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High Price to Play: How to Make School Sports Safer
Every year millions of young athletes end up in the hospital with injuries ranging from sprains to broken bones to concussions. Learn what you can do to make school sports safer for your kids.
High Price to Play
Since first laying his hands on a pigskin at age 7, Charles McCall has been mad about football. A senior and star running back at Los Osos High in Rancho Cucamonga, California, he puts in 30 hours a week playing, practicing, and working out at the gym. "Playing pro — that's definitely my goal," he says. Last June, while attending football camp in Idaho, the 17-year-old collided with another player in midair as he went out for a pass. Charles came down — hard — on his right leg. "It felt wobbly, like it was asleep, and I had to limp off the field," he says. Within minutes he was in excruciating pain. X-rays revealed a badly ripped ligament behind the knee.
But Charles refused to be sidelined. He put in hours of physical therapy daily and doubled his weight training routine in order to strengthen the muscles around his knee. By the opening of his high school's August football practice — a.k.a. Hell Week — he was back in the game, with his doctor's permission, his leg steadied by a brace. "I knew I was putting myself at risk," says Charles, who went on to lead his team in receptions and receiving yards for the season. "But I live, eat, and breathe this sport. If I didn't play, what would I do?"
Strains and Sprains
Sprains, strains, contusions, fractures, concussions — experts say that these and other injuries are on the rise among our sports-obsessed kids. It's estimated that high school sports are responsible for 2 million injuries, 500,000 doctor visits, and 30,000 hospitalizations every year. About 3 million children under age 14 are hurt annually playing sports, a quarter of them so seriously they are sent to emergency rooms, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. And it's not just tough-guy games that are to blame. While football injuries have climbed 43 percent in the last decade among 7- to 18-year-olds, cheerleading — hardly a contact sport — is a close second, with a 38 percent increase.
What's behind the epidemic? From Little League to high school varsity teams, sports have become more organized and competitive, and the pressure to excel — from coaches, schools, parents, and the kids themselves — is intense. "More kids are also specializing in a single sport early on and playing it year round," says Lyle Micheli, MD, founder and director of the sports medicine division at Boston Children's Hospital. "And they're training harder than ever without giving themselves a break. Anything less, and they'll fall behind the curve." But young bodies aren't built to stand up to all that stress. "Kids are more vulnerable than adults because their muscles, bones, even their brains, are still growing and don't recover from injuries as well," explains Jason Theodosakis, MD, assistant professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson.
Despite the alarming increase in injuries, many parents are reluctant to curb their kids' activities — and their dreams. Charles McCall was determined to play this season because he knew college scouts would be watching, and his mom, Darcey, couldn't say no. "I told him to be careful, since another knee injury would affect him for the rest of his life," she says. "But it was his turn to shine, and I couldn't take that away from him." Still, there are steps parents can take — including knowing which injuries are most common and how to avoid them — to help kids play safe.
Too Much, Too Soon
Nick Mulcahy is only 17 years old, but he's already had as many surgeries as a professional athlete. A baseball pitcher for two league teams as well as for the Lancers at Malden Catholic High School outside Boston, he's been throwing hundreds of pitches a day for years — and it's taken a toll. He was 12 when he heard "a funny clicking sound" in his right arm while lifting weights in gym class. "My elbow got stiff, then locked up so badly I couldn't straighten it," he says. X-rays revealed that a sliver of bone had chipped off and lodged in the joint, and there were similar fragments in his left arm as well. Nick had two operations to remove them, but so much scar tissue developed he had to go back under the knife twice to have it removed.
Pitcher's arm, runner's knee, swimmer's shoulder, gymnast's wrist, and more — all are overuse injuries caused by repetitively stressing tendons, muscles, or bones, without giving them sufficient time to heal. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, such cases now account for as many as half of all injuries among student athletes. Dr. Micheli says 70 percent of the patients he treats suffer from exercise overload, up from 10 percent in the 1980s. Injuries that were once prevalent among 15- to 18-year-olds are now common in kids as young as 6. Depending on the type of damage, the long-term effects include chronic pain, premature arthritis, and stunted bone growth.
To prevent injury, experts recommend limiting playing and practicing to 12 hours a week in any one sport, or 20 hours per week for multiple sports; anything more and your kids should be supervised by a sports doctor. Workouts should proceed slowly, with increases in time, distance, or intensity not exceeding 10 percent over the course of a week.
For Nick, a safe regimen includes counting the number of pitches he throws (experts advise no more than 100 a day for a 16-year-old). "With all the surgeries he's had, we've made sure he did all the physical therapy and was cleared to play by his doctor," says his dad, Steve. "And his coach would break him in slowly, by putting him in for only a couple of innings at a time until he was back to full strength." Even so, the last season hasn't been pain free. "Sometimes I feel a twinge — or worse," says Nick. "But the whole game's on you, and you have to keep going. You play through the pain."
Turn for the Worse
Molly Federl of Scituate, Massachusetts, started out shaking pom-poms and doing forward rolls as a cheerleader in sixth grade. By high school she was performing acrobatic midair maneuvers like the front hurdler and the pike, at both varsity games and statewide competitions. In February 2007, while the 16-year-old was performing a tricky series of jumps at a league meet, she heard her knee literally pop. It didn't hurt too much, so she kept going. By the time the two-minute routine was over, Molly had to be carried out of the gym and rushed to the ER. She'd ripped her front knee ligament, or ACL, clear off the bone. After reconstructive surgery, she hobbled on crutches to the prom that spring and endured extensive rehab therapy all summer. Still, Molly has no regrets. "Maybe staying out there wasn't the best idea," she says. "But if I hadn't, our team would have lost. Instead, we came in second."
One of the most common type of sports injuries, ACL tears are the bane of athletes whose sports require quick pivoting or jumping. Soccer, basketball, and football players, along with cheerleaders and skiers, are especially vulnerable. Some 20,000 cases occur among high school students each year — most of them girls — according to the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine. Compared with boys, girls have looser muscles overall, offering them greater flexibility but less support for bones and ligaments. And their leg muscles tend to be unevenly developed, with stronger quadriceps at the front of the thigh and weaker hamstrings at the back. As a result, girls are two to eight times more likely to incur ACL damage — and suffer the long-term consequences, which include progressive and permanent loss of cartilage, stiffness, pain and, in some cases, osteoarthritis of the knee showing up as early as 30 years of age.
The good news is that ACL injuries can largely be avoided with strength training, which corrects the muscle imbalance, and plyometrics, a form of jumping exercise that increases power and speed. Unfortunately, many coaches don't put enough stress on preventive measures, and even when they do, it's still up to students to do their part. "The routines we do are so hard and take so long to learn, there's not a lot of time left over for conditioning," says Molly. Since returning to cheerleading last August, she tries to hit the gym three times a week, but admits she often doesn't make it. At her doctor's recommendation, Molly now uses a knee brace, which reduces the risk of re-injury. "She has to wear it when she does her routines," says her mom, Beth Baron. "As long as she is in good physical shape, we're happy."
