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Reading 1: Liberty Ships
When war broke out Europe in September 1939, the merchant fleet was caught unprepared to handle a massive sealift of war material. With continental Europe under German control, and Great Britain under devastating air attack, President Franklin Roosevelt decided to increase the pace of production to provide ships to America's British allies. The result was the emergency fleet program, which introduced the assembly-line production of standardized ships--the Liberty ships--in 1941. The Liberty ship represented the design solution that would fill the need for an emergency type of simple, standardized cargo steamer. Based on a British design, it could be mass-produced cheaply and quickly using assembly-line methods and could easily be converted to individual military service needs. The United States designated this new type of ship the EC2 (E for emergency, C for cargo and 2 for a medium-sized ship between 400 and 450 feet at the waterline.) Production speed grew more important as German submarines sank ships trying to break Hitler's naval blockade of Great Britain. The Allies needed ships by the hundreds to replace these losses and to increase the flow of supplies to England and, later, the Soviet Union.
The first of these new ships was launched on September 27, 1941. It was named the SS Patrick Henry after the American Revolutionary War patriot who had famously declared, "Give me liberty, or give me death." Consequently, all the EC2 type of emergency cargo ships came to be known as Liberty ships. Naming nearly 3,000 ships turned out to be harder than people thought. Unlike the later Victory ships, there was no plan for how the Liberty ships would be named. In the end, the Liberties were named for people from all walks of life. Ships were named after patriots and heroes of the Revolutionary War. They were named after famous politicians (Abraham Lincoln to Simon Bolivar), scientists (George Washington Carver to Alexander Graham Bell), artists (Gilbert Stuart to Gutzon Borglum who sculpted Mt. Rushmore) and explorers (Daniel Boone to Robert E. Peary). One ship was named the SS Stage Door Canteen after the famous U.S.O. club for military service members while another was named the SS U.S.O. in honor of the United Service Organization itself.
The Liberty ships were slightly over 441 feet long and 57 feet wide. They used a 2,500 horsepower steam engine to push them through the water at 11 knots (approximately 12.5 miles per hour). The ships had a range of 17,000 miles. Liberty ships had five cargo holds, three forward of the engine room and two aft (in the rear portion of the ship). Each could carry 10,800 deadweight tons (the weight of cargo a ship can carry) or 4,380 net tons (the amount of space available for cargo and passengers). The crew quarters were located amidships (the middle portion of the ship).
Many technological advances were made during the Liberty shipbuilding program. A steel cold-rolling process was developed to save steel in the making of lightweight cargo booms. Welding techniques also advanced sufficiently to produce the first all-welded ships. Prefabrication was perfected, with complete deckhouses, double-bottom sections, stern-frame assemblies and bow units speeding production of the ships. By 1944, the average time to build a ship was 42 days. In all, 2,751 Liberties were built between 1941 and 1945, making them the largest class of ships built worldwide.
Each Liberty ship carried a crew of between 38 and 62 civilian merchant sailors, and 21 to 40 naval personnel to operate defensive guns and communications equipment. The Merchant Marine served in World War II as a Military Auxiliary. Of the nearly quarter million volunteer merchant mariners who served during World War II, over 9,000 died. Merchant sailors suffered a greater percentage of fatalities (3.9%) than any branch of the armed forces.
The Liberty ship was considered a "five-year vessel" (an expendable, if necessary, material of war) because it was not able to compete with non-emergency vessels in speed, equipment and general serviceability. However, Liberties ended up doing well, plodding the seas for nearly 20 years after the end of World War II. Many Liberties were placed in the reserve fleet and several supported the Korean War. Other Liberties were sold off to shipping companies, where they formed the backbone of postwar merchant fleets whose commerce generated income to build the new ships of the 1950s and 1960s. However, age took its toll and by the mid-1960s the Liberties became too expensive to operate and were sold for scrap, their metal recycled. The first Liberty built, the Patrick Henry, was sent to the ship breakers (scrap yard) in October 1958.
Of the nearly 3,000 Liberty ships built, 200 were lost during World War II to enemy action, weather and accidents. Only two are still operational today, the SS Jeremiah O'Brien and the SS John W. Brown.
Questions for Reading 1
1. What is the U.S. Merchant Marine? What was the 1936 Merchant Marine Act? If needed, refer to Setting the Stage.
2. Why did the United States want to build merchant ships?
3. How many total ships did the Merchant Marine Act call for?
4. Why were the ships known as Liberty ships? How were the individual ships named?
5. Why were so many Liberty ships built?
6. What purpose did the ships serve during the war? What purpose did they serve after the war?
Reading 1 was compiled from John Gorley Bunker, Liberty Ships: The Ugly Ducklings of World War II (Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1972); Harry Butowsky, "SS Jeremiah O'Brien" (San Francisco County, California) National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form (Washington, D.C.: Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1985); James P. Delgado, "Lane Victory" (Los Angeles County, California) National Historic Landmark Nomination Form (Washington D.C.: Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1990); Curtis P. Junker, revised by Peter E. Kurtze, "SS John W. Brown" (Baltimore City, Maryland) National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (Washington, D.C.: Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1996); Samuel Eliot Morison, History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 1, The Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939-May 1943 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950); and L.W. Sawyer and W.H. Mitchell, The Liberty Ships: The History of the 'Emergency' Type Cargo Ships Constructed in the United States During World War II (Cambridge, Maryland: Cornell Maritime Press, 1970).


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Mitt Romney sharply criticized the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory overhaul in Wednesday night's presidential debate, but he gave little indication of what financial restrictions and oversights he would maintain should he win in November.
The Republican presidential nominee repeated his promise to "repeal and replace" the 2010 financial regulatory law, saying that the measure passed in the wake of the 2008 financial industry crisis is harming small banks and is constricting mortgage lending.
Echoing a common complaint from GOP lawmakers, Romney targeted the law's provision directing federal regulators to designate certain financial institutions as systemically important, which he said gave them permanent protected status as "too big to fail."
"They're effectively guaranteed by the federal government," Romney said. "This is the biggest kiss that's been given to New York banks I've ever seen. This is an enormous boon for them."
In fact, Wall Street strongly disagrees with that characterization, saying Dodd-Frank also gives it enhanced supervision from the Federal Reserve, as well as higher capital standards and liquidity requirements, which it opposes. The law also requires the biggest banks to craft "living wills," or detailed plans the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. could execute so that failing firms are liquidated in an orderly manner rather than bailed out as they were at the height of the 2008 financial crisis.
Romney also went after the law's housing components, blasting the administration for having yet to issue the "qualified mortgage" rule, which will require lenders to verify that consumers are able to repay their loans before extending credit. The rule is expected to fundamentally reshape the future of the mortgage market by setting new lending standards, and the housing industry is eager to see how the rule will end up.
"It's been two years. We don't know what a qualified mortgage is yet. So banks are reluctant to make loans, mortgages," Romney said. "It's hurt the housing market."
The housing sector remains fragile, but most analysts believe it is slowly improving and that a recovery has picked up speed this year, with home prices rising across the country as mortgage rates have hit record lows. And although the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is tasked with writing the qualified mortgage rule, has deliberated slowly, the bureau has not missed its statutory deadline of January 2013 to finalize the rule.
Despite his criticism of certain Dodd-Frank provisions, Romney did not say which parts he would try to keep if he became president.
"We're not going to get rid of all regulation," Romney said. "You have to have regulation. And there are some parts of Dodd-Frank that make all the sense in the world." He mentioned a need for transparency and leverage limits for financial institutions.
Even with a GOP-controlled Congress, Romney as president would have difficulty fully repealing the Dodd-Frank law; a more likely scenario would be a piecemeal legislative assault with some elements remaining.
In the debate, President Barack Obama questioned whether Romney was changing his position on the law.
"Gov. Romney has said he wants to repeal Dodd-Frank, and I appreciate and it appears we've got some agreement that a marketplace, to work, has to have some regulation. But in the past, Gov. Romney has said he just wants to repeal Dodd-Frank. Roll it back. And so the question is does anybody out there think that the big problem we had is that there was too much oversight and regulation of Wall Street?" Obama said.
Obama also slammed Romney for not saying which parts of the law would survive under his presidency.
"He says that he's going to replace Dodd-Frank, Wall Street reform, but we don't know exactly which ones," Obama said. "He won't tell us."

