device to monitor and negotiate the charging of its own battery and to automatically receive re-tasking and patches during recharging. More specifically, the invention relates to a nesting device to which each robotic device must return periodically, with the robotic devices and nesting device sharing a protocol by which they negotiate a time slot for each robotic device.
2. Description of Related Art
Robots have been the stuff of science fiction from the early part of the nineteenth century to the present. Now, however, many types of robotic devices have been realized and many more are being designed. Some of these are relatively fixed, such as a robotic arm to locate tapes in a tape library, and these can be connected to a source of electricity by a power line. For self-mobile robotic devices, a battery is generally included as a power supply that must be periodically recharged. For a self-mobile robot, periodic recharging of the battery is necessary and it has been suggested that the more capable a robot is of taking care of its own needs, the less of a burden it is on the infrastructure it serves. For instance, U.S. Pat. No. 4,777,416 to George et al., in its abstract, discloses a “recharge docking system for a battery-powered mobile robot which senses when the battery charge is below a predetermined level and halts the travel of the robot at its next navigational node following which the robot independently plots and negotiates a path from the next node back to a base node at a recharge station, where the batteries are charged.” Thus, providing for automatic recharging is known.
However, as self-mobile robotic devices infiltrate into the mainstream, a company or individual who utilizes robots can find themselves with a large number of robotic devices that require regular recharging. It would be desirable to have a device and protocol by which a large number of robotic devices can be charged by a single charging unit in the most efficient possible manner, i.e., without human intervention.
A nesting device, system, and method are provided by which a number of disparate robotic devices can be automatically recharged and reprogrammed during self-scheduled time slots. The nesting device contains one or more recharging areas, which can be generic to serve disparate types of devices or can contain a specific connector for a certain type of robotic device. Because these nests must be visited on a regular basis, they can communicate updates or new sets of instructions to the robotic devices during recharging. The nesting device and the robotic devices are both provided with communications capabilities and a protocol by which they can negotiate to find a time slot in which the robotic device can be recharged and provided other information.
The novel features believed characteristic of the invention are set forth in the appended claims. The invention itself, however, as well as a preferred mode of use, further objectives and advantages thereof, will best be understood by reference to the following detailed description of an illustrative embodiment when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
The invention will now be described with regard to the drawings. With attention first to
Because the nesting station 100 has a generalized structure, it is possible that the station 100 can offer charging to many different types of batteries. To this end, the nesting station 100 is preferably configured to determine the type of battery to be charged and to shift its output characteristics accordingly.
In an alternate embodiment, the nesting device does not contain generic, flat contacts, but a number of different styles of contacts are made available to suit the needs of a variety of robotic devices.
Depending on its programming, the nesting station checks the availability of the needed connector and if necessary, the priority of the robotic device, then assigns a time slot to the robotic device (step 915). The priority of a robotic device can be important if the nesting station is shared, for example, by some devices that are used daily and others that are only needed weekly or sporadically. A device that is used only weekly may have a low priority if the device is not scheduled to be used for several days, but can be bumped up in priority nearer to the time of its use. In systems where only a few robotic devices are used, the scheduling can be very simple, while a corporation using a large number of mobile robotic devices can have a more complex scheduling algorithm as necessary.
The nesting station notifies the robotic device of the next available slot and sets that time aside for this particular device (step 920). Unless a slot is available immediately, the robotic device will store the time at which it is scheduled for charging. When this time nears, the robot reports at the nesting station for charging. The nesting station can verify that this robotic device is indeed for this time slot and grant permission for charging (step 925). At that time, the robotic device can position itself and begin charging (step 930). While the device is recharging, the nesting station can check to see is there is an outstanding order to retask the robotic device by providing new or updated instructions, whether patches are needed in the programming (step 935). If so, the nesting station can communicate this to the robotic device and proceed to provide updating while the robotic device is charging (step 940). Because the robotic devices themselves perform their own charging and updating, the owner or manager of the robotic devices does not need to contact each robotic device individually. Instead, the manager simply provides instructions to the nesting station(s) and allows the nesting station(s) to coordinate the updates with the robotic devices themselves.