State of Confusion
The accident happened three years ago, but Alex Artino's memories are painfully vivid. "It was a night game, start of the second quarter," says Alex, then a 17-year-old running back for the Fairview High Knights, in Boulder, Colorado. "The ball was thrown behind me, so I turned, jumped, and got my hand on it. That's when a linebacker hit me — right in the face with his helmet." Alex collapsed in a heap on the ground. "I felt like I was floating and that everything was in slow motion," he recalls. The team trainer concluded Alex had suffered a concussion and took him out of the game. "I sat on the bench feeling dazed," he says. "My head ached. The lights hurt my eyes, and I couldn't see clearly."
His symptoms were gone by morning, and after a week Alex's doctor said he could resume playing. His first game back Alex was barreling down the field when he and another player collided head to head. "For the next few months I wasn't myself," he says. "I had no emotions — it was like I'd lost my personality. I couldn't concentrate, and my grades dropped from A's to C's." A neurologist diagnosed him with post-concussion syndrome, a cluster of physical, emotional, and cognitive disorders that can last weeks, months, or years after a jarring impact to the brain. After talking with his parents, Alex decided to hang up his cleats for good.
Concussion is one of the most serious threats to young athletes, especially high school football players, who account for 40,000 of the estimated 300,000 sports- and recreation-related brain injuries that occur each year. Baseball, basketball, and soccer players are also at high risk — as are teen girls, who have a 68 percent higher rate of concussion in soccer and a 300 percent higher rate in basketball, according to a 2007 report in the Journal of Athletic Training. Even worse, concussions are drastically underreported. That's partly because many kids — and parents — still mistakenly believe the injury always involves loss of consciousness. And even when they know they've likely suffered a concussion, athletes often don't tell their coaches for fear of being benched.
It's a dangerous deception. People who sustain one concussion have a greater risk of suffering another with each new injury. Multiple concussions may increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other conditions affecting brain function. Studies also show that incurring a concussion while still healing from a previous one can result in "second-impact syndrome," a rapid swelling of the brain that may result in respiratory failure and can be fatal.
Alex is lucky. He got straight A's his final semester at Fairview High School and is now doing well at the University of Colorado, where he plays the occasional game of touch football with his friends. "He's got his sparkle back," says his mom, Sharyl. "Quitting was hard for him, but he knows he made the right decision. The risk was just too great."
Damage Control
Parents can't afford to sit on the sidelines when it comes to kids' safety. Help yours avoid injuries by doing the following:
- Take them for a physical. Do this before they start any sport, preferably with a pediatric sports specialist. He can administer specific tests to pinpoint weaknesses — and suggest appropriate exercises or precautions.
- Check up on your child's coaches or trainers. Make sure they've had formal training in sports safety or that someone who has is always present during games and practice. Watch how they treat injured players — do they keep them in the game or put them back in too soon? Are athletes outfitted with proper safety gear? If you have concerns, don't let your child participate until you get a satisfactory response from school, camp, or league officials. For a good list of questions to ask coaches, see MomsTeam.com.
- Insist that your child pace herself. Once your kid takes up a single sport, insist that she vary her weekly activities, whether it's riding her bike or going hiking with the family. Experts advise taking one to two days off from competitive games or practice every week, and at least two months off from a specific sport each year.
- Be alert for burnout. Red flags include overall fatigue, poor academic performance, nonspecific muscle or joint problems, and sluggishness or lack of focus during games or practice. Exhaustion — and the inattentiveness and carelessness that go along with it — can set your kids up for injury. Tell them they've got to be rested and alert or you won't let them play. If you suspect they've already been hurt, take them to a doctor immediately.
- Stay real. Constantly remind them — and make sure they understand — the difference between wanting to win and winning at any cost. You can draw from news headlines — like the baseball steroid scandal — to help drive your point home. And check your own competitive urges too. For you and your kids, having fun should be the payoff.
Copyright © 2008. Used with permission from the March 2008 issue of Family Circle magazine.


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Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch joined us for this week's episode, and Jason Kuznicki filled in for Aaron. We discuss whether there is a growing movement of independents that is a cause for optimism among libertarians. Are we in for a better, more libertarian era than ever before? Or should we be skeptical of this kind of optimism, given the growth of the federal government in recent years?

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this is a discussion within the NFL Community Forum; Getting the ring can be easier than keeping it Troubled players often are willing to sell Super Bowl rings. By BRUCE LOWITT © St. Petersburg Times, published January 26, 2001 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It looks grand or gaudy depending on your taste. ...
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Some Superbowl rings afterlife
Getting the ring can be easier than keeping it
Troubled players often are willing to sell Super Bowl rings.
By BRUCE LOWITT
© St. Petersburg Times, published January 26, 2001
It looks grand or gaudy depending on your taste. It is, along with the Vince Lombardi Trophy, emblematic of greatness in the NFL, even if only for a year. It is ruffles and flourishes, dispelling anonymity, even if only for a moment.
And sometimes a Super Bowl ring can be a last line of defense between poverty and homelessness. Even then, it's not infallible.
For every Roger Staubach, every Jerry Rice, every player who has reached the top of the mountain and remained there, or at least maintained his equilibrium during the descent, there is a player whose fortune and celebrity have vanished.
Steelers running back Rocky Bleier sold his four Super Bowl rings for $40,000 in 1996 in a bankruptcy-and-divorce procedure and was allowed to "lease" them for $1,368 a month over three years to get them back; Cowboys linebacker Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson had his Super Bowl XII ring seized to pay back taxes. Giants wide receiver Bob Johnson pawned his Super Bowl XXI ring in Nashville for $500 and never retrieved it. Raiders defensive back Skip Thomas pawned his Super Bowl XI ring in a futile attempt to save his house from being sold by creditors.
That Oakland team's rings are the most coveted, selling for $20,000 and up.
Part of the allure is the character of those Raiders, resident felons of the NFL. Part is that a decade after Vince Lombardi designed the first Super Bowl ring for his champion Packers, an unpretentious little thing with one simple diamond, Raiders owner Al Davis designed a gargantuan, jewel-encrusted ring for his players -- and the teams' anything-you-can-do game took off from there. The NFL contributes $5,000 toward the cost of each ring; owners routinely add thousands more.
The stars of past Super Bowl teams are less likely to wear their rings. They are instantly recognizable even in retirement. It is the second-stringer, the special-teamer who will wear -- brandish might be more accurate -- his, looking for one more moment of adulation and the chance to recount his long-gone greatness.
But sometimes fame is traded for fortune, often of the most temporary kind.
Don Budd opened Central Pawn in Kansas City, Kan., 14 years ago. Two years later, a former NFL player came in and hocked his Super Bowl ring.
"It was hard for me to believe that someone could reach that pinnacle ... and be willing to give up the one object that says, "I was the best,' " Budd said.
Now, about 10 players show up at the pawnshop each season, ring in hand.
"The thing to remember," Budd said, "is that these guys are no different from any other human being. You can compare them to the guy who just lost his job and needs 20 bucks. A lot of players go into college making zero, or maybe a few thousand a year. They come out of college making a million, a few million the first year. They live that lifestyle for the years they can play, then it's all taken away from them and they're back to zero." Budd is one of a very small coterie of Super Bowl ring collectors and dealers. You literally can count them on one hand.
