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Kyle Lafferty accepts he may have to settle for a place on the bench again for Northern Ireland's Euro 2016 meeting with Germany next week.
The 28-year-old striker was surprisingly left out of Michael O'Neill's XI when they defeated Ukraine 2-0 on Thursday in Lyon, even though he had scored seven goals in qualification and was a driving force behind them reaching France.
Lafferty was one of five players to make way from the team defeated by Poland in Nice and he admits he would not blame his manager for sticking with the same line-up when Northern Ireland face the current world champions in Paris on Tuesday.
"I don't think any of the lads who started deserve to be dropped," he said.
"I think the performance that they put in...they probably sweated blood out there and they deserve another chance."
Lafferty added:"It's not about me, it's never been about me," the Norwich forward added.
"I knew from the start of the campaign that my position wasn't guaranteed and it's proved it.
"There are 23 players in the squad and none of us think we are guaranteed a place. I might have scored goals and played a massive part in getting us here but that means nothing now.
"We are at the Euros now and if the manager thinks someone should start ahead of me then I will have nothing to say.
"I respect the manager's decision but of course I'm disappointed not to play in our biggest game in 30 years. I still have to work my socks off in training to have a chance of playing.
"Michael has made massive changes – to change five players from the first game is a massive shout but it's paid off.
"As a fan I am absolutely delighted for every player. Conor and I have a great relationship so I'm absolutely delighted for him to start. With the performance he put in, I think he deserves another chance against Germany."
In beating Ukraine, O'Neill's side recorded a maiden success at the Euros and their first at a major tournament in 34 years.
It was historic in more than one way for the Evans family too as brothers Jonny and Corry both started the fixture, a fact which contributed to the elder sibling being brought to tears.
"To be able to repay everyone who has been involved with a victory – and the fact that I've been able to do that with my brother – just makes it incredible," Jonny Evans said.
"I got a bit emotional as well. I hugged him after the game – and I went! He was like, 'What are you crying for'!"

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Pattern underfoot adds historical flair.
Glamorous and atmospheric, this Montreal kitchen by designer Luc Beauvais takes its inspiration from intimate French boîtes. Flat-front black cabinets recede, allowing the intricate tile floors to steal the show. The exotic tile pattern adds warmth to the sleek cabinets, masculine palette and industrial touches, such as nickel pendants.
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An acrylic waterfall table directs attention to the artwork.
A living room vignette provides a mix of textures and styles: wooden African sculptures and a hide-covered stool inject sub-Saharan flavour, while an acrylic console table lends a contemporary hit.
Two huge Moorish-style mirrors lend a Spanish flavour to this great room.
In the 2011 Princess Margaret Showhome, two leather camp chairs lend a Serengeti vibe. Custom throw pillows in a Navajo-inspired Ralph Lauren woven cloth hail from the other side of the globe, and add an earthy touch and rich pattern.
An African-inspired table brings subtle global style to this family room.
The carved-wood coffee table and eclectic pillows strike an exotic note in H&H senior design editor Sally Armstrong's living room. The wallpaper, patterned floor and print pillows are a masterful mix.
Sophisticated fabric and artwork add to this room's aesthetic.
In this globetrotting-styled space, an Asian-inspired console sits comfortably with a Moroccan style perforated-metal lantern and carved screen, and African-inspired artwork. A simple striped kilim is an easy way to bring global to your door.
Look for one-of-a-kind antique pieces.
Lit by handsome tall original sash windows, the spare bedroom is home to an early-1800s teak village bed that was shipped back from Rajasthan, India. En route, it lost its tiles and broke to bits. It was reassembled in London by a master joiner, and homeowner Alistair Green scoured the city to find the new tiles.
Exotic patterns mix in this small space.
An old apothecary cabinet in designer Karen Cole's guest bedroom opens up in several ways, including a drop-leaf desk. Antique twin beds loaded up with brightly patterned throw pillows offer an inviting spot to curl up and read, but can be made up as guest beds within minutes. Bold art and antique rugs contribute to a space that's as cosy and useful for Karen as it is for her guests.
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A Moroccan stool topped with hammam towels are a wordly touch in this spa-like bathroom, and lend a sense of history. In a clean, contemporary setting, a woven basket and wooden brush inject personality.
A bright main hallway with luxe touches.
"This foyer is an eclectic mix of styles and periods that reflects the aesthetic that I aspire to in my work," says designer Melody Duron. A Chinese altar is topped with an exotic vignette and a convex Regency mirror flanked by sconces with an Indian feel.
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what is literal loop?
I saw this in this URL: Beginner Level
and inside of this topic here's a sample program:
public class Sample { public static void main(String[] args) { int count = 0; for (int i = 0x0EF; i <= 0647; i++) { count++; } System.out.println("The loop looped " + count + " times."); } }
1.) i dont know the value of '0x0ef' , whats that supposed to mean?
2.) what is literal loop? is it some kind of LOGIC in making a loop? or its just the title of the topic?


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Last weekend's snowfall provided an appropriate setting for the annual Snowball Tournament at Norwood Fontbonne Academy, but it wasn't serious enough to disrupt the schedule for area grade school hoops teams.
The champion in the girls' bracket was Ancillae Assumpta Academy. The Wyncote ballclub finished the final game with a 10-0 run to secure a 34-28 victory over Lafayette Hill's St. Philip Neri, which repeated as the tournament runner-up. St. Alphonsus, of Maple Glen, successfully defended its 2010 boys' title, making a decisive move in the third quarter and going on to defeat Andorra's Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM), 44-29.
The boys' team for host Norwood pulled off a dramatic 48-44 win against Holy Martyrs in the opening round, then ran into foul trouble in the semifinals and succumbed to IHM, 47-33. The NFA girls hung close to St. Genevieve's through much of their first-round clash, but ended up losing, 24-18. The Bears also went down in the consolation round, where they were defeated by the IHM girls, 31-11.
Norwood's own Eva McGrath won the girls' foul-shooting contest at the Snowball, and Springside's Olivia Byron prevailed in the three-point shot competition. St. Gen's Patrick Meenan proved best of the boys from the foul line, and the top three-point shooter was Gavin Brody of St. Philip.
The tournament opened on Thursday afternoon with girls action that produced a 36-20 victory by the Springside middle school team over St. Luke's, and Ancillae's 32-6 win over Conshohocken/Epiphany. On the boys' side, St. Alphonsus got by St. Gen's, 41-34, while Epiphany (a standalone team not allied with Conshohocken Catholic) defeated St. Philip, 28-17.
First-round games continued on Friday, and in addition to performances by both Norwood teams, the IHM boys team eked out a 39-38 victory over Holy Cross, and the IHM girls were dispatched by St. Philip, 39-19.
On Saturday, a 12-hour slate of games included the semifinal bouts in the main draw of the tournament, and consolation-round contests for both boys and girls.
The Norwood boys were coming off their big win against Holy Martyrs in their tournament debut. Martyrs led 41-38 with just over three minutes remaining in that game, but the Bears put together an 8-0 rally consisting of two lay-ups by Tyler Clark and field goals by Peter O'Malley and Evan Morgan. Martyrs' Chris Binet bagged a three-pointer from the top of the key to make it a two-point affair (46-44) with nine seconds left, but Norwood's Jack Quirk was fouled with five-and-a-half ticks to go, and converted both free throws to ice the Bears' victory.
Midway through the second quarter of their Saturday semifinal, the Bears only trailed IHM 23-21, but Clark picked up his third, fourth, and fifth personal fouls in just a 23-second span. Cameron Stephenson, another mainstay, was hit with his fourth foul just after that, and the depleted NFA squad went on to lose by 14 points. Clark and Quirk scored eight points apiece and Stephenson had five, while IHM was powered by 16 points from Connor McKenna and eight from Mike Melady.
