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Just found the email in my "inbox on hold" folder - I have too many email rules!
At least you've found it!
So how much are the wheel opts ? Sequential box ?
Spec & upgrades sheets have arrived.
The latter is quite long.
Indeed it has. Now the fun begins!
No sequential price yet, but it is pneumatic.
Wheels can be standard, forged alloy or carbon. No price yet for forged, but carbon as already mentioned, just under 10K.
What is interesting is that for a change the chassis is satin black, rather than Silver as standard.
Just arrived, exactly as predicted really.
Can someone upload it to the clubroom?
Also, there's a likely delay between having the final cut and getting their web guys to publish them on the web site.
It does look like the website will need an update, regardless of the options. For example, the Spec lists and LSD, whereas that's an option. Also on the colour section it states it comes with a silver chassis, when apparently it doesn't.
Well my 12k budget didn't last long. Looks like I will have to increase my budget a bit. Still glad they brought out a 350bhp upgrade, shame it comes with sports exhaust which cannot be used on tracks due to noise, but still exactly the kind of prices I expected.
.... Still glad they brought out a 350bhp upgrade, shame it comes with sports exhaust which cannot be used on tracks due to noise, but still exactly the kind of prices I expected.
They need to be flexible about that, and explain the details. ASAP.
I don't want the sports exhaust (for track noise limits), but you cannot buy the remap and decat separately. All i want is the decat and remap but its not offered. No idea why a decat is not even on the list as an individual option.
If the remap is not suitable with the stock exhaust what do users of the 350 kit do on track? You can change the exhaust and even fit the cat, but you can't remap!
1) They will, and you'll save 330 quid.
2) They can't do 350bhp without the sports exhaust, too big a restriction on the exhaust gasses, or similar.
can someone post the options list and associated prices please?
If you can't get an extra 30BHP without the back box there is no point paying £2700ish for a remap and decat pipe.
Cat bypass pipes used to be circa £150 from Ariel. Which ever way you cut it you are looking at a ~£2,500 remap.


We can now produce and rewind electromagnet solenoids and small transformers.
We are able to produce coils that are upto 6" long and 4" o/d.
We can produce sample coils to your specifications or if you have a coil that is faulty or that you need copying, we are able to pull the windings off and then we can either wind new wire back onto the existing bobbin or we can use the information gathered from the old coil to create a new one.
Pictured below are some coils that we have recently repaired, the 2 plastic bobbins on the left were short circuit, when they were pulled down, 1 had burnt right through the plastic, the wire gauge and number of turns were noted down and a new one was made onto the 1 good remaining bobbin. The large coil in the middle has gone open circuit, this has yet to be taken apart and re-made, the bobbin is made from brass with bakelite ends, so it will just be a case of unwinding and then rewinding new wire back on.
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Saturday, February 17, 2018 – It's been seven days since we launched our website and already we have received many inquires requesting rentals! It's a great feeling knowing there is interest in what we do and we here at Ohio Time Machine Rental are working hard to answer every email. We have also used suggestions in the emails we received to better our site for our viewers! Facebook and Instagram are no exception as well in allowing our fans to offer suggestions in helping us improve our business so thank you all for that!
There is one question though that seems to be coming up among all the inquiries received that is not on our site which we are in the process of providing in the FAQ section and that question is how far we are willing to travel to.
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Q: Generalized linear model: link function Power(-1) During study our of statistics in my psychology coursework, we had to teach ourselves how to use generalized linear models in SPSS (only basic knowledge). For an exam we may also use generalized linear models and I want to try it, but I have two problems:

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*According to the distribution of the dependent variable, a normal distribution would fit our data best. A fellow student said that this is not logical, because our dependent variable is "time required to complete a task", so it cannot have negative values. Our lecturer wrote on his slides that a variable needs to be able to range from $-∞$ to $+∞$ to use the normal distribution.
In another post in these sides, I read that the normal distribution creates a predicted variable which fits these characteristics, so the original dependent variable doesn't need to fulfill those characteristics. Is that true?

*As I can't use the normal distribution, a Gamma distribution would fit best. According to SPSS's documentation, the canonical link function is Power(-1). I don't quite understand what I have to put in the box "Power" in SPSS. Do I have to fill in 0,05 if I want to work with a Power of 0,95 (so Power(-1) would mean 1-0,95) or do I have to fill in -1 as value of power (which seems quite unusual to me).

A: There are a few different concepts here.
First, no real dataset follows the normal distribution, but many are "close enough".  If the observed times in your data are not close to 0 then an approximate normal may be good enough.  If there are values near 0, or you want to make predictions where the conditions may push the normal model into making predictions below 0, then the normal is not appropriate and something like the gamma would be better.  But for gamma distributions with small standard deviation relative to the mean, the normal is often a reasonable approximation.
When the documentation refers to Power(-1) it is not the same concept of "power" meaning the probability of rejecting a false null hypothesis.  Rather, it is saying that the default for gamma glms is to model the data in terms of the reciprocal ($\frac1y$) of the response variable.  This can make sense for time data.  Instead of modeling time to finish the task you are modeling amount of task finished in 1 unit of time.

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Paul van Dyk at Nature One
(Saturday) August 06, 2016 - 15:00
Raketenbasis Pydna Nature One Festival - L225 (Map)
Paul van Dyk returns to NATURE ONE
Listen to Paul van Dyk on
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The Politics Of Dancing 3
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Over the last 20 years, the term 'electronic dance music' and the name 'Paul van Dyk' have become all but synonymous. In that time the Berliner has pioneered sub-genres and through his kinetic on-stage performances, entertained untold millions. He's written & produced certifiable genre anthems, smash albums and helmed one its most iconic labels. Selling out shows in every dance music-centric city on the planet, it's seen him break more than his share of world records, earn himself legions of fans and win numerous accolades in the process.
Paul is famous for circling the globe 16 times every year and entertaining in excess of 3 million music lovers as he goes. Playing upwards of 150 shows annually, he spends a full 2 months of every 12 in the air travelling to and from events. Among those have been his Barra Beach, Rio show, where on New Year's Eve 2008 he spun to an unprecedented, then record-setting 1.5 million-strong audience. He has twice been voted the world's No.1 DJ - a feat achieved to-date by just three other spinners. In 2014, he was aggregated as the #1 DJ Mag DJ of all time. As a producer PvD (as he's known to fans) has achieved similar success. In 1994 he released 'For An Angel', a track that 20 years after it was recorded was hailed as the 8th greatest dance track of all time by Mixmag. Van Dyk has, and continues to be a regular film & game score contributor, which has resulted in numerous notable OST credits. They have included his rework of Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer's 'A Poor Choice of Words' for The Dark Knight soundtrack and 'Still Alive' for EA's groundbreaking Mirror's Edge game. He's also owner of one electronic music's most outstanding remixographies, with his hallmark remix sound being applied to acts like U2, Depeche Mode & New Order, as well as acts as diverse as Madonna and industrial metal rockers Rammstein. His most recent album (Paul's 7th) 'The Politics Of Dancing 3' met with major press acclaim in 2015, spawning a run of Beatport #1 singles.
Throughout his career PvD's picked up many coveted nominations and awards. Among those are the illustrious Landesverdienstorden (Berlin's Medal of Honour, given in recognition of his work combatting social injustice), a string of IDMAs, an MTV's Chiuku (agent of change) award, the Mexican live show award Lunas Del Auditorio and Mixmag's Man of the Year accolade.
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A disturbed man having an animated conversation with himself while wielding two knives was nabbed near a Brooklyn synagogue Tuesday — sparking fears online that an ant-Semitic attack took place, police said.
The man was arrested at E. 22nd St. and Ave. S in Midwood — close to the Breit Shaul U Miriam synagogue after people saw him and called 911 around 9 a.m., cops said.
A home security video released by the website Breaking 911 shows the man walking by with a blade in each hand. He repeatedly raises the knives as he mutters to himself, the video shows.
The man never threatened anyone, make anti-Semitic remarks and never attempted to go into the house of worship, but people in the neighborhood took to twitter and erroneously claimed the man was busted while trying to stab someone in the temple.
The man was taken to Coney Island Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, cops said. No charges were immediately filed.