Scott Welkowsky is another. He has been at it for 20 years and owns a sports memorabilia store in suburban San Diego. He has about eight rings ranging in value from $3,500 to $20,000 and more.
"Sometimes a starter gets a higher quality diamond," Welkowsky said. "A player who was signed late ... might get one that's just gold-plated."
Welkowsky said former 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo typically had more than one made for himself. "One year, a dozen, all with diamonds, all with his name."
Last year, 39 bids were made on the Internet for former Bears defensive lineman William "Refrigerator" Perry's ring -- one of them, anyway. It sold for $27,472.72. (Perry wore No. 72.) "I lost that back in '87, '88," Perry said. "There's maybe four or five duplicates of it. ... I don't get attached to things like that. If I had it, someone else is going to sell it or someone's going to fight over it."
Welkowsky said most sellers "are victims of what I call the triple Ds -- death, divorce or drugs. "Some guys are gamblers or made bad investments," he said. "Some, though, might not be into flashy jewelry. Some, if they're lucky enough to be on three or four Super Bowl winners, might give one to a best friend or a brother and that's the one who gets on hard times."
About 12 years ago, he said, he flew to Oakland to meet with the wife of a Raider who had been convicted of rape.
"She was so furious, she was selling everything of his, including his 1976 Super Bowl ring."
Johnson's ring made its way to a memorabilia dealer at the Super Bowl XXVIII NFL Experience in Atlanta, where New York City lawyer Alan Joseph bought it for $10,000. What is its worth now?
"Not for sale," Joseph said.
Joseph found Johnson -- a factory worker in Tennessee -- and had him sign additional Giants Super Bowl memorabilia. Asked what he would do if Johnson raised $10,000 to buy back the ring, Joseph said, "It would be a tough decision, but I don't think I have to worry about it."
Thomas starred in Super Bowl XI, but was injured. He didn't rehabilitate it, arrived at training camp out of shape and within three years was out of football.
"Too young and too reckless," Thomas said on HBO's Real Sports. "I didn't think it would ever come to an end."
He went from a $110,000 salary to a low-paying job as a jailer, was injured in a fight with an inmate, ran out of money before the first disability check showed up and, trying to save his house, pawned his ring.
"It took me a week to even get there," Thomas said. "I didn't want to do it."
The $800 came too late.
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Starting January 29, 2018, the City of Portland will will begin replacing all of its streetlights with new, energy-efficient LED light fixtures. LED streetlights offer several advantages over older lighting technologies:
City officials will hold a press conference at 3:00 PM on Tuesday, January 30 at the end of Austin Street in the Back Cove neighborhood to demo the installation of the new LED street lights. Crews will be working their way around the city, installing 250-350 lights per week with an estimated completion in May.
The City is specifying lights with a warm color temperature of 3000K to avoid the metallic blue light associated with some LEDs. This follows the recommendations of the International Dark Sky Association and the American Medical Association.
The project is made possible by the City's recent acquisition of the streetlights from Central Maine Power. Portland is the first city in Maine to do so under the provisions of a state law enacted in 2013 that allows municipalities to purchase utility-owned street lighting equipment in their communities and to replace it with energy efficient LED lighting. City staff and partners from TEN Connected Solutions and Bernstein Shur worked with CMP on an agreement in conformance with PUC rules to transfer ownership to the City of the lamps, fixtures, and mast arms that attach the lights to the poles. The $497,000 cost to purchase the street lighting assets from CMP was allocated in the City's FY2018 Capital Improvement Plan.
Buying the streetlights and converting them to LED will provide the City with a savings of more than $1 million annually. In the past, the City paid CMP a monthly fee for the use of each fixture in addition to the cost of electricity. This averaged about $1.2 million annually. Purchasing the lights and switching to energy efficient LEDs will reduce this cost to about $150,000 per year.
City Manager Jon Jennings said, "Converting the streetlights to LED has been a goal of the City of Portland for many years. I am pleased the City Council has been so supportive of this initiative that will improve lighting throughout the city, reduce costs, and serve as a platform for innovative technologies that will improve the lives of residents and visitors. I'm especially pleased that such a significant project offers financial savings that we can reinvest to make Portland a leader in smart city applications."
Sustainability Coordinator Troy Moon added, "Converting our streetlights to LED is an important step that reduces the city's carbon footprint. The new lights will reduce the City's electricity consumption by 2.7 million kWh per year, which is about 8% of its total use. This offsets the burning of more than 4,600 barrels of oil."
Installing the new lights kicks off phase one of the Streetlight Conversion/Smart City program approved by the City Council in October 2017. This part of the project includes $4 million for the replacement of all overhead street lights that are attached to utility poles throughout the city, and a variety of smart city technologies including public wi-fi locations, exterior lighting at City Hall, intelligent traffic signals at some key intersections, and electric vehicle charging stations. Phase two, also $4 million, includes additional upgrades to street lights, controls for all decorative lights, and additional smart city technologies including more public wi-fi locations, additional signal upgrades at key intersections, and environmental sensors.
The City's lead partner in this project is TEN Connected Solutions of Pittsburgh, PA, which was selected from a pool of seven respondents to an RFP issued in October, 2016. Under their overall direction, many Maine businesses will participate in the streetlight conversion and deployment of smart city technologies. These include:
City Manager Jon Jennings noted, "The fact that so many local firms have the skills and expertise to implement key portions of this project underscores Portland's ability to take on the challenges of the 21st century economy. For me, a key element of this project is to demonstrate the City's readiness to partner with the private sector to implement innovative ideas."


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4 dead after police standoff at a Colo. townhome.
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Four people, including an armed suspect, died during an hours-long police standoff Saturday at a Colorado townhome, authorities said.
An Aurora police department SWAT team responded after shots were heard at the townhome at 3 a.m., said Aurora police Sgt. Cassidee Carlson. Investigators said three people, all adults, appeared to have been killed before officers arrived.
The suspect shot at police at 8:15 a.m. and was killed during a shootout when officers stormed the home about 45 minutes later, Carlson said. It wasn't known if officers shot the suspect or if he shot himself.
A fifth person escaped unharmed before officers arrived and reported that she saw three people inside the home who "appeared lifeless," Carlson said.
The sergeant declined to elaborate about the woman's escape.
A motive for the killings was unknown. Police wearing gloves and carrying evidence bags were going over the crime scene.
"We're just getting in there with our crime scene detectives, so obviously we'll have to determine if it was our rounds or his rounds," Carlson said.
Police declined to release the name of the suspect or victims.
Officers evacuated neighbors during the standoff and used a bullhorn to communicate with the gunman, urging him to surrender.
A large front window was missing in the modest two-story townhome, the window's mini-blinds in disarray. Bullet holes marked two upstairs windows. Neighbors milled about outside.
The shootings occurred about four miles southeast of the Aurora Mall, where 12 people were killed and dozens wounded by a gunman at a midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" on July 20. The man charged in that shooting, James Holmes, goes to court Monday for a preliminary hearing in which prosecutors will lay out their case against him.