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Best definition
nothing fails like failure
a phrase meaning if one fails at one time, one may fail at other times, too.
He is a complete flop. He failed in his exam. He was snubbed by the company when he sought a job there. He even failed to win the heart of his girlfried as she jilted him. Nothing fails like failure, isn't it?


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Chemotherapy Followed By Peripheral Stem Cell Transplantation in Treating Patients With Recurrent or Refractory AIDS-Related Lymphoma
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00005824
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : January 27, 2003
Last Update Posted : February 3, 2016
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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Peripheral stem cell transplantation may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more cancer cells.
PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of chemotherapy followed by peripheral stem cell transplantation in treating patients who have recurrent or refractory AIDS-related lymphoma.
|Condition or disease
|Biological: filgrastim Drug: busulfan Drug: cyclophosphamide Procedure: peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
|Phase 2
- Determine the safety and tolerability of intensive chemotherapy and autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation in patients with recurrent or refractory AIDS-related lymphoma.
- Determine the response and response duration in these patients treated with this regimen.
- Determine the effect of this treatment regimen on HIV RNA and CD4 cells in these patients.
OUTLINE: Patients receive mobilization chemotherapy consisting of cyclophosphamide IV over 2 hours followed 2 days later by daily filgrastim (G-CSF) subcutaneously (SC) until blood counts recover. Patients then undergo leukopheresis to collect CD34+ cells.
Patients receive conditioning chemotherapy consisting of oral busulfan every 6 hours on days -7, -6, -5, and -4 for a total of 14 doses and cyclophosphamide IV over 1 hour on days -3 and -2. Patients undergo autologous stem cell infusion on day 0. G-CSF is administered IV or SC daily beginning on day 1 and continuing until blood counts recover.
Patients are followed monthly for 1 year and then every 6 months for 2 years.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 5-25 patients will be accrued for this study.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Pilot Study of the Safety and Feasibility of Autologous Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation for Patients With Relapsed AIDS-Related Lymphoma
|Study Start Date :
|November 2000
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|July 2004
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|April 2006
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 120 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Intermediate- or high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma or Hodgkin's disease
- Failed to achieve complete remission with initial therapy OR
- Relapsed after initial therapy
- May be in complete remission after salvage therapy
Sensitive to most recent chemotherapy
- Improvement of at least 25% in bidimensional tumor measurements OR
- Improvement in evaluable disease sustained over 4 weeks
- Measurable or evaluable disease
- HIV-1 positive
- CD4 greater than 50 cells/mm^3 (unless not receiving optimal antiretroviral therapy)
- HIV RNA less than 110,000 copies/mL (unless not receiving optimal antiretroviral therapy)
- No active leptomeningeal or parenchymal CNS involvement NOTE: A new classification scheme for adult non-Hodgkin's lymphoma has been adopted by PDQ. The terminology of "indolent" or "aggressive" lymphoma will replace the former terminology of "low", "intermediate", or "high" grade lymphoma. However, this protocol uses the former terminology.
- Physiologic 18 and over
Performance status:
- Karnofsky 70-100%
Life expectancy:
- Not specified
- Absolute neutrophil count greater than 1,000/mm^3
- AST no greater than 3 times upper limit of normal
- Bilirubin no greater than 2.0 mg/dL (unless receiving indinavir)
- Creatinine no greater than 2.0 mg/dL
- No history of cardiac disease
- LVEF at least 45%
- No history of symptomatic pulmonary disease
- DLCO at least 60%
- No active opportunistic infections
- No cytomegalovirus retinitis or pneumonitis requiring maintenance therapy
- No sensitivity to E. coli-derived products
- Not pregnant
- Negative pregnancy test
Biologic therapy:
- Not specified
- See Disease Characteristics
- At least 1 week since prior chemotherapy
Endocrine therapy:
- Not specified
- Not specified
- Not specified
- Chronic suppressive therapy for infection allowed
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00005824
|United States, Maryland
|Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21231
|United States, Massachusetts
|Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02129
|Study Chair:
|David T. Scadden, MD
|Massachusetts General Hospital
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
CDR0000067835 ( Other Identifier: NCI )
|First Posted:
|January 27, 2003 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|February 3, 2016
|Last Verified:
|February 2016
AIDS-related peripheral/systemic lymphoma
AIDS-related diffuse large cell lymphoma
AIDS-related immunoblastic large cell lymphoma
AIDS-related small noncleaved cell lymphoma
HIV-associated Hodgkin lymphoma
AIDS-related diffuse mixed cell lymphoma
AIDS-related diffuse small cleaved cell lymphoma
AIDS-related lymphoblastic lymphoma
Lymphoma, AIDS-Related
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Lymphoma, B-Cell
Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin
Immunosuppressive Agents
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antirheumatic Agents
Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating
Alkylating Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents
Myeloablative Agonists


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SUNY Cortland Choral Union
Directed by Dr. Stephen B. Wilson
Choral Union WebsiteThe Choral Union is a mixed voice (SATB) ensemble of 60-75 singers affiliated with the Department of Performing Arts at SUNY Cortland. Its purpose is to provide an opportunity for Cortland students, faculty and staff to join adult volunteer singers of central New York in performing the masterworks of the choral tradition, under the direction of a trained, experienced professional conductor. While there is no audition required for membership, experience in and commitment to artistic choral singing is expected. All interested singers are welcome.
Rehearsals are on Monday nights from 7pm until about 8:45pm during the semester in the Dowd Fine Arts Building.


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Limiting Accounts Made
The feature I would like implemented is to allow users to only have two accounts on chesscube as the maximum. One can be without facebook registration and one can be through facebook.
I have no idea if chesscube loses money with implementing such a feature or if it even has the capability to implement such a feature since users can change their iP address. But i believe this will send a message to cheaters and sandbaggers. I believe one extra chance for a user is a fair policy.
If this feature would be implemented for already existing users with multiple accounts, I would suggest just having all existing users ask the account they want to keep by possibly sending a message to the chesscube team. Further ideas by existing users regarding this issue can be brought forth.
I hope chesscube considers implementing such a feature if it is possible in order to reduce the incidence of cheating and make chess the honored game it once used to be.
Anybody reading this post I would greatly appreciate your feedback on implementing such an idea. I would like your reasoning for supporting such an idea or opposing it.


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(CNN) -- Pandora, the Internet radio station, announced Tuesday it has reached 100 million listeners.
According to a news release on Pandora's blog, 36 million of those consumers are "monthly active users." It also said that in the past six months, Pandora has upped its market share of radio listening from 2.3% to 3.6%.
Pandora will celebrate this milestone with a flashy -- and Flash-free -- redesign. Tech-news site Mashable reports it will be available to those 100 million users during the next few weeks, with subscribers to Pandora One -- a premium, paid service with no ads and higher-quality audio -- getting access first.
Pandora CTO Tom Conrad previewed the redesign to TechCrunch.
He said Pandora's new look has been more than a year in the works and focuses on shedding functionality problems associated with Flash-based programs. He said the new HTML5 setup should iron out user experience qualms like slow loading times (as much as 10 seconds) and an overly complicated means of sharing media.
In the TechCrunch interview, Conrad said Pandora's iPad and iPhone applications, with their easy-to-use, streamlined version of the site, were a lot closer to what he wanted the service's user experience to be. As a result, the redesign shares some aesthetic qualities with the mobile application.
Pandora went public in June as part of a deluge of tech IPOs. Critics say its business model may never be profitable, and having more listeners (most of whom don't subscribe to the paid service) doesn't necessarily fix the problem.
Since Pandora has to pay more in royalties as more people listen to music, subscription and advertising revenues need to offset this increasing cost. So far they have not.
In its registration filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission when it went public, Pandora acknowledged this catch-22 of music distribution, saying, "If we cannot successfully earn revenue at a rate that exceeds the operational costs associated with increased listener hours, we may not be able to achieve or sustain profitability."
Pandora said in the filing that it expects operating losses to continue "through at least fiscal 2012."


