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Wardrobe Of A MVW Candidate
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With MVW 2011 only a few weeks away I thought I would share with you some of my looks that I been putting together for the last stage of this amazing competition.
MVW 2011 has pushed me in directions I never imagined! With 28 unbelievable girls who know how to style like you wouldn't believe I have really felt the need to improve..improve and then improve again. Still I don't believe I am up to their standard but I will keep trying dang it.
I looked forward to sharing more looks with you over the next couple of weeks. I really wish all the amazing ladies in this competition the very best and lets enjoy it cause it's nearly over.
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NASA will discuss the latest Red Planet activities of its Mars rover Curiosity on Monday, but space geeks shouldn't get their hopes up for a bombshell announcement.
Despite rampant rumors to the contrary, Monday's press conference — held at noon ET during the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco — won't present any earth-shaking results that would force humanity to rethink its place in the universe, NASA officials said.
"Rumors and speculation that there are major new findings from the mission at this early stage are incorrect," officials at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., which manages Curiosity's mission, wrote in an update Thursday. "The news conference will be an update about first use of the rover's full array of analytical instruments to investigate a drift of sandy soil."
Rumors of a big Curiosity discovery began swirling two weeks ago, after an NPR story quoted mission chief scientist John Grotzinger as saying that the rover's Sample Analysis at Mars instrument, or SAM, was gathering data "for the history books." [Latest Photos from Curiosity Rover]
Because SAM can identify organic compounds — the carbon-containing building blocks of life as we know it — many people speculated that the car-sized robot had discovered complex organics in a Martian soil sample.
But that's not the case, JPL officials say.
"At this point in the mission, the instruments on the rover have not detected any definitive evidence of Martian organics," they wrote in Thursday's update.
NASA's attempts to rein in such rumors and set reasonable expectations for Monday's press conference began with some thoughts from Curiosity itself on Nov. 21 (via the rover's JPL-run Twitter account, @MarsCuriosity).
"What did I discover on Mars? That rumors spread fast online. My team considers this whole mission 'one for the history books,'" Curiosity wrote in a Twitter post that day.
Space news from NBCNews.com
Teen's space mission fueled by social media
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: "Astronaut Abby" is at the controls of a social-media machine that is launching the 15-year-old from Minnesota to Kazakhstan this month for the liftoff of the International Space Station's next crew.
- Buzz Aldrin's vision for journey to Mars
- Giant black hole may be cooking up meals
- Watch a 'ring of fire' solar eclipse online
- Teen's space mission fueled by social media
The $2.5 billion Curiosity rover landed Aug. 5 inside the Red Planet's huge Gale Crater, kicking off its primary two-year mission to determine if Mars has ever been able to support microbial life.
The six-wheeled robot is the largest and most capable explorer ever sent to the surface of another world, NASA officials say. Curiosity has already discovered an ancient streambed where water likely flowed for thousands of years long ago, and it may well make a truly monumental discovery about the history and evolution of Mars before its roving days are done.
Just don't expect such an announcement on Monday.
Visit Space.com Monday for complete coverage of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity announcement and other space news from the American Geophysical Union's annual fall meeting. Follow Space.com senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwallor Space.com @Spacedotcom. We're also on Facebookand Google+.
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Don't dither. Resist the temptation to overthink it.
Mark Giordano's your man.
By a landslide, if the polls aren't rigged.
"I think anyone would love to wear a 'C', anytime," Giordano replies, asked about the possibility of being handed the captaincy of the Calgary Flames. "Any of the 750 players (in the NHL) would answer yes."
The guy is more of a lock than Nenshi on Oct. 21.
Why, even Michael Cammalleri, another prospective candidate given his years of service around the National Hockey League, would unhesitatingly cast his ballot for No. 5.
"I definitely wouldn't turn something like that down," Cammalleri hedges during a break Wednesday in Flames' pre-training camp fitness testing at the U of C. "Having said that, my vote is . . . I think Mark Giordano would be a great captain of this group.
"I'll be up front and honest about that. He's been here a long time. He's a guy that I have a tremendous amount of respect for and being an assistant captain to him would be an honour, also."
The captaincy that has been vacant, left in limbo, since the iconic Jarome Iginla was dealt to the Pittsburgh Penguins on March 27 must be filled. No more fannying-about with the leadership issue. Time to put a new face on the franchise.
Given the apple-cheeked demographics of this group, installing the right person in that role is absolutely paramount in accelerating progression. Be warned, it isn't going to be an easy or simple job. Iginla, if only from a sheer profile point of view, will be a difficult act to follow.
"We have chosen our captain," teased coach Bob Hartley late afternoon, in his office listening to The Eagles warm-up for their evening concert at the Scotiabank Saddledome, "but we haven't made the announcement yet."
Giordano. Gotta be.
There are apt to be more than a few long, tortuous nights this winter, hellish lessons to learn, stinging losses to rebound from and precious little regroup time. That is always the way of scorched earth, of Ground Zero, of (shudder!) rebuild. So this group desperately needs a focal point that genuinely wants to be a part of it, is invested for the long haul, won't be flipped to, say, Toronto or Tampa come the trade deadline or is only paying convenient lip service to the painful, but necessary, long-term strategy.
Not only for the kids who'll go in search of guidance, seek out a role model to emulate, but for an ever-dwindling group of returning veterans who must be held accountable and cannot be allowed to, as they say in the parlance, 'shut 'er down', content merely to put in time and collect fat paycheques, if things go far south in a hurry.
Mark Giordano fits every requirement. He's got the seasoning (at 29, all 385 of his regular-season games have been contested in Calgary livery), the temperament, the try.
"He's been here a long time," praises Cammalleri. "He's a guy that I have a tremendous amount of respect for and being an assistant captain to him would be an honour, also."
Giordano will make his share of mistakes, sure, but none will come through a lack of effort, a fall-off in care. He isn't likely to overturn any tables or strip paint off the walls of inner sanctums with lacerating critiques. That isn't his style. Never has been one to fall back on the phoney showiness thing.
"A captain is the mirror of your team," says Bob The Rebuilder, who had another quiet pro, Joe Sakic, as his captain in Denver. "That's why like everyone looks in the mirror in the morning before they leave home. The mirror makes sure your tie is straight, your hair is good.
"A good captain of a hockey team is like a good captain on a boat. You recognize the value of a good captain on the water when the ocean goes crazy a little bit; in the middle of a storm. Anyone can be a captain when the sea is calm. The captain should bring poise, an element of calm.
"Hockey is a very emotional business. You win three and you're ready to plan the Stanley Cup parade. You lose three and you're ready to fire everybody and the chairs are flying. That's where you need a guy that has the ability to take one step backward and say 'OK, what's the best route forward?', without going crazy or acting in the heat of the moment and five minutes later regretting his actions.
"We talked in many meetings and after each meeting we were always coming back to the same guy."
That same guy can be but one guy.
Giordano only works his backside off. Blocks shots. Races in to fight other people's battles. Is the first one to step up and deliver a hit. Plays in every conceivable situation. Is a pro through and through.
What more could you, could anyone, possibly want?
"It's an important role," agrees Giordano. "The young guys coming into the league now are well prepared. They're in great shape. And maybe if older guys can help them out with some of the mental aspects of the game . . .
"You lead the way by the way you play on the ice. You can say whatever you want, if you're not performing on the ice it's tough to be looked up to. I think on the ice is most important.
"I'm going to try and do that, play hard every night and every practice and go from there.
"You look at our team and it's pretty clear that there's only one way we're going to be successful, and that's with hard work and playing the right way with the details. It seems like a fresh start, obviously.
"We have to be tight knit. Do the little things right. That's really the only chance we have.
"We want to win. No matter what's going on, you want to talk about seeing different guys, rebuilding and re-tooling and all the stuff, the bottom line at the end of the day, when we play, we're trying to win and trying to get into the playoffs. It goes a long way when you work hard as a team and play as a group. I've seen other teams do it, I've seen other teams turn it around quick.
"It's going to be a good battle right from the net out this year in camp."
