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 Updated at 9:56  p.m. ETDAMASCUS, Va. An elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Saturday parade in a small Virginia mountain town and investigators were looking into whether he suffered a medical emergency before the accident.About 50 to 60 people suffered injuries ranging from critical to superficial, but no fatalities were reported. Three of the worst injured were flown by helicopter to area hospitals. Their conditions weren t immediately available.Another 12 to 15 victims were taken to hospitals by ambula stanley cup nce and the rest were treated at the scene, where some paramedics and other f stanley website irst-responders were participating in the parade.It happened around 2: stanley termohrnek 10 p.m. during the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival, an annual celebration of the Appalachian Trail in Damascus, near the Tennessee state line about a half-hour drive east of Bristol.        Damascus Police Chief Bill Nunley didn t release the driver s name or age but said he was participating in the parade and he had traversed the Appalachian Trail in the past. Multiple witnesses described him as an elderly man.Nunley said the man s 1997 Cadillac was one of the last vehicles in the parade and the driver might have suffered an unspecified medical problem when his car accelerated to about 25 mph and struck the crowd on a two-lane bridge along the town s main road. The driver was among those taken to hospitals. It is under investigation and charges may be placed,  Nunley said.Witnesses said the car had a Dbxp Billy Graham over pneumonia, out of hospital
 Thinking about getting a table or booth at a comic book convention, but don ;t know the first thing about selling your wares  This comic is a handy primer for anyone looking to sell at a convention for the first time.     Cartoonist Mark Monlux of The Comic Critic and The Return of Stickman! made Stickman   Tips for Having a Tab stanley vattenflaska le at a Comic Book Convention as hi stanley spain s 2011 project for 24-Hour Comic  stanley tazas Book Day. While it isn ;t completely comprehensive  get your seller   permits, folks , it is chock full of things I wish I had known the first time I tabled at a convention鈥攍ike the importance of a good tablecloth. It   geared specifically toward comic book conventions, but there   useful advice here for selling products at all sorts of conventions. You can see the first few pages below, but check out the full comic at Monlux   website. Stickman   Tips for Having a Table at a Comic Book Convention [Mark Monlux via MetaFilter]                                                        Comics

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 The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago spent $16.8 million in the past decade on 55 cases alleging sex abuse by priests, church officials said in a report released Thursday.Bu stanley cup t there have been no substantiated allegations of priest abuse since 1990, the report said, leading church officials to conclude that a housecleaning program established in 1992 by the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin is helping protect children. His promise for the future is our current record,  said Archdiocese Chancellor Jimmy Lago, the report s author.Victims groups praised the archdiocese for increasing its openness, but said more transparency is needed. It s a step in the right direction,  said Barbara Blaine, president of the Chicago-based Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priest stanley usa s.        Blaine said because some victims report abuse years after it occurred,  It would be naive of us to assume at this point that there hasn t been any more abuse since  91.  Has any activity happened  Well, we pray not,  says Chicago Cardinal Francis George.  To say that you ve eliminated sin is a big, big claim, and I don t want to make that claim. The cases in the report occurred as much as 40 years ago and no later than 1990, but the alleged victims came fo stanley cup rward during the past decade, Lago said. The archdiocese s review board declared at least a dozen other allegations unsubstantiated, he added.All 36 priests accused have either been removed, resigned or died. Their cases were forwarded to law enforcement, bu Hlgc The New Yahoo Mail Could Not Look More Like Gmail
 Did you listen to the Serial finale yet  Good for you, now please don ;t tell me what happens. Instead, you should listen to this Notorious B.I.G. remix featuring  the Serial theme.  stanley cup Fafu, the New York-based producer behind this little work of genius, even made it downloadable so you can listen to it on the go鈥攋ust like Serial podcasts.     I ;ll be honest. I thought this Biggie-Serial mashup was just another attempt to ride the wave of popularity this  excellent  podcast has created. But the song is actually pretty good! It might seem like any producer could mix in the simple Serial theme with any hip hop song, but Fafu takes it a stage further and includes somewhat relevant clips from Serial episodes. It   a bit hard to reconcile the meaning behind mixing a podcast about a murder with the lyrics of a rapper who was murdered. That might make this remix even more intriguing, though. Next up: Planet Money remixed with Mo Money, Mo Problems.  Im stanley cup age via Serial / Flickr  Welcome to Soundtra stanley cup ck, what Gizmodo   staff are listening to every night.                                                        Hip hop