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Cycling increased again in Utrecht
The people of Utrecht are very satisfied with cycling in their city and they continue to cycle more every year. Cycling increased with five percent last year, while the number of car trips in the city remained the same. Since, however, the population is growing rapidly, car use in Utrecht decreased relatively. These new figures were published earlier this month by the city of Utrecht.
The intersection of Vredenburg (bottom and right), Lange Viestraat (top) and Sint Jacobsstraat (left) from above. This intersection is unsual with the one-way diagonal crossing. It was created to let people go from the one-way cycle paths alongside Lange Viestraat to the bi-directional path on Vredenburg. Some people also cycle straight-on: Vredenburg has a one-way cycle path too. It depends on where you want to go later which one of the cycle tracks is more convenient.
In a city where 96 percent of all 352,941 residents own at least one bicycle, which they use for 60 percent of all trips to visit the city centre, it is not so strange that you can watch an intersection in that city centre and see a lot of cycling. Almost exactly five years ago I had shown you the intersection at the edge of the Vredenburg square from above, filmed from an office building. The street was being reconstructed at the time. Clarence Eckerson from StreetFilms in New York visited Utrecht last week and I showed him a bit of Utrecht one afternoon, together with Rebecca Albrecht and Paul Larrabee, Americans who live in Utrecht for about two years now. The four of us even got "stuck" (for all of at least 2 minutes) in a cycle traffic jam. A day later Clarence went up to the second floor of a department store and filmed this very intersection – which is now finished obviously – from a restaurant window. The short clip drew a lot of attention, including from someone who lives in an apartment on the other side of the street. He has a view on the same place from his balcony (so no glass in the way!) and as an answer he posted his own clip on Twitter. I immediately jumped in, because I knew there are images of this intersection from almost that same location from 1968 and I saw potential for a video comparing the situations. Long story short: I was very kindly invited to film from the 5th floor balcony of one of my followers. Clarence was also welcome to do that, had he not already been in Amsterdam to interview people on his last day of this year's Netherlands trip.
I cycled with three Americans in Utrecht last week. Rebecca Albrecht and Paul Larrabee who both live in Utrecht and Clarence Eckerson from New York (picture Clarence Eckerson).
There are no private cars allowed in this particular street. It has been like this since 1996. From then on this street has grown to become the busiest cycleway in the Netherlands. Before it was closed to private motor traffic this was the main east-west corridor through the city. I published a post about the history of this corridor long ago already. Motor traffic now needs to go around the core of the city centre. In most other places cars are allowed and the people in Utrecht do use their cars. While the ownership of bicycles is 96 percent per person (or 2.9 bicycles per household), car ownership remained stable at the much lower percentage of 68 percent per household. People living in the 32 percent of households which do not own a car may cycle, but car sharing is also becoming more common in Utrecht. The number of shared cars increased by 31% to over 3,300, which means that Utrecht has the highest car share percentage per capita in the Netherlands. The number of private electric cars increased as well with 88% to 3,800 vehicles. There is a total of 5,250 electric vehicles in Utrecht, which is about 3% of the total number of vehicles. In 2018, a lot of people came to Utrecht by car but they used one of the four parking lots at the edge of the city to then go to the city centre by public transport. The city sold well over 210,000 tickets for this system last year. While the amount of car trips has remained the same in absolute numbers, car use decreased relatively because the number of residents is increasing considerably in Utrecht, which is the fastest growing city in the Netherlands.
When you compare the intersection in 2019 to the situation in 1968 (below) only one of the four corner buildings stayed the same; the curved facade of the hotel on the right hand side. The facade on the lower left side was being constructed in 1968, but is now being reverted to the situation from before 1968. You can see the scaffolding partly built over the cycleway. The building on the top left hand side was built in the 1980s and that facade has been reconstructed from 2015 on.
The intersection in 1968 as filmed from the former Jaarbeursgebouw (Convention Centre) on Vredenburg. At that time – and until 1996 – this was very much a main route for motor traffic. On the left the new facade of the C&A building was almost finished. You can clearly see a temporary workmen's hut built over the cycleway. The department store and corner building on the left hand side were demolished in the 1970s. Still from a film shot by H.W. Gomersbach, CC BY 4.0, Utrecht City Archives.
These new figures can all be found in the Mobility Monitor 2019 that the municipality of Utrecht published on 8 May 2019. The city uses this annual survey together with permanently installed traffic counters to monitor its mobility policies. With these policies the city aims to contribute to a healthy, safe and attractive city. One of the main points is to reduce the amount of through motor traffic from the city streets by making them less attractive to through traffic. I have given you a few examples of that before, most noteworthy the reconstructions of Paardenveld, 't Goylaan and Croeselaan. However, the city is not completely satisfied yet with the results of such projects. The amount of through traffic on urban connecting roads is still considerable with more than 40 percent on average. Floating car data shows (among other sources) that also, on average, more than 30 percent of road users do not choose the nearest approach road to leave or enter the city. This means that there is still more through traffic in the city streets than necessary. Therefore, the municipality will keep working on measures to further limit through traffic to ensure a better living environment for residents. Fewer cars will mean decreased levels of air pollution and noise and also that Utrecht will be better able to reach its goal to create a liveable and accessible city.
The latest modal split for Utrecht. From the Mobility Monitor 2019 by the city of Utrecht (translated by me).
Let's zoom in on how happy the people in Utrecht are with cycling. The bicycle is the most commonly used mode of transport within the city: 47 percent of the residents take the bicycle to a destination within Utrecht. Especially for visits to the city centre the bicycle has been the most popular means of transport for years. In the past year, the popularity of the bicycle increased slightly. In 2018, 60 percent of all Utrecht residents usually went by bike to the city centre. In 2017 this was 58 percent. Especially from Leidsche Rijn (51%) the bicycle was used more often in the past year than in 2017 (43%). People from that new part of the city seemed to have found the Dafne Schippersbrug, which will mostly offer them the shortest route to the city centre. The residents living east of the city centre use the bicycle most often when visiting that city centre (80%). Among the residents of the city centre itself (31%) and Vleuten-De Meern (30%), the bicycle is least popular to do this. Not surprisingly, 66% of city centre residents walk the short distance. People from Vleuten-De Meern (for which the distance to the centre is longest of all neighbourhoods) most often choose public transport (57%).
Utrecht residents are generally positive about the cycle paths in their own neighbourhood (70%), with some variations in the different parts of the city. Residents of the inner city are least enthusiastic about the cycle paths in their neighbourhood (55% is satisfied). This could very well have to do with how busy those cycleways are in the centre. Residents of Vleuten-De Meern (79%) and Leidsche Rijn (84%) are relatively often pleased with their local cycleways. There are also downsides to the success of cycling. One in five people in Utrecht (19%) say they are often annoyed by parked bicycles near their homes. This is primarily considered a problem in the city centre (38%). In Leidsche Rijn (7%) and Vleuten-De Meern (4%), parked bicycles in the residential streets are clearly less challenging than in the rest of Utrecht.
The rainbow crossing was first painted in July 2013 for the local gay pride celebrations in Utrecht. Some people complain that a zebra crossing needs to have white stripes to make it legally a zebra crossing. That is true. But Utrecht does not combine zebra crossings with traffic signals. As such this is not a zebra. You can clearly see the white dashed lines on the outside. That is the legal crossing without priority for pedestrians. The rainbow colours are just decoration. Utrecht has decided to make this crossing permanent and that was a first for the Netherlands.