Too often in selecting a new captain teams only serve to outsmart themselves by trying placate potential mopers or try to motivate erratic talents by jangling the carrot of a letter in front of them, or lazily, stupidly dole out the 'C' to the "best" (read: top scorer) player as if by royal birthright, ludicrously assuming leadership and skill level are somehow inseparable bedfellows.
So don't make this more complicated than it actually is.
Do the right thing. Do the simple thing.
Pick the right candidate. The ONLY candidate.
And that candidate is Mark Giordano. Ready that acceptance speech. The election desk is ready to declare.
George Johnson is the Herald's sports columnist. E-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com
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City cars either scare the bejesus out of prospective U.S. drivers, or they make fun of them, or they just don't see the point.
The point is, folks, that the U.S. badly needs a good city car—something that's well-built, handles well (enough), is spacious enough to carry four comfortably and is, above all, small, parkable, low on emissions and high on fuel economy.
Volkswagen's Up! appears to fill the minicar prescription and should sell well in Europe when it appears in March. It's "brilliantly packaged and effortlessly easy to drive," says TopGear, which gave the Up! its 2011 Small Car of the Year award.
A front-driver with choice of two 3-cylinder engines, the Up! actually gives its passengers, including those in the back, real room since it has a long wheelbase of 95.3 inches, wheels out at the corners, and is 64.6 inches wide. A 9-cubic-foot trunk (34 cf with rear seats folded), gives you real carrying capacity. It's smaller than the MINI Cooper, with more interior space. And it's better-looking and better-packaged than the Fiat Panda, another competitor.


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John Paskievich
Canadian (born in Austria), b. 1947
Untitled, from the series North End, Winnipeg, 1976
silver print on paper, silver halide
35.3 x 27.7 cm Image: 30.2 x 20 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Acquired with the J. Elmer Woods Fund
John Paskievich's long-standing interest in documenting Winnipeg's North End is not just a photographic project; it is very much his auto-biography. Paskievich's family moved to Canada when he was five years old, settling in the North End of Winnipeg, a community that welcomed waves of Ukrainian, Polish, and German immigrants. His powerful images, such as this one, are the distillation of a sensitive response to his urban environment. Here, the striped pattern of the pants melds with the patterning of the carpet which in turn engulfs the person's upper body and head. This image belies the mythical magic of Winnipeg's North End, where unusual vignettes occur spontaneously on a regular basis.
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Fister to give Red Sox different look in Game 4
DETROIT -- The last time Doug Fister faced the Red Sox was Sept. 2, a dreary Monday afternoon at Fenway Park that saw the towering 29-year-old fire seven scoreless innings in a 3-0 win.
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DETROIT -- The last time Doug Fister faced the Red Sox was Sept. 2, a dreary Monday afternoon at Fenway Park that saw the towering 29-year-old fire seven scoreless innings in a 3-0 win.
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Consider how good the Red Sox offense is, everywhere on the planet but especially at home. They ranked third in the Majors in home batting average (.285), second in home on-base percentage (.354) and first in home slugging percentage (.464). Only four other starting pitchers had taken the ball at Fenway Park and departed with no runs on the scoreboard during the 2013 regular season. Fister had joined Bartolo Colon (April 23), Scott Diamond (May 7), Esmil Rogers (June 29) and Matt Moore (July 22) with that feat, but he had accomplished so much more.
He found a way to attack them after getting shelled for six runs in 3 1/3 innings in a home outing against the Red Sox 10 weeks earlier.
And he might have found the secret heading into his start on Wednesday night, when Fister takes the ball at Comerica Park -- start time is 8 p.m. ET on FOX - in hopes of squaring the American League Championship Series at two games apiece.
"I think a lot of it is the fact of just executing -- keeping the ball down, mixing pitches and not getting in any sort of routine," Fister said. "Their hitters are very smart, very intelligent. And you know, we've seen each other a lot."
Enough for the Red Sox to know they're getting something completely different in Game 4.
Tale of the Tape: Game 4
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|Doug Fister
|2013 regular season
|Overall: 23 GS, 12-5, 4.17 ERA
|Overall: 33 G (32 GS), 14-9, 3.67 ERA
|Key stat: He's held right-handed hitters to a .659 OPS.
|Key stat: He has allowed just five homers over 396 at-bats at Comerica Park this season.
|At Comerica Park
Career: 5 GS, 1-3, 4.15 ERA
Career: 35 GS, 18-10, 3.18 ERA
|Against this opponent
Career: 12 GS, 4-5, 4.83 ERA
Career: 8 GS, 2-4, 4.36 ERA
|Loves to face: Jhonny Peralta, 7-for-34, .626 OPS
Hates to face: Torii Hunter, 7-for-16, 1.283 OPS
|Loves to face: Mike Napoli, 2-for-14, .393 OPS
Hates to face: Jarrod Saltalamacchia, 5-for-11, 1.364 OPS
|Game breakdown
|Why he'll win: He has gotten comfortable with new arm slot over the last month.
|Why he'll win: He keeps the ball in the park.
|Pitcher beware: Miguel Cabrera has taken him deep three times in 45 at-bats.
|Pitcher beware: He has just 15 strikeouts to 11 walks in his career against current Red Sox hitters.
|Bottom line: Peavy was efficient against the Rays in the ALDS and strike-throwing will be again be key.
|Bottom line: Fister will need to pitch carefully against hitters that have batted .304 off him lifetime.
Fister isn't a strikeout guy like Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer and Anibal Sanchez, a trio that punched out 35 batters while giving up a combined two runs on six hits in 21 innings of the first three games. The 6-foot-8 right-hander's game is all about generating contact on his terms, using downward movement to induce an inordinate number of ground balls that keep his pitch count efficient and his defense on its toes.
"He's more of a contact, mishit-it-type pitcher, with an excellent curveball and changeup, good movement," Tigers manager Jim Leyland described. "He's one of those guys that you don't expect the strikeouts, you expect him to put the ball in play a little more, and hopefully mishit the ball a little bit more."
Over the last three years, Fister has allowed the fifth-most ground balls in all of baseball. In 2013, he ranked fourth among qualifiers in ground ball-to-fly ball ratio. And during that Sept. 2 start, Fister induced three critical double plays.
Red Sox manager John Farrell remembers it well.
"He's got the ability to get two outs with one pitch," Farrell said. "Everything moves as it comes across home plate. He might not have the sheer power and velocity the other three guys have in this rotation, but he does it a little differently."
The fact Fister put up the numbers he did in 2013 -- 14-9 with a 3.67 ERA -- as a contact pitcher on a team that ranked third-to-last in Defensive Runs Saved only speaks to just how good the Tigers' No. 4 starter actually is.
Good luck hearing much about him, though.
On a staff that led the AL in ERA, Fister is very much an afterthought. Ahead of him is a reigning MVP (Verlander), the likely Cy Young Award winner (Scherzer) and the AL's ERA leader in 2013 (Sanchez).
Fister is just the guy who has won 35 games, posted a 3.30 ERA and compiled 586 2/3 innings since 2011, the guy with a 2.15 ERA in his last six playoff outings and the guy who's fresh off a quality start against the A's in Game 4 of the AL Division Series, which kept the Tigers' season alive and set it up for Verlander to dominate the deciding Game 5.
No big deal.
"My perception of it is the fact that I'm here," Fister said of perpetually being overlooked. "I want to be here. I want to be a part of the team. When I'm asked to pitch, that's when I got out there, whether I'm in the bullpen or in the starting rotation. That's my thing. I want to be a part of the team. I want to go out there and perform with the best of them."
Alden Gonzalez is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Gonzo and "The Show", and follow him on Twitter @Alden_Gonzalez.


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OTTAWA - The Quebec Bar Association has launched a legal challenge against parts of the federal Conservatives' law-and-order agenda.
In a case that could ultimately find itself before the Supreme Court, the association has filed a motion in Quebec Superior Court seeking to strike down sections of Bill C-10.