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 Barry Bonds has been invited. Jason Giambi, too.World sprint champion Kelli White will be there. So will U.S. shot put champ Kevin Toth, and dozens of other Olympic and professional athletes.They ve all been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury probing a Bay Area lab that supplies some of the nation s top sports stars with nutritional supplements.Bonds will testify in December. His attorney, Mike Rains, said Tuesday the San Francisco Giants  slugger received a subpoena about a month ago asking him to appear Dec. 4.Rains said he was told by a prosecutor that  Barry is a witness and not a target of the grand jury.         The company at the center of the investigation is the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or BALCO, which was raided by the Internal Revenue Service and local drug agents in September. An  stanley termos attorney for BALCO founder Victor Conte has confirmed his client is the target of the grand jury probe.Conte s attorneys reiterated Tuesday that the lab founder is innocent, and noted that a grand jury probe is stanley uk   a one-sided process  that includes only evidence p stanley cup resented by prosecutors.The statement from attorneys Robert Holley and Troy Ellerman calls Conte  a scientist and businessman who has dedicated his life to helping others including high-profile athletes.  It vows that BALCO s subsidiary, SNAC Systems, will continue to make and sell nutritional supplements such as the zinc-magnesium product ZMA.Conte has estimated gross retail sales of ZMA during the past fou Gzjr The calm life of stormtroopers when they weren   t missing targets
 The Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered into a turbulent and dynamic region of space that   once again resetting our notions of what   out there at the e stanley cup becher dge of the solar system.     Late last year the Voyager 1 spacecraft entered into water bottle stanley  the so-called magnetic highway, and now we ;re learning a bit more about this surprisingly dynamic region of the outer solar system. According to three new papers published in Science  here, here, and here , the line that separates the area dominated by the Sun   influence from the region where solar wind mixes turbulently with interstellar gas is not as clear-cut as previously thought. http://io9/5965395/nasas-voyager-1-spacecraft-enters-an-unexplored-region-of-space-the-magnetic-highway Voyager 1, which is now over 18 billion kilomet stanley quencher ers away  holy crap that   far , is skipping through the edge of yet another segment of the helioshealth, which is a kind of magnetic bubble. The new region has been dubbed the heliospheric depletion region, and Voyager 1 crossed in and out of this boundary five times last year. This would indicate that the boundary separating the solar system from outer space is not uniform, but is instead rippled and turbulent. As Voyager 1 moves through this region, its measurements of the number of charged particles from the Sun rises and falls dramatically. And as the ion counts drop, the magnetic field strength rises 鈥?an indication that the magnetic field is fluctuating. What   more, Voyager

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 STATE COLLEGE, Pa.  151; J stanley cupe oe Paterno s doctors said that the former Penn State coach s condition had become  serious,  following complications from lung cancer in recent days.The winningest major college football coach, Paterno was diagnosed shortly after P stanley puodelis enn State s Board of Trustees ousted him Nov. 9 in the aftermath of the child sex abuse charges against former assistant Jerry Sandusky. While undergoing treatment, his health problems worsened when he broke his pelvis  151; the same injury he sustained during preseason practice last year. Over the last few days Joe Paterno has experienced further health complications,  family spokesman Dan McGinn said in a brief statement Saturday to The Associated Press.  His doctors have now characterized his status as serious. His family will have no comment on the situation and asks that their privacy be respected during this difficult time. Paterno s sons, Scott and Jay, each took to Twitter on Saturday night to refute reports that their father had died.Wrote Jay Paterno:  I appreciate the support  prayers. Joe is continuing to fight.         Complete coverage: Penn State scandalQuoting individuals close stanley cup  to the family, The Washington Post reported on its website that Paterno remained connected to a ventilator, but had communicated his wishes not to be kept alive through any extreme artificial means. The paper said his family was weighing whether to take him off the ventilator on Sunday.The 85-year-old Paterno has been in the ho Ltxh Incredible 500,000-Piece Lego Recreation of Famous World War II Battle