A day earlier, Eva McGrath had carried the Norwood girls team in its tourney opener with a game-high 12 points. She hit two transition lay-ups and two free-throws in the fourth quarter as a 10-point St. Gen's lead shrank to four (22-18). The Bears couldn't score again, though, and a successful drive by St. Gen's Bailey Krewson (nine points total) tacked the final score on the board.
The NFA ladies were only down 12-8 at halftime in the consolation game on Saturday, but IHM pulled away smartly in the second half, taking a 24-11 lead by the three-quarter mark. The Bears were held scoreless in a 7-0 fourth round. Molly Creamer recorded five points to pace Norwood, which got three points apiece from McGrath and Anna Feinschil and two from Colleen Clark. Brigit McDermott and Julia Moriarty paced IHM with 10 and seven points, respectively.
In the other consolation game for the girls, St. Luke beat Conshy/Epiphany, 35-17, and the boys consolation winners were St. Gen's (46-27 over St. Philip) and Holy Cross (61-38 against Holy Martyrs). The most prolific scorers for the three winners were Casey Carrigan for St. Luke (12 points), Brendan Dugan and Conall Mulligan of St. Gen's (15 apeice), and Alston Harriot of Holy Cross (18).
With its semifinal victory over the Norwood boys, IHM advanced to Sunday's championship game to meet St. Alphonsus, which cruised past Epiphany in the other semifinal, 52-21. On the girls' side, St. Philip made the finals thanks to a 42-37 outing against St. Gen's, while Ancillae survived Springside, 31-25, in another girls semifinal bout.
Strong efforts in a losing cause included those of St. Gen's Krewson, with a game-high 23 points, and Springside's Byron and Epiphany's Joseph Carluccio, who led their teams with eight points apiece.
In each of Sunday's championship games, the teams raced neck-and-neck through the first two quarters. After a slow start, the St. Philip girls held a 14-13 edge at halftime, but Ancillae pulled even at the three-quarter mark, 24-24.
A lay-up by Alison Spinelli and a jumper by Emily Hall moved St. Philip ahead by four points at the start of the final round. Christie Mischler sparked a decisive rally for Ancillae with a three-pointer from the right wing, then Allison Sloan scored off a rebound and hit one of two free throws to move the Wyncote club ahead, 30-28, with two minutes to go.
Denying St. Philip the rest of the way, Ancillae added a short jumper by Ashley Stefanowicz (seven points total) and two foul shots by Mischler, who finished with a game-high 10 points. The victors also received six points each from Sloan and Hazel Skarbek, three from Caitlin Morrissey, and two from Caroline Bown. Hall had a team-high nine points for the runner-up Saints, who got eight points from Gianna DeBellis.
The boys' tournament finalists were also separated by a single point at the intermission, with St. Alphonsus up 20-19. When play resumed, a lay-up by Fletcher Grady and a baseline shot by Ryan McTemney (four points total) gave a three-point lead to IHM, which then went cold from the floor.
Hitting lay-ups and short jump shots, Brian Dennin (14 points total) deposited four out of five field goals for St. Alph's in the remainder of the third period. A three-pointer by top scorer Aidan Kerrigan (19 points) figured into the outburst as St. Alph's took a 31-23 advantage into the fourth quarter.
Once the leaders opened the final frame with a short jumper by Jimmy Gallagher and a lay-up and free throw by Kerrigan (making it 36-23), IHM never got back into contention. John Barrett and Ned Tanner added five and two points, respectively, for the tourney champs, while IHM was led by Connor McKenna, with seven points, Melady, with six, and Pat McKenna, with five.


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Florida native Janet Wood Reno made history when President Bill Clinton appointed her to serve as the first female U.S. Attorney General in 1993. Prior to her work in Washington, Reno had already made waves in Florida after becoming the first woman elected as state attorney in 1978. Janet Reno died at her home early Monday morning. She was 78 years old.
Born in Miami on July 21, 1938 to journalists Jane Wood and Henry Reno, Janet Reno grew up surrounded by intellectual stimuli. When thirteen-year-old Janet announced to her mother, an investigative reporter for the now defunct Miami News, that she aspired to attend law school, her mother encouraged her to realize her dreams. "You can do anything, be anything you really want to be, regardless of whether you're a woman….You want to be a lawyer? You can be a lawyer," remembered Reno of her mother who died of cancer in 1992. After graduating from Coral Gables High School in 1956 and Cornell University in 1960, she applied to Harvard Law School. Upon learning of her daughter's acceptance to the program, Reno's mother "whoop[ed] with joy," explaining that she had always wanted to become a lawyer, too.
In 1963, Janet Reno was one of just 15 women–in a graduating class of 500–to earn a law degree from Harvard. As a young lawyer in the 1960s, Reno overcame several hurdles before rising to political prominence in the 1980s and 90s. She applied for a clerkship with a law firm the summer after graduation, but the firm rejected her application because of her gender. "I felt mad," admitted Reno. "[I] went and got a job at another law firm. I never let it bother me after that," said the future U.S. Attorney General, who, fourteen years later, would make partner at the very same law firm that had originally rejected her on account of being female. She briefly served as staff director to the Florida House Judiciary Committee before mounting a failed campaign for a seat in the Legislature in 1972. "The loss was painful," according to Reno. But she wasted no time wallowing in defeat, and moved to Tallahassee where she quickly made inroads with the Governor's Office, serving as assistant state attorney for the Eleventh Judiciary Circuit from 1973-1976. She then went to work in private practice, until Governor Reubin Askew appointed Reno to serve as Dade County State Attorney in 1978, the first woman in Florida to hold that position. In November 1978, Janet Reno won election to the post by a 74-point margin.
As Miami's senior prosecutor from 1978 to 1993, Reno faced repeated criticisms for her handling of several high-profile racially sensitive cases. Nonetheless, she remained steadfast in her intent to uphold the integrity of the judicial process. "I don't ever want to be accused of pleasing one group at the expense of justice," she maintained. Governor Lawton Chiles commended her for showing "great character and courage" as state attorney, and another colleague qualified the heated critiques of Reno noting that "some of the cases were not winnable. She had the courage to go forward with the prosecutions and maybe other prosecutors would not have. I can't fault her for that." During her fifteen years representing the Florida metropolis, Janet Reno was never one to stay holed up in her office. She kept her home phone number listed in the city directory, mentored wayward teenagers, and visited schools and women's shelters with messages of hope and perseverance. On her approach with victims of domestic violence she said: "Despite what these women have been through, you have to show them how not to feel like victims. You try to work with them in every way you possibly can–serve as an example for them, show them they can be somebody, show them what they can do, what their daughters can do."
Her grassroots approach in Miami caught the attention of the incoming presidential administration of Bill Clinton, who nominated Reno for appointment as the first female U.S. Attorney General in 1993. "Janet Reno is far and away the best candidate for this job that President Clinton could have nominated," remarked Florida Senator Bob Graham. After recounting the story of how her late mother built their family home brick by brick, Reno translated the family story into a folksy testimony of how she planned to approach the impending office. "… [T]hat house stands as a symbol to me, that you can do anything you really want to, if it's the right thing to do and you put your mind to it," she told the Senate Judiciary Committee. The committee confirmed her appointment as U.S. Attorney General in March 1993.