One of ordinary skill in the art will realize that variations in this flowchart are possible without departing from the spirit of the invention. One such example can be an environment where only a few robotic devices are used and the nesting unit is available much of the time. In this environment, the nesting station can be programmed to respond to a request for charging with a simple notification that the charger is currently available or not available. The requesting robotic device can be instructed to check back in a given amount of time to see if the nesting station is available. Alternatively, where a large number of robotic units share a nesting station, a request from a high priority robotic device can cause another, already scheduled, robotic device to be “bumped” out of its time slot into a later slot. In this case, the nesting station must contact the device originally scheduled and negotiate a later time for charging.
In a further alternate embodiment, the negotiations can be more extensive. For example, if a robotic device has a regular schedule of activity it must maintain, the robotic device can be programmed to provide suggested time slots when it is available for recharging; the nesting station can then verify that a suggested time is available or not, or can bump a lower priority device from a needed slot.
Thus, the exact protocol for negotiation can be varied according to the environment, but the embodiments of the inventive nesting system allow the robotic devices to regularly schedule and receive nesting without human intervention.
It is important to note that while the present invention has been described in the context of a fully functioning data processing system, those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the processes of the present invention are capable of being distributed in the form of a computer readable medium of instructions and a variety of forms and that the present invention applies equally regardless of the particular type of signal bearing media actually used to carry out the distribution. Examples of computer readable media include recordable-type media, such as a floppy disk, a hard disk drive, a RAM, CD-ROMS, DVD-ROMs, and transmission-type media, such as digital and analog communications links, wired or wireless communications links using transmission forms, such as, for example, radio frequency and light wave transmissions. The computer readable media may take the form of coded formats that are decoded for actual use in a particular data processing system.
The description of the present invention has been presented for purposes of illustration and description, and is not intended to be exhaustive or limited to the invention in the form disclosed. Many modifications and variations will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art. The embodiment was chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention, the practical application, and to enable others of ordinary skill in the art to understand the invention for various embodiments with various modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated.
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|Aug 1, 2014||REMI||Maintenance fee reminder mailed|
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You wa shock!
No... I haven't gotten to it yet. But I'll be damned if I didn't know anything about Hokuto no Ken. I played the hell out of the musou games. lol.
Nice. Hope the family is doing well. Feel free to tell them I said hi. :3
Ehh. The usual. S.O.L. on bills and whatnot. lol. Everything fine over there?
Ah I didn't finish the anime for Maison Ikkoku since I read all of the manga and kind of fell out of it but for what I did watch alongside Ranma, I watched the dub, it's very classic. Of course the Japanese had much better acting and in a couple cases better voices but I really enjoy the english voices in Ranma, even if their acting isn't up to par. Speaking of which, I make my own Ranma abridged series, which you can check out here if you're interested. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h4qTGWms5A

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Where to Find the Best Views in San Juan
With its colorful streets and buildings, numerous historical attractions, as well as bays and beaches, San Juan is photogenic from all angles. Whether you want to see it from above, from the water, or from a historical high point, here’s where to find the best views in San Juan.
Castillo San Cristóbal
The old fort offers some of the best views in San Juan in every direction. Look north to see the Atlantic Ocean, east to see San Juan, south to see Old San Juan, and west to see the Castillo San Felipe del Morro and the Cementerio Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis.
Old San Juan
Streetside views are hard to beat.
Some of the most scenic sights in San Juan are the colorful colonial-era buildings and cobblestone streets in Old San Juan. Get a closer look by walking around the streets of Old San Juan. Some of the prettiest streets include La Fortaleza and Caleta de las Monjas.
Paseo de la Princesa
Head there for sunset.
One of the most popular promenades in the city, Paseo de la Princesa offers wonderful views along its route. Enjoy sweeping vistas of San Juan Bay and its colorful boats, old city walls, La Fortaleza, Governor’s Mansion, and Raíces Fountain. It’s also a great spot to watch the sunset.
Sail into San Juan Bay.
To get a different perspective on San Juan, take to the waters on a sightseeing cruise along San Juan Bay. Hop on a traditional sailboat or catamaran and pass by landmarks such as El Morro and La Fortaleza.