Aurora, just east of Denver, is one of Colorado's largest and most diverse cities with more than 335,000 residents. It is home to Buckley Air Force Base as well as the sprawling University of Colorado Health Sciences Center campus.
Associated Press writer Thomas Peipert contributed to this story.
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With our medium truck range carrying some of the most impressive tech in the industry, a solid truck doesn't just stop at nuts and bolts. Every medium duty model is fitted with our DAVE media system with standard satellite navigation^. It also has digital radio, DVD, MP3, voice-control and Bluetooth connectivity, as well as the game-changing Isuzu 'Connect' Telematics system*. Multi-vision camera systems are available, and of course, remote keyless entry. Plus, all models comply with the latest ECE-R29 standard, and come with double side-intrusion bars, seatbelt pre-tensioners and load-limiters, with driver & passenger airbags all standard, as well as ABS, ASR, traction control, FUPS and hill start aid.
Cabs are anything but afterthoughts with Isuzu. For instance, you'll find stacks of storage space and locations for all your stuff. Along with heaps of room for you and your workmates as well, including generous stretch-out legroom. Although, they might spare a moment of jealousy towards your ISRI 6860 suspension seat. All in all, it's a very comfy and accommodating place to be.
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There are no post-production effects added to this video, everything, happening on singer Olga Bell's face is happening in real-time, we're told.
How did they do it? (And not blind Bell's singer in the process?) With a Kinect hack of course.
Zach Liberman writes on the Vimeo landing page for this video that they used a hacked Kinect, a laptop, an LED projector and FaceTracker code from Jason Saragih. You can see some making of shots in the second, bonus video below.


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Nightwear never looked so good. Shop the styles we're loving this season, from slogan sleep tees to mix-and-match pyjama sets adorned with cool stripes and checks. The dressing gown also gets a new season update, think intricate embroidery and pops of colour to update the silhouette, while bedtime slips in lace and satin are good enough to wear out. Need a lie in? Sporty-feel loungewear or retro Disney pyjamas are perfect for those off-duty days.
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DomainJedi needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 13 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
We've got a logo and now we need a design to match the look and feel created by the logo. Everything you should need to design the website can be found here: http://mjwitz.googlepages.com/welcome
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I want a fairly straightforward navigation here and the logo should dictate the basic look and feel.
This is the content for the site to design...
I'm looking for all 5 pages to be designed, but they are obviously very, very similar. The only one that might require a bit of extra work is the blog page, and I will pay extra if you can do the wordpress blog design...if you cant don't worry about it.
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Economic analysis from the ONS show some fantastic long-term trends for June 2019. Read our article for our summary of the headline figures.
We are giving police Chief Constables the funding they need to equip more of their officers with Tasers, to fight back against violent crime.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has launched the biggest hospital building programme in a generation, to deliver the very best for our NHS.
We're announcing new models of personalised care to help tackle the serious issue of adult mental illness.
Our Plan for Britain will deliver a country that is stronger, fairer, more united and more outward looking than ever before.
NHS staff are doing a fantastic job to make sure that people get the treatment they need – especially at this time of year when it's extremely busy. And here's some of the things we're doing in government to support our NHS.


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Shane Pike needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 363 designs submitted by 88 freelance designers.
"All Health Jobs.com" or just "All Health Jobs"
We're a network of job sites covering all areas of healthcare -- nurses, physicians, allied health professionals, pharmacists, and executives (to name just a few). See this page for a full list: http://www.allhealthjobs.com/produc…ricing.php
Our audience is any healthcare worker looking for a job. "Healthcare" covers a very wide range of people, though, as noted above.
We're looking for a logo that conveys "professional" and "trustworthy."
The logo has to work for all the sites in our network -- in other words, we need to be able to replace "Health" with "Pharmacy," "Nursing," etc. (See our current logos to see what I mean.)
The logo can be text only if you prefer. We aren't necessary looking for any imagery.
The logo should be suitable for a complete range of uses: website, business cards, clothing, etc.
Do NOT restrict your design to the look and feel of the current site. This logo will be the basis for a completely site redesign, so you have no limitations.
Do NOT include any imagery (like a stethoscope) that doesn't apply to EVERY job type that we cover.
Do NOT use a black and green color scheme. That seems to be most designers' favorite right now, and we're having to give that feedback each time.
Do NOT include a tagline. We do not have one.
We will rate every single design we receive generally following this scale:
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4 - A logo we would choose if we don't find any better ones, but not *quite* perfect yet.
3 - Either the design or the designer shows definite potential, but not a logo we could choose as the winner.
2 - Doesn't look promising, but there's a chance you might surprise us with the next version.
1 - This particular logo doesn't demonstrate a level of design skill that we feel will be necessary to win this contest.
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BALTIMORE – UMBC softball returns to action for a midweek contest against Georgetown on Wednesday, April 9. Game time is set for 2:30 p.m. at the UMBC Softball Stadium.
The Retrievers (22-14, 0-5 AEC) dropped a three-game series for the first time this season over the weekend in America East action at Binghamton. UMBC, which has stranded 29 runners on base over the last five games, continued to struggle for the timely hit over the weekend. Sophomore utility player Danielle O'Neill (Lothian, Md./Southern) is coming off a two-home run effort on the final day of the series, while junior catcher Taylor Hall (Cosby, Va./Cosby) homered for her 150th career hit on Sunday.
Hall is hitting a team-best .407 on the season, with 19 extra-base hits and 35 runs batted in. O'Neill ranks only behind Hall in on-base percentage (.424), having walked a team-best 25 times. Senior first baseman Chelsea Bertoglio (Laguna Hills, Calif./Laguna Hills/Saddleback College) ranks second on the team in batting average (.329) and runs batted in (24). Freshman third baseman Kaelin Jackson (Export, Pa./Franklin Regional) is batting .293 in her rookie season, with seven doubles, two triples and 14 runs batted in.
In the circle, freshman Jessica Holte (Ashland, Va./Atlee) has tallied 13 wins, the most wins for a UMBC pitcher since 2011 when Stephanie Weigman recorded 16 wins. Holte has a 1.95 earned run average and is holding opponents to a team-low .263 batting average. Freshman Nicole Casagrand (Horsham, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) has posted a 4-2 record in 12 appearances.
Georgetown (17-15, 7-2 BIG EAST) dropped two-of-three against St. John's in BIG EAST action over the weekend. Junior Megan Hyson and senior Elyse Graziano are each batting above .300 for the season. Hyson's .394 average and 23 runs batted in each lead the team. Graziano is hitting at a .314 clip and has a .403 on-base percentage, with a team-best 12 stolen bases.
In the circle, Hyson has accounted for nine of the team's victories and has fanned 124 batters on the season. Hyson has four shutouts and 15 complete games on the campaign. Junior Lauren O'Leary has posted an 8-7 record, including three shutouts in 2014.


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High-Temperature Sodium/Metal Chloride Storage BatteryM. Vallance[1], and R. White[2]
[1]General Electric Global Research Center, Niskayuna, NY, USA
[2]Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
Sodium/metal chloride storage batteries, used in hybrid propulsion applications, provide high energy and power densities safely and reliably.