The targeted sections involve so-called mandatory minimums — penalties that set minimum sentences and leave judges with little latitude if they want to convict someone and proffer a lesser punishment.
The bar association says that not only do mandatory minimums not wind up protecting the public but that they represent an unconstitutional interference from one branch of government, the legislature, in the business of another, the judiciary.
Bill C-10, the Safe Streets and Communities Act, passed earlier this year despite resistance from some provincial governments who called its measures costly, ineffective and a recipe for prison overcrowding.
The omnibus bill sets mandatory minimums for child exploitation and some major drug offences. It stemmed from older bills proposed by the Harper Tories and promised in their 2011 election platform.
The office of Justice Minister Rob Nicholson, responding to the bar association challenge, sent an email Tuesday saying the government firmly believes that mandatory minimums are justified for some infractions.
It says there are 40 cases of mandatory minimums in the Criminal Code and that the recent legislation merely extends an existing practice.
Parts of the Conservative justice agenda have already been struck down in court.
Earlier this year, an Ontario Court ruled that a crack dealer who offered to sell an undercover police officer a gun should not have to face the mandatory minimum sentence of three years for firearms trafficking. The man's lawyer said his client had never had a gun, and never intended to sell one, but was using the gun promise to lure a drug customer.
That Ontario case only dealt with the firearms trafficking provisions from the 2008 Tackling Violent Crime Act, in which offering to sell a gun carries an automatic three-year sentence.
The 2008 bill has suffered several court defeats.
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About corwin155
If your in the New Nazi social communist Democratic Party , then your Immune from any prosecution.
only Libertarian, Republican or Independent and whistle blowers are Prosecuted under the New Nazi social communist Democratic party.
Sadly the FBI will use the NDAA to lock up all 20 million who complain.
agree you cant declare war on a word (terrorism)
Well since NSA wants all our Emails , i started a new folder for them.
its called NSA i throw all my junk mail and spam in it.
they must go thru it , can't ignore filter it in the off chance someone would hide stuff or something in that folder.
so i guess if they want my emails they can have the Vast amounts of Junk mail i get.
Well since NSA wants all our Emails , i started a new folder for them.
its called NSA i throw all my junk mail and spam in it.
they must go thru it , can't ignore filter it in the off case someone would hide stuff something in that folder.
so i guess if they want my emails they can have the Vast amounts of Junk mail i get.
When you have top secret Laws making everyone born in the USA a criminal and secret top secret courts rubber stamping any and all things under the guise of top secret matter of national security.
NSA and the CIA as matter of national security make everyone in the USA a terrorist as we all know now can and will assassinate anyone deemed a terrorist.
your already a criminal in eyes of FISA secret court because your not aloud to have a lawyer present.
heres how it really works
Movie studios find out they made bad movie
Movie studio gives MPAA bad copy of said bad movie
MPAA hands over bad movie copy of bad movie to paid conspirators
paid conspirators have list of sites MPAA wants to sue and uploads to those sites
Movie studios look on those sites make a public out cry they lost money
MPAA now sues those sites
MPAA gets paid
Movie studios get paid
the whole trick was to fool courts into suing for money
the whole plan was for said Movie studio to get paid for the bad movie it made in first place
You can also bet the MPAA has paid cronies to Upload the said files, as to make said file sites look bad "See they have those files so they MUST be guilty!"
meanwhile they are the Proxies.
Socialist Educated Elites can not have the students under their thumb errr under their guidance Using constitutionally Protected FREE speech!
That would set bad precedent for the New socialist Police state we are trying to set up.
When threatened by totalitarian police state such as City of London Police.
One must comply or find themselves, water-boarded and thrown into a secret prison or can be assassinated if they refuse to do what you say.
Brought to you by United Police State
James Clapper says you cant have a totalitarian police state if everyone wants "advance concepts of freedom of expression and the right to privacy"
those are part of a Fascist Government.
the spirit of the constitution is violated.
they made secret laws and secret courts to make it all legal.
you can't make a case if they making the rules.
they have been telling us for months now they dont violate the constitution but then we find out "oh wait" yes they have been.
do you wish to take on faith they Not lying to us?
when every chance they get they Lie to us and congress, then again your are sadly deluded.
Oblivious you dont know what metadata is, there is 1 degree of separation from knowing who owns the cell phone, what his address is and the entire history of what cellphone towers the said cell phone has been connected too.
if you believe the NSA , CIA and various Law enforcement agency will not have that information.
then you are sadly deluded my friend, because Metadata isn't harmless information its the kind of information that totalitarian police state's use to enslave its populous.
Fascists sought to unify their nation through a totalitarian state that promoted the mass mobilization of the national community.
Wake up or history will repeat itself.
United Police State of America , dont worry we NOT targeting you even tho your just your Average Law abiding citizen.
BUT we know who you are and WE will be watching!
You have to know your political enemies, now that NSA says its ok to spy on Everyone
You can not have a totalitarian police state if officers are video taped breaking the law.
look what happened to the officers shown brutalizing Rodney King.
states make up laws that take away freedoms guaranteed under the Constitution, knowing full well they they can't have bad cops being video taped as it costs them millions of dollars.
with that said im saying not all cops are bad but there ARE bad cops.
attorney generals like to play word games with Constitutional rights involving video taping in public areas , all the while allowing police officers do the very same thing in video taping people they arrest(as long as it shows the criminal breaking the law and not the officer breaking the law)
look at the case in Californian where 9 officers beat and killed a man who was passed out, the police held people ransom in their homes under treat of arrest unless they turned over their cell phones, and the proceeded to destroyed all videos showing how the officers murder the guy.
The socialist Educated Elites want nothing more then complete rewriting of our Constitution as to set up a Government that run everyone's lives dictating every single aspect of their lives, with them making the suggestions that what is acceptable and which is not.
wait isn't that what democrats are doing now?
"Facebook becomes the agent of the state" yeah the New Nazi Police State of America under the Dictatorship of NSA.
first off Facebook has always been agent of the state since it partnered with NSA and CIA to help change America into a Dictatorship.
making the Constitution something socially unacceptable as it was written.
The socialist Educated Elites want nothing more then to have the Government run everyone's lives dictating every single aspect of their lives, with them making suggestions at what is acceptable and which is not.
You can see this happening in New York and California and other states starting to do same thing.
these states have started moving toward making America a Fascists Police state i guess Maryland wants to be part of that growing growing number of states.


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Trash Dash is a game that we created as an example of how to use Unity Services in a mobile game. It also contains some useful examples of coding architecture and techniques for solving common game programming problems. In this article we'll take a quick tour of the code for Trash Dash and learn about these features.
If you haven't already downloaded Trash Dash, you can get it here on the Unity Asset Store: Endless Runner Sample Game.
Unity Services
Trash Dash uses Unity Services to take care of ads, analytics and IAPs. As well the services we can see in the finished game, our team used Unity Collaborate and Unity Cloud Build behind the scenes to build Trash Dash.
Using Unity Services makes it quick and easy to get these important features working: we only have to configure a few details in the Services Dashboard and write a small amount of code.
To see the code used to integrate IAPs, check out IAPHandler.cs. To see the code used to handle ads, see AdsForMission.cs and UnityAdsInitializer.cs. Analytics code can found throughout the project, but some good examples are found in GameManager.cs.To learn more about setting up Unity Services, see this section of the Unity Manual.
When we talk about the architecture of a game, we mean how the code is organised. Good architecture can help us to avoid problems such as poor performance, long load times or code that's difficult to maintain.
The best architecture for any game depends on the game itself. An online multiplayer game that is being worked on by a large team has very different needs to a single-player offline game being worked on by one person.
Let's take a look at a couple of key points from Trash Dash's architecture. We will examine how the code is organised and what problems this solves.
The Game Manager
GameManager.cs is the class that controls the overall flow of the game.
GameManager uses a design pattern called the Singleton. The Singleton pattern is a way of ensuring that there is only ever one instance of a particular class in the game. This is useful for when a class has an important responsibility, such as GameManager. It also makes it easy for any other class to access this instance using a public static reference.