The suburbs are scenic too.
A suburb of San Juan, Bayamón is home to several high vantage points that offer expansive city views. Head to the observation tower inside Luis A. Ferre Science Park or to the Julio E. Monagas Lookout Tower inside Julio Enrique Monagas Park.
Castillo San Felipe del Morro
Sweeping views over the surrounds.
Commonly referred to as El Morro, it is thought to be the oldest Spanish fort in the New World. El Morro offers wonderful and far-reaching views from the top of its six levels, as well as from the open lawn around it.

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Local council aims to cut water use by 20%
West Sussex County Council (WSCC) has revealed that a new grant scheme could help it reduce its water consumption by 20%.
As part of the £700m AquaFund initiative, which provides grants to public sector organisations to fund work to lower water consumption, WSCC has contracted engineers ADSM to survey all of its sites to check the location and condition of water meters in a bid to assess where savings can be made.
Water efficiency technologies such as rain water harvesting and automatic meter readers will then be considered to see which offer the largest savings.
Cabinet Member for finance and resources Michael Brown, said: “We estimate that the County Council can save 20% of its current water consumption by signing up to the scheme.”
He added that the council was also attracted to the scheme because of its close links to charity group WaterAid.
ADSM director Patrick McCart, said: “This scheme will generate real savings as well as help the environment. It’s essential that large organisations like councils take the lead on water efficiency, particularly in the south east where a drought has been declared.”
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A little Broadway trivia: What “role” have Broadway superstars Patti LuPone, Kristin Chenoweth, Audra McDonald, Sutton Foster and Kelli O’Hara all played? Answer: they’ve all played the “role” of guest actors through ArtSpeak!, a program created, produced, and underwritten by Shugoll Research to bring Broadway stars into public schools.
ArtSpeak! will be starting its 18th year in Washington, D.C. area schools this September when Patti LuPone appears at Blake High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. Ms LuPone will be interviewed about her career on stage in Blake’s high school auditorium, answer student questions, sign autographs and, best of all, sing three songs. Can you imagine if multi-Tony Award winner Patti LuPone performed in your high school?
ArtSpeak! is held four times a year in different high schools in Montgomery County, Maryland. A total of 110 artists have appeared in schools through the program. ArtSpeak! is donated to the community by Shugoll Research and is free to the public. It is held in the evening so that students (and parents) from across the whole DC metro area can attend. Any school can request ArtSpeak! for its school, but Shugoll Research seeks out schools that are diverse racially, ethnically, and socio-economically. The goal of ArtSpeak! is to excite students about theater and the arts.
How did this award winning program come to be created by Shugoll Research, a $10 million marketing research company in Bethesda, Maryland? In the early 1990′s, Shugoll Research was conducting focus groups for a major performing arts center with businesses that do not support the arts. When the moderator asked why these companies, large and small, support causes other than the arts, they tended to say that the arts are not as important as social welfare issues. Of course, it is hard to equate donating to cancer research or food for the homeless with supporting the arts. But it was clear that these companies did not have an appreciation for the value of the arts in their community. If this value was better explained to them, the research suggested the arts could become one of the several important causes these companies support.
Shugoll Research was struck by the undervaluation of the arts among some in the corporate community. As a result, we at Shugoll asked – what could we do as a small company to be a leader in arts support? We immediately adopted the arts as our lead philanthropic cause. At the time, Shugoll Research was much smaller than today and with limited resources. But we realized we could start fulfilling this commitment by donating pro bono research to arts organizations. After all, didn’t arts organizations have the same needs as fortune 500 companies to grow its customer base, assess customer satisfaction, and understand its brand image?
The research conducted for these arts organizations kept leading to the same conclusion: arts audiences were aging and students had little interest in the arts, perhaps because the arts were disappearing from their schools. As Shugoll Research grew, we asked: how can we share our passion for the arts with students and fill some of the gaps in public school arts programs? So we built our arts philanthropic portfolio by underwriting arts tickets for students, creating scholarships for students with limited means to take private lessons, and starting what we consider our “flagship” program, ArtSpeak!