The newly-appointed attorney general attracted heavy media buzz during her first month in office, a phenomenon many referred to as "Reno-mania." However, the six-foot one-inch tall, U.S. Attorney General, who described herself as a "54 year old awkward maid [with] a messy house," rejected the fanfare of high-profile political life. She remained focused instead on the great responsibility of being "the people's lawyer." Reno refused to engage the suggestion that she only got the job because she was a woman, looking forward instead: "I don't know whether that's the case or not, but having been offered it [U.S. Attorney General] I'm going to do the best I can." Early on in her tenure, Reno envisioned a legacy tied to creating "equal opportunity for all the children of America" and doing everything she could to "put the families first." Her platform included a sensible stance on crime, working with health and education officials to reduce juvenile crime, protecting the environment by enforcing anti-pollution laws, and upholding civil rights. Despite an ambitious, reform-minded agenda, the attorney general inevitably found herself at the center of numerous federal controversies. But Reno's unprecedented willingness to assume responsibility for her decisions, whether perceived rights or wrongs, endeared her to many constituents. "I made the decision. I'm accountable. The buck stops with me," she famously remarked after her regrettable decision to allow federal intervention of the Branch Davidian Complex in Waco, Texas in 1993 led to the deaths of dozens of people. "That was the hardest decision I ever had to make. I will live with it for the rest of my life," conceded Reno. Though Janet Reno's time in federal office was certainly not without indiscretion, many Americans found her honesty and candid delivery refreshing. Reno served as U.S. Attorney General until 2001, earning the additional honorarium of longest serving attorney general of the twentieth century.
Upon returning to Florida, she put in a bid for the 2002 Florida gubernatorial race, but lost the primary to Democratic opponent Bill McBride, and subsequently retired from political life. During the last decade of her life, Janet Reno enjoyed a quiet life in the Florida Everglades. "I don't think I'm a gregarious person, in the sense of having a lot of casual friends. I have a few people I am very close to," she explained to a reporter soon after winning the state attorney race in 1978. On November 7, 2016, Janet Reno, the trailblazing lawyer with the impeccable integrity, died in her home, surrounded by her closest family and friends.


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ROCHESTER — After leading to more than 75 arrests in her nine years of service with the Police Department, 10-year-old police K9 Fina has retired as a police dog.
In her place, a newly certified 1½-year-old yellow lab, Phlirt, has stepped in, ready to use her nose to find evidence and help police fight crime.
On Wednesday, Police Commission members held a retirement ceremony and badge pinning, during which they recognized Fina's service while welcoming Phlirt into the Police Department.
Phlirt became certified as a narcotics police canine through the Working Dog Foundation in November. She was made available by a grant from the foundation.
"She's full of energy, this one," said her handler, Officer Keith MacKenzie, who said Phlirt has already had successful finds since getting certified.
During the ceremony, Police Chief Mike Allen noted the importance of the K9 program in the city — he said canines locate criminals, narcotics, explosives, and missing children that police officers might not otherwise.
Allen said that for a law enforcement canine, nine years is a long career.
He said that in dog years, 10-year-old Fina must be about 70 years old.
"I can only hope I look as good as she does at 70," he joked.
At Wednesday's ceremony, Police Commissioner David Winship took Fina's police badge, and transferred it to MacKenzie, who then pinned the badge on Phlirt's collar.
At the podium at the council chambers, MacKenzie thanked Allen and retired Police Chief David Dubois for supporting the K9 program at the Police Department.
He also thanked Fina for listening to him in the cruiser over the years, and helping him look good by finding evidence that leads to arrests.
"She is the smart one, she is the one who makes me look like a rock star," said MacKenzie.
He said that throughout her time with the Police Department, Fina — who is trained in finding narcotics, tracking suspects, and finding articles such as knives from a crime scene — has won multiple awards, including the Narcotics Case of the Year award three times, and the Patrol Case of the Year award.
Fina, a Czech shepherd, has also been nominated by the United States Police Canine Association for the National Case of the Year Award, and will be competing against three other canines nationwide for that title.
As Fina transitions to be MacKenzie's household pet, Phlirt is getting ready to go out on police calls four to seven times a week. She will also have training sessions every Monday.
Fina, said MacKenzie, is becoming accustomed to retirement. While MacKenzie is at work, the retired canine has been spending time with his wife while she is baking, as well as taking rides in the car to drop off his daughter to school.
"My wife likes hanging out with her," said MacKenzie.
He said his daughters, ages 6 and 2, are already having fun playing with Phlirt, as well as spending time at home with Fina and the Strafford County Sheriff's Department bloodhound, Daisy, who also lives with the MacKenzie family.


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While applauding the cross-strait rapprochement of recent years under President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) administration, a former US official yesterday reminded Taiwan that its best strategic interests lie in deeper economic relationships with other countries in Asia.
"You have done a remarkable job in China, but the degree of diversification is in your best strategic interests," Kurt Campbell, who served as US assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs from 2009 to February this year, told at a luncheon in Taipei.
Whoever is in power or in the opposition, it is important for them to recognize that it is in the interests of Taiwan to have a deeper economic relationship with other countries in Asia, he said.
Campbell was answering a question from Joanne Chang (裘兆琳), a research fellow at Academia Sinica's Institute of European and American Studies, who asked what Taiwan needs to do to establish its readiness to meet the standards of the emerging US-led Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) framework.
The TPP offers enormous possibilities for a number of countries in the region, but "there has to be political ambition, and that has to extend beyond one political polity" for a country to join the TPP, he said.
"Every country I go to, whether is Indonesia, or Thailand, or the Philippines, they all say the same thing: I would like to join the TPP. Can you give us a special dispensation, so that we can get in like a junior membership or something? It's not gonna be possible," he said.
As an example, Campbell said the steps taken by Vietnam to liberalize its economy in just a year and a half were recognition of its desire to play on a global stage.
He recalled his experience in negotiating over trade barriers hampering the resumption of the US-Taiwan Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA).
"One of the hardest I have to deal with in the last couple of years is TIFA. It's really hard, really, really hard," Campbell said.
In response to a question about the role of China in US arms sales to Taiwan, Campbell said the US and Taiwan need to engage in "more unofficial dialogues and integration."
"I can't disagree with you that the nature of both the challenges we face were remarkable investments that China has made over periods of time and some limitations in Taiwan's defense budget made these issues critical," he said.
It was the first visit to Taiwan since Campbell, an architect of US President Barack Obama's pivot or rebalancing toward the Asia policy, left the office. He is now chairman and chief executive of The Asia Group, LLC, and on the board of the Center for a New American Security.
At the luncheon at a forum on US-Taiwan-Japan Trilateral Security Dialogue, a track 1.5 channel among the three countries, Campbell delivered a speech on security dynamics in Northeast Asia and the implications for Taiwan.
Over the last couple of years, the US-China relationship has been relatively stable, the cross-strait relationship is probably at an all-time high and the unofficial relationship between Washington and Taipei is one of the strongest in decades, Campbell said.
"The three-way relationship has a degree of stability. That is unique over the course of 30 years. Taiwan deserves remarkable credits for managing these complex and myriad relationships going forward," he added.


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You know who Jason Bourne is
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Cronenberg, Keira, Cassel, Viggo, and Fassbender
Did you see A History of Violence? How about Eastern Promises? Good things happen when David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen make movies together. This time it's A Dangerous Method. The photo call happened in Venice earlier today. Cronenberg was joined by his cast. Because of the time difference, the premiere photos will likely hit the agencies in the next couple of hours. Full Story
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It's Black Swan day at the London Film Festival. Here's Mila Kunis with Vincent Cassel and Darren Aronofsky at the photocall. If memory serves, this is the first time she's been on promotional duty for the film, having been tied up on another project during previous festival showings. Full Story
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Oh Shelfy loses another one. Natalie Portman continues to work, continues to land interesting scripts, while Jessica Biel, who desperately wants those opportunites, isn't, doesn't, can't. Portman is currently shooting Black Swan in New York for Darren Aronofsky with Mila Kunis. She's taking Hesher to Sundance – a film she produced – then a comedy called Your Highness with James Franco and Danny McBride slated for Fall, she's confirmed for Thor (another role Biel wanted), and now it's been announced that she will produce and star Full Story
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Steve Garban, ex-chairman of Penn State board of trustees, resigns
A member and former chairman of the Penn State board of trustees resigned on Thursday, becoming the first board member to do so in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
Steve Garban said in a letter his presence on the board had become "a distraction and an impediment" to its efforts to move forward.
Garban, who had stepped down as board chairman after Sandusky's November arrest but had remained a board member, was harshly criticized over his handling of the crisis that engulfed Penn State, and he faced persistent calls from alumni and fellow board members to resign.