To understand the dynamics of electrochemical cycling, a high-temperature sodium/ferrous chloride storage cell was modeled in two dimensions. The time-dependent solution shows that a reaction front, starting at the interface with the negative electrode, moves deeper into the positive electrode with increasing depth of discharge.
Cell potential falls continuously as the discharge front moves deeper; Ohmic resistance in the porous electrode limits cell performance.


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Ellen Daugherty was the recipient of the prestigious Luce/ACLS Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, and an Ailsa Mellon Bruce travel fellowship from the Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.
Professor Daugherty's research interests are focused on American and African American art and imagery, primarily in the American South. Her scholarly approach is interdisciplinary, drawing deeply on history and public history, anthropology, material culture, and African American studies. She is currently working on a project, Visible Improvement: Negotiating Images of African American Racial Uplift, that engages issues of race, memory, and patronage in a study of the ways in which public imagery of African Americans—particularly civic monuments, "Negro exhibits" at American world's fairs, photographs, and print culture—was used in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries either to promote or reject ideals of racial uplift. The book will concentrate on both prescriptive imagery intended to encourage the educational, social, and material elevation of former slaves and their descendants, and overtly racist images that were intended as obvious snubs of the aspirations of contemporary black citizens and as an assertion of white supremacy disguised as sentimentality for the "Old South." The goal of the project is to explore how public images were used both as a tool and as a weapon in cultural debates about the role of African Americans in society.
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Eliot Asinof's notes for his signature baseball book, Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series, were released to the public recently, and some folks have gone through them. Some Chicago lawyers, actually. And a subsequent article in the Chicago Lawyer Magazine (now, there's one magazine I never thought to read) raises the question of whether Asinof really knew enough to write such an authoritative book. …
September 6, 2009
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You may be dead, but that doesn't mean the hijinks need to stop. The Talking Tombstone is quite possibly the most distasteful and tacky addition to any dead person's repertoire, but, oh man, it could be funny.
Cheer up, you silly mourners, and listen to my deceased voice insult your mother from beyond the grave. This tombstone will set you—or your life insurance company—back $5,000. But that isn't too bad considering you are getting the last word, for all eternity. Oh ho!
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Trends have come and gone ever since the advent of modern scrapbooking, but sometimes a trend sticks around long enough to move out of the fad stage and become a staple. We've seen it happen with many supplies and motifs over the years (clouds, woodgrain, and bling are just a few examples). Thinking back to what I saw at CHA Winter 2012, it's apparent two more once trendy supplies have firmly cemented their staplehood: baker's twine and decorative or washi tape. These two items were found in many, many booths on the CHA Winter 2012 show floor and will be plentiful this season on store shelves.
You know an item has become a staple when We R Memory Keepers adds it to their lineup of basic embellishments. This season both tape and twine join the ranks of brads and other staple items on We R's rainbow wall of embellishments.


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JACKSONVILLE, Ala. – The Tennessee Tech soccer team played the role of spoiler at Jacksonville State's homecoming weekend Sunday afternoon, forcing the Gamecocks to a 0-0 draw after two extra periods could not decide a winner.
The Golden Eagles moved to 3-10-1 overall and 1-3-1 in Ohio Valley Conference play while Jax State fell to 4-9-2, 0-5-1.
Jordan Brown recorded her third shutout of the year in the event, making an impressive 10 saves in the affair to pad her OVC lead in the stops department to 15. She has made 99 saves in the 2013 season and the 10-stop day was her fourth double-digit save effort of the season.
Tech mustered up six shots-on-goal against the Gamecocks, including two each from junior defender Katie Phillips and sophomore midfielder Taylor Sutton.
The Golden Eagle defense played incredible for all 110 minutes, even with the Gamecocks owning a 25-12 shot advantage in the contest.
The tie marks the first for the Golden Eagles in over a year with the last one occurring on Sept. 2, 2011 against Louisiana Tech.
The Tech squad will return to the pitch Friday for a home contest with defending OVC Champions UT Martin. The match will begin at 3 p.m. CDT and will be streamed live on the OVC Digital Network.


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Christopher and Banks is looking for a Store Manager for our new location at Streets of Tanasbourne - coming soon!
The Store Manager is responsible for managing all aspects of the store. This key position is accountable for delivering results through effective management of store operations and Associates while ensuring an excellent customer experience.
How you will spend your time...
What you will need to be successful...
Education: High School Diploma or GED
Physical Requirements
Always in style, your career at Christopher & Banks....
When Gil Braun opened the first Braun's Fashions in Minneapolis, Minn., in 1956, he opened it with "her" in mind: local women who were full of life and wisdom, confident in their beliefs and in search of styles that made them feel fabulous at a price they would love. That spirit continued when Braun's Fashions opened its first stores under the Christopher & Banks banner in 2000. The same year, the company introduced CJ Banks, opening 20 stores designed to meet the need for sizes 14-24 in the underserved women's apparel market.
Today, Christopher & Banks operates almost 500 stores nationally, and still focuses on putting "her" first, providing our customers with style, value and service that help her look fabulous and feel amazing, every day and for life's special moments. Missy, women's and petite sizes are available in stores and online for our customers' convenience. Please read more about us at www.Christopherandbanks.com.
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Challege by jrm402
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a styling language used primarily to apply visual semantics to web markup. CSS 2 is currently the standard but CSS 3 is on the rise and beginning to become supported by most major browsers (Firefox and Chrome for starters).
CSS 3 will be supporting a varied range of new techniques web developers could only dream of doing in Photoshop such as:
- Drop Shadows
- Gradients
- Box Model Rotation
- Web Font Implementation
- Much, Much More!
Here's some documentation on CSS 3:
- http://css3please.com/
- http://www.w3.org/St...rrent-work#CSS3
- http://www.css3.info/preview/
- http://www.css3.com/
A couple ideas to get you started:
- Make an element appear to float using the drop shadow attribute
- Mess around with rounded corners
- Make 3D elements by overlaying elements. Use background-color, border, and drop shadow effects.
- Extra Credit: Use jQuery and CSS 3 to make cool animations!
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Obituary: Jeff McCarthy
Jeff McCarthy was born on April 18, 1980 in Truckee, CA and joined Jesus Christ and God The Father in Heaven on December 21, 2012.
Jeff lived a lot of life in his short time on earth. After graduation from Pied Piper Pre-School, Truckee Elementary and Truckee High School in 1998, Jeff headed for college in San Diego. After several years at Mesa Community College, Jeff graduated from San Diego State University in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration. During college, Jeff began his career at Verizon Wireless, spending many years as a successful sales associate and then as a very popular and successful store manager. Jeff and Nina met at Verizon in 2000 and were married in Kings Beach, CA on September 2, 2006.
Jeff loved all kinds of sports and outdoor activities, baseball, ice hockey, football, hiking, camping. He loved Truckee in the summer and the winter and he loved the beautiful weather in San Diego.
Jeff and Nina lived a fulfilling and fun life filled with countless friends. He was warm and caring and a very outgoing person, always willing and quick to help others. Jeff was known for his very special bright smile and wonderful laugh, which will be deeply missed by so many.
