Feds raid "Princeton of Pot" in California

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Leipheimer hit by car, 'lucky to be alive'

GUENES, Spain (AP) ? American cyclist Levi Leipheimer felt "lucky to be alive" after he was hit by a car while training for a race.

The Omega Pharma-Quick Step rider was training by himself Sunday for the Tour of Basque Country when he was struck from behind. The Italian team said in a statement that Leipheimer went to a hospital. He had a sore and swollen lower left leg but no broken bones.

Leipheimer was to be examined again Monday in California before a date can be set for his return to racing, the team said.

The 38-year-old former teammate of Lance Armstrong will skip the six-stage Spanish race, which begins Monday.

"This is one of those mornings when feeling like I got run over is actually true," Leipheimer wrote on Twitter on Monday. "Yes I was hit by a car directly from behind, didn't see or hear it coming. One of the scariest experiences of my life."

Associated Press

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Self Motivation

Have you ever feel down, depressed, and loss of motivation? People live for their own purposes. For everything we do, we must have strong reason, so we have strong motivation to finish it. What reasons we have affects on what our motivations are. Motivation is one of the most important key on self improvement. Without motivation, our thoughts will be dissipate and fade quite rapidly.

Why do we need self motivation?
Strong motivation leads us to do our activity enthusiastically. It gives us spirit and power in doing our activities. How come? Why do we need self motivation?

1. To encourage ourselves to finish our job.
2. To plan and find the purpose of our life
3. To give spirit and enthusiasm to live
4. To avoid negative thinking
5. To step up ward when we are weak

How to improve motivation?
It is possible to get problems during our job or activity and it make us weak and loss motivation. How to improve our motivation?
1. Be prepared
Prepare yourself when you want to start something. Includes prepare when problems happened and let you down. When it happened, move backward and reflect, find the causes. Are you tired, burned out, or disappointed? Be prepared on that situation so you will be ready when it happened.

2. Being focused
When you are doing something, you have to be focus on it. Too much things can paralyze you. Prioritize to start doing something you like to do first, and focus to finish it well.

3. Review all the successes you?ve get
Reviewing all of your success in past can arise your motivation and make you think ?I can did it, so why don?t now?? in every area of your life, totally forget any negatives, just positive successes.

4. Share with your good friend
Chatting and sharing with your friend can give you another positive suggestion on your problem. He/she can give you advice to motivate you.

5. Read inspiring story or listen to inspiring mentor
This can help you to get more motivation by its words.

It is a common experience dealing with high and low emotional. We have to know ourselves and understand how to treat our feelings. We can use our self power to do everything we need if we know how to use it properly.

Self Motivation
Reviewed by Admin on April 2, 2012 Rating: 4.5Tags: Opinion, Tips and Tricks
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NVIDIA CEO suggests $199 Tegra 3 tablets in the summer

Always talkative NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is in the news yet again, this time telling the New York Times that his company's Tegra 3 hardware is incorporating enough cost saving that it could be in $199 Android tablets by this summer. Beyond the tantalizing thought of value-priced tablets with the horsepower of the Transformer Prime (perfect for that rumored price subsidized, ASUS-built and Google-branded slate, right?) there's also a shout out Tegra-powered Windows 8 slates and Sony's unannounced VAIO Cromebook that popped through the FCC. The NYT suggests its T25 chip could stand for Tegra 2.5 with a debut planned for Google I/O in June -- we'll find out then if this is misguided line drawing or a very educated guess.

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by starfish on March 29, 2012

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Romney's fundraisers are quietly amassing millions

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2012, photo Miami Dolphins majority owner Stephen Ross speaks before introducing Joe Philbin as the head coach for the Miami Dolphins in Davie, Fla. A few weeks before the Republican primary in Florida in January, Ross, the billionaire owner of the Dolphins, hosted a fundraiser for Mitt Romney at his oceanfront home in Palm Beach. The average voter wouldn?t know about the event at the home of Ross because Romney?s campaign doesn?t follow the practice of other major presidential candidates who have willingly identified big-money fundraisers and the amounts they collect. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2012, photo Miami Dolphins majority owner Stephen Ross speaks before introducing Joe Philbin as the head coach for the Miami Dolphins in Davie, Fla. A few weeks before the Republican primary in Florida in January, Ross, the billionaire owner of the Dolphins, hosted a fundraiser for Mitt Romney at his oceanfront home in Palm Beach. The average voter wouldn?t know about the event at the home of Ross because Romney?s campaign doesn?t follow the practice of other major presidential candidates who have willingly identified big-money fundraisers and the amounts they collect. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A few weeks before the Republican primary in Florida in January, the billionaire owner of the NFL's Miami Dolphins hosted a fundraiser for Mitt Romney at his oceanfront home in Palm Beach. The average voter wouldn't know about the event at the home of Stephen Ross because Romney's campaign doesn't follow the practice of other major presidential candidates who have willingly identified big-money fundraisers and the amounts they collect.