An internal investigation by former FBI Director Louis Freeh found that Garban was briefed twice about developments in the Sandusky case but didn't share what he knew with the entire board, depriving trustees of a chance to prepare for the worst crisis in Penn State's 157-year history.
Freeh's 267-page report portrayed a disengaged board that handed too much responsibility to the university president and failed to investigate deeply enough once it became aware of a grand jury probe.
After the report's release, trustees accepted responsibility for a failure of oversight and said they were "deeply ashamed." Board Chairwoman Karen Peetz, who announced Garban's resignation in a letter on the board's website, said at the time that no trustee would step down, however.
Garban didn't immediately return a call seeking comment Thursday night. In his resignation letter to Peetz, he said he had "devoted" his adult life to Penn State.
"It has been a privilege and an honor to serve the university that has done so much for me," the letter stated. "Indeed, it is precisely because of my deep gratitude to and respect for my beloved alma mater that I now step aside."
He called the past months "some of the most painful of my life."
"The horrific allegations that came to light in November have haunted us all, but nothing we have experienced compares to that of Jerry Sandusky's victims," he said. "My thoughts and prayers will remain with them always."
In a response posted on the trustees' website, Peetz thanked Garban for his years of service to Penn State.
While Garban is the first trustee to resign in the wake of the Sandusky scandal, he's not the first board casualty. Incumbent trustee Anne Riley lost re-election last spring as alumni upset over the board's handling of the crisis picked three new trustees -- all of whom campaigned on a reform platform -- to sit on the 32-member panel.
A 1959 Penn State graduate, Garban worked at the university for 33 years, the last 12 as treasurer and senior vice president of finance and operations. Alumni first elected him to the board of trustees in 1998, and he began his fifth three-year term in 2010.
Some trustees felt he was too close to ousted university president Graham Spanier, according to the Freeh report.
"Some trustees thought Garban's history of being previously employed at Penn State, where as (senior vice president) he reported directly to Spanier, hampered his ability to lead the board," the report said.
In April 2011, the report said, Spanier told Garban about a grand jury investigation of Sandusky. Garban, in turn, failed to alert fellow board members. Garban told investigators that Spanier downplayed the Sandusky probe, and he recalled his former boss saying, "It was the third or fourth grand jury and nothing would come of it," the report said.
Then, on Oct. 28, Garban learned from Penn State's chief lawyer that two university administrators were about to be charged with failing to report suspected child abuse. Garban told investigators he was "astounded" when he saw Sandusky in the Nittany Lion Club at Penn State's home game against Illinois on Oct. 29. Yet he informed only two other trustees -- James Broadhurst and John Surma -- that charges against Sandusky, Athletic Director Tim Curley and Vice President Gary Schultz were imminent.
Former general counsel Cynthia Baldwin told Freeh's investigators that she thought Garban, as "conduit to the board," would have alerted his colleagues about the Sandusky investigation. Garban told trustees he kept it from them because he was not sure that criminal charges would come to pass, according to the Freeh report.
Garban stepped down as board chairman three days after Sandusky's Nov. 5 arrest, handing the job to Surma, the vice chairman. One day later, the board ousted revered football coach Joe Paterno and Spanier.
Sandusky later was convicted of abusing 10 boys, some on campus. He has maintained his innocence while awaiting sentencing.
Schultz and Curley await trial on charges of perjury and failure to report suspected child abuse. They deny the allegations against them. Spanier is not charged, and his attorneys have criticized the Freeh report, saying it contains inaccuracies.
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Chazz Palminteri brings his advice to radio
NEW YORK (AP) -- In his autobiographical movie and subsequent play, "A Bronx Tale," Chazz Palminteri doles out lots of advice as a young man learns from two father figures.
Now the writer-actor-director is taking his advice skills to the airwaves with "Ask Chazz," a four-week series of live, call-in shows on SiriusXM Radio, where callers will get Palminteri's thoughts on a variety of topics, including entertainment business and relationships.
"It's like life lessons told in a street-savvy way," the actor said. "People say I have my own Chazz-isms. That's why I started the web site, Ask Chazz."
The online advice site caught the attention of SiriusXM President Scott Greenstein, who suggested Palminteri try his hand at a live call-in show. It airs every Wednesday in October.
Don't except someone along the lines of Dear Abby or Ann Landers. Instead, the 60-year-old actor feels he's more like the young hero of "A Bronx Tale," navigating between his father and the gangster he admires.
"Everybody has a dilemma between right and wrong and good and evil, and not knowing what evil looks like sometimes," Palminteri said. He added that giving advice comes naturally to him: "One time I wanted to be a shrink. I'm very honest in my opinion."
Palminteri said he'll be offering advice, insight and perspective on everything from show business to the business of life.
There's a scene in "Bronx Tale" where Palminteri's character suggests a test to find out if a girl is a good match. He tells a young man to lock the car doors when he picks her up, and to open the passenger door for her. After that he should walk around the car.
Palminteri's character advises: "If she doesn't reach over and lift up the button, that means she's selfish and all you're seeing is the tip of the iceberg."
Though not in the movie, Palminteri suggests a similar test for women.
"When a guy drops the woman off at her door, he should wait for her to go inside. And if he leaves before her door closes, then he's out," Palminteri said.
As for his need to want to share information with people, Palminteri remembered the person that helped him finally become a star in his late 30s.
"Robert De Niro helped me. He gave me my first big break, and I never forgot it," Palminteri said, referring to De Niro seeing him perform his one-man show, "A Bronx Tale," in an off-Broadway theater.
In the spirit of "paying back," Palminteri wants young actors to send him a one-minute monologue via his web site, which he will keep on file and pass on to potential producers.
"I love helping young talent," Palminteri said.


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What kind of a piece of sh-t…?
Jesse James has signed a book deal. He's not writing about fixing up cars, or whatever it is that he calls a job. He signed the deal based on content about his life with ex-wife Sandra Bullock and his new life with soon to be new wife Kat Von D. Remember when Jesse James declared, upon announcing his engagement to Von D, that last year was the best year of his life? The same year he humiliated Sandra with his multiple infidelities and Nazi leanings? At the time it didn't seem he could sink any lower. Full Story
What Louis thinks of Jesse
Check out little Louis's expression here. He's probably just grumpy after a nap. But I like to think he's sending a message to that f-cking dickhead who almost became his dad. Sandy and Louis left her place in New York today and were swarmed by the paps. But this, as noted earlier, is her way, non? You show them that they can't beat you. Full Story
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Sandra Bullock was awfully controlled on Sunday at the Golden Globes. Not her usual sunny, smiley self. Why was her face so tight? Today is not the day to speculate about what she's doing to it. Because today is the day her ex-husband announced he's engaged. To Kat Von D. A year ago, Sandy was on her way to Oscar, the favourite, riding a great campaign, Miss Most Popular, with a husband she always publicly shouted out as her perfect partner while accepting accolade after accolade in front of her peers. Full Story
Jesse James has issued a public apology. My mother is an unforgiving bitch. She can hold a grudge forever. And she has that horrible habit of bringing sh-t up forever, like almost 15 years later, she'll still throw it in my face the time when I was dating that guy and didn't take her to the doctor and took money from her and went snowboarding instead and what a prick he was and how I wasted a year and a half of my life on his sorry ass. Full Story
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Say it isn't so? I wish I could. This was what many of you expressed yesterday when news broke of Jesse James's infidelity reported first by In Touch Weekly after Michelle "Bombshell" told her story to the magazine. When this happened to Josh Duhamel and Fergie, they put on a united front and condemned the accusations, forcing their happiness on top of the scandal. Full Story


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For this week's look back to celebrate the 15th anniversary of FocusOnStyle online, let's peek at my video about how to dress to look taller when you are a petite. While 'ya looking, how abour my hair? I think my stylist was having a Jane Fonda in Klute moment. Enjoy! — S.H.