GameManager is also an example of a Finite State Machine. A Finite State Machine ensures that the game can be in only one state at any given time, and manages what happens when this state changes. The three possible states that Trash Dash can be in are: displaying the start menu, playing the game and displaying the game over screen. A Finite State Machine is a common way to manage how things behave in games, from the overall flow of the game to the behaviour of individual characters.
To see the code for the Singleton and Finite State Machine, explore GameManager.cs and read the comments. The code for entering, executing and exiting the three states can be found in the following files: LoadoutState.cs, GameState.cs and GameOverState.cs.
Object pooling
In Trash Dash, hundreds of coins may be spawned in a single play session. Instantiating and destroying a great many objects at run time can be a strain on performance: it can involve relatively costly code, and it can lead to frequent and time-consuming garbage collection.
To reduce this overhead, Trash Dash uses a technique called object pooling. Object pooling is a technique where objects are temporarily deactivated and then recycled as needed, instead of being created and destroyed.
When the game begins, a number of inactive coin GameObjects are spawned and placed in a "pool". When a new coin is needed, one is requested from the pool and enabled. When a coin is collected or leaves the screen, the coin is disabled and returned to the pool.
To see the object pooling code in Trash Dash, take a look at TrackManager.cs, Coin.cs and Pooler.cs. For a general guide to object pooling in Unity, see this tutorial on the Unity Learn site.
While architecture decisions usually affect lots of classes or parts of our game, techniques are smaller in focus. Techniques might only affect a single function or file, but they can still help us to solve problems.
Let's take a look at a couple of techniques used in Trash Dash and see what problems they solve.
Origin reset
In any game where the player travels great distances - such as space exploration games or "infinite" games like Trash Dash - the developer must make a decision about how to handle the player's position. If we simply move the player GameObject, the values in the player's transform.position will get higher and higher over time. This can lead to problems due to something called floating point imprecision.
Floating point imprecision means that the larger the value of a floating point number, the less precise it is. This is a limitation of how computers store numerical data and is not unique to Unity. In a game with a large or infinite playable area, the floating point numbers used to store position could become large enough to cause problems. If GameObjects have imprecise values for their position, they may appear to move around, flicker or pop in and out.
There are several ways of solving this problem, and which one is best depends on the game. In Trash Dash, we solve this problem by using a technique known as origin reset. This means that once the player has moved a certain distance beyond the origin of the world (i.e., the world position 0, 0, 0), we move everything in the Scene back towards the origin. This ensures that the values used for positions always stay low and therefore are not prone to imprecision. The origin reset happens seamlessly and the player is not aware of it.
To see the code used for the origin reset technique, take a look at TrackManager.cs.
Curved world shader
In Trash Dash, we create an endless track by spawning track sections ahead of the player and removing them when they are behind the player. If the player could see a long way ahead, we would need to spawn a lot of track sections in advance. This could lead to performance problems.
In addition to this, the world is full of coins, obstacles and characters. Again, if the player could see a long way ahead of them, Unity would have to draw all of these objects to the screen long before they are close enough to interact with. This could also lead to performance problems, particularly on mobile.
To solve this problem, the the world curves away from the player with a horizon. This creates the illusion of an infinite world, hides the spawning of track pieces and means that we don't have to spawn coins and obstacles until the player is near them.
If we examine the Scene, we can see that the actual geometry for the world is flat, not curved. The curved effect is created by a shader. A shader is code that tells Unity how to draw an object to the screen. In this case, the shader calculates what the level would look like if it were curved, then tells Unity where to draw the pixels to the screen in based on that calculation.
The files to examine to see how this works are WorldCurver.cs, and CurvedCode.cginc. Shader code can be a little tricky to read at first, but this page of the Unity Manual is a helpful guide to reading and writing shader code.
Further reading
There are a few more interesting examples of approaches and techniques in Trash Dash. Take a look at the shader used to rotate the fish, the way that AssetBundles are used to load characters and themes and the way the player data is saved.
To learn more about performance optimization, read these articles on Unity's Learn site.
To learn more about making mobile games using Unity, take a look at this section of the Unity Learn site.


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Being a scholar, wizard, and bibliophile, the personal library of Atal the Wise Councilor is considered to be one of the largest and most extensive collections in the known world. The few known rivals include the King's Grand Archive, and the Seven Galleries of the Papal Depository.
1. The DeHansen Diaries
by Vildam Rouge
Some scholars argue over which was real, and which was the literary creation, Robin Hood or Lisa deHansen. While there are numerous tales of the former, there are heraldic records and the diaries of the latter. The Diaries detail the campaign of a noble born woman turned rogue in her fight against the oppressive then ruling powers. Many consider the DeHansen Diaries to be a basic treatise on how to operate a forest guerilla force, as well as a primer for female equality.
2. 100 Delicacies
by Gourmand Earl D'Aconda
Within this thick tome are over 1000 recipies for 100 different delicacies, ranging from the almost tame, yet exotic Xoct's Sauce to the expensive lotus mushroom. Within this book are no fewer than six recipes using dragon pancreas.
3. The Black Hound
by Vicholet Farbi
This book portrays a shapeshifting character named Fang who wanders from place to place, protecting children and causing all sorts of mischief and violence against oppressive monsters and evil step-parents. The book was originally for a noble child, but the parents disliked the anti-authoritarian sentiment and almost destroyed the book after its author was executed for sedition against the crown.
4. Of Grain and Swords
by Lt. Berald Grom
This thick details the importance of logistics in supporting an army in the field. Written in the military city of Wheatsword many consider this to be one of the best, if not the most concise works of supplying and army with food. Most who own a copy of the book consider it to be one of the best books to use for squishing unwanted household pests.
5. The Book of Painted Passions
by Ryzak Longhammer
This racy book is laid out in a biographical fasion of a traveler who samples prostitutes the way a sommalier samples wine. it is an obvious fiction as some of the ladies in question did not live during the same time period. Some think that Longhammer is a pseudonym adopted by a number of writers who have added to this poorly written work. Some versions, attributed to Madame Bathycolpia are much better written, but have a vastly different perspective.
6. The Thumbscrew Grimoire
author unknown
This plain black leather bound book contains a number of methods of torture that range from the mundane fist in the face to the absolutely horrific and macabre. The grimoire has a blank companion book that is used to record interrogations and to make note of new and devious methods of torture.
7. The Malleable Earth
by Dannia Ghostuum
This book details the many uses of clay, ranging from the mundane shaping of plain jugs and pots to the more unusual death masks and spirit binding amulets. The author even intimates using a pottery wheel to contact the spirits of the dead, letting them help sculpt the clay.
8. The Book of Tides
by Lexani Liath
While many of the texts that deal with the Great Demon of the Ocean are surrounded with a mythos of fear and lies, the Book of Tides is considered to be one of the safest, and unfortunately least valuable books for dealing with the Lord of the Ocean and his Drowned Cults. However, it is a valuable treatise on tidal observations in a number of important harbors.
9. Rites of the Condemned
by Father Antimon D'Eralasaq
This book is the personal memoir of a holy man who made it his personal mission to tend to the inmates of one of the few true prisons in the realm. The priest preached, took confession, and gave spiritual atonement to many of the prisoners within their bleak cells. He gave many the last rites as they finally perished, be it from old age, or the gallows rope. His memoirs record a man who fought for good and right in a place that cared only for law and order.
10. The Secret Art
by Szathao Verthicuul
Penned in utmost secrecy, this work details a large number of assassin guilds and assassins. The work was done largely in secret as each of the entities in question would have handily killed Szathao in cold blood if they had a hint of what the author had in mind. Each society is detailed in lurid prose with great emphasis on their moral evil and violent deeds. A popular book among decadenti and immoralites.
11. Exile and Execution
by Mateljan, Kerke Mage
This thick book was penned by Mateljan the Kerke Mage. In this lengthy text he describes the failings of the traditional punishments of exile and execution for criminals, offering detention as a viable alternative. He explores possibilities of work gangs, prison farms, and other means of exploiting a criminal population.