Jeff will be greatly missed by his wife, Nina, Mom and Dad, Dwight and Pam, sister Meghan Cole and their families: niece and nephew, Daisy and Braden Cole, Aunt Connie Deming, grandmother Elizabeth McCarthy, Aunt Rhonda and Uncle Larry; Father and Mother-in-law, Dennis and Johanna Krakenberg, grandmother Nina Krakenberg, brother-in law, Denny Boy, sister-in-law Cynthia, and cousin-in-law, Mathew, and all of his friends here in Truckee and in San Diego where he lived for the past 14 years.
His family would love to have you visit the Jeff McCarthy Memorial Facebook page to read the many loving thoughts posted by family and friends.
A memorial service is planned on this Saturday, Jan. 5th at 1:00 p.m. at Sierra Bible Church, 11460 Old Brockway Road, Truckee, CA with a reception following. Visitation is available for those interested at Truckee Mortuary in downtown Truckee on Saturday, Jan 5th from 11:30 to 12:30 a.m.


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Rockbrook Camp for Girls!
Rockbrook is a sleepaway summer camp for girls located in the "heart of a wooded mountain" in Brevard, North Carolina. Founded in 1921, our summer camp continues to provide an exciting and enriching, fun and formative, camp experience for girls and teens ages 6 – 16.
Each summer Rockbrook provides a unique overnight camp program of recreation, adventure, creativity and fun. From horseback riding, whitewater rafting, pottery, and swimming to camp fires and exploring a chilly stream, each day at camp is filled with new experiences and great opportunities to develop lasting friendships.
Our goal through these camps is for each child to gain, at her own pace, a deeper understanding of herself and of her relationship with other people and the natural world. Emphasizing a friendly and noncompetitive environment, we aim to provide camp memories that can serve as inner resources for building character later in life.
We invite you to learn more about Rockbrook Camp— explore our website, watch our videos, request a catalog, or simply give us a call !
Rockbrook's Mission is to provide a haven for girls,
a place of their own,
where they can explore the beauty of nature,
try new things, enjoy carefree summer living,
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reimagine needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 14 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
This is a redesign of an existing site that incorporates an existing logo. The design should be colorful and fun and play off the idea of curvy pool design.
Desired Color Scheme:
colors from logo
Desired Style:
curvy, bright
Accepted File Formats:
layered PSD file
Current web site:
New logo that needs to be incorporated:
- Need a place on the page where we can rotate different photos of pools. It would be nice to have a curvy area for that ... we can format all the photos to match that outline.
- A layered Photoshop file is the best way to deliver the final project
- Width for page should be anywhere between 800-950 fixes. The content will be centered in the browser and the page should be able to expand vertically.
- The client likes the colors that are in the logo and wants to incorporate those into the site.


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This adventure finds the Cat in the Hat, Nick and Sally on a journey around the world to help a lost reindeer find his way home to Freezeyourknees Snowland in time for Christmas. On the way, the Thingamajigger breaks down and they depend on a variety of animals -- from African bush elephants to bottlenose dolphins to red crabs -- and their remarkable abilities to help them make an amazing journey home.
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App Review: Lyrics+ by ShroederDev
by Dorothy on
July 26, 2009
Filed under Daily App Reviews, Entertainment, Music, Utility
Update: This app appears to have been removed from the app store since our review was written. The following statement was taken from the developers website:
Unfortunately, it has come to our attention that the LyricWiki API has been shutdown by the record companies. We are currently working diligently to secure a new licensing agreement and rebuild the app. We strongly urge all of our customers to keep the app as the release of an update is quite probable. However, if a refund must be obtained, please contact Apple directly as we have no means of delivering refunds to our customers.
Have you ever wondered about the lyrics to a song? You like the beat, but what are they saying? Now there is an app that can give you the lyrics quickly and easily while you are listening to the song. Lyrics+ by ShroederDev gives you access to the lyrics to countless songs. The app offers a few different methods for finding the lyrics. The easiest way is probably to launch the Lyrics+ app while a song is playing on your iPod or iPhone. When the app comes up, tap on "now playing song…" The app will pull up the artist, title, and words to the song.
Finding the lyrics in either of the two other ways requires launching the app first. Once in the app you can "pick from library…" or "search by artist, song…" Pick from library brings up the typical music menu on your device and you can choose a song from your music library. Searching is the only method by which you can get lyrics for songs that you don't have on your iPhone or iPod. The search parameters require, however, that you know the artist, which is a slight drawback. Sometimes I know the title or can guess pretty close, but have no idea who the song is by. The song title field is optional. I did appreciate that once you searched by artist and received the search results, you could then search those results again by title. So, if you know exactly what you are looking for, it is easy to find.
In trying out the app, I ran into a few minor problems. First, I tried pulling up the lyrics to the recent Daughtry album. I got the lyrics quickly, but there were slight typographical errors in the text. Not a huge deal, though. Second, there were several songs that I could not get the lyrics for by simply using the "now playing song…" function. However, when I searched for the song using the search function, I found them quickly and easily. I think this problem may be a function of how some of the music got onto my iPod. Yes, I do own all the music, but some of the songs were put on from MP3's from old CD's of mine and may not have all the information needed to pull up the lyrics using this app. Again, a minor drawback. Third, in some of the searches that I performed, the song I wanted was in the search results, but the lyrics were missing. In these cases, the app will ask if you want to search for the lyrics using Safari.
I did like that when you pull up the lyrics for a song that is playing, the app also provides you with controls for the songs playback. You can pause it, change the volume, or skip around in the song using the bar at the top. It was helpful not to have to exit the app and come back to it every time I wanted to pause the song or turn up the volume. Overall, Lyrics+ is a fun app to have. Now I can finally figure out what all my favorite songs are about. Definitely worth $0.99.
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The Rise of the Flamethrower
Matthew Futterman explains how the increasing number of pitchers who regularly throw 100 mph is changing baseball. Photo: Getty Images.
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Okay, okay, roll in those tongues ladies, this is about Rogers' first Android-toting smartphones, the HTC Magic and Dream, not your beloved Joshua Jackson of Dawson's Creek fame, however dreamy and/or magical he may be. As mentioned, Rogers has announced the first Android devices in Canada for $149.99 on three-year contract, and are offering a promotional $30 6 GB monthly data plan. You can pick 'em up in stores now.
One of the biggest questions that lingered after their launch event in Toronto was "why did it take so long for Android to get to Canada?" I'd like to think that Rogers was taking the high road and waiting until Exchange support was available, but it seems more likely that they didn't hop on board last fall like T-Mobile US did because the iPhone 3G was still fresh out of the gate and they didn't want to cannibalize any sales; even now, based on some of the ads they showed us, it's clear Rogers is pushing the slider Dream more than the newer, more impressive, full-touchscreen Magic.
Hit the jump for some first impressions of the HTC Magic and HTC Dream from Rogers, and a bunch of pictures both of the handsets and Joshua Jackson, if you're into that kind of thing.