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Julia Child Memories: Bon Appetit!
Julia Child Memories: Bon Appetit! Previous Broadcasts
KQED 9: Sat, Sep 1, 2012 -- 6:30 AM
Anchored in some of the best of The French Chef episodes, this special reminds viewers why Julia was a TV personality like no other. As the woman who has been credited with introducing French cooking techniques to mainstream America, she will also forever be remembered as the country's first celebrity chef that brought the world of food to TV viewers when she flipped a ground breaking omelet on National Public Television on Feb. 11, 1963. That moment signaled the launch of decades of cooking on television - the first of which was most memorably, The French Chef with Julia Child (produced 1963-1973).


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Poor kids.
Here's a vacation they'll remember.
They came all the way to Florida from Ohio and the scariest ride they experienced wasn't the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Orlando.
No, it was dad driving while drunk.
Dimitri Manjolivich Nicholas, a 41-year-old dad from Piqua, Ohio is accused of driving so recklessly while drunk that his three children -- two 9-year-old girls and an 11-year-old boy -- jumped from the vehicle he was driving in Palm Coast out of sheer fear, reports The Daytona Beach News-Journal.
The kids told deputies their dad was "drunk and has been acting funny all morning," the report stated.
This dad also allegedly failed to stop and ensure they were safe, didn't bother to answer their phone calls or to make sure they arrived back at the location where they are staying, according to the report.
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I myself would be much more interested in a series simply called "Star Wars" than a "Star Wars: Rogue Squadron" series, but stick it in the timeline between ANH and ESB and that gives plenty of opportunity for Rogue-centered stories, as Luke and Wedge were the leaders of the group at the time. Just let's not make it a show about Janson, Hobbie, and Zev from the get-go.The show absolutely would have to get into minor characters to make it work in the long run, but the whole appeal to me of an OT-era show is the original heroes in further adventures, something that (other than the Marvel comics) has been sorely overlooked in the EU. And I know kids would eat up more of Luke, Leia, Han and Chewie. It almost writes itself.I also would be disappointed to see a "Shadows of the Empire" series, as that would discount Han Solo from the mix, and pretty much that whole story-arc has already been told.
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Like a virgin
For centuries, across cultures, virginity has been equated with goodness and virtue. The act of "saving" yourself for the one you marry was a testament to your character and good upbringing.
As time went on, the premium placed on virginity reduced. Today, most of the western world does not consider virginity an important trait in a partner and having sex before marriage is perfectly acceptable, and often, even expected.
Remember "The 40-year-old virgin", a movie about a man who was 40, and horrors of horrors, a virgin?
Imagine trying to make that movie in India. Safe to say, it would probably not have gotten as many laughs here.
Virginity in India
Ours is a country that still values it's purity and likes its young men and women to be untouched before they get married. There are mothers-in-law who excel in the art of conducting the "virginity test" – a spot examination that includes going into the bedroom of a newlywed couple the morning after their first night together and checking for blood stains on the bed sheets – stains that were purportedly left by the torn hymen of a virginal bride.
Of course, now, things are changing. Sex between unmarried couples is on the rise and many Indian metros are seeing men and women opting to live-in together without the bond of holy matrimony. Even amongst those who are open to sex before marriage, attitudes vary wildly – from those who see it as an expression of true and undying love to others who view it as a recreational activity between two consenting adults.
So would you marry a non-virgin?
We asked a few people on their views on the subject. Would they marry someone who they knew for sure was not a virgin?
The reactions we got revealed a mostly sexually-liberated lot.
Who cares!
For some of those we interviewed, their partners' sexual past was inconsequential. Like one young man said, "If she's a virgin, good for her. If she's not, good for her. It wouldn't matter anyway."
I wouldn't marry a virgin!
One young man categorically stated that he would not marry someone who was a virgin. The idea of being his partner's first and only sexual partner didn't appeal to him in the least.
Another girl laughed at the thought of marrying a virgin. To her, sexual experience would make things easier for the couple.
And then there was the young lady who reckoned that she'd probably get married around the age of 30. And the idea of marrying a 30 something male who was a virgin sent her into a fit of giggles.
So where do you stand on the subject and marriage and virginity?
Source http://in.lifestyle.yahoo.com/marry-...095317801.html


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Sending emails with PHP is a lot easier than you would think.
First of all, we start with our PHP tags <?php and ?>
Then we use a simple function called mail() (Duh!).
The syntax for the mail function is
mail(string to, string subject, string message, string additional_headers);
For example, if I wanted to send an email to [email protected], I would write:
mail("[email protected]", "Test E-Mail (This is the subject of the E-Mail)", "This is the body of the Email");
The first parameter tells the function who to send the email to.
The second parameter is the subject of the email.
The third parameter is the body of the email.
The fourth parameter is for more advanced uses, so we will ignore it for now.
So you save your PHP file and access it, but aah! You get a blank page. Was the email sent? Who knows...? That's why we have the if-then function!
If you want to know if your email was sent or if an error occurred, you would type this in.
if(mail("[email protected]", "Test E-Mail (This is the subject of the E-Mail)", "This is the body of the Email")){ echo "The email was successfully sent."; } else { echo "The email was NOT sent."; }
This function, like every other function also works with variables, here is an example of a fully functional email script.
<?php $email_to = "[email protected]"; $email_subject = "Test E-Mail (This is the subject of the E-Mail)"; $email_body = "This is the body of the Email \nThis is a second line in the body!"; if(mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_body)){ echo "The email($email_subject) was successfully sent."; } else { echo "The email($email_subject) was NOT sent."; } ?>
That's all there is to it!


