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A new report has found that when it comes to global car brands, Toyota now tops them all. ?
The study, released by Global BrandZ, found that with the rebound in car sales following the long recession, Toyota reclaimed its title from BMW as the top-raking automotive brand in the world. ??
The BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands report, which is based on data collected from the research company, Millward Brown, indicates that a slowdown in Europe impacted BMW?s earnings and was partially responsible for the change in the rankings.
Drawn from interviews with more than 1 million consumers and an analysis of each company?s business performance, the BrandZ study also suggests that Toyota?s increase in the rankings was likely attributed to the automaker addressing the quality issues following a rash of huge recalls in 2010.
The report, which also considers product sales in assessing the value of a company, also indicated that while car sales improved in some regions, they still remained lower than pre-recession levels.? ?
In the U.S., where year-on-year sales increased to 14.5 million cars, Ford was the country?s best-selling brand with US sales of 2.1 million cars.
General Motor?s Chevrolet brand came in second, selling 1.9 million cars. Volkswagen posted a 35 percent increase in sales, its third consecutive year of double-digit US unit growth.
Volkswagen?s Audi brand experienced its best year ever in the US, with sales growth of 19 percent, according to the report. Toyota?s U.S. sales climbed 26 percent and Honda?s 24 percent. Chrysler?s sales improved 39 percent. Korea?s Hyundai brand sold over 700,000 cars in the US.
The Global Z report states that an improvement and quality and more technology features like remote start was a driving factor with new vehicle purchases.
Turns out, that old "practice makes perfect" adage may be overblown.
New research led by Michigan State University's Zach Hambrick finds that a copious amount of practice is not enough to explain why people differ in level of skill in two widely studied activities, chess and music.
In other words, it takes more than hard work to become an expert. Hambrick, writing in the research journalIntelligence, said natural talent and other factors likely play a role in mastering a complicated activity.
"Practice is indeed important to reach an elite level of performance, but this paper makes an overwhelming case that it isn't enough," said Hambrick, associate professor of psychology.
The debate over why and how people become experts has existed for more than a century. Many theorists argue that thousands of hours of focused, deliberate practice is sufficient to achieve elite status.
Hambrick disagrees.
"The evidence is quite clear," he writes, "that some people do reach an elite level of performance without copious practice, while other people fail to do so despite copious practice."
Hambrick and colleagues analyzed 14 studies of chess players and musicians, looking specifically at how practice was related to differences in performance. Practice, they found, accounted for only about one-third of the differences in skill in both music and chess.
So what made up the rest of the difference?
Based on existing research, Hambrick said it could be explained by factors such as intelligence or innate ability, and the age at which people start the particular activity. A previous study of Hambrick's suggested that working memory capacity ? which is closely related to general intelligence ? may sometimes be the deciding factor between being good and great.
While the conclusion that practice may not make perfect runs counter to the popular view that just about anyone can achieve greatness if they work hard enough, Hambrick said there is a "silver lining" to the research.
"If people are given an accurate assessment of their abilities and the likelihood of achieving certain goals given those abilities," he said, "they may gravitate toward domains in which they have a realistic chance of becoming an expert through deliberate practice."
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Dr. Rohrer helped invent the scanning tunneling microscope, which made it possible to see individual atoms and move them around.
Paolo Soleri, who died last month at 93, transformed the way people imagine cities of the future. You've probably seen some of his concepts without realizing it. He even built an experimental city in Arizona, called Arcosanti. We've got a gallery of his drawings and designs, some of which have never been online before.
With his Arcosanti workshops and classes, Soleri popularized the idea of "arcology," a cross between architecture and ecology. The idea was that cities should reflect both human aspirations as well as the shape and needs of the Earth's environment. Often, like the image you see above, he imagined arcologies would be partly underground, or built into natural geological features of the landscape.
Soleri?s exhibition in 1970 at the Corcoran Museum in Washington DC ? and the concurrent publication of his landmark book, City in the Image of Man ? changed forever the global conversation about urban planning on our living planet. His term, ?Arcology? joining the words architecture and ecology to represent one whole system of understanding human life on the earth is meant to serve as the basis for that conversation.
Paolo Soleri?s ideas are embodied on the ground in the flowing forms of his architectural workshop Cosanti in Paradise Valley, (now an Arizona Historic Landmark) and in the continuing construction at Arcosanti, the urban laboratory on the high desert in central Arizona. There, to date over 7,000 students have participated in its construction. More than 50,000 architecture enthusiasts visit the site each year.
Soleri continued questioning and creating until his death. The theme of his last project, a series of collages entitled ?Then and Now?, juxtaposed his own signature forms with illustrations of life from antiquity. In this project Paolo Soleri attempted to capture the critical notion that we are constantly building on the past, on the work of countless generations that have preceded us on the earth. Our own work - and Soleri?s work especially - put into this context, might be a seed that takes many more generations to mature and complete.