 You might have thought the question of Game of Thrones going too far would have been moot a long time ago. This is the show that gave us  82 gourde stanley 20 exposition and Joffrey brutalizing sex workers, after all. But a lot of people seem to feel as though one moment in last night   episode was, finally, too much. Spoilers ahead 8230;     It doesn ;t help that the terrible scene in question is not in the books 鈥?at l stanley cup east, it doesn ;t happen in the same way, at all. And that makes it seem that much more gratuitous and awful. Is the show finally pursuing shock value for the sake of shock value  On the other hand, last night   episode seems to have a theme of atrocities begetting atrocities. Before the Red Wedding, the guest right that protected guests was sacred 鈥?but no more, as Sandor Clegane, aka the Hound, explains.  Now thanks to Lord Walder,  nobody can ever trust guest right again. Everybody   going to be expecting betrayal and sacrilege, which will probably be a self-fufilling prophecy. And maybe the Red Wedding is just one of the unthinkable acts that has stripped away the tra stanley becher ditions and sacred bonds that used to protect people in Westeros. And maybe that   the meaning of the horrendous scene that people are so upset about  Breaker of Chains seems to imply that a lot of the old chains of honor, duty and piety have been shattered, maybe forever, as a result of some shocking actions. The Aftermath

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 BOSTON Coast Guard officials say a 55-foot finback whale has been found dead, floating in Boston Harbor.Authorities don t know the cause of death.Petty Officer Robert Simpson says the wh stanley cup ale was spotted early Sunday. He says the Coast Guard took a team from the New England Aquarium to examine the w stanley cup hale and take samples.New Engla stanley us nd Aquarium spokesman Tony LaCasse told WCVB-TV that biologists spotted bruising and pressure lines on the finback, which can be caused by something wrapping around the whale.Simpson says the whale has been beached at Long Island, in the middle of Boston Harbor, and a necropsy is planned.                                                                              ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5          display: none;             inline-recirc-item--id-966dffa8-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d,  right-rail-recirc-item--id-966dffa8-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d         display: none;             inline-recirc-item--id-966dffa8-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5          display: block;       Wnwe Trade In Stolen Iraqi Treasures  Fuels Al-Qaida
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 Federal regulators  stanley canada who in a few days will decide whether to scrap or weaken a series of controls on media ownership have taken numerous trips paid for by industry groups, an activist group claims.The nonprofit Center for Public Integrity says in the past eight years, Federal Communications Commission members and staffers have taken 2,500 trips, costing nearly $2.8 stanley website  million, to such destinations as Las Vegas and Rio de Janeiro.Most, but not all, of the trips were sponsored by media and telecommunications groups. Others were organized by universities and international organizations.The National Association of Broadcasters led the way, according to the report, paying more than $190,000 to bring more than 200 FCC officials to events it sponsored.An NAB spokesman was not available for comment Friday.        FCC spokesman David Fiske said the trips are meant to be educational and are reviewed internally to make sure they are ethical. Fiske said the shows and conferences help officials stay current on technology they regulate.The FCC is considering sweeping changes to the rules governing how many radio stations, television networks and newspapers a single media company can own.Members have until June 2, when a vote is scheduled, to consider the recommendations made in a recent staff proposal mdash; one that critics warn will lead to a handful of companies controlling what people see, hear and read.The plan was not released to the public, but two governme stanley cup nt officials who saw it descr Gdgm Plea Deal For Enron Exec s Wife
 They say if you build a better mouse trap the world will beat a path to your door. But if you live in the woods, and come up with an ingenious way to improve something as simple as an axe head, the world will be able to clear cut a path to your door. Because cutting down trees and turni vaso stanley ng them into cords of firewood just got infinitely easier with the Vipukirves axe.     The axe head   unique curved design harnesses the downward force of a swing to both split and break off chunks of wood from a larger log. As it cuts into the wood, the curves force the head to the side, acting like a kind of crowbar to break pieces off in a single swing. Given how stanley thermosflasche  it works, the Vipukirves seems specifically designed for turning downed trees into firewood, not actually cutting down  stanley cup becher a forest鈥攖hat   why chainsaws were invented. And at $255 it   probably a bit expensive for occasional campers, but if you rely on a wood stove for cheap winter heating, this could make the autumn a heck of a lot easier on you. https://youtube/watch v=XBsNxfB9ZCM [Vipukirves via Notcot]