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When hospital patients take a possibly dangerous turn for the worse, they are as likely to survive when a doctor-in-training leads the response as when a senior doctor is in charge, a new study suggests.
That at least seems to be the case at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where the study was done. Researchers say it's not clear how broadly applicable their findings might be.
The study, published in the journal Resuscitation, looked at what hospitals call their "rapid response team." They swoop in when a patient develops certain symptoms - like unusual chest pain or concerning changes in heart rate or breathing - that sometimes foretell cardiac arrest.
Cardiac arrest, in which the heart stops, is fatal if not treated within minutes. Even when cardiac arrest happens in a hospital, the prognosis is grim.
"There's about a 15 percent in-hospital cardiac arrest survival," said Dr. Babak Sarani, an associate professor of surgery at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., who worked on the study.
So rapid response teams come in to try to prevent at-risk patients from progressing to cardiac arrest. In the U.S. and Canada, hospitals are required to have such teams. But there are no hard-and-fast rules on who should be on them.
"No one knows what the make-up should be," Sarani said.
At the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, the rapid response team is led by an attending doctor from the intensive care unit (ICU) on weekdays. At night and on weekends, it's led by a senior resident - a doctor-in-training who has worked at the hospital for two or three years.
"We asked the question, what's better - attending-led or resident-led?" Sarani said.
It turned out that neither was better, when it came to patients' risks of cardiac arrest or death.
Over four years, the rapid response team was called for 1,400 patients, with a resident leading 62 percent of the time.
There was no real difference in patients' risk of progressing to cardiac arrest: just under 2 percent did when an attending doctor was at the helm, versus just over 2 percent with a resident in charge. Researchers thought even this small difference was likely due to chance.
Few patients died from the complications that triggered the team response: 0.2 percent died when an attending was in charge, and 0.8 percent died with a resident leading the team.
Overall in-hospital death rates, from any cause, were almost the same in both groups, at around 27 percent.
There were differences, however, in the specific ways the team responded, Sarani's team found.
When a resident was in charge, there were more tests and procedures - like chest x-rays, extra oxygen and treatment with diuretic drugs. And it did not seem to be explained by the patients' symptoms themselves.
That's where an attending's experience may come into play, according to Sarani.
"Residents may just not have the experience to rely on their clinical judgment," Sarani said.
So would that mean an attending-led team is better?
Not necessarily, according to Sarani. Residents may use more resources by ordering more x-rays or using oxygen more often. But having an attending in charge at all times is "very resource-intensive," Sarani said.
If an ICU attending is pulled away from that unit every time there is a rapid response call, that could push a hospital to have to hire more attendings. It also opens the possibility that an attending will be pulled away from a critical ICU patient to evaluate one who is not in real danger.
Sarani said the "ideal" makeup of the rapid response team is probably going to vary from center to center.
At some hospitals, a nurse leads the team and calls in more help if necessary. And that may work well for a smaller community hospital, Sarani noted.
"It may be that every hospital needs to take a look at their own situation," he said.
That, according to Sarani, would include reviewing the types of "triggers" that typically set off calls for the rapid response team. Knowing whether they are less serious ones, like a drop in a patient's blood sugar, or serious problems, like dangerous changes in heart activity, could tell a hospital a lot about who needs to lead the rapid response team.
SOURCE: bit.ly/NIgqbj Resuscitation, online July 26, 2012.


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In the comment section below, please share a fond memory of your dad. It can be sentimental, funny, quirky, food-related, sports-related, whatever. It's completely up to you! I'll choose 5 winners and mail them a signed copy of my book, Recipes Every Man Should Know.
Deadline for entry is the end of the day, Sunday, June 10th so I can mail you the books in time for Father's Day on June 17.
Tweet about the contest, mentioning @Susan_Russo, and I'll count that as another entry. Good luck!


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amandabray needed a new stationery design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 58 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
Lighthouse Nepal
Lighthouse Nepal is an up and coming charity organization.My posistion is fundraising coordinator. My name is Amanda Bray, mid thirties, Aussie, imaginative, not quite conservative and sometimes I'm a bit out of the box. I like to think I'm never predictable! Not that there is anything wrong with that. I became involved with this charity and the children of Nepal through my son Jonathon. I became aware that my son was donating money on a regular basis and planned to go on a short mission trip to Kathmandu through school.Although he was told they were taking no 14 year olds, Jono persisted and off he went. It tugged at my heart to hear of children who are only toddlers trying to survive on the streets of Nepal, due to becoming orphaned or abandoned. I knew that if they were sitting on my doorstep for help, I would give them a warm bed, clothes, food, love and care. The team with Lighthouse Nepal, help to build and hire Nepalese to build Lighthouse orphanages, feed streetkid programs, find and help to protect girls from the netorious sex trade, education and many other wonderful things. The great thing is they are small, so help is localised and direct. We almost raise money and deliver it ourselves. Sometimes we can and do do this. One example is the street kid christmas party where the team bought clothes, beanies shoes etc and presented them at a massive party that gets bigger each year. There are over 5000 street kids on the streets of nepal.
Initially donation tins will be given to people who are genuinely interested in raising money or donating money to Nepal. Eventually the tins may end up on business and shop counters.
In my mind I see this as a positive charity tin.A donation tin dimensions 21.5 cm x 10 cm. Landscape format please. I do not want this tin to try to cause emotional guilt. Our society are becoming desensitized to need. I want it to say thank you.
Children could be coloured or illuminated by the beam of the lighhouse. Often nepalese children say thank you by clasping there hands together like in prayer.
This is only one idea, please wow me with yours. I imagine a world of black and white or sepia, where children are in numbers sad, lost ,starving, cold. Then there is a smiling child, happy child, a rainbow or a coloured child among them. A child who has been given HOPE.
Lighthouse Nepal catchphrase should be on the tin. I have not decided on one but you can choose and add one yourself to suit your work.
#Please have a lighthouse on the label somewhere in the design.
Lighthouse Nepal; The beacon leading them home
Lighthouse Nepal; The light leading them home
Lighthouse Nepal; The light in the darkness
Lighthouse Nepal; bringing smiles to little faces
Lighthouse Nepal; The light that leads them home
Lighthouse Nepal; Lighting up the lives of children in Nepal
Lighthouse Nepal; The light that gives hope
In other areas of the label I would like small things like helping hands or handing food to a child, lifting children up, fixing a scrape???
I do not mind the image, but I want the label to stand out and draw attention


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Arsenal striker Marouane Chamakh makes loan move to West Ham
West Ham have taken Marouane Chamakh on loan from Arsenal for the rest of the season with a view to a permanent deal.
Last Updated: 04/01/13 8:42pm
The 28-year-old Morocco star has not made a Premier League start for the Gunners since October 2011 and is yet to play in the top flight this season.
Hammers manager Sam Allardyce said: "We've struck a deal with Arsenal, I'm glad to say but unfortunately our registration went through too late and they've refused to allow him to be available for selection tomorrow (against Manchester United).
"I think that will be it in terms of strikers. We're due to get Andy Carroll back (to fitness) so we should be okay."
Chamakh arrived at The Emirates on a free transfer from Bordeaux in the summer of 2010 and, with Robin van Persie injured, began life in north London as Arsene Wenger's first choice striker.
But, after a positive start during which he scored 11 goals in his first 21 competitive games for the club, Chamakh's form slumped and he found the net just once in the remainder of his first season.
The towering forward struggled again in the 2011/2012 campaign, and although he recently notched twice in Arsenal's remarkable 7-5 Capital One Cup victory over Reading, has been allowed to move to Upton Park.
"I want to play and give my best for this team. I can bring my heading,
some goals and we will see what else," Chamakh said.
"I didn't have opportunities to play recently, but I did well before and I
know I am a very good striker.
"We played only one striker at Arsenal, so I didn't play a lot, so I hope to
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LONDON, March 25 (UPI) -- Finding a secure source of LNG from the United States will add diversity to the British energy sector, British Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday.
Cameron, British Energy Secretary Ed Davey and top executives from energy company Centrica announced a 20-year deal to secure liquefied natural gas from the Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana.
"Future gas supplies from the U.S. will help diversify our energy mix and provide British consumers with a new long-term, secure and affordable source of fuel," Cameron said Monday.
Centrica entered into an agreement with Cheniere Energy Partners to purchase around 1.75 million tons of LNG from the Sabine Pass terminal for a 20-year period.
Sabine Pass is the only terminal outside Alaska to get U.S. approval for full LNG exports. U.S. lawmakers have pressed for more export options given increased natural gas production.
Davey added that Britain was taking advantage of growing natural gas supplies from the U.S. shale boom.
Cheniere said commercial operations should start by 2015. Centrica said it expects to get its first shipment by 2018.