A review by The Associated Press of campaign records and other documents reveals hints about the vast national network of business leaders bringing in millions to elect Romney. The same month that Ross invited friends and colleagues to his home, for example, Romney's campaign received $317,000 from nearly 150 people who share Ross's exclusive ZIP code on Florida's east coast, according to Federal Election Commission records. That mysterious surge of donations outpaced all contributions to Romney during the previous year from the wealthy Palm Beach area, when the campaign collected $270,000 over nine months. Romney got $21,000 more from residents there in February.

Unlike President Barack Obama, Romney's campaign will not identify his major fundraisers, and federal law doesn't require him to. The AP identified several of Romney's "bundlers" through interviews, finance records, event invitations and other publicity about campaign events. The lack of transparency by the Romney campaign prevents voters from knowing who wields influence inside the GOP frontrunner's campaign and how their interests might benefit if he is elected. Romney is in California this week for at least five private fundraisers.

Bundlers are typically well-connected business and banking executives who tap their professional and social networks to steer individual contributions from others to the campaign in amounts that can range from $10,000 to well over $500,000. Experienced bundlers can reach these highest amounts quickly. Persuading 25 couples to attend a VIP reception with the candidate for $2,500 each ? the maximum an individual can give a campaign ? raises $125,000 in a single evening.

Even in the era of "super" political action committees, which can pull in millions of dollars in unlimited and effectively anonymous contributions to support candidates, bundlers are their own campaign forces. Unlike super PACs, which can't legally coordinate with candidates, bundlers raise large amounts deposited directly into a campaign's bank account ? money that can be spent to pay for salaries, get-out-the-vote efforts and advertising.

This presidential election is expected to be among the costliest ever. Obama's re-election campaign has raised just over $151 million. His campaign released the names of its bundlers in late January, and the list illustrates how important these elite fundraisers have become. More than 440 bundlers collected at least $75 million to help Obama win a second term, including 61 people who each raised at least half-million dollars.

Fundraising has been a bright spot for Romney during the bruising GOP primary. Romney has built a potent organization that has pulled in nearly $75 million. Two-thirds of the total ? nearly $49 million ? came from people who gave the $2,500 maximum, which can be indicative of contributions pulled together by bundlers. Just $6.5 million, or 9 percent, came from supporters who gave $200 or less. The emphasis on top-tier donations indicates an active network of fundraisers who are targeting high-end contributors.

"Romney is less focused on small donors than any other candidate at this stage of the campaign in recent memory," said Michael Malbin, director of the nonpartisan Campaign Finance Institute. "And that is parallel to a larger problem: He has not yet excited the passions of the kind of people who give small contributions or volunteer their time."

One prominent Romney supporter, Lewis M. Eisenberg, said that even with the rise of super PACs like Restore Our Future, which helped Romney pay for important advertising, the campaign is still dependent as ever on "hard money" that pays for salaries, state organizing, television ads, direct mailings and other expenses.

"It's fair to say we still haven't seen the clear impact of all the changes," said Eisenberg, co-chairman for Romney's campaign in Florida and John McCain's finance chairman in 2008. "What we do know is you still need the hard dollars that go to the campaign ? to deliver the direct message of the candidate and the campaign."

Federal law requires only that candidates identify bundlers who also are registered lobbyists, which the Romney campaign has done. Sixteen lobbyists representing a wide range of interests raised nearly $2.2 million for him last year, according to FEC records. Andrea Saul, a Romney spokeswoman, said the campaign discloses all the information about its donors required by law.

The AP's review identified dozens of people who fit the profile of a bundler for Romney. Many are listed on invitations for Romney fundraising events, assigned to mine their business and personal networks for maximum campaign contributions.

Several were the same mega-donors who gave million-dollar contributions to Restore Our Future, the independently run super PAC supporting Romney. Seven of the 15 millionaires and billionaires who gave $1 million to the super PAC have either hosted Romney fundraising events or joined his finance committees. They include Tiger Management head Julian Robertson, hedge fund founders Paul Singer and John Paulson, and businessmen William Koch, Francis Rooney and Frank VanderSloot.

Former Bain Capital executive Edward Conard, whose anonymous $1 million donation to the super PAC in August spurred controversy until he came forward publicly, was one of the lead fundraisers for a December Romney event in New York. Conard declined to detail his fundraising role for the campaign but said he "wouldn't have a problem" if the campaign identified Romney's bundlers.