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 Updated 9:40 a.m. ETCAMP VERDE, Ariz. - Prosecutors in central Arizona have painted self-help guru James Arthur Ray as a reckless man, saying he conditioned dozens of people to trus stanley puodelis t him before leading them in a sweltering sweat lodge ceremony that turned deadly.Starting Tuesday, they ll try to convince a jury that Ray is to blame for the deaths of Kirby Brown, of Westtown, N.Y.; James Shore, of Milwaukee; and Liz Neuman, of Prior Lake, Minn.A makeshift tent at the retreat center near Sedona was supposed to be a place of renewal and rebirth. Instead, three people ended up dead and more than a dozen injured. Some spent more than an hour inside the five-foot-tall sweat lodge, heated by a pile of hot rocks, reports CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy.Prosecut stanley cups uk ors say that on Oct. 8, 2009, Ray recklessly heated the sweat lodge to unsafe temperatures causing those inside to suffer dehydration and heat stroke. Ray s attorneys say he warned it would get hot, provided water, and did not prevent anyone from leaving.        Ray has pleaded not guilty to three counts of manslaughter. His attorneys have said the deaths were simply a tragic accident that Ray could not have predicted.Opening arguments will play out in a Camp Verde courtroom, about 30 miles south of Sedona where Ray conducted the ceremony. Four months have been set  stanley cup aside for the trial.A conviction on all three counts could put Ray in prison for more than 35 years.Complete coverage of Arizona sweat lodge case on CrimesiderMinute Fvds Watch ten years    worth of global weather unfold in just three minutes
 Someone on Reddit posted this old November 2010 image by the Cassini spacecraft. It shows 2-mile-high  3.5-k stanley cup ilometer  structures rising on Saturn   B ring   outer edge. We talked about this back then, but it   a great peg to show this cool artist impression of what it would look like from the ring itself:     Another finding from new images of the B ring   outer edge was the presence of at least two perturbed regions, including a long arc of narrow, shadow-casting peaks as high as 3.5 kilometers  2 miles  above the ring plane. The areas are likely populated with small moons that might have stanley hrnek  migrated across the outer part of the B ring in the past and got trapped in a zone affected by the moon Mimas ; gravity. This process is commonly believed to have configured the present-day solar system. This time-lapse video captured by Cassini gives you an idea of how the small moon   gravity affects the ring edge: And since we are at it, enjoy the latest stunning images from Saturn from the Cassini spacecraft: Saturn is circled by its rings  seen nearly edge-on in  stanley cup this image , as well as by the moons Tethys  the large bright body near the lower right hand corner of this image  and Mimas  seen as a slight crescent against Saturn   disk above the rings, at about 4 o ;clock . The shadows of the rings, each ringlet delicately recorded across Saturn   face, also circle around Saturn   south pole. Although the rings and larger moons of

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 SOUTH BEND, Ind. A former University of Oklahoma starting quarterback was one of two people killed when a small aircraft smashed into a house in northern Indiana, officials said Monday.St. Joseph County Coroner Randy Magdalinski identified the victims of Sunday s crash in South Bend as 60-year-old Steven Davis and 58-year-old Wesley Caves, both of Tulsa, Okla.It was the same Davis who played quarterback for the Sooners in the 1970s, according to an Oklahoma athletics official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the school has not yet announced the death.                The scene in South Bend, Ind., where a small plane crashed into houses, Mar. 17, 2013.                                    stanley italia                    WSBT-TV                                        Caves owned the Beechcraft Premier I twin-jet that clipped one house before slamming into two more Sunday afternoon. Caves had a pilot s license, but it was not immediately clear if he was flying the plane when it crashed.Davis went 32-1-1 as the Sooners  starter from 1973 to 1975, starting every game of Barry Switzer s first three seaso stanley cup ns as head coach. Oklahoma tied Southern Cal in the seco stanley website nd game of the 1973 season, then ran off 28 straight victories with Davis under center. The Sooners went 11-0 in 1974, then won the national title again the following year after going 11-1.The plane leaked enough fuel in the crash to force the evacuation of hundreds of people from surrounding homes. The front part of the fuselage sa Egke Flight Crew Suspicious of Man in Muslim Clothing
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 DURHAM, N.C. The parent organization of Kappa Sigma fraternity has suspended its Duke University chapter over a party  stanley termos some claimed was racist after photos surfaced of partygoers in Asian-style clothing.Last Friday s party was reported to have featured an Asian theme, but university vice president of student affairs Larry Moneta said the title was changed to international relations after some students complained.An Asian student group filed a complaint and held a protest rally Wednesday. The events of the past week have deeply hurt students in our community,  the Asian Students Association and the Asian American Alliance wrote on Facebook.  We won t use our platform to alienate, to provide more fodder for stereotypes about Duke, or to trivialize any person s experience. Instead, we will use this opportunity to spread awareness of why the events of the past week were h stanley becher urtful and to establish a concrete plan for how our c stanley mugs ommunity can move forward. Pictures posted online showed people attending the party dressed in Asian-style clothing and a greeting that mocked Asian dialect.        Kappa Sigma executive director Mitchell Wilson said the national organization will investigate the party and take final action based on the outcome of that probe.Moneta said the university is considering unspecified action.As CBS affiliate WRAL notes, controversy over racial insensitivity isn t new for the university.In November, Duke women s lacrosse coach Kerstin Kimel apologized after photos from  Rxxt Tenn. judge faces judicial review for ordering baby Messiah s name change