The Magic's form factor was immediately impressive – slim, sleek, and functional. The 3.2″ HVGA touchscreen is extremely responsive and smooth, especially in the browser. I hadn't spent much time with Android, but the ability to scan a page in fullscreen with the fisheye lens then release your finger to zoom in on the area is absolutely great. My primary complaint about mobile web browsing on touchscreens has always been nailing links that are tucked away in clusters, but that's where the trackball really shines – you can scroll through a number of links quickly and chose one precisely without any trouble using the trackball.
Having spent most of my time with the BlackBerry, and previously unimpressed with my iPod Touch's keypad, I was tentative about the Magic's. Luckily, the keys in landscape were large, haptic feedback helpful, and apparently the OS learns your finger placement and adjusts accordingly. I remember hearing that some Windows Mobile phones were picky about where you could hit a key, so a flexible system that adapts to the user is a good way to get around that.
All-in-all, the HTC Magic is smexy (especially the 5 megapixel camera), and I am thoroughly bummed that it'll take a couple of weeks before a review unit is available. The only downside I can imagine is the combined charge/sync/music ExtUSB port, but even that is forgiveable by many. Keep an eye in the near future for a full review. Hopefully the Market will have more than the 3,500 initial apps after it has some time to mature.
The HTC Dream is only different from T-Mobile's G1 by way of its casing, so if you're looking for the full scoop on the Dream, it probably makes sense to check out Will's full-blown review of the G1 – just pretend it has the latest cupcakey goodness and Exchange support.


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Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Romantic Riding
Though I have to admit to letting Valentine's Day pass me by this year, the same can not be said Bells Bicycle Shop in Hastings where romance was definitely in the air. The owners decorated the shop with a tasteful Valentine's theme. I am loving the wall of vintage wedding photos, the perfect backdrop for the elegant bicycles.. Well done ladies for celebrating our love affair with cycling....
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Hey everyone! I'm back with a pony whom I've done before but she's just 20% cooler then them all! But this time she's different, here she has a crystal coat, and is all spiffy looking. Requested by Dawn. This is Rainbow Dash after the Mane 6 return harmony to the Crystal Empire. Well that'd all for this time! I hope you have fun learning How to Draw Rainbow Dash! And sorry if things look choppy, I gotta learn not to drink coffee before drawing and to take my time xD
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Croatians are celebrating their entry into the European Union as the once war-torn nation becomes the bloc's 28th member. Many hope membership will help boost Croatia out of recession.
At the stroke of midnight on Sunday, Croatia joined the EU, the first expansion of the bloc since 2007.
Croatia has come a long way since its 1991-1995 war of independence that claimed 20,000 lives. In seeking membership, the country has had to undertake political and economic reforms.
"We are here on this historic night. It was your desire to join EU, and your hard work has made this possible," the president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, said as he congratulated the thousands of revelers in central Zagreb early Monday.
The country of 4.4 million becomes just the second of the former Yugoslav states to enter the EU, following Slovenia's entry in 2004.
At the stroke of midnight, Croatia took down its "Customs" sign at the border crossing with Slovenia and placed an "EU" sign up at its border with Serbia.
Serbia just learned last week that they can begin negotiations in January 2014 for their own future entry in the EU.
Concerns still exist
The timing of Croatia's accession, however, is far from perfect, owing to the global debt crisis and the country's own economic woes.
And then there are the existing problems within the bloc itself to contend with, such as the debt crisis and resulting dip in member solidarity. In some member nations, for example, public support for the union is falling, leading to questions over the bloc's further expansion.
Hopeful accession
Croatia's aspiration to join the EU has been known ever since it proclaimed independence from Yugoslavia, which sparked the deadly war against rebel Serbs.
Last year, Croatians voted through a referendum for EU membership, the final hurdle to Sunday's accession to the bloc.
It is hoped that EU membership will help bring greater foreign investment and boost the Croatian economy.
Despite questions over timing and its economy, thousands gathered in Zagreb on Sunday to celebrate the culmination of 20 years worth of change, reform and success.
Revelers were joined by 170 foreign officials, 15 heads of state, 13 prime ministers and the presidents of the European Commission and European Council.
Croatia's President Ivo Josipovic pointed to to the historical significance of the occasion. "In the history of a nation, there are few events such as this one," he said.
"The accession of Croatia to the European Union is confirmation that each one of us
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These are the problems that my teacher gave us as a challenge do u have a solution to it?
Use appropriate notations
Prog-1(a) Define a Question class which stores a multiple choice question having one correct
answer. Each question has a complexity (difficulty) level. Use the Question class to define a
Quiz class. A quiz can be composed of up to 10 questions. Define the add method of the Quiz
class to add a question to a quiz. Define the giveQuiz method of the Quiz class to present each
question in turn to the user, accept an answer for each one, and keep track of the results.
Define a class called QuizTime with a main() method that follows a menu based approach to
populates a quiz, presents it by asking questions randomly, and prints the final results.
(b) Modify your program so that the complexity level of the questions given in the quiz is taken
into account. Overload the giveQuiz method so that it accepts two integer parameters that
specify the minimum and maximum complexity levels for the quiz questions and only presents
questions in that complexity range. Modify the main() method to demonstrate this feature.
Prog-2 The People Bank can handle up to 30 customers who have savings accounts. Design and
implement a program that manages the accounts. Keep track of key information and allow each
customer to make deposits and withdrawals. Each withdrawal is charged with some fee.
Produce appropriate error messages for invalid transactions.
[Hint: you may want to base your
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public class Account {
private long acctNumber;
private double balance;
privateCustomer customer;
public double deposit (double amount);
public double withdraw (double amount, double fee);
public double getBalance ();
public long getAccountNumber ();
public class Bank {
private Account[ ] accounts; //Instead of Array, you may use Vector or ArrayList to store accounts
public void createAccount (long accNumber, double balance, String cname);
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public double withdraw (long accNumber, double amount, double fee);
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Deer Valley High School's Kendall Smith hit the fadeaway jumper on the left baseline. The clock showed six minutes, three seconds to go in Saturday night's championship game in the Chris Vontoure Classic. But the game was over.
The points were Nos. 22 and 23 on the night for Smith, en route to 28. They put the Wolverines up 20 points on host De La Salle on their way to a 55-38 victory. And they were a reminder that Deer Valley is not just Kentucky-bound forward Marcus Lee.
Smith made 12 of 18 shots on the night.
Meantime, Lee scored the game's first six points as Deer Valley (6-1) raced to a 13-0 lead. The Spartans (2-1) didn't score until Elliott Pitts took a pass from Eric Daul and made a shot with 2:58 to go in the first quarter.
De La Salle never really got back into the game. That was due mainly to Deer Valley's defense, which forced 17 turnovers and held the Spartans to 25 percent (13 of 52) shooting from the field. Pitts was the only offense for much of the night — he finished with 17 points. However, he was 6 of 22 (27 percent) shooting.
The game was a key early season contest between two teams likely to battle it out in the North Coast Section Division I playoffs. In last season's NCS final, De La Salle defeated Deer Valley 54-31, a point not lost on the Wolverines.
"This was kind of a revenge game for us," Smith said.