12. A History of Currency and Exchange
by Greigor Hest
This 2000 page work details the history of currency from its origins in a barter society to the preiminance of gold in the modern marketplace. It also is a treatise on banking and things like credit and investment which would be almost arcane sciences to the commoner in the field. A commonly found book that is considered to be one of the least frequently read books in the world.
13. The Lucavian Manifesto
by Lord Pavisfascio
This is a continually growing work, and currently occupies six thick tomes. At the behest of the King and the ocuncil of wizards, the Lord and archivist Pavisfascio began to collect evidence, anecdotal and otherwise, of the various small items of magic that surface after the demise of powerful wizards. The Manifesto was named after the horde of the wizard Lucavi, who was a well known maker of small things that invariably caused many problems.
14. Luxurious Wood
by Moncillo, Master Craftsman
While men treasure gold and jewels, the craftsman Moncillo treasured wood, and in his book he details the values of various woods as well as the great things that can be made from them. This book is considered basic reading for any antiquarian or would be master carpenter/cabinet maker.
15. Closure and Profile
by Nerim Antietus
This slim book was penned as a tool for use by city guards and other enforcement types. It details a number of criminal archtypes as well as brief descriptions of their means and motives. While commonly distributed in some major cities, most guards consider it to be less than useful as few successful criminals follow the guidelines set in the book.
16. Against the Ogres
by Sir Agincourt Whitewing
Penned by a descentdant of the legendary first Whitewing this medium sized book is both a personal biography of the Whitewing noble family and its trials and triumphs, but also a reliable text for facing ogres in war, and how to defeat them. While some of the accounts are considered fanciful, the basic tactics and formations given are very useful when facing ogres and other suprahuman sized humanoid foes.
17. Uncommon Magic
by Lucindille Featherby
This semi-humorous work is written from the prespective of a house maid or cleaning woman to a powerful mage. While most books of magic delve into ancient lore, potent spells and lists of demon's names, this light spirited work touches on domestic applications of magic, from enchanted feather dusters to unspillable water jugs.
18. Death and the Divine
by Provost Layton Frost
This tome is a piece by piece and step by step treatise on the inhereint dangers and pitfalls of organized faith and the dangers it encompasses. Rather than dealing with affairs of Iacon, this work delves into a religious schism that happened between tow polytheistic faiths and how it could have been avoided. The work is considered almost insulting pedantic and has been declared excommunicated in most religious areas.
19. Courting the Princess
by Anomander Stigyos
This is an older work that is heavily illuminated and illustrated in the older style of books, compared to the newer style that delves into miniscule writing and few if any illustrations. It details the courtly behaviour of a warrior princess looking to find a husband from the ranks of the mercantile nobilty, the military, and eventually from the vagabond adventurers.
20. The Blood War
by Magistrate Zind
Most consider this work about an ongoing war between vampires and a barbarian tribe to be a rather fanciful work of an overactive imagination. However, it is a rare example of hemography as all of the writting was done with blood based inks. The book is said to contain secret truths about vampire weaknesses and powers, though this remains untested.
21. To Taste the World
compilation of many authors
Compiled nearly a century ago, this mammoth set of 28 volumns was considered to be the complete record of all food recipes in the world. While many new books and recipes have been added, this collection is second to none for thoroughness. While there are very few copies, they are regularly studied by master chefs, gourmands, and epicurians.
22. The Curse of Gold
by Hypedies Bzander
This book is not a well received work as it details the dangers of gold, ranging from cursed gold to the great horrors, tragedies, and massacres from history that have been perpetrated in the name of that luminous metal. There were several other books in the series, each decrying one vice or another. Bzander claimed ascetic virtues were mandatory, and true tis belief he died penniless and hungry.
23. Dangerous Mimics
By Anjet of Kjach
This book was recovered from the body of the explorer Anjet herself, an incomplete work. in it she was exploring a nest of small squirrel like creatures and was slain by them. A great irony to a woman who survived encounters with dragons, helf fiends, and worse.
24. The DeMadden Rudders
Compilation of sea charts and captains logs
This oversize book is primarily a large collection of ships maps, also known as rudders. Each map is accompanied by a detailed decription of the various islands and things that have been encountered by ships of the maritime and mercantile power that is the DeMadden company.
25. The Book of Deeds
by Sir Inan Kruppe
This lavish tome details a number of knightly orders, as well as their various creeds, deeds, and outstanding members. The Book is considered almost a prerequisite to becoming a respected knight both in terms of martial ability, but in terms of social obligations and responcibilities.
26. The Critical Path
by Aertin the Woad
Written during a bloom of writting nearly a century ago, this work deals with how to properly critique a grimoire. During that time, almost any mage capable of writing was doing just that, creating a windfall of mediocre to poor quality tomes. The Woad spent nearly a decade dealing with these often juvenile works and attempted in her own way to help each of the new writters in perfecting their skills.
27. The Downward Path
by Mosion of Ogia
This book was penned by a legendary spelunker and scribe who spent much time voyaging into the dark places beneath the earth. Much to the surprise of all, many of these places were inhabited, as well as being homes to all sorts of strange creatures. It is assumed that Mosion eventually settled in one of these underground lands.
28. The Cunning Linguist
by Pashing Stratus
This monumental work deals with translating ancient languages as well as creating new languages and codes for mages and sages. It disects the basics of the written and spoke word, which is an invaluable tool for said scholars. possession and regular reading of the hefty work can improve a characters language skills with practice. There is a second book by the same name that was written by a priestess of Aphrodite that has nothing to do with languages.
29. The Booke of Familiar Spirites
by Scribe of Familiars
This somewhat worn and old book has been a constant companion to mages for more than an age. It was first written ages ago by a master of Familiar magics, and deals with the best way to summon and control familiars and even how to deal with them when they become too powerful or dangerous to the mage or populace in general.
30. The Wakeful Mind
by Morgan of Derekshire
This book, written some time ago by a well versed witch deals with the value of a number of plants and herbs that share the communal ability to ease the need for sleep and counter the enervation often associated with spellcasting. The book is considered to be a cause of several plant species being harvested into extinction.
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For more than three decades, Susan Narucki has been devoted to contemporary music.
She's sung more than 100 premieres of new works with collaborators that include nearly every significant conductor, orchestra, music festival and new-music ensemble.
But for the Grammy-winning soprano, who has been a professor at UC San Diego since 2008, something is missing.
"It's frustrating to me as a performer of the music of our time not to see that music as central to bringing people together, to creating community, to speaking to issues that are of concern to us in society," Narucki said.
So she is conducting an experiment.
In collaboration with Mexican author Jorge Volpi and guitarist Pablo Gomez, she commissioned four composers to each write a segment of a one-woman chamber opera that will bring attention to the issue of human trafficking.
"Cuatro Corridos" will have its first performances Wednesday, May 10 and May 11 at the Conrad Prebys Music Center's Experimental Theater with Narucki, Gomez, pianist Aleck Karis and percussionist Steven Schick.
Narucki and Volpi point to numerous news reports (including an investigative report in The New York Times Magazine) that have identified the village of Tenancingo, in the Mexican state of Tlaxcala, as the undisputed center of Mexico's sex trade. From there, kidnapped and coerced women are exported across the border, many to the "fields of love" outside San Diego's strawberry fields.
Volpi's libretto, written in the verse of the Mexican corrido, concerns four women: a female member of the Salazar Juárez brothers kidnapping ring (Dalia); a Chicano policewoman in San Diego (Rose), and two young victims from Tlaxcala (Azucena and Violeta).
Each of the four composers, working independently, tells one of the women's stories: for Hebert Vázquez, Azucena; Arlene Sierra, Dalia; Lei Liang, Rose; and Hilda Paredes, Violeta.
"The pieces that we now have by these composers are so strong," Narucki said. "They each speak to the other in a way that I hadn't expected. When you hear them, they combine to form this narrative arc that's pretty extraordinary."
The completed chamber opera, which was workshopped at the Yellow Barn in Vermont in March, is designed to be "portable," and Narucki is committed to giving it a life beyond its premiere. Already a performance is scheduled at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas for October.