 Welcome to Reading List. Another year and another week means another roundup of great stories that might have squeaked by during the holiday. We ;ve got some speculative doom and gloom, a look into the future of one of NASA   Mars rovers, and a profile of a man who is clickbait personified. Happy New Year and happy reading.      Emerson Spartz is a man in search for virality, internet virality to be exact. At 27, Spartz helms tons of websites that ebb and flow with the schadenfreude or goodwill trends of the internet, all in the eternal search for your click. [The New Yorker] NASA needs to reconfigure some flash memory. Not much of a challenge for one of the most advanced scientific outfits in the world, but when that memory is stored stanley website  on a rover millions of miles away, it gets a little tricky. NASA kubki stanley    Opportunity rover has been a champion of planetary science, going a decade beyond its planned 3-month mission. But now the rover has amnesia because of faulty hardware and is deleting all it learns everyday鈥攂ut NASA may have a solution. [Disc stanley cup overy News] What would happen if Earth suddenly stopped its orbit around the Sun  Wired takes a fun look at this end of days scenario that is more horrific than you ;d think. How many days would humans have left to live and what would be the last organism to survive  There is no scientific evidence to suggest this would ever happen, but if it was a movie鈥擨 ;d watch it. [Wired] Ai Weiwei is one of the m

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 Health care in America is changing rapidly. Twenty-five years ago, most people in the United Sta stanley website tes had indemnity insurance coverage. A person with indemnity insurance could go to any doctor, hospital, or other provider  which would bill for each service given , and the insurance and the patient would each pay part of the bill. But today, more than half of all Americans who have health insurance are enrolled in some kind of managed care plan mdash; an organized way of both providing services and paying for them. Different types of managed care plans work differently and include health maintenance organizations  HMOs , preferred provider organizations  PPOs  and point-of-service  POS  plans. You ve probably heard these terms before. But what do they mean, and what are the differences between them  And what do these differences mean to you  An HMO is a health care organization created in an effort to lower health care costs for you and for whomever is helping you pay for your health care, such as an employer or the government.  If you join an HMO, you get to use their services at a very low cost, much less than if you went to the doctor and paid for them. HMOs are also appealing to those who pay for health care services, because HMOs are usually large organizations that can buy services for thousands o stanley italia f people and, at the same time, decide what type of care they will receive. Both stanley us  of these allow HMOs to lower the cost of health care and give companies cheaper health care rates Iuqg This Anvil Case for Your iPhone Just Needs Casters and Band Stickers
 Out with curly and blue; in with angular and gold. Microsoft   Bing search engine has just received a major redesign which it   hoped will reinvigorate the service鈥攂ut is it really enough      The new logo uses the same color as one of the Windows quadrants, a stylized b, and a sharp Segoe font for the rest of the name鈥攁 more modern look than termo stanley  the rather  flabby, curly offering of old. Speaking to Verge, Microsoft   design lead Lawrence Ripsher explained that the logo, obviously, is a big deal for us, a lot more an stanley taza gular and fresh and sharper than we ;ve used in the past. Elsewhere, the design of the entire search engine has been given an overhaul, too, t stanley kaffeebecher o make it more user friendly. So, Page Zero provides some search results before you ;ve finished typing your entire query, while Pole Position highlights specific results right at the top of your search. In fairness, the changes are fairly subtle, but apparently Microsoft plans to roll out more radical results layouts soon, too. It   doubtful that any of this is enough to tempt most users away from Google鈥攂ut Microsoft seems keen  to create a search engine which doesn ;t involve buying in to an entire ecosystem. Our approach at Bing has been, for a long time, to not necessarily build our own social network, to not build our own video channel, to not build all these things that we want to work with, explains Stefan Weitz, Microsoft   director

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