New York's financial institutions are the hub of Romney's fundraising, ties that were forged during Romney's rise in the 1980s as founder of Bain Capital, the Boston-based private equity firm he directed until 1999. Over the past year, he has made regular stops at restaurants, hotels, law firms and private clubs in New York to collect donations. He is regularly joined by wealthy investment, hedge fund and banking executives who have signed on to run fundraisers.

One major Romney donor, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss fundraising practices behind the scenes, acknowledged that Romney financiers who serve as event hosts or are listed as members of campaign finance committees are likely Romney's bundlers and generally asked to raise a certain amount.

Romney's largest source of donations is employees at Goldman Sachs, the New York based investment and securities firm. More than $426,000 flowed into the Romney campaign in 2011 from individuals who identified themselves as Goldman Sachs managers or employees, and the Romney campaign has listed several senior or former Goldman Sachs executives as lead fundraisers of its campaign events, including John Whitehead, the firm's former chairman.

One top Goldman Sachs fundraiser is Muneer Satter of Chicago, a managing partner who heads the firm's Mezzanine Group. Satter was a co-chairman of Romney's national finance committee during his unsuccessful 2008 presidential bid. Satter was a lead fundraiser for at least two events for Romney in 2011, one in New York in December and another in Chicago in May, and gave $195,000 to the super PAC supporting Romney. Satter did not return several telephone messages from the AP.

Eisenberg, a senior advisor to the Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts private equity fund, would not say whether he was a bundler. But his activities bear the hallmarks of a major fundraiser.

A former finance chairman of the Republican National Committee and a $500,000-level bundler for McCain in 2008, Eisenberg was a lead fundraiser for Romney events in New York in October and December, and he hosted a reception at a New York law firm in late September. He also gave $25,000 to the super PAC supporting Romney, adding to a $100,000 donation to the group in February from KKR founder Henry Kravis. Donors listing KKR as their place of business gave $36,000 to Romney's campaign in 2011.

Two other major sources of Romney's campaign money are the New York investment bank JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Credit Suisse, the international bank based in Switzerland.

The former chairman of JPMorgan, William B. Harrison, was a lead fundraiser at a New York event for Romney in mid-December. Two executives of JPMorgan subsidiaries, Andy Sriubas and Reinier Prijten, were listed at events for Romney last fall. And four senior JPMorgan executives ? among them the bank's vice chairman, James B. Lee and former Republican Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida, now the firm's director of Florida, Central American and Caribbean operations ? hosted a separate December fundraiser for Romney.

In the two weeks before and after the December fundraisers, the Romney campaign received more than $60,000 in contributions from JPMorgan employees, according to federal election records.

The chairman of Credit Suisse in New York, Eric Varvel, was listed on invitations for two fundraisers for Romney in New York in October and December, as well as for a New York fundraiser earlier this month. The Romney campaign reportedly took in nearly $2 million from that event and another in New York that day.

Donors who listed their employer as JPMorgan accounted for $305,000 in contributions to Romney last year, according to campaign records. More than $283,000 came from individuals who identified Credit Suisse as their place of employment.

Bobbie Kilberg, chief executive officer of the Northern Virginia Technology Council in suburban Washington, helped collect more than $2.2 million and said she is "profoundly proud to be identified as a person who raises money for Mitt Romney."

Kilberg said she has worked with a team of Romney supporters who have held a series of fundraisers for him, including a June 29 event at the Ritz Carlton in Northern Virginia, which brought in nearly $350,000. An Oct. 25 gathering at her home in McLean, Va., raised $356,000. That was followed by another fundraiser that collected more than $1.5 million.

Daniel Dumezich, a partner with the Winston & Strawn law firm in Chicago, said he held fundraisers for Romney in Indiana. He also helped organize volunteers and supporters for the campaign. Dumezich said his goal was to inspire others to support Romney, encouraging them to write checks and to find others to give money. Dumezich said he doesn't mind being identified as supporting Romney. But he said he doesn't have an opinion about whether Romney's campaign should also disclose how much he and others are raising.

"I haven't thought about that," he said.

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Associated Press writers Jack Gillum, Brett J. Blackledge and Steve Peoples contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Brown Faces in White Places doing science (and wearing hoodies)

I was having a Twitter conversation with @LeafWarbler about being a lone brown face in a research setting.? I told him of my adventures in field research in rural Illinois (outside of Urbana-Champaign).? I was trapping small mammals on corn fields just off of a rural road. It became common for law enforcement to show up and check me out.? For each visit, I would have to explain that I had permission to be there (provide name of land owner), who I was, what I was doing (often having to show them the animals I had in hand to prove it), and wait. Wait for the call-in and confirmation.