"Part of doing this project has to do with getting older and realizing that I'm not going to be doing this forever," Narucki said. "I'd like to see if there's a way to do something a little bit different, to break the mold and go in a different direction and start a trend that could be good for the art form — and good for life in general."


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Pazopanib in Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) Syndrome
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01436227
Recruitment Status : Active, not recruiting
First Posted : September 19, 2011
Last Update Posted : May 13, 2019
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The goal of this clinical research study is to learn if pazopanib can help to control Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome VHL. The safety of this drug will also be studied.
This is an investigational study. Pazopanib is FDA approved and commercially available for kidney cancer. Its use to treat VHL is investigational.
Pazopanib is designed to block the growth of blood vessels that supply nutrients needed for tumor growth. This may prevent or slow the growth of cancer cells.
Pazopanib will be provided at no cost to you during this study.
Up to 40 patients will take part in this study. All will be enrolled at MD Anderson.
|Condition or disease
|Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome
|Drug: Pazopanib
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|32 participants
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|A Phase II Trial of Pazopanib in Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome
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|January 2012
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|April 2021
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|April 2022
Experimental: Pazopanib
800 mg by mouth once daily for up to six, four week cycles.
Drug: Pazopanib
800 mg by mouth once daily for up to six, four week cycles.
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- RECIST Overall Response (OR) Rate = Number of Participants with Complete Response and Partial Response (CR+PR) at 24 weeks [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Modified Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST), evaluation of target lesions (organ-specific). Complete Response (CR): Disappearance all target lesions; Partial Response (PR): > 30% decrease in sum longest diameter (LD) of target lesions, reference baseline sum LD; Progressive Disease (PD): > 20% increase in sum LD of target lesions, reference smallest sum LD recorded since treatment started or appearance of 1 or > new lesions; Stable Disease (SD): Neither sufficient shrinkage for PR nor sufficient increase for PD, reference smallest sum LD since treatment started.
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects must provide written informed consent prior to performance of study-specific procedures or assessments, and must be willing to comply with treatment and follow up. Procedures conducted as part of the subject's routine clinical management (e.g., blood count, imaging study) and obtained prior to signing of informed consent may be utilized for screening or baseline purposes provided these procedures are conducted as specified in the protocol.
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of </= 2
- Genetically confirmed diagnosis of VHL or measurable disease consistent with the clinical diagnosis of VHL. (Please refer to criterion #5)
- Measurable disease criteria: At least one measurable VHL related lesion, which is undergoing surveillance, and patient is not at immediate risk of needing intervention for this or other lesions. Biopsy is not required given the known likely etiology and natural history in the setting of a positive genetic test. a.) Brain: asymptomatic hemangioblastoma, >/= 0.5 cm ; b) Spine: asymptomatic hemangioblastoma, >/= 0.5 cm ; c) Renal: solid mass suspicious for RCC >/= 1 cm or cystic mass (Bosniak 3-4) >/= 1 cm. ; d) Pancreas: solid mass >/= 1cm and </= 3 cm suspicious for neuroendocrine tumor, or neuroendocrine tumor > 3 cm but not considered operable. ; e) Eye: asymptomatic peripapillary and/or macular hemangioblastoma, any size ; f) Adrenal: asymptomatic or controlled pheochromocytoma greater than 1cm in size
- Patients may have received prior VHL-related systemic therapy, provided not within 14 days or five half-lives of a drug (whichever is longer) prior to the first dose of pazopanib.
- Adequate organ system function as defined: a) Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >/= 1.5 X 10^9/L ; b) Hemoglobin >/= 9 g/dL (5.6 mmol/L) ; c) Platelets >/= 100 X 10^9/L ; d) Prothrombin time (PT) or international normalized ratio (INR) </= 1.2 X ULN ; e) Activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) </= 1.2 X ULN ; f) Total bilirubin </= 1.5 X ULN ; g) Alanine amino transferase (ALT) and Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) </= 2.0 X ULN ; h) Serum creatinine </= 2.0 mg/dL (133 µmol/L) Or, if >2.0 mg/dL: Calculated creatinine clearance (ClCR) (appropriate appendix) >/= 50 mL/min ; i) Urine Protein to Creatinine Ratio (UPC; appropriate appendix) <1
- A female is eligible to enter and participate in this study if she is of: Non-childbearing potential including a) any female who has had a surgical procedure rendering her incapable of becoming pregnant. ; b) Subjects not using hormone replacement therapy (HRT) must have experienced total cessation of menses for >/= 1 year and be greater than 45 years in age, OR, in questionable cases, have a follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) value >40 mIU/mL and an estradiol value < 40 pg/mL (<140 pmol/L). ; c) Subjects using HRT must have experienced total cessation of menses for >/= 1 year and be greater than 45 years of age OR have had documented evidence of menopause based on FSH and estradiol concentrations prior to initiation of HRT ; Childbearing potential, including any female who has had a negative serum pregnancy test within 2 weeks prior to the first dose of study treatment, preferably as close to the first dose as possible, and agrees to use adequate contraception.
- # 8 Cont.) GSK acceptable contraceptive methods, when used consistently and in accordance with both the product label and the instructions of the physician, are as follow:a) Complete abstinence from sexual intercourse for 14 days before exposure to investigational product, through the dosing period, and for at least 21 days after the last dose of investigational product. b) Oral contraceptive c) Injectable progestogen. d) Implants of levonorgestrel. e) Estrogenic vaginal ring f) Percutaneous contraceptive patches g) Intrauterine device (IUD) h) Male partner sterilization i) Double barrier method: condom and an occlusive cap (diaphragm or cervical/vault caps) with a vaginal spermicidal agent (foam/gel/film/cream/suppository). ; Female subjects who are lactating should discontinue nursing prior to the first dose of study drug and should refrain from nursing throughout the treatment period and for 14 days following the last dose of study drug.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Prior malignancy. Note: Subjects who have had another non VHL related malignancy and have been disease-free for 2 years, or subjects with a history of completely resected non-melanomatous skin carcinoma or successfully treated in situ carcinoma are eligible.
- Clinically significant gastrointestinal abnormalities that may increase the risk for gastrointestinal bleeding including, but not limited to: a) Active peptic ulcer disease ; b) Known intraluminal metastatic lesion/s with risk of bleeding ; c) Inflammatory bowel disease (e.g. ulcerative colitis, Chrohn's disease), or other gastrointestinal conditions with increased risk of perforation ; d) History of abdominal fistula, gastrointestinal perforation, or intra abdominal abscess within 28 days prior to beginning study treatment.
- Clinically significant gastrointestinal abnormalities that may affect absorption of investigational product including, but not limited to: a) Malabsorption syndrome ; b) Major resection of the stomach or small bowel.
- Presence of uncontrolled infection
- Corrected QT interval (QTc) > 480 msecs using Bazett's formula
- History of any one or more of the following cardiovascular conditions within the past 6 months: a) Cardiac angioplasty or stenting ; b) Myocardial infarction ; c) Unstable angina ; d) Coronary artery bypass graft surgery ; e) Symptomatic peripheral vascular disease ; f) Class III or IV congestive heart failure, as defined by the New York Heart Association (NYHA)
- Poorly controlled hypertension [defined as systolic blood pressure (SBP) of >/= 140 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure (DBP) of >/= 90mmHg]. Note: Initiation or adjustment of antihypertensive medication(s) is permitted prior to study entry. BP must be re-assessed on two occasions that are separated by a minimum of 1 hour; on each of these occasions, the mean (of 3 readings) SBP / DBP values from each BP assessment must be <140/90 mmHg in order for a subject to be eligible for the study (see Section 3.0. for details on BP control and re-assessment prior to study enrollment).
- History of cerebrovascular accident including transient ischemic attack (TIA), pulmonary embolism or untreated deep venous thrombosis (DVT) within the past 6 months. Note: Subjects with recent DVT who have been treated with therapeutic anti-coagulating agents for at least 6 weeks are eligible
- Prior major surgery or trauma within 28 days prior to first dose of study drug and/or presence of any non-healing wound, fracture, or ulcer (procedures such as catheter placement not considered to be major).