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Outdoor Pond Ideas: Above-Ground Pond
This above-ground pond brings the subtly beauty of water in your backyard without the shovel work
Tools Required
- Chalk line
- Circular saw
- Drill/driver - cordless
- Framing square
- Gloves
- Hammer
- Jigsaw
- Level
- Miter saw
- Safety glasses
- Scissors
- Shovel
- Speed square
- Staple gun
- Tape measure
Pond Design and Costs
Ponds don't necessarily have to be in the ground. By adopting some of the techniques and materials used in the wood foundation industry, you can build a pond above ground a whole lot faster and easier. An above-ground design may be safer, too, but always supervise small children around any type of pond.
In this story, we'll show you all the steps you'll need to build your own version. We built the above-ground pond with treated wood for longevity and used rough-sawn cedar for the trim and the trellis. But if cedar isn't available, you can use any weather-resistant material including treated wood, cement board siding, vinyl, composite wood or any mix of these in your area. You can make your pond longer or wider (stay under 6 ft. long on either wall), but don't make it any deeper or the walls may bow. You'll only need a circular saw to build your pond plus the usual carpentry hand tools, but a miter saw makes faster, more accurate cuts. You'll need a jigsaw to cut the curved trellis parts.
Expect to spend about $300 for the box and trellis materials, $80 for the liner and another $75 for the pump. Fountain "masks" can range in cost from $25 for small plastic ones to $1,500 for elaborate bronze or lead casts. The fiberglass lion's head shown cost about $120. You can also find above ground pond kits at home improvement stores.
If this above-ground pond doesn't pique your interest, check out all of our backyard pond designs.
Special Above-Ground Pond Advantages
NO-DIG: With this design, there's practically none of the worst part of pond building—gut-busting digging. And that also means there's no huge pile of dirt to get rid of.
FAST: Talk about instant gratification! Build the walls and trellis in the morning and assemble the pond in the afternoon. Add the trim the next day and go buy goldfish!
SAFER: Traditional in-ground ponds can be a drowning hazard for toddlers and pets. With this above-ground design, the risk is reduced.
Pick a spot and buy the materials
You can position your pond just about anywhere you want, including on a slope. Of course, that'll mean extra digging. If you nest it into a hill, just backfill against the walls after the pond is filled. Sunny areas will promote algae growth, so site your pond in the shade if you want to reduce cleaning chores. We didn't include a filter, but consider adding one if you'd like consistently clear water. If you want a water-spewing fountain mask, you'll need a pump and a power supply. So locating your pond as close as possible to a power source will eliminate a lot of trenching and running underground cable, and you won't have to add a waterproof outlet. (For more information type "underground wiring" into the search box above.) If you're placing the pond against a wall, keep it at least 2 ft. away so you can access the back for hookups and maintenance.
Buying the materials
You'll find everything you need at any home center (see Materials List, available for download using the button above). If there isn't a dedicated section for pond supplies, go to a garden center for those materials. Pond liner is sold in precut boxed kits or cut from 12-ft.-wide bulk rolls, which generally costs less. Get a 10-ft. length or an equivalent-sized kit. Also buy the same length of pond cushion. That protects the liner from punctures. To save money, you can substitute a few layers of landscaping fabric for the pad like we did (the home center was out of liner pad) or even use old carpeting. If you'd like a fountain mask, you can prowl garden centers that have well-stocked pond departments. Or go online and do a search for "pond fountain head mask"—you'll find dozens to choose from. Choosing a fiberglass mask makes the most sense. They're light and easy to mount. Because masks of cast metal or concrete are very heavy, they cost more to ship and are difficult to mount. Masks may or may not have mounting holes or hardware. So be prepared to drill your own holes and figure out how to fasten it to the arbor. We drilled two holes in a few mane crevices and used deck screws to hold ours in place. You'll also need a pump and 10 ft. of water line and whatever hardware is necessary to connect it at both ends.
Construct the Walls and Trellis
First cut the footing plates to length and then cut the parts and build the walls (Figure A). Be sure to choose nails that are rated for treated wood or your pond won't last more than a few years. Leave out the corner backer boards for now so you can screw the walls to the footing plates at the corners once the walls are installed (Photo 4). Don't forget to screw two 2x4 trellis ledgers to the rear wall with GRK screws (or substitute 3-in. deck screws).
Build the trellis next (Photo 1). It's up to you which way the trellis faces; it has two distinct sides. (If you look closely, you'll see we changed our mind halfway through and flipped it around.) To cut the arched rail, first cut the 2x6 to length and then mark the measurements we show on Figure A. For the end curves, line a 5-gallon bucket up with the marks and trace around it. For the center curve, bend a thin flexible board or steel rule to the marks and have someone trace along it while you hold it. Cut the three curves with a jigsaw.
Assemble the Walls
Lay the footing plates on the ground to finalize the pond's location and then lay out the footings. Mark the ground 6 in. on both sides of the plates with marking paint and dig a 4-in.-deep trench on all four sides. Keep the bottoms reasonably level, but don't beat yourself up over it. Try to stay within an inch or so of level.
Spread about 3 in. of gravel at the trench corners and set the steppingstones, again using the footing plates in their final positions to help with exact placement. Adjust them until they're all level with one another. Use a straight footing plate to extend your level wherever you need it (Photo 2). Finish filling between the stepping-stones so the gravel is level with the tops. Last, reset the footing plates and toe-screw them together (Photo 3).
Note that the walls overlap the footing plates. The water pressure inside the walls is no small force, so it's important that everything be tied together. Screw together the wall corners and check to make sure the pond is square before screwing the corners to the footing plates (Photo 4). Then screw or nail the corner backer boards in place. Overlap the top plates to tie the wall corners together.
Install the Pond Liner
Rip 45-degree corner blocks and tack them to the inside corners to help protect the pond liner. Spread a 2-in. layer of sand on the bottom of the pond to protect the liner and mound up sand against the walls to eliminate any sharp corners (Photo 5). Both of these steps prevent stress on the liner. Staple the liner pad to the walls (Photo 6). Be sure to set all the staples or pull mis-set ones so none of them will poke holes in the liner. Trim off the liner even with the top with a scissors.
Lay and center the liner inside the walls, pleating the corners to avoid creating a thick lump of fabric. Then begin filling the pond. As water runs in, it'll force the liner against the walls and the bottom to eliminate voids. As the pond fills, continually work on the pleats and smooth out the sides to keep the liner as wrinkle free as possible (Photo 7). It'll get harder and harder to work the liner as the pond fills, so keep at it throughout the fill. When you're satisfied, cut and install the 1x4 liner clamp board. Screw, rather than nail, the clamp board to make it easier to replace the liner later. Leave a small gap in front of the trellis to feed the water line and cord through (Figure A). Then trim off the excess liner with a utility knife.
Add Trim, Side Walls and a Finish
Cut the backfill boards to fit, then rest them on the footing plate and nail them to each stud. Cap them with Z-flashing to divert water. Add the cedar corner boards. It looks best to rip one side of each corner so the total width will be the same on each side. Add the 2x2 frieze board between the corner boards at the top of the walls and then nail on the siding (Photo 8). Lay out the siding so the exposure is equal on all the pieces. Lastly, add the 2x10 top caps. Before cutting them to length, test-fit the pieces to make sure the overhangs will be equal everywhere. The top cap against the trellis won't be exactly centered; it'll extend a bit farther over the pond. But that won't be noticeable. Don't miter the top cap corners; instead, use butt joints as we did. Miters will open up in a very short time.
After going through the tedious process of staining the finished product with a latex-based exterior wood stain, we recommend prefinishing instead, especially if you plan on a two-color finish. Finish all the exposed wood (especially the trellis pieces) before assembly. You'll save tons of time and wind up with a crisper paint job.
Project step-by-step (8)
Construct the Walls and Trellis
Family Handyman
Build the walls and trellis on a big, flat work surface like your driveway. Mount the trellis on the back wall before moving it to the pond site.
Level the Footings
Family Handyman
Level the concrete pads that support the pond box corners. Fill the trenches between the pads with gravel.
Set the Footing Plates
Family Handyman
Toe-screw the footing plate together at the corners to form a level platform for the walls.
Erect the Walls
Family Handyman
Lock the walls together by screwing them to each other and then to the footing plates. Add overlapping tie plates for rock-solid corners.
Eliminate Sharp Corners
Family Handyman
Eliminate sharp corners inside the box to prevent stress on the liner. Fill inside corners with 45-degree strips and slope sand up against the walls.
Add a liner pad
Family Handyman
Line the box with padding to protect the liner. Pull any protruding staples with a hammer to prevent punctures.
Install the Liner
Family Handyman
Work on the pleats and smooth creases in the liner as you fill the pond. Add the liner clamp boards and trim off the excess liner.
Nail on Trim and Siding
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Nail on the backfill boards and cap them with Z-flashing. Then add the corner boards, frieze boards, and finally the siding and top caps.