In the city centre there are more challenges regarding bicycle parking. While in 2017 79 percent of the people in Utrecht were positive about the bicycle parking facilities (excluding the station), in 2018 this percentage decreased to 74 percent. When it comes to parking at the central railway station the figures are better. No less than 85 percent of the Utrecht residents state that they are satisfied with the guarded bicycle parking facilities there. This is a slight increase compared to 2017 (82%). The number of bicycle parking places increased considerably in 2018 with the opening of the third big facility in April.
Traffic safety in Utrecht is slightly improving. The number of recorded crashes on the city's streets dropped by 8% (with 156) to 1,926 in 2018. This decrease is relatively larger than the average decrease for the country and especially than the other larger cities. A total of 107 fewer people were injured in 2018. The number of traffic fatalities (for all types of traffic combined) is so low that it fluctuates considerably, in the past 5 years between 3 and 7. (2018, 7; 2017, 3; 2016, 7; 2015, 7; 2014, 4)
Finally there is some good news about the intersection in the video. The Utrecht alderman for traffic replied to my tweet that she was pleased to announce that the traffic light phases of this intersection (and some others) had been reviewed that week. She joked that the "stop-light guys" were able to find a few more seconds in the cycles at this intersection, that could be added to the green time for cycling. Which is excellent news!
This week's video: a look at the intersection of
Vredenburg/Lange Viestraat/Sint Jacobsstraat
filmed during the evening rush hour on Thursday 23 May 2019.
All figures from the transport monitor can be found (in Dutch) on the city's website.
5 comments on "Cycling increased again in Utrecht"
Great post, Mark. Very informative text and spliced videos. 1968 just looks so crazy for a Dutch city, just so hard to imagine it was ever like that ie like every city in Australia still is.
Would like to know more about how the Utrecht municipality got around with the legal requirement for white zebra crossing and made the rainbow crossing permanent, looking forward with thanks 🙂
As I explain in the post: the rainbow crossing is not a zebra crossing. It is a crossing without priority and those only require white dashed lines on the outside of the crossing. If you look at the rainbow crossing you can see those white dashed lines on the outside. The law doesn't state that you cannot have bright colours in between, so the crossing is a legal crossing, just not a zebra.
Utrecht doesn't combine zebra crossings with traffic lights because of conflicting priority rules. Namely: when you have a red light you don't have priority as a pedestrian and with a green light you do? That is not clear enough. Especially since you already have a free road with a green light anyway. But other municipalities do combine zebra's with lights, so that is also confusing…
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Its a bit a pity that also the modal split for walking decreased. And there probably is a strong competition between public transport and cycling. Rental bikes like Swapfiets are immensely popular amidst students.
Very cool article! Would you be interested in posting a shorter version of it on a new English language website we're creating called The Utrecht Hub?
This entry was posted on 29 May 2019 by Bicycle Dutch in Original posts and tagged bicycle culture, figures, Utrecht, watching people cycling.
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Here are a few of our favorite walks, plus a map of all the trails around Lebanon, Oregon. And see what we're planning down the road!
The trail crosses open park land at Cheadle Lake Park then goes along and between the Santiam Canal and Lake on top of a raised berm that leads to the north trailhead at River Road.
Trail surface: Paved 10- and 12-foot-wide, fully accessible trail.
Take Highway 20 southeast out of Lebanon for ¼ mile past the stoplight near Walmart. Turn left onto Weirich Drive. Cheadle Lake Park is on the left.
Where to park: Turn left from Weirich Drive into the parking area.
This trailhead is marked with a kiosk a few feet north of the parking area trail entrance.
You can access the trail from the north. From Main Street turn east onto Russell Drive at the Les Schwab Tire Center. Travel .92 miles, where you will see a paved parking area on the right. This is the north trailhead parking area of Cheadle Lake Park, with access to the boat launch ramp for the Cheadle Lake Water Trail. There is a trailhead sign and map there.
The trail crosses the north side of Lebanon from east to west. It meanders along stretches of the Albany Santiam Canal, Marks Slough and the South Santiam River and also passes by the Veterans Home, Boulder Falls Hotel, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital and a historic old mill water tower. You can download and print the map below.
Distance: A little over 3 miles each way.
Trail surface: Paved, 10- and 12-foot-wide, fully accessible trail. Note that one short section of the trail along highway is currently surfaced with cedar chips and will be paved when the medical campus is further developed.
This trail has many access points. To access the mid point of the trail travel north from the intersection of Main and Wheeler Street by Ixtapa restaurant and turn right into the Lebanon Community Hospital parking lot.
Where to park: Park near the trailhead in the parking lot.
If you plan to walk east, the trail is between the two large parking areas in the southeast corner of Lebanon Hospital. If you plan to walk west, the trail begins at the intersection of Highway 20 and Mullins Drive, which is the south roadway entrance to the hospital.
Towards the east, the trail encompasses several other trail sections including the Dr. Thad Nelson Trail, Had Irvine Park Trail, and the Marks Slough Trail loop.
Towards the west, walk past the Lebanon Hospital Highway 20 and walk north to cross at a protected pedestrian crosswalk. Continue north to Reeve's Parkway Trail and then to Hansard Avenue where the paved trail turns into a 12-foot-wide walkway on the east side of the road.
The trail meanders along the banks of the slow flowing Marks Slough and leads to the banks of the South Santiam River. The two trails are separated by Tennessee Road. A looped walk combines both trail sections.
Distance: 2.1 miles for the full loop, consisting of the west section (1.2 miles), and east section (.9) miles.
Trail type: Paved, fully accessible, 10 to 12 foot wide.
How to get there: From the intersection of Main Street and Wheeler Street travel east .4 mile on Wheeler St. Had Irvine Park and a small trailhead parking area are on the left, immediately after crossing over the Santiam Canal bridge. A larger trailhead parking area is an additional .4 mile on the right. Park in either parking lot to enter the loop at a different point.
Trailhead: The Had Irvine trailhead begins at the north side of the trailhead parking area. The Tennessee Road trailhead begins at the north side of the Tennessee Road parking area.
Options: The west section of the trail meanders along the banks of the slow flowing Marks Slough. You can access the west trail from a trailhead in Had Irvine Park and at the trailhead on the east side of Tennessee Road. Access the east trail section from the Tennessee Road trailhead parking area. The east trail passes through an open field and stands of trees while leading to an overlook at the South Santiam River.
The trail meanders along the Santiam Canal and goes by the historic old mill water tower. The trail starts at the intersection of Highway 20 and Mullins Drive, crosses the Santiam Canal Bridge on Industrial Way, and ends at North Wheeler Street.
Trail type: Paved, fully accessible, 10-12 feet wide.
How to get there: From the intersection of Main and Wheeler Street by Ixtapa restaurant, travel north on Route 20 and turn right into the Lebanon Community Hospital parking lot.
Trailhead: The trail is between the two large parking areas in the southeast corner of Lebanon Hospital. The trail begins at the intersection of Highway 20 and Mullins Drive, which is the south roadway entrance to the hospital.
A short trail detour along North Williams Street and then Wheeler Street can be taken to connect with the paved Marks Slough Trail System.
In addition, you can use the connecting trail between the two parking lots and go west and then north. This leads north past the Lebanon Hospital to a protected pedestrian crosswalk for Highway 20. Continue north to Reeve's Parkway Trail and then to Hansard Avenue where the paved trail turns into a 12-foot-wide walkway on the east side of Hansard Avenue.