In Soleri's visions below, you can see his ideas taking shape and flowering into Arcosanti. He tries to reflect the history of how humans have built cities in the Americas, but always looks to the future. One day, our carbon-negative cities may look like arcologies. Or maybe they will be radically different ? a transformation which is exactly the kind of thing Soleri would have loved.
Learn more about Soleri's work by visiting the Arcosanti website ? or by visiting Arcosanti itself, which is just 100 km north of Phoenix, Arizona.
MESA CITY - Higher Learning Complex. Photo Credit: Cosanti Foundation - Ivan Pintar
MESA CITY - GROUND VILLAGES. Photo Credit: Cosanti Foundation
MACRO COSANTI. Photo Credit: Cosanti Foundation
HEXAHEADRON Arcology Image Credit: Cosanti Foundation
NOVANOAH I Arcology Image Credit: Cosanti Foundation
BABEL IID Arcology Photo credit: Cosanti Foundation
ARCOSANTI. Photo credit: Cosanti Foundation
?3-D JERSEY? Photo Credit: Ivan Pintar
INDIA VILLAGE. 2 Suns Arcology Photo Credit: Cosanti Foundation
Original sketch of the ?HYPERBUILDING? Photo Credit: Cosanti Foundation
Original sketch of the ?HYPERBUILDING? Photo Credit: Cosanti Foundation
NUDGING SPACE Photo Credit: Tomiaki Tamura
SOLARE 3D rendering - Youngsoo Kim
LEAN LINEAR CITY connected to the larger node of NUDGING SPACE Arcology. 3D rendering: Youngsoo Kim
LEAN LINEAR CITY - ARTERIAL ARCOLOGY 3D Rendering: YoungSoo Kim
LEAN LINEAR CITY - ARTERIAL ARCOLOGY 3D Rendering: Tomiaki Tamura
ARCOSANTI 5000 model Photo Credit: Michael E. Brown
Scientists think they've created the smallest drops of liquid ever ? the size of only three to five protons.
The droplets were made inside the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, where particles are sped up to near light speed and then smashed together. When researchers collided protons with lead nuclei, they were surprised to find that the result was teeny,?tiny droplets of liquid.
These liquid drops are minuscule, measuring about one-100,000th the size of a hydrogen atom or one-100,000,000th the size of a typical virus. [Dazzling Droplets: Photos Reveal Mini Worlds]
The researchers consider the droplets liquid because they flow more like a liquid than like any other state of matter.
"With this discovery, we seem to be seeing the very origin of collective behavior," Vanderbilt University physicist Julia Velkovska said in a statement. "Regardless of the material that we are using, collisions have to be violent enough to produce about 50 subatomic particles before we begin to see collective, flowlike behavior," added Velkovska, who is a co-convener of the heavy-ion program of the Compact Muon Solenoid, the?LHC detector?where the droplets were made.
In fact, the droplets appear to be tiny bits of one of the hottest liquids known, called?quark-gluon plasma. This plasma, essentially a?soup of quarks and gluons?(the subatomic ingredients of the protons and neutrons that make up atomic nuclei), has been made at LHC and other particle accelerators before.
When quark-gluon plasma was first discovered in the early 2000s?inside the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, physicists initially thought it would behave as a gas does. Instead, they found it had liquid properties. Scientists think this plasma represents the state of the whole universe just moments after it was born in the Big Bang, when the universe was extremely hot and dense.
The first artificial quark-gluon plasma was produced by smashing two gold nuclei together, and was later re-created with collisions of two lead nuclei. The CMS researchers wanted to test whether quark-gluon plasma could also be made by colliding a lead nucleus with a proton, which is 208 times less massive than lead; they expected these impacts would not be energetic enough to produce the plasma.
"The proton-lead collisions are something like shooting a bullet through an apple, while lead-lead collisions are more like smashing two apples together: A lot more energy is released in the latter," Velkovska said.
The results of the experiment were unexpected. In about 5 percent of collisions ? those that were most violent ? enough energy was released around the "bullet hole" where the proton smashed through the lead that some of the protons and neutrons there melted. This material seemed to form droplets of liquid about one-tenth the size of the quark-gluon plasma batches created by lead-lead and gold-gold impacts.
Quark-gluon plasma is still a mysterious form of matter, and the scientists can't be absolutely sure yet that what they saw were liquid droplets. Further tests should help differentiate between that interpretation and other possible explanations of the results, the researchers said.
Velkovska and her colleagues detailed their findings in a paper submitted to the journal Physics Letters B.
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STOCKHOLM (AP) ? Sweden became the first home team to win the world hockey championships in 27 years, beating Switzerland 5-1 on Sunday.
Vancouver Canucks star Henrik Sedin had two goals and an assist, and Buffalo Sabres goalie Jhonas Enroth made 26 saves to help Sweden become the first team to win the title on home ice since the Soviet Union in 1986. Switzerland earned its first medal in 60 years.
In the third-place game, the United States beat Finland 3-2 in a shootout for its first medal in nine years. Alex Galchenyuk scored back-to-back goals in the shootout for the Americans, and Craig Smith and Paul Stastny had first-period goals.