- Evidence of active bleeding or bleeding diathesis
- Any serious and/or unstable pre-existing medical, psychiatric, or other condition that could interfere with subject's safety, provision of informed consent, or compliance to study procedures.
- Unable or unwilling to discontinue use of prohibited medications list for at least 14 days or five half-lives of a drug (whichever is longer) prior to the first dose of study drug and for the duration of the study.
- Treatment with any of the following anti-cancer therapies: a) radiation therapy, surgery or tumor embolization within 14 days prior to the first dose of pazopanib OR ; b) chemotherapy, immunotherapy, biologic therapy, investigational therapy or hormonal therapy within 14 days or five half-lives of a drug (whichever is longer) prior to the first dose of pazopanib
- Any ongoing toxicity from prior investigational therapy that is >Grade 1 and/or that is progressing in severity, except alopecia
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A Prospect girl has been selected as a finalist in the pre-teen division of a contest hosted by TheCuteKid.com.
The Cute Kid contest is the largest of its kind and has been featured on Good Morning America, E!, The Wall Street Journal and many other publications as the most prestigious online child photo contest.
Riley Laden is a fifth-grader at Goshen Elementary. She has been modeling with a Cincinnati agency, Wings, for a year.
The Cute Kid contest is judged by professional judges from the modeling and entertainment industry and is in partnership with Parents Magazine.
"I am really honored and excited," Laden said. "They get like a million entries a year and they chose me, it is really exciting."
Laden, 10, is a student in Ms. Wilson's class at Goshen and loves drawing and painting. She enjoys modeling and is interested in acting. Laden recently shot a television commercial for The Creation Museum, flew to New York City for Aeropostale and is a model for Woobie Wear hair accessories that are sold nationwide at Von Maur stores and specialty boutiques.
Laden has appeared on the cover of Model Source magazine and featured in Child Model Magazine. She is one of Child Model Magazine's top 12 Most Beautiful 2011.
As a finalist, Laden is awarded a $500 savings bond and is in the running for the 2011 Cute Kid of The Year, and a chance at a $25,000 scholarship.
She has a sister, Katie, who is a freshman at North Oldham High School; and brother, Reed, 19 months.
She is the daughter of John and Sondrah Laden.
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We spent a couple of hours looking into it. And then a couple hours looking into the WordPress security notification system. Perhaps, I should say: non-notification system as to getting subscribed to a formal notification mailing list from the WordPress folks, proper
The WordPress model seems to be: treat your WordPress site as though it is a pet that needs daily feeding. And to be 'put down' when you lose interest in it, move on, or forget about it -- Oops. Log in daily as an administrator, and look for a notification
This of course RULES OUT using a packaged approach to managing such sites, as the lag for stabilizing a new RPM package, accounting for potential database changes, and the like 'take too long'. Just unroll a tarball, and trust that it will not break any local customizations
I see fourteen open tabs in my browser panel still open, related to trying to track down a central and formal notification feed that I (or any person seeking to get 'push' notification) might subscribe containing only 'Security' notifications. Weeding through the tabs, ...
- The 'Famous 5-Minute Install' for WordPress -- Nope, no useful outlink for hardening, nor to subscribe to notifications, beyond a pointer to a third-party Ubuntu appliance with an 'automatic security updates'. That appliance's page has pointers to a tool to enable taking database backups, adding PHPMyAdmin, and Webmin. Not good choices for a person caring about security
- Perhaps FAQ items tagged with: Security -- Nope, clearly incomplete, as for example a Google search turns up this third-party alert for version 3.3.2, but the Release Notice does not get titled with: Security
- This bug (#10253) lingered for three years with a Security tag in their Trac issue tracker as to the current release series (3.4), and was amended ten days ago; But the latest release (for 3.4.2) was twenty days ago when this is written. Should an update have been release? Who Knows?
- Perhaps their FAQ Security -- Nope, no push notification link suggested there, but lots of clutter as to copyright infringement notification handling, and miscellaneous topics
- Perhaps watch the Releases News in an RSS reader - Oops, no sub-tag feed offered, and there has not been an "Important" Security release since December 2010, if one used that approach
- Run a Google search daily, and look for third-party commendary - Nope, although nuggets may be found, for it is not viable as: Not Authoritative, irregular and partial as to updates, and wading through search engine hit, or RSS feed clutter will kill your productivity
A quick Google search for: turns up lots of vulnerable candidate installations, and a handy, dandy code fragment for parsing information out of potential victims so found, to automate take-overs. No criticism of the author of that code publishing his work; a knife can heal (as a scalpel), prepare dinner, or injure, depending on the intent of its holder
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Karoshi Review
- Publisher: YoYo Games Ltd.
- Genre: Arcade
- Released: 8 Feb, 2011
- Size: 16.6 MB
- Price: $0.99
- Unique puzzle platformer.
- Clever twists on gaming conventions.
- Subtle and pervasive dark humor.
- Unlockable micro-game mode for replayability.
- Control bugs; slipping up and off movement buttons 'locks' it in place.
- Storyline snippets not fully explored.
Karoshi isn't your typical puzzle platformer and attempting to kill yourself is harder than it sounds; a great pickup for those who don't mind a bit of dark humor.
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The concept of Karoshi (karoo-shi) is not generally considered a very amusing one as it quite literally means to work yourself to death, however in the world of video games we often work hard to avoid dying in order to win. Developer Jesse Venbrux has an obsession with changing this dynamic and iOS gamers may already be familiar with his work on They Need To Be Fed, but when it comes to self-annihilation the Karoshi series is where the theme truly shines.
For those who haven't played the original freeware titles, your character's job is to kill himself. No really, that's his job. However the puzzle-based theme quickly takes a turn for the abstract as players need to exploit gaming specific concepts and counter-intuitive ideas to progress through the game. It's a half-half mix of logic and experimentation that just manages to shy away from being annoying as you finally work out how to succeed.
The puzzle elements range from fairly standard block and switch type platforming to abstract concepts requiring you to control multiple characters while considering options such as purposefully 'trapping' yourself to succeed. At times it can feel like you're playing a multistage version of Syobon Action (Google it), but players are rewarded with a sense of success that's tinged with manic glee as you revel in managing to kill off your player.
Where earlier games in the Karoshi series bordered on immature, this release by YoYo Games shows a level of maturity in its concept that's deeply satisfying to overcome. Thankfully the fun doesn't stop at level 50 and players can throw themselves in to a mini-game series that's just as insanely challenging as the puzzling main game.
Karoshi isn't for everyone, but once you're in it's a hard game to put down and wiping the smile off your face might be as difficult as the game itself.
DescriptionOne of the most popular games on PC now comes exclusively to iPhone and iPad! Karoshi has been played by millions on the PC to date to high acclaim.
•Karoshi 2.0 was "internet game of the month" in EDGE magazine
•Karoshi Suicide Salaryman was in WIRED.com's top 5 PC Games of 2008
•"Some of the most LOL-worth and mind-bending puzzles I have ever seen" TIGsource on Karoshi 2.0
We've been taught we need to survive. We need to reach the end, save the princess and be the hero. That's all well and good, but it's getting boring. Who says it has to be this way?
Mr Karoshi is an overworked Japanese salaryman who's had enough and his only goal is to end it all. You control him to work through the fast logic puzzles trying to find hilarious ways to his demise in this highly original, puzzle, platformer with a twist.
It's not as easy as it sounds!! You need to think cleverly and sometimes 'outside the box' to find a solution. Forget everything you know so far!
* 50 levels
* Dark Humor
* Collect all the coins
* Karoshi ware mini game
* From the maker of 'They Need To Be Fed'
* Catchy soundtrack by Jake Almond
This highly popular, hit, cult game is now available for the first time on iTunes.
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Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Define a project and meet with a community partner. Present the community problem and proposed solutions to a special session of the city council.