Some ArtSpeak! highlights: theater composer Stephen Schwartz arriving with the words and music to a new song he just wrote on the back of an envelope while on the plane to DC and singing it for the first time to the 300 students at ArtSpeak! (that song became “The Wizard and I” from a little show calledWicked); the late composer Marvin Hamlisch teaching students how to write a song by composing one right in front of them using a suggestion from a student for the title (“Stairs to Cloud Nine” featuring the line “I hope to see you all again, when we climb the stairs to Cloud Ten”); actor Brian Stokes Mitchell announcing he was to star on Broadway in a revival of Man of La Mancha, then saying he will be singing to the students for the first time in public the show’s big song “The Impossible Dream”); Kristin Chenoweth getting a rare, mid-show standing ovation after singing “Taylor the Latte Boy” and then starting to cry and saying, “Can you guys come to all my concerts?”); husband and wife actors Lauren Kennedy and Alan Campbell performing when the power went out in the school, asking the audience if they wanted them to continue, and singing songs for another 30 minutes by a combination of emergency light and the spotlight of a single video camera). Of course, an ongoing highlight is when actors share their most embarrassing moments on stage, a hilarious list of costume malfunctions, scenery malfunctions, stumbles, and missed cues.
All of this makes ArtSpeak! not just educational, but by design, great fun. Shugoll Research feels each event must be engaging and memorable. But the educational issues are abundant: the importance of staying in school to maximize your skills (whatever your area of interest), the importance of following through on your dreams but realizing that you made need a “plan B” if you want to enter a field as competitive as the arts, the need to be well rounded in your education so you have diverse knowledge, the importance of preparation before any important event be it an audition, a class presentation or an exam and the fact that attending arts events can introduce you to people that are different than you and situations you might not encounter in your own life.
I think it’s clear how ArtSpeak! benefits the community and, particularly, students. But programs like this benefit the company as well. It helps engage staff, many of whom donate time to the program. It creates a sense of pride in the company, and an internal recognition that the arts are important. And it has created a positive image about Shugoll Research, which sometimes is the difference in winning a new contract. But for Shugoll Research, it starts with a passion to share something we love with a new generation.


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Meet Nash - a 2-year-old battling Hepatoblastoma. In April 2022, a large knot in Nash's side warranted a quick trip to his pediatrician and arecommendation for an x-ray or ultrasound. His CT scan shows four large tumors, and his blood results predict Hepatoblastoma or cancer within his liver.
Easter Sunday holds a liver biopsy and MRI, both crucial to determining a diagnosis and go-forward plan. His test results confirm the doctor's suspicions - Hepatoblastoma. During surgery, the surgeon found resection is not possible. One tumor is closer to the main blood vessel than expected - meaning it is unsafe to remove. The surgeon had to close him up without completing the resection. Nash needs a liver transplant.
In November 2022, Nash received a liver transplant and is now CANCER-FREE! The staff of Phoenix Children's hospital presented Nash with a stuffed liver toy and a celebratory walkout of the hospital. He is now at home with his new liver and family!

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In lieu of gifts for their inevitably spoiled baby, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are asking for donations to a Children’s Hospital. You’ve got to hand it to them, this is a thoughtful and classy move!
The hospital released this statement:
“Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago would like to extend its sincerest gratitude to Kim Kardashian and Kayne West for their thoughtfulness and support of the hospital. We wish them all the best in the upcoming arrival of their baby. Funds donated on behalf of Kardashian and West will be directed to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Fund which will help care for the most critically-ill babies and their families.”
Radar Online has a report that they are also asking for donations to The Skin Cancer Foundation or Mattel’s Children’s hospital instead of wedding gifts. They have apparently set the wedding date for after Kim gives birth, which will probably be in mid-June. According to reports Kim has been lying to the public about her due date. One of Kanye’s stipulations for the wedding that there will be no media, and photos from the wedding will not be sold.
Kanye recently deleted most of his Twitter posts to tweet “June Eighteen,” which now sounds like it could definitely be their wedding date. If so, it’s a little strange that he would do that since he’s so keen on keeping it private.

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