Ingo Rademacher and his "Dancing With the Stars" pro partner Kym Johnson.
Getting cut just before the finals is tough, but Ingo Rademacher didn?t see any other realistic option regarding his ejection from "Dancing With the Stars" Tuesday night.
?It would have been amazing to dance in the finals,? the soap hunk told reporters after the semifinals results show. ?But if we?d have gotten to the finals, then somebody would have been really upset because they all deserve a spot there.?
Rademacher said he would have stepped up to the plate if he had made it through, however.
?I would have switched into a whole other gear,? he mused. ?(Kym Johnson and I) would have shown some dances that would have proved that we deserved to be there.?
The former "General Hospital" star continued, ?In a way, I?m a little disappointed we didn?t get to do that, but I?m more relieved. I?m 80 percent relieved because my knees are really hurting me! I need to sit down!?
On a more serious note, Rademacher?s proud of his accomplishment with the show.
?I learned you can really do anything if you spend enough time at it,? he said. ?I couldn?t believe that every time I?d come back (after being called safe), and on Wednesday, Kym would show me a new routine. I?d think there?s no way I can do that. And then, I?d end up doing it by Monday. You surprise yourself. You do it and it?s amazing.?
Rademacher credits Johnson with him making it as far as he did in the competition.
?We didn?t waste a lot of time fighting and bickering,? he explained. ?Kym always came prepared. That was really, really good. Our rehearsals were well-organized.?
Rademacher has no immediate plans to return to "GH," where he played heartthrob Jasper Jacks on and off since the mid-90s.
For now, he?s set to hit the waves in Hawaii in a 32-mile stand-up paddle board race.
?I?m going back to train for that for two months,? he said. ?If (?GH?) calls after that, I?m always ready to come back.?
Emergency personnel continue search efforts to locate people in the destroyed Rancho Brazos neighborhood of Granbury, Texas, Thursday, May 16, 2013. Ten tornadoes touched down in several small communities in North Texas overnight, leaving at least six people dead, dozens injured and hundreds homeless. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Paul Moseley) MAGS OUT; (FORT WORTH WEEKLY, 360 WEST); INTERNET OUT
Emergency personnel continue search efforts to locate people in the destroyed Rancho Brazos neighborhood of Granbury, Texas, Thursday, May 16, 2013. Ten tornadoes touched down in several small communities in North Texas overnight, leaving at least six people dead, dozens injured and hundreds homeless. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Paul Moseley) MAGS OUT; (FORT WORTH WEEKLY, 360 WEST); INTERNET OUT
This aerial photo shows homes that were damaged by Wednesday's tornado in Granbury, Texas on Thursday, May 16, 2013. Ten tornadoes touched down in several small communities in Texas overnight, leaving at least six people dead, dozens injured and hundreds homeless. Emergency responders were still searching for missing people Thursday afternoon. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, G.J.McCarthy) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT; TV OUT; INTERNET USE BY AP MEMBERS ONLY; NO SALES
An empty driveway leads to what was once a home, with only the slab left of a house swept off of its foundation by a tornado, in Granbury, Texas, Thursday, May 16, 2013. A rash of tornadoes slammed into several small communities in North Texas overnight, leaving at least six people dead, dozens more injured and hundreds homeless. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Paul Moseley) MAGS OUT; (FORT WORTH WEEKLY, 360 WEST)
Crushed autos sit amid the rubble as emergency personnel continue search efforts to locate people in that are unaccounted for in the destroyed Rancho Brazos neighborhood of Granbury, Texas, Thursday, May 16, 2013. Ten tornadoes touched down in several small communities in North Texas overnight, leaving at least six people dead, dozens injured and hundreds homeless. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Paul Moseley) MAGS OUT; (FORT WORTH WEEKLY, 360 WEST); INTERNET OUT
Hood County Commissioner Steve Berry, center, talks to the media before the bus tour of the ravaged residential area Rancho Brazos in Granbury, Texas, Thursday May 16, 2013. Ten tornadoes touched down in several small communities in North Texas overnight, leaving at least six people dead, dozens injured and hundreds homeless. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram,Paul Moseley) MAGS OUT; (FORT WORTH WEEKLY, 360 WEST);
GRANBURY, Texas (AP) ? Ten tornadoes touched down in several small communities in North Texas overnight, leaving at least six people dead, dozens injured and hundreds homeless. Emergency responders were still searching for missing people Thursday afternoon.
The National Weather Service gave a preliminary estimate of Wednesday night's violent system, saying a tornado in Granbury had wind speeds between 166 mph and 200 mph. Other tornadoes damaged nearby Cleburne and Millsap.
Granbury, about 40 miles southwest of Fort Worth, bore the brunt of the damage, as the exceptionally powerful tornado tore through two neighborhoods around 8 p.m. Wednesday.
Resident Elizabeth Tovar said fist-sized hail heralded the tornado's arrival and prompted her and her family to hide in their bathroom.