Haven't you ever seen a celebrity or met someone in the flesh and said to yourself, "Gee, they seem so much smaller in person?"
Well, it's not that they "seem" smaller, they know how to dress to look taller.
>>More: Petite Style Tips
In this installment from my petite style video series for about.com, learn the secrets to dress to look taller than you really are. It's all about what to wear and what to avoid to create a taller and leaner appearance.
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Dress to Look Taller with Sharon Haver
Different cuts can help create length and the appearance of height. See how petite ladies can appear taller by the way they dress.
Transcript: Dress to Look Taller
Hello, I'm Sharon Haver from focusonstyle.com, and I'm here today for About.com at Lord and Taylor. We're going to talk about how to dress to look tall when you're petite.
Suits to Look Taller
The first model is Stephanie, she's wearing a really great office to evening black suit and it had clean lines – and it's single breasted with just one button. Where if it was a boxier cut or double breasted it would make her look a little bit wider and see what we're trying to do is create a nice long and lean line with a single button. The skirt is a slim skirt, it's not a sausage skirt, it's not a pencil skirt.
It grazes your body and it hits at a length which is pretty much universally perfect for most petite women. And that's somewhere hovering around your knee. The other thing we did. We just rolled the sleeves up a bit, we just pushed them up and squished them up a bit for lengthening.
Dresses to Look Taller
When it comes to evening and you want a little something that's va va voom, she has the best accessory for a body-con dress – and that is one hot body. And that is the best way to look tall. It's one color. It has a little bit of an empire to it. So, it's creating a look where your eye is going up and down. Straps are not too wide to be distracting and not too tiny and dippy where the shoulders look too big. They're perfectly in proportion and it's a beautiful open neck line.
Really the only thing we have here are fabulous open shoes and we create the long look with these bejeweled shoes. As they also sort of have that key strap in the front. They have that long lean line which you can use as jewelry. You don't need more. And that really simple evening bag that's tiny that she can hold and show off her body and look long, lean, tall, and gorgeous.
Maxi Dresses to Look Taller
Maxi dresses are a really big trend right now and for the most part it's something that you would usually use for a taller girl. However, if the dress is still slim and creates that all important vertical line. It can look quite cute on a petite frame and what she is wearing is a very sweet maxi dress which is perfect for summer or a casual day. First of all it's strapless. So we have an idea of just some skin which creates a little bit more openness obviously. It's still very slim to your frame. Although it still has a kind of hippy freeness to it. But it's still not big and lots of volume to it and make you look shorter and wider and it also has, along , guess what, vertical stripe. So it creates a much longer beautiful look.
We've decided to opt for a little straw hat which is perfect for the summer with the natural straw, which also compliments her face and doesn't create anymore color blocking. And you can either opt for a cute little flat Or another look is a nice wedge an espadrille or a natural type wedge shoe, that will lift you up a little bit without looking to outlandishly high.
Suit Style #2
And, Stephanie, wearing a black suit. It has this gorgeous matte type of satin jacket. And the little lace skirt. The jacket has a really beautiful fitted line and it also has a slightly shorter sleeve which creates a longer line to her frame. A little bit of the detail down there and it creates a little bit of an interesting look and it draws your eye up and down. We wanted to add a splash of color. So we decided to add a belt, not too wide, in a bright shock of color to make it look a little less drab and we just chose not to wear a blouse to make it an open V look. With the open neckline, the shorter sleeve, the slim silhouette and the combination of textures, it's a really beautiful polished longer line.
Thanks for watching.
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It's hard to blame Nate Robinson for saying he's done with dunk contests after taking a third title in Saturday's sleepy affair in Dallas. He's reached the limit of what he can do as a dunker, which isn't insignificant given his size (he's listed at 5'9"), and since the NBA wouldn't let him jump a blackjack table in Vegas he's also going to find it hard to make the contest entertaining.
What the NBA does plan to do to actually make the thing entertaining again remains to be seen. This year's outing was the worst in memory with only one dunk standing out as original -- DeMar DeRozan's off the side of the backboard windmill -- and the contest field lacking much in the way of star power. Robinson is still fascinating to watch, slo-mo replays take his remarkable leaping ability to another level, but we've seen him too many times for it to induce anything resembling shock or awe.
It was an interesting juxtaposition to flip between the dunk contest and the women's moguls finals from Vancouver on Saturday night. As the skiers flew down the mountain at ever faster speeds and took off on higher jumps with bigger tricks than we've seen before, it wasn't hard to ask yourself if such progress was possible in what was once one of the most thrilling parts of the NBA season.
Freestyle skiing, snowboarding and even figure skating are constantly providing things we've never seen before and that's why people still tune in every four years for the Winter Olympics. The dunk contest, meanwhile, remains mired in the realm of the same old, same old. The only things that stand out from recent years are ancillary bits of flair -- Dwight Howard's Superman cape, Krypto-Nate -- that enliven otherwise generic dunk attempts.
The thing is, dunks have progressed. Check out a video of Taurian Fontenette, a.k.a. Mr. 720 or Air Up There. He plays on the streetball tours that travel the country, think amped up Harlem Globetrotters without the buckets full of confetti, and stars in various videos that show off his tremendous leaping ability, including a 720 degree dunk that we've never seen in the NBA-sanctioned contest. Perhaps having NBA players take on Fontenette and his peers would raise the stakes for a future contest?
Robinson would miss such a throwdown, but it's best for him to move on from the dunk contest. The sideshow has raised his profile more than any number of scoring binges off the bench, but now's the time to focus on a way to be a productive regular for the Knicks and whichever team gives him a home following the season. He'll always be popular with the fans, but general managers and coaches can prove to be a more fickle audience.
As for the other two Knicks involved in the All-Star festivities, the less said the better. Danilo Gallinari barely registered in the Rookie-Sophomore game and didn't live up to billing in the three-point contest. David Lee deserved to be an All-Star, but his three turnovers in 12 minutes was an unfortunate reminder of what the rest of the season likely holds for New York basketball watchers.
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Madonna posted a photo of her son Rocco on Instagram the other day with the caption:
"No one messes with Dirty Soap! Mama said knock you out! #disn---a."
Only the word wasn't dashed out. You can imagine the reaction. So she pulled down the message and replaced it with something else. And then she issued an apology:
"I am sorry if I offended anyone with my use of the N word on Instagram. It was not meant as a racial slur.. I am not a racist. There's no way to defend the use of the word. It was all about intention.. It was used as a term of endearment toward my son who is white. I appreciate that it's a provocative word and I apologize if it gave people the wrong impression. Forgive me."
Using the word is awful on its own. But her apology just made it even more offensive.
IF I offended anyone?
People don't know how to properly apologise anymore. The "if" there is almost dismissive. And it's certainly not an admission of wrongdoing. The "if" suggests that the problem is in the interpretation and not the use. You interpret. She used. So IF means that you had a part in the offense. And since when should you be complicit when someone else says the "n" word?
Note the difference when you replace "if" with "that":
I am sorry THAT I offended. I apologise THAT it gave people the wrong impression.
See? This is an active apology. It takes accountability. It leaves no doubt about who is in the wrong. So from there you can begin to consider forgiveness. This is the problem with celebrity entitlement though. They all think forgiveness should be immediately forthcoming.


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People often do not consider heart disease a womans disease.Yet cardiovascular disease is the leading killer of women over age 25. It kills nearly twice as many women in the United States as all types of cancer.
Men have a greater risk for heart disease earlier in life than women. Womens risk increases after menopause.
Women may have warning signs that go unnoticed for weeks or even years a heart attack occurs.
- Men most often have the "classic" heart attack signs: tightness in the chest, arm pain, and shortness of breath.
- Womens symptoms can resemble those of men.
- Women may also complain of other symptoms, such as nausea, fatigue, indigestion, anxiety, and dizziness.