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'He was an absolute monster': Mississippi researchers share snapping turtle finds
One alligator snapping turtle weighed 117 pounds. "The big ones, I wouldn't doubt if they hit you right they could take a hand off," says researcher.
'He was an absolute monster': Mississippi researchers share snapping turtle finds One alligator snapping turtle weighed 117 pounds. "The big ones, I wouldn't doubt if they hit you right they could take a hand off," says researcher. Check out this story on app.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/11/alligator-snapping-turtles-mississippi-researchers-usm/1418178001/
Brian Broom, Mississippi Clarion Ledger Published 12:45 p.m. ET June 11, 2019 | Updated 1:50 p.m. ET June 11, 2019
University of Southern Mississippi graduate student Gabbie Berry captures video of fellow graduate student Luke Pearson as he catches a 36-pound alligator snapping turtle while they research the population of alligator snappers. Brian Broom
JACKSON, Miss. – A pair of University of Southern Mississippi graduate students recently made headlines with the capture of a 62.8-pound alligator snapping turtle in southern Mississippi, but that turtle pales in comparison to a massive 117.6-pounder they captured earlier in central Mississippi.
"The biggest one; that was fun," researcher Luke Pearson said of the 2018 catch. "He had a very large head. No exaggerating, it was as big as a basketball. His legs, they were probably as big as my thigh. His tail alone, if I put my hands around it my fingers would barely touch. It was a hefty turtle. He was an absolute monster."
Capturing the reptile was only half the battle. Pearson and former research partner Gabbie Berry, needed to collect data such as the weight and shell length of the dinosaur-like creature – and it needed to be done carefully.
"They have a legendary reputation for having extremely powerful jaws, and they do," Pearson said in a 2017 interview. "The big ones, I wouldn't doubt if they hit you right they could take a hand off."
Luke Pearson and Gabbie Berry pose with a 117-pound alligator snapping turtle caught during a study of the reptiles in Mississippi. (Photo: Special to Clarion Ledger)
With powerful jaws, massive legs and heavy weight, collecting data was difficult.
"With both of us it was a struggle to get him in the boat," Pearson said. "It was a challenge working with a turtle of that size on the front of a boat with two people trying to hold him down."
Dwindling numbers of alligator snapping turtles
The research, which is funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, is an effort to document numbers and locations of alligator snapping turtles in Mississippi. Pearson said overall numbers have been in decline for decades and some have sought protection of the turtles, but there isn't enough data to determine whether there is a need. So, earlier efforts to gain protection failed.
"This time around, we're trying to fix that problem," Pearson said. "There's a lot of states doing this – Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee – pretty much most of the southeastern states.
"We don't know anything in Mississippi. It's never been done before."
Lucas Haralson holds a 62-pound alligator snapping turtle that was caught and released in a study of the reptiles. (Photo: Special to Clarion Ledger)
Lucas Haralson, a University of Southern Mississippi graduate student who is now working with Pearson, said the research is important to the environment.
"I would argue that any animal native to an ecosystem is important to the health of that ecosystem," Haralson said. "Turtles, in general, have been on Earth for hundreds of millions of years.
"They are vital to that habitat. They are vital to the health of the whole system. They are probably more important than we know."
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The study is in its third season and is incomplete, but Pearson has already noticed a trend in the 300-plus alligator snapping turtles that have been captured and released. His 117-pounder and the next-largest example, an 82-pound alligator snapping turtle, are rarities in Mississippi.
"Probably, out of the 300, it would be maybe 35 over 50 pounds," Pearson said. "It's a pretty low percentage compared to other states that have been surveyed. The average is 11 pounds, so it's relatively small."
However, the population of young turtles in Mississippi looks better than some other places.
"We're actually finding more juveniles in Mississippi than in other states," Pearson said. "We do have reproduction.
"We have plenty of babies around. What we're missing are the large adults. We don't know what's going on there. Anything over 70 pounds is rare for me to catch. They just don't seem to be abundant."
University of Southern Mississippi graduate students Luke Pearson and Gabbie Berry hold alligator snapping turtles weighing 50 and 60 pounds while doing research on the turtles in 2017. (Photo: Gabbie Berry/Special to The Clarion-Ledger)
Pearson and Haralson are currently working in northeastern Mississippi. By the end of next summer, they hope to be able to provide insight into what the alligator snapping turtle population looks like statewide.
"Hopefully, next year we'll be able to go to the Delta," Haralson said, referring to a section of rivers in northwestern Mississippi. "We were unable to go this year because of flooding. Over the course of four years, we will have sampled all the major drainages in Mississippi."
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A green sea turtle hatchling in Florida makes its way to the ocean for the first time. H2O Pictures
Green sea turtle hatchlings in Florida make their way to the ocean for the first time after rehabilitation at Mote Marine Laboratory's Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital. Mote Marine Laboratory
In a rare occasion, a female loggerhead is seen laying her nest during the day off the west coast of Florida. Loggerheads usually nest during the night. Mote Marine Laboratory
An adult female loggerhead sea turtle makes her way back into the ocean after laying her eggs. Mote Marine Laboratory
In a rare occasion, a female loggerhead is seen laying her nest during daylight off the west coast of Florida. Loggerheads usually nest during the night. Mote Marine Laboratory
An adult loggerhead that was found stranded in Boca Grand, Fla., is released back into the wild after rehabilitation at Mote Marine Laboratory's Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital. Mote Marine Laboratory
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Families of Duterte drug war victims forced to lie about kin's death
Rambo Talabong
NO TRUTH IN DEATH. A relative of a drug war victim regrets allowing funeral parlors to cover up the death of her nephew, who was wrongfully reported to have died of pneumonia when in truth he was shot dead.
Angie de Silva/Rappler
PART 1: Funeral homes in the Philippines get away with attributing the deaths of drug war victims to natural causes. They tell families they will save more money and avoid harassment if they agree to do so.
Research byLorenz Pasion
PART 2: Under Duterte, Philippines allowed forgery of drug war death records
EXPLAINER: For crimes, how are death certificates produced?
MANILA, Philippines – To shield themselves from danger and to stop from further sinking into poverty, families of victims of President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war have been forced to lie about their kin's death, interviews with at least five families revealed.
Their family members were killed – either shot by a policeman or a vigilante (usually suspected to be police officers too) – but the families declared that their kin died of natural causes, such as sepsis, hypertension, pneumonia, and heart disease.
Rappler spoke with the families following an investigation by Manila-based forensic pathologist Raquel Fortun. She reexamined the exhumed remains of drug war victims who were declared to have died of natural causes.
Her examination of their bones showed that, contrary to claims about natural causes, deaths were caused by human intervention, the most obvious being bullets.
NEW AUTOPSY. Raquel Fortun in her makeshift examination room in Manila. Photo by Naoki Mengua/Rappler
The families went with the lies so they could claim their relatives' bodies and save themselves from paying more than what funeral parlors were already demanding from them. One was even told that if they declared their drug-tagged kin to have died from gunshot wounds, no one would come to their aid.
On top of funeral fees that started at P20,000, families were told they would have to pay between P6,000 and P15,000 for an autopsy, even though this was actually free.
The families were told they would be able to afford a proper wake and burial only after they lied.
Desperate and penniless, the families agreed. They were told to sign a waiver that they had agreed to leave the cause of death on their kin's death certificate to the funeral parlor, and that they had no intention of filing criminal complaints against anyone.
"Noong ora mismo po noon, P15,000 hinihingi nila para po maayos nila ang bangkay ng aking asawa. Wala po ako sa tamang pag-iisip dahil sa pangyayari, pumirma po ako. Kinabukasan mayroon na agad siyang death certificate na galing city hall," a wife of a victim told Rappler.
(Right there and then, they asked for P15,000 so they would attend to my husband's body. I was not in the right frame of mind because of what had happened, so I signed. The next day, his death certificate was already available at city hall.)
Years later, the families regretted such decision.
The wrongly-filled death certificates would later be detrimental to any complaint they wanted to file against their kin's killers.
After all, how could there be a crime committed if a person was supposed to have died from natural causes?
Case Number 6
FAKED. A portion of case number 6's death certificate. Rappler sourced photo
Case Number 6 used drugs, his live-in partner, Lisa*, admitted as much. Still, he was a good man, she said.
Case Number 6 and Lisa lived in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Caloocan City.
Lisa's was his second home. Case Number 6 stayed with his first wife, who was a five-minute tricycle ride away. Even so, he did not fail to provide for Lisa and their children. He worked in construction sites, building and painting homes to provide for his own.
Case Number 6 started using shabu (methamphetamine) in late 2001, just after he got Lisa pregnant. He was caught at that time, got imprisoned for six months, but still continued his drug habit. Lisa said his drug use started with his friends, then turned into a habit he could not shake off, even when she tried to badger him to quit.
June 2016 came and Rodrigo Duterte was elected president.