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Kluge holds Wine Down event, extends hours
The Kluge Estate Farm Shop will be launching its Thursday evening Wine Down event this coming Thursday, July 15 from 6-9pm. According to the Farm Shop's Kristen Moses, the weekly event is a chance to network, taste some good wine, perhaps some new vintages, and linger around the courtyard bar and listen to music or sample the tasty menu in the Farm Shop.
The Kluge Estate Farm Shop has also extended its hours. New hours are Monday through Saturday 11am-8pm and 11am-6pm on Sunday.
"Due to heavy end of day traffic and requests to linger after hours, we want to accommodate our customers as they sip," says Moses.
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IPTV/VoD: The fall of content's kingdom
But how will the story end?
Give it all away free. Pay for it by marrying video-rich, interactive, personalised contextual advertising with back-catalogue on-demand content as Google does with AdWords on the web.
Content in adverts can be matched intelligently to the content in the live broadcast or on-demand title. The viewer suffers an advert of some kind (ticker on screen, loading movie, interstitial), but gets to watch for free. The advertiser pays the content owner directly (per 1000 if necessary) every time the media is watched. They can also upgrade at a later date for an ad-free service if necessary. At a high level it seems to be not just feasible, but a neat answer to a very pressing problem.
There also remains the very tricky issue of regulation of digital content. As dull and dry as it seems, it has the capability to kill businesses, which is why it needs to be taken seriously. Inevitably in all new emerging mediums, regulation is lacking so abuse occurs. When anyone can publish, the normal commercial barriers are removed, enabling anyone to abuse. Other than the difficulties of pinning down exactly where services originate, terminate and are policed, we need to work out who does the policing, how much of it there is and how it will be enforced. Children need to be protected from indecency and the new medium cannot be a means of promoting or facilitating crime. When a television picture is transmitted over the internet or IP network, is it streaming internet video or broadcast television?
And this is what we in the IPTV industry need to start doing very soon if we are to continue on the momentum that has carried this technology as far as it has gone so far. We need to start educating the people who work around this new platform and work hard to solve their problems and ease their pain. There are too many problems being talked about and not enough answers. Really effective answers to those problems rely on intense thought and detailed consideration of each country, region and local environment the technology will be deployed in. If we continue to apply the US cable model to every part of the world, we won't just be foolish, but be staring into an abyss that we could have avoided just by stopping for two seconds to think about our direction.
ISPs have legitimate concerns about scalability and capital expenditure that need to be addressed by content owners. Vested interests mean those concerns won't be addressed for a long time, as they will involve cost on the part of the rightsholders. The only action that can be taken in that circumstance is to play tough and penalise offenders by blocking traffic from their websites and data-centres. ISPs need to act in unity and have a common central voice that fights their cause as the pockets of Hollywood are far greater than their own. The next step for them is raising premiums on traffic from those content providers and if necessary, litigation to get them to listen.
This future we all belong to is something we all need to contribute to, meaning whatever one side gives must be reciprocated by the other in kind. One interesting idea is to give ISPs incentives: a free movie title download for their customers for every illegal P2P download they block. Co-operation will be the only way for both parties to achieve their objectives, as open war will benefit no-one and send back in the direction towards the stone age. ISPs also need a moratorium on content licensing costs to enable them to seed the market for IPTV and video on-demand and drive adoption of these new platforms in whatever guise they are packaged. That means giving them a financial holiday (virtually free for one to two years) on the condition of a longer term contract for the content in the end. Currently it is a case of who blinks first: everyone wants someone else to take the risk, despite everyone facing more than one.
If you're a smaller content owner or rightsholder with ambition, there is a market emerging for you that will give you worldwide spread. Go out of your way to be IPTV friendly and work with ISPs for the first years the medium takes to get started, as you will get to charge better prices as time goes on. Produce in multiple formats, offer cheap licensing with few conditions and do everything you can to get yourself noticed and exposed. Solve the problems they face and do what you can to help them retain their customers – broker relationships with other colleagues and partners in the content industry, offer help with content management and understanding how it all works. Your customers will help you with the technical side of things, but they need to know more about how TV and entertainment works. There's never been a better time to attack and invade Sky in their own back garden.
Licensing as it stands is a nightmare, a spaghetti junction that is becoming harder and harder to administrate and control across a globalised industry that just keeps moving faster as the months go by. As seen in the mobile industry, the aggregation model is springing up in IPTV as a viable alternative to private proprietary arrangements that don't scale too well, even in the open digital network domain. Small players are collecting and representing large groups of content owners and retail brands like YouTube and iTunes are offering shop windows for wide ranges of rightsholders to sell their wares. Pre-packaging, pre-bundling and pre-pricing is currently the most effective and practical way to deliver volumes of content onto digital platforms.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Sports News
Lady Lynx comeback comes up short against
Millikin JV
By Justin Tierney
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[January 15, 2013]
One night after barely holding
off an opponent's second-half charge to squeak out a six-point victory,
the Lincoln College women's basketball team experienced a role reversal
in Monday's battle with the Millikin University junior varsity squad.
After trailing 32-21 at intermission, LC
rallied early in the second half, cutting the Millikin lead to
43-41. But, after a go-ahead 3-point attempt by Lady Lynx sophomore
forward Ally Friday clanged off the rim, Millikin responded with
eight unanswered points to stretch their lead back to 10 points.
The Lady Lynx never got another chance at a go-ahead or
game-tying shot.
"We got close, but then we had a stretch of back-to-back-to-back
turnovers, which pretty much set us back at that point," said LC
coach Carol Wilson.
For Wilson, one of the primary culprits in the loss was her
team's free-throw shooting. The Lady Lynx shot just 14 of 26 from
the charity stripe. Meanwhile, Millikin made 18 of 24 attempts.
"Our free-throw shooting has got to improve at some point," said
Wilson. "We had some real chances there. We had some two-shot fouls,
or missed the front end of one-and-ones. We just didn't capitalize
on those shots."
One bright spot for LC was the play of sophomore forward Taylor
Buliox, who finished with 15 points and 11 rebounds. Although Buliox
typically does her offensive damage in the trenches of the lane for
the Lady Lynx, in Monday night's second half, she displayed her soft
shooting touch, hitting multiple jump shots from beyond 15 feet to
help her team's comeback efforts.
"Taylor really played well in the second half," said Wilson. "In
the first half, she was a little tentative. But in the second half,
she stepped up for us and helped us get back in the game."
Friday and sophomore forward Erika Spiller added 10 points each
for LC, with Spiller also chipping in seven rebounds.
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The Lady Lynx now turn to conference play, with the first
Mid-West Athletic Conference game of the year set for Saturday
against Parkland at Jack Nutt Arena.
LC enters conference play with a 10-7 record, in a first half of
the season that has already seen its share of highs and lows.
On the bright side, recent strides have been made by Lady Lynx
freshmen Breanna Johnson and Shannon Hall. Three other freshmen --
Lincoln native Edraniel Tookes, Cassidy Jennings and Kerri Harris --
have started multiple games for the Lady Lynx already this season.
In addition to the contributions of a large sophomore class led by
Friday, Buliox and Spiller, Wilson has no shortage of depth on her
But, in order to contend for a conference title, LC will have to
curb their turnover issues and become more consistent, both
offensively and defensively.
Wilson is placing the burden on her sophomores to right the ship.
"It's up to our sophomores to show some leadership between now
and Saturday, to explain to these freshman what the level of
competition is in conference play," said Wilson. "Parkland is going
to come in here, and they'll know us better than we know ourselves
in some respects."
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Adam opens the show with a sad correction from last week about Adam and Ray's acquaintance. He also talks about getting startled in your own house, and his experience on The Tonight Show, with guest Simon Cowell. Adam also shares his love of football, as well as a few feet pictures that people have been tweeting in. Adam then recalls a great John Hiatt concert experience from the weekend, and Bryan also reviews the film Mud in this week's Baldywood.
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September 30, 2013 1:19 pm
"Women and power," said Phoebe Philo backstage after her show of graphic shapes with even more graphic prints – primary coloured graffiti-like brush strokes of red and green and yellow, black and white. "I didn't want any references; just power."
But what, exactly does power mean these days, once it's placed in the context of gender, which is to say, womenswear? Does it mean power of the institution, as with Angela Merkel, or Marigay McKee, the new president of Saks and one of a group of women recently ascended to the top spot in various luxury brands? Is it about internal or external projection – how you see yourself or how others see you – and is it, in fact, possible to extricate the two? Does it mean the ability to influence your own destiny? Freedom? Control?
These aren't theoretical questions. In an image age, when even Harvard Business School is doing a case study on itself to improve representation of the sexes, appearance can be the beginning of the end of stereotype. Designers understand they have a responsibility here: it's why they have been grappling with the issue since the New York shows began.
Indeed, as the weekend drew to a close in Paris and the final four-day countdown began, a plethora of brands (mainly, though not all, designed by women), joined the discussion. The only thing that's clear is that, in 2014, power clothing will no longer mean power shoulders or power trouser suits.
Beyond that, it's variations on a theme, some more convincing than others.
For Ms Philo, for example, strength had to do with colour and clean lines; the way she built from the bottom up, starting with simple stretch knits tanks that reached to the hips, and micro-pleated skirts, on top of which might be layered a coat sporting an enormous grommeted opening trimmed in a metal ring, the better to see what was underneath, or an oversize tunic. Generous swishing skirts with a symmetric line never hampered the body beneath, and others came trimmed in extra long fishnet fringe.
The whole telegraphed both iron control and a willingness to play (thanks to the Legoland colours and building block shapes) as well as a certain physicality. It woke you up and sent you striding; the kind of clothes that looked as if, just by wearing them, you could get twice as much done in a day.
Pointedly, a different approach to the same problem (multitasking consumers with too busy lives) also preoccupies Chitose Abe, who has built her Sacai collection on the premise that what may look complicated should be made as easy as possible – see what seems to be, say, a grey cotton waffle knit under a green nylon blouson, but turns out to be a single garment, the pieces joined imperceptibly.
Or see argyle vests and even twinsets atop shirtdresses that are actually one and the same; ditto lingerie layers peeking out from under; transforming not just the entire concept of "separates", but the amount of time and effort required. It's not only about streamlining the garment, but the process of dressing itself, and reducing the mental space clothes require. Never to have to worry about whether your shirt is properly tucked in or pulling out is advance indeed.
Meanwhile, Stella McCartney upped her usual quotient of confident luxe via print and texture, with her signature simple shapes – slouchy trouser suits, all-in-ones, swingy dresses and skirts and tees – reimagined in crocodile scales appliquéd on organza, daisy-print silver jacquard, and layers of lingerie lace for evening. The result was effortlessly impressive (though it takes a lot of work to achieve such ease), and when a high-waisted trouser appeared under a matching cropped jersey top, curves negotiated with the flick of a seam, the reaction provoked was a sort of involuntary Yes.
It all made the "high summer feeling" expressed at Chloé by designer Clare Waight Keller – in the form of intricately pleated and cut military-toned blouson trousers, halter tops and airy dresses – seem relatively unambitious. The clothes were pretty, especially when the olive green gave way to white versions of the same silhouettes, and elegant when a black crinkle pleated tux shirt appeared over black shorts speckled with gold, but – literally and metaphorically – lightweight.
Still, at least they weren't bogged down in their own complications, which is what happened at Akris. There the allure of elegant prints inspired by the striations of the earth's topography, cobwebbed lace, and pebble-like textures, were overwhelmed by odd northern exposures: sliced out triangles and rectangles on the torso.
It may have been about the power of nature – or, as designer Albert Kriemler said, "fabrics and nature, moved forward through technology" – but practically, if any woman put on one of those dresses she'd probably be rendered powerless in the face of extreme midsection self-consciousness. Such tricksiness just isn't necessary, as one beautiful black pony skin sheath with a deep vee in front and dual halter straps showed. In such a dress, you would feel utterly secure, and security is its own form of strength.
As is risk. Witness Riccardo Tisci's superb Givenchy show, in which Africa crashed into Japan (there was a car pile-up amid the catwalk, in case you missed the idea), the conflict resolved in clothes. So long jersey dresses in Kalahari colours were elaborately looped and gathered, sometimes banded by leather, and interspersed with kimono-ish jackets over narrow trousers; which then gave way to metallic dresses paved with sequins, enormous tromple l'oeil ropes tracing a giant loop over a Masai-patterned front; followed by lace and sequinned gowns, the classic evening fabrics pieced together in stripes like tribal blankets.
It was vaguely barbarian and vaguely couture and very powerful, and it all could have gone very wrong. (Africa bangs into Japan? Really?) Which may be the real point about power and clothes, or even the power of clothes; it isn't about a silhouette or armour any more, it's about enabling the person inside: to move faster, think more, take a leap. Take your pick.
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Shaea is a freelance journalist and a frequent commentator and contributor to Al-Jazeera. He is known for his exclusive interviews with Al-Qaeda leaders and his analysis on Islamist groups.
When Shaea was arrested at his house, "most of the soldiers stayed outside," but "around 15-20 soldiers stormed the house," his brother Khaled, who was present, told Al-Masdar Online, the Web-based edition of the popular independent weekly Al-Masdar, According to his brother, the journalist asked the soldiers to show a court order for his arrest. He said they replied that they were "following the orders of national security apparatus," and that they said they had an order but did not show it.
His bother added that Shaea was taken by force. After the arrest, officers searched the house and confiscated his notes and laptop. The Yemen Journalists' Syndicate condemned the arrest in a statement released today.
"We call on the authorities to immediately release Abdulelah Hider Shaea," said Mohamed Abdel Dayem, CPJ's Middle East and North Africa program coordinator. "The Yemeni government is acting without regard for the law. This is a flagrant violation of the most basic norms of due process. It a state kidnapping."
This is the second time Shaea has been detained forcibly this summer. On July 11, he was abducted by unidentified men. After being blindfolded and led to a basement in an unknown location, he was interrogated for several hours about his friends and his reporting on Al-Qaeda, Shaea told CPJ just hours after his release.
Only days before his first abduction, Shaea told CPJ: "In Yemen, you conceal your identity as a journalist. Your journalism ID is a liability, not an asset. It turns you into a target."
After his release, Shaea was not able to identify the specific agency that had abducted him, but said that the abductors referred to themselves simply as "security." He told Al-Masdar Online later in July that he was receiving threats via phone from security officers demanding that he stops contributing to media outlets without consulting them because "it harms the reputation of the country."
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Movie-loving Coloradans have spoken and the winners of this year's 34th Starz Denver Film Festival audience awards were announced Monday evening, a day after the Denver Film Society's signature event closed. Both the narrative and documentary feature winners grapple with the challenges of forgiveness and justice in the wake of violence: Bill Yoelin's documentary "Staging Hope: Acts of Peace in Northern Uganda"; and Arlick Brown's genocide and reconciliation drama "Kinyarwanda," set in Rwanda in 1994. Juan Pablo Zaramella's award-garnering short "Luminaris" is a playful, animated yarn about a man with a plan for light.
The audience faves join the winners of juried prizes announced by Denver Film Society artistic director Brit Withey before Saturday's closing night screening of "The Artist."