Recognizing and treating a heart attack right away improves your chance for survival. On average, a person having a heart attack will wait for 2 hours before calling for help.
Know the warning signs and always call 911 within 5 minutes of when symptoms begin. By acting quickly, you can limit damage to your heart.
A risk factor is something that increases your chance of getting a disease or having a certain health condition. You can change some risk factors for heart disease. Other risk factors you cannot change.
Women should work with their health care provider to address risk factors they can change.
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lifestyle measurestokeep your bloodcholesterol levels in the right range. Targets for cholesterol levels vary depending on your risk factors. Ask your health care provider which targets are best for you.
- Keep your blood pressure in a healthy range. Your ideal blood pressure level will depend on your risk factors. Discuss your target blood pressure with your health care provider.
Estrogen is no longer used to prevent heart disease in women of any age. Estrogen may increase the risk of heart diseasefor older women. However, it may still be usedfor some women to treat hot flashes or other medical problems.
- Estrogenuse is probably safestfor women under 60 years of age.
- It should be used for the shortest possible period of time.
- Only women who have a low risk for stroke, heart disease, blood clots, or breast cancer should take estrogen.
Some women can take a low dose aspirin daily to help prevent heart attacks. Aspirin can increase the risk for bleeding, so check with your health care provider before beginning daily aspirin treatment.
Some of the risk factors for heart disease that you CAN change are:
- Do not smoke or use tobacco.
- Get plenty of exercise. Women who need to lose or keep off weight should get at least 60 to 90 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise on most days. To maintain your health, get at least 30 minutes of exercise a day, preferably at least 5 days a week.
- Maintain a healthy weight. Women should strive for a
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- Get checked and treated for depression, if necessary.
- Women with high cholesterol or triglyceride levels may benefit from omega-3 fatty acid supplements.
If you drink alcohol, limit yourself to no more than one drink per day. Do not drink just for the purpose of protecting your heart.
Good nutrition is important to your heart health, and it will help control some of your heart disease risk factors.
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- Choose lean proteins, such as chicken, fish, beans, and legumes.
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- Read labels, and stay away from "saturated fat" and anything that contains "partially-hydrogenated" or "hydrogenated" fats. These products are usually loaded with unhealthy fats.
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AAC M5: 01.09.14 EditionPosted by mlemaire on January 9th, 2014
- It wasn't exactly an emphatic statement to the rest of the country that Connecticut hadn't lost all of its swagger, but the Huskies' gritty win over a good Harvard team last night was extremely important nonetheless. The Crimson were admittedly missing their best player in Wesley Saunders but they are still a clear front-runner in the Ivy League and a dangerous mid-major come Tournament time so the win will be a value-add for UConn's resume. The Huskies turned the ball over far too much and didn't shoot very well, which will be a recipe for disaster against conference foes, but against the undermanned Crimson, the Huskies had enough firepower to grind out a victory they desperately needed. Kevin Ollie's squad got off to a rough start in conference play and took a deserved and precipitous fall from grace, tumbling all the way out of the Top 25 after consecutive losses to Houston and SMU, but the team is taking the recovery process one step at a time. Those who jumped off the Final Four bandwagon probably still feel vindicated, but those who expected the Huskies to collapse and finish in the middle of the pack of this mediocre conference are likely to be sorely mistaken.
- I'm not sure this story has a whole lot of impact on Memphis' performance the rest of the season, but it is so bizarre that it is worth sharing. Memphis coach Josh Pastner fired the team's de facto strength and conditioning coach Frank Matrisciano the other day, a decision made all the more awkward by the fact that Pastner and Mastrisciano are brothers-in-law having married twin sisters. Gary Parrish of CBSSports.com got the inside scoop on the matter, and the whole thing sounds pretty childish. Basically Pastner asked Mastrisciano to have the players only do upper-body workouts because he felt the players' legs were tired after a poor shooting performance in the loss to Cincinnati, which seems pretty logical, except Mastrisciano didn't agree and basically decided he was going to do his job the way he felt it should be done. Pastner was essentially forced to fire his brother-in-law for insubordination (I feel dumb even writing that) and now the team is moving on without the strength and conditioning coach it has had for the past two years. I don't think anyone looks good in this situation, but the ego play from Mastriciano is especially odd considering he is not the head coach, but I guess this is what happens when you get glowing write-ups in fitness magazines and are dubbed Hell's Trainer.
- We haven't had the opportunity to watch conference heavyweights Louisville and Memphis square off yet this season, but the good news is that we won't need to savor the match-ups quite as much now that Louisville coach Rick Pitino announced that the Cardinals and Tigers will continue to play each other until at least the 2016-17 season. The two programs will not play each other next season but the following two seasons will feature home-and-home matchups between the two former Metro/Great Midwest/Conference USA rivals. There isn't a whole lot of "expert" analysis to offer here, but we are always proponents of two storied programs getting together to lock horns as it is good for the sport and great for the fans of college basketball, so kudos to both programs for finding a way to continue the series.
- It's almost time to start feeling bad for South Florida point guard Anthony Collins if you don't feel bad for him already. He proved as a freshman that, when healthy, he is an explosive play-maker and one of the conference's best point guards. The problem is that he can't seem to stay healthy and it is ruining his once-promising career, not to mention the Bulls' season. A recurring knee issue is keeping Collins sidelined right now and it should be hard for fans of his and the Bulls not to be discouraged about Collins' future going forward. Even when he was playing, he never looked completely healthy and certainly wasn't the explosive rim-attacking point guard we saw glimpses of when he was younger and healthier. A healthy Collins still doesn't mean the Bulls are poised to make an impact in the conference as they have plenty of other holes, but here's to hoping that Collins can get fully healthy at some point again and finish out his career on a high note.
- It's not much, but given the current state of Temple's season, news that Clemson point guard and Philly native Devin Coleman is transferring into the Owls' program is certainly welcome. Coleman was solid for the Tigers in the games he played this season, but he is probably more of a good bench player than a true difference-maker going forward, especially considering the impending logjam in Temple's backcourt. That said, the way the Owls have played this season, they will take all the help they can get at any position. CBSSports.com is right to point out that Temple is poised to rebound quickly given the players that will be eligible next year, and the vast amount of returning starters and role players and Coleman is just another piece to the puzzle.


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ELLEN LAW, Portland's first African American woman school principal, is honored along with scores of other women path breakers and ceiling busters at Portland's Walk of the Heroines, completed this summer in front of Hoffmann Hall.
More than 650 women's names are engraved on stone walls—no woman is underfoot—and their biographies and photographs are featured on an on-site computer. Trees, flowers, benches, and a fountain are interspersed along the walls. All border a meandering stone walkway. One more wall and a stage honoring former Gov. Barbara Roberts will be added in the near future.
The honored women, living and deceased, were submitted by family, friends, colleagues, and organizations who made a donation in their name. Most are from Oregon, but they come from all over the county and from all walks of life. Those honored include Josephine Cochrane, a Shelbyville, Illinois, housewife, who hated doing dishes and invented the automatic dishwasher in 1886. Heroine Matsu Ito raised eight children on a farm in Hood River enduring many hardships, including internment during World War II. Former students have honored Diane Edgington, a Clackamas High School speech and debate teacher.
Portland State students have been involved in the Walk of the Heroines from the beginning, providing the first major gift of $200,000 from the Associated Students of PSU.
Learn more about Portland's Walk of the Heroines and the women it honors at www.woh.pdx.edu.
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Alright-- so I am designing a level editor. Let me first say this is the first game programming I have ever done. Better yet it's the first large C++ thing I have done. I have done a basic tiler/editor already and it is over a thousand lines of code. It's pretty messy. I am thinking of re-doing most of it.
I was wondering if this sounds like something that would work, or better yet-- is it something a seasoned OO programmer would do.
I am thinking of making a 'base class' called Object. This base class would contain a protected variable which contains the x and y coordinates for the object. This base class would contain a method called show() to display the object, and a method called get_x() and get_y() to get the cords.