After so many visits, one cop eventually said he?d leave a note with dispatch so that they would stop responding to calls about me.

LeafWarbler asked if I was wearing a hoodie (when the cops arrived while I was doing research); and I laughed because, yeah, I was.

Me at my field site wearing a hoodie

Being stopped or suddenly surrounded by authorities isn?t a new thing to many researchers.? However, researchers of color who do research in the field (also outdoors men and women) have these kinds of stories to share, often.? We laugh about it, but it?s quite sad that something about ?us? ? hoodie or not, evokes such fear and suspicion.

Is it really the hoodie, like Geraldo Rivera suggests?

I donned my hoodie for Trayvon Martin.? Like so many other people I couldn?t believe how the law was interpreted and how George Zimmerman was allowed to walk away from killing this young man without so much as a Grand Jury trial.? And yes, it felt personal and real and quite possible for me.

Me and my hoodie wearing younger brother

This is my younger brother, known as the ?One Boy?, because he?s my mother?s (and father?s) only son.? My parents love all of us, but my brother evokes a hard to explain protection from them and from me and my sisters as well.? Perhaps it?s because he?s the youngest.? Perhaps it?s because we all worry about trouble finding him, getting hurt or getting that call that breaks hearts.?? It?s a fear that is all to real for most people I know from my Memphis neighborhood. I?ll admit I prefer him when he looks like this:all cleaned up. But something about his size, his booming voice, dark brown skin, and long locks while wearing a hoodie (like above) evoke suspicion in others, especially authority figures.? A year and a half ago, he and my cousin were approaching my sister?s front door when the cops began questioning without cause.? They were looking for someone who stayed next door to her, but decided they looked suspicious enough and they were taken into custody immediately.? The charge: ?Standing in the street?.? No kidding, I can?t make this up.? I know my brother?s dress didn?t help convince them that he wasn?t a gang member. (He was wearing a red hoodie ? his high school colors, in a known Blood neighborhood).? But I also know that city cops are known to harass and abuse young men for no real cause.? I beat the police to the police station which was only 4 blocks away and demanded to see my brother and cousin.? They weren?t there. In fact, the dispatcher had no record of any young men being picked up in the last 30 minutes.? I quickly whipped out my ?Dr title ?and called my ACLU lawyer friend.

Within moments, my brother and cousin were returned to my sister?s house, unharmed.? Maybe things turned out fine without my intervention; but the sad fact is, this is the life of many young men ? black, brown, even white.? Something about a certain style of dress and appearance evoke suspicion in some people. And everyday, poor (inner-city) people are abused or killed by cops and vigilantes like George Zimmerman.

I?m not sure of the psychology of this madness, but Melanie Tannenbaum addresses some of these demons with her Guest Blog post Trayvon Martin?s Psychological Killer: Why We See Guns That Aren?t There.

But to me, the banter around the topic really calls to mind this notion of Brown Faces in White Places.? Dr. Caroyn Finney wrote her dissertation on African-Americans and the great outdoors which included how people of color often have negative experiences because of the reactions of authorities or other visitors.? She became aware of this notion of place as a child. She grew up? on a 13-acre estate in a wealthy white neighborhood of Mamaroneck, N.Y., where her parents worked, taking care of the grounds and house.

It was, she recalls, ?a beautiful piece of property,? with flower and vegetable gardens, a lake, and a variety of fruit trees. The owners, who were there only on weekends and holidays, lived in ?what I call the big house.?
?I remember being 9, and walking home from school,? she says. ?There were always police patrolling the neighborhood, and one day there was a new policeman on patrol. When he saw me walking home he asked, ?Where are you going?? And I said, ?Oh, around the corner,? and I gave him the address. And he said, ?Do you work there???
Even in the recounting, Finney is incredulous. ?I?m 9,? she repeats. ?I said, ?No, I live there.? And so, reflecting back, I was completely out of place.?

And I imagine that is what is happening with so many of us who do science ? in the field or industry ? or work in academia.? Somehow, no one was expecting to see this face ? this brown face or young face or female face or male face or unkempt face or this hoodie-clad face, whatever it may be.? Oftentimes, persons of authority and persons of privilege (usually one in the same) have no problem descending upon us, questioning our presence in this place. Asking, nay, demanding that we justify our presence in a place. Behave in an acquiescent manner while we are being held up and distracted from our jobs or simply minding our law-abiding business, lest we be arrested or harmed. ?And until the possibility that any kind of face could be the one doing science or teaching class or leading project or walking down the street in a gated-community with Skittles and an Ice Tea, then we?re still likely to have conversations like these in the future.

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