"We were all, like, hugging in the bathtub and that's when it started happening. I heard glass shattering and I knew my house was going," Tovar said, shaking her head. "We looked up and ... the whole ceiling was gone."
The weather service's preliminary storm estimate was an EF-4, based on the Fujita tornado damage scale. An EF-5 is the most severe.
Those who saw the destruction in the city's Rancho Brazos subdivision, which has a significant number of Habitat for Humanity homes, described it as unrecognizable.
Hood County Commissioner Steve Berry said Thursday he couldn't tell one street from another ? some homes were ripped from foundations, others reduced to rubble. Half of one home was torn away while the other half was still standing, glasses and vases intact on shelves. Trees and debris were scattered across yards, and fences were flattened.
Ruby Derrick, a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity, said the organization has built nearly 70 homes in Hood County, with the majority of those in Rancho Brazos.
Authorities said about 110 homes were either destroyed or damaged in the subdivision; about 40 of the damaged homes were built by Habitat. They said other areas in the county had not yet been assessed.
Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds described the overnight hunt for bodies in Granbury.
"Some were found in houses. Some were found around houses," Deeds said. "There was a report that two of these people that they found were not even near their homes. So we're going to have to search the area out there."
Seven people remain unaccounted and authorities hope they are with family or friends, Deeds said at a Thursday morning news conference. Emergency responders were working to identify the six adult bodies that had been found, he said.
He said 37 injured people were treated at hospitals.
Harold Brooks, a meteorologist at the weather service's severe storm lab in Norman, Okla., said May 15 is the latest into the month that the U.S. has had to wait for its first significant tornadoes of the year.
Brooks said he would expect 2013 to be one of the least lethal tornado years since the agency started keeping records in 1954.
Utilities said about 20,000 homes and businesses in the region were without power early Thursday.
Another tornado cut a mile-wide path through Cleburne on Wednesday, storm spotters told the National Weather Service. The weather service said Wednesday that it was estimated as an EF-3, which has winds between 136 mph and 165 mph.
Cleburne Mayor Scott Cain said Thursday morning that no one was killed or seriously hurt in the courthouse city of about 30,000 that's some 25 miles southeast of Granbury. Nine people suffered minor injuries, and upward of 150 homes were damaged and another 50 were destroyed.
He described the storm as "bizarre" because severe winds kept shifting in different directions.
Cleburne resident Derrek Grisham was going through his mother's damaged home Thursday, salvaging items before the home is likely torn down.
Grisham, 26, said after the storm passed through, he ran to his mother's nearby home to check on her and his 10-year-old son, who was staying with her.
"I had to kick in the front door to get them out," he said, explaining the two had taken shelter in a bathtub.
The roof of the home was torn away and he said her belongings were a jumbled mass, but that Catholic crucifixes stayed in place on the living room wall.
Another tornado hit the small town of Millsap, about 40 miles west of Fort Worth. Parker County Judge Mark Kelley said roof damage was reported to several houses and a barn was destroyed, but no injuries were reported.
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Stengle reported from Cleburne and Granbury, Texas. Associated Press writers Diana Heidgerd and Terry Wallace in Dallas; AP videographer John Mone in Granbury, Texas; and freelance photographer Mike Fuentes contributed to this report.
Floyd Mayweather Jr., right, poses for photos with his father, Floyd Mayeather Sr. after defeating Robert Guerrero by unanimous decision in a WBC welterweight title fight, Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Floyd Mayweather Jr., right, poses for photos with his father, Floyd Mayeather Sr. after defeating Robert Guerrero by unanimous decision in a WBC welterweight title fight, Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Floyd Mayweather Jr. is the highest-earning athlete in American sports for the second straight year.
The boxer is projected to make $90 million in 2013 according to Sports Illustrated's annual list released Wednesday. Miami Heat star LeBron James is a distant second at $56.5 million.
New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees vaults into the rankings at No. 3 at $47.8 million thanks to a new contract signed before last season. Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers is fourth at just under $47 million.
Tiger Woods is fifth with $40.8 million, his lowest spot since SI started the list in 2004. He was No. 1 through 2011.
The top 50 include 25 baseball players, 13 basketball players and eight football players, with no female athletes for the fifth consecutive year.
The estimates combine salary, winnings and endorsements.
NEW YORK (AP) ? Some highlights of CBS' moves in its schedule for next season.
WHAT'S NEW: Not too much. CBS has such a successful lineup ? tops in total viewers and advertiser-favored young adults this season ? that it is bringing aboard just eight new series. But it is toying with the limited-series format that looks like broadcasting's flavor du jour next year. CBS' experiment: "Hostages" and Intelligence," which will get shorter consecutive runs in the 10 p.m. Eastern time slot on Mondays.
WHAT'S GONE: "CSI: N.Y.," ''Vegas," ''Golden Boy" and "Rules of Engagement."
BIG MOVE: Keeping sitcom "Mike & Molly" and its red-hot movie star, Melissa McCarthy ("Bridesmaids," ''Identity Thief"), off the air until midseason. Network executives said they love the show, are thrilled about McCarthy's summer flick "The Heat" with Sandra Bullock, but wanted the flexibility of having 22 episodes of fresh product available later in the season to avoid rerun fatigue for viewers.