Duterte promised death to drug users and drug sellers. He said the fish of Manila Bay would grow fat from the bodies that would be thrown into the bay and he would stand by the police if they killed anyone. Once more and more desperately, Lisa told Case Number to quit.
"When Duterte assumed office, he lay low. Actually, before Duterte assumed office," Lisa told Rappler. But it seemed too late.
"He told me there was a bounty on his head," Lisa said.
AT HOME. Lisa returns home after a long day in March 2022. Photo by Angie de Silva/Rappler
Case Number 6 told Lisa he was on the drug list with a price tag of P15,000. Lisa told him to hide, to go home in the province until the wave of drug war killings passed. In 2016, Metro Manila was the epicenter of these killings. The surrounding provinces later became the killing fields.
The night before Case Number 6 was to leave, four men aboard two motorcycles swooped into the home of his first wife and shot him dead.
Days later, Lisa saw his death certificate, shocked at what it said: that Case number 6 died of acute myocardial infarction.
It was a lie forced on the first wife.
After he was killed, Case Number 6 was taken to Three Lights Funeral Homes in Caloocan City. Marie*, another relative of Case Number 6, accompanied the first wife in arranging for the wake and funeral.
The first wife found the fees too expensive and had him transferred to another funeral parlor in the area, Jenne Funeral Homes.
At Jenne Funeral Homes, a certain "Hellen" told the first wife that if she wanted to recover her husband's body, she would have to lie and say he died of heart disease.
"It's what the personnel from Jenne wanted. She said that we needed to make it appear that he died of a heart attack. We were so confused…. My companion (the first wife) was speechless," Marie told Rappler in Filipino.
Consenting to the condition, the family recovered the body of Case Number 6. A wake was organized and, days later, he was buried.
The first wife has since left her home, fearing for her life. The police have not solved the case of who killed Case Number 6. Lisa, meanwhile, is still hoping to undo the wrong on her partner's death certificate with the help of Fortun's new autopsy.
Fortun's findings further prove what Lisa and Marie already knew: that he died after being shot repeatedly at the torso.
Case Number 21
HEART ATTACK? A portion of the death certificate of case number 21. Rappler sourced photo
One evening in September 2016, when Baby* was on her way home after buying meatloaf for dinner, a man stopped her in her tracks.
"Are you the wife of Case Number 21?" he asked, a contagious fear visible in his eyes.
"Yes. Why?" Baby replied, confused.
"Your husband was watching television when he was shot."
It was three months into Duterte's war on drugs when Case Number 21, a father to eight children and grandfather to four, was shot dead while watching television outside a sari-sari store.
A masked vigilante riding a motorcycle walked up to him and lifted a pistol to his head. Witnesses first thought the shooter was pulling a prank. His eight-year-old grandson was right beside him. Then the gunshot.
The news pushed Baby into a breakdown and left her in a daze. She couldn't imagine having enough money for her husband's wake and burial. She smoked meat on the street and sold them for cheap. She had no savings.
RETRACING STEPS. Baby stands in front of the sari-sari store where her husband was shot dead in 2016. Photo by Angie de Silva/Rappler
He was rushed to the hospital in a tricycle and declared dead on arrival. He was then taken to the Three Lights Funeral Homes in northern Caloocan.
At Three Lights, Baby was told that for a proper death certificate to be issued – a death certificate that truthfully reported her husband died from gunshot wounds – he had to be autopsied. And it came with a fee, she was told.
"I told them I didn't have money. I didn't know that was required," Baby told Rappler.
The funeral home asked for P23,000 without an autopsy. Baby did not bother asking how much an autopsy was.
"They also said it was so we could get the certificate sooner because if we said that he was shot dead, it would take longer. So I consented," Baby said.
Case Number 21 was given "cardio-respiratory arrest" – a heart attack – as his immediate cause of death, and hypertension as the underlying cause.
It took the family two weeks before they could bury him. Five years later, no suspect has been arrested in relation to his killing. Five years later, Fortun examined the skull of Case Number 21.
She found a bullet hole.
REPORTED SICK. A portion of the death certificate of case number 29. Rappler sourced photo
Case Number 29 was shot dead in his sleep in October 2016, right beside his two children, who were then four and five years old. His wife, a few steps away drinking coffee, was also shot dead.
The extended family of Case Number 29 knew this story because they were a big but close-knit group. They lived in adjacent houses in Caloocan City, the sound in each household heard by the next.
At about 11 pm, around seven gun-toting men on motorcycles arrived, kicked open their wooden gate, and headed toward the home of Case Number 29. Gunshots, screams, then silence.
"After six gunshots, they left. When we arrived, the couple was dead," said Inday*, an aunt of Case Number 29 who lived next door.
What puzzled Inday was that, even though they lived just beside the slain couple's home, scene of crime operations (SOCO) agents and the funeral parlor came ahead of them.
Inday stood as the matriarch of the family and crossed the police lines. The cops tried to stop her, but she shot back: "Do you have evidence to keep me out?"
She went straight to the bodies. She saw her nephew and her in-law both dead, their heads awash with blood. Beside her nephew were her grandchildren, still asleep.
WAITING FOR JUSTICE. Inday prays at home in Caloocan City. Photo by Angie de Silva/Rappler
As the funeral parlor staff proceeded to load the couple onto their cars, Inday stood in their way and demanded that their remains remain in the crime scene until she got another funeral parlor. The funeral parlor that first responded, she said, was notorious for overcharging.
The funeral staff left the body of Case Number 29, but still took his wife's. Inday was not a blood relative so she could not stop them, they said.
Case Number 29 was instead taken to Sir John Funeral Services. There, Inday was told that if she wanted to get help to bury Case Number 29, she should not say her nephew died from gunshot wounds.
"We were thinking about how to get help. If we placed 'tokhang' as the cause of death, we might not be able to get help. I mean, it's true, that's how people think," Inday said.
Oplan Tokhang, derived from the Visayan words knock (tok) and plead (hangyo), refers to the operation of the police that involved knocking on doors of drug suspects and pleading with them to surrender. In many cases, police reported that the suspects fought back, forcing them to retaliate and kill them.
Aside from losing loved ones, family members of those killed in the police operations suffered from discrimination in their communities, with many neighbors fearing that if they associated with the survivors, they could be next.
Inday agreed to put pneumonia as her nephew's cause of death.
"I did not try to understand its effect (faking the cause of death). At that time, what was on my mind was how we could get through this," Inday said.
What the bones can do
PROOF OF KILLING. A skull with a bullet hole among the examined remains of drug war victims by forensic expert Raquel Fortun. Photo by Naoki Mengua/Rappler
The new autopsy by Fortun could help the families if they file complaints. The death certificates could be corrected and the families could get new evidence to run not only after the killers of their kin, but also those who faked their records.
"If there were wrong entries, we can file perjury and falsification of official documents," said human rights lawyer Francis Mangrobang of IDEALS in an interview with Rappler.
For Fortun, the goal was documentation of what could be lost. The more the remains decomposed, the more difficult it was to re-examine them.
"I don't know how far this will go, what good it will be to anybody down the line, but somehow it gives comfort to the families," she said in an interview with Rappler.
The families of cases 6, 21, and 29 had differing views.
"I just want the people who should be jailed to be jailed. I am not asking for them to be killed like what they did to my husband," Baby said.
"If there really is justice, maybe I will fight for it," said Lisa, hoping for help.
In Duterte's war on drugs – after at least 7,000 killed by police records, and up to 30,000 by the estimates of human rights organizations – there has only been one case where cops were tried and imprisoned: the killing of Caloocan teenager Kian delos Santos in August 2017. His case gripped the nation because it had CCTV footage showing policemen dragging Kian late at night in their neighborhood before he was shot kneeling at a dead end.
Inday had a less hopeful outlook for the future: "The thing is, for me, if justice will be given, I say thank you. If it is not, there is nothing I can do." – Rappler.com
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Rambo Talabong covers the House of Representatives and local governments for Rappler. Prior to this, he covered security and crime. He was named Jaime V. Ongpin Fellow in 2019 for his reporting on President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs. In 2021, he was selected as a journalism fellow by the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics.
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>I'm not really a cat person either. Pets are just a source of dirt and stress for me. Animals are cute and fuzzy, but I'm not fooled by their outward appearances anymore.
My upstairs neighbors have one of those kick-size dogs that bark incessantly. How the hell can you live with that constant irritation? The thing barked for 20 minutes without stopping.
After like 2 minutes, I would have lost it and punted that thing out the door. Why would you even get a dog like that? At least big dogs stay quiet unless something provokes them like a rogue squirrel.
>I concur that "kick-size" is an excellent adjective to describe dogs. My brother and his fiance have FOUR if you can believe that. And one that's just a little bigger. So yeah, 5 total. It's ridiculous.
>Good lord, 5 little dogs? Do they live on a farm or what?
I think maybe those kick size dogs are so in-bred that they are a little bit nutty in the brain which causes their annoying barking habits.
>By the way, I think my upstairs neighbors are just annoying in and of themselves.
Aside from the dog barking, they are super loud. Heavy walkers, sounds like they are constantly moving furniture, slamming doors, throwing shoes…freaking troglodytes.