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Monte Vista 3, Pittsburg 1: Goals from Charles Zaloumis and Cameron Lyall gave the Mustangs a 2-0 lead after 60 minutes, and Arman Mogharei's goal in the 73rd minute gave Monte Vista the point it needed to clinch the Tri-Valley Champions Challenge championship at Amador Valley High.
The Mustangs finished with 21 points to 20 for Amador Valley, which lost 3-1 to College Park earlier Saturday to open the door for Monte Vista. Teams receive one point for each goal it scores, up to three goals. Monte Vista also claimed wins over Clayton Valley (4-0) and Richmond (2-1) earlier this month to win the event and improve its record to 5-0-2.
With Monte Vista leading 2-0, the Pirates (2-2-0) benefited from an own goal to cut the deficit to one. Pittsburg had a goal nullified by an offside call and a missed penalty before Mogharei's goal.
College Park (3-4-2) used goals from Christian Garibay, Andrew Tabone and Joey Brauer to beat Amador Valley (6-1).
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Ever since the first century AD, China and the Indonesian islands already had close contact either between the Chinese emperor and the Indonesian kings as well in religion and trade contexts. Chinese princesses are known to have been given in marriage to a number of kings in Yogyakarta, Solo, Cirebon, Bangka and Belitung and in Western Borneo.
But the influx of Chinese to Indonesia seriously began in the 17th century when the Dutch East India Company, VOC, attracted Chinese mainlanders to immigrate to the Indonesian islands to work and trade.
In Batavia, capital of the VOC, although the Chinese were needed by the Dutch, yet the Chinese community together with the indigenous population were kept to settle outside the city walls and entrenchments.
Many therefore, settled and traded along the Pintu Besar area by the Ciliwung river, that is known as "Glodok" or Jakarta's Chinatown. Glodok stretches from Pancoran all the way to Jalan Gunung Sahari. A number of Chinese also settled further west in today's Tangerang, which is now in the neighboring Banten province. These original settlers in Tangerang are known as the Benteng Chinese.
As in the early centuries China prohibited women from emigrating, the immigrating men married local women, thus creating a fusion and acculturation between Chinese and local Malay, Javanese, and other indigenous traditions. This fusion is known as the Peranakan culture.
The Peranakan culture is most pronounced in their wedding ceremonies, music and dance and in particular in the fusion in food and cuisine, where the Chinese absored the local cultures, and vice versa, local communities absorbed Chinese cultural elements into their existence.
A number of well-preserved Chinese buildings that can still be admired today can be seen in Toko Merah, at Jalan Kali Besar that clearly shows Chinese influences. Another is the newly restored Candranaya building along Jalan Gajah Mada. Both Toko Merah and the Candranaya are now open for Seminars, weddings and other large gatherings.
Petak Sembilan
Petak Sembilan is another neighbourhood that still exudes an aura of the original Chinese settlements. Here is the oldest Chinese temple in Jakarta, called the Jin De Yuan or Dharma Bakti Temple, built in 1650 .
Around Petak Sembilan you will find local Chinese stores selling typical Chinese sweets and other Chinese knick-knacks, drugstores selling Chinese medicines, and best of all local restaurants selling original Chinese food such as roast duck, fried dumplings, bakso meatballs. Here is also the typical Chinese coffee shop called "Kopi Tiam" and the Ice Café called "Tak Kie", still selling all in the "old ways".
This part of Jakarta's Chinatown comes alive with lanterns and lion dances most especially during Chinese New Year Celebrations.


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Rhea Durham Gossip
Rhea Durham gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Mrs Wahlberg vs the Beliebers
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One of my favourite Golden Globe moments of all time happened at one of the after-parties in 2011. My etalk colleague Jessi Cruickshank was covering that carpet. And when Mark Wahlberg arrived with his wife, she asked him about Justin Bieber. Which resulted in the most amazing cut-eye bitch-face from Mrs Wahlberg, Rhea Durham. Full Story
Gambler in Barbados
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Mark Wahlberg and Rhea Durham spent Christmas in Barbados with their four kids. If you had the TV turned on at all over the last week or so you could not have missed the ads for his new film The Gambler, particularly if you were watching sporting events. Dudes supposedly love Marky Mark. And mostly dudes went to see his movie, which opened in 6th for the weekend. Full Story
Marky Mark wants to lead not follow
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Check out Mark Wahlberg and his congenial wife, Rhea Durham, at the premiere of The Gambler last night. As you know, Mark's been in the news lately because he's requested a pardon for beating people up when he was 16. At the time he spat out some racial slurs to go along with his punches. Full Story
More Wahlbergs
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Here's Rhea Durham, wife of Mark Wahlberg, yesterday in LA. The agency photo captioned these shots as follows: "A possibly pregnant Rhea Durham and her daughter leave Anastasia." Bump Watch is not my favourite gossip tool. However, the story here is not analysing her bump but the mass proliferation of Wahlbergs! Holy sh-t! If they're having another baby, that makes five. Full Story
Marky Mark talks about his children
Mark Wahlberg stars in the new Transformers, out this weekend, directed by Michael Bay. So, basically, the highest concentration of DUDE in a movie you'll ever see. To promote the movie, Mark is doing press, talking about his kids. He has four of them. Of his sons, he says: "My boys are obsessed with everything sports. Full Story
Mark Wahlberg and the swears
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Really wish they cut away to Rhea Durham's face more last night during the MTV Movie Awards. Did you see her expression after the Rihanna/Eminem performance? I can't the video because they keep pulling everything down but if you have it on your DVR still, go back and find it. Mrs Wahlberg has a reputation. Full Story
Best of 2011: Mrs Wahlberg's bitchface
One day, 40 years from now, when Jessi Cruickshank looks back at what will no doubt be an award-winning career, I still feel like this will make her highlight reel. Jessi is the LA correspondent for etalk, was the host of MTV's The Aftershow, my colleague and friend. Full Story
The Final Entourage
Entourage the final season premieres this weekend on Sunday on HBO Canada and HBO at 10:30pm. I've not enjoyed the show for maybe two or three seasons now. It lost its bite. Towards the end of last season though, as Vince began to spiral, when the writers knew they were heading to a conclusion, things started to tighten up a little. Full Story
Best Oscar BitchFace: Marky Mark's Wife
Has there ever been a BitchFace ascent as accomplished and as meteoric as Mark Wahlberg's wife's, also known as Rhea Durham? We first saw it when she punked off Full Story
SAG Boss: Mark Wahlberg
There's been no mention yet of James Franco I WENT TO FILM SCHOOL. Why? Because his ego penis was nowhere near as intrusive as Mark Wahlberg's last night. Wahlberg dragged his balls on stage and cockily took up our time to stroke his own dick. Did you see? While presenting with Amy Adams,he decided to congratulate himself first, his movie, the actors in his movie, and his tv show, Boardwalk Empire… We get it. Full Story
Mrs Wahlberg's BitchFace
And here we thought she was just a garden variety model wife. A very fertile one at that. But Mrs Wahlberg, also known as Rhea Durham, she has a raging bitch inside of her. And when she lets it out? Look. The. F-ck. Out. It's amazing. The background: I work on an entertainment news show in Canada called etalk Full Story