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A horse-drawn cart flipped over on a farm in central Pennsylvania, killing a woman and injuring her husband, police said.
The accident happened around 7 p.m. Wednesday on the couple's farm in Pine Summit in Columbia County – about 80 miles northwest of Allentown, Pa.
Investigators said the two-wheeled cart was being pulled by a horse when the animal stopped responding to the reins and went down an embankment.
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Contributions from two Elkhart, Ind., businessmen totaling $15,000 today (July 6) have pushed the RV/MH Hall of Fame closer to its goal of raising $100,000 by the end of August for the "Ingram Family's Matching Challenge," reports Darryl Searer, president of the RV/MH Heritage Foundation Inc.'s Hall of Fame.
One of the donations, for $10,000, was from former Beck Industries President Roy Beck, whose company manufactured frames for both the recreational vehicle and manufactured housing sectors.
The other, for $5,000, came from ex-Thor Industries Inc. executive Bill Fenech, RVBUSINESS.COM reported.
In the big picture, the Hall, located off the Indiana Toll Road on the north side of the RV-building center of Elkhart, apparently continues to gain support and and dig itself out of a financial hole that once threatened the future of the unique industry shrine housing rental facilities, meeting rooms, a library, the Hall itself and a museum full of vintage units.
"This puts us at just about $80,000 with approximately $20,000 to go until the end of August," said Searer, adding that a hundred percent of the tax-deductible challenge contributions goes toward paying down the Hall's loan at 1st Source Bank.
Searer says the fund drive got yet another boost recently from Keystone Automotive Products, the new parent of NTP Distribution Inc., Wilsonville, Ore., which is supporting the Hall of Fame in a month-long promotion through its RV and auto parts and accessories dealers. On behalf of dealers purchasing a certain amount of product, Keystone is purchasing bricks in the Hall's "Walk of Fame" Brick Program with dealers' names engraved on them.
More "bricks" were sold in June than in all of last year, adds Searer, chairman of Elkhart, Ind.-based supplier Ultra-Fab Products Inc.
Meanwhile, ticket sales for the Aug. 6 induction dinner are on track and a crowd of between 400 and 500 is expected. "A lot of people have made $100, $200 contributions," said Searer. "I am amazed how many people have stepped up to that challenge. Had the Hall of Fame not survived, it would have given a black eye to the industry. People are starting to realize that and are giving back to an industry that has given them a pretty good livelihood."
Contributions toward the Ingram family's matching $100,000 challenge grant can be made through the Hall's secure website, www.rvmhhalloffame.org, or by mail, phone or fax. Checks or money orders are payable to the RV/MH Hall of Fame, Ingram Challenge RV/MH Hall of Fame, 21565 Executive Parkway, Elkhart IN 46514. Phone: (574) 293-1191.