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If you are interested in being a part of one of our several women's circles (small groups), please email the church office.
The Women's Ministry at Ebenezer glorifies God by building relationships and fellowship among women in the church so that they will grow in Christ and demonstrate a spirit of godliness in their lives.
Women meet in small groups called Circles that gather in homes and at the church. Depending on the schedules of those in the group, some meet in the mornings while others get together in the evenings. Meetings include a Bible study or discussion of a Christian book. One of the Circles also includes a weekly play group for moms with children.
Women in the church also participate in an annual retreat as well as other activities sponsored by the Catawba Presbytery. Service is another important part of the Women's Ministry at Ebenezer as the women promote hospitality and loving-kindness by leading a Cooking for Christ ministry, managing a prayer chain, decorating for special events, and serving members in the military, away at college, enduring sickness or grief, and celebrating new births.
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GREATER kruger
'The Kruger' is possibly the best-known safari destination in the world. Established in 1898, The Greater Kruger Park extends over some 22,000 square km (8,500 sq. miles). That's the size of Wales or Massachusetts. It supports a total of 145 mammal species, 500 bird species, and 110 reptile species, including an estimated 13,000 elephants, 40,000 buffalo, 2000 lions and lots of rhinos. We aren't allowed to say how many, but it is lots and lots. The only decent wildlife reserve with a higher density of rhino is Hluhluwe-Imfolozi in KwaZulu-Natal.
What's the difference between the Greater Kruger Park and Kruger National Park?
The Greater Kruger Park is comprised of the Kruger National Park (KNP) and a number of private reserves next to the KNP. The fences between the private reserves and the KNP came down 23 years ago allowing the animals to move freely.
The KNP is managed by Sanparks, a government-run organisation, and covers about 80% of the total area. Tarmac roads run through the middle of it, there are numerous large rest camps, of which at least half a dozen have over 100 one to four-bedroom units, camping sites, and fast food restaurants catering to self-drive clients - not the kind of safari experience we promote to our clients and hence, we do not sell any of the government-run rest camps, but only very few, selected camps on private concessions within the Kruger National Park. Apart from that, we focus on the private game reserves adjacent to the KNP, which deliver a much better experience.
The private reserves are managed by groups made up of small lodges and camps. Many lodges and camps only have between six and twelve one-bedroom chalets or luxury tents. No self-driving is permitted, there are no tarmac roads, and vehicle movements are carefully managed, for a much more authentic safari experience.
For a more detailed explanation of the advantages of the private Kruger reserves, read here.
The different private reserves
The best areas are the private game reserves directly bordering the Kruger National Park, Sabi Sand and Timbavati at the top of most people in the know's lists. Game viewing in these reserves is prolific, and leopard sightings in Sabi Sand are almost guaranteed on a two-night stay. However, the less-illustrious Klaserie and Balule reserves, also provide excellent game viewing in different landscapes at a lower cost for the same standard of lodge. They are well worth considering and we have many a happy client who visit these reserves, either in combination with Sabi Sand or Timbavati, or on their own. Thornybush, Makalali, Kapama and Manyeleti are good options for reserves not directly bordering Kruger National Park, and Motlala is perfect for those on a tight budget.
The Greater Kruger area is home to the Big Five as well as to giraffe, wild dog, endless amounts plains game, reptiles and birds. Because the animals and birds who call the Greater Kruger area home can roam freely, they are all found in all reserves. In saying that, however, the area is large, so habitats differ and of course animals gravitate toward whichever habitat is best for them. Some areas are better known for their leopard sightings, others for elephant, and so on.
How to safari in the Greater Kruger
We can arrange fully-inclusive safaris in the Greater Kruger, typically from 2 to 6 nights in length, with pick-ups and drop-offs from Johannesburg airport, which can also include the scenic Panorama Route, or one of the regional airports such as Hoedspruit or Nelspruit. For the more discerning client we also offer charter flights directly into the private game reserves. We work with a range of accommodation, from tented camps to luxury lodges, with game drives conducted by experienced guides in specialised open-sided safari vehicles, perfect for game-viewing, and half-day walking safaris with armed rangers. All the lodges have a watering hole, river, or lake, meaning that there is good chance of seeing wildlife when you are not out on safari too. Many lodges are also unfenced, so having interesting visitors around the grounds is not uncommon.
Of course it is possible to combine reserves. The landscapes of the individual reserves do slightly differ and combination itineraries with two or three nights in one reserve, then two or three in another are the best way of getting a variety of experiences and habitats. It also makes it easier to spend some time in the higher-priced Sabi Sands lodges without blowing all your budget in three-nights.
Dry season – May to September – Winter
There is virtually no rainfall during the whole of winter, humidity is very low and there is almost no risk of malaria. As water becomes scarce wildlife is attracted to permanent water sources. Temperatures from the evening to mid-morning can be chilly.
Wet seasons – October to April – Summer
It is hot and humid in summer. Temperatures can reach over 40°C/104°F, although average daytime temperature is 32°C/90°F. Mostly rain falls in the afternoon or at night. The rains bring green grasses, seeds, flowers, and as a result, more birds. The rains also mean there is no dust, and, other than Christmas and Easter, fewer tourists.
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Upgrades sharpen ESPN's college FPI model
5ySharon Katz, ESPN Stats & Information
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Anthony Davis fills up stat sheet against Suns
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Coming off 2017 and looking ahead, it's a great time to be a Georgia fan
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Another Iron Bowl clash between No. 1 Alabama and No. 6 Auburn
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Sharon Katz, ESPN Stats & Information
ESPN's Football Power Index was introduced two years ago as a way to measure team strength and predict performance going forward.
As with all of the ESPN Stats & Information Group's metrics, we are looking constantly for ways to improve FPI.
In 2014, we introduced preseason FPI as a way to predict team strength entering the season. Preseason FPI not only allowed us to produce FPI ratings before a single pass was thrown, but it also improved the overall accuracy of our FPI-based projections by accounting for information not fully captured in the original version.
The result? The team that FPI favored won 76 percent of FBS-vs.-FBS games last season, which was a higher percentage than almost any other system out there -- including the Vegas closing line -- and the majority of ESPN analysts.
Entering the 2015 season, we are again looking at ways to sharpen FPI and improve the accuracy of its predictions. Below are three improvements we made to FPI and the theory behind those adjustments.
Better accounting for FCS opponents
Most college football fans would acknowledge that playing four-time reigning FCS champion North Dakota State is not nearly the same as facing a bottom-tier FCS team. The Bison have won five straight games against FBS opponents dating to 2010, including four straight against Power 5 teams. That's as many Power 5 wins as Kansas has since 2010!
So when North Dakota State headed to Iowa State last season, it was clear to the average fan that the Cyclones were not facing a typical FCS opponent. In the previous iteration of FPI, however, all FCS teams were regarded as being of the same caliber and rated below the weakest FBS team. Based on that logic, Iowa State entered the game with a 97 percent chance to win, and when they lost 34-14, the Cyclones fell 31 spots in FPI.
In a small 12-game sample, misrepresenting the actual strength of even one opponent could have a significant impact on a team's FPI, which has a trickle-down effect on a number of FPI's outputs -- such as future game projections and strength of schedule.
From the moment FPI was released in 2013, we knew this was a problem that had to be solved, but because of limitations with FCS data, we rolled out FPI with the intention to resolve this issue in the future.
Today, each FCS team has an FPI rating based on the final score of games dating back four years. As with FPI for FBS teams, the rating is a measure of team strength and represents the expected scoring margin against an average FBS opponent.
For example, North Dakota State enters the season with an FPI rating of plus-0.9, meaning if the Bison were to play an average (or 64th-ranked) FBS team, they would be favored slightly on a neutral field. In the coming season, there are 32 FCS teams with a higher FPI rating than the weakest FBS team and seven FBS-vs.-FCS games in which the FCS team has at least a 25 percent chance to win.
By capturing the true strength of each FCS team, we are also improving the accuracy of FPI's FBS ratings and game predictions. With the updated formula, the team FPI favored continued to win 75 percent of FBS-only games since 2005, but predicted scoring-margin errors decreased compared with the previous system.
After accounting for the relative strength of FCS teams, Iowa State entered its home game against North Dakota State with a 66 percent chance to win. After losing to the Bison, the Cyclones fell 15 spots in FPI, and what was once a historically crippling loss was treated no differently than a loss to about the 66th-ranked FBS team.
Incorporating transfer quarterbacks
Russell Wilson is the poster child for the graduate transfer. After graduating from NC State, Wilson transferred to Wisconsin, where he led the Badgers to a Big Ten title and Rose Bowl appearance, while completing one of the most efficient single seasons in NCAA history.
Wilson was not the first player to utilize the NCAA's graduate transfer rule (enacted in 2006), but his success in Madison began a revolution of players extending their college careers through "college free agency."
In 2015 alone, Florida State, Georgia, Oklahoma, Michigan and Oregon are expected to have a graduate transfer competing for the starting quarterback job.
Although the success rates of graduate transfers have been mixed, it is clear that adding an experienced signal-caller has its advantages. Everett Golson, for example, heads to Florida State with two years of starting experience and an understanding of how to compete on the biggest stage.
One input into preseason FPI is the number of returning starters on offense and defense, with quarterbacks counted separately. Based on how strong the offense was last season, returning a starting quarterback could have a significant impact on an offense (compared to not returning one).
In the previous iteration of FPI, transfers were not counted as returning starters, but based on the small sample of quarterbacks tested, the presence of an experienced transfer was shown to have an impact on a team's future success. That player still has to make a transition to the new team, however, so the impact on FPI is not the same as it is with returning a full starter.
For this reason, we are counting any transfer quarterback with at least 240 action plays at the FBS level (or the equivalent of one year starting) as half a starter. This affects a handful of teams, but it is a major reason Florida State jumped over Clemson in the latest FPI.
Offensive continuity
Led by one of the most efficient offenses in the nation last season, TCU set single-season school records for points, yards and touchdowns. With 10 offensive starters, including Trevone Boykin, and coach Gary Patterson returning, the Horned Frogs should be even better with another year of experience.
In the previous version of the offensive model, starters and previous years' efficiencies interacted, but steps were taken to smooth out the continuity of this interaction.
In other words, if a team is returning several offensive starters, its quarterback and its coach, chances are the offense will look a lot like its offense from the previous season. Now, in the model, the number of returning starters correlates more (for better or for worse) with last year's offensive efficiency than it had.
This same interaction was not as strong when tested on defensive starters, but there remains a benefit to returning a large number of starters on either side of the ball.
Returning to the TCU example, the Horned Frogs return 10 starters to an already strong offense, resulting in a better projected offense than in the previous model. SMU, by comparison, also returns 10 starters, but because its offense was one of the worst in the country last season, the Mustangs don't get the same offensive boost in their FPI rating as the Horned Frogs do.
In addition to the changes outlined above, information on returning starters has been updated since the early-July release of FPI. UCLA, Utah, Tennessee, Clemson and Michigan State are a few notable teams that lost a starter to injury, suspension or transfer, according to Phil Steele.
The overall impact of these changes on preseason FPI is minor; 23 of the teams ranked in the top 25 in FPI in July remained there, and five of those original top 25 teams moved up or down by more than two spots.
The goal of FPI is to measure team strength going forward to make the most accurate predictions. After implementing the changes outlined above and retroactively running game predictions beginning in 2005, FPI remained one of the most accurate systems (correctly predicting 75 percent of games) and should be more accurate in the future.