Simulate the writing of a constitution for the hypothetical country of Permistan.
Conduct an opinion poll on racial profiling. Physically engage students by having them move around from "Agree" to "Disagree" to "Undecided" positions during discussion.
Visit a cultural center to see artifacts and hear first-person accounts of the victimization of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Make connections between newspaper articles and issues Butler raises in the book. Encourage students to involve themselves politically by writing letters that call for social justice.
Discuss the Chinese practice of footbinding and then explore how contemporary American women suffer to make themselves conform to society's standards of beauty.
Provide students with a window into the culture of Chiapas, and enable them to understand how the texts are related using the bilingual picture book "The Story of Colors /La Historia de los Colores."
Immerse students in Asian American culture with a class trip to Chinatown in Los Angeles. Create Japanese renga poems to describe the experience.
Prior to the 2002 mayoral election in Newark, New Jersey, students study the candidates' positions on issues they have chosen to track.
Create a brochure promoting a European city and write a letter proposing future plans to improve it.
Role-play representatives from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Ukraine, apply for entry to the EU and make a presentation to the EU Council of Ministers.
Simulate a U.S. Supreme Court hearing on a First amendment case about a Texas school district delivering prayers over the intercom.
On a class field trip to historic Bartram's Garden, pupils learn how the local watershed area of the Schuylkill River has changed over time.
Make global comparisons of quality of life indicators with those of Indonesia.
Students question the translator of ...y no se lo tragó la tierra... (And the Earth Did Not Devour Him) by Tomás Rivera, conduct Internet research, and interview Mexican immigrants who work in their school.
Study the locations of trenches and volcanoes and learn the relationship between them. Discuss the pros and cons of living near a volcano.
On a field trip to see historic maps, analyze how resources influence settlement patterns, and how land- and cityscapes change due to urbanization.
Use data and models to define the location of economically distressed neighborhoods located in Denver.
Consider the impacts of human migration on physical and human systems and ask "where will the future growth of San Antonio occur?"
This introduction to exponential functions considers the world population since 1650. In a simulation, the population grows at a random yet predictable rate.
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Donald Sterling's offensive foul
Basketball's summary ouster of Donald Sterling for his viral racist harangue is yet more proof — as if any were needed — that race remains the essential fault line in the American experience, even (or perhaps especially) in the age of Barack Obama.
But the National Basketball Association's decision to ban the cranky L.A. Clippers owner from the game till death is also fresh evidence that the major commercial institutions of national life — whether the NBA or Fox News — find racist sentiment, overtly expressed, instantly and intolerably bad for business.
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Just as Sean Hannity and other media defenders of Cliven Bundy, the embattled Nevada rancher locked in quixotic standoff with the Bureau of Land Management, dropped him cold after he allowed that blacks might have been "better off as slaves," so the NBA abandoned Sterling, whose benighted views on race have been the subject of public discussion and legal action for years, the moment that a recording of his own undisputed words surfaced on the gossip site TMZ.
( Also on POLITICO: Donald Sterling banned for life by the NBA)
Sterling's tasteless tirade was beyond the pale, and not just because three-quarters of the NBA's players and a sizable percentage of its fan base are black — or even because the Clippers' guard Chris Paul heads the players union. Sterling had the audacity to despoil the league's season playoffs and to threaten one of the pillars of the temple of professional sport that constitutes America's secular religion — and a multibillion-dollar industry.
It was no accident that Sterling's comments were the centerpiece of TMZ's newly launched sports-oriented niche — part of its effort to cash in on a market that is richer and more lucrative than ever.
"It does seem like a moment," said Yago Colas, who teaches a course on the "Cultures of Basketball" at the University of Michigan. "I hope it's a moment that's not lost. The problem is that we get really excited about spectacular demonstrations of racism, and in the process of our excitement, we overlook the larger institutional issues that endure."
( Also on POLITICO: Groups laud NBA Donald Sterling decision)
Fifty years ago this week, the United States Senate was tied in knots, facing a record-setting filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — the landmark law aimed at making black and white Americans equal in the eyes of the law, 100 years after the Civil War. The floor debates preserved in the Congressional Record with unblinking candor would not surprise the most jaded current chroniclers of Sterling's invective. (His comments were recorded by "V. Stiviano," the onetime Sterling girlfriend who recorded the team owner's private comments, in possible violation of a California state law requiring consent of taped parties.)
In one particularly notable exchange in April 1964, Sens. Strom Thurmond (D-S.C.) and Russell Long (D-La.) mused aloud about whether it was inhumane to use cattle prods on civil rights demonstrators.
"The prod sticks are not designed for cattle but are designed for exactly the kind of 'animals' they are touching," Long allowed, "namely, reluctant human beings who insist on getting in the way of a policeman."
For his part, Thurmond replied, "I remember going through a secret organization ceremonial — a fraternal organization. There was a man after me with one of those sticks and I ran for about 100 yards. I had to run fast to keep ahead of that stick because while it mostly tickled, it tickled pretty much."
No sanctions, no fines, no lifetime bans — not even from their dismayed colleagues — chastened Thurmond or Long, who continued to win reelection and hold positions of great power for years to come.
So by the standard of 50 years ago, today's universal condemnation of Sterling's comments constitutes progress. The current controversy even managed to prompt a rare convergence between Obama and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who agreed with the president that the remarks were "ignorant and offensive."


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Haunting electronic melodies propel an astronaut-cum-biker through a surreal dance party as she hunts for a fallen star in Retrograde, the first single of James Blake's sophmore album, Overgrown. Martin de Thurah directed.
Overgrown follows his highly-praised, self-titled debut album from 2011 which reached #9 on the UK charts. It's available April 8th but the Retrograde single is available now on iTunes.


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How would you describe TBM to a friend or family? Would you classify them into a genre or style? Would you mention the sounds they use? Would you give brief history on the band? Would you talk about their shows? What do you get most excited about when telling someone about this incredible band?
I still can't figure out what genre to "label" them in..maybe they don't need one! Theyre just so unique . But man I can talk TBM until I'm told to shut up.
When describing the band via word of mouth (or even online) I say to not judge them by the name - despite what the name may imply, they're not a heavy death metal band - and even if they were, they are such genuinely lovely, down-to-Earth people. Their music is nostalgic, magical, dreamy, atmospheric and cinematic and when you listen to them for the first time you'll say 'Wow, I haven't heard music like this before', and wonder why they aren't more well known.
I say that the band don't like to label themselves and span many genres - new wave, dark wave, industrial, synth pop, goth rock, metal etc...they have a big 80's influence, having all grown up in the 80's.
And I also mention, that I know people will say their favourite band is the best in the world but you've never heard anything like TBM's music and even if you're selective about what you listen to, TBM is worth the listen.
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The genre I like to describe them as is synthrock although I know their music fits so many other genres too.
One time my eye doctor thought my TBM shirt (the one from Superstition with the 3 bunny eared children) was a Donnie Darko shirt. I told her it was my favorite band called The Birthday Massacre and she asked what kind of music was it. I said it's like synthrock and I said something about 80's styled, dancey type music (which of course not all songs are, it's just the first thing that popped into my head xD)
Next time I will definitely mention that it's "not what you think" if I get a weird look lol people really do judge them by the band name. Someone I know online said she checked out their music only because of the artwork I made. She said she doesn't like the band name but can understand it from their explanation. I personally love the band name because of its contrast :D I wish people wouldn't judge like that but I can understand it too. Most people wouldn't even think on a deeper level how "birthday" and "massacre" are contrasting and fits overall with the band and their themes. I like to think those people are pleasantly surprised when they take a listen! ^_^
I'd also like to mention how interactive they are with their fans and how nice and caring they are too. I think that's super important and actually rare. I'd probably specifically mention how they've interacted with me but especially with other fans stories that I've read online. How they remember faces, names, stories, gifts, and lots more that fans have told them previously. What wonderful people :3
I forgot to mention that I will sometimes mention the history of the band - that they were originally known as Imagica, about their video contest, the 2 Pledge campaigns and how successful they've been in particular.
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