This is simple, from here I was thinking of deriving my "Tile" class from the Object class. Since every tile needs cords and also uses show() etc. The tile 'is an' object.
I would derive another class called Sprite. This would be my class for 'moveable' objects. Since the sprites contain cords as well you could say a Sprite 'is an' Object as well.
I think Object would be a good base class and Tile and Sprite would make good derived classes.
Does this sound about right? Currently I have these classes but they are all separate and it gets a bit messy.


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Market Insights: 4 reasons buyers are returning
Over the past six months, the number of inquires from buyers has been on the increase. Of course this is good news for both buyers and sellers. As a Realtor, one of the most important actions I can take is to listen. I was told we have two ears and one mouth for a reason. This is a summary of what the buyers are telling me.
Especially the baby boomers feel like they are running out of time. For the past four or five years, they have been waiting and watching the market from afar as prices declined. This quote from clients in Chicago sums it up, "We are tired of postponing buying our dream retirement home. If we keep waiting, we will end up too old to enjoy it."Yes, the wave of baby boomers hitting retirement is here. At 57, I speak from experience when I say we are an impatience bunch. We are determined to get what we want and we have worked very hard to get it. For us, the waiting is over.
From the 38-year-old, first-home buyer to the 62-year-old retirement purchaser, I hear the statement above. There is only one thing that varies. The majority tells me rates will never be this low again and they are climbing. A minority believes rates will stay at historic lows for a couple more years. Either way, money is cheap.And everyone I work with gets loans. The buyers in Summit County seem to be very qualified and able to provide the 3.5 tons of paperwork the lenders request these days.
Please re-read the statement above. The emphasis is on "low enough." In other words, the buyers are not telling me prices have hit rock bottom. Nor do they seem to care. What they believe is prices are not likely to decline much more. They plan to hold the property for years, so a bit more decline in prices does not worry them.This is a gigantic shift in buyer thinking. Until recently, the attitude has been much more, "I'll sit on the sidelines to see what happens."
The value is obvious it two ways:1. The direct comparison with what properties sold for at the peak of the market.2. As compared to other major ski resort towns right across the country.An example of No. 1 above is illustrated in these photos. This two-bedroom Breckenridge condo is on the market for $204,950. Based on the peak sales in 2008, this condo would have sold back then for $325,000! Yes, there is great value to be had in Summit County real estate right now.I hear the second point above often. Buyers tell me that for the price of a condo near the ski slopes in Vail, they can buy a larger single-family home here right on the slopes. There seems to be a shift taking place with buyers. Those who used to buy in Vail because it is "Vail" are now coming to Breckenridge because value is more important than status.See you next week. Love life, DanielReach Daniel Webster Johnson at (970) 393-3300 or him drop him a line at email@example.com. He is a very active, full-time Realtor in Breckenridge, who has earned the national Quality Service Certified Platinum award, recognition of 100 percent client satisfaction. He is one of the team at Resort Brokers Real Estate located at 100 S. Main St., Breckenridge.
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Pac-10 helped Beavers win two national titles
CORVALLIS, Ore. — I asked Oregon State athletic director Bob De Carolis how in the world Oregon State won two national baseball titles. The Beavers' titles in 2006 and 2007 were the first by a northern school since Ohio State won it in 1966.
A huge boost came in 1999 when the Pac-10 switched from North and South divisions to one conference. Before, Oregon State played in a Mickey Mouse North Division with Washington, Washington State and Portland State.
"Kids who got passed up by the California schools wanted to beat them," De Carolis said.
Please note: Colorado will be the only school in the Pac-12 not playing baseball.
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I would like to ask the developers to add a better selection of magic weapons so that making the wrong choice with your fighter does nail you for the enter game.
I just hit 10th level with my sword and board estoc Crit specialist only to discover in horror that I am doomed to a +1 for the entire game. Given how long this game is I am understandably pissed. This badly needs fixing
I joined the forum in september 24th and found out i got a permanent ban on posting for no reason in the same second i joined (it say so in the warning when i try to post).
I tried to fix it since that day and was ignored until now... So i´ll sent this message several times to see if i can draw your attention. Sorry for that.
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Sorry to bug ya but it looks like you're the person to contact about weird stuff like this. I just joined this forum partake in some actual discussion, but when i tried to make my first post it told me i was banned forever with no reason. Did I do something wrong when i made my account? Or am i just being impatient and posting too soon after registering my account. :p
Sorry. I just noticed the pinned thread addressing this and sent an email to the team. Don't know how i missed it before haha
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Telescopic Time Travel
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer will carry a telescope into Earth orbit that will observe a million galaxies across 10 billion years of cosmic history to help astronomers determine when the stars we see today had their origins.
Galaxy Evolution Explorer is set to launch no earlier than April 28, 2003, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
From its orbit high above Earth, the spacecraft will sweep the skies for up to 28 months using state-of-the-art ultraviolet detectors. Looking in the ultraviolet will single out galaxies dominated by young, hot, short-lived stars that give off a great deal of energy at that wavelength. These galaxies are actively creating stars, therefore providing a window into the history and causes of galactic star formation.
"The Galaxy Evolution Explorer is crucial to understanding how galaxies, the basic structures of our universe, form and function," said Dr. Anne Kinney, director of astronomy and physics in the Office of Space Science, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. "Its ultraviolet observations will round out the knowledge we gain from observations in infrared and other wavelengths."
Astronomers believe the universe originated approximately 13.7 billion years ago in the cataclysmic "Big Bang." Galaxies, the basic building blocks of the universe, began to appear as the fireball of hydrogen and helium gas expanded and cooled. Recent observations suggest star formation peaked eight to 10 billion years ago. This mission is specifically designed to investigate whether this occurred and why.
The centerpiece of the satellite is a 50-centimeter-diameter (19.7-inch) telescope. It is equipped with sensors that will gather continuous images of galaxies in the ultraviolet to study their shape, brightness and size. Ultraviolet light, the type of invisible energy responsible for sunburn, is at the higher end of the electromagnetic spectrum, just above visible light in frequency, but below X-rays and gamma rays.
A device called a spectrometer will break down the light into component colors, just as a prism separates white light into a rainbow. These measurements will enable scientists to determine the distances of galaxies, and thus, their places in cosmic history. Combined with precise measurements of the ultraviolet brightness of galaxies, astronomers will be able to determine the rate at which stars are forming within those galaxies.
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"This mission will provide the first comprehensive map of a universe of galaxies under construction and bring us closer to understanding how they, and our own Milky Way, were built," said Dr. Christopher Martin, the mission's principal investigator and an astrophysics professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
Scientists will use data from the mission to learn when carbon, oxygen and other chemical elements were created inside blazing stars. Most of the elements found in the human body originated in stars. We are literally made of stardust. The mission will also conduct the first ultraviolet surveys of the entire sky beyond our own galaxy, including the first wide-area spectroscopic surveys. Rich in objects from galaxies to quasars to white dwarf stars, this vast data archive will serve as a resource for the entire astronomical community.
A Pegasus XL rocket, released by an L-1011 jet aircraft, will launch the satellite. The aircraft will climb to approximately 39,000 feet and release the launch vehicle and payload. The science mission will start after an initial month of in-orbit testing.
The Galaxy Evolution Explorer mission is led by the California Institute of Technology, which is also responsible for science operations and data analysis. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., a division of Caltech, manages the mission and built the science instrument. The mission was developed under NASA's Explorers Program, managed by the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The mission's international partners include South Korea and France.


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by Ryan Boyle | Twitter | World Championship Tickets
Below is an edited version of a column from the July 2014 issue of Lacrosse Magazine, a benefit of membership in US Lacrosse.
For a brief time in my adult life, I lived in Austin, Texas. I quickly learned to love and embrace the city's quirky motto: "Keep Austin Weird." Being a member of Team USA on three occasions, I would assert that Austin has a friend that shares its spirit — the FIL World Lacrosse Championship.