Cathi Unsworth began her journalistic career at nineteen while still studying at the London College of Fashion. Headhunted by Melody Maker, she worked as a freelance feature writer/reviewer for several years before joining Bizarre magazine Her writing is inspired by the late Derek Raymond, whom she interviewed for Melody Maker and who encouraged her to follow the crime-writing path. She is the editor of London Noir, a collection of London crime stories published by Serpent's Tail. She lives in London.


Hob Hurst's House, Peak District, Derbyshire, England. Another historic site I used to manage.
Hob Hurst's House is a prehistoric burial mound (cairn) that is about eight meters square, made of thirteen stones standing edge to edge that measure two meters by three meters. The cairn structure is surrounded by a 3 metre wide roughly square ditch and then a bank standing about a metre high and measuring a further 3 metres in width although both bank and ditch have been damaged on the northern side by a later trackway.
It was probably built in the late Bronze Age or early Iron Age and contained a layer of charcoal, and two deposits of burnt bones when excavated in 1853.
It is named after a local legendary Goblin called Hob Hurst but there are also tales that Hob was another name for the Devil.
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Suzhou Yangcheng Island Hotel locates in Yangcheng Island. It is close to Chongyuan Temple and Yangcheng lake shore. This hotel has integrated the Southeastern architecture and Suzhou modern custom. This idea is fused in the buildings.
Check out 12 noon. Rates may be subject to surcharge during peak periods. Above rate includes service charge. Extra Bed:RMB200 per piece per night. Breakfast:RMB138 per person.
Suzhou Yangcheng Island Hotel locates in Yangcheng Island. It is close to Chongyuan Temple and Yangcheng lake shore. This hotel has integrated the Southeastern architecture and Suzhou modern custom. This idea is fused in the buildings. The around buses and highways bring the convenience for the hotel. Also, it is very convenient to access Shanghai Pudong international airport and Hongqiao airport. Suzhou Yangcheng Island Hotel has elegantly decorated deluxe rooms, duplex suite, SPA rooms and presidential suite and the other leisure facilities.
Suzhou Yangcheng Island Hotel has elegantly decorated deluxe rooms, duplex suite, SPA rooms and presidential suite and the other leisure facilities.