STAR POWER: Robin Williams, who gained fame with "Mork & Mindy" in the late 1970s, will return to sitcom life in "The Crazy Ones," starring opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") as his daughter and ad-agency partner. Another big name involved: David E. Kelley, who's shifting from his brand of hour-long dramedy ("Ally McBeal," ''Boston Legal") to the half-hour format.
QUOTE: "I don't care if you bow to the gods of demographics ? that's a huge victory," CBS Corp. CEO Leslie Moonves said of CBS' expansive lead in total viewers over competitors ABC, NBC and Fox. While CBS has long touted its focus on that number over advertiser-favored young adults, its executives acknowledged they are making a stronger play for youth next season. One example: "We Are Men," with Kal Penn and Jerry O'Connell among four newly single men sharing temporary digs.
AMAZING FACTOID: The Tuesday-night lineup of "NCIS," ''NCIS: Los Angeles" and "Person of Interest" is the first time since 1982 that a network has had TV's three top-rated dramas on a single night, said Kelly Kahl, CBS prime-time senior executive vice president. The last trio to accomplish that feat: CBS' "The Dukes of Hazzard," ''Dallas" and "Falcon Crest."
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and several local partners will host a free youth fishing event at the McNary Channel Ponds near Hermiston on Saturday, May 18 from 10 a.m. to noon. The event is open to all youth 2 to 14 years old. The ponds will be open for families starting at noon.
?This is a great opportunity for kids to get started fishing,? said Bill Duke, ODFW district fish biologist. ?The McNary ponds provide good access for young anglers, the pond is well-stocked throughout the season and there will be lots of volunteers to help the kids get started.?
ODFW will provide loaner fishing rods and reels, tackle and bait for youth that don?t have their own gear.
In addition to ODFW, other event sponsors include the Army Corps of Engineers.
Under Oregon Sport Fishing Regulations anglers ages 13 and under can fish for free while those 14-17 will need to have a $9 juvenile angling license, available at license outlets. Licenses will not be sold on site the day of the event.
To get to McNary Channel Ponds from Hwy 370 in Umatilla, turn north onto Brownell Blvd. (just west of I-82). Proceed to W. Third St. Turn right on Third St. and proceed through the I-82 underpass. The ponds are north of Third St. between I-82 and McNary Dam. There are several well-signed vehicle access points.
For more information about this event, call Bill Duke, ODFW district fish biologist, at (541) 276-2344.
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I live in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, in Eastern Canada. I work 7 days a week and adhere to the laws to the best of my ability. On the weekends I get up at 6AM and travel into the city (Halifax) to operate a small booth at a weekend market. Among other things I sell swords and knives, all of which are shipped into the country legitimately. I pay all duties, brokerage, taxes, etc. Customs is able to check these items at will, and they usually do.
On April 13th, 2013 three police officers entered the weekend market and told me that my knives ?looked to be prohibited.? They had no search warrant but removed me from the booth and proceeded to search from one end to the other. I was patted down and my SA pocket knife (legal) was taken. I told them I use it to open packages, boxes, and such. The knives in question, that got their manties in a bunch, were 23 folding knives with a spring assisted opening, 9 novelty pocket knives with a 2? blade in which the handle looks like a bullet, 2 Cane Swords, and 13 Kubotans.
In the end they left with 40 items, all of which they deemed weapons. I advised them the law indicates a knife or any other object is not a weapon unless it can be proven it is meant to be used as a weapon. I told them the knives were not prohibited weapons as they are listed in the CBSA (Canada Border Services Agency ? basically out ATF and homeland Security wrapped up into one) Memorandum D19-13-2 as being EXEMPT from being prohibited.
They confiscated the 40 items and told me they would be in contact to let me know if or what the charges would be. They walked out the door with $1,600.00 worth of my products. That?s not just pocket money or mad money. That?s my mortgage payment, car payment, groceries, power bill, etc.
Over the next week I studied the Criminal Code of Canada, The CBSA (Federal Police Agency) Memorandum D19-13-2, ?and conducted research to ensure I had not broken the law. I spoke with 4 CBSA Agents, one of which is the Eastern Canada, weapons and prohibited weapons specialist. I also spoke with 2 criminal law attorneys. Both advised me that under these circumstances, there is no way I could be charged.
Relieved, I contacted the officer in charge and advised him of the law.?I sent them copies of the Criminal Code with the related laws highlighted, a copy of the D19-13-2 with the related parts highlighted, and even a copy of a case file from Ontario where the exact same thing happened to a man and the Judge found that the man did not do anything illegal and that the knives were in fact not illegal.
I still had not been charged with anything at this point. People tell me to leave it alone, but I am unable to. We?shouldn?t?live in a police state. If I allowed this to happen, what?s to stop them from walking into our homes and taking whatever they want?
The next day, I received an e-mail from the officer advising me that I was being charged and should turn myself in. I went into the station and was put in a cell. I was printed and photographed and placed in an interrogation room. An officer advised me of the charges, gave me a court date, and told me that if I did not show up a warrant would be put out for my arrest.
The charges are as follows:
Concealed Weapon 90(1) CC ? refers to carrying a ?weapon?, prohibited device, concealed. I concealed nothing on me or in my shop. The knives were on a shelf behind my counter.
Possession of Prohibited Weapons 91(2) CC ? refers to unlawful possession of prohibited weapons. None of the items are prohibited under the Canadians Criminal Code and are actually listed as exempt from being prohibited in the CBSA D19-13-2. That said a knife in of itself is not by definition a weapon unless it is proven that this is its intended use.
Possession to Traffic 100(2) CC ? This one scares me as it appears that if the court somehow finds that these knives are prohibited it states that the minimum punishment is 3 years in prison.
I?m a 41-year-old who stands to lose everything.?If I end up with a criminal record because of a cop?s conscious disregard of the law, I will not be able to travel outside of the country for at least a decade after my probation, as these are indictable offenses. I could end up in prison for 3 to 10 years.
Honestly, I think this whole thing has happened because the cops are pissed off that I called him out on their bullshit. It has nothing to do with enforcement of the law for them. It has nothing to do with protecting the public.
Cops are corrupt, egotistical, megalomaniacs that for the most part border on sociopathic tendencies. They are corrupt and lie even when they know you haven?t done anything wrong. Cops are the real criminals. As far as I am concerned, 3 police officers committed armed robbery when they entered my store and stole my property. They simply used their uniforms and lies about the law as their cover.
I will now be aggressively promoting your organization and website. It?s terrible the things that people are subjected to in the name of ?the law?. But it?s nice to know that I?m not alone in standing up to it.
Ognjen Miljanic first from UH to be selected a Cottrell ScholarPublic release date: 14-May-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Lisa Merkl lkmerkl@uh.edu 713-743-8192 University of Houston
Chemist recognized for scientific research, dedication to teaching
HOUSTON, May 14, 2013 Ognjen Miljanic, assistant professor of chemistry, strives for innovation in both his research and teaching endeavors. That trait led to his selection as a 2013 Cottrell Scholar. Miljanic is the first University of Houston (UH) faculty member to receive this recognition and the only scholar of this year's 13 recipients from Texas.
The honor, awarded by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA), goes to early-career science educators in the physical sciences and related fields. Recipients receive $75,000 to further their research and educational programs.
Selection is highly competitive. Only about 10 percent of those who apply are approved by the RCSA's peer-review process. The Cottrell Scholar Program Award is one of several faculty awards recognized in the Top American Research Universities report as defining Tier One universities. The program strives to establish a network of scholar educators through their annual Cottrell Scholar Collaborative, a forum for sharing methods to improve undergraduate science education in American research universities and increase retention of undergraduate science majors.
"The yearly meetings focus on establishing educational collaborations that will help bring our initiatives to completion faster," Miljanic said. "It is a great honor to be part of the Cottrell Scholar Collaborative."
Proposals for the Cottrell Scholar Award cover research and education endeavors equally. Miljanic's proposal to RCSA included several educational initiatives. All of his ideas are based on his desire to enhance his students' educational experience, with a particular focus on the unique demographics of UH students. One activity involves "eLectures" designed to help the students enrolled in his large 5:30 p.m. organic chemistry class.
"Many of these students are commuters with full-time jobs, and their work sometimes requires them to miss a lecture or two," he said. "The recorded lectures approximate the classroom experience. They can listen in their free time at home as many times as they need. I encourage students not to miss lectures, but if they do, there is a back up."
Miljanic tapes the lectures ahead of class in a studio-like setting, dividing each eLecture into five to 10 concepts. This structure makes it easy for students to locate concepts they need to review. Each concept is cross-linked with related topics, both within the lecture and with external resources.
Another initiative involves building 3-D printed models to illustrate concepts in chemistry, such as potential energy surfaces and orbital interactions of aromaticity. He uses the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics 3-D printing facility to create the models.
"Some concepts are difficult to put on a blackboard," Miljanic said. "The 3-D models make the class more interactive. Students can touch them and pass them around."
On the research side of his proposal, Miljanic hopes to mimic nature by achieving "molecular self-sorting" in manmade mixtures of chemical compounds. Working on ways to better imitate nature's ability to manufacture many of the molecules necessary for life, Miljanic aims to apply these insights in the preparation of new molecules for use in sensing, separations and energy-relevant applications.
"Nature simultaneously makes hundreds of really complex molecules. For example, an orange tree doesn't shut down all other systems when it needs to make vitamin C. It makes it in parallel with glucose and many other things," he said. "I am working to translate this concept into a laboratory setting in order to make multiple value-added chemicals in parallel with each other in the same reaction flask."
His research is not designed to replicate nature but rather to make sophisticated synthetic molecules with applications in environmental analysis, energy-related research and basic chemical industry.
"Ognjen is truly dedicated to excellence in both his research and teaching," said David Hoffman, chairman of the chemistry department. "It is great to see his creativity and hard work recognized at the national level. My colleagues and I are very proud to have him on our faculty."
With an anticipated award start date of July 1 for the Cottrell award, Miljanic has been invited to attend the 2013 Cottrell Scholar conference "Connecting Educators, Building Communities" in Tucson, Ariz., July 10-12. The highly interactive conference gives scholars the opportunity to share their proposed educational activities with others, provides time for team building and the development of collaborative projects and offers a chance to engage with well-known speakers from a national perspective regarding possibilities for taking ideas to the next level.
Miljanic's past awards include a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and UH Teaching Excellence Award for Innovation in Instructional Technology, both awarded in 2012.
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About the University of Houston
The University of Houston is a Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university recognized by The Princeton Review as one of the nation's best colleges for undergraduate education. UH serves the globally competitive Houston and Gulf Coast Region by providing world-class faculty, experiential learning and strategic industry partnerships. Located in the nation's fourth-largest city, UH serves more than 39,500 students in the most ethnically and culturally diverse region in the country. For more information about UH, visit the university's newsroom at http://www.uh.edu/news-events/.
About the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
The UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, with 187 ranked faculty and more than 5,000 students, offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in the natural sciences, computational sciences and mathematics. Faculty members in the departments of biology and biochemistry, chemistry, computer science, earth and atmospheric sciences, mathematics and physics conduct internationally recognized research in collaboration with industry, Texas Medical Center institutions, NASA and others worldwide.
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For additional news alerts about UH, follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/UHNewsEvents and Twitter at http://twitter.com/UH_News.
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Ognjen Miljanic first from UH to be selected a Cottrell ScholarPublic release date: 14-May-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Lisa Merkl lkmerkl@uh.edu 713-743-8192 University of Houston
Chemist recognized for scientific research, dedication to teaching
HOUSTON, May 14, 2013 Ognjen Miljanic, assistant professor of chemistry, strives for innovation in both his research and teaching endeavors. That trait led to his selection as a 2013 Cottrell Scholar. Miljanic is the first University of Houston (UH) faculty member to receive this recognition and the only scholar of this year's 13 recipients from Texas.
The honor, awarded by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA), goes to early-career science educators in the physical sciences and related fields. Recipients receive $75,000 to further their research and educational programs.
Selection is highly competitive. Only about 10 percent of those who apply are approved by the RCSA's peer-review process. The Cottrell Scholar Program Award is one of several faculty awards recognized in the Top American Research Universities report as defining Tier One universities. The program strives to establish a network of scholar educators through their annual Cottrell Scholar Collaborative, a forum for sharing methods to improve undergraduate science education in American research universities and increase retention of undergraduate science majors.
"The yearly meetings focus on establishing educational collaborations that will help bring our initiatives to completion faster," Miljanic said. "It is a great honor to be part of the Cottrell Scholar Collaborative."
Proposals for the Cottrell Scholar Award cover research and education endeavors equally. Miljanic's proposal to RCSA included several educational initiatives. All of his ideas are based on his desire to enhance his students' educational experience, with a particular focus on the unique demographics of UH students. One activity involves "eLectures" designed to help the students enrolled in his large 5:30 p.m. organic chemistry class.
"Many of these students are commuters with full-time jobs, and their work sometimes requires them to miss a lecture or two," he said. "The recorded lectures approximate the classroom experience. They can listen in their free time at home as many times as they need. I encourage students not to miss lectures, but if they do, there is a back up."
Miljanic tapes the lectures ahead of class in a studio-like setting, dividing each eLecture into five to 10 concepts. This structure makes it easy for students to locate concepts they need to review. Each concept is cross-linked with related topics, both within the lecture and with external resources.
Another initiative involves building 3-D printed models to illustrate concepts in chemistry, such as potential energy surfaces and orbital interactions of aromaticity. He uses the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics 3-D printing facility to create the models.
"Some concepts are difficult to put on a blackboard," Miljanic said. "The 3-D models make the class more interactive. Students can touch them and pass them around."
On the research side of his proposal, Miljanic hopes to mimic nature by achieving "molecular self-sorting" in manmade mixtures of chemical compounds. Working on ways to better imitate nature's ability to manufacture many of the molecules necessary for life, Miljanic aims to apply these insights in the preparation of new molecules for use in sensing, separations and energy-relevant applications.
"Nature simultaneously makes hundreds of really complex molecules. For example, an orange tree doesn't shut down all other systems when it needs to make vitamin C. It makes it in parallel with glucose and many other things," he said. "I am working to translate this concept into a laboratory setting in order to make multiple value-added chemicals in parallel with each other in the same reaction flask."
His research is not designed to replicate nature but rather to make sophisticated synthetic molecules with applications in environmental analysis, energy-related research and basic chemical industry.
"Ognjen is truly dedicated to excellence in both his research and teaching," said David Hoffman, chairman of the chemistry department. "It is great to see his creativity and hard work recognized at the national level. My colleagues and I are very proud to have him on our faculty."
With an anticipated award start date of July 1 for the Cottrell award, Miljanic has been invited to attend the 2013 Cottrell Scholar conference "Connecting Educators, Building Communities" in Tucson, Ariz., July 10-12. The highly interactive conference gives scholars the opportunity to share their proposed educational activities with others, provides time for team building and the development of collaborative projects and offers a chance to engage with well-known speakers from a national perspective regarding possibilities for taking ideas to the next level.
Miljanic's past awards include a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and UH Teaching Excellence Award for Innovation in Instructional Technology, both awarded in 2012.
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About the University of Houston
The University of Houston is a Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university recognized by The Princeton Review as one of the nation's best colleges for undergraduate education. UH serves the globally competitive Houston and Gulf Coast Region by providing world-class faculty, experiential learning and strategic industry partnerships. Located in the nation's fourth-largest city, UH serves more than 39,500 students in the most ethnically and culturally diverse region in the country. For more information about UH, visit the university's newsroom at http://www.uh.edu/news-events/.
About the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
The UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, with 187 ranked faculty and more than 5,000 students, offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in the natural sciences, computational sciences and mathematics. Faculty members in the departments of biology and biochemistry, chemistry, computer science, earth and atmospheric sciences, mathematics and physics conduct internationally recognized research in collaboration with industry, Texas Medical Center institutions, NASA and others worldwide.
To receive UH science news via e-mail, sign up for UH-SciNews at http://www.uh.edu/news-events/mailing-lists/sciencelistserv/index.php.
For additional news alerts about UH, follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/UHNewsEvents and Twitter at http://twitter.com/UH_News.
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Angry Birds Friends (for Android, free) isn't a new episode in the avian-destruction-saga, since it debuted on Facebook last year. Instead, this edition is the mobile version of the same game. The main difference between this and other Angry Birds games is weekly tournaments in which you pit your scores against those of your friends. Unfortunately, Angry Birds Friends' pay-to-win structure dulls the overall experience.
Let Me Put Birds in My Calendar The gameplay is the same-old, familiar formula. You fling several birds at Pigs' constructions, in an attempt to snuff out the lives of the grubby, green monsters. There are no new avian creatures at your disposal, but you can now use buffs on every level to make the task easier. Those last either a single level or just for your next bird. You can make a bird tougher to break obstacles more easily, summon a scope that lets you see the aiming trail (which was always active in the previous versions), and cause a "birdquake" to topple the less-sturdy structures. You can resupply your stock of powerups with coins you get in game or purchase them with real money.
Three dollars nets you 440 coins, while ten nets 2,500. You can spend much more, and the coins rewarded scale in your favor. The powerups cost 14 coins each, and can be bought in bundles as well, but you won't get more by buying more at once. Three-staring a level will earn eight in-game coins, so it's hardly enough to keep up a stock of five kinds of powerups. You can receive mystery gifts from friends, which give you random amounts of coins ? ranging between three to 10.
Each week features six new levels. At the end of the week, Angry Birds Friends adds up ?scores from all levels to see who is the best among your Facebook buddies. The social aspect is fun, and the game's interface lets you easily see who's on top. New levels keep the game fresh, but the gameplay itself feels a little stale.?
Times Haven't Changed Angry Birds' physics remain unreliable and random. Rather than skill, luck plays a large role in achieving success. Too often, when you think you've made an accurate, skillful shot, you've flopped?and vice versa. The scoring system is as ridiculous as ever. You earn up to three stars for each level. Each unused birds grants 10,000 points, meaning you usually have to one-bird the level to get three stars. It's perplexing then, when to you just one bird and get two stars on some occasions?you have to make sure destroy lots of obstacles, but you don't know how by many points you've fallen short of a perfect mark because the game doesn't tell you.
The novel power system brings more depth, but it also discourages strategy and makes gameplay tedious. My strategy was to beat levels without powerups, but since some enhancements work only on a single bird, it became a trial-and-error process to select the right bird to powerup. Given the game's physics, this essentially turns into "Angry Birds Roulette." Some levels can be cleared by just causing the earthquake. You can also resort to summoning a Wingman, a giant bird. In effect, Angry Birds Friends becomes an ugly "pay-to-win" experience. Unless you have generous friends who play as frequently as you, you won't have enough coins to have powerups available?and if you don't, you will easily be outplayed. Additionally, now the game requires a constant internet connection. ?
You'll be Angry Instead Angry Birds Friends is the weakest entry in the saga. The powerups bring some freshness, but they end up transforming the experience into something worse. You may be pulled in by all the traditional Angry Birds elements, and the social aspects will definitely excite you. However, at its core, Angry Birds Friends is an unremarkable entry with a small, weekly level pack for what is now a pay-to-win game.
The M16A1 is an iconic gun, so it's no surprise that our favorite weapons designer Joerg Sprave fancied the idea of using one as the base of a crossbow. The result is rather terrifying.
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