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LITTLE ROCK � The 89th General Assembly convened Monday with a new Republican majority at the Capitol facing many of the same issues that Democratic-controlled assemblies have faced for years � Medicaid, prisons, schools and human services.
LITTLE ROCK � The 89th General Assembly convened Monday with a new Republican majority at the Capitol facing many of the same issues that Democratic-controlled assemblies have faced for years � Medicaid, prisons, schools and human services.
Parliamentarian Buddy Johnson in the House and Lt. Gov. Mark Darr in the Senate banged the gavel to bring the respective chambers to order at about noon. Lawmakers put aside the major challenges on opening day with family and friends on hand for swearing-in ceremonies.
Chief Justice Jim Hannah administered the oath of office to House Speaker Davy Carter and 98 other House members who were present, 43 of them freshmen. Only Rep. Jonathan Barnett, R-Springdale, was absent Monday. He was in a hospital under the care of a cardiologist, the House staff said.
Hannah and Justice Courtney Goodson swore in the 35 members of the Senate, including 15 first-time members of the chamber � most of them former House members � and Senate President Pro Tem Michael Lamoureux, R-Russellville.
In the November general election, Republicans captured majorities in both chambers of the Legislature for the first time since Reconstruction.
Carter, R-Cabot, acknowledged the historic nature of the occasion in a speech to House members Monday but called on House members to work together for the good of all Arkansans.
�Indeed, the 89th General Assembly has already made history, but today forward history will be made because of what we do, not who we are,� he said.
In a brief speech to Senate colleagues, Lamoureux urged members to appreciate the diverse opinions of each member on contentious issues such as Medicaid and to work together.
�To me, this is not all about Medicaid, but how we treat each other,� he said.
Carter, who defeated Republican Terry Rice of Waldron to win the speaker�s seat after newly elected members voted following the November election not to affirm the election earlier in the year of Democrat Darrin Williams of Little Rock as speaker, appointed both men to House leadership positions Monday.
He named Williams as speaker pro tem and Rice as chairman of the Joint Performance Review Committee.
In addition to Williams, Carter gave leadership positions to Democratic Reps. Marshall Wright of Forrest City, who will chair the House Judiciary Committee, and James McLean of Batesville, who will chair the House Education Committee.
Other appointments by Carter included Rep. John Burris, R-Harrison, to chair the House Public Health, Labor and Welfare Committee, and Rep. Charlie Collins, R-Fayetteville, to chair the House Revenue and Taxation Committee.
Burris has been an outspoken critic of Medicaid expansion, which Gov. Mike Beebe supports. Collins has advocated cutting the state income tax, which Beebe does not support.
Carter told reporters after the House adjourned that he believed he had assembled a leadership team of �good, solid, quality people.� He said his appointment of Burris to chair the public health panel should not be taken as a move to shut down Medicaid expansion.
�I�m still getting my thoughts in order on that issue,� he said. �The public health committee, I think, is pretty diverse on party � I think it�s 11 Democratic members and nine Republican members. I don�t think (Burris� appointment) has any real outcome on the debate. I wouldn�t read a whole lot into that.�
If Williams� election had been affirmed, he would have been the first black speaker in Arkansas history. Carter said Monday that his appointment of Williams as speaker pro tem was �a no-brainer.�
�Darren is an extraordinary guy. He�s a hard worker, he�s brilliant, and he has put a lot of work into this body,� Carter said.
Gov. Mike Beebe is to present his proposed $4.9 billion general-revenue budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year today during his state-of-the-state address to a joint session in the House chamber.
�There�s not going to be any huge surprises,,� Beebe told reporters Monday. �We�re going to be talking about the stuff we�ve already been talking about. Medicaid will be an issue, certainly taxes will be an issue, balancing the budget will be an issue � (and) working together, don�t be like Washington.�
Beebe�s proposed balanced budget for the next fiscal year includes a reduction in the sales tax on groceries from 1 1/2 cents to eighth-tenths of a cent per dollar spent. The reduction would be triggered when certain budget obligations, including desegregation payments to three Pulaski County school districts and payments on certain bonds, decline by at least $35 million for six consecutive months.
The proposed budget also includes using part of the state surplus, efficiency measures and possible cuts in human services to deal with a shortfall to the state Medicaid budget.
GOP leaders have proposed using more of the surplus than Beebe has proposed and none of the human services cuts to address the shortfall.