Yes it has been 40 years !	Join us for James Whitcomb Class Of 1979 Class Reunion. The dinner will be a buffet style at The Landing ( The old Hans Haus ) right in the heart of the Riley District. There will be a cash bar and tunes. The weekend will have several events so check out the James Whitcomb Riley Class Of 1979 Facebook for more details.


Unstructured shape Tote bag handcrafted in Italy.
One of the kind Tote has been handcrafted in Italy by a group of one of the kind artisans. Middle handle is just perfect to create a totally different look. Use it every day or try yours as an in-flight carry-on, or simply fold in your luggage.


As a fully established company, Alb Joinery has been providing bespoke joinery services for home owners and trade customers in and around London for over fifteen years. At the moment we're even working on projects in Monte Carlo, Monaco! As manufacturers of quality bespoke furniture, freestanding or fitted, we are able to tailor our services to your needs, from single pieces to complete kitchens, bedrooms and specialist designs.
We take pride in the communication we have between ourselves and our customers, all the way through the process of design, manufacture and fitting we ensure you are completly involved to make sure that personal taste and requirements are completly satisfied.
Whether working with contactors, property developers, architects or private homeowners each project starts with a no obligation free consultation and quotation, helping us to ensure we can provide you with pieces that are tailored to your specific needs, manufactured with great attention to detail, and a perfect fit to whatever space you have!
Working in conservation areas and listed buildings is our speciality.
Our fully bespoke windows will match original profile or new designs, all manufactured onsite in our workshop.
Using soft wood, hard wood or accoya, our windows are supplied with storm proof seals, chrome standard locks and lifters, and 20mm double glazing units or single glass.
As our windows are fully bespoke any accessory or glass can be changed.
Every door we produce is hand made to order in our fully equipped workshop. Our aim is to make your home safe, secure and look fantastic with our wide range of doors including; internal, external, gates, garage doors, french and bi-folding.
We use only the highest quality of hardwoods and you can select from a wide range of veneers and finishes depending on your personal taste and style.
As well as producing a wide number of pieces including; staircases, doors, windows, kitchens, cabinets and wardrobes, we also have a wide skill set in producing flooring, panelling, skirting boards, wall cladding, mirror frames, gun cabinets and anything else you can name to give your interiors that extra special touch!
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Beautiful detached single family home with Gorgeous view in Newport Coast! Located in the wonderful gated St Michel community on a private cul-de-sac with no rear neighbors, a long driveway and a gigantic side yard with room to expand. Enjoy upgrades throughout: plantation shutters, Speaker Craft surround sound, crown molding, 24 inch travertine, 6 inch baseboards, high bedroom ceilings, marble bathrooms, and a dramatic living room and cathedral entry. Cook and entertain in style around a granite island which seats 6 and beautiful maple cabinetry with pullout drawers and a spice rack. Stainless steel appliances: Wolf oven & stove and overhead Wolf hood, Subzero refrigerator and Subzero wine cabinet, and Swedish Asko dishwasher. Open the French doors and enjoy the forever mountain and city lights views. Close proximity to community pools, parks, Newport Coast Community Center, Crystal Cove beaches, Fashion Island, golf at the Resort at Pelican Hill, award winning schools including Newport Coast Elementary, Corona Del Mar High School,Tarbut V'Torah Day School, and Sage Hill School.


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'Fuel Bank' To Help People In Durham
24 April 2015, 06:00 | Updated: 30 March 2016, 13:50
People in Durham who disconnect their gas and electricity because they can't afford to top up the meter are to get help from the UK's first fuel bank.
The three-month trial will operate out of existing food banks, with struggling households receiving a £49 credit.
nPower, which is behind the scheme, says it could be enough to keep the lights and heating on for up to two weeks.
As with food banks, Citizens Advice centres, GPs, social workers and the police will help identify people who might be in need.
A maximum of three vouchers can be given out per "crisis".
One in six homes using energy meters disconnect supplies every year to save money, according to research by Citizens Advice.
That suggests some 1.6 million people could be going without gas and electricity.
The fuel banks will be piloted in 16 locations in County Durham and Kingston-upon-Thames and are open to customers of any energy company.
Matthew Cole, npower's head of policy said:
"It will provide immediate and hassle-free support to households where often the choice is between food and warmth."
The scheme is also being run in partnership with charities the Trussell Trust and Durham Christian Partnership, as well as National Energy Action.
The aim is to support 13,000 households in the first year and if successful the scheme could be expanded.
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Q: Downgrade cups / SAMSUNG printer error With a recent cups update my ML-1640 printer has stopped working.
A fresh post from ARCHLINUX offers a fix by downgrading to 2.3.3op1-1 from my current cups:amd64/hirsute 2.3.3op2-3ubuntu3.
How can I downgrade?
sudo apt-cache madison cups

only shows one version. Is this the right place to look:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hirsute/amd64/cups ?
Building from source
Do I need to build from source? If yes which? Can I use the ARCH archive https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/c/cups/? Or is it best to build from GIT https://github.com/apple/cups/releases ?


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Q: Sails-mysql refuses to register a connection I have my Sails application on an AWS instance with all dependancies installed with no apparent issues. However, each time I try to launch the app I am getting the following error.
error: AdapterError: Connection is already registered

I have not managed to successfully lift sails yet on the instance and sails-mysql was freshly installed so no connections should be registered.
I have taken the following steps to deploy my app..

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*Set up a MySql RDS instance (EU-West)

*Created and set up an Ubuntu AMD-64 t2.micro EC2 instance (EU-West)

*Installed all prerequisites (Git, NVM, NodeJs, Sails, etc.)

*Cloned my Sails project

*Installed dependencies for Sails

*Correctly configured my connection settings for Sails to use my RDS instance.

I know that my connection settings are correct as I have been able to run Sails on my local machine with a connection to my RDS instance and it would consistently lift without any issues.
I am also able to connect to my RDS instance using SequelPro with no problems.
I have had issues with dependencies in the past but have managed to fix those issues and have not had any of them on my local machine or with my EC2 instance.
After searching for a while I have come across a few users who have had similar issues but have managed to fix them with Waterline's teardown methods, however, I am unsure how to achieve this.
I have done my best to provide as much information as possible and any help would be massively appreciated.
Sails Version: 0.12.11
Thank you in advance.

A: I managed to fix the issue by carrying out the following:

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*Switched my environment to production in config/bootstrap.js

*In connections.js add connectTimeout: 20000 to make sure the request does not time out before the connection is made.
eg. process.env.NODE_ENV = 'development'

*Ensure that the security group inbounds rules for the RDS allows connections from the security group associated with my EC2 instance.

Type: MySQL/Aurora
Protocol: TCP
Port Range: 3306
Source: < Your security group ID >
Following the above points also meant I overcame the issue with handshake timeouts when communicating with the RDS.