Historically, only two countries have been champions. The world championship has always come down to the United States and Canada. Since 1967, the United States has won nine times. Canada has won twice, most recently in 2006 on its home soil.
During my three Team USA tours, I have seen the rivalry evolve due to external circumstance and the evolution of field lacrosse in Canada. In 2002, MLL players could not participate in the international games, which led to an unusual roster of elder statesmen, successful post-collegiate club players, freshly graduated collegiate players and underclassmen puppies still with NCAA eligibility (like me). In an effort to intimidate this motley crew during the "meaningless" round-robin contest, Canada focused more on punishing the U.S. than winning the game. This strategy did not prove effective. The underdog U.S. team won that match as well as the gold.
In 2006, with MLL players on the roster, pundits billed the U.S. as the greatest team of all-time. One problem — the best faceoff midfielder in the history of the sport, Paul Cantabene, was on the sideline watching as a coach instead of competing. That oversight proved too costly given the importance of possession time, and Canada dominated the ball. On a team with lacrosse legends Gary Gait, John Grant Jr. and Brodie Merrill, Canada's faceoff specialist Geoff Snider proved to be the most outstanding player and the difference in the championship game.
This year, I truly believe the U.S. and Canada are evenly-matched. While Team USA's historical dominance of the sport speaks for itself, Canada has won three of the last four matchups (2006 championship, 2010 round robin, and 2012 Duel in Denver). In the past, their roster featured fish out of water — box players doing their best within the field parameters. Now they have significantly more depth with legitimate NCAA and MLL experience.
The rivalry seeps off the field as well. Outside of the games themselves, teams typically stay in nearby dorms and live a campus lifestyle, including meals at the cafeteria. Your most hated rival could belly up at the next table over.
Canadians Patrick Merrill, Jordan Hall and Matt Vinc were my teammates on the New York/Orlando Titans of the National Lacrosse League. For years, we battled in extremely physical games, made deep playoff runs and enjoyed lighter times off the field. Balancing these friendships and the competitive tension is challenging.
Cliques of players walk around campus within their national affiliations. Friends from opposing countries can try to share a few words outside of the glaring eye of their teammates. Otherwise, a respectful nod or shoulder shrug recognizing the rivalry's competitive nature is the understood social norm.
Even the games themselves are weird, in part due to the rare scenarios that emerge in the international game. Japan, for example, utilizes a tightly packed zone defense that typically creates an outside shot. They instruct the defender closest to the goal to sprint to the endline on every single shot.
The first time we played against Japan in 2010, I got beat to a missed shot on several occasions, resulting in a turnover. I got an earful from coach Mike Pressler despite my intention of staying involved in the half-field offensive set.
Arguably the strangest, and most critical, on-field sequence occurred at the end of the 2002 title game. With Team USA pulling ahead of Canada, its staff boldly called a stick check on Mikey Powell to change the momentum. Powell's stopper prevented the ball from falling out when rotated upside down, which we did not believe was illegal in international play. The referees interpreted the rules differently, and suddenly Canada had a man-advantage for three non-releasable minutes.
Naturally, they mounted a comeback. After a Canadian man-up goal cut the lead to one, a distraught coach Jack Emmer called for a stick check of his own, targeting John Tavares, who had just scored Canada's last goal. Tavares' stick was also illegal, disallowing his last goal and reversing the man-up situation.
Canada then called another stick check — on me. What they didn't know was that after Powell's penalty, I removed anything from my head, shaft, helmet, shoes and socks that might raise an eyebrow, including a similar ball stopper. After my stick passed the test, the dust of the stick check tailspin finally settled, and Team USA rode off into the sunset.
Because of this atmosphere and stories like these, I am forever grateful for my three tours with Team USA.
Let the weirdness begin.
Ryan Boyle played in three FIL World Championships as a member of Team USA. He plays for the Boston Cannons and is a co-founder and CEO of Trilogy Lacrosse.


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With the Alumni Atlanta—Robert V. Wagner, Jr., formerly of the Atlanta office staff, is now financial analyst with Ford Motor Company in Detroit. Chicago — Roland Felleson and Willard Gebhart have resigned their positions on the Chicago audit staff to accept assignments with a client of the firm, Stanray Corporation. Roland will work in the Chicago office and Bill in Little Rock, Arkansas for the Traveler Division. Two other audit staff members have accepted positions with clients — Roland Stone with the Greyhound Corporation and Joseph Touve with Interstate Vending Company. Fred Sheehan, an audit staff member for the past four years, is now employed with Montgomery Ward. Cleveland—Shelton J. Sweress resigned to take a position as office manager for Louis L. Schaffer, Inc. Dayton — William A. Enouen has been promoted to assistant to the group vice-president (Board and Related Operations) of the Mead Corporation. Denver — Gerald Katz resigned March 8 to accept the position of assistant controller of the Denver division of Worthington Corporation. Roy N. Hollaway left on April 15 in order to become assistant controller of Capitol Life Insurance Company in Denver. Jim Gehres in now in the treasurer's office of Shwayder Brothers, Inc. Detroit — Lynn A. Townsend, former Detroit partner . . . now president of Chrysler Corporation . . . received the annual Business Leadership Award from the Graduate School of Business Administration of the University of Michigan on May 3. The award was established to honor a "Businessman of accomplishment who has shown an understanding of the responsibilities of business to society and an interest in business education." Donald Nellis has accepted a position as Assistant Controller of Evans Products Company. He left our firm on May 15, and will move from Detroit about June 1st. He will be working in the executive offices of the Company in Portland, Oregon. Executive office — Curtis Verschoor is now with Singer Manufacturing Company, where he heads up the internal audit function at the corporate level. Grand Rapids — Robert J. Lyzenga has resigned to take a position with a local firm in Grand Rapids. Kansas City — Ralph L. Waters, member of the Kansas City audit staff since 1954, resigned on April 15 to take a position as Controller of Kansas City Terminal Warehouse, a client. Ralph received a gift from the partners and was honored at a picnic on May 18 at Lake Jacomo. Minneapolis — Allan Fonfara, who was in the Minneapolis office from 1957 to 1962, has been appointed assistant treasurer of the Marquette Corporation. Arlen Missl-ing resigned to become controller of Kimco, Inc., a recently formed investment company, a client of the Minneapolis office. Jerald Grande of the tax department resigned in April to join Pemtom, Inc. a construction company recently organized by Bruce Thomson, also a former member of our staff. Dr. Gordon B. Davis, formerly with the Management Services Central Staff, has been promoted to associate professor at the University of Minnesota. His article on "Simulation of Finance Company Operation for Decision Making" was recently published in "Management Technology." New York — Martin Berkowitz, formerly of the New York office, is now controller for the Reliable Steel Co. in Los Angeles. Irving Allen, formerly of the New York office is now with the Litton Systems internal audit division in Los Angeles. Philadelphia — Walter S. Smith resigned to accept a position as assistant comptroller of Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company. Pittsburgh — Gary B. Fink, a senior on the audit staff, left the firm on March 8 to become assistant to the controller at McCreary Tire & Rubber Company, a Pittsburgh office client. JUNE, 1963 37


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I know I said I'd get a new one up this week but...
...but - hey - this one is new. And if you figure that the new week starts on a Monday (like I do) then this is really appearing last week. Maybe. I think.
And Tony - thanks so much for the feedback. Considering I do this in a strange little vacuum and for no good reason other than it being its own reward (usually), it's really, really good to hear from people - especially when they say nice things. I hope the strip below answers your question.
Mmm. Looking at it again, I don't know if that really clears anything up at all. The basic idea of him is that he's that nasty shadow side of our personality that drags us down and tells us were not worth shit, only brought out into the light of day as an incarnate entity in his own right. I could definitely make him nastier and more psychologically unsettling but I think people might run screaming. So he's not all that bad. But